Amanda

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Travel RN, Horror fan, Nature lover. #MedSky #HorrorSky #NatureSky #WomenInMedicine #Travel

Tabby cat looking out of sliding glass door at people walking.
Mold over a canvas
A brown tabby cats stretched asleep on the windowsill
Inara taking in the message of the Dream of a Thousand Cats.
Snowy highway in Becker County, Minnesota.
Double Breasted Cormorant North Dakota
Frozen waterfall in Spearfish, South Dakota.
An amber colored leaf centered with a backdrop of a forest in the fall. The appearance of the leaf is illusory, it had fallen on a windshield, and thus appears to be caught in mid-air.
The Red Winged Blackbird reminds you that you may catch ONLY 5 Sunfish per day.
Bald Eagle seated in a tree.
Golden field against a bright blue cloudless sky in North Dakota
Coastal fence lizard seen at the Elfin Forest in California.
Large adult snapping turtle in Northern Minnesota
2 cats lying side by side, feet on the wall. Both sleeping and snoring.
No hunting or trespassing. Save a Buck, shoot a doe. Watch him grow.
Red neon sign saying seduce & destroy
Reminder that at your smallest components, you are indistinguishable from a forest fire. Night Vale
From Night Vale Podcast - Don't let numbers tell you what to do. You are blood and earth, not theory and chalk.
A brilliant sundog, or parhelion, a light on either side of the sun at 22° caused by refraction of light through ice crystals in the atmosphere. Best seen when the sun is near the horizon.
Graph showing paralytic POLIO cases and deaths in the US from 1910-2019. Graph shows a flattening of the Graph in the 1960s, after the vaccine was developed. The POLIO vaccine also I produced the beginning of randomized controlled trials.
I believe this is Wolffia angusta (possibly globosa?), a form of duckweed. This was taken in Minnesota, where it is an introduced species (native to Asia and Europe). It can be considered a "pond scum", but it is known to be the world's smallest flowering plant. I think it's beautiful up close.