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plants and birds and rocks and things and horses (with names)

A bay horse in a blue halter grazing in a field
Two books, Hollow Kingdom & Feral Creatures, both by Kira Jane Buxton
Olive green upholstered chair & ottoman, with a fluffy grey blanket and pillow with a dog driving a race car. Left of the chair is a white elephant table with a stack of books on top. An oak file cabinet to the right. Above is a large framed pen & ink illustration of Don Quixote tilting at windmills, and a wall lamp that is a black raven with a light bulb on a cord dangling from its beak
The Overstory by Richard Powers
A tortoiseshell cat on a chair by a sunny window, looking at her own rear end.
A picture of a book titled “A Year of Ravens “
Coastal brown bear crossing a stream towards the photographer
Rufous-backed Kingfisher at night, sitting on a branch
A picture of a book. The Overstory by Richard Powers.
had far too many rules. You couldn't hear the crickets, you couldn't see half the stars, and the trees were being chopped down to make way for more houses and shops. "Why," Tanuki grumbled, "would they fell trees but leave men standing? Trees are a damn sight more useful than people, and everything in the world knows that except people." Maybe he had a point. Trees do generate oxygen; men just
Galápagos giant tortoises getting busy at the breeding center
An abandoned, falling apart boat in a harbor
A marine iguana swimming with just its head above the water.
A tortoiseshell cat on a zebra blanket in a sunbeam with her front paw stretched out and looking into the camera.
An old wooden ammo crate with a small slab of native copper, and a cut and polished septarian nodule on top, and an ammonite fossil, and purple amethyst sitting in front of it.
Cat shaped lump in the duvet cover
A Brown Pelican sitting on a rock
A very stretched out squirrel clinging to the roof of a bird feeder, twisting itself around upside down to get at the food.
Beaver Land (Leila Philip), the Immortalists (Chloe Benjamin), The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs (Katherine Howe), Becoming Wild (Carl Safina), The Voyage of the Narwhal (Andrea Barrett), the Astonishing Life of August March (Aaron Jackson)
The Windup Girl (Paulo Bacigalupi), The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Robert Hough), Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr), Horse Heaven (Jane Smiley), Tulipomania (Mike Dash), All My Friends Are Dead (Avery Monsen & Jory John)
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr), The Nightingale (Kristen Hannah), The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson), Horse (Geraldine Brooks), The Arbornaut (Meg Lowman), Martin Marten (Brian Doyle)
A marine iguana with a lava lizard on its head. On a rocky beach in Galápagos Islands.
Three bay and one black horse on the range, just off the road.
I once got the wordle in one guess
A spider hanging next to a white beadboard wall. Maybe a cross orbweaver spider.
Some burros that came up to our car in Beatty, NV recently
A Sally Lightfoot crab on a rock
A tortoiseshell cat sits next to an electric space heater.
View from the Quito, Ecuador airport at sunrise, of Cotopaxi volcano (i think, could possibly be Pinchincha)
A shiny wet black horse standing in the sun after his bath.