What are the positive things you love and why?

Flooring it in a car that can do 0-60 in less than 5 seconds. Getting pressed back in the seat, and the sound, is just amazing. Electric can do the seat thing, but can't reproduce that magical sound.
 
So we've got some cool wildlife. The gray foxes are my favorite to watch, but I also get a kick out of skunk-watching with a good flashlight after hours. I love most of the birds: crows, cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, woodpeckers, etc.. (I dislike bluejays because they are mean to some of the other birds I like. One actually murdered a goldfinch in my presence.) Getting pictures of them with my camera phone is another story.

I managed to get a reasonable picture of this inchworm but I don't know that I love it...

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Chronovore said:
So we've got some cool wildlife. The gray foxes are my favorite to watch, but I also get a kick out of skunk-watching with a good flashlight after hours. I love most of the birds: crows, cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, woodpeckers, etc.. (I dislike bluejays because they are mean to some of the other birds I like. One actually murdered a goldfinch in my presence.) Getting pictures of them with my camera phone is another story.

I managed to get a reasonable picture of this inchworm but I don't know that I love it...

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Woodpeckers are irritating but beautiful. Have you ever seen one's head dissected? If not, you should look into it. It's a beautiful piece of engineering.
 
SwissHeritageCo said:
Woodpeckers are irritating but beautiful. Have you ever seen one's head dissected? If not, you should look into it. It's a beautiful piece of engineering.
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No, I haven't. They are amazing to watch too. Aside from the little ones, I've got a great pileated. It's enormous and practically jack-hammers old stumps apart. (That's what happened to my favorite stump for EDC shots.)
 
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Woodpeckers are the only predator of the spruce beetle (which have decimated lots of trees), so seeing or hearing the hammering always makes me smile. Plus they are beautiful birds.
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They also eat locust bore beetles. You may have noticed from my EDC pics that I have a bunch of locust trees. I truly love locust trees but so do those accursed beetles. They slowly weaken the trees and during storms like the one we just had, they drop limbs pretty easily. They can eventually break off entirely.

The upside is plenty of happy woodpeckers...
 
The adult beetles actually eat goldenrod pollen, it's the larvae that eat the trees.

The ensuing fungal infection is what causes issues... They're shallow rooted anyway, outside of spruces I cut more tipped locusts than anything else.

And at least they're not invasive like the EAB or ALB.
 
Wild Willie said:
The adult beetles actually eat goldenrod pollen, it's the larvae that eat the trees.

The ensuing fungal infection is what causes issues... They're shallow rooted anyway, outside of spruces I cut more tipped locusts than anything else.

And at least they're not invasive like the EAB or ALB.
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I didn't know about the goldenrod. I always wondered if their coloration was to mimic wasps but maybe it helps as they feed?

Yeah, locusts have their issues. I just love how they look and not just with leaves. You can see mine in my best eclipse picture from the last big one.

I'm also fond of birch and elm. I grew up in a place with more elm trees but Dutch Elm Disease took a toll.

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Chronovore said:
I didn't know about the goldenrod. I always wondered if their coloration was to mimic wasps but maybe it helps as they feed?

Yeah, locusts have their issues. I just love how they look and not just with leaves. You can see mine in my best eclipse picture from the last big one.

I'm also fond of birch and elm. I grew up in a place with more elm trees but Dutch Elm Disease took a toll.

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I love a nice locust myself, especially when they flower. I'm actually a fan of most trees, despite what I do for a living.

If forced to pick a favorite though, gotta go with Fagus grandifolia,better known as the American beech.
 
Wild Willie said:
I love a nice locust myself, especially when they flower. I'm actually a fan of most trees, despite what I do for a living.

If forced to pick a favorite though, gotta go with Fagus grandifolia,better known as the American beech.
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Locust flowers have a beautiful scent. They are one of my favorites, along with spirea. Just lovely.
 
Speaking of beauty, goodness, and love; I went out with one of my daughters to pick some wild berries today. We each just filled our bowls with enough to have a snack of berries and cream. (We washed them first.) Yeah, carrying a production knife instead of a David Mary Custom but I hope y'all can forgive me.

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