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Sunset. #coolnguyễn #ig_photooftheday #dalat #dalatcity #travel #tourist #vietnam #beautyful #vivo #picoftheday #photography #mobilephotography#cherryblossom #bluesky #vivox80pro #teamvivo #ig_great_pics #ig_great_shots #9vaga9 #coffee #coffeeshop #chill (tại Natureside) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4ZLixpVDp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[mirandastefan911]

#parrot . . . #nature #natureside #garden #aloha #alohavibes #alohavapes #aloha🌺 #honolulu #hawaii #hawaiianday #hawaiilife #hawaiianday #visithawaii #zooday #whiteparrot #hdpictures (en The Honolulu Zoo)

[abeehabatool]

My creepy eyes...#biologyassignment #naturevsnurture #notthebestatdrawing #natureside

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25 April - 30 April weeknotes

Monday 25 April

The sunrise was 5.44am this morning, according to my phone. So we’ve made it back to where we were on 28 March, the day the clocks went forward. 

The bluebells are out in force in the wood now, and they’ve snuck into every garden in the neighbourhood too, ours included. They’re tallish plants, so the blue colour hovers above the ground. People always describe ‘carpets of bluebells’, but really, it’s more like a low hanging mist.

Bluebells are lovely to look at and hard to photograph. I think we’re all agreed on that? 

Tuesday 26 April

The wood is beautiful today. Sun filters through the trees and backlights the lowest leaves making them glow. I walk almost every path, turning back on myself to make the most of the bluebells. After that, a different route through the fields. 

When I get back to the wood, I sit on a carved wooden bench for a bit. “You catching the rays?”, a man asks. I tell him I’m avoiding the computer. He looks down, looks up, “I remember that.” 

He’s retired now.

As he heads off, his dog picks up its stick. It’s twice as long as the dog is and wider than the path. 

Wednesday 27 April

There’s a magpie hopping about outside, close enough to look it in the eye. I admit it, I think I’m superstitious when it comes to magpies. There’s no reason for it, which is why it’s a superstition of course. It’s also impractical because there are so many magpies in south London.

A long time ago, I worked from home when most people in the neighbourhood didn’t. I remember standing at the back door watching a magpie balance on the rim of an empty terrarium we’d abandoned in the garden – one of those big, fat-bellied green glass jars, with a slim neck. The neighbourhood was eerily quiet and in the silence I thought “It’d be funny if he fell in.” A beat, the magpie fell in and I gasped. Silence broken.

We studied each other through the wobbly green glass, and very gently, I rotated the jar so the opening was parallel to the floor. The magpie kept pace with the turn, then squeezed out, paused for a split second and was gone. The whole thing was… odd. Somehow silent and inevitable. Despite that, I still don’t know how it fell in. They’re such big birds and the neck of the jar was so slim.

Anyway. This is a good song about magpies. Sometimes I sing it when I go for a walk. If you’re going to be the weird litter-picker in the neighbourhood, you might as well do it singing ‘Devil, devil I defy thee’ at the top of your voice.

Thursday 28 April

Every walk this week has smelled the same. The walk from home to the wood, through the fields, to the post office, through the park or to the train station. All the same, roadside or natureside. Acrid, peppery? I don’t know how to describe it. I’m so bored of it.

The reason it’s so frustrating is the first time I noticed it I was litter picking. I hadn’t realised covid had changed my sense of smell, so assumed it was the smell of decomposing tissues, cartons and cups. So this week that’s what the world smells like. Decomposing rubbish.

There are 2 main covid smells, incidentally. This one, and the food waste one. Together, they encompass a huge range of smells which were previously discrete.

Friday 29 April

Look up to see car with a flat tyre emerging from a cloud of dust. Big piece of metal embedded in the rubber, clunking loudly with every rotation. Offer help, but she’s all cool. When I walk home later she’s driving off after a visit from the RAC. One new, silver-rimmed tyre trim making a mockery of the sparkly black ones that were already there. 

In the wood two squirrels race down a tree, bodies stretched so far and moving so fast they look liquid. 

Time doesn’t feel right at the moment. Mostly too long in all the wrong places.

Saturday 30 April

Long weekend. Let’s try not to waste it. 

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Parachutes

Spot

The chi

Of a tree

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Anywhere

But natureside.

Find a

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That

Rivals

Archaic

Forms of

Water torture.

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[galleryonwheels-blog]

When the nature say fuck ! Sometimes you park for some days in the middle of nowhere with just the horizon like a guest ! Finally alone, Nature became sincere and can say what it got into the heart ! #galleryonwheels #nature #natureside #landscape #sunset #night #fuck #branch #finger #respect #angry #whenthenaturesayfuck #yourhomeiswhereyouparkit

[mirandastefan911]

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