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Jun. 12th, 2030 09:22 pm
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The Mass Observation Project (MOP) is a unique UK-based writing project which has been running since 1981, and before that from the 1930s to the 1950s. Every year on 12th May, people not part of the project are asked to contribute a diary of their day to incorporate into the records.

I did that this year, along with a number of other people, and it was so interesting to see what everyone else did, thought I would try my own "mini" version of the Mass Observation Project, and post a monthly "Day in my life" post on the 12th of each month. Other LJers wanted to join in, and on 12th June 2013 a number of us posted our diary entries. But they were all in individual journals, and what was needed was to have them all in one place... and so this Community was born.

It is open to anyone, anywhere in the world, as long as they have an LJ and want to join in.

Membership is moderated, but posts aren't. If you would like to join, please send a message to the community

The rules are very basic:

1. A diary entry is kept for the 12th day of each month, either typed directly onto the pc or written down in a notebook and typed up and posted later.
2. Posts can be any length, but if you need to scroll down more than once, please put some of it behind a cut!
3. Pictures can be included, but please keep them to a reasonable size, and again, if more than one, behind a cut.
4. Each post should be tagged with your LJ name, the year and the month. i.e. hobbituk, 2013, June.

At the moment, the community is set up to be members only able to post and read, but this may change over time dependant on what the community members want to do. There may be polls...!

More signs of spring

Apr. 22nd, 2025 12:15 pm
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[personal profile] ribirdnerd posting in [community profile] common_nature
I saw my first garter snake and two snapping turtles near my local pond.

Bunny caught in passing on the lawn.

Apr. 20th, 2025 03:31 pm
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[personal profile] full_metal_ox posting in [community profile] common_nature
Taken on 16 July 2023 at 19:27 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time.




Bunnies are of course going to favor weedy green lawns over elegant stone yards punctuated with waxy sculptural ornamentals. This one looks like an Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus); Marsh Rabbits (S. palustris) (1), tend to have shorter ears, and my neighborhood strikes me as a bit too far from the water to attract them during the dry season.

It’s on alert, reacting sensibly to the arrival of a member of the deadliest of the Thousand, and so this was the only shot I was able to get before it went PATWINNNG! under the seagrape bed (the round-leaved shrub at center right, bordered by white river rocks.)

(1) Today I Learned the scientific name of the Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvilagus_palustris_hefneri

Yes; that Hugh Hefner funded endangered rabbit research, and was commemorated accordingly.

Flowers

Apr. 19th, 2025 10:32 pm
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[personal profile] ranunculus posting in [community profile] common_nature
Meadowfoam and mimulus out on the Ranch in Northern California.


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[personal profile] pilottttt posting in [community profile] common_nature

They have recently appeared in our city on the pond near the Japanese Garden.

Read more... )

For more information (in Russian), see here.

In the April woods

Apr. 18th, 2025 02:00 pm
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April Woods 8

Set off to follow the path through the oak woods in the rain. Only a gentle rain at first, not cold. Not much light this morning, but still the oaks and the birches bright with new leaves, and the woods full of the song of robins, blackbirds and thrushes.

Come and get rained on )
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[personal profile] full_metal_ox posting in [community profile] common_nature
I sure do!

I’m something of an astronomy nerd; you have to understand that the great solar eclipse of 8 April 2024 was something I’d been counting down to my whole life. In my native Dayton, Ohio, I’d gotten to witness the strange begrimed 40-watt sunlight (1) and dappled crescent shadows of the partial solar eclipses of 10 May 1994 and 21 August 2017, after having gotten a fleeting confirmatory glance through SolarShields under welder’s goggles: the exercise was a bit like hunting basilisks or Medusa.

Another point is that I’m acutely homesick for the seasonal markers of the place where I spent 90+% of my life: the violets and wild chives and flowering crabapples, and the two equinoctial yellows of Moraine honeylocusts: neon chartreuse foliage in the spring, and in the fall flaming saffron—turning to orange piles of cornflake crunch beneath the feet. Even the lawn weeds here are unfamiliar.

Until a couple years in advance—by which time it was too late—I had not anticipated that, by the time the total solar eclipse at long last came to Dayton, I would be gone; behold the southern Gulf Coast of Florida’s experience of the Grand Portentuous Celestial Event.

Continue. )

A walk in the Nant Gwernol valley

Apr. 14th, 2025 09:07 pm
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[personal profile] cmcmck posting in [community profile] common_nature
Across the footbridge into a landscape of water and rock in the Welsh hills.



Nant Gwernol in Welsh means Gwernol Stream and it's a pretty spectacular stream!


More pics! )

Saturday Night Moon

Apr. 14th, 2025 02:51 pm
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Wonderful color on the moon last Saturday. Several photos came out like the one below, just a bright ball of light. But we did get a few pics of the color, and I like the way the branches framed it.

Read more... )

Spring in Northern Germany

Apr. 12th, 2025 09:03 pm
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[personal profile] rodo posting in [community profile] common_nature
I finally got a new camera - just in time for spring to hit. Most of the trees around here don't have any leaves yet, but a lot have started to blossom. Here's a couple of closeups from the last couple of days and weeks, as well as two pictures that show off how good my new camera is at making things look a bit moody:

First up, Purple-leaf plum blossoms:

closup of purple-leaf plum blossoms

More under the cut )

A walk to Tonfanau

Apr. 11th, 2025 01:10 pm
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[personal profile] cmcmck posting in [community profile] common_nature
We had a trip to north Wales last week to the coastal town of Tywyn (pronounced 'tow' as in truck- win)

Our first full day in Tywyn was a bit mirky although mild enough.


We set out for a walk on the northern coastal side of the town to the hamlet of Tonfanau.

Mist over the hills:


See more: )

Photos: House Yard

Apr. 10th, 2025 10:01 pm
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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith posting in [community profile] common_nature
I took some pictures around the yard today. These show the house yard. See the House Yard, South Lot, Savanna and Prairie Garden, and Back Toward the House.

Walk with me ... )

yellow pheasant's eyes

Apr. 9th, 2025 06:44 pm
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It's definitely spring here now and on my walk this afternoon I spotted these stunningly bright yellow flowers huddling in the (dry) grass of a neglected front garden. They're Pheasant's Eyes (Adonis vernalis) and this garden is the only place I've ever seen it. It's a very rare plant in the wild here in Sweden but there's supposed to be cultivars around even though I've never seen any myself.

Click to enlarge:
two yellow daisy-like flowers growing close to the ground

one more photo... )

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