Field notes
NOTES
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Short observations about bugs, rot, weather, porch lights, dead wood, fungi, and the things that become interesting after you stop walking.
On porch lights and moths
Every night, a temporary city gathers around the bulb. Wings arrive from the dark.
A small defense of rot
Dead wood is not empty. It is crowded with work, digestion, shelter, spores, tunnels, eggs, and second chances.
Things found after rain
Mushrooms appear overnight. Beetles emerge. Bark darkens. The woods become legible in a different alphabet.
Lichen is a relationship
What looks like one organism is really a collaboration living on bark and stone.
What the deer leaves behind
An antler is bone grown outside the body, carried through a season, then abandoned intact.
The diplomacy of spiders
On webs, corners, ceilings, and why “absolutely not” can occasionally become “fine, you may stay.”