I've been stuck in the house too long- I'm going out and enjoy nature

[packman]

[tblue37]

1. LOL! K&R. nt

[tazkcmo]

2. So serene and gentle.

Minus the violence and attempted eating, of course.

[sarge43]

3. Mother Nature: Sorting out the DNA n/t

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. "Nature is healing"

[Laelth]

5. Nevermind.

It’s kind of nice inside.



-Laelth

[Wawannabe]

6. Meybe stay home??

It’s a toss up, right?

[Binkie The Clown]

7. Nature's job is to try to kill you.

And it keeps trying 24/7. That's the driver of natural selection. Anyone who tells you mother nature is friendly and nurturing is suffering from a serious, life-threatening delusion.

Camping? While you are in your tent swatting the mosquitoes that are trying to infect you, or picking off the ticks that want to suck your blood, just outside your tent is a hungry bear to the north and a rabid racoon to the south, and if you try to run away from them, well then the thorn bushes and poison ivy will get you anyway.

[niyad]

8. Soooooooooo glad I had put down my coffee!

[MissB]

9. Other than folks trying to get a bit too close to bison

I didn’t get any pictures like this yesterday in Yellowstone.

I love the polar bear one

[denem]

10. Like this?

[2naSalit]

11. I know exactly where that is

in the park too. People think they have some magical protection making it possible to approach wild animals with no negative outcome.

Magical thinking will get him out of this I'm sure.

[MissB]

13. Ha! Yeah

Like that.

[Traildogbob]

12. Thank you soooooo much

Much much needed laugh. I feel better now.

[Red Pest]

14. Tick bites!

Last week my wife came back from her hike with a little friend attached to her thigh - a nymph deer tick or blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis). These ticks are vectors for Lyme disease (or Lyme borreliosis) and anaplasmosis. I removed the tick and there have been no symptoms of either infection. I've had Lyme disease, which was successfully treated with antibiotics. Recently, the husband of one of my grad students had anaplasmosis. He was in the hospital for several days, but recovered thanks to antibiotic treatment.

Yeah, the big animals can get you, but the little guys are much more likely to do damage. Just like SARS-CoV2.

[erronis]

16. Just like all those tiny bugs waiting for the body to die to help the decomposition process

the decomposition process which is going on inside and outside of us every second that we try to stay alive.

Maybe it's somehow more glorious to go out with the sound of your bones being crunched by a lion or bear. More likely in a car accident.

[SCantiGOP]

18. Ticks are not as dramatic as the pix above

but like Fire Ants, they can be pretty damned painful.

[burrowowl]

15. The German Shepard thinks it's

dangerous for you to climb trees.

[iluvtennis]

17. My giggle for the day - thank you for posting these pics. nt

[calimary]

19. OMG! The Birds!

Love these! Thanks, packman!

[JustGene]

20. yes

[Duppers]

21. 😂

[whistler162]

22. Wonder which lion brought

or did they forget one?