Hard work. 
Tree stumps cut down by a beaver in a swampy forest in southern Poland.
April 2025
#Photography #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Biodiversity #Forest #Woodland #Swamp #Beaver #Tree #Spring #Poland #MarekJedra #Fotografia #Krajobraz #FotografiaKrajobrazowa #Bioroznorodnosc #Las #Puszcza #Bagno #Bobr #Drzewo #Wiosna #Polska
More photos from this trip at:
https://foto.jedra.pl/chechlo-w-puszczy-dulowskiej/
A beaver dam in a swampy forest in southern Poland.
This year's spring in this area is very dry. Beavers know how important water management is.
April 2025
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)
Un chevalier gambette (j’adore ce nom, ça devrait être un membre honoraire des chevaliers du zodiaque) très mignon pour embellir votre mercredi.
#Photography #Bird #Birds #Nature #BirdPhotography #CommonRedshank #Swamp #CotedAzur #Borb
Everglades National Park
Sony NEX-5
The raw materials for breakthrough technologies will come in unexpected forms -- the people, the ideas, and the objects will come dressed in other uses, other meanings, and other relationships. Untangling these existing resources from their current context and putting them together in new ways requires thinking by analogy. It means constantly asking how things are the same. It's easy to point out how things are different; we do it every day in order to decide where to focus our attention and energy. Who we talk to and who we do not, which articles we read and which we ignore -- these are difference-driven choices. And difference-driven choices are, by nature, defensive.
-- Andrew Hargadon (How Breakthroughs Happen)
#MarshMadness day 22 
Not many leaves on the trees yet, so marshes look less lush, but it's still a marsh!
If you can spare a few minutes for our environment, please leave a comment against the Removal of the National Environmental Policy Act. This is the "Magna Carta" of environmental laws in the US, and removing will bring total destruction. Once removed, it will be easy to decimate even our National Parks. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations Comments close next week.
In the African-American folk traditions of the American South, a "conjure man" or "conjure woman" was a professional sorcerer. They would live outside the community, often in the swamp. Though feared, conjure folk would be consulted for various magical services.
