Masza in duckweed soup.

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Just another boring Sunday.

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Vuko, the wetlands inspector.

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I can understand why we have no visitors – the weather is terrible.

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We had had a forest fire nearby a few days ago. No one noticed it, and we were very lucky it died out by itself. We don't know the source of the fire but the suspects are tourists or twigs on power lines.

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Got some peat for our garden. Buying peat for a garden is very destructive for the environment and peat wetlands are disappearing at a horrific rate. But this was left after someone dredged their fish ponds and dumped it near our village store . At first I thought there was a lot of white plastic in it, but on closer inspection it turned out to be shells of swan mussels, Anodonta cygnea, a sign that the ponds were free of toxic substances.

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Masza cosplaying a beaver. She still needs some work on her tail.

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Something delicious is growing near our house. The good news is that this chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus ) is attacking a black cherry tree (Prunus serotina), which is invasive in our area. Should we eat it (they're only good when they're young) or let it do its destructive work for a better world?

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There's a small village under this huge cloud. They've survived worse things :)

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