Look! I bred a hybrid lily! (j/k I take no credit for this. This is one of the few plants I haven't managed to kill. I leave it alone and it keeps coming back each year.)
Today was the first day I saw a squirrel eat a mushroom. I didn’t know they could do that, so I looked it up and apparently they can even eat some mushrooms that are poisonous to humans! Guess they get sick of acorns sometimes.
Whenever I see a hummingbird bully a butterfly away from a flower…I feel bad for it. I don’t know how smart hummingbirds are, but butterflies seem like such innocent babies to me, that it’s weird to see a hummingbird chase it away. It’s rough out there lol.
Went out to watch the Perseid meteor shower tonight! I saw 3 shooting stars (1 out of the corner of my eye but the other 2 directly) and then I noticed a weird long “cloud” in the sky so I investigated with long exposure and…
AAAAAAAAAA!!!! I heard there was a solar storm, but I didn’t expect to be able to catch it from home!! What a blessing
Since it's mushroom season and all, I thought I'd share these cool mushrooms I saw in our yard the other day!! This one was beautiful—I wish I'd gotten a picture of it the day before, before it opened up. The cap was a gorgeous, almost metallic-looking bronze and I swear it looked a lot like the Elegant Mushroom in ACNH.
There was also this big fella who I think was unfortunately too heavy and had fallen over... look at those gills though! Wish I could've seen it upright.
And on my quest for mushroom photos, I encountered a yellow-striped armyworm! First time seeing one I think (there's another kind of moth caterpillar around here that accounts for almost all the caterpillars I see); they grow into really pretty moths.
I'm also starting to see one of my favorite wildflowers!! I start seeing them usually around autumn, so I was delighted to find a little patch of them nearby. If anyone recognizes these and knows what they're called, I'd love to know—I can't find them in searches to save my life akjfldkgksj
A red banded leafhopper landed on my phone as well! 
(j/k I take no credit for this. This is one of the few plants I haven't managed to kill. I leave it alone and it keeps coming back each year.)
