The IRL Animal Crossing Thread!

[VernalLapin]

Gorgeous skies tonight! These pics don’t do it justice though, the rainbow was super vibrant! A red banded leafhopper landed on my phone as well!

 

[LadyDestani]

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.)

 

[Junebugsy94]

I captured a photo of a dragonfly! Still amazed I got one before it flew away

 

[QueenCobra]

Not the best pic, but this raccoon was chasing a squirrel up a tree and stopped to look at me.

 

[QueenCobra]

Someone wasn’t feeling the fireworks tonight, which I TOAD-ally understand….

 

[VernalLapin]

Weevil on da sofa…what will he do?
(Answer: he was picked up and relocated outside)

 

[QueenCobra]

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.

 

[QueenCobra]

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.

 

[VernalLapin]

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

Spoiler: Saturation edits

 

[VernalLapin]

Got to see some great storms with my boyfriend yesterday! Complete with some mammatus clouds. Getting a picture was hard but it still looks cool.

 

[VernalLapin]

This sky took my breath away!

 

[QueenCobra]

I left some apple slices from the turtle that visits and he/she had a few good CHOMPS! Later I went outside and saw some big bite marks in the apple.

 

[.: Meri :.]

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

 

[VernalLapin]

I saw a black squirrel (melanistic gray squirrel) today! And no, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t just the lighting!

Spoiler: 3 pics

 

[VernalLapin]

A strange plant called the Adam’s Needle (and Thread) Yucca (I think).

Saw the shiny squirrel again, caught him using levitate (I know this isn’t a pokemon thread, but I couldn’t help myself XD)

 

[VernalLapin]

Was looking through some older photos. Saw a fantastic cumulonimbus last July!

 

[QueenCobra]

A sparrow moved into the wooden birdhouse I put up. Sometimes it leaves, comes back with a bunch of twigs, and stuffs them inside! Hope they’re staying nice and warm.