Shell 🐚
dirt-and-stardust.bsky.social
Shell 🐚
@dirt-and-stardust.bsky.social
Tree Hugging Dirt Worshipper 🌳

Nature Based Early Childhood Educator 🐛

Aspiring Bog Witch 🐌

#Resist
When everything is terrible find the glimmers.

My glimmer today was my first Eastern Box Turtle sighting in the wild! This is most likely a female finding a good spot to lay her eggs. Males typically have bright red or orange eyes!

#nature #turtletime #boxturtle
June 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This little hermit crab reminds me of WALL-E with those eyes. Fitting since hermit crabs eat almost anything, keeping the ocean floor tidy.

#nature #hermitcrab #marinelife #oceansky #naturesky #crabsky
June 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
June 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This one eclosed yesterday. So fuzzy!
May 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We raised Luna Caterpillars last summer and after almost a year as pupae here are the moths! They will only live for about two weeks before finishing their natural life cycle.

#teammoth #moth #lunamoth
May 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
There are two baby squirrels in this picture.

#GoOutside #SquirrelSky
May 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
We raised some caterpillars last summer and the moths are just starting to eclose now! They spend a few weeks as caterpillars and will spend a few weeks as moths but they spent almost a year as pupae!
May 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Eastern Starflower constellations, the cosmos on the forest floor.

We are all made of dirt and stardust.

#forestfloor #nature
May 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Moving forward slowly is still moving forward. Sometimes I need that reminder.

#nature #naturelessons #slug #naturesky
May 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Earth’s greatest treasures.
April 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
April showers bring skunk cabbage and salamanders
April 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Stop and smell the roses. Stop and meet your neighbor. Stop and appreciate your fellow earthlings.

#salamander #nature #forest
March 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is Monster Tree. My 2 year old buddy and I visit daily to give him pets and feed him sticks and leaves.

Try to see nature through the eyes of a toddler and you’ll remember magic.

#naturepreschool #forestschool #babywisdom
March 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is Ivy the Magic Cat, she is the most majestic creature in the land.

#petsofbluesky
March 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Trying to be like this little guy here and just roll with it…*

*um, actually this is a sowbug NOT a pillbug and while they are both isopods, the sowbug cannot roll into a ball.

#nature #bug #umactually
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the frozen earth
we are waiting. Cold and weak.
But still we will rise.

#poetry #haiku #nature #forest #resist
March 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
In this phase of my life I am a nanny to a 2 year old boy. We spend our days roaming the forest and asking life’s big questions like, “Can I eat a pine needle?” (The answer to that one is no) and “Can I eat a partridge berry?” (That one is a yes.)

#naturebased #forest #moss
March 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A moment in time.
March 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Humans continue to disappoint me but the forest never does. Welcome back salamanders, I missed you.
March 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Spent some time spring cleaning with my hens.
March 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I try to see the beauty in this decay, remind myself that it is natural, inevitable, unstoppable

but it is not the softening of wood into soil, the gentle shift of solid timber to fertile earth that I see.

All I can see are the maggots.

#moss #iseemoss #forest #poetry
March 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I don’t crochet but I walk in the forest and take pictures of moss. There is something about moss.
March 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Nature is one of the only things keeping me going right now and the forest is my sanctuary.

#moss #forest #nature
March 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Same. Not a photographer but that doesn’t stop me from taking pictures of moss.
March 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM