Toadvark

For me it's mostly the ease of it. I'm the type to get very bogged down by (perceived) steps, hurdles, and visual overstimulation. An illustration:

Notebook

• Find pen or pencil
• Find the page you need
• Go

Tablet/Etc

• Is it charged
• Specific pen only
• Keyboard needs pairing
• Is keyboard charged
• It wants to update now, awesome
• Turn it on, see ten unrelated apps --> forget what I'm doing
• App randomly decides it needs internet access
• Probably have to deal with syncing now
• etc etc
• (another 'me' problem: I get really hung up on trying to format things digitally, which takes time way from what I'm supposed to be doing)

Now, there are certainly benefits to writing things out digitally, especially when searchability is key. Any important info in any of my booklets that I might need to find later on gets typed up or entered into a spreadsheet where applicable. Not the most efficient way to do things, I suppose. 😅

In general though: I just like being able to look down and see a thing I've written, rather than needing to wake up a device, open a program, or otherwise fiddle with a screen, especially while multitasking.

Animals camouflaged as moss, lichen, and leaves are so magical to me; hundreds of thousands of years alongside plants, eventually mimicking them to perfection. Just the most wonderful thing there is. 🥺

Eee congratulations, and I hope for many more to come! I found it so hard not to eat all of my beans and peas right then and there last year. 😆

Yep, I'm just barely up a slope from a...I hesitate to call it a true marsh, as I think it's more of a low-sitting municipal water drainage area (more man-made, I guess). A few small spots in the woods retain a lot of snowmelt, though I'm unsure if they're big enough to be truly considered vernal pools.

I've only ever found these guys when it's been particularly dry for a long time, so I bet they're visiting the logs near my garden beds for hydration (or bugs). :D

This very specific genre of riffing is just the best.

"I love NFTs: Newts Frogs n Toads"

o: Yeah woah! Didn't even cross my mind, lol. I'm livin' in the past.

Just to save OP some time, I tried reverse image searching on both Google and TinEye and got zero results. Bummer. :/

Ahwww yeah, this is where it's at. Good stuff. :)