It was exciting today going to a park I don't really go to and making all these new discoveries. I can't tell if my pictures are great quality or not compared to others. I wanted to post more, but I tried not to over-do it! I posted my first bird sound, goose, and duck too.

It is kind of cool to know that nature is everywhere, even outlet malls or indoor shopping malls. One of the questions I pondered today as I walked around an outlet mall is whether the trees were captive or not. I was thinking definitely yes to the ones closer to the stores, but I found some trees in the back that it was hard to tell.

It also felt awesome to learn about the captive flowers that they had and see the outlet mall in a different light.

One of the cool things I have been getting interested in because of iNaturalist has been Fungi. I didn't realize how they're so unique and I guess I didn't really see a lot of them when I went on walks, because I didn't look for them. Since I've actually been keeping an eye out I have been seeing more and more. That also sparked me to watch Fantastic Fungi which was an amazing documentary and I listened to a few podcasts about them too. I know I have learned a lot about fungi in the past, but seeing them in this light really put things into perspective. Without Fungi there would be no forests or cheese or a way to decompose dead matter!