flowntheloop

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Flown Kimmerling

Joined: Jun 23, 2017 Last Active: Oct 7, 2024 iNaturalist

𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 I’m a nature enthusiast who lives in Northeast Alabama. I don’t easily make friends with humans, but am quick to get chummy with moths, frogs, and just about any other creature (or plant or fungus) I meet in the field.

I am nonbinary, neurodivergent, and I live with complex chronic illness and chronic pain. Nature has always been a compass to my inner calm, and living a dynamically disabled life means that I have to constantly find creative ways to do the things which are so essential to my well-being.

Over the years, the process of hiking, observing, photographing, and cataloguing has become a sort of secondary therapy for me. I have a strong interest in fungi, plants, and insects—but I honestly love learning about anything and everything! I cannot say that I am a specialist or expert in any field—as I definitely have a tendency to jump from one hyperfocus to the next. Most of my observations are from North Georgia _{^{(I have a gigantic backlog to work on)}}, but I hope to rack up my Alabama observations now that I'm living here.

^{I also previously served as the newsletter chair and part of the specimen collection team for the Alabama Mushroom Society.}

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