remember to drink lots of water, because your insides are a swampy bog and a water shortage would affect the local frog population

“Strawberry Hill” by Rob Lee

The magical bogs of Estonia 

Image credit from the top (please don’t remove): 1. Urmas Haljaste, 2. Ragnis Pärnmets, 3. Margus Muts, 4. Anton Hallik, 5. Elvis Antson, 6. Jan Lepamaa, 7. Marek Metslaid

fun weekend activity: disappear into the forest, marsh, bog, cave, or field of your choice!

if you ask, the forest will always answer you. perhaps not in a way you expect

Crocodile 

Bayou in Louisiana

A happy visitor to the goblin spa if I ever saw one

Amusement park in Berlin left to nature’s devices [640x480]

My dad travels a lot. This is an old waterwheel he came across.

THIS is swamp culture

Omfg I grew up in a bog and we did this

The alligator’s snout parted the swamp scum and her tail, lazily swishing, propelled her along. The air was thick with murk and the sounds of a banjo as the swamp witch, laying atop Gatorbetty, softly strummed “That Gator Ain’t Just My Raft She Is My Best Friend.”

Lysichiton americanus, Western Skunk Cabbage. Araceae family. Aptly named… by Ed Via Flickr: it stinks! Skunk cabbage Lysichiton americanus 114/365

My goblin siblings and I were exploring our local bog once and ate a nibble of a leaf from one of these. We'd read they were edible, but hadn't read that you have to boil them in several changes of water for them to be safe for consumption, so it felt like eating fiberglass. Always research your forage food before shoving it into your hungry little mouths, folks!