AmikoWorld

ALT A shot of the late fall leaf little: mostly dried brown leaves with a sprinkle of red, orange and yellow maples leaves.

ALT View from a ridgeline summit: a vast blue sky with a dusting of sparse clouds, the sun, distant brown rolling hills, and a long lake.

ALT A bright red poster courtesy of New Jersey Fish and Wildlife on a tree with a photo of a black bear announcing the presence of bears in this area with guidelines for how to safely handle an encounter (don’t run, don’t approach, don’t feed) .

ALT A white marking on a ridge line indicating the state border for New York and New Jersey. Pine trees in the background.

ALT A orange-yellow fall leaf in my hand with two somewhat shriveled wild blueberries.

ALT Chicken of the woods mushroom attached to a fallen log with a couple slugs and an ant on it.

ALT A daddy long legs reaching one leg up on a green leaf.

ALT A spreadwing damselfly on a stick. They have a long skinny brownish body that looks like a stick, mostly clear wings that they hold at a 45 degree open angle when resting, and big cute grey bulbous eyes.

ALT A little light purple mushroom against a patch of lush green moss and some dead leaves, probably Violet Cort which is native and common to New York.

ALT A northern leopard frog, very common in New York, which has black spots like a leopard on its body, on a parched of wet moss, near a mud puddle and dead leaves.

ALT A bright shiny yellow-orange very small mushroom, species unknown, that has a skinny stem, and a flat almost donut like cap, the middle indentation is not a hole though. It is coming out of dead leaves, near some moss.

ALT A red capped white mushroom emerging from the leaf litter of the forest floor.

ALT A Carolina Locust, a very dusty brown monotone critter, in the palm of my hand.

ALT Wild blueberries, some ripe, some still pinkish and not blue yet.

ALT 2 photos: A tree snapped from the storm, a small jagged stump, the rest of the tree lays beside it. Text says: things fall apart. Photo below is a long fallen tree stump, tiny saplings are growing from its crevices while a sun beam shines down on them. Text says: life finds a way.

ALT 3 photos; some hearts half filled as is often used in video games to indicate health. First photo, 3 ripe wineberries in my palm: +2 points each; 2nd photo, a mixed palmful of ripe blackberries: +1 points each and ripe blueberries: +3 points each. 3rd photo, a palmful of nerd clusters candy: +5 points each.

ALT A close up of a male fishing spider on a leaf. Text box says: male fishing spider: monogamous cause he 💀 the first time and then she eats him for proteinmaxxing to make the babies. A text sticker with pink background says: so romantic

ALT Close up of a green leaf. By the center crease, a small dark black angular insect with its wings folded, it has very thin, very long, wispy black and white antenna more than twice its body length.

ALT Close up of a spider on a stick. It’s a very small spider with a chevron pattern of light brown on its pale yellow body. The two front pairs of legs are longer than the back ones.

ALT A small brown, white, and black frog blending in quite nicely with the dead leaves on the forest floor.

ALT At the end of a fern leaf, the crafty caterpillar has used a combination of webbing, chewing, and folding to make a globe-like shelter of the first few leaves of the fern tip.

ALT almost solid purple-blue violets on the forest floor

ALT Small white violets on the forest floor.

ALT A perky yellow violet on the forest floor.

ALT A white and purple violet on the forest floor.