Welcome to Litsy!

There is some sort of saying about how you will always think your kid is smarter and more entertaining then others will think they are. This might be how and why this book fell short for me. I am sure the author was adding whimsy and I am sure naturists with small children will connect more than I did.
Overall the facts are great. The author is even funny but I was bored, which is shocking these little bits of facts are usually my jam.

Tagged books gives me a #bookspinbingo First of the month, but my sporadic reading has me close to a couple more.
@thearomaofbooks

Reading a book about urban critters while watching urban critters on my patio.

I thought I was going to finish the tagged this weekend but I kept getting distracted by house busy work. This stack is my stretch goal. Hoping to get a Bingo this week!

I am actually LOL'ing.

It is going to rain all weekend so here is to food and books and drinking. Up first a book all about pigeons.

This book was about urban wildlife. It flourishes, we just have to take the time to notice.

This photo is from one of my lunch break walks. Even though I work downtown in one of the top 10 largest cities in the country, I have a great urban greenspace to escape to.

I see all manner of trees and plants, squirrels, ducks and other water birds, snakes, turtles, butterflies, insects, and birds.

Do you have a favorite urban park or greenspace?

I immensely enjoyed the structure and message in this. So many people I know, and even I, gloss over what's around us in nature but it can be a beautiful place.

What a delightful read! Part exercise in mindfulness, part appreciation of city living, part nature guide, it‘s definitely prompted me to pay more attention to the “invisible” things as I wander through the city I love so much.

32/100 for the year, U for #litsyatoz, nature for #readharder

Baldur just walked into the bed, curled up on my book, and tucked his head under my book light. I...I guess I‘m done reading. #catsoflitsy

Getting a jump on a new book before bed. As a city girl I definitely appreciate the premise, but this line made me laugh out loud.

Wanted to read this book ever since I've heard about it on 99% Invisible #podcast several months ago

#nonfiction

Really great panel on nature writing and the environment, really bad photo! #baybookfest

I'm enjoying the idea of actually taking time this year to open my eyes to the natural world around me thanks to this book, which gives a brief look at a handful of living things that survive in cities. Now let's see if I can take the idea and make it reality!

"The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness." A large-hearted and philosophical look at the biology around us.

Crows use humans. They drop nuts and shellfish on roads to be smashed by our high-speed steel-belted radial nutcrackers. At certain intersections in Japan, it's common to see crows tossing nuts into the road, waiting for the signal, and then walking with the pedestrians to retrieve their reward.

Crumble some pecan sandies on a notecard with your daughter and eventually you end up grappling with the basic tenets of philosophy. These are the questions that arise if you spend enough time staring at ants.

What's true of other people is also true of places: to know deeply is to love more. To know the secrets of a place, to read it on many levels, and to sense the vastness of the unknown is the key to love.

In 1883, six years after 68 squirrels were released in Central Park, it had an estimated population of 1,500. Olmsted is the acknowledged father of American landscape architecture, but it's not as well known that he is also the father of city squirrels.

Squirrels are much better at burning fat than gaining it. Without even moving, they can produce energy like a pro cyclist powering up into the Pyrenees.