#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge #EastCoastKin

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge #EastCoastKin

You can help support a proposal to change the WI state insect from the European Honeybee to the Hine's Emerald Dragonfly. The questionnaire can be found on this link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/6DGYNX5 The QR code on our flyer isn't working, but this link works.

Arkansas River at Pueblo, CO #photography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #colorado

Just finished this quilt top, so I guess it's #New #BlueSkyArtShow #quilt

Can't we impeach yet?

Cedar

Bumblebee thoraxes need to reach 86°F for flight. They do this by vibrating their flight muscles. They can get to 104°F while flying. I love reading. #books

Yellow Crab Spider, Northern Wisconsin Bog, 2025 #BlueSkyArtShow #openings #EastCoastKin #naturephotography

Glover's Silkmoth, Custer, SD 2025 #BlueSkyArtShow #opening #openings #naturephotography #EastCoastKin

One of my favorite filters is a rainy windshield. Village park gazebo near home. #EastCoastKin #photography

I've been segment hiking the Ice Age Trail, which runs about 1200 miles across Wisconsin, following the glacial retreat across the state. This segment was mostly a connecting route on road, but the skies delivered! #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #IceAgeTrail

The Wisconsin Dragonfly Society is leading efforts to install the Hine's Emerald dragonfly as our state insect! Vote in the DNR Spring Questionnaire on this incentive April 13-18. #WDS #dragonfly #WIDragonflySociety #odonate

White Ash lookin' ash

The WDS Annual Meeting is 6/27 and 28 in Mellen, WI. Field trips leave from Gilman Park. The location & dates were chosen with striped emeralds (Somatochlora) in mind. Let us know if you will attend: [email protected]. More info: widragonflysociety.org/index.html

The Friends of Sandhill invited WDS to create a dragonfly event on May 23, 2026, at the Sandhill State Wildlife Area, which is near Babcock in Wood County. The address of the headquarters is 1715 County Hwy X. At 9:30 AM on May 23,

In 2025, ode watchers submitted 8711 sightings from 1594 locations across Wisconsin to the Wisconsin Odonata Survey. This is the third highest number of submissions per year in the history of the WOS project. wiatri.net/inventory/od... #dragonfly #damselfly #odonate #wisconsindragonflysociety

I spent last week on the beach in southern CA. This week I'm back in the very frigid Upper Midwest. We sure appreciate our spring here, when it finally arrives! Took the photo of this slightly spent Fortnite Lily in Laguna Beach.

I'm late, but here. #BlueSkyArtShow #vibrant

She's 29 now, in the blink of an eye #BlueSkyArtShow #small

#EastCoastKin #photography #ForestFriday The Menomonee River Parkway, Wauwatosa, WI

I took this three years ago in the little park next to the local hospital while my brother was having chemo. The leaves are gone, and so is he. #EastCoastKin #photography #landscape

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn Rib Mountain State Park, Wausau, WI, two weeks ago

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn Holy Hill, Hubertus, WI last Tuesday

Two days ago on Rib Mountain in Wausau, WI. Peak color! #EastCoastKin #naturephotography

Rib Mountain State Park, Wausau, Wisconsin #BlueSkyArtShow #vertical

Rib Mountain State Park, Wausau, Wisconsin

#BlueSkyArtShow #vertical

Typing in MS Word this morning and it gives the word "ontologist" a red underline. It underlines it here as well as I type. All I can think is the word is uncommon enough that these apps want to be sure I don't mean something else. Or maybe they need an ontologist?

The Wisconsin Dragonfly Society at Bug Day at Wehr Nature Center. We had a great time again this year sharing bug love with the kids and families! #WisconsinDragonflySociety #dragonfly

Death is the only constant, universal, final, and unavoidable thing we all share, yet it continues to throw me for a loop. Every damn time. My cordless shop vac died this morning while I was cleaning, and even that hurt and surprised me. At least it can be revived, recharged.

Skunk cabbage bloom in snow #BlueSkyArtShow #jagged #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography

Huckleberry’s cat food bag says that it is made with “farm raised” chicken. Interesting choice of adjective. What other kind of chicken is there? Feral chicken? Pet chicken? Retired circus chicken?

#BlueSkyArtShow #jagged I completed this quilt top yesterday, made out of scraps from my late brother's flannel shirts. I used no rules and let everything come together organically, jaggedly.

#BlueSkyArtshow #jagged

Looking for help online in being better able to endure change. I am told to be flexible and accepting. This is circular. Me: How to accept change? Interwebs: Accept change! How do you accept change? I'm talking small things like the passing of time & big things like grief & all in between.

I want my AI to be woke AF

The Wisconsin Dragonfly annual meeting & Field Trip - Aug 23 & 24, Fifield, Movrich Community Park Pavillion. Fifield was chosen because in late August there is a good chance of finding some beautiful darner species in the vicinity, such as Canada, Lake, Mottled, Subarctic, and Variable.

#BlueSkyArtShow #SummerDaze #odonate #BlackSaddlebags Black Saddlebags dragonfly resting on a volunteer's finger this morning during a species survey at the Urban Ecology Center at Washington Park, Milwaukee

Halloween Pennant dragonfly on my hand this morning during an #odonate survey at the Urban Ecology Center at Washington Park. #odonate #dragonfly #halloweenpennant #naturephotography #citizenscience

I just finished reading Sy Montgomery's Soul of an Octopus, and in it she tells how she had wanted to make octopus plural as octopi, but this is incorrect because it's Greek, not Latin. The proper plural is octopuses. Sorry for the mini spoiler on the NYT puzzle. #nytpuzzle #nytcrossword

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday July 12, 2025 The theme is #SummerDaze Any art that fits, any skill level Show us your best summer stuff. Use both tags to be included in our feed #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #pleinair #poetry #fiberarts #pottery #jewelry #panoramas

All your favorites, whenever you want. That's what my local PBS station just said my support gets me with PBS Passport. But few of the shows I want to watch are actually available, so this is not true. I support PBS & NPR, but am disappointed in this promise.

#BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside

The perfect hike. Black Hills, South Dakota. #EastCoastKin #scape

Stain on the pavement under a flowerpot. #accidentalart

I am here by coining a new term: Neuro-elite®️ #adhd #autism #AuDHD

Just put away all the "clean" dishes from the dishwasher, only to realize I had just unloaded a dirty dishwasher. I'm new to dishwashing machines, so I guess this is a thing? 😅

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday June 28, 2025 The theme is #GetOutside Use our feed to keep track Use both tags to be included Let's see your nature shots, street life, etc, #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #fiberarts #poetry #writing whatever you have. More info in the comments.

Anxiety: You know, if you live as long as your mother, you'll have to buy toilet paper at least 300 more times. Me: Anxiety: That's at least 1,200 rolls. Me: Anxiety: Or 378 times if you live as long as your dad, 1,512 rolls. Me: (begins frantic search for bidets)