The PhD Pelican #WIP continues apace.

I've decided simply to craft an evergreen skeet that I can use from time to time as required. Here it is: That isn't how any of this works! #TheArchers If you work in law, hospitality, accounting, or business, feel free to borrow it.

#WIP off and running with the PhD Pelican I'm painting for my newly-minted PhD daughter. #Watercolor #Gouache #ArtYear

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Lifer: capture of the last new to you bird you’ve seen. That would be the Vermilion Flycatcher my daughter helped me find in #SanDiego a few months ago. Which come to think of it, I could also have used for yesterday's #Orange theme. 🪶

Lol, this quote: “This incident is nothing more than a typical construction mishap,” Nathan Berman, managing principal and founder of MetroLoft, said “It happens unfortunately far too often on construction sites: falling cranes, people ... falling off buildings, windows falling out.” #Pfizer

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Orange. Here's a Black-headed Grosbeak in #Agoura in southern #California. I love the orange of course, but also the just-barely-visible yellow streak they have on their bellies. 🪶

Had a close encounter with a River Otter yesterday. #Graphite sketch from my own photo. #ArtYear #Sketchbook #Pencil

Here's a peek at a fun #WIP. My daughter just got her PhD & her favorite bird is the Brown Pelican, so I am doing a Pelican in PhD garb: the tam & hood in UC colors. The hat's okay but the stripes need to be adjusted. The liripipe of the hood could be a little showier. #Graphite #Pencil #ArtYear

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Cutie, cute bird captures. I have just the thing from Las Gallinas #SanRafael #California last week, a baby Barn Swallow who will STARE INTO YOUR SOUL until you bring him some breakfast. 🪶

I was gifted a set of Dr Ph Martin's Bombay Inks and I am having so much fun playing with them! Such brilliant colors. #Abstract #Watercolor #Gouache #Ink #ColoredPencil #MixedMedia #ArtYear

I bought a little santon in #Provence #France of a lavender harvester, stopping for a moment in the hot sun to wipe her brow. This is a #Watercolor #Ink&Wash I did of the figurine. I love her as a reminder of one of my favorite places, and also of women's labor. #ArtYear

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #Ebony&Ivory, birds that have black & white plumage. Oh yay! Another opportunity share a Puffin photo! Here are Los Tres Amigos at Castle O'Burrian #Westray #Orkney 🪶

Not struck by lightning, I see. Well, all in good time.

Would be so delicious if climate change finally took that moron out 🇺🇸

A little #Abstract art to get the day off to a good start. #Watercolor #Gouache #ArtYear

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Quackers, any duck will do. To be fair, this Wood Duck is more of a whistler than a quacker. It's hard to take a bad picture of one, but I particularly liked the fun golden-green waters rippling around him. 🪶

I got some good looks at this handsome Osprey at Bon Tempe Lake #Marin #California this morning. I believe he was a juvenile waiting for mom or dad to come back with breakfast. 🪶

And they say there are no toxic snakes in England #Martyn #AnneMarie #Bill #Brian #Adam #TheArchers

"Shoots Flaming Balls" -- what could possibly go wrong?!

I'm a lifelong migraineuse and my auras have become more frequent, so I have had to become familiar with the "Visual Aura Table." Mine are almost always #1, however yesterday, I had #13, which was cool. As a cat lover, I long for #25, presumably reserved for Surrealist sufferers. #Migraine

My #BirdOfTheDay photo meets both of today's themes: #QuietReflection, any bird paused in thought, as well as the alt theme, #SunriseSunset, a bird captured during either. This is a Great Blue Heron at sunrise at Crissy Field #Presidio #GGNRA #SanFrancisco #Photography

Cheerful loose #watercolor of summer annuals: bachelor's buttons, cosmos, and a sunflower in an orange fish "gurgle" vase. #ArtYear

We have a fun #BirdOfTheDay theme today: #RedBeakFeetEyes, any bird with a red beak, feet or eyes, not feathers. I immediately thought of the Black-crowned Night Heron 🪶

One of the fun parts of drawing is that you're basically creating a personal coloring book that you can color in later. #ArtYear #Graphite #Watercolor #Sketchbook

My brother's cat Nola #Gouache #Watercolor #Cats #ArtYear

That's my girl 🥰

WIP of Mt Tamalpais. #Marin #California #Gouache #Watercolor #ArtYear

According to @robcrank68.bsky.social, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Rotund, birds looking rather plump. This is not a great shot, but it is by far the most rotund #borb photo I have, of an American Coot 🪶

As a legal professional (former contract negotiator/drafter/manager), this partnership dissolution storyline makes no sense. If there's a "partnership agreement", then everything should already be there regarding what to do when the partnership ends. #TheArchers /1

I think this baby Barn Swallow wants its breakfast. #LasGallinas #SanRafael #California #Birding 🪶

Me: I've lost 5 pounds on this stupid diet, but these too-tight leggings still don't fee right Also Me: Oh, I have them on backwards.

Not a California native, but so pretty anyway, and smells lovely. Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare. #Botany #Wildflowers #Flowers

Not a great photo, but get a load of the FEET on this baby American Gallinule! Las Gallinas #SanRafael #California 🪶

Rhinoceroses (rhinoceri?) in the #Sketchbook today. #Graphite #Pencil #ArtYear

We were invited to a party & brought dessert. Inspired by café gourmand desserts we had in France, we made "nubbins" of shortbread, madeleines, choc brownies, lemon bars. Also teacups w/ mascarpone, crushed choc chip biscotti, & vin santo. Arranged on a tray like a dessert charcuterie board! #Baking

You know you're a native Californian when you're a little disappointed the #Earthquake warning came to nothing.

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay today is #Birds&Buds. I've always loved this photo of a House Finch leaning into some wild radish at the Santa Venetia Open Space Preserve in #SanRafael #California 🪶

Someone found an actual comic strip featuring me as an insufferable pedant child

I'm a Facebook user: use "https://www.facebook.com/?filter=all&sk=h_chr" on the client side, not the app, and you get a chronological feed just like the old days. I had to unfriend and block a 20+ year friend today who started spewing the most vile stuff. /1

Today’s I effing love #SanFrancisco post

Haven’t posted this in awhile… Feels right. #Caturday

Adorable #Coyote pup on Santa Margarita in #SanRafael #California

Sea urchin study in my sketchbook. #Graphite #BlackAndWhite #ArtYear #B&W #Conchology

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedBeaks, any bird with Red on its beak. Here's a cute lady Common Merganser at Las Gallinas Water Treatment Plant, #SanRafael #California. 🪶

When the world gives you penguins, make penguin-ade. Amirite? #ArtYear #Watercolor #Ink #Sketchbook

Cheerful #Abstract #Watercolor with #ColoredPencil overlay #ArtYear

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Raptor #Raptors The Red-tailed Hawks at Crissy Field near the Golden Gate Bridge fly low low and hover in the plentiful wind, allowing me to get this nice shot. 🪶

Bright #Abstract #Watercolor using Vivia Colorsheets (dye-based watercolor) and Charvin watercolors (drop them in to create blooms). #ArtYear

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OutForAWalk, any bird captured walking. Here are a Great Egret (yellow bill, black feet) and a Snowy Egret (black bill, yellow feet), enjoying a companiable stroll in a marsh 🪶