Next stop, Hilo. Big Sur, June 2022. #BlueSkyArtShow #edge #BigSur #cali #california #scape #landscape #photography #ECK

The USDA could make slaughterhouses even more dangerous by speeding up - or even eliminating! - line speed regulations. We need to make our opposition loud and clear! Tell the USDA to reject line speed rule changes: https://fwwat.ch/4c7FaZJ

Today we are joined by hundreds of sanctuaries all over the world in celebrating Sanctuary Day and pausing to think about what "sanctuary" really means.

Can’t live without: oxygen, clean water, a functioning planet Can live without: billionaires telling us otherwise

Spirit at the Piano, by George Roux circa 1885. #PhantomsFriday

Colored pencil equine studies I did for a show years ago.

But looking at the larger picture, money best serves those who have large amounts of it and who use it to accumulate power in order to accumulate still more money. Michael Parenti from America Besieged

Nature’s Eye @see3trees.bsky.social celebrates the importance of forests as breeding and nesting grounds for all kind of birds on the ForestFriday:

"For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature.” — Rudolf Steiner

A significant weather system will bring dangerous thunderstorms to a large portion of the country today. The first storms are expected to form this afternoon as individual cells. These early storms will be capable of producing very large to giant hail and a few intense tornadoes.

#OTD in 1945, Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft--𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳--was executed by the Nazis at age 24. Law student turned saboteur, she smuggled weapons & assassinated collaborators. Captured weeks before liberation, she faced the firing squad with defiance. #courage #WWII #HistSky

The emergence of Elise, who has legs for ballet but hands for jazz:

Fun little close-up #art #birds #nature #sciart

JUST IN: Trump's bid to overturn $5M award to E. Jean. Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation was set to be taken up by SCOTUS at closed-door conference tomorrow. Just rescheduled for 7th time. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Nestled in serenity, Emerald skirts dress leafy tiers, Shadows sway in sunlight's reign, Dappled shade showers ancient stone, Earth baked vaults cradle foliage, Hazy mountains cast an azure spell, Liquid sapphire drifts in rhythmic tides, Capri charm fans peace and calm. Eve, GB Artist: K. Gorbatov

Hers a #Wader who is not yet wading so he can show off those fabulous feet! #BirdOfTheDay #birds #egrets #birdphotography #nature #ECK 🪶

Look at those eyes. ✨ It’s hard to believe this is the same dog we found shaking on the street a few months ago. Dolly was dumped because she was old and “unwanted,” but today, she is the most wanted girl in the world. She’s officially adopted and will be heading to her home in Thailand soon. 🏠

Today’s moment of calm I’m about halfway through painting this prickly subject and it’s time to go outside and catch a breath of fresh air.

Bring it on!

Great to talk with Adam Johnson about his new book, How to Sell a Genocide. It explains how the media not only sold the genocide in Gaza and West Bank, but has sustained it through distortion, lack of balance, and covering up Israel’s crimes.

John Lines - Spring Showing Itself. Oil on board.

“Soy #fotógrafo aficionado, además de profesional, y creo que quizás mis #fotos de aficionado son las mejores.” – Elliott Erwitt #La Provenza por #ElliottErwitt, 1955) #photographer #photography #retratos #B&W #minimalista #photooftheday #color

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! Delicate #Roman unguentaria, vessels used to hold perfume or oil. Dating 1st century AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

We brought Maple back to her elderly lady today after she had been stabbed. A truly special moment… niallharbison.substack.com/p/the-power-...

"Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same thing. And that's why life is hard." ~ #unknown

Moody Skies And Wildflowers. © Allan Morgan

Niklaus Stoecklin, Peacock Butterfly (1958)

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there William Wordsworth 🎨 Richard Thorn

two feathers for Grace oil on canvas

Hedgehogs wake from their winter sleep early in April. But what if they don't? In regions where they hold auspicious significance, this is not a good sign. Our 48th #darkspringtide story tells such a tale, of one who slept late in Bulgaria, in the spring of 1876. Read it below! 🎨 Jane Dignum

The Secret Garden. © Stacey Moore

I’m Prince! I’m a 1 yr old puppy - yes #nycacc slaughterhouse wants me dead- but u can save me! NY NJ NH NE CT DE DC MD ME MA PA VA VT RI - I’m just a sweet baby! You can foster me 4free! My expenses- training are covered! I just need a kind, patient soul 2Dm @princesskim.bsky.social 2apply! Repost

Thank you Senator Chris Van Hollen for sharing US citizen Rachel Corrie’s story from the Senate floor and voting to block the destructive bulldozers that Israeli soldiers used to kill her.

Jane Ormes, contemporary UK printmaker based in Bristol #WomensArt

🆘 HAZEL IS NOT BEING SEEN!! She’ll never find a foster and she’ll be killed! She’s on the EUTH LIST, FFS! SHE NEEDS MORE REPOSTS Help me save her! Fosters Needed in NY NJ NH NE CT DE DC MD ME MA RI VT VA PA- expenses covered! 🚨Urgent DM @princesskim.bsky.social if you can help her

Here's a new study! Study of a female Cooper's Hawk with bic pen #art #birds #nature #sciart

This aeonium arboreum in my neighbor’s yard looks like a plant from a Dr Seuss book. 😉It’s about 5 ft tall. #succulents #succulentinbloom

The Crown Jewels (1887) Blaise-Alexandre Desgoffe (French, 1830-1901)

#Bookologythursday 📚 Gobbledygook — language so bloated with jargon it forgets to mean anything 🌀📜 ✨ Coined in 1944 by Maury Maverick, who compared it to a turkey’s pompous gobble 🦃 He even banned it in a memo! In Harry Potter, Gobbledegook is the goblins’ tongue or language.

#BookologyThursday 📚 Elflock — A tangled lock of hair (or horse’s mane) blamed on fairies who knot it overnight 🧚‍♀️🐎 In folklore, combing it out risks bad luck 🍀 #BookChatWeekly 📖🐈 #ElfLock 🧝‍♀️ #ShakespeareSunday 🎭

Whales have calves, Cats have kittens, Bears have cubs, Bats have bittens* Swans have cygnets, Seals have puppies, But guppies just have little guppies. Ogden Nash *Bitten is an invented rhyme. A baby bat is a ‘pup’ Avril Haynes #BookologyThursday

A red-tailed hawk out looking for breakfast. #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡

© Elliott Erwitt - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1962

“Over the past 15 months, the [Trump] administration laid off more than 7,500 Social Security employees, which worsened Americans' access to their earned benefits and gave DOGE free rein to pilfer their most sensitive data.” – Sen. Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov

It’s been just over a week since Cody Roberts was sentenced in WY's horrific wolf cruelty case & the message was clear: when the victim is a wolf, accountability comes cheap. Roberts goes home, wolves pay the price. Take action at TeamWolf.Org!

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.