Backyard dahlias. Yolo county.

Flower field — Sonoma County.

Some flowers are short and it is easier just to scramble to a horizontal position to photograph them. Spring is long gone but a few Serpentine flowers are still out. San Mateo county. Wooly-flowered aster. Lessingia hololeuca. #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

That’s a heart attack this morning. “Active shooter” warning and then Ooops - that was a DRILL. Someone needs more coffee. Only in the US - are we great yet? Our poor kids. #oops

Are you able to work into Davis? I have some contacts at elementary schools and preschools here

What are you looking for? This is probably not what you are looking for - but UCD PD is hiring a dispatcher. They have excellent benefits.

A happy ending for the stray mama and kitten I found last year in my yard. The mom showed up first, and then brought her kitten over from where she stashed him. I was watering a plant outside and this little tuxedo kitten wandered out all wet. My neighbor found […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Kitty aka Buster Posey - named for the SF Giants player when my son was in little league - “doing a hide” in the goldenrod and California fuschia. This combination of plants is dense enough to keep the weeds down. The kitties all love to watch me when I garden. It […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Aquatic buttercup with diffuse floating leaves. In a perennial pond and wet meadow north Lake Tahoe. Exploring ponds and meadows looking for frogs and other creatures. We look at iNaturalist for known locations of whatever species we are looking for, the time of […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Anybody following the Windy Gap Fire near Granby Colorado — Grand County. Any updates appreciated. My cousin lost her house in the Troublesome fire@a few years back. Rebuilt. Now evacuating again. #FireWx #coloradowildfires2025 #colorado

Pie practice. This is pie number two — peach pie with fresh peaches delivered by two dear friends. I have my college age son home for the summer and we are trying to crack piecrust and pie. This one turned out good!

Today’s bloomscrolling break. Dahlias. #bloomscrolling

News break. It is a house rule that when Mouse-Mouse falls asleep on your hand, you can’t move. #catsofmastodon #cats

Summer views of the coastal range. Fog rolling in. Still a few wildflowers left. #bloomscrolling

Yay! Compost pile flipped, watered, and it is getting hot enough to kill weed seeds. Of course it is 100 degrees so there’s that. My garden beds are looking dry and compacted and I need a lot of compost to rebuild the soil. #compost #gardening

California Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar on a walkabout to find a good spot make a cocoon. It is eating the young, tender tips of California pipevine (Aristolochia californica), the only food that the larvae or caterpillars eat. #garden #butterfly #nature

Dahlias are starting to come on strong in the garden despite the heat. Need to get outside and water them *again*. The black eyed susans and coneflower patches need a surprising amount of water also. I guess that should be expected for another 100 degree day. #gardening #bloomscrolling

Mouse-Mouse busted biting a charging pack cord. No bite! Swapped it with an emory board - he likes to bite these for that nails on a chalkboard feeling 🤷‍♀️

Kids (unvaxxed) dying of the flu in the US. https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/114812843276003323 #flu #vaccination

[Texas flood disaster, death toll] Death toll in Texas flood disaster now up to 59 🙏 The Guardian: Texas floods: death toll rises to 59 as search continues for dozens missing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/06/texas-floods-search-missing-camp-mystic-girls-live-news-updates […]

A friend’s son took this photo. Basically a bunch of teenagers taped duct tape onto their pant legs sticky side out and ran around in some open grassland. They did this — just because. I keep meaning to show this to my company HSE department to show we aren’t […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Just a feel-good post: these “bouquets” are cupcakes. #Flowers #baking #cupcakes . Photos are from baked blooms in San Anselmo.

It is the start of the summer flowers in the front garden. I am behind in all my jobs and still planting dahlia tubers and dividing purple coneflower as they are flowering. I don’t do anything *right* in the garden but it mostly works. #gardening #dahlia

Clay loving mariposa lily. Ugh - California. So gross. White and pink color morphs. And pink farewell to spring in a drying grassland. #bloomscrolling #wildflowers

Caturday one day late and Sunday mood. This is Mouse-mouse - a relaxed foster fail. #caturday

Senior mobile staff engineer #jobs. https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/jobs

This measles case is close by. Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency’s Public Health Branch has confirmed that a resident of West Sacramento has been diagnosed with measles. This is the 13th confirmed case of measles in California in 2025. Prior to two cases reported in 2024 among Yolo […]

Showy milkweed in flower. Waiting for butterflies (typically don’t see very many here so there is much excitement when they arrive). #milkweed

A floating aquatic carnivorous plant. Likely common bladderwort (Utricularia macrohiza) from a giant vernal pool in Lake county, California. It traps insects in the bladders, sucking tiny insects in and shutting a trap door behind them. The flowers are yellow and […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Zeltnera trichantha - Alkali centaury. This is in the gentian family. I love the spiral-shaped anthers (spot the single anther in this photo that hasn’t dehisced). Geothermal volcanic area and mesic serpentine. Napa County. #wildflowers #californiaendemics #bloomscrolling

The Clarkias (Farewell-to-spring) are everywhere heralding the start of summer. This is Clarkia gracilis ssp tracyi - a showy beauty. Napa County. #bloomscrolling #bloomscrolling

The blackberries are coming in hot a few weeks early this year. Various garden supervisors curiously follow me around while I work in the garden and are good company. #blackberries #gardening

Castilleja ambigua var. meadii Mead's owl's-clover. CRPR 1B.1.  Volcanic vernal pools near Atlas Peak. Napa Co. May 18, 2025. Found in only 2-3 known populations in one small geographic region of California. PS - a plug for botany - we need more field botanists […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Terrible photo of a beautiful native yellow fuzzy bumblebee on coyote mint (monardella). #bees

Mom has been gone a long while but I love how she still shows up. Her peonies from her garden are on the mother’s day clock although a bit earlier this year. Buster Posey (garden cat supervisor) brought me a small gopher this morning and this very good boy is […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

#random Although they take physical space, find I am more apt to buy (physical) books again, especially reference books, because my ability to find good information on the web is declining rapidly. Probably 80% of my searches are ending on grey-goo now, and if you use any mainstream search […]

Fieldwork Scenes: puppies version. (One puppy in the back seat was hiding.) #puppies

Wildflowers at Red Hills Area of Environmental Concern - near Jamestown. It was hot today! Summer is rapidly approaching. #bloomscrolling no rattlesnakes today, thankfully.

Attempting to pull non-native grasses before they set seed (along with evil stickyweed). Pulled a muscle in my back so this will have to sit for a few more days. Page 10, from the book called “Gardening While Older”.

Trying to Bloomscroll instead of doom scroll today. It’s only 1030 and I’ve hit my max mental health limit on Trump insanity. #bloomscrolling

The first flush of roses in spring is the best. #bloomscrolling

A study of four Downingia species. All found in vernal pools — Solano county.

The wildlife crossings in Banff National Park has significantly reduced animal-vehicle collisions. Specifically, the combination of 49 wildlife crossing structures & extensive highway fencing that’s led to a reduction by more than 80% overall. For elk & deer, the […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]

San Mateo county wildflowers. #bloomscrolling

Tiny (rapidly drying up) vernal pool plants. #bloomscrolling

Feral to friendly update. Sammy is a happy trip hazard. Flopping down a few feet ahead of his human to trip them and get pets. #cats #feral #pets

A friend has to put her son’s old kitty down today, so this backyard bouquet is for Neville. #Flowers

Break from non-stop doom-scrolling (all there seems to be in the news). Leptosiphon sp. — aka baby stars and Collinsia sparsiflora blue-eyed Mary. Northern CA — Napa county. #bloomscrolling

Look at this handsome horned lizard. I love running across these. It is doing a fine job of blending in. #wildlife #hornedlizard

Florida Man. Wash your hands! #floridaman https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/florida-man-eats-feral-pig-meat-contracts-rare-biothreat-bacteria/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJJh8JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcIWBPNy2hJPIvRrNGjtDtus7JdkNe-p87t_RMsxfS_8SxDtUTFveI2jLQ_aem_VUVknnsjhul0ysg_4RIHOg