good news: cats my spouse saw in Porto 🐾🐈

Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.

We saw a piping plover in Ocean City. Guys, they're very little. Smol, even. 🪶🌿

The autumnal colors will continue 💚💜💛🌱 #nativeplants

They're out! #insects #inverts 🐛🦋🌱

One tortu (blesséd) 🐢🌱 #herps

Back in town, took stock of the monarchs in the yard ... (at least one other still-green chrysalis spotted too) 🐛🦋🌱 #insects #nativeplants

We need an environmental movement that builds things* *bollards, concrete barriers, vegetated buffers

Create something that is just for you, because you like creating and beholding it. Doesn't matter if anyone else ever sees it.

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

I am going to Ocean City with college friends, and on the way, we're gonna see some cypresses www.destateparks.com/park/trap-po...

Ok, DMV version. Which slice of our wonderful metro area has the best food?

D and as a mostly-vegetarian who likes spicy food, it's not a hard question

How do we feel about Duet this September of 2025

found a big agapostemon flock of males but even I feel kinda gross looking at them. they're super cute but a writhing mass of them is yeeugh. I wont post a photo but it's on my inat if you want to see anyway i solved the male loneliness epidemic. live in a goldenrod gall w/ 50 of your best beebros

No weapons or joking about weapons

My personality: people think I'm funny because I say grim truths with a straight face lol

*butterfly meme* Am I a millennial? (Yes, yes I am) lol

A truly beautiful photo from California volunteer Jess G. before she mailed her postcards to mobilize low propensity climate voters in Virginia. Let's hear it for Jess G. as well as our other awesome postcarding volunteers!

The bean welcomes all

Conspiracy theorists: Those climate loonies want you to eat bugs All actual climate people who talk diets:

Banded Tussock Moth caterpillar, president of the clean plate (leaf) club 🐛 #caterpillar #invertebrate #insects #pollinatorstobe

I've ridden the green line to and from the airport in Milwaukee and as much as I'm not pro internal combustion engine, the roar, vibration, and strain of a bus is almost animal. A mechanical beast of human burden. I want to pat it and tell it how impressive it is. 🚌🐾

I feel like we need a special designation for the back half of September that acknowledges it is still meteorological summer in a large part of the US, while simultaneously being spooky season. No sweaters only spook

Touch-me-nots (jewel weed) doing the thing at Eagle Creek Metropark. Sept 17, 2019

Today I learned about monarch butterfly subspecies and forms, including the white monarch (!) found commonly in Oahu (!!!) www.inaturalist.org/taxa/235550-... #insects 🦋

Battery integrated heat pumps! Between this, Copper stoves, Pila Energy, V2H--we are seeing BTM #energystorage disintermediation and totally mee customer channels. (Which means every business is competing with every other business in this space...) Exciting times for innovation #energysky

anyway I’m looking at the sky

Reminder to hang out with people with whom you have stuff in common IRL sometimes

Walking around downtown Milwaukee has also been disheartening for the sheer volume of space devoted to cars... especially right by the lakefront

They have a little sanctioned path through the pocket prairie and when you walk through it, hundreds of grasshoppers and kin jump out of the way. It's like the prairie shivers at your approach. 🦗

When I say "touch grass" I mean this

I think I found another one 😮🐛 (from a few days ago, back in MD) #insects 🌱 #nativeplants

Lakeshore State Park in downtown Milwaukee is pretty cool you guys. It should be way easier to get there though ... #nativeplants

Going to Milwaukee for a work thing. I don't think I'll have a lot of time to wander off into the woods but what if I did?

wood asters #flowerreport 🌱 #nativeplants

Just a little guy 🌱🦋 #insects

It is now open season on gratuitous angles for spotted bee balm flowers #nativeplants 🌱 #flowerreport

red!! #flowerreport 🌱 #nativeplants

Other nice garden pics from earlier: pink and pink-adjacent edition #flowerreport 🌱 #nativeplants

oh man i was just looking at Herring Run nursery and why would i keep this basic ass boxwood when i could have a FLAME AZALEA

🔍Found today at work🌻 #NorthStarGardensGaylord #danausplexippus #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Helianthusannuus #pollinators

I think this place has gotten less good and possibly bad

It's hard to believe this is real, but yes, my county library really is this ready for this moment

“novel ecosystems”

My spouse is traveling and has some time to play the tourist, so he is sending me pictures of cats in the European city where he's staying (this has been true for prior EU conferences as well)

It's very nice out and there are nice autumnal color things happening. #nativeplants 🌱 #flowerreport

trying again to get as much Asclepias growing in my yard as I can! Leaning towards winter sowing all the seeds I’ve collected.

This big beautiful non-native bug is a growing pest for Northeast U.S. gardeners & esp wineries But a new study reveals an #agroecology answer: milkweed This monarch butterfly fave intercropped w/ grapes kills 60-80% in 24 hrs: projects.sare.org/sare_project... Might boost monarch numbers too?