Lucky for me there was time for some book hunting on the way out of town 📚

Happy to be heading home after two wonderful, albeit exhausting, weeks. I think we’re both looking forward to non-lumpy pillows and our own bed.

Pond fight 🥊

#RIP George Herms

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Books are good, everyone go read them

George Herms 1935-2026

And so to bed.

Cameron, portrait of George Herms, 1967

Finally spotted some little hoppers on today’s hike 🐸

Just a girl, standing in front of a lake, cheering on a strangers dog.

Saw my first box turtle in the wild this morning. Took 5,289 photos of said box turtle. Quite the photogenic little dude, wouldn’t you agree? 🐢

Perfect Spring weather for some new cemetery adventures 🪦

Glad to see the eastern cottontails are enjoying the backyard salad bar again 🥗🐇

I miss my beloved Pacific coast tide pools but I’m learning to love the Midwest vernal pools too 🐸

20+ years of vegetarianism and I’m only just now learning how to cook tofu properly. I had no idea all of the meat cooking techniques I was using could be transferred over. Why did nobody tell me? Goodbye tasteless, soggy tofu - hello yum!

Chimeric bird, a “gynandromorph,” resulted from male & female embryos fusing & then developing into a single bird. “We never observed the bird singing & never saw it paired with another cardinal. It was one of the most unusual & striking birds that I've ever seen.” www.birdguides.com/news/half-ma...

There is a very thin line between moving to Michigan and becoming a burgeoning birder.

The legend is definitely the version I'm planning on believing.

Bedtime stories for Boo: The Feather Wars by James H. McCommons

Our Blue Tits are out. Named after the bird, I hasten to add.

I mean…c’mon, how gorgeous were these skies yesterday 😍

Despite the recent heavy rains, we’re back out on the road exploring our beautiful state 🌦️

THE ART OF BOOK COVERS publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Well, heck. This cover is rather tame so let’s give it a go 🎳

I’d love to share more of my vintage smut, but since Bluesky apparently can’t handle the illustrated covers, we’ll have to settle for the back copy. Sex Alley by Ron Gold (1966)

An extremely Disneyesque scene in the backyard right now: two rabbits, a squirrel, a blue jay, a robin, and a few house sparrows are all out adventuring together while a chipmunk watches from the fence.

Madonna of the cemetery

“Fighting the Sex Jinx”

AND THE BABIES 😍

Now that the ground cover is finally blooming, I’m looking forward to seeing these fellers nesting out back again.

Spring has sprung and the backyard familiars have returned to their posts ✨

Every part of the lily plant is deadly to cats - even drinking water that lilies were sitting in can kill them. Other popular spring flowers like tulips and daffodils can also make them very sick, but there are plenty of beautiful and safe alternatives.

Never underestimate my leftover game 🍲

It’s raining outside and I can’t put this book down, a perfect read for a stormy afternoon ⛈️

This is going straight into my MA Creative Writing slides, along with this classic from Twitter:

there’s something fascinating about watching words appear while click-clacking away on a typewriter

Midwestern library book sales, I was not familiar with your game. Check out that $4 copy of The Invisible Host. 😍📚

You know whose job is absolutely replaceable by AI? The guy (always guys) writing Substacks about how AI is gonna replace jobs.

On this Maundy Thursday read a sonnet of that title by Mykola Zerov (1890-1937), a poet executed by the NKVD, along with hundreds of Ukraine’s leading intellectuals, in the years of Stalin’s purges. thesonneteer.substack.com/p/maundy-thu...

OK Angela, we get it — you're "deep" and "moody" and "obsessed with death." Sheesh!

Chag Pesach Sameach

Back on my bullshit (book hunting) 📚

Been so slammed recently that it’s such a relief to carve out a little reading time tonight.

Happy Flannery O'Connor's birthday!

CHARLES BURCHFIELD Road In Early Spring, 1938

Morning lakeside walks have truly improved my life. How did I ever live without being situated between 145,628,829 bodies of water?