American dagger moth caterpillar 💛🗡️ What a badass name.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Rainy day means the distant train horn sounds closer - bouncing down from the heavy clouds, echoing across the river, up the cliffs, and over the low hill to me. 🤍

Needed this rain. 🤍

The all-encompassing grey 🌫️

Mugwort, anyone?

I’m at the ER vet with a kitty (some kind of upper respiratory infection). We’re sitting in the waiting room. A man just walked in with two beagles who have porcupine quills imbedded in their faces. Desk nurse said it’s the fourth such case they’ve seen in the past week! 😱

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Jumping straight into the first fairy circle I find and eating any of that fairy food that's offered to me, just to make certain.

My jury selection date has been canceled 🥳🥂

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Go, Nori, go! 🔔

Happy to report that the catbirds haven’t migrated yet, but it will be soon.

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Spirit is always with me :) Can I get an “Amen”?

tweaked it

Ephemeral American red squirrel is here until the next rainy day.

My head was attached incorrectly today and my mood is askew. Send helium.

Caught a falling leaf. 💛

He’s handy, too.

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(I’m working on getting him inside, but don’t tell the others yet. 🤫)

The thrill of seeing my name associated with Phillies baseball. 🤩

I guess I have an outdoor cat now. 🖤

Beautiful Autumn By David Zinn! (8 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2025/08/29/b...

Ephemeral fox has lasted five days under blue skies.

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Frog fairy. The most magical of critters.

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Ephemeral fox has come to visit until the next rain shower. 🦊🌙

It's that time of year again. Artist is Sam Pugh.

And so it goes.

Ephemeral heron and friend in my yard, gone with the next good rainfall.

I misidentified my little friends - they are maize calligraphers. All other comments remain the same. :)

I’ve been making friends with the gentle marmalade hoverflies this week. Such friendly little pollinators. 🥰

‘I shall go into, go into a cat’ linocut print. The title comes from Isobel Gowdie’s witch trial confessions in 1622 in which she shared her shape shifting spells As it’s #internationalcatday I’ll donate £25 of any sales of this print in the next twenty four hours to local charity Tag Rescue…

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Go, Reading!

🙂‍↔️🤚 Seashells? 🙂‍↕️👉 Cicada shells!

I laughed 🤭

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It was peaceful until the cat nation attacked

I love this. :)

It’s gotta be the shoes… 💪

When people ask what's going on inside my head 🤯

Society says, "It's OK to take your phone out and look at it while walking." But, does society know the consequences???

Autistics aren't merely "sensitive" to sound; autistic tendencies also include "expanded access to auditory information, heightened perception to pitch, difficulties dealing with speech in background noise, and taking longer to adapt to auditory environments.": www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So pretty!! 🤩

When the abyss stares back, you give it snackies. #caturday

Happy 4th of July to this unfairly-maligned style icon