G’nite from #BrookSide Senior Living. Off to Franklin Conservatory yesterday with my brother to enjoy the orchids and butterflies! #TinyJoys

Shrove Tuesday marks the eve of Lent. Lent comes from Old English lencten, meaning spring and the lengthening of days as light increases. An old name for the daffodil is Lent lily; it begins to flower around now, its bright yellow trumpets quietly heralding the coming of spring.

Pride of Madeira, top view #flowers #photograhy #art

This looks like fun. I’m looking for ideas to add more colour to the farm without being formal. www.backyardgardenlover.com/chaos-garden...

Giving a talk that will present some of the early findings in my research for a biography of James Sanua- Abou Naddara cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_eve...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

May you have the energy of these fabulous Ice Age beasts as you enter the lunar New Year of the Horse! 🦣🐎

#TombTuesday rare Neolithic tomb art from a Welsh passage grave: multiple spiral motifs inside the Boyne Valley-style cruciform chambers of Barclodiad y Gawres in Ynys Môn/Anglesey 📷 My own, winter 2023

E&T paperbacks which will inspire you to get outside this Spring. All with 25% off @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rlYNDA ☀️Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social 🪏This Allotment edited by Sarah Rigby 🪶Nature Needs You by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social 🥾Pathfinding by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social

Heirloom Seeds 🌱 It is generally accepted that an heirloom vegetable is an old cultivar that is “still maintained by gardeners and farmers particularly in isolated or ethnic communities.” kitchen-garden.be/gardening-wh... #Garden #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #VegetableGarden

Sorry, powerful women can be cruel and evil all on their own. “Pawn” excuse doesn’t hold water with me!

Hello from the second Surprise City Council meeting since DHS purchased a large industrial warehouse nearby with plans to convert it into a concentration camp. Public comment begins soon, tune in here if you want to watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaT8...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

G’Morn from #BrookSide Senior Living. Hurrah. An artichoke seed has sprouted. The battle with mud gnats begins! #GardenGrewPeas #Gardening 🌱

“FCC you.” - Colbert to Carr, youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

It seems like only yesterday that LIFELINES was out in hardback but with the first signs of spring appearing here in northern Greece it means the paperback is already on its way. And Waterstones is offering 25% off from today until Friday for online pre-orders! www.waterstones.com/book/lifelin...

America has lost a titan in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. From his days at the side of Dr. King, to his moral leadership in this century, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. spent his life pushing our nation closer to its own ideal.

Emily L Hauser gets the final word tonight:

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

For half-term, next Tuesday I’m doing a fun kids’ event at @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London — I’ll be doing a funny talk on the history of Roman Britain, and my ace illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social will do a live draw-along tutorial Tix cheap! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...

An undeniably emotional experience seeing the other half of the ‘peacock room’ in Oplontis being excavated and meeting their counterparts: the two peahens that graced the facing wall. What a delightfully playful idea by the artist. Compliments to my colleagues, excavators & conservators. Spectacular

The simple trick of orienting a map in an unfamiliar way almost always produces startling insights . . . like this one, in which Europe appears to be a peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea + North Sea + Bay of Biscay + North Atlantic. Look how Atlantic the Iberian peninsula is!

Massie not backing down.

Gosh, thought folks voted for MAGAt because he would bring jobs to US….I’m old, must’ve misunderstood 🙄

I have a post up on this and the Boston Globe piece today on the Kennedy/Trump-led destruction of US biomedical al research infrastructure. At Inverse Square and Balloon Juice. balloon-juice.com/2026/02/16/t...

Orchid show at Franklin Conservatory was lovely this year! #GardenGrewPeas #Gardening 🌱

THE NEWTS HAVE RETURNED!!! Yes I’m shouting! 🦎🐸💚#Pondwatch 2026 will now commence. New Video updates every day! #gardenshour

Snowdrops and sunshine. I love my garden and the flow of delights through the year. #Gardenshour #Gardening #Mygarden

The first Daffodil has flowered! 🌱 🎺 🎺 #GardensHour

Snowdrop 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #MacroMonday #GardensHour

The Slow Death of Democracy Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy? An event with David Runciman @ppfideas.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet (BBC), Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark. 11 March 2026 www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

This morning I saw a female blackbird gathering nesting material while a male blackbird was bathing in a puddle. It must be Spring! #birds #nature #springtime

It WAS permission… straight from Putin and Trump!

A foggy morning at #BrookSide Senior Living! #GardenGrewPeas

G’nite from #BrookSide Senior Living. View of thawing Sciota River from Cafe Istanbul. Celebrating my birthday today. Superb pistachio baklava! #GardenGrewPeas

#FlowerReport: this week in S Wisconsin, at an insurance office building, a poinsettia was ablaze in brilliant February sunshine. An unexpected sight on an otherwise mundane errand. A hopeful metaphor is always welcome. Best and kindest regards. 🫶♥️

Planning for summer ☀️ Summer may be some way off but it does no harm to start thinking about just what you want to achieve in the garden (or on the balcony) this year... kitchen-garden.be/diary/planni... #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #VegetableGarden

Starting shallots 🧅 The shallot is an easy to grow type of onion that is known for its excellent flavour. It grows well in soil but is also very productive in containers, ideal for the small city garden… kitchen-garden.be/diary/starti... #Garden #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #VegetableGarden

Well done….

Russia’s Wagner Group pivots to European sabotage, say western officials. It emerged as a main conduit for Kremlin-organised sabotage attacks in Europe, according to western intelligence officials www.ft.com/content/dbd1... via @FT #VladimirPutin #Dictator #WarCriminal

A day trip to Lulworth Cove, and the sun came out. I spent a moment looking down at Stair Hole as a couple waves crushed their way through the rocks.

Blue’s return

In Episode 1, @anitaanand.bsky.social and I are joined by Josephine Quinn, author of How The World Made The West, and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge University, to discuss the ancient Mediterranean city states on the brink of the Bronze Age Collapse of 1147 BCE. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

"'UT is reversing roughly fifty years of intellectual progress and innovation. If the goal is to make sure UT is no longer a global leader in higher education this is a great move.'” www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

An uplifting story! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love this site #OldLadyLivingVicariously

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

Socha sued the NPS for trademark naming rights at Yosemite. He is 100% UNQUALIFIED to head the National Park Service. Let your legislators know to refuse to confirm this Trump monster and VOLUNTEER in your local NPS site. #GetInvolved www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An excellent read….