A new week of hope gently begins 📷🕊️…

Good day…

An old pic, before they painted the church…

Snakes in my life…

For no particular reason, grandpa cruising a knee-high at Playa V, Panamá. Photo by my friend, Fortunato. (Lots of yellow bellied sea snakes in the water today. 😟.)

Brooklyn this evening

2/2 My namesake Rubens Peale, in his sharp little specs, painted in 1807 by his brother Rembrandt.

Tonight's moon

Jan Van Huysum, Flower Study of a Poppy, 1697-1749. Watercolor, strengthened with gum and with black ink, over traces of graphite

Parthenon https://www.wikiart.org/en/frederic-edwin-church/parthenon-1869

The soft colors of our long drawn-out winter sunset.

What is Trump going to sell to the country in the State of the Union on Tuesday? Tariffs, ICE, and a slower economy? Let's look at some data. First, the tariffs are wildly unpopular. 1/

Haunting Dinah Washington remix. (Also available on YouTube.) music.apple.com/us/album/thi...

2/2 Rowdy Baburen on the wall, but silence in the room, in Johannes Vermeer's Concert. I loved this painting in real life before it was stolen from the Gardner. So sad!!

Good morning, good people

Winter.

#two #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #trees #roots #ancient #forest

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Hora de partir. Es temps de tornar a casa. #Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #EastCoastKin

In the 1st year of Trump’s second term, U.S. economic growth fell to a nine-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low (excluding the pandemic). The White House keeps insisting this is the greatest economy Americans have ever seen. Reality suggests otherwise. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Damp chill, rain tonight

In rapid succession: - former British royal arrested - former Korean president sentenced - former Norwegian PM charged - former French and Brazilian presidents imprisoned And then there’s Trump and the Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

One year ago...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Extrajudicial killings have become the norm for this Administration. From shooting our own citizens in Minneapolis to these lawless killings in international waters. We must make sure that Hegseth & those who ordered these murders are held accountable.

House Finch bringing some welcome color to the snowy, foggy day #birds 🌿

First light…

Clouds ascendant

This corner of Earth…

The image is from an essay in @us.theconversation.com “patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism.” “Nationalism,” he says, “is a betrayal of patriotism.” theconversation.com/what-is-the-...

Read and share all over..he nails it

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk

“…we’re killing other life forms, driving whole species to extinction. We’re doing this rather casually.” Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

Wintermorgen

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Yesterday was a beautiful day to be outdoors in northern NH.

Buen viaje…

Winds up, water temperature is dropping. It’s time for the pelagic sea snakes.

Camouflage…a leaf with legs. Pedasi, Los Santos, Panama