#Kraków 🐉 #photography #streetphoto #classicmono #urbangaze ☮️❤️🌿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3EYwX2n3-I

Read @dogsinautumn.bsky.social today on why taxes are good and Democrats cannot cave to the temptation to campaign on lowering them

Kid Albrecht Dürer in 1484, age 13. Child prodigy. Seriously, I could not have done this at that age! And today is his birthday.

Fragment of a Queen's Face Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, 1353–1336 BCE

Käthe Kollwitz

One of the lovely warblers migrating through, the Cape May warbler. I love the orange blush on his cheeks.

A Black and White Warbler for #WarblerWednesday! I’m always thrilled to see them passing through during migration #birds 🌿

I am continually amazed by the existence of shiny metallic bees #WorldBeeDay #invertebrates 🌿 🐝

This guy was hanging with a group of males at my local creek. I’m hoping that means their mates are sitting on eggs somewhere! #MallardMonday #birds 🌿

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Yes, fair-minded observers already know that the incumbent president and his team have engaged in some breathtaking corruption. But a giant, taxpayer-financed reparations fund for Trump’s pals represents a new low. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Good morning/afternoon photo by Edward Selfe

This was once a grass lawn. Now it’s a pine barren, home to this old friend, an Eastern box turtle.

A dense ground layer under the shrubs.

The little suburban yard has grown wild enough for snakes to return, in this case a small garter snake.

Small copper(?) on beach plum…the last of these seaside flowers for the year.

I was worried I wouldn't see a Magnolia Warbler this year during migration but whew! This one popped up into sight. Love their bright yellow feathers and bold black necklace.

Doug Tallamy's years-long research has shown that one pair of Chickadees requires 6,000 to 9,000 caterpillars to raise one clutch of young. To support birds, stop all landscape-wide poisons & plant more natives, particually oak trees. Read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

Hey, NYTimes. Now do the United States. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This⬇️. This should be front page, headline news every day of this absurdly obscene Trump regime. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

Small acts of kindness may seem inconsequential, but they aren't. They accumulate in a little pocket in your heart until it is so full and overflowing there's nothing to do except share them by creating your own. 💛🩷🤍

This morning’s sky practically shouts, “It’s going to rain today!”

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of

Hiked part way into Kelsey Notch with my son today. Rain was predicted & we were prepared for the downpours. Beautiful clouds. Promised myself I’ll come back on a nicer day & hike up the trail on the other side of the stream to the notch. Did this 25 years ago w/ my husband.

For Mother's Day, here is a very good shield bug mom I found in Colombia a couple of years ago. If you try to hurt her babies, she will blast toxic chemicals at you. #Bugsky 🌿🐙

The male Eastern Towhee is one of the more striking sparrows with his chestnut feathers and ruby eyes.

Hiking in Colorado, I found this tiny flower nestled among rocks at 12,000 ft. A western species of Claytonia, radically different leaves but the same yellow throat, pink stamens & white petals. C. Caroliniana on the R.

Claytonia caroliniana is not considered a rare wildflower, but it’s uncommon, growing only above 2,000 ft. elevation and in heavily glaciated, wet, rocky areas, usually facing N or E. It’s also edible & animals often eat them.

A female Northern Yellow Warbler in the backyard marsh gathering nesting material. The nest isn't visible but it is still exciting to have these sweet birds nesting nearby.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

#Birds 🪶 #Birdsky #Migration

Woodcut from La Petit Histoire Bretonne ‘On the Open Sea’ Rene Quillivic, 1921

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In a low room over the church doors, overlooking the city, Mary hears some remarkable news. Ghent Altarpiece, by Jan & Hubert van Eyck, dedicated on this day in 1432.

Hummingbird nests are quite small, so check for them before cutting back shrubs this spring. Hummingbirds not only sip nectar, they consume huge numbers of small insects while raising their young, especially. Hummingbirds are lovely & entertaining additions to any sustainable, unpoisoned yard.

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Camille Pissarro. The Banks of the Seine in Paris, Pont Marie, Quai d'Anjou

It’s been overcast & too cold for spring beauty to open, so I’m posting a picture of blossoms from 2 years ago: Claytonia caroliniana.

After stifling the nascent US offshore-wind industry, Trump is now going after onshore wind. He has halted over 160 ongoing projects. Just absolutely, viscerally, plainly insane. Detrimental to *everyone's* interests.