Isamu Noguchi and Yoshiko Yamaguchi at their home at Kita Kamakura, Japan, 1952 Unknown photographer The Noguchi Museum Archive

Did u know? Caterpillars are essential food for nestling birds - they're full of moisture & nutrients & are easy for them to swallow. Baby birds are fed approx 5,000 caterpillars by their parents before they leave the nest, so learn to love your larvae. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦‍⬛🐛

A Green Heron goes into maximum neck mode to grab a tadpole and then resets into minimum neck mode after the snack was acquired.

Chris Krupinski A Blueberry River, 2026 Watercolor

Flame skimmer. Davis, CA. July 5, 2026.

A small patch of thistles in Middlewich in Cheshire today had butterflies all over it. In five minutes I saw Peacock, Painted Lady, Small Tortoiseshell, Comma. Ringlet, Gatekeeper and Small White. #SaveButterflies

Thanks for the rain…

July 4, 2024.

Pont Saint-Michel (c. 1895) offers a restrained early city view reflecting Matisse's developing approach to composition. Its subdued palette suggests an interest in tonal structure that would later give way to his famously bold experiments with color.

This heat wave brought to you by ExxonMobil and Chevron.

The amazing Chryxus Arctic, a biennial butterfly which caterpillars take two years to mature, eating sedges and grasses. Thus the adults only fly on even years.

Butterfly Map Nabokov's drawing of a Melissa Blue, overlaid with the scale-row classification system he developed for mapping individual markings.

Honigduft in der Wiese

Plant it and they will come (Monarch Butterfly on Common Milkweed) #NativePlants #invertebrates #BugSky 🌿

The authoritarian assault on scholarship continues. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/a...

Hello. 💚

2/2 Fireworks over bridge at Ryogoku, 1858, by Ando Hiroshige. #fireworks

Mt. Hood, Oregon

We cannot be silent in the face of white nationalists marching in our nation’s capitol. From Massachusetts to Washington D.C. hatred and bigotry have no place here.

Winslow Homer - The Fog Warning 1885 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

#NaturesFireworks a Taxiles Skipper warming up in the sun 🌞

Here's the world's richest man, who runs the platform that most US officials & institutions continue to post on & support, endorsing a post that opposes universal suffrage & endorses dividing the population into "makers & takers," denying voting rights to the latter. Happy Independence Day.

the president’s biggest supporters in town for the celebration it looks like

Nine years ago today 🌿 Asclepias viridiflora, our Green Comet Milkweed, blooming off Highway 128 #nativeplants

Watson, saved from the shark, went on to live a long life (was Lord Mayor of London!) tho absent a leg. Painted in 1778 by John Singleton Copley.

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

We are in a prolonged and severe drought here on Long Island, so I thought I’d post this rainy memory of Kennin-ji, Kyoto. With luck, we could get a rain like this next week.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

In addition to being gorgeous, our Plains Prickly Pear cacti are hotspots for pollinators, like these Red-Blue Checkered Beetles #invertebrates #pollinators

Apparently this is now a string of posts about bug eyes. Butterfly eyes are fascinating! Also a little goofy #invertebrates 🌿 #BugSky

Born in America, you are an American. It’s that simple. The Constitution backs this up. Thankfully, the extremist Supreme Court supermajority did not trash this. In a sane world, the ruling would have been 9-0, not 6-3.

Watching Trump speak these days is literally painful. He's so reprehensible, so disgusting that I honestly can't stand to do it anymore. I have to put the closed captions on. He's reptilian, almost alien, like something out of science ficiton.

Happy #MushroomMonday with this delicate little umbrella #FungiFriends 🌿

Still Life with Black Knives, 1896 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/14835

Yuko Murakoshi, Japanese artist, born 1966. By the Lake, n.d. Nihonga with layered mineral pigments (iwajonogu) and handmade Washi paper collage. Private collection. 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📷 Codruța Sali | Botanical Art

Good morning. Some (bee) balm for the soul…

2/2 My wife Isabella in 1621. She just became more lovely with each passing year. Remembering her on my birthday.

Dr @hcrichardson.bsky.social was talking about basically this last night in Politics Chat. The “democratic socialist” platform today is the Eisenhower Republican platform from the 1950s. America has long supported these programs.

Crail. #WeekYforYonder #AlphabetChallenge #ClassicMono

"Saw two splendid rose-breasted grosbeaks with females in the young wood in Emerson's lot. What strong-colored fellows, black, white, and fiery rose-red breasts! Strong-natured, too, with their stout bills." – Henry David Thoreau

There are dozens of actual far-right extremists in the House GOP caucus, people who have said and done racist, corrupt, crazy things. And you’ve never heard of them. Because the Times and other establishment media outlets have never negatively profiled them like this. The GOP gets a pass.

Smol friends! #pollinatorweek

Born on this day in 1560, Juan Sánchez Cotán. Painter of religious works and spiritual still lifes. Here, game fowl & fruit (suspended) and vegetables (especially the cardoon!), 1602.

One of my favorite birds in one my favorite trees at our old place. I really miss that tree. Red-headed Woodpecker #BirdOfTheDay #Birds&Buds #Birds&Bokeh #WoodpeckerWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed #ECK #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

For the #BirdsAndBokeh alt #BirdOfTheDay here is Mr. Evening Grosbeak. Dreamy bird, dreamy bokeh! #birds #becurious

Two of Long Island’s most spiny native plants, prickly pear and Virginia rose.

Lots of diamondback terrapins out ovipositing around 3 Mile Harbor this morning.