Great Waterleaf @mortonarboretum.bsky.social east woods this morning. 🌱#nativeplants 🌿

Satsuki Azalea #bonsai at The Chicago Botanic Garden 🌳🌱

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Field geometry

miniature ents are bred in captivity and prized for their small size, but some say keeping them as pets is cruel

Studio Gang-designed towers www.flickr.com/photos/james...

Oaks in mist along a footpath near Sheepstor, I hope to see them again soon. Taken April 2024, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #oaks

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." — Pamela Hansford Johnson

New leaves of Virginia Creeper on spruce. April 2024 @mortonarboretum.bsky.social 🌿🌳 #spring

My blog post today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2026/04/know...

My column on page two of the Sun-Times today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2026/04/we-l...

Tiny oak leaves and catkins 🌳 @mortonarboretum.bsky.social

Prairie trillium flowering, Maple Grove Forest Preserve this morning

Prunus spinosa #bonsai with flowers #marosbonsai

A white oak surrounded by Spring Beauties. 🌱 #nativeplants #thicktrunktuesday

Spring Beauties in a bit of concrete. 🌱 #nativeplants @mortonarboretum.bsky.social

Pennsylvania Sedge blooming amid new leaves of waldsteinia (barren strawberry). It's been rewarding adding native sedges to the garden. 🌱 #nativeplants

At last 🎶🌱

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

Warm and sunny day before a rainy stretch.🌱

Trees proudly presenting their surroundings

Great take on our bullshit. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Sunlight hitting the peak of the tallest Michigan mountain this morning, our very own alpenglow

Let's normalize people that don't vaccinate their kids as terrible parents.

Konsta Punkka, 2026, Spring day in Finnish Lapland

The Onion’s 2026 Oscars Best Picture Guide https://theonion.com/the-onions-2026-oscars-best-picture-guide/

The wild west gunslinger-themed bakery called The Quiche and the Bread

DuPage River and clouds © 2022 William Koechling

Theme for this week’s #blueskyartshow is #round 🌳 #photography #art #sculpture

American Larch bonsai. Prairie State Bonsai Silhouette Show @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Exhibitor: Victor Z. #bonsai

Monday morning, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods. botanistsfieldnotes.com/2026/02/18/f...

You could not create bigger, more pathetic losers in a lab owned and operated by Big Pathetic Loser Enterprises LLC. bsky.app/profile/cram...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

More Joliet #route66

Someone could write a really interesting musical about the way in which Puerto Ricans are expected to assimilate into mainstream American culture.

Frozen leaves on a stream in the Jizera Mountains.

Moonset early this morning over Illinois.

in a democratic republic (and really in all times and places) the slavish hunger to be in the thrall of a strongman or a king is the ultimate moral degeneracy.

#ThickTrunkTuesday Minnigaff churchyard. Dumfrieshire

One of the thousands of artful historical interpretations in May T. Watts' Reading the Landscape: An Adventure in Ecology. Osage orange --> barbed wire

A sleeping giant 🌱🌳 #ThickTrunkTuesday #TreesOnTuesday #TreeClub #Nature #Winter

This whole country has influencer-brain. It's the modern get-rich-quick-ism.

I am above average right now 🌊🌊🧊

Pretti died after asking a woman he was with if she was OK. Good died after telling the man who killed her that she wasn’t mad at him.

With cold temps ahead, you may hear about “exploding trees” — but it’s not that explosive. 🌳❄️ Sudden cold rarely causes this. What’s more common is frost cracking, when bark warms in the sun, then cools and shrinks faster than the inner wood, creating a vertical crack. Learn more: bit.ly/4a9Lb8k.