Swamp white oak, Busey Woods this afternoon.

I don't make many memes — but this one seemed worth doing.

This week in @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods. botanistsfieldnotes.com/2026/01/10/j...

Morning light in the woods. 🌱🌳 @mortonarboretum.bsky.social

Humans are funny. Winter arrives and we’re like, ugh, let’s have a bunch of celebrations. Then we have the celebrations and … we’re less than two weeks into winter.

Walking between Bridge of Allan and Stirling a week ago 🥾 #ThickTrunkTuesday

Oculus, reclaimed tree logs and branches, metal, mirrored domes, The Morton Arboretum, Chicago, Illinois, by contemporary US land artists Olga Ziemska #WomensArt

A gnarly white oak In full red autumnal colors With a shadow-black trunk On a sun-drenched, blue sky Sunday. For #thicktrunktuesday @mortonarboretum.bsky.social 🌳

It me.

Not to be a dick, but my newsletter is six years older than Substack. Baseball Prospectus, as a paid product, is 13 years older. Also, "audience-backed media" covers radical concepts like "books," "magazines," and "newspapers." The idea that people shouldn't pay for words is a recent invention.

Flashback to Nov 1 2022 at The Morton Arboretum🌳

Afew blooms still linger. 🌱 #rosewednesday

My writeup of World Series Game Three is posted free for all. Read, love, subscribe. www.joesheehan.com

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

Illinois has 9 new invasives that cannot be bought, sold, or planted, including Callery pear, tree-of-heaven, garlic mustard, leafy spurge, sericea lespedeza, and stiltgrass Details https://extension.illinois.edu/news-releases/nine-new-invasive-species-regulated-illinois-expansion-exotic-weeds-act

First blush of color on maples in the East Woods at The Morton Arboretum 🌱🌳

Frosty cordgrass morning, tallgrass prairie on the east side of @mortonarboretum.bsky.social www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Even without the digital element, this pin is designed to be a functional guide to some of our most common trees! I really wanted to create something both beautiful and helpful for understanding nature. #SciArt I hope you like it! 💚 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle: “Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

Lisle IL #NoKings

Manna Ash/Fraxinus ornus yamadori #bonsai in early autumn showcases peak colors. #marosbonsai

Goodnight all Keep healthy Keep safe

My blog post today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/10/a-lo...

[Enter Governor to the Citizens.]

If you come for my people, you come through me.

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

The political right's greatest project is discrediting experts. Only in a "do your own research" world can their cultural preferences - anti-abortion, anti-gender affirming care - claim equal legitimacy to the left's medically-backed positions on those issues. SCOTUS is a full partner in that effort

"Any vacuum of facts and values will be filled with spectacle and war." — Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom."

Traffic jam 🦬 #nachusagrasslands #prairie #bison

In 15 wild-card series, the game one winner is 15-0.

Steller's jays are such assholes, but so are great horned owls, so I guess they belong together. 🪶

The slow simple pleasure of watching your favourite trees change with the seasons 🌱🌳📷 #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #nature #woods

First fall colors starting here with Virginia Creeper. 🌱

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

japanese bridge #photography #stunday #photographersofbluesky #nature #reflections #art #eastcoastkin the wooden bridge to the japanese gardens. reflected in the lagoon at the chicago botanic garden. every kind of green. sun threading through the willows. photograph.

Asters and goldenrods, Maple Grove Forest Preserve, yesterday morning. Fight for democracy, science, human decency, and the natural world, and continue celebrating what you are fighting for.

Vernonia (Ironweed) nativar "Iron Butterfly" & Little Bluestem. 🌱

Sunrise with autumn leaves dotting the water 🌿📷✨🌅 #nature #sunrise

Loads of moonflowers this year. 🌱

Same tree, different seasons

If you love goldenrod and prairies, now is the time to visit Northerly Island, the western path is open

The drive so dull only Midwesterners survive it.

Check out the tri-mini-fridge setup in this house we looked at last week.

My big chestnut bonsai going full autmn mode Meine große Kastanie voll im Herbst-Modus #bonsai#herbst

These are the same people who dismissed countless public and private studies that showed conclusively that right-wing violence was, by far, the most pressing threat in America. Now they're going to concoct something that purports to blame the left. Once again, it's all projection and bad faith.

This is Steve. He's at the vet to get shots. Which the vet could do, but there could be a mighty fine Yelp review in it for them if they just pretend to. 12/10 (TT: adachofcream)