Dog learning the spatula trick....

Murder Hornets.

A Red-shouldered Hawk, drying its feathers on a wet day, and giving a great view of the wonderful patterns. #Raptors is the #BirdoftheDay theme. #Birds 🪶 #eck

A shore smoothed Septarian nodule. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

Vacuuming an orange cat is useless. The odds of their having the one communal brain cell are about one out of a skillion cats. Of course in this case the odds are a lot better

Crows going nuts, dive-bombing the top of a pine. First 6 then 12 then 24. A gigantic red-tailed hawk emerged, crows swarming, pulling wing feathers and tail. Hawk dropped a large rabbit with a loud thud on the neighbors roof. Now the crows are celebrating like they just won the World Series.

I’d add a nanny, but otherwise dead on

A friend of mine lives near this cool pile of waste slate at a quarry. The road snakes through a lot of quarry sites, so it's a crazy-looking landscape. The tiles on the roof of my house came from here almost 100 years ago.

It must be mindblowing! #BookSky

Every year my husband takes my son to the thrift store and lets him pick whatever he thinks I need for Mother’s Day, which this year is a straw hat and book of sea shanties

Baby otter at a UK rescue center learns to dive after overcoming its fear of water.😍

And this evening is "looking at very ordinary things very close" time.

A little ball of sunshine, a female Northern Yellow Warbler 🟡

Surely they've suffered enough?

Happee mother's day to meee. Road trip today to pick up this bucket list wheel; an antique from Normandie with a Picardy flyer. Lots of old wormholes, so we know the grande dame is French. ;-) #spinningwheel #fiberarts #antiquespinningwheel 🧶

Incredible artistry and skill by the stonemason. I’d love to know more about his (her?) tools and how long it took. Yes I know the odds of the stonemason being a woman are very slim. But I can dream

Orcs speak with an Orcney accent

call me controversial and finicky, but if I buy a car, I don't think it reasonable that I have to learn how to "hack" it so it doesn't kill my family But that might just be me. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Look familiar? @dragonknits.bsky.social and anyone else who grew up in a home with ever-changing foster siblings Belated apologies to every child I called by the wrong name. Especially the months my kids were Tamara, Teresa, Taylor and Teddy. * * Fake names but similar tongue twisting sounds

Most people celebrate finding the first rose or baby hummingbirds. Maybe the first jacaranda tree in full bloom or the first ripe tomato Some of us just watch for Honeycomb Coral Slime Molds. 🤣🙄🤣

This is a whimsical watercolor illustration titled "Pear Cat"

Wow.

I found this and it may bring a smile!🙂 This is called the "feather-drying dance of the Great blue Heron"

#BNWmacro #BlueskyArtShow #Soft Dew drops on a dandelion about to open. #EastCoastKin #Macro #ClassicMono #Bloomscrolling #Dandelion

Awaiting a wish or a light breeze the Dandelion seeds are ready for future growth 📷🕊️ …

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

My Walkman was not inconvenient. I bought a tape of music, I didn't pay for streaming services. The music couldn't be taken from me after that by the place I bought it or the publisher. I put it in the Walkman. I pressed play. Often I did this while going for a walk. The music played.

Lovely tree frog (Ranita meridional in Spanish) I spotted on Montjuïc, Barcelona. Orwell perhaps saw them on Aragon front in 1937: "Round the drinking-pool that served for the village mules I found exquisite green frogs the size of a penny, so brilliant that the young grass looked dull beside them"

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Doesn't matter if the performance itself is staged. The fact is, talented musicians coming together and giving a performance in a public space means the masses get to witness this for free and that's beautiful. TT: Raphaël Froissart IG: Michel Tirabosco ~ Pan flute

Meet Petroleum Quartz also known as Golden Enhydro— a rare quartz variety with ancient oil trapped inside. Tiny bubbles of hydrocarbon liquid move within the crystal when tilted, offering a window into Earth’s deep history. [📹 oneloveminerals] Original post

For @dragonknits.bsky.social

My aunt, the doctor,
told me a new joke.
She asked: Why doesn’t anyone need to worry
about hantavirus spreading? I said I did not know. And so she answered. Because with the cost
of gas
no one can afford
to go out and spread it. And then neither of us laughed.

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

Congratulations Australia. Wouldn’t it be nice if the US could say the same thing?

Field of Green Walking through a #Field of long, soft, spring #Grass, #Clover & #Vetch. Can you see the tiny purple blooms? #MyWalk #FieldScape #PNW #Photography

I don't think there should be a work requirement for SNAP. I think there should be a wage-should-be-enough-for-employees-to-eat requirement for employers.

Archaeologists next to one of the many massive Olmec heads. The Olmec civilization is considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, and these sculptures are their most iconic artifacts

A fungus photo a day: Yesterday I posted the oyster I found that was starting to contract from it being so dry lately, yesterday I found a similarly contracting Amanita pantherinoides. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

This Anglo-Saxon pendent was found in Kent. It’s a gold disc with delicate & minute filigree. Three cloisonné birds’ heads radiate from the centre, filled with garnet. The most remarkable thing is that this is just over 3cm across. It makes the craftsmanship even more impressive. 🕰️ Early C7th 🏛️📷BM

This is a feel good image for me. These two adorable young Australian superb fairywren staying close to each other.

Not only “dead” but beginning to mold 😉

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Beautiful but very sad