Warm and in an alert circle. 😍 "I've got yer six."

Such beautiful curves! Cats are SO beautiful to me. I can also stare at horses all day.😍😅

Shortly, I will be on my way to #Tanzania on our yearly #safari. For the 3rd year, I am very fortunately involved in the exploration and celebration of this wondrous and important area. The riches of biodiversity, culture, and human history are an empowering insights into self and into our world.

Neighbor just texted me that a bear just ran onto my next door neighbor's property. Glad I already chopped kindling and started the fire (predawn)--I'll stay inside, now, thanks! 😊🐻

Don't usually get this view up this left path, but the right path I'd normally take was occupied by a handsome bobcat perched on a pale granite boulder, up against a pale-grey-barked oak tree. 😍 #walking #nature #art #sculpture

Yesterday, we were treated to a beautiful filament eruption around AR 4334, launching an Earth-directed CME which may impact around 20 UT on Jan 10 (glancing blow). Most of the ejecta is heading south of us, but an asymmetric partial halo signature was visible in coronagraphs.

W. Heubach, 1889.

Ho leeee 🐄

Amazing lighting!😍

Giant An't (Gelis sp. ichneumonid wasp)

Sweet little 13-inches-of-rain-in-13-days vignette.🥰 🪵🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🪨

And, there goes Furnando. 😁 #mammals

🦎Ocellated skink (Chalcides ocellatus). Max size 30 cm (11.8"). Found in southern Europe eastwards from Italy as well as in northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia as far east as India and Sri Lanka. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷 by wirestock on Freepik

Not a big fly over fan but I liked this one from today! #birds

Some timeline palate cleansers. First phacelia and the jeep amongst the granite, Kelbaker Road.

Cladonia lichens among moss. NWT, Canada. #lichen #moss #fungi #fungifriends

Sooty-capped Chlorospingus at San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica for #birdoftheday #foodfinds #birds #nature

Zen kitty, drawing finished 🐾🧘🐈‍⬛

Starting now

Sunset last week.😍

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.” 🧵⬇️

What Lilliputian beauties!!😍😍😍

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who sold secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison at 84

this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad

#TwoForTuesday: TWO CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'TWIN #FISH' VASES CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820) H 11 in. (28 cm) www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6... #ChineseArt

The supermodel of planets.🤩

Another one of my favorite cloud forest birds, the Collared Redstart. At Santa Elena Reserve #CostaRica #birds #nature

🤔 I haven't been out #bloomscrolling in a few...🌵 📸 Fishhook cactus (Cochemiea tetrancistra), native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts. The prominent bright red, fleshy, and shiny fruits are typical for this species and contain many black seeds. 😋 #NativePlants 🌿 #Cacti

RP-ing this 'cause it made me LOL. 🤣

It is a gloriously sunny, here, and I have been ADULTING all day, so Imma GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!!!🥳

oooh, minimalist and texture-fan TWOfer!🤩

If you saw me use the wrong hashtag earlier, no you didn’t #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay

Borb alert!! 🟡

I knew these two variable oystercatchers had a nest somewhere in the spinifex grass. I had just about given up, as I didn't want to stress the birds any more, when I suddenly spotted three lovely eggs. The nest has been fenced off now to stop anyone accidentally stumbling into it.

[COMMENTARY] Just a year after creating the North Atlantic’s largest MPA network, the Azores may allow tuna fishing in no-take zones. An op-ed warns this would undermine a global conservation win amid growing political backsliding. ** Views are author's.

omg, I am SUCH a SAP!😅 We just had our old pickup picked up (as it were) to donate it (to a local public radio charity) and I CRIED. 😭 DH bought it right before he met me, and many times drove it hundreds of miles to visit me. 💘 Goodbye, truck! 💖🛻💖

The world may laugh again, And I may live to do you kindness

It was that time of year again to photograph our overlooked neighbourhood House Sparrows. The hoar frost provided wonderful settings. Also, the male's feather tips are wearing out and starting to reveal the black 'breeding' bib of spring. #birds

For what it's worth: I'm on the low cost high deductible plan via my employer, and my vaccinations are still covered at 100%, no need to have met the deductible. Vaccines against meningitis are available via CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Meijer, Kroger ...

Go, little fierce dude, go! Rowr!! (And, obviously, LOOKIT those TEENSY FEETS!!!)

We got 13 inches of rain in the last 13 days, per our neighbors, so that explains why we can now easily see across the San Joaquin Valley to the Coast Range, from here in the foothills. So clear and beautiful!!

Wow: I looked it up, and this place is very similar to Yosemite Valley! Photo from the hidden north dot com. I would love to take DH there.😍🤓

Lookit this cute, young pine with a loop de loop trunk!😍

Fascinating stuff! (Gift article.) I had just ASSUMED that, at this point, our measurements of peak heights were accurate. Apparently not! 🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/s...

A Snow Bunting running across the field for #BirdOfTheDay #Snowy

Camera traps in China’s largest tiger reserve captured a rare first: an Amur tigress with five cubs. Filmed in late 2025 at Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, the sighting signals conservation gains for the endangered Amur tiger—though experts warn the population is not fully secure.

Reddish egrets are such hard core runway models.😍 DEF worth 3 clicks.

Blueberry vs. Yellowberry

More very cool fungi on a national wildlife refuge tree. I love the colors, and the tiny pores on the undersides.

CA when!