An icy waterfall on the trail today. Look at the beautiful “mammatus cloud” (?) ice formations at the base. Look up mammatus clouds for me, you’ll see what I mean. Gorgeous. #Hiking #NewYork

Visited by an Entling last night in my dreams. “No tiiiime for Sleeep,”he said, waking me up. “Plant more treeeees, pleasssse.” (Notes from my daily sketchbook.) #Ents #Forest #TreeBeard #Artist

Finshed working on her. She’s walking through a destroyed forest—turfed by humans—and I feel she’s very concerned. Probably carrying a bag of wild seeds. Anyway I had a vision of her, Ms. Badger lady, and drew her out. She’s me I think. A part of me. #DailySketchbook #Artist

Yes!! 🪐 You think you’re not into orchestral music? Think again. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Isic...

I keep my art and #drawings hidden from almost everyone—I’ll try to share more. Notes from my daily sketchbook. She prepares for battle. I think she’s half badger.

“I bet they’re asleep all over America—“ Are you ready to wake up. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you. #Casablanca

All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl

Find you a politician who takes trees seriously! #ClimateChange #Cooling #Filtering #SlowsTraffic 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

Did you know that if you’re a crafty practical type, you can spend hours and hours singeing your own frayed antiqued #velvet #ribbon for the xmas tree? The loose threads were disturbing the grandma spirits.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

I found the entrance to the old Black Ash mine, finally. The rock steps down are filled in with dirt and blocked by fallen trees, but I can still imagine the ghosts of dead miners coming up from there at night, to wander around. I’ll stick to day hikes for now. #NewYork #Hiking

A bike bus!!! Omg I would have LOVED this as a kid. Empowering. I’ve watched this video 5x. I just noticed the parents(?) cheering from the sideline too. #BikeBus @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Urban centers can be a thriving green paradise. Get involved with your local government. Redesign them to reduce cars and add trees!! Green creates #green. Business booms. 🌳🌳🌳🌳

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes? That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

For #WorldAIDSday, make it personal, make it about YOU. Do your part to counteract and reverse the #stigma which keeps people hiding in silence, afraid to test and treat. Would YOU date someone HIV+? If not, why not? It’s 2025. Undetectable = untransmissable. Take today to learn about #Prep ❤️

In a pilot study, A.I.was able to accurately predict the type of coda, the whale’s vocal clan and the individual whale with over 90% accuracy. ... it might be possible to use A.I. to find patterns within the vocal data and eventually translate what whales were saying to one another. #incroyable

I love it when the tree is the only light in the room.

I love this ❤️ #UnitedWeStand

A peaceful little waterfall on the trail today. In the summer months the understory is so thick it’s harder to get to. A peaceful moment. #Hiking #NewYork

Dr. Jane started every lecture with this powerful message: Each of us has the power to create a better future. We can honour her legacy by "doing our bit" – protecting wildlife, supporting community-led conservation, empowering young leaders, and sharing her message to inspire others.

The #palette of the winter forest in my part of the #Appalachian foothills. Can you spot the evergreen pine trees (and Aspens) out there? 🙂 I hike all year long because one learns so much about the forest following it through the Seasons. Left: November. Right: July (Same view, with yours truly)

Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit… www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Tell Congress to prioritize sleep health over golf lobbies. No to permanent Daylight Saving Time (“Sunshine Protection”). Yes instead to permanent Standard Time! www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam...

A warning about invasive species and how naive local and world governments can be. One single bad idea spreads out of control. Don’t mess with the Nature’s carefully evolved balance. Plant #native species only. 🙏🏻🌍💚💙

A call to artists and communities under threat: come to #NYC 💙🗽 “Art is not our problem … art is the antidote. It’s how societies push forward, confront injustice, and imagine better futures. When you tell #artists to stay quiet, you’re telling #communities to stay invisible.” - Erik Bottcher

Finishing the sepia underdrawing, blocking in the color soon. This will be the wildest and most ambitious drawing I’ve ever done. The composition is insanity. But I can see the end result: just barely. #Artist #Drawing #OldSchool

This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station in the harshness of space Researchers hope findings can be applied to humans living in space www.cbc.ca/news/science...

This is fascinating. These beautiful little monarchs have such a journey!

Choosing healthy snacks for the office. These are good! 🤤 Working in an international district has many perks. #NYC

Wow! ❤️ Puff the magic #dragon made real. He would approve of this. Not just any dragon, a wish dragon.

From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

The tree has been up for exactly 3 mins

I love this quiet little spot on the trail today. Not only a double waterfall, a peaceful little pond (with baby trout swimming around) and also—when the light hits just right—ripples reflect the sun on the stone above in hypnotic patterns. I sit here for a long while. #Hiking #NewYork

My favorite spot on the trail today, this hypnotic #waterfall pond. The light reflecting ripples on the rock wall above—so pretty. I’ll post another video of it from a different angle. #Hiking #NewYork

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Walking through #Greenwood cemetery today in NYC. Look at this sweet pup! So amazing. They buried the family dog with them. People leave sticks at the gravesite. #DogSky

Look at this tree! Boom. Walking through #ProspectPark today with friends.

Zohran mentioned trans people in his acceptance speech last night—specifically wanted trans people to feel welcome and loved. How amazing is that? HOW AMAZING IS THAT. How I hope this becomes the norm.

That’s me! That deep blue pocket there. The gays in Chelsea and Hell‘s kitchen packed the polling stations for #Mamdani ❤️🗽🏳️‍🌈

I'm a total disaster with people. Thankfully, we have lots and lots of forests in this country because in a forest - that's where I'll end up living one day.

The Hudson River sunset skyline tonight is something out of a movie! #NYC

RESEARCH: not just green space, but *biodiverse* green space keeps us healthy. Find these spaces in your city, or make them! NYC actually hands out free native seeds to spread in urban tree wells, and undeveloped lots. 💚

Trying out #coconut shell bowls today for my packed lunch on the hike (a homemade Buddha bowl). It worked well! Lightweight and strong. Why, you ask? 🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥 Stainless steel bowls are heavy, #titanium bowls expensive, #aluminum is questionably toxic and I’m removing all #plastics from my life.

Sat for lunch at one of my favorite spots on the back woods trail. #Waterfall and nice flat rock to sit on. The sound is so healing. #Hiking #NewYork

A LEGO #MRI set to help kids though a traumatic medical experience. 😭🥹 I had some early childhood medical trauma that still haunts me today. This would have helped. Kids are strong if we give them tools to understand. From the LEGO website:

Starting a new #fashion trend: #Carabiner clips for backpack cross straps. For gearheads. Clip conscious. Makes people think I’m a butch rock climber or a part of Seal Team Antifa, rappelling down buildings and terrorizing ICE thugs. #Grrr

This is important info for windmill owners/operators: