George owes me a keyboard, but I too am alarmed.

I was looking for something for Presidents' Day, and this looked right.

In case you need more of this in your life. I'm talking about cats, of course. What did you think I meant?

Something happy, for a change

Intriguing. It'll be interesting to see where the studies go. Personal: I've found that heat carefully applied to foods does break things down beautifully for nutritional absorption. (I've also found out that wildfire smoke burning living fungus can mess up your gut.) phys.org/news/2026-02...

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

#bloomscrolling #birds #auswildlife

Woke up exhausted, and there are SO many possible reasons for it. But saw the latest kerfluffle & just thought I'd mention that I write my own books. Which either get written for months in my head & then pour out in a couple months, or took years to write around making a living. Real author.

Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris #France 📷

glad some folks are clear

almost #bloomscrolling There's something desperate about their reaching for the sky.

Happy Caturday from Jorts (not that @jortsthecat.bsky.social ) but the stray on my land that decided 3 years ago that indoors was better than outdoors. Here's his first day when he discovers The Bed. Many biscuits were made.

SOS

When it’s below 0° right down to the beach, you go out and capture it. Madison, CT.

It's not a moment; it's the movement — thanks, Lin Manuel

Lady Gaga has put out a gorgeous anthem for Minneapolis. youtu.be/e3o5FIXoK84?...

With all the news about cruelty, doing something kind, however small, is bound to help.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

#bloomscrolling And an herb too?

Yes. Me also.

Got the words memorized yet? Those of us who sang OHIO can sing this one.

Happy Geoffrey's Cat Day

A $1.2 Trillion ‘Rip Off’: Report Spotlights Massive Scale of Medicare Advantage Fraud www.commondreams.org/news/medicar... This scam has been going on for decades. These uber-wealthy companies hire celebrities to make these plans look legit, but they are expensive, and the benefits are minimal

when I was walking the other day, I saw these flowers. despite these terribly harsh temperature, they grew anyways. who knows if they've survived the cold till now. but something nice grew, even out there www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZQc... #ableton #ambient #flower #orchestral #piano

Tin soldiers and he's a-coming...

"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed each year on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, an infamous death camp. This is Rosa Kuhn Bertram, who died in the Shoah, who might possibly be a relation, whom I've chosen to represent the family I'll never know.

must acquire

Ready for Buy Nothing (except from locals) day

No

This is the way. I'm glad a Waffle House opened up near me, because when they close is how you tell the storm has escalated to OFF THE EFFING CHARTS.

any way you could preorder this if you have kids ages 2-6 or if you think I'm pretty and cool

Free cozy mysteries today only, including two of my Christmas books, Stealing Saints and The Sphynx Who Stole Christmas. cozymysterybookclub.com/bookblast/

Fabric flowers count for #bloomscroll

wealth of amaryllis #bloomscroll

Anybody would. Wish I had that choice.

Just how I feel, Cookie

Hope that's okay with Travis.

Hope you see the bird of paradise I posted previously, the one just opening. #bloomscroll

An embroidered silkwork panel, titled Spring Flowers or similar, designed by Helen Adelaide Lamb around 1909–1910.

Butterfly photos from Germany taken by Ruth Berger. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/01/10/r...

And two days ago regardless of the heat my light pink dahlias burst into bloom. I swear it’s the humidity that cussed it. They are such beautiful flowers.

I'm a fan of things done right.