The streams are running low since it has been a really dry summer, but there is still enough for the wildlife. #naturephotography #fall

Dolly says it's not yet before we have to say goodbye. A lot of rich and powerful people are happy to pull the ladder up after them, but she builds more ladders. The world needs more Dollys.

📷 The feed corn harvested for fall. Next year this field will be cotton. #photography #fall

My tiny tabby for #caturday

🐛📷 Caterpillar of Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) on Maypop (Passiflora caerulea). #naturephotography #butterfly #insects It's getting late in the summer. The usual suspects are dropping leaves: black cherry, crabapple, hackberry, black gum. It's sometime yet to frost, but it's coming.

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📷 More photographic zen for your weekend. Jake's Creek Trail, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee #naturephotography #pentax

#dnd #ttprg

🐈 I moved their cat condo to the top of the (long) (steep) basement stairs to vacuum. They love it. It makes me anxious. #catsofbluesky #caturday

📷 Deep breath. A little peace for everyone wound up over the news. Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. #naturephotography

📷 Something has happened. I'm sorry, baby, I shouldn't have cheated. That Olympus meant nothing to me and I will never leave you again. My experiment with a micro 4/3rds was a failure. So I have come back to the #Pentax fold with an upgrade and some juicy limited lenses. #photography

They've lost the 9yos

📷 #farm #photography You know it's late summer when the watermelons drop. The only way to eat them is ice cold with salt! #pentax K-1 MK1, #sigma 18-300mm macro

Just finished the third panel in my drawing project titled, "All The Faces The Crow Remembers." 13 panels left to go. There will be a total of 16. Each panel will be 9"x 12"(23.9 x 30.5cm). Charcoal on paper. The finished size will be roughly 36"x 48". #art #drawing #charcoal #birds

Sunday my new #ttrpg #dnd campaign resumes after weeks of scheduling hell. My players are about to confront the consequences of stealing something really big from a civilization that is fully equipped to come and get it back. Also would the god of light be happy with their cleric in all this?

📷 There's a charm, and sadness, in abandoned buildings. #photography

📷🐛🕷️ A lovely Yellow Garden Spider for your Thursday morning. Totally harmless and beautiful, they spin huge webs right where you will walk into them. #macrophotography #naturephotography #spiders #bugs

Gotta love US healthcare. My insurance company won't pay for a medication that will probably work and my epileptologist recommends, but will pay for a surgery that probably won't do much (if any) good for me.

📷🐛 Red Paper Wasp (Polistes perplexus) getting a snack from the hummingbird feeder for #macromonday #naturephotography

I'd appreciate any suggestions from the #ttrpg #minatures and #terrain builders. This is playable on each levels. I need something to cover the hull (and hides the side seams) that looks metal/steampunk. But something that would work with those curves on the keel has me stumped. Any ideas?

📷🪶 A few mallard ducklings to brighten up your Saturday. #birds #naturephotography

Oh HELL yes

The atmosphere is quite humbling. #photography

📷🌼 Toad Lily (Tricyrtis formosana) "Samurai" at the local Botanical Garden #macrophotography #flowers #naturephotography

🧶 It's been years since I have done pattern drafting from scratch in my Ren Faire costume era, but I got the urge. Hopefully this will succeed enough for follow-up pictures. #sewing

🐈 Happy #caturday from Violet and Bonny, enjoying the fat windowsills in my basement.

📷🌱 Cattails (Typha sp., probably T. latifolia) before and during seeding. They are very common in the southeastern US. Endemic to marshy ground and along stream banks, they make a great natural bioremediator. #flowers #naturephotography

📷 🐛 Luna Moth caterpillar (Actias luna). I love these giant moths but I don't see them much anymore. I try to keep my house dark at night so maybe I just don't have the opportunity. #naturephotography #insects

I'm running a short follow-up campaign for my players to clean up one of the loose threads. First session and they just HAD to attack an extremely powerful being they had been told not to. It was the second time the barbarian had to stop a TPK with a Wish spell and now has none left. #ttrpg #dnd

Cucurbita moschata, "Upper Ground Sweet Potato Squash." Squash vine borer resistant, great winter keeper and tastes great. SVB is native here so the pest pressure is very high. C. moschata has the only winter squash varieties I can even consider. #gardening #squash #harvest

While on their supervised outing yesterday, the smol cat caught a bird. The bird was dead already, but that didn't stop her from being extraordinarily proud of herself. #catsofbluesky Every day is #caturday

The railing-walkway project might have developed QUITE A BIT. At this point it has modular joints, magnetic sockets for bridges, and enough parts to start to be pretty cool. next up - light posts, terminals, cables, and more!

Hello to the new folks! Just a brief introduction, we're a group of 8 that have been playing DnD/TTRPG since 2018! We stream video games Mon/Wed and Actual DND Plays on Sat! 🎥🔴 twitch.tv/dicefunctional | dicefunctional.carrd.co/ (We're making a thread to introduce the creatives of the group! 🎨🖋️🧵)

Okay #dnd and #ttrpg nerds, I pretty please need ideas. What would an unnaturally powerful 16 year old necromancer want? Not to be a lich; 16 year olds never think they'll die anyway. I'm stumped.

Tech is great, right? Today I did digital fingerprints to send to the FBI for a background check. Response in 2 minutes. 10 years ago the check took 5 weeks. Efficiency is fabulous, but a computer system matching fingerprints, some of those requests for national security is also a little scary.

Blessed to find this beautiful electric blue Faxonius virilis while sampling the St. Lawrence for my doctoral work! This is a fairly rare phenotype for this native North American species!

📷🌼 St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum). Often used in herbal medicine for depression, clinical science says it does work for mild depression and anxiety. #naturephotography #bloomscrolling

📷 Bobo Creek, Short Springs State Natural Area, Tullahoma, Tennessee. The chipped rock formations along the side of the creek are Chattanooga shale. #naturephotography #pentax

The Eastern Box Turtle that lives on my land. I usually see it out back next to the woods, but this morning it was in the landscaping near the house. This guy doesn't have the normal bright body markings, but I guess it's just a variant. #reptiles #turtles

A dozen publishers have built a Texas Flood Relief Feeding America with more than $250 worth of PDFs, Maps, Comics, and other digital titles for only $20! Get it here: tinyurl.com/3rfjvyc5 #ttrpg #dnd5e #comics @feedingamerica.org

Clair obscur 33 was in my TBP backlog but this is an instant refund. With a $60 pricetag they spent more money and time on AI than hiring an intern to make a white box with red lettering that says "placeholder?" I don't buy their excuse. #videogames #expedition33

Tomato flower (Solanum lycopersicum) for #macromonday #gardening #naturephotography

#nature #photography #macromonday #macro #insect #honeybee Season goal #2 UNLOCKED! - Honey bee - Description in alt text

🌱 New arrival! 🧡💛💕💚 #gardensky #FlowerReport #gardening #BloomScrolling #gardeningfeed

I've been on a bit of an internet break with everything *waves hand.* But spring can't be stopped. Southern Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) #ferns #naturephotography #macrophotography

For #caturday here's Violet with her favorite toy: the rug jungle.