The Schlumbergera truncatas are poppin off! Nice indoor color for the gray season.

Fun hike with @kelleyjones.bsky.social on Maplewood trails in North Vancouver. Spotted great blue herons, a bald eagle, kingfisher, ducks, gulls, and black-tailed deer on the beach!

First time seeing a red-legged frog in my yard. My dog went nuts but this little hopper got away!

Center for Urban Horticulture, UW, Seattle

🦜💡 A new discovery has taken flight! In a new publication, Dr. Allison Shultz has found a new part to the typical body feather which determines a bird's color! Read more about it in the newly published Ornithology paper here: nhm.org/stories/hidd... #science #discover #new

I’ve lived in Western WA my whole life and have never seen a weasel here before this year. Spotted one at Bellevue Botanical Gardens 2 months ago. Now they are in my yard. I’ve never been so excited to see such a delightfully cute, bloodthirsty killer.

Max says “No Kings!”

We feed you. They hunt us.

🚫 Propaganda we're not falling for? That public schools aren’t worth investing in.

I love a wild rose, especially one that is native to the PNW. Nootka Roses provide excellent habitat for wildlife and smell gorgeous. This bee agrees! Lushootsheed: c̓ək̓apaʔac Click here to hear it spoken: tulaliplushootseed.com/encyclopedia...

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

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Beautifully constructed but abandoned robin’s nest with a strawberry plant growing out of it.

Yellow lab-pit mix dog lying in a bed of oxalis and tall grass.

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

One of my favorite things about spring is the red flowering currant show, aka Ribes sanguineum. The Lushootseed name is p’uq. tulaliplushootseed.com?s=Currant

Salmonberry just getting started

This is classic. Legislator votes that "using incorrect pronouns" is freedom of speech. Gets pissy that he is addressed by "Madame Chiarman" www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/c...

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

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