Last month I spent a week on Rhodes looking for wild orchids with @mariposanature.bsky.social guided by @dunnjons.bsky.social and @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social. I learned a lot, met great people, had good food, but most of all, it made me happy to see so many of these gems in nature.

Definitely a moment to remember from last week!

It was a truly amazing week! So many species 💜🤪 So much excitement and knowledge and just an all around good time. Thank you @dunnjons.bsky.social @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social and @mariposanature.bsky.social

Beautiful Ophrys candica & Ophrys halia today within a few minutes of the lovely family-run hotel we always stay at during our #OrchidsOfRhodes tours. The welcome there is always warm, the food outstanding, and it's in the heart of orchid country. #bloomscrolling mariposanature.com/tours/botani...

Wild pyramid orchid (anacamptis pyramidalis) growing on the roadside near Guardea (TR) #umbria #orchid #anacamptis

7 years and counting… ❤️❤️

A good end to the day. Thank you #Mazzo in San Lorenzo.

People are concerned about climate change and extreme weather. And they want action.

Mystras, Greece wildflowers in abundance.

Ophrys bertolonii, a bee orchid, in the dry gardens of Sparoza (the Mediterranean Garden Society). #ophrys #sparoza #mgssparosa #drygarden

Sunset by the Acropolis.

Waterfall over the Para Dam (there used to be a mill here) on Lago Vecchio. The Rio Grande #amelia #ameliaterni

Springtime trails around Amelia #amelia #termi #allium

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

“Måke Califørnia Great Ægain” 🤣 best “news” of the week!

4 February 2012, Circo Massimo

Rome 13 years ago today. It was a gorgeous moment. #rome #snow

A great article for right now

Italy marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with a series of commemorative events on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

An amazing show (I saw it in Milan). Don’t miss it in Rome!

Yesterday at Yayoi Kusama’s permanent installation at #SFMOMA

Flying towards the sun over the west coast of Greenland

Bay Area bound 🎄🌍🛫🌎🎄

Now reading #avocadoanxiety

The Italian state is to buy the former Rome residence of the Futurist painter Giacomo Balla and turn it into a public museum, Italy’s culture minister said.

Beignet for two at Giubbini in Guardea #iykyk