lunch break with the lads

timeline cleanse

Got a really cool book today! Published in 1890 with a handwritten flower record from 1902, and even some pressed leaves that I assume are from about that time. It’s meant to be a botanical guide for children. So many great illustrations in it.

:p #art

First time participating in the #BirdWhisperer project! Vermilion Flycatcher for May 🪶

Poncho & Lefty - Townes Van Zandt Anthem - Leonard Cohen Crane Wife 3 - The Decemberists Whip-poor-will - Jason Molina Land: Horses/ - Patti Smith Pittsburgh - Mason Jennings Clean Elvis - Dan Reeder Kiss Off - Violent Femmes On the Radio - Regina Spektor Good Intentions Paving Co. - Johanna Newsom

Goose progress

Geese!! #wip 🪶

Red-breasted goose 🪶

late night fruit drawin’

Happy earth day!!!! We are so, so lucky to live on this gorgeous planet!

More works in progress. Insects and spring ephemerals. ~ #naturesketch #springephemerals #spiderwasp #insects #illustration

House martins are such sweet little birds! Sadly their numbers are dropping in the UK, but now we are adding swift bricks, reducing pesticides even further and rewilding to bring back native insect numbers… may we have even more martins in the future! (WIP) #housemartin #britishbird #norfolkartist

It was so nice out today! I spent some time with our bloodroot flowers

Northern Flickers with chokecherries 🪶 🐡

David Miller (British Artist, born 1966) "A Hundred Feet Long in Their World, Pike and Perch", 2024 Oil on Canvas, 24 × 36 inches. #Art

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Bird

We didn't deserve this day.

i cannot imagine a future without trans people because without trans people there isn't a future

Egon Schiele (1907)

herring

It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.

Heartleaf Skullcap 💕 🌿 🐡

they will tell you that they need to do regime change iran to liberate the women, and while you docilely repeat their propaganda they will bomb a girls school in broad daylight and laugh at how much contempt they have for you for buying their lies

Minnesota needs help. ICE is still making it unsafe for many people to leave their homes. Hundreds of families need help making rent. Visit www.standwithminnesota.com/keepmnhoused to adopt a rent or donate. 🪶Artists, join the call for art to raise awareness!🪶 Share with #keepMNhoused

a couple of female eurasian bullfinches foraging through bushes 🍃 i haven't worked with gouache in a minute, but fell in love all over again with this piece

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes! ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word! (art here by the great @trungles.com)

Thinking about THE GREEN KNIGHT recently

This is Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been imprisoned by ICE for a year. He was about to get new prosthetic legs when he was kidnapped… and they won’t let him have them. His health is declining & there’s been almost no media coverage. No protests. No noise.

Unique opportunity to tell ICE/DHS/CBP to eat shit if you live near one of these places www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

Paleo art inspired by Minoan frescoes!

Fluff the Vet Greeter (1940) 2544 Lyndale Ave. S Source: Hennepin County Library Common alley cat, Fluff, wandered into the Morgan Animal Hospital and is now the official greeter for incoming patients.

Today I have found more nice plant photography, this time from a 1926 catalog called "Our Glory Bloom the Peony" that waxes poetic about Mother Nature's greatest gift, the peony, for 8 pages, complete with poems, before finally listing their available varieties. I'm very charmed by this.

Happened upon the photography of Karl Blossfeldt today when I was looking for old botanical illustrations on the Internet Archive and I cannot get over how beautiful these images are

Bees 🐝

the white throated sparrow is finally finished ⛄

If you see this, post your orange art 🦊

Just a little scrabbledy sketch to keep spirits up. I also learned today that a group of chickadees is called a ‘banditry’ and how cute is that?

I'm gonna re-share these awesome open source fonts @quinnanya.me shared with us all the other day, because we all need a small, good thing right now and also because my broken brain lost the link and it took me 20 minutes to find it again, and maybe yours did to? justseeds.org/project/just...

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Abolish ICE

Fucking hell, they're still calling people protesters. Renee Good was not protesting. Alex Pretti was not protesting. (Entirely possible they'd gone to some protests, that's pretty common around here.)

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?