Raise your hand high if you are 100% AGAINST Trump hijacking the 250th anniversary of The Declaration Of Independence by holding a Christian Nationalist revival rally meant to "rededicate" America as a "Christian nation"… Because it’s NOT! 🤚

Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus) on spectacle pod.

The changing sky above us

Blue states, get on the stick.

Fun times. "See the growing list"

Gift article from The New York Times. (Explains, in part, acupuncture's effectiveness.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Great American Road Trip youtu.be/1HZvFxEn5k8?...

Hooray for hummingbirds as seen through the blinds in my back door this morning, and NPR sound on background. 🤷‍♀️

remember during the 2024 campaign when you weren’t supposed to call these people weird and now we have teenage cum inspectors

Soaptree Yucca (Yucca elata), Chihuahuan Desert, southern New Mexico.

In other words, white people are having fewer babies, threatening their hold on power. Such blatant racism.

Deadly Dust Storms Burden Arizona-New Mexico Interstate Corridor open.substack.com/pub/cloudcro...

Wow- what a view!

Here is a little video of the chickadees. A handy trick if you have an iPhone: If you're taking a picture of something, and an interesting action event happens, just keep taking pictures every second or so. You can then easily splice the Live Photos into a video -- that's what I did here!

Good morning! How are you holding up? What are you up to today? Last year, sapsuckers carved out a nest in an alder snag. This year, chickadees have set up house. The chickadee clinging to the hole is actually a fledgling, based on its begging behavior. See linked post for video :)

Photos really do not do it justice, but when you get thousands and thousands of camas blooming, they make a wonderful purple haze that emphasizes the mounds that this area is famous for. Our area is mostly forested, which makes the expanse of prairie a special treat. (2/

Good morning! How are you holding up? What are you up to today? Yesterday we went to Prairie Appreciation Day south of Olympia (near Littlerock). It is the one day each year the Glacial Preserve Prairie is open to the public, and I highly recommend it if you're anywhere in the area! (1/

A special Mother's Day shout out to all the farm worker mothers who not only work to feed their families, but also yours! Thanks to these hard working mothers, all our families are fed throughout the year. We appreciate you every day 💐 #wefeedyou #mothersday

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson. So many warblers and red-wing blackbirds; it was quite the symphony.

Some really GOOD news.

Mexican Jay pool party. From October in Madera Canyon, AZ.

Hiking in Colorado, I found this tiny flower nestled among rocks at 12,000 ft. A western species of Claytonia, radically different leaves but the same yellow throat, pink stamens & white petals. C. Caroliniana on the R.

Claytonia megarhiza (Alpine spring beauty) blooming at 12,000 ft. in Colorado Rockies. On right, Claytonia caroliniana blooming in northern NH, 2,500 ft. Both pictures mine.

Prickly Pear Cactus flower (color experiment).

I love this.

A good read and a very worthwhile RSS follow. The options seem fairly clear: start taxing the wealthy to reverse this new Gilded Age, or heads on pikes. www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

Still thinking about this. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, about the use of AI by the Pentagon. www.npr.org/2026/03/30/n...

A family of Stellar’s Jays nested in the sequoia just outside our front door. Today, they took wing! We’ll have to be pretty careful — and use a different door — for the next couple days.

Soaptree Yucca in the Chihuahuan Desert, southern New Mexico.

Alito flew multiple flags tied to Jan 6 insurrectionists. Thomas just gave a speech on how "progressivism" is destroying the country — plus his wife was involved in the Jan 6 plot. And Roberts has pushed "shadow docket" cases where justices make decisions without explaining themselves. Please.

Soaptree Yucca in b&w.

Prickly Pear cacti often have different colored flowers blooming in tandem.

🔭🧪 www.livescience.com/space/space-...

he knows (by D)

When we hung this- we failed to consider that it’s at that point above eye level where you’ll conk your forehead right into it. And that’s how we discovered it’s Completely Full of Bees… but chill ones of the Bumble variety who did not sting (this time)😅

The Flycatchers added a protective snake skin to this place today… 1/2

A plant called Stinging Serpent (Cevallia sinuata); look but don't touch.

My latest at Fight the Fire: a look at a general who spoke out the last time America faced a big wave of colonialism -- and fascism. Click on the link below for a free read. All links and subscription are on the house. fightthefire.substack.com/p/where-have...

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED BY JON......

Dog plus lily, lily plus paw. (#flowerreport Mariposa lily!)

“the Hemish model of fire management reinforces major features and aspirational goals of contemporary fire management, but it does so by respectfully acknowledging the ecological heritage of Indigenous people while demonstrating the multi-century sustainability of these cultural fire practices.” 1/2

Soaptree Yucca southwest of Tortugas Mountain and the Organ Mountains; prickly pear and barrel cacti; yellow prickly pear flower; orange prickly pear blossoms.

Bonus rhodie for anyone who needs a little extra color today :) This is the non-variegated sport of “President Roosevelt” (thanks to @nerdyalto.bsky.social for the ID of the mother plant).

Here he pops out of the hole with a beakful of sawdust and spits it out :)

Good morning! How are you holding up? What are you up to today? This sapsucker is hard at work on a nest in a snag. It may be hard to tell from the photo, but he's pitching a beakful of sawdust :) I'll try to do a tiny video clip in the linked post. (1/2)