Now THAT’S a Project I can support!! 👊

"The shutdown eliminated salaries for civil servants or placed them on compulsory leave. The German government temporarily stepped in financially to pay civilian US military employees in Germany." www.euronews.com/2025/11/06/u...

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.

🌱 Climbing "New Dawn" rose from June 26, 2023 on Cape Cod #RoseWednesday #Gardening #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed

"...Trump himself said last month, aboard Air Force One: "I don't think there's anything that's going to get me into heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven-bound."" www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

🌱 We had these glorious, self-sewing Delphiniums at our old farm. They came up in many different colors, but I was always smitten with the deep blue.

🌱 Not all Hemerocallis are created equal.

🌱 A spring serenade on Cape Cod from May 3, 2020

🌱 A late bud in our Cape Cod garden #Bloomscrolling #RoseWednesday #DailyFlowers

What might have been 😌 youtu.be/SgpH1wEd2Tg?...

Hurricane Melissa flight exclusion zone

Never forget January 6th!! 140 Capitol police officers were severely beaten, and some died by suicide or from injuries 😢 The felon let the insurrectionists get away with this 🤬 #NeverForgetJan6th

🌱 - The Magic Carpet Tulip Mixture, double early tulips for mid-April, 12-18 inches tall, & The Single Late Majestic Tulip Mixture, for May. 18-26 inches tall - both from Van Engelen, in Connecticut. 😊🌷

"...despite the uproar from some politicians and social media users, the video has no basis in fact, not least because of the AI-generated voice it features and its frequent misspelling of Meloni's name." www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Alt text: A Bloomberg headline: “Food Prices Could Go Even Higher After These Ice Raids”

🌱 "Sheffield Pink" Chrysanthemum - popping on Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island)

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🌱 We found this monarch struggling on the ground by a mountainside meadow in Western Vermont on October 12th. It ended up flying successfully across the meadow and over the treetops to the south of us. photo by Anne-Sophie with I-phone 14

"...the new lack of protection may come with “very serious risks and cumulative damage,” as the newly unprotected land hosts active or pending mining claims." www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...

"To identify the new group of geoglyphs—which are older, smaller and less distinct than the previously discovered ones—the researchers employed an A.I. model trained to spot faint lines in satellite images of the desert." www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

@amrawramb.bsky.social - I saw your handle and thought of this cute little picture 😛

+ @c2art.bsky.social @coolkk21.bsky.social @bannerite.bsky.social @philip-trask.bsky.social @sumoh7.bsky.social @leagagnon.bsky.social Sorry if you've unfollowed. Please share! US Treasury secretary, SCOTT BESSENT is tied to PETER THIEL and ELON MUSK and ARGENTINA'S $40 B BAILOUTS 🔝 🚩

"“Absolutely, there are people I don’t like, and I would like to put them on one of (Elon) Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover,” Goodall tells Falchuk. " www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square. Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files. Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

🚨 MY GOOD LORD ‼️‼️ #ICE smash car window & drag 2 sisters out—in front of elementary school at pick up time. 13 masked agents surround car—while children yelled "It's ICE!" running away in fear.

Yes, I’m at my desk. No, I’m not getting any work done. Outside is much too busy and fabulous; I can’t turn away. 🌱🌸🦋🐝 #FlowerReport

"The show of hands represents not only more support than in the previous no-confidence vote in July, but also higher than the 370 votes that confirmed her college of commissioners at the start of this legislature in November 2024." www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly” - D.H. Lawrence.🌱

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Russia is behind a campaign of cyberattacks, sabotage and provocation across Europe, according to the president of the European Commission, who warned on Wednesday morning: “It is time to call it by its name. This is hybrid warfare, and we have to take it very seriously.”

This is the way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

🌱 "A rare bloom has turned Chile’s Atacama Desert — one of the driest places on Earth — into a vast sea of fuchsia and purple wildflowers after unusually heavy winter rains." www.euronews.com/video/2025/1...

🌱 a hoverfly on variegated Phlox in our Cape Cod garden, August 15th, for #InsectThursday #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #Flowers

The hybrid musk #roses started blooming in this garden in late May. With their gnarled branches it takes ages to prune these big old girls, I sometimes fret I’m too brutal or not brutal enough. That’s #gardening for you. Have a good day everyone. #throwbackthursday 🌱

🌱 Franklin tree in the native section of our Cape cod garden, on October 6th

🌱 "At Last" rose in our Cape Cod garden #RoseWednesday

🌱 Unknown new climbing rose in our Cape cod garden #RoseWednesday

"In the first six months of the year, China added more solar and wind than the rest of the world combined, and its fossil fuel generation fell by 2 per cent, the report said." www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

🌱 I'm just taking it easy here by the brookside today

🌱 New araucaria on Cape Cod 😊💚

🌱 New tree in our garden

🌱 Large milkweed bugs in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, October 1st #InsectThursday #BugSky #nature

"The document, one of Francis' main legacies, cast saving God’s creation as an urgent moral imperative and launched a broad, grassroots movement that Pope Leo XIV has fully embraced and made his own." www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

🌱 Unknown Blue Salvia in our Cape Cod Garden, September 28th

#Twosday native Orange Bush Monkeyflower (Diplacus aurantiacus) blooms at #PtReyes last weekend.💚 Plant info. here... calscape.org/Diplacus-aur... #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱

🌱 "At Last" rose on September 28th on Cape Cod - a fragrant beauty #RoseWednesday

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Ukraine has completed its internal screening of its legislation for compliance with EU standards, and we have done it faster than anyone before us. We have done it qualitatively. We are fully prepared to open Cluster 1 in the EU membership negotiations – the “Fundamentals” cluster.

“A lot of the words that are coming to me aren’t fit to print,” said Shah, policy director for Common Defense... “The people in that room who have served for 20, 30-plus years in uniform do not need Pete Hegseth to tell them about warrior ethos.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...