Hard to believe it’s March 31 and the cacti is already starting to bloom! #NMwx

For the first time ever, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will stream the two opening songs of the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour kickoff in Minneapolis — live and free at approximately 7:30 p.m. CT tonight!

South Australia has spent years patiently constructing one of the world's first big 100% clean grids. Its reward? Industries are *flocking* there to take advantage. Peak load is expected to double in coming years. Go green, make green.

I think a desperate all-hands-on-deck moonshot effort to build EVs affordably is the only thing that could save any western automaker from being completely cooked

HAHAHAHA

Good morning team. The border wall is an environmental disaster. One small victory in Big Bend National Park. Gift link.

I quit Facebook 12-15 years ago. Two weeks ago, however, I joined up again to access certain groups and Marketplace. I haven't even posted anything. Then this morning they disabled my account for violating community standards with no appeal allowed. How utterly bizarre.

Wonderful to see all the people at #NoKings rallies and marches. I'd have been at one today except for driving 450 miles home Friday from over 2,200 miles & 5 days on the road (mostly I-40) in which I also banged my head on a concrete sidewalk & barely escaped being locked up for a scan. 😳

Jacobs Ladder climbing Pen-y-Fan in South Wales. The reconstructed Bronze Age burial mound sits on the summit at 886m / 2907ft above sea level. #Wales

Also: (Art by Madison Schubert. Etsy link in replies)

Sehr gute Doku:

I am happy because I just learned the Navajo name for Mt. Blanca is Sisnaajiní.

Well, it wasn't really working *before,* right? So there's that.

SANDHILLS POND 06/27/2005 Found this one in the archives. One of many totally gorgeous freshwater ponds found throughout the Nebraska Sandhills. Fish and turtles in the transparent water. Tons of birds. I saw cormorants here. Just outstanding.

RELIC 03/19/2026

I would just like to say, for no particular reason: God, do I love New Mexico. 🌞

My theory is flowers are all the dead people waving at us to slow down

AVATAR 03/14/2026 Unaccountably blooming again. Perhaps it's her? #photography

The Balance of Baneful Beauty (March 2024) #Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #NewMexico #Hoodoo #Badlands

I just tried three one-minute rounds of vocal appreciation for various things, and afterwards it felt like waking up in June when I was nine years old on the first day of summer vacation. 🌞

Hmm.

Lowrider stamps! USPS is releasing a Lowriders Forever stamp collection on March 13. How cool are they?!

BAR FLOWERS 03/10/2026 #Photography #NewMexico

HOLY BONEYARD 03/08/2026

Enjoying the decorative artistry in this doorway in Prague, from round 1900 (Arnim Schulz) www.flickr.com/photos/arnim...

Live eruption video! www.youtube.com/live/fiyttmA...

Always, surely.

"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man."

Arezzo, Italy 🇮🇹 #StunDay #Photography

DAWN ROAR 03/06/2026

There was a time in Merryland when I was young but thought we were old. It was hot, and sticky, white sky like molten wax, the grass so thick and green, the old wooden farmhouse floors too hot to walk on in bare feet, windows all wide open, not a breath of air, and cicadas cranked and buzzed...

SPIRIT HUMMER 09/04/2009 Enter the world of the hummers. What you hear are *actual hummingbird sounds* slowed way down!

LLAMA STAMPEDE 08/09/2017

Watch this. 19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance. As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. 🇺🇸 We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAllNOW

'My First Studio.' (1928) Luigi Lucioni's painting style spared him from the contentiousness of Modernist circles; while he respected the artistic trends of the period he looked beyond what was in-vogue in favour of technical skill.

Found this somewhere. Pretty cool. "A person who is really functioning completely is basically a person who trusts his own brains and permits his brain to operate at a more optimal level. In other words, he knows how to think things out, but he makes his best discoveries without thinking."

SKULL FRIDAY 02/27/2026

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, a total lunar eclipse—a Blood Moon—will sweep across North America. Totality begins at 6:04 AM ET. While western states will see the full show, the East Coast will witness a rare Selenelion: the eclipsed Moon setting while the Sun rises simultaneously.

'Study of a Velvet Crab.' (c1870) John Ruskin, one of the most influential voices in the 19thC art world, believed all beauty comes from nature and an artist's acute observation of it.

This is so important. I blocked someone this morning. I don't like to block, but he was so angry. He was lashing out. We are all hurting now. Find a positive way to deal with it. Volunteer at your local food pantry or animal shelter. Protest. Write your congresscritters. Don't just be angry.

YESTERDAY 02/25/2026

"If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us."

Exactly.

Good Day, everyone! Today is my late wife's birthday. I always used to buy her yellow roses and still do, so please enjoy. (Happy Birthday, Kathy!)

Behold #YOSUDA! Got this just after New Year's. 16-level magnetic resistance exercise bike. Started off doing one 15 minute session per day. Upped that to TWO per day. Now doing THREE 20-minute sessions per day at level 13. Have leg muscles again. Belly tightening. MOBILITY, chilluns!

From 1977. Whatever was I doing then? Oh, right—no internet. You had to hear it on weird radio stations or read about bands 'n' stuff and find a record store that had it. Or was that earlier? THE MISTS OF TIME ye gods. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiVZ...