First tiny tomato and banana pepper and the cukes are blooming. 🌱 #gardening #vegetables #plants

Rain pattering on the roof. #ctwx

Move on. Nothing to see here.😄

An Eastern Bluebird posing for the photo • #birds #naturephotography #photography #birdphotography

On her second birthday let’s all watch this video of Bisou and her litter from June 2024. She is the one in the corner who gets tangled up. 🥹🎉

BISOU IS 2! Happy birthday, Bisou! 🎉🥳🎈

Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), "On Lake George," signed “MOSES”, oil on masonite, 13" x 16", painted in 1949, sold for $60,960 (est. $30,000/50,000) at Christie's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #art #artist #folkart #Moses #LakeGeorge #grandmamoses #grandma

Small and soft. known as the “unscented dendrobium” but it has a huge fragrance. It smells delicious, like star jasmine mixed with fruit. 📸 mine #flowers #orchids #bloomscroll #nature

My latest Communicator Award of Distinction affirms my passion for southwestern Connecticut climate and weather. I am grateful for the opportunity to provide television, radio, and online weather forecast information for more than 40 years.

Happy world migratory bird day fellow Bluesky #birders!

MV Hondius nears Canary Islands #Hantavirus

Some people go into gardens to escape the world. I think I went into one to finally slow down enough to feel part of it.

For those going to townwide tag sale in Portland, CT—there’s much to see along the way. Brownstone details, history, architecture. Details on the event: portlandhistsoc.com

The Ospreys are back. They have an amazing trip.

World Migratory Bird Day.

Storybook house.

A fine throughstone stile above Troutbeck for #StileSaturday

The Open Door

JazzWax: So, did Little Richard kill jazz? Little Richard: Kill jazz? Oh no, no, no. I don’t believe rock ‘n’ roll could kill jazz…Nothing can kill jazz. Jazz is an original…Real rock ‘n’ roll musicians love jazz. A real musician loves all types of music.

Greg Mort (American Artist, born 1952) "Across the Light Years", 2015. Oil on Board, 32 × 24 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

A Baltimore oriole has been singing a lot this week in trees next to Montrose Harbor.

David Attenborough lying next to a leg bone of Patagotitan, from the documentary “Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur”. Happy 100th birthday, Sir David! 🎂 #FossilFriday

The size of that forepaw.

#FossilFriday Jurassic sponges in the stone cladding of German Treuchtlingen Formation at the Takasaki Art Gallery in Japan.

MILF #FossilFriday

#streamlarking #devilstoenail #FossilFriday

Zelensky has issued a presidential decree “allowing” Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. The decree provides exact coordinates of the Red Square that shall be excluded from the list of Ukrainian strike targets. Phenomenal power play.

Stunning Spirals in Ballybunion @ballybunionmoya 300 million year old Goniatite fossils in limestone. County Kerry, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

“Attenborough’s connection with nature came early, forged in no small part through an insatiable fascination with #fossils – including his childhood joy at discovering an ammonite in the Leicestershire countryside. “He went on to study geology and zoology at Cambridge University…”

From US strikes…. Explosion heard in Iran's Sirik, near Strait of Hormuz, reasons unknown. - Mehr

There’s your law of precedents; there’s your utility of traditions; there’s the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs

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Sunset sky with haw blossom. Pale pink under the clouds

This

Tennessee: a picture says a 1,000 words. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Time for 🛏️ #sunset

Excellent. #publichealth

the childless cat lady rhetoric is deeply alienating. some of us are childless dog ladies.

but muh 1 page document *IRAN FORCES EXCHANGED FIRE WITH ENEMY NEAR BANDAR ABBAS: FARS

Florrie, rescue dog section, fun dog show. Duncombe Park Country Fair.

dog update: still ridiculous

I’m a cat person by a wide margin, but I really like the neighbor’s dog, Bailey. Bailey is a good dog.

“Since 1979, the IRE Awards have recognized outstanding watchdog journalism.”

Here are a couple more birds flying in front of the sun right before sunset. 🪶

David Attenborough is 100 tomorrow. The nicest celeb I’ve ever interviewed.

The Fisherman by Jean-Louis Forian

“In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is—as the light called human life is—at its coming and its going.” —Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities