Just askin' It now seems to be part of our national narrative that you fight with relatives over politics during Thanksgiving dinner. I wonder what percentage of US households fight over politics during Thanksgiving dinner?

This is positively Orwellian--a new bitumen pipeline as part of a net-zero plan? It's like arsenic is good for you when combined with B-vitamins. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Bellingham in the news...sigh www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/26/...

Have you visited the research farm at Restinclieres north of Montpellier? I can connect you with the lead researcher there to discuss this tree system and also vines w/ PV solar: for @mongabay.com we hired a reporter to talk about #agrivoltaics with him recently too, because he’s also expert on that

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 331: Giving thanks today for the third kingdom:

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 330 (finally caught up after three days of jet lag and day confusion): No roses in almost December, but I did find a fungal rosette:

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Belated day 329: Herons' nests at Post Point are empty now, but ready for reoccupation in February:

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Belated day 327: Birches are one of the last trees to drop their leaves in the fall:

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Belated day 325: Hips of Nootka Rose appear when the leaves fall off, red before they turn black and inconspicuous again:

Leave aside the GHG for a minute; coking is AWFUL for the air. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

"the study results are “all over the map,”...“Some say that (dairy) doesn’t harm or help you, some say that it might harm you a little bit, and some say it’s actually very helpful.” Back to the original Pollan: "Eat food, not too much, mostly [not all] plants. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...

Man the politics are complicated. Extreme fossil fuel boosters and extreme climate worriers (among whom I count myself) are united in opposition to CCS. www.eenews.net/articles/rep...

A couple of reactions: 1) This may be an illustration of how the market rules...solar power is now so cheap that Trump can't stop it. 2) The EIA is apparently still an independent agency, or it wouldn't publish this. How long? www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 328 Salmonberry (Rubus parvifolium) already shows next spring’s buds among the last fall leaves.

Fantastic piece about the problem behind just about every other problem in today’s world. How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 326 Light between rains in mid-late autumn.

#Bellingham #Forests. 2025, day 324: A great grove.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, day 323: In the fall, the third kingdom pops up in random places, as if it were emerging from a hidden fourth dimension.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 322. Ocean Spray (Holodiscus discolor) certainly is discolored on the fall, but the seeds remaining on the clusters spell F O O D to a flock of hungry bushtits.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, day 321: Cattails in Scudder's Pond are definitely on their way out:

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 320 or 321, depending on where you are... Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus) leaves turn a strange pale shade of lemon-lime before they fall.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 319 or 320, depending on where you are. We often overlook it, but Hazel (Corylus) is another native tree/shrub that turns fall color.

Dreary if badly needed November rain has set in here in the #PacificNorthwest. It has its charms, but does kinda squelch hiking and gardening (for me, anyhow). Here's a reminder that summer is just around the corner😊 🌱 #wildlife #habitat #gardening

Did you know corals time their spawning perfectly with a particular moon phase? They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning. Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, day 318 or 319 (Depending on where you are; I’m posting remotely from Taipei). Was going to post my own pics of this, but @bbharrell.bsky.social’s are better.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 317: Red currant (Ribes sanguineum) has one of the shortest dormant periods of any deciduous shrub or tree around here. Leaves still hanging on, and they'll be one of the first to leaf and flower in the spring.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 316: Autumn forest on Galbraith Mountain, from Samish Hill, with Kulshan (Mt. Baker) peeking in the distance.

Something to ponder: "What I fear is that people will come to think of language as only what machines can translate, forgetting everything outside that frame. If technology promises to end the language barrier, we should ask: What else will it erase?" www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 315: Forest paths get slick with maple leaves this time of year. By spring, they'll pretty much be soil:

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 314: Tall fall cottonwoods.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 313: Last glory of Japanese maple Seiryu 青龍 as leaves start to drop. Last chance to ask why it isn't 紅龍。

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 312: Bellingham's urban forests with Canadian Coast Range mountains in the background.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 310 Our Japanese Maple Seiryu 青龍 At the height of its glory (a few days ago)

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 309: Fall is the season of the Third Kingdom. This delicate "snowball" was growing on the sawed-off end of a downed tree that had fallen across a trail.

This is not about saving the planet. It's about saving the oil and gas industry. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 308: Fall rushes at Lake Padden

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 308 For the first time, our Mountain Maple/Douglas Maple (Acer glabrum) has made a nice fall show.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 307: Biggest Amanitas I've ever seen. About 6-9 inches across. Not as cute as the usual toadstool ones.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 306: Big rains filled Cemetery Creek:

Brown pelicans Flying V formation.

this must be so infuriating for the beaver

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 305: Season's leafings:

The problem with Democrats in the Biden era wasn’t the content of the domestic policies, it was the total failure to sell them and to understand, manage, and master the media environment, especially social media.

I'm a sucker for cool ideas. If we *need* data centers (questionable), Rewiring America has a cool idea: the data centers can fulfill their power needs faster and no more expensively by buying families heat pumps to replace resistance heating. www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...

So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right

Exactly! Who's going to rake the forests now?

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 304: Autumn reflections: Turning deciduous trees rim Lake Padden, standing out against dark conifer backgrounds, doubled up on a very still day.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 303: Not sure what variety of Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) this is, or whose yard it's in, but it's seasonally appropriate, and it's appropriate to all seasons to have more trees and less lawn.

Wow! And there is even better to come.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 302: Shore pine (Pinus contorta contorta) is another carpet-laying conifer.