#StandWithUkraine 45.2: "You don't have the cards." Zelensky: "I'm not playing cards. This is serious."

Can't get enough of Monica Wood's splendid writing! Currently reading The One in a Million Boy. 💙📚

Praising the courage of Senator Angus King and Governor Janet Mills these last few days. Following a tradition of Republican and Democrat leaders in this state standing up for democracy. Looking forward to leaders of other states coming forward. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-2...

Thank you, Governor Mills, for having the courage to stand up. #RuleOfLaw #StatesRights www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

Narramissic mixer - mallards and goldeneyes find open water #Birding #Maine #NaturePhotography

💙📚 Starting this collection of essays first published in Al Jazeera "that reflect on how the [first] Trump presidency was the inevitable result of the realities first captured in Kendzior's writing."

A small flock of robin visitors. Not a harbinger of spring but still a nice surprise in our backyard. #birds #photography #Maine #backyardbirding

This visitor in our big pine yesterday #mainebirds #woodpeckers #backyardbirding

🦉 Mister and Missus looking surprisingly unperturbed by the below zero temperature this morning.

💙📚 I hope I've got this right as my first post. Looking forward to finding what others are reading! At present, I've just started a mystery, The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny, a timely theme..

A woman of faith and courage. A gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

Water ballet at it's finest on the Penobscot River this morning.

Lovely hike yesterday at Sears Island with friend Margaret and her pups.

"Inside the river there is an unfinishable story" -- Mary Oliver. The river near our camp is closing up -- again. Yet the Goldeneyes, a very large raft of them, continue showing their arctic pluck.

First post. Going with keeps me going.