“What truly surprised us was the active "participation" of wildlife … We could never tell whether they disapproved of our setup or simply had better ideas, but their curiosity and meddling gave us some of the most memorable and amusing moments of the project.” HT @moreorloess.bsky.social

So cool. This airport sequence in Secret Agent was actually filmed in the Recife bus station, on a spot I've walked so many times.

“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.” - Jane Goodall

Sign on the door of my kid’s Minneapolis elementary school today.

Whoever invented this animal deserves an award.

2024 Juno Awards: Acceptance Speech (Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year) www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ra... “We are all creators, we are all meant to be free.”

“There is a quality of eternal optimism here … The arrival of the plane, for instance, will always be tomorrow, and seven successive tomorrows with no plane do not abate the optimism one bit. It will arrive tomorrow. And the same with the sunshine.” www.williambritchie.com/letter-press...

A rainy, grey day, dampening my spirits. “Fresh air will rouse me,” I tell my comfy chair. Every cloud has a silver lining — there’s shimmer out there somewhere. And there it is: beads of light on moss, forming fairytale fiefdoms. Now only my clothes are damp — my spirits lifted #ClothOfNature #Moss

May the four winds blow you safely home. What a gift of a life. Love to everyone in this crazy and beautiful universal family.

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA07...

“The village of Kitkatla existed prior to the pyramids of Egypt and continues today … [These works] are symbolic of no longer running from the past, but embracing it and being in the here and now. And so it is to move from Winter into Spring.” royhenryvickers.com/products/kit...

She had stuffed animals in her glove box.

Happy New Year, this frosted gorse on the South Downs is still blooming. May you bloom also. #TinyJoys

Wonderful organisation with first rate platform and resources. I've had a great experience teaching and mentoring upcoming writers with them.

Icy ice ice on the Napu'saqnuk (st. Marys river)

“It may be that a great love is shown through listening to another’s story. It may be that a greater love still is shown through telling another’s story. A different kind of love arises when merging another’s story with one’s own.” theadroitjournal.org/2025/12/01/a... HT @nonsuchbook.bsky.social

“The story isn’t over, either. Today, there are more than 42,000 miles of multiuse trails nationwide, and the momentum to connect these trails into connected networks that make it safer and easier to walk and bike is strong, with hundreds of projects [in] every single state ..” tinyurl.com/anw8yc3p

“In September, Elio Della Ferrera was looking for deer and vultures in Stelvio National Park, near the Swiss-Italian border, when he noticed a rock face riddled with unusual depressions through his binoculars.” news.artnet.com/art-world/di...

Late afternoon landscape with clearing skies after a drizzly morning, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson, Arizona.

Resilience before the word even existed! 🤍 Somewhere in the Alps, 8,200 years ago, a larch tree was injured and healed. Growth rings draw it 🖌️

Northern end of Lake Winnipeg, November 17 (left) and yesterday (right). Sentinel 2 images.

This collection of 45 Adapters reminds me of the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group's Database of Synthetic Taxonomy (plastic bread bag clips) www.horg.com/horg/

“Everything is about images, images that exist inside Britta’s head, slowly travelling down the white fabric of her embroidery. She treasures her images. She worries they will disappear.” www.swedishlapland.com/stories/brit...

“Music … has worked as a companion, as proof that imagination persists even when everything else feels unstable. The albums that mattered most to me this year … helped me stay present and reminded me that other people are building from fragments, too. This is art as survival strategy.”

"I don’t know how Stewart ["Little Moments in a Big Universe"] creates this art. I just know that I want more of it ... of all the science fiction ... books on the list today, this is undeniably the most beautiful of them all ... The kind of book I may just keep for myself, it’s just that great."

🧵 Looking for info on Sommarøy, 🇳🇴, and came upon this delightful travelogue. The Atlantic has a fun article on Sommarøy, and the arctic community that freed itself from modern timekeeping. Schools (et. al.) open at will and according to the solar cycle. Haven't found a gift copy of article yet.

Heed, heed, heed:

"A breeze enters the field and thousands of grass tips scribble up and down as if they are signing their names on the wind. Their wild movement is a testament to how they are rooted. This triumph of allowance teaches me something I cannot fully grasp."

"In Helmsley, history whispers through castle ruins, and nature cradles the soul on the edge of the moors—a place where the past and the present dance together in perfect harmony."

Dreaming about my next trip to the #canadianrockies #banff #jasper #explorecanada #canada #alberta #adventure #hiking #nature #landscape #wanderlust #mountains #landscapephotography

Two recent trendsetting studies on degrowth ... open source in Lancet. doi.org/10.1016/j.la... doi.org/10.1016/S254... Key: "Citizen support not an obstacle." Getting short shrift in US, perhaps due to a recent distraction of elites with so-called "abundance." HT @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social

“Solar is no longer just cheap daytime electricity, now it’s anytime dispatchable electricity,” said Rangelova. “This is a game-changer for countries with fast-growing demand and strong solar resources.”

Just watched a very interesting video about these fish last month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vkv...

Nominated for an Oscar (1964), the NFB documentary about Kenojuak and the print “Arrival of the Sun” is a masterpiece and a great work of art (in any genre). Her declaration below is captivating and understated in my view!

“More and more writers in the sciences … are pushing back against the culture of “objective, unfeeling” observation and advocating for an integrated approach to learning and knowing. If I want to write truly and honestly about what I see and what I know, how I feel has to be part of that.”

This is Saint he’s quite fond of just sitting, staring thinking and being an amazing companion @cats @pets

A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) on rose coloured rock. Northwest Territorie, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Love this! “Cloud Forest 🤍” I don’t speak German, but running alt text through translator was very rewarding and enjoyable!

“One in four cowboys were Black, even though in the late 19th century they made up a much smaller segment of the U.S. population, according to research by historian Bruce Glasrud.”

Man, the live cam on Midway Atoll (Kuaihelani) is mindblowing right now if you're into Laysan albatrosses. You likely heard that Wisdom, at ~75 years old, returned to the nesting site in late November. Her mate showed up as well. 1/

"The ice and air dates to the Miocene age (23 million to 5.3 million years ago), when Earth was much warmer, sea levels were higher and the planet was filled with now-extinct creatures, including saber-toothed cats, okapi-like giraffes, Arctic rhinos and the first mammoths."

Can’t resist but to rewatch the storm scene in the movie Océans, shot in the Iroise Sea (home!) during the 2008 gale.

Here are 30 seconds of calm: pancake ice drifting down river, from the perspective of the N. Saskatchewan River’s north bank in Edmonton.

“Time makes us imagine more, even as we forget the history we’re trying to invoke. It’s easy to project our fantasies onto a past that we can’t quite remember. The ad is seductive but transparent. We don’t believe the copy, but appreciate its innocence.”

75 years ago this week, one of the benchmark storms of the 20th century in the US, the Great Appalachian Storm. (...and my all-time favorite weather map)

Not to be missed: “Our Common Nature.” Deeply felt 7 part podcast featuring Yo-Yo Ma and collaborations with land, animals, storytellers, and natural/cultural communities that nurture and sustain us and bring reciprocal responsibilities, healing, and joy. www.yo-yoma.com/our-common-n... 1/2

We've had lots & lots & lots of rain lately. (I love rain, but still..) I'm reminding myself how gorgeous Sitka is in the sun.

Hope's Return "... I held your voice Infinite in the night air Go towards what is real The moon is no God of fear When I read your words I felt the ringing of the world Floating surrender I need walks long enough To free me from my mind (terrains of fire) A sense of horizon." - Julie Byrne

“… we are on the edge of the end of the world. But it also situates us within a window of possibility. The moment we find ourselves in is a moment of twilight, the suspension between two worlds, that presents a window, a moment wherein something extraordinary could possibly transpire.”

“On that upper section of the river, the land is so freshly sculpted it feels like you’re floating through the Pleistocene. You half expect to see a wooly mammoth around each bend.”