Sunflowers!

Sassafras leaves ...

Bullfrog of the day! Friday, 14 Nov 2025

Vietnam, on my April 1994 trip with a two retired Army officers and several former Marines - we were soon headed North on the Reunification Express (train) to Da Nang (then by bus to Hue) A topiary on the rooftop garden of the Rex Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City née Saigon Surreal

Looking for one thing I ean across another thing ...

"This is better than an email!" ⏩️ in honor of all the federal workers & contractors who can get back to work ... now it is time for our alleged legislative branch to fix healthcare premiums.

13 November 1983 was the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial I visited the Wall on many Memorial and Veterans Days - in day and at night. I met veterans who I was able to help later - using a database of the Wall before it was readily available online - to connect events w/ names. 1/2

💯 bonus bullfrog of the month! You deserve it. November 2025 needs all the love it can get ...

Note: Festive Retail Ambience is manipulation aimed at your bank account.

Bullfrog of the day soaking in a Spring redbud tree blossom aurora! Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

"Open Heart" #Poem (c) constance lee menefee

Me wrangling a water pump at the Missouri farm of the Grandparents Menefee ...

Downy Woodpecker male checking for tiny green inch worms (or 25.4 mm worms if you insist on metric) ...

Downy Woodpecker probably thinking about chasing another Downy 🪶

Young Downy Woodpecker learning to hang on the tree and look for parent ... 🪶

Heart of a Soldier - constance lee menefee @fobhaiku.bsky.social

Cooper's Hawk juvenile demonstrating how to guard your lunch by mantling and screaming 🪶🌿

Today in secrets of plant-insect relations - hackberry trees & one of their galls 🌿

Elegant bullfrog of the day! Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025

The Dumpster is ignorant & delusional.

Veterans Day 2025 "Heart of a Soldier" (c) constance lee menefee

Bullfrog of the day! Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025

Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter youtu.be/8uirXFig0IQ

A few years ago, sweetgum tree blasting lots of red ...

Mute Swans with feet in - well - not footy positions ... 🌿🪶

Cypress knees!

Bullfrog of the day! Monday, 10 Nov 2025

Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis)! At first I thought I found a big, fuzzy gall. But it was a wonderful little snoozing bat! (May 2021)

Sycamore leaves ...

Bullfrog × 4 of the day! Sunday, 9 Nov 2025

Pearl crescent butterflies over the years ... #Invert

Grasses reflecting ... yesterday's walk at Spring Grove Cemetery - 6 Nov 2025 Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II Olympus 12-100mm F4 IS PRO

Cedar-apple rust (dried and fresh teliohorns) on juniper About rusts: forestpathology.org/rusts/

Bullfrog of the day! Saturday, 8 Nov 2025

Reflection - yesterday's walk at Spring Grove Cemetery Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II Olympus 12-100mm F4 IS PRO I am trying to use some lenses that I have, but not explored in a systematic fashion. (Lenses I could afford to buy before I lost my federal contractor job in 2017.) Brain development.

Syncing ALL your devices, loading them with Artificial Intelligence crapola (which is unsolictingly helpful* among its other faults) and having ALL OF IT on some version of A Cloud is clearly how we are all being herded by tech bro Border Collies. *Clippy w/a distended ego

No more Farmer's Almanac after 2026 edition 💔

Bullfrogs of the day!* Friday, 7 Nov 2025 *No bullfrogs were injured for this daily extravaganza - their images were digitally removed from photographs I took in ponds at #SpringGroveCemetery in Cincinnati 😃💚

Three more seconds of sitting here = not going out with my camera. I have threatened myself with the weather forecast - stuff out of the sky & cold weather. OK - bye.

Is it my imagination or have NPR posts gotten click-baity and increasingly banal? 😵‍💫

True story: I sat down on the tussocky tundra North of the Brooks Range in Alaska - and flushed a Ptarmigan and her chicks! They meandered on their way once it was established that I was not moving.

Sketchy self-portrait from years ago ... (yep, CLM #PenAndInk Archives)

Bullfrog of the day! Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

Catalpa bark ...

Tonight's beaver moon #Cincinnati

Last set of four photographs (for 20 Aug 2025) displayed at my "Close to Home" 2024 exhibit (8x10 metal prints)

Four more photographs displayed at my "Close to Home" 2024 exhibit (8x10 metal prints)

From my Summer 2024 exhibit (Close to Home) ...

Four photographs displayed at my "Close to Home" 2024 exhibit (8x10 metal prints)