A new addition to my “birds on the telephone pole” collection. Crows, scrub jays, mockingbirds, and hawks perch here; woodpeckers love climbing the pole. Mourning doves often perch on the wires. But this is the first I've seen one on the pole. #BackyardBirds #MourningDove #Birds #BirdPhotography

One proud bird. #BackyardBirds #AmericanCrow #Crow #Birds #BirdPhotography

A little collective “me time” for the mourning doves after our first rain. #BackyardBirds #Birds #BirdPhotography #MourningDove #Autumn

My first #Honeybee of 2025! One of dozens on the #Rosemary this morning after the storm. I'm sure they've been out there awhile; I've just been sulking too much to get out and take pictures. #BloomScrolling #Pollinators #Flowers

Jack and Jill survey their domain. This is the third year they've taken over the three adjacent back yards on our corner, from which I infer their nest has to be nearby, perhaps even in this old oak tree. #BackyardBirds #ScrubJay #Birds #BirdPhotography

For those who celebrate. 🙂

A rather scruffy but also quite determined nasturtium, which randomly showed up in a coconut-husk planter that I'd kinda forgotten about. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Nasturtium

Another of my wife's plants on the front porch that seems happy to bloom in winter. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography

My wife's geranium looks very nice right now. 🙂 She has many plants on the front porch, but this is the only one blooming. #BloomScrolling #Geranium #Flowers #FlowerPhotography

Yuletide Camelia, spied in my brother-in-law's front yard on New Years Day. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Camelia

I love climbing nasturtium, but they grow like weeds which means I really need to keep them neat so the yard guy doesn't rip them out. #BloomScrolling #Nasturtium #Flowers #FlowerPhotography

Another sign of things to come, although this double hibiscus should be fully open in a day or two. (The roses won't start blooming for another three months, if history holds.) #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Hibiscus #DoubleHibiscus

There is a tradition that narcissus blooming before New Year's Day indicates good luck for that year. Ours has been blooming earlier and earlier every year, which I don't think is what they meant. But the flowers still make me happy when they bloom. #BloomScrolling #Narcissus #Flowers

The first sign of Things to Come: Budding branches on one of my rose bushes. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Roses

Cabbage white butterfly on my wife's gerberas. Late fall. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Butterflies #Pollinators

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Top of the morning, BlueSky folks. Just checking out the feed, looking around, and checking the threat landscape. Much like this oak titmouse. 🙂 #BackyardBirds