Looks like maple seeds are tasty. #nature #squirrelsunday

Great blue heron looking for breakfast #birds #nature

Our cat-faced spider neighbor resting up after morning web repairs. You can't see the web here, but it's huge and beautifully made. #spiders #nature

We'll miss her. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/c...

Our cat-faced spider neighbor doing morning repairs #spiders #nature

Late-season rose for your Monday #bloomscrolling

Poor resolution shot of a Townsend's solitaire making its trademark squeaky hinge sound #birds #nature

Steller's jay hits paydirt at the visitor center #birds #nature

Working that pollen at the end of rose season #bloomscrolling #beescrolling .

The asters are opening. I can't bring myself to cut any for a bouquet - the bees are so glad to see them. #bloomscrolling

Wild turkey time! #birds

Forward-facing raptors it is! #birds

Almost full #moon tonight

Revisiting this cutie for #VultureAwarenessDay - wonderful birds!

Dahlias from last month near me. i wish these could bloom all year. #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling #floralfriday #nature

Sulfur flowers: Sunshine on stems for #yellowthurs #bloomscrolling #coloraday

Sunflowers - a goldfinch favorite! #birds #nature

atlanta peaches, painted by elsie e. lower, 1910

Just a daisy #bloomscrolling #nature

These small dinosaurs dropped by the neighborhood today. #wildturkeys #birds

American goldfinch having breakfast this morning #birds

Here's who made my hiking buddy jump a foot high as it zipped across the trail #gartersnake #herps

They're the best

Gotta love a little lily glory #bloomscrolling

Poppy for the weekend #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling

Just an eagle starting its morning commute #birds #nature

Poppy for #RedWed #bloomscrolling

Happy calendulas #bloomscrolling

Love in a mist #bloomscrolling

grey dollar strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1916

Good morning from the dahlias! #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling

Sunshine on a stem #daisies #nature #bloomscrolling

Gladiolus in bloom 🩷 #bloomscrolling #nature #gardening

Seen around town: Take your chin rests where you can find them. #dogs

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

ben davis apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

The Catholic Church is authorizing parishioners to indefinitely skip Mass out of fear of ICE raids😕

Grace from Mexico to Texas. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tossing a favorite view from a recent hike up here to cheer myself up. #nature

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

The snowballs of summer are here! #bloomscrolling #nature #hydrangea

This is so fascinating. There is also documentation of Indigenous people and orcas cooperating together to hunt baleen whales.

We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.

Loving this later-blooming rose. #bloomscrolling #macromonday #nature

Poorly taken picture of roosting turkey vultures warming up for the day #birds #birding #wildlife

A daylily for the morning #bloomscrolling

Hollyhock time! #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling

Beauty

Always happy to see some penstemon blooming along the trail. #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #wildflowers

The 10th person to die in ICE custody this year and the 4th in Florida alone. Horrifying. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...