Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

What are the odds Trump and his sons shorted the market this morning then went long at 4:58pm EDT?

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek of February 9 2026. Oona’s #Dahlia- “Karma Choc”. Water-based felt pen and pencil on #TomoeRiverPaper. From a September 2022 photograph. #BellinghamWA #Gardens #Flowers #HobonichiWeeks

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #snacking Ichiban the #StellarsJay with a peanut two-fer. Summer 2023. #BackyardBirding #BellinghamWA

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheDay Archive- #SkagitCounty #Heron on the edge of the marsh. From at photo taken on 3/1/26. Water based felt pen sketch on #TomoeRiverPaper #Hobonichiweeks

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying; any bird with it's wings open but not in flight, the Alt Theme is #Eating, any bird with food in it's beak. #corvids #crows #backyardbirding #MFT #Lumix Baby crow showing off for mom and dad above our #BellinghamWA backyard. Early summer, 2023

Hey @peromyscus.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com - kooky inadvertent birding activity while biking home thru the urban neighborhoods between downtown and my home today- riding thru the lettered streets a heron came out from behind the parked cars and almost flew into me. 1/

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Migratory. Here's a few (Canada?) Geese. As I understand it about 50,000 fly over the #SkagitValley fields on their way to #Canada. This is part of a group of about ten thousand with our local volcano Mt Baker in the distance. Taken on 3/1/26. #Lumix 100-300 #MFT

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of March 16 2026. #MomoKaiju sundogging it on the living room floor. Water-based felt pen and prismacolor sketch on #TomoeRiverPaper. From an April 25, 2025 photograph. #Dachshund #HobonichiWeeks

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheDay Archive- #SkagitCounty #Coot in the marsh. From at photo taken on 3/1/26. Water based felt pen sketch on #hobonichiweeks paper

Imma guess the ticketmaster convenience fee for a WS Game 7 private booth today would be more than $40 today.

IFEEL BETTER ALREADY BLUE SKY!!!

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with wings open on the Floor/Water but not flying. Junior #Crow showing off his balancing skills while joining mom and dad on a guy wire. #BackyardBirding #Corvid

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheDay Archive- #SkagitCounty #Swans From at photo taken on 3/1/26. Water based felt pen and prismacolor pencil sketch on #hobonichiweeks paper

So much “winning.” 🙄

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

#SomethingBeautiful #SkagitWA Archive. View toward #AnacortesRefinery across the water at low tide with lone bird.

#SomethingBeautiful #Skagit Wildlife Area #FirIslandFarmUnit A #Heron hunting in her #Reflection. February 28 2026

#SomethingBeautiful #SkagitValley #Geese #Murmuration and #MtBaker March 1, 2026

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek of 2/23/26. #WhatcomFalls #BellinghamWA . Waterbased #FeltPen and #PrismacolorPencil on paper sketch from a #HandHeld #LongExposurePhoto taken 2/15/26. #HobonichiWeeks

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Borb, a bird looking round or pear shaped. This mallard (me thinks) is a birb of the aquatic variety, considering his off-camera reflection in the pond ripples. #WhatcomFallsPark #BellinghamWA February 2016 #bird #photograph #duck #borb

She’s got my vote.

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek of 2/26. Crowie waiting on a peanut. From a 2/15/26 photo. Our #Crow friends follow us down the street greet us in the front yard then head to the backyard for handouts, including this little person Love them all! #BellinghamWA #BackyardBirding HobonichiWeeks

Spread this FAR AND WIDE.

Ichiban the Stellar’s Jay flies off with a hand-fed peanut as if I was going to take it back. As if. Photo from summer 2024 #Birds #StellarsJay #BirdOfTheDay #CollectingFood #BackyardBirds #Photography #BellinghamWA

@robcrank68.bsky.social Rob Crank’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdButts, birds showing their Butts. This is from a visit to #WhatcomFalls yesterday to practice back button focusing. Takes some getting used to. #BellinghamWA #Birds #Ducks #BBF

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of February 9 2026. #HoneyBee gathering nectar from one of Oona’s #Dahlias. From a September 2025 photograph. #BellinghamWA #Gardens #Flowers #Bees #HobonichiWeeks

Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Portrait , a portrait capture of any #bird #photography This is a portrait of a Japanese temple #Crow looking every bit the part of #Yatagarasu the mythical crow and guiding god in Shinto mythology. Taken in #Kyoto, October 2029

The Trump administration, back turned and eyes averted from the truth about Epstein.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WaterBirds, any bird that lives in or get's it food from water, the Alt theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue on it. Here's a flock of #BlueHerons on the #PadillaBay #WA mudflats at high tide.

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of February 2 2026. Pink banners hung over a downtown alley. From an October 2025 photograph. #BellinghamWA #alley #HobonichiWeeks

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of January 26 2026. #MomoKaiju dreams of playing with the #Kitsune under the #ToriGates at Fushimi Inari. From two photographs from October 2019. #FushimiInari #Kyoto #Japan #Inari #Dachshund #HobonichiWeeks

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

Here’s my wife’s first and most favorite squirrel love- Papichulo Greyborne, of the Bellingham Washington Greybornes-

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of January 19 2026. Brahminy starling (Sturnus pagodarum), from a photo by Dr Basawant Gannigeri Hubballi @drbgaclassgmail.com8 , #Karnataka, #India #HobonichiWeeks. Apologies Dr, they can’t all be winners ;)

Wow that’s wild anyway the craziest story I heard out of Minneapolis was about a nurse trying to help a woman and getting shot to death and also a five year old was used as bait and also ICE shot a woman in the face and

Alex Pretti was a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. He “always stood for people and human rights, helping fellow citizens and just being a good citizen of society and the communities that he lived in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact." -Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, the 37 year old nurse who ICE fatally shot in Minneapolis today

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.

Heart breaking

#BirdoftheDay #Bowed #SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of January 12 2026. Ichiban the #StellersJay in the lilacs. From the attached photograph taken May 2023. #BellinghamWA #birds #BackyardBirding #HobonichiWeeks

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of January 12 2026. Ichiban the #StellersJay in the lilacs. From a photograph taken May 2023. #BellinghamWA #birds #BackyardBirding #HobonichiWeeks

Hey Joel! Nice beanie plates your printing! I was just going thru an old sketch book and found sketches of Finn from December 2021. Man time flies. I hope they bring back good memories-

This. Schumer and Jeffries can go pound sand.