#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.

Yep

YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of January 5 2026. Path under the #tori #gates at Fushimi Inari. From a photograph from October 2019. #FushimiInari #Kyoto #Japan #Tori #Gates #Path #HobonichiWeeks

Good to see a Dem concerned about something other than the price of eggs

Make it viral.

Well I mean, if Jim Jordan is okay with it maybe I’m all turned around re: Venezuela!

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of December 29 2025. Squirrel Cuckoo looking for a meal at Agami Island. From a photograph by @mikemeltonphotography . #CostaRica #birds #nature #HobonichiWeeks

#SomethingBeautiful for #SilentSunday #Kokedera #MossTemple at #Saihō-j, #Kyoto #Japan October 2019

Last night we wrapped up Day 4 of “LOTR, The Christmas Rewatchening of LOTR (™)” with the second half of LOTR The Two Towers. LOTR 2T has perhaps the best opening sequence in all of filmdom. Tonight for Day5 we move to the first half of LOTR Return of the King. Still the best movie trilogy ever.

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of December 22 2025. Now that my creative time is my own I’m restarting a new #HobonichiWeeks planner sketchbook. This is the completed line work and color of #MomoKaiju giving us a bit of #sideeye. Now on to the next to continue training hand and eye.

For #BirdOfTheDay #Oustretched- Aoitori the #stellarsJay splayed out and fully extended while anting in our #BellinghamWA backyard. #birds #birdphotography #nature #backyardbirding #amateurbirding

Such a good doggie!

Such a good doggie!

And with the conclusion of the second half of LOTR FOTR, so ends day two of Lord Of The Rings The Christmas Rewatchening(™). Day three will come tomorrow evening with the first half of LOTR 2T. Still the best movie trilogy ever.

#SomethingBeautiful Week of Dec 22 ‘25- with my creative time now my own I’m restarting a new #HobonichiWeeks planner, w/goal of completing 1 drawing per week, posting progress photos along the way. This is the initial line work for what will hopefully be a drawing of #MomoKaiju giving us #sideeye.

Happy Holidays everyone- from The Kaij

Time to get those #Triples or #Trios posted on #3sDay. So heres Mom, Dad, and Baby Crow- #backyardbirding from #bellinghamWA, July 2023 #birds #photography #corvids #crows #Americancrows

Tonyu-kun rockin the mic at nihon no kurisumasu.

White House Struggles to Explain Sharpie Stains on Trump’s Hand

All I want for Christmas is a Godzilla rage room. Oh, and a Godzilla suit

The alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #hidden any bird hiding from camera. Thanks to Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social for holding the fort. #birds #photography #Stellarsjay #Backyardbirding

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there. “I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”

@alan678.bsky.social chose #movement as the theme for the #BirdOfTheDay for Saturday, 6 December 2025. Here's one of our resident Steller’s Jays Aoitori on the move after grabbing a peanut. #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #stellersjay

today the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LookingAtYou - here’s a dark-eyed #junco, judging us from her perch on the rusting metal emergency escape stair behind behind the ruin of the Frasier Building on the campus of the former #Northstatehospital in #SkagitCountyWA

Dance of the Chiba Urban Monorail

Hey @jbordeaux.com did I mention Oona and I drank all our Thanksgiving libations from our authentic vintage ILoF tumblers? Just thought I’d blast that out to you and the world.