On one hand, I don't enjoy it when a large fly has gotten into the house - on the other hand, this is gonna entertain the cats for the next solid hour

These cottage cheese commercials have gone too far I refuse to believe people are actually putting that shit in smoothies

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

I'm just going to keep moonscrolling for the rest of the day, y'all. These photos from the #Artemis II lunar flyby are just incredible. You can see/download them all from NASA's gallery here - www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

First look at the Moon and Earth together! 4 people on the left, 8.3 billion people on the right 🌎

Overall the Moon is about as dark as an average asphalt driveway, the mare -- the dark patches you see on it -- as dark as freshly-repaved asphalt

I am seriously enjoying sitting here watching this live view of the other side of this moon getting to be one of the very first humans who thinks Hertzsprung basin kinda looks like a kid's drawing of Shrek

If you're following along with the #Artemis moon flyby, they have been flashing this up on the screen for reference but I also found a handy resource online - a USGS map of both sides of the moon with lots of features labeled: pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2769/i...

I, personally, would like to be on the dark side of the Moon too.

Took my parents on a little wildflower walk yesterday and Jonathan got this stunner of a blooming mayapple

It’s pretty fun to look at the full moon and know there are four people headed there right now

My parents were at our house last night when we heard this news and all got super sad so this morning I got to make and send my mom this

Who brings the Easter eggs? At various times & places these have been: - hare - rabbit - fox - cuckoo - stork - flying church bells - crane - lark - 'heavenly hen' - 'the red-egg bird' - Paschalia the Easter Spirit - flying old man - St Nicholas - God

The problem is that people assume that the Easter traditions they see today have been there since the start, so they focus on 'eggs and bunnies' and think 'ooh must be surviving pagan fertility symbols' instead of tracing the actual history of the customs involved

Eggs were relevant to Easter because they were banned during Lent. This is why you use them all up making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, and then make a big deal of them when Lent ends, e.g. decorating them, hiding them for kids to find, and of course making your traditional Easter Tansy

The Easter Hare was only one of a remarkable collection of egg-bringing entities including the Easter Fox, the Easter Stork, the Easter Cuckoo, the Flying Church Bells, and the Old Belgian Man Who Flew To Rome To Get Eggs From The Pope. He didn't even become a rabbit until he was exported to America

'but what do eggs and rabbits have to do with Jesus' is as historically oblivious a comment as 'what does a bloke riding around on a herring have to do with Jesus' They both have to do with Lent and the observation of Lent

As we get closer to the weekend, woke up thinking about the Easter Fox and this excellent thread

Why why why does every item procter & gamble makes have to be infused with migraine-inducing levels of gain scent

Happy foreverversary to Wren and Fern, the sweet sisters we adopted four years ago today! Here’s the pic that sealed the deal - back when they were still called Taco and Chili

Y'all this book fucked me up in the best way and I REALLY recommend it

don't sleep on this!! or you'll █████ it

Okay I had heard a northern flicker has an extremely long, sticky, barbed tongue (good for lapping up insects and their favorite food, ants) but look how long it is!!!

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

Fern is so mad I gave her flea medication this morning that she commandeered this clean towel I was trying to fold and is now blockading any effort to strip the bed for clean sheet Friday

Holy shit this was only two months ago. Too much has been happening

Green Heron... an angle I never expected to see let alone photograph! Note the dragonfly at top of frame. 😀 #birds #photography

Oh no!!! #SaveDenby! A few years ago I started replacing my mismatched hand-me-downs with gorgeous plates, bowls, and mugs from Denby Pottery that I love so so much. Now their 200+ year business is in danger due to rising energy costs. You can support them during their spring sale, happening now!

🌹 lil sweet betsy 🌿 Trillium cuneatum #nativeplants #ecoregion71

Not gonna lie, every time I hear a motorcycle go down the street I look outside to see if it's Reacher (yes I know I live in East Nashville and not Brentwood)

Omg I forgot the potato is visible on google street view! Here he is, taking his sweet time and thinking about turning around to head home

Fun news - and yes, it's *that* Stephen Colbert!

I simply cannot give this person any more money, or ratings, or attention - because this is where the Harry Potter profits are going, and this is what they're funding.

There's this little white and brown senior pup that lives down the street - I call him the potato - and he's got one of those dads that clearly lets him call the shots on his walk, going at his own pace, deciding when to go home, and almost every day the turnaround point is the end of our driveway 🥰

Gumby's full name is Gumby Gumba

This is how this type of sign should always be used, churches included

Hahahaha FAFO Brentwood edition is a fun way to learn that Reacher lives here in middle TN

Read and loved Gideon the Ninth early last year but it took me a few tries to get into Harrow the Ninth - finally finished it this weekend. Loved it as much as you can love a book where you have absolutely no effing idea what’s going on for like the first 65% of it - I am both confused and delighted

This is just an incredible video of a pyroclastic flow - plus the soundtrack is 10+ minutes of the dawn chorus in East Java, Indonesia which makes it all the more mesmerizing

Also met a lovely turkey vulture today

Was so excited to see a zebra swallowtail on our hike today, and then when we doubled back down the same part of the trail I saw THREE

We’re doing a Games of Thrones rewatch and is it me or are there prairie warblers just everywhere in Westeros

Also met a lovely turkey vulture today

Was so excited to see a zebra swallowtail on our hike today, and then when we doubled back down the same part of the trail I saw THREE

Okay how hot did it actually get today because my backpack thermometer thinks we hit a pocket of 101 degrees on the hottest part of our hike

Canada lynx kitten

Slime mold Physarum rubiginosum. NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 4cm, top to bottom. #myxomycetes #fungifriends