Steam. (There's also a whole story digression about the morning I shot this, that I'll branch out in the comments.)

Got a bunch of errands done before lunchtime today. Weird.

This felt threatening. #PPortfolioOnBSky 231

About a week before I give, for the first time since 2018, a winter workshop at Mono Lake, I've missed this a *lot*. Props to the MLC for their help in making this possible. (Yeah, there's still a space or two left last I heard.)

Side view of some terraces makes for some more rectangular patterns. #PPortfolioOnBSky 230

It was admittedly interesting being a cyborg for a couple days, but I'm glad to be past it, the cat really loved trying to get at the wiring.

This snag on these bits of thermal limestone..... #PPortfolioOnBSky 229

Terrace patterns in limestone from thermal features in Yellowstone.

If you were elected to office of some sort in the US, had to swear an oath of office on a book, what book would you pick? WRONG ANSWERS ONLY.

The thermal features at Yellowstone are just consistently amazing. #PPortfolioOnBSky 227

Pretty interesting spot for the tree to root. #PPortfolioOnBSky 226

Today's TEDs talk (don't ask): "Effin magnetic nail polish, how do they work?"

Warm and cool. #PPortfolioOnBSky 222

High Quality version of the 60 Minutes segment on the CECOT that was cut but has now been leaked: www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

Ok who archived it

Oh wow. It's been a couple years since my last ocular migraine. (I'll be fine, no worries. Thanks, 25 years or so ago, to the person who for no reason I remember explained to me what the visuals of OMs look like a few days before my first, I might've freaked out otherwise.)

Yellowstone river canyon as promised. #PPortfolioOnBSky 221

TFW you hit just the right moment of autumn. #PPortfolioOnBSky 219

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MRI machines, how do they work? (Rhetorical.)

I liked the twisty. :) #PPortfolioOnBSky 217

I sometimes feel bad for all the people who went to law school, only to have the whole idea invalidated.

I was really taken by the alkaline white framing the brown and blue. #PPortfolioOnBSky 216

I had reason to dig up this ancient video again tonight, which never fails to make me lolsob. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYW4... (Pretty sure you had to have been there then for it to really have an effect.) TIL the presenter is an actor named Steve Tom, and a very belated bravo to him.

More surreal Yellowstone. #PPortfolioOnBSky 215

Fire and Sky. I'd forgotten how much I liked this one. #PPortfolioOnBSky 214

Sometimes the mist forms just where you need it. (And sometimes you have to wait for that a while, of course.) #PPortfolioOnBSky 212

OK, gotta admit. Surprised but shouldn't have been that the House vote might end up near unanimous. My error. (currently 407 yea, 1 nay, 25 nv)

The thermal landscapes are so surreal..... #PPortfolioOnBSky 210

[The 15-year-old "Louvre detective"] said that he typically reserves his fedora for weekends, holidays, museum visits and special occasions. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w... I mean, we needed to know, eh?

I guess you could call that stone, and almost yellow. (It's a spring in the fall.) #PPortfolioOnBSky 209

It is a symptom of my unrealistic optimism about humanity (and most consider me a pessimist about humanity, fair enough) that I actually had to check if the password thing was true. It appears to have been so.

Primary season next year is going to be interesting.

I mean, some of the stone is kinda yellow. #PPortfolioOnBSky 208

Fisherman's Cone, Yellowstone. I remember making use of what was a very limited area of color in the sunrise. #PPortfolioOnBSky 207

I've long enjoyed this shot from Grand Tetons, but part of that was just a craft realization (that 2013-level tech allowed me to deal with levels of contrast and hold detail that I couldn't before.). Still, pretty pleasing. #PPortfolioOnBSky 205

TFW you look at a new follow and wonder if it's an impersonating spammer/scammer or a pedo, and it takes me a second longer to block because I want to file the person accurately. (Reporting, as is typical of 9 out of 10 top-ten Alexa ranked sites, is useless, of course.)

Pretty much the same location as the last image, a matter of a few minutes earlier, a change in direction and a change in focal length, entirely different mood. Also Oxbow Bend. #PPortfolioOnBSky 204

I mean, sometimes the classic shots are classic for a reason. #PPortfolioOnBSky 203

If elected president I promise to replace the White House with something mid-century modern.

A bit more Mono lake, some nice cloud forms and colors. #PPortfolioOnBSky 202

Meanwhile, next year (well, 5/6ths of a year) looks like I'll pay $12,455.80 *more* in health insurance premiums.

Allegedly Dem SMS today asking for funds by telling me that Articles of Impeachment were filed against Trump today. Apparently politi-spammers don't know how impeachment works, or alternately that the House isn't in session.

The Trump administration is adamant that people not take or share photos of the White House destruction, so please keep this photo amongst us. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Not the geology people think of when they think of the Mono Basin (more the Alabama Hills, 100 miles or so south), but it's there at Rattlesnake Gulch, NW side of the basin. (The Aeolian Buttes to the SW also have some of this character.) #PPortfolioOnBSky 201

Back at the old place, I remember one year finding a hummingbird nest just outside the bedroom door to the backyard. An awkward spot to photograph and not intrude (stood on a dresser with the screen door cracked.) I got such joy from watching the whole process unfold. #PPortfolioOnBSky 200

Strokkur, a wonderful, frequently-erupting geyser from the field that gave us the word geyser. #PPortfolioOnBSky 199

Little Lakes Valley in the Eastern Sierra, I think perhaps Long Lake, near sunrise. Among many other things, I loved the way the shaded tree line resembled a seismograph trace. #PPortfolioOnBSky 198

The killer features for me in the latest iOS are phone screening and SMS filtering. Not having to deal with the flood of incompetent political and other spam (via voice and text message) is amazing.

Just another East Greenland fjord. Memorable to me in part because handheld in very late dusk. #PPortfolioOnBSky 197