Can confirm!

Day 10 #repostyourart is "pencil" so here are some pencil drawings of knight dogs. German Shepherd c. 1480, and Golden Retriever, early 14th century. #traditionalart #dogs

New one

History is in the rings! An article from The Nature Conservancy explores the science of studying tree rings to better understand past fire history and forest health. Read the full story: bit.ly/4sAI3st #TribalForestry #ForestStewardship #SustainableForestry #ForestStewardship

Big Mama Thornton

For friends of #corvids everywhere 🐦‍⬛

Another great one from Jim. Quite an expressive sense of movement. That apple is going to hit somebody in the back of the head in 3…2…

Raise your hand if you used to spend your allowance on flashlight batteries so you could read under the covers at night 🖐️

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) just secured thousands of historical artifacts. The collection will be displayed at the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute and is referred to as the “finest collection of twentieth-century Columbia River Plateau beadwork in existence.”

Look at those babies! 😍

Today's #TenMinMerlin. Pretty usual cast of characters for a sunny morning in early April.

I would imagine that this is a component of forest bathing

Amazing treasures of medieval legal history to distract one briefly from current news and marking - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents. #medievalsky

In 2020 advocates launch #NoBodyIsDisposable campaign to push back against the medical racism, ableism, and ageism causing disparities in COVID-19 triage and treatment. Poster art can be found here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/conn... Button featured here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/plea...

I suspect @jasperfforde.bsky.social has a pretty good explanation for the spectral dodo (they may even be on first name terms) 🦤 🦤 🦤

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

I saw this sign at a house in my neighborhood this morning and it was sort of the high point of the day

Well I’m just not gonna tell my (nearly empty) bottle of Crystal anything about this…

If you make sourdough bread and you're not using a little Khorosan flour, you are missing out! Bob's Red Mill seems to have stopped selling the flour (branded as "Kamut,") but I was able to mail order wonderful quality Khorosan flour from Central Milling.🥖

It's a good day for a #TenMinMerlin. About 36° this morning and sunny. The evening grosbeaks arrive, on their way to slightly higher elevations.

I’m too lazy to look - has anybody on Ravelry reproduced this? 🧶

A bunch of really important writers (from Arthur Conan Doyle to Michael Morpurgo) played cricket together - and this was a key part of who they were and what they wrote! I did a PhD on it, and now the book version for the nonspecialist is coming out in May: fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/writers...

The very spitting image of Ralph Fiennes

One of the things we discovered during Y2K remediation was the extent to which organizations were run on process knowledge, which we jokingly referred to as The Wisdom of the Ancestors. And also, the Boomers amongst us did a little mental math and told management that they had 15 to 20 years…

Really beautiful work!

Don’t you love it when accounts build on one another?

My favorite stand of trillium, about a 15 minute walk from where I live. Bright yellow violets grow nearby.

Modding Zamboni cases is just about the coolest job ever.

Book recommendations is one of the very few reasons I still use social media.* I follow lots of authors not only for their books but for books they recommend. I’ve found so many books this way. *pet pictures comes in a close second

Certainly there are issues of far greater importance in the world today, but if you need a brief distraction, worth noting that today is International Beaver Day. #wildlife #beaver

You know, as a person who participated in multiple air raid drills as a child, I’m finding today something of a challenge

francis strawberries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1911

I find that the weather gods typically let loose a good thunderstorm when the only set of sheets you own is *almost* dry.

Took advantage of today's warm weather to fire up the charcoal grill and make these kebabs. This is the first time I've used this recipe. Grilled tomatoes and onions separately and had them alongside. Very good! #CookSky

Clove currant bushes blooming now. I only planted these last year, so this is the first year they've bloomed for me. The clove scent of the flowers is quite pronounced #GardenSky

#repostyourart Day 6 is bird so we have some bird watching cats

Latest hairdresser small talk: Me: mixing florals and stripes is my style super power Her: hydroponics is good for impatient people Both of us: it’s really too bad that women feel they can’t go gray

Lady’s Mantle, started from seed last summer and just now waking up. This does well in this area but both plants and seed have lately been a little hard to find. #GardenSky

Do people make s’mores with their peeps? Is that a thing?

At a loss. #grickledoodle #cats #pets #sitting #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Here's our free monthly calendar for the month of April! This month’s featured art is Ricardo’s new poster “Black Panthers”. It also makes an appearance in this year’s Liberation Calendar. Find and download yours here: www.rlmartstudio.com/april-2026-f...

👏 for the knitter who realized that the Norman helm egg cozy was a thing that absolutely had to exist 🧶

~Edward Gorey, "The Sea Monster" (illustration from the book The Tuning Fork)

Victor and I are watching the Orion Integrity live feed, which is surprisingly engaging. #caturday #NASA

Me, I’m going with a tiara, my Mardi Gras beads, and my favorite hot pink and purple shirt. (This is a good thing to think about when you’ve got a touch of insomnia or melancholy)