#PNW Oregon An opportunity to spend wisely, by choosing where you don’t spend your money. If you shop at Roth’s grocery stores in the Marion County area, please consider the connection noted in the post below. Additional info: www.grocerybusiness.ca/a-bold-vision/

SOMETIMES EVERY THING SEEMED TO BE GOOD ( Size 17 by 13 inch on paper. Medium acrylics and oil) Date of creation 2023 Original Sold Signed Prints available. Digital files available

Went for a walk to the wetland today, and saw that the beavers have been busy. Beavers who, through slow and steady and consistent work over weeks and months a year, can change the paths of rivers; can alter entire ecosystems. The work never stops.

This looks pretty cool. Cottage Grove, OR, with field trips! ALT TEXT for reposted image; continues in next post: GENTER FOR RESTORATION FORESTRY INTERNSHIP April 26-June 20, 2026 Applications now open! Learn about... agroforestry • eco-forestry • ecological restoration • riparian restoration…

If you haven’t read The Fifth Sacred Thing, by @starhawk-spiral.bsky.social, it’s a good time to. (Most people won’t have any problems, but if you’re sensitive to depictions of pain being inflicted*, read every other chapter, starting with the first one.) If you can, read it all at least once.

Next Friday. One of my favorite teachers was born in an American concentration camp and lived there his first two years. Because his parents were Issei. American citizens, born in Japan. During those two years they lost their business, their home, many possessions. Pay attention to history.

Do you follow NWS here? Have them on a list to check? Search for them when you need #weather info? And/or do you remember them - and your regional NWS office - from that old platform? Please fill out this survey to inform the decision about continuing to have them here! #Wx #orWx #pdxWx #medWx

Sound up for ice-thwock

"You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being."

Sometimes the postmark date on something you mail matters a lot. Changes at USPS will likely cause some (most?) postmark dates to be later than the day you mail something. (I read a different article earlier but didn’t save the link. Haven’t read this one.) www.cnbc.com/2025/12/31/u...

#SmallFarmLife Via @organicgay.bsky.social

🌱 #localonly #gardener #smallfarmlife #dreaming #winter #nature #greenwitch #witchsky

Creating art from last year’s #EatonFire. #creativity #LAfires

As we begin 2026, a new development threatens to further undermine voting by mail. A recent rule change at the U.S. Postal Service means that postmarks will no longer reflect the date a piece of mail was deposited at a local post office. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/how-...

No need to open the link - blech ads. Article says unsolicited seed packages have been received in states other than Texas.

This week is the first anniversary of the LA Fires. If you know anyone who experienced them first hand, or has roots or major life experience in that region, cut them some slack this week. Also, make a note to check in with them this time next year. Anniversary grief can be surprisingly painful.

A lot of what (and who) many people think are causes are actually symptoms.

Art -is- play. Art is accidents. Art is random. Art is whatever you make that makes you happy. Art is the process of creation and not the end result Make shit and try not to worry about the outcome. Enjoy the ride.

“History forms when order breaks.” —Lindie Chiou

What are the roots that keep you steady? Riffing a #NatureQuery™️ off this thoughtful post from Dreamcatcher. Via @sprocketsdance.bsky.social

Happy Calendar Changing Day, y’all.

Hi, @watchduty.org. First, thank you so very much for your app and all the people-hours behind it. Second, is there any way to download all your reports on a particular fire after the incident is closed? Feel free to DM me if you have questions.

Kayaking yesterday. Great light. These weathered trees reminded me of bristlecones in the high Sierras. Making photos from a rocking boat is a challenge. I didn’t even notice the pipes at water’s edge until my partner remarked on them as we paddled off.

“I keep returning to this quiet truth: “you don't need a long list to justify your year or measure your worth.” —Olga Katsovskiy

What a wonderful day! We postponed dinner at my partner’s sister’s till tomorrow because of risky weather today. Everyone was fine with it, and it made today into a freebie day: no work and full of calls with others who were free today. I may suggest this for every year!

Homage to Xavier Bou: little swifts at the Olifants River high-water bridge, Kruger National Park. Unstacked from video taken with an Iphone 14. #birds #photography #SouthAfrica #iPhone

Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now. heritageireland.ie/visit/newgra...

It's that time of year again, winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and summer solstice. Celebrated for thousands of years. Then...

Joyous Solstice to all who celebrate!

“The officer added: ‘We’ve got it on a tow line, we’ve got some [riot] shields because he’s trying to butt my head.’” #GoatSky

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Our new buckling meeting our herd a few days ago. He’s small because he was born off-season, but we’re looking forward to adding Kiko traits to our homestead herd. #SmallFarmLife #KikoGoats #GoatSky

When I imagine myself as the only human left on Earth, and realize I would keep creating anyway, I feel myself touch a truth that I often lose in my scramble for productivity.

Here's the sound of a pebble bouncing across a frozen lake at the Wetlands in January. Sound ON! [AD=misty light over the frozen water on a grey day. Flats and pylons in the distance across the water.]

Unexpressed creativity...is poison to the human psyche. The malady that our species is collectively suffering from is, in essence, the fact that we are not connecting with, mobilizing and expressing our creative nature, which turns against us in self-and-other-destruction.~Paul Levy

The natural placement of things in the forest. #december

“Prove me wrong” reality check. @eddietg51-42.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/eddi...

An old friend. December, by George Winston. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKzg... It’s grey outside, but the fire’s crackling.

Important and true. Most people do not want to trash out our home.

Anybody know what I'm looking at here? They seem to be growing out of buds but look strange for a flower or seed. #photography #nature #fall

“Courtesy of Bloom Cartoons” per OP.

So I decided to make a calendar this year with some of my bird photos. If you'd like to help support my photography hobby, you can order one at www.lulu.com/shop/kevin-c...

THREAD. The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside. 1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.

If you know someone who may be struggling with Spanish at the end of the semester, I am now offering tutoring.

This. Via @craigpindell.bsky.social

Celebrating the fact that many of us have been here on @bsky.app for over two years now. (And, yes, others for even longer.) For reasons, I dug back into old emails and noticed the Bsky invite code sent to me by someone I knew there (and know here). It was dated 9/7/23. My how time flies…!

Ditto.

@wookietron9000.bsky.social May the churn subside, WW. May the sleep take over. 💚 That’s where I’m going now: 💤