😹 There's still a lot to love about this country.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXyloid "Fallen." #Nature #Trees #Photography #ECK #PhotographersUnited #NaturePhotography #Textures

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXyloid I may be cheating with this subject, but this Owl Butterfly is surely the woodiest-looking 🦋 in existence! Glorious anti-predator warnings on its wings. #Macro #ButterflySky #Nature #Insects #NaturePhotography #Photography #Photographers #PhotographersUnited #ECK

#ButterflySky #MacroPhotography A Numata Longwing 🦋 enjoying cocktail hour on a Golden Shrimp plant. #NaturePhotography #Insects #Macro #PhotographersUnited #Photography #Canon55-210mm #ECK #Bokeh #Bloomscrolling

#BlueTue #ColorADay #Macro The Blue Morpho: In camera pixels in 2026 versus in an oil painting from 1865. #MacroPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #ECK #PhotographersUnited #ButterflySky #Photographers

Delphinium looking pretty good today

🎶”All of these are just like the others, all of these things are exactly the same!”🎶

Good morning Bluesky! A few hours of sunshine before the rains return. 😊

Sunda is already taking it's toll on Steve...

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#WeekXforXyloid #AlphabetChallenge Wooden bird house hanging in a tree. Autumn is coming!

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Thank you, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social! I really needed this. You're the best. Happy Father's Day to you! 💙😊

Happy Father’s day from a sick dad joke dad.

#SkySunday #Stunday Good morning friends! Happy Father’s Day and happy first day of summer! It’s a cool crisp 52 degrees this morning and heading to 72. Here’s today’s #SunriseMagic on the #CTShoreline Have a great day everyone and get outside! #landscape #photography #reflections

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding rules changes. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: substack.com/@joycevance/...

Fascinating.

To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. See my latest essay: "Capitulation Day: The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery." snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...

The subway is at its very best on Halloween and Mermaid Parade day.

They arrested an Olympic athlete for touching something inside Trump's toxic algae pool, accusing him of destruction of government property, even though all he did was put his hand in the water and try to feel the peeling paint. 🙄🤦‍♀️ www.rawstory.com/reflecting-p...

Gotta wonder what the “thinking“ was behind this invention. 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

‘Он! fairest of the viewless powers That guide the fairy fall of night, The last and loveliest of the hours That blush away the lingering light.’ ~ L.E.L, The Vow of the Peacock, Second Canto. Goodnight. 🖼️ A New Constellation - Sewell Collins magazine cover, 1910.

Imagine Un or Putin making a big deal of “fixing” something only to have it end up worst after they “fixed” it? Then imagine people started pointing out another failure and making fun of them. I’m pretty sure they’d start using the police to terrorize the population into silence. No?

Wordle 1,827 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A miracle!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid

Happy Caturday!

@suzette.bsky.social You may appreciate this English comedian, Tom Walker, portraying fictional reporter, Jonathan Pie: youtu.be/ndkFtUKLNZY?...

Happy #Caturday, friends! “I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them were cats.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

A young bluehead wrasse getting all the attention from the bar jacks looking for a cleaning #barjacks #blueheadwrasse #cleanerfish #attention #coralcitycamera

Love old books…

When we lived in Jenkintown, PA, the July 4th Parade was led by a band of bagpipes & drums. At 9 AM, the bagpipes would start up, heard easily in this tiny town. The Tartan Army videos bring back memories I had set aside over 20+ years in the dust of travels and time. I’m smiling. I’m remembering.

A complex complex. Ink.

"Being a decent human being is a choice."--Michelle Obama

Evidently, the Republicans are fine with destroying our federal government & installing an authoritarian theocracy that functions on sycophancy instead of merit & qualifications.

HUGE WIN this week: Senator Murkowski and I led a bipartisan charge to protect critical ocean sensors that help us manage fisheries, predict the weather, and understand climate change.

We are having our porch repointed. Winston was very curious about the workmen when they arrived. Sadly he probably is the most bothered by loud power tools of the three

#BlueskyArtShow #Curve The Hindu god, Shiva, surrounded by a ring of flames symbolizing the cosmic cycle of creation & destruction, stomps on the demon of ignorance. 11th-C, #MFAH. #ClassicMono #Photography #Art #UrbanGaze #InteriorDesign #UrbanDesign #Photographers #PhotographersOfBluesky #ECK

Fresh out of the oven and the house smells amazing! #sourdough @young-spartacus.bsky.social here it is!

Happy Saturday.🌞 After months of work and repair, this the first outing for my friend in his new (to him) boat. And yes, he’s Italian. 🇮🇹 #sailing #PNW #photography #lakelife

"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." -- Steve Jobs 📷 Edwin Mijares at Pixabay #Photography #Ocean #Quotes #SteveJobs

#BlueSkyArtShow #Curve Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. - 2010

🎶 My Friday Music Pick is a tribute to Sunday, Father’s Day. Here’s the classic Groucho Marx version of Harry Ruby’s “Father’s Day Song.” Cheers to all the fathers out there and have a wonderful weekend! 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋 @ducknor.bsky.social @monoelnana.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NePo...

This Friday morning I remember taking a photo of an oak tree and adding some information that I found inspiring. Trees are great companions when walking through nature. Sometimes plants offer healing that humans cannot give. Have a beautiful Friday everyone! 🙌🏼