My team getting ready for Pride festivities this morning. #SacPride2025 #cats #pride

My squirrel friend hung out with me again. Either I look trustworthy or squirrels are damned foolish. #photography #squirrel #trust

The #Narwhal died in the middle of the intersection, its single light shining on the distal corner. People pointed at the twisted metal bumper and laughed while I tried desperately to get the engine to start again. A miracle--it starts just after the red, and now we have 7/11 sloppy joes. #vss365

Hello! Do you have treats? Of course you do! I patiently await your treats. #treats #squirrel

nosh magic terrific poor logic prolific talk so #soporific or caustic specific party tragic horrific #vss365

Scientists knew about it centuries in advance. They scratched elated predictions into clay tablets that had crumbled into dust long before we met. Not a word in them about your love and how it would fill my heart. Or how--as the world was ending--we would turn our backs on the #eclipse. #vss365

justice #selcouth heretic, unapologetic stalking the back pews of Greed's cathedral grinding her axe on the remnants of principle twisted into shadow puppets #vss365

my son had #echolalia an atlatl and atlatl do in that latl and atlatltude A-addle B-attle C-attle D-addle unatlatl now my atlatl dude perfect then perfect now attleattleattleatlleatlatl woot #vss365

"I'm Hannah's plus one." Steve shifted impatiently as reception checked their files. "I'm afraid she already arrived with a different plus one, sir." "Tell you what," Steve said, holding out a crisp bill. "100 bucks says she has an #additional plus one." "500 and she can have a giraffe." #vss365

#free markets grifter dreams sold and delivered in pieces like Kyiv walk to the horizon my love turn your back on angry boys face the dawn directly (again) shiver in your majesty show them true colors forget invisible hands make that other grifter dream real, baby, real #vss365

Yes, always take your gear. But more importantly: never let the quality of your gear (or your composition or your focus) stop you from taking a shot. Always take the shot! Seen here: a Black Oystercatcher probably stands on a giant whale-sized oyster it caught maybe. #birds #photography

they laid me down under the rhododendrons nuzzled my neck and whisper-read nature's #newsletter while I fixated on the glory of the flowers #vss365

Ain't no #website when she's gone All the pages melt away Ain't no website when she's gone 'cause the webforms all work wrong anytime she goes away #vss365

They swam just off shore, watching the humans prance about on the beach, running bipedally from waves with their kelp-like flippers. The #plan was to wait for one to get plucked by a wave and swept out in the undertow. But Johnny cared for plans about as much as he cared for humans. #vss365

Gary finally got the #promotion! No more wearing the mascot uniform in hot humid weather. No more saying "Well, cover me in gravy!" to the fans. No more carrying a sofa cushion made to look like a pat of butter. Now he painted logos on buildings. If only he weren't afraid of heights... #vss365

Alternative Gaming Fact: In the 1980s, Labrador fishermen considered cats good luck and used them to adjust the odds in roleplaying games. #AlternativeFacts #cats #Labrador #D&D

if wisdom sits in #places open the space between us carve a valley or a gulf so wide it engulfs our union drink from the tree's fruit savor the savage knowing the uncanny being of placeness then get your Hegel on dialectic reunion places smashing into each other leave us gasping for air #vss365

Happy holiday to those who celebrate. Everyone else gets this picture my son took of Nacho. #cats #Easter

Killdeer like this one occasionally display an odd behavior during breeding season. They flap one wing and appear injured, luring predators towards them. Irresponsible! These birds are #products of their upbringing: irrational, destitute, and morally bankrupt. #vss365 #birds #phone #photography

up without an #end grasping thrashing and surviving hope stronger than whiskey blood thicker than water and freedom a certainty in their hearts' offense #vss365 #freedommemorial

#dream destination trip truncated in sixty-eight tears in a bowl #vss365

silent moment at Tuskegee heroes lie nearby names unsullied by the red soil hope triumphant rings over the unceasing #noise of fractious fictions noping every flight to freedom easing the way for some and elephant crushing the Other #vss365

#joy the dandelion comes up through cracks in the well-worn sidewalks and thoroughfares and casts contagious spores into the wind #vss365 #theGIFsNotMine #iSaidTheDoggoneGIFsNotMine

medicine indeed! needless #death pointless suffering endless devaluation aimless revenge against ghosts of ghosts medicine indeed! Kevorkian cure for poverty and identity counting a coup espoused by cowards and their cowardly spouses for what? take your medicine and tell me true #vss365

Little known #alternativefact of the day: The Bangles wrote the song "Walk Like an Egyptian" after spotting this old-timey postcard of a Greater Yellowlegs imitating an Ibis in a Hollywood gift shop. #birds #photography #GreaterYellowlegs

Little known alternative fact about Gadwalls: they like to surf, but they can only use each other as boards. #nature #facts #alternativefacts

an old coot swam along a watery trail taking his #time to use his red eye to examine the world while he was still hale and watch the machinery troddling by he saw things that could dig and things that could sail but nothing he saw matched the glorious rail #vss365 #birds #photography

8000 kilometers or one meter-- which #distance is most important? #vss365 #birds #photography #migration

foul spot of corruption might've started at the top but now you're down in the dump, son berating and self-fellating while openly contemplating the umpteenth crime for confiscating the people's property #bounce motherfucker bounce bounce bounce motherfucker bounce bounce #vss365

a #thread ravels swallows find their way and a heron stands guard over stillness #vss365 #birds #phone #photography

imagine the #euphoria when there's a billion more of ya standing up for peace and reason parting ways with greed and treason i wonder if you can #vss365

Nestled under #gossamer spread by thousands of spiders lay the one they called Philip, King of the Outlands, Ruler of All. "Your majesty," said his most loyal eight-legged knight. "A petitioner is here to beg for mercy." "Quack," said Philip, for Philip was a duck. #vss365 #duck

If these glasses existed, half the country would argue the existence of color was a hoax perpetrated by universities to deceive the public. #usa

There once was a Northern Harrier Who liked to eat Yorkshire Terriers She'd swoop down to get 'em And for sauce #mignonette 'em Before they could leave their carriers #vss365 #birds #photography

Gavin gestured in the direction of a far-off city. "Such delights and wonders! In all my time, I have never had such an #insatiable desire to explore a bazaar." Atticus shook his head. "Can't be that great." "He didn't say 'grate'," Maizy interrupted with heat. "He said 'bizarre'." #vss365

Conoodling Conoodling Who conoodling with who today Group chats on war plans Group chats on meetups Ethics out the window Nothing is sacred Kangaroo Clown Show As we watch and wait Sadness is our fate #resist #signalgate #poem #poetry #conoodle #vss365 #poet

You know those old-timey painters who put cats in their paintings that has proportions like they had never seen a cat before? Uh I should probably apologize to them. #cats #paintings

Lazy bees doodle around the flowers. The weeds thrust up through the cracks in the pavement. The sparrow sings from the eaves, offering his nest. Inside, out of the garden heat, I take my blood pressure, wait five minutes, take it again. All I #desire is all any of us do. To thrive. #vss365

exploring life's mysteries amidst a sea of iceplant flowering purple and gold #canoodling without care five thousand eyes but only four matter #vss365

living endless #desire until someone dares to touch an elbow #vss365

i take #inspiration from the bookish set from the bean counters and do-gooders musicians and artists obsessing over details and bettering the world obstinate creators and vigilant orators keeping the score while Nero harasses the lasses --oh and cats with glasses #vss365 #monday #thanks

Ostara. Froggy green carpet of wild grass and clover, freckled with lupines and mustard, dotted with poppies. Sky as blue as your eyes. White cotton cumulus far as the eye can see, and below, the black-boled trees bloom white in lines both orderly and rambunctious. Tom turkeys bloom too, dancing.

Sometimes they have the bird scramblies. #birds #photography #white-crowned #sparrows

Where I live, White-crowned Sparrows are sedentary birds who rest on their (California bay) laurels all year long. Where this was taken, they are mostly migratory and head north to Canada for breeding season (much like many high school freshmen, if you believe their stories). #birds #photography

Sometimes you expect one thing and find another. That was the case with these Ring-necked Ducks who were hanging out where a gang of coots had been a few moments before. There are probably Ring-necked Ducks at drive-in movie theaters, classic car shows, and antique malls, too. #birds #photography

White-fronted geese helping patrol an irrigation canal in the Sacramento Valley. #birds #photography #SacramentoNWR

Looking through some previous trips with the grown-up cameras and finding a few nuggets to share with you all. Forgive me if there's an avalanche. Here's a silhouettes and clouds image I like. #birds #photography

Northern Mockingbirds have a variety of calls that they use to address birders who enter their habitat, including: -"chur-chur-chur" -"chuck-chuck-chur-chuck" -"one-nation- #indivisible -my-ass" -"who-who-who-wears-white-after-Labor-Day" #birds #AlternativeFacts #photography #vss365

Not quite a #tenminutemerlin , but everything we saw this morning was within 200m. 14 species on phone-camera, including the worst picture of a White-tailed Kite catching a snake (see below). Our new neighborhood has incredible biodiversity compared to The Valley. #birds #photography #bad