蓮猫 Lotuscat

「ドラマの一気見はお休むとは言えないぞ？」と厳しく飼い主を監視する猫子。

#Blueskyねこ部

New commission finished!!

This neglected set of bagpipes belongs to the wonderfully lovely Rachael Tonge.

I don’t know what he’s called, but I’ve named him Art Carbuncle.

I'm giving a conference talk next week about the story behind our Bluesky account, which means I've spent much of the last week thinking about how to best articulate the advantages of sharing your hog on the Internet

bsky.app/profile/them...

This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.

Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...

The Elm Zigzag Sawfly is Cute, It's Spreading Fast, and Now It Wants Your Zelkova Trees A new study in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management documents the spread of the elm zigzag sawfly and reports a new host tree that it feeds on.

😍

entomologytoday.org/2025/11/24/e...

#entomology

A shower of hail took me by surprise. It was a little unpleasant, but the calm after it stopped was beautiful.

Everyone loves to talk about Mothman, but almost no one including those in the cryptozoology community is willing to talk about the biggest threat to its survival, Akanthomyces, the unapologetic moth-destroying fungus! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

A close-up photo of bright green moss. White text reads "Your old nature photos can help scientists today."

A photo of a small garden snail perched at the center of a yellow flower. White text reads "As long as you know the dates and locations where you took them, you can post your older photos of wild nature to iNaturalist! Older records of nature can (and do) contribute to ongoing science and conservation efforts — just like new ones do. What's in your camera roll?"

Even your older nature photos can help scientists today! As long as you know when and where you took the photos, you can post your nature sightings on iNaturalist anytime — and they'll still contribute to science and conservation. Got anything in your camera roll to share? 👀

A large complex of + polarised coronal holes will dominate Earth's space weather in the next few days.

Fast solar wind > 700 km/s from November 25 on (?)

Interaction regions, small filament eruptions and a newly emerged sunspot group inside the complex ☞ G1 MINOR STORM likely

Not That Far Away-Houses in the Forest with Mushrooms approx 5x 3.5. This piece has a beautiful deckle edge at the bottom.

milkweed seeds leaving the pod

Out in the bush this afternoon...watching the milkweed spread its seeds to provide nourishment to next year's Monarch population! #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography

久々に三井記念美術館へ。円山応挙展。典型的な応挙（虎と幽霊と子犬）しか知らなかったので、個展の形で色々見られて良かったです。
今回、新発見の応挙と若冲の合作屏風が目玉の一つでした（以前大阪で展示していましたが、東京では初公開）。二曲一双屏風の左隻を若冲、右隻を応挙が担当した作品で、見比べると描写の違いが顕著で面白いです。というか、若冲は鶏の尾っぽのうねっとした描写だけで、あ、若冲、と分かる。若冲と並べると、応挙、本当にかっちりしてるなと思います。
写真は全て応挙の（カワイイ）虎。虎の毛皮をスケッチ的に描いた屏風も出ていたので、ある程度虎を参照していたんでしょうけれど、どうにも猫みが強いです。

ittle critters playing dead! 🐛🪲💀

I’ve been sick after a period of intense work but on the other hand I was able to slow down and draw something fun & relaxing… hope you folks enjoy it too!

L'Avenue - Claude Monet (1840-1926)

#art #trees #autumn

I use to be a mountain. Now I’m just another brick in the wall.

The difference between sweet potatoes and yams » Colin Purrington's blog Every year at Thanksgiving, families in the United States sit down to argue about politics and the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. This page details how to tell them apart and explains how...

In several days you'll likely be sitting next to an ignorant relative who is 100% convinced he knows the difference between a sweet potato and a yam. Here's my primer on the topic. #thanksgiving #sweetpotato #yam #botany 🍠 colinpurrington.com/yams-versus-...

Crystalline ICY lichens

#Nature #Lichens #fungifriends 🍄🌱

Close-up of frosty green moss and lichen on a textured, weathered log. The scene conveys a crisp fall morning with vibrant green hues.

#MossyMonday #forest
Frosty Toy Soldiers, Cladonia bellidiflora
<technically a lichen, not moss
🤫🤐>

Apparently it’s Melanelixia glabratula Monday. Niche but nice…

An apple tree branch shows off its small collection of blue green lichen (a branched Usnea species, a flat branch hugging common shield lichen, a fruticose oakmoss) and a couple of twigs of vibrant green moss (cats tail?)

It's that time of year when the leaves are gone and the lichen and mosses growing on the tree branches take center stage
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #Lichen #Mosses

Green-tinged orange lichen on tree bark

Xanthomendoza fallax, our Hooded Sunburst lichen, seen Sunday on Gambel Oak bark 🌿

Lichen looking like spooky fingers reaching from underneath a mossy layer.

Moss and lichen earlier this autumn

#Macro #MacroMonday #Moss #ISeeMoss #Lichen #ForestFloor

Sample of Physcia lichen with apothecia. In the centre a unsual lumpy growth pattern can be observed.

Cross section of the "lump".

I have a gall like growth on a (fruiting) Physcia adscendens #lichen. Has anyone ever seen something like this?

A Common Plume moth resting on a lichen-covered branch with wings rolled up, resembling a T or cross

Moths come in all shapes and sizes and the unusual-looking Common Plume (Emmelina monodactyla) is a perfect example 🤩

They can often be found resting, with wings tightly rolled, on fence posts, walls, and even indoors.

📷: Heath McDonald
#MothMonday #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

A patch of lichen on a Maple tree trunk for #MacroMonday.

#TenMinutesFromHome #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #nature #naturephotography

Morning scenery. Dark blue sky gradating to orange toward the horizon. Clouds run diagonal and parallel to the horizon. Landscape in silhouette.

おはようございます。
2025年11月25日(火)、2.8℃。今日も初冬の日。

カラマツの葉です。

Print featuring a narrow river with a field and trees on both sides, the fields are covered in a light dusting of snow, the river shows reflections of the trees abd the sky is grey

'Snowy river bank' by contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Another demo print from a recent workshop.