Hazel

Three mini prints of bear drawings, two bear stickers and a round wooden pin with a bear paw track

Thank you to the person who bought a little Bear Pack! 🐻 ᏲᎾ

#art #wildlifeart #artshop

Screenshot from my store

I will be closing my store on Saturday, Oct 11th as I prepare to move. It will not reopen till November so if you’ve had your eye on something... ✨

I’m looking forward to new adventures and inspiration!
#art #artshop #sciart #nature

A child interacts with pigeons in an urban park setting surrounded by trees, potted plants, and tall buildings.

a brief moment passed by #street #photography

A book comes together

time's arrow
for a day or two
she's the height
of her mother

#senryu
#haiku
#micropoetry

MPL -Making public libraries sexy again.

Five black birds perch closely together on a branch, their glossy feathers and long tails standing out against a blurred green forest background.

Goth band album cover.

Groove-billed Anis are fabulous birds. A type of cuckoo, this species lives in social groups of up to 10 birds and they collectively guard their territory and even share a nest together!

These birds were taking a break today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social to groom each other.

Autumn woodland scene, painting.

Forest in Autumn, Witold Pruszkowski.

Massa Crítica do povo

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Stone chat perched on a thin btwig, others around it, small leaves, drab sky behind.

Stonechat on this evening's walk. Filtered a little but looks like it could be a section of wallpaper, to my eye.

#birds

A better world is possible (and this is a change that you can make at a local level, much easier than national change)

The War on Cars Society & Culture Podcast · The War on Cars brings you news, commentary and stories about the worldwide battle to undo a century's worth of damage wrought by the automobile.

Neighbourhoods where children are safe to play out are better for everyone - so why aren’t we accelerating #LowTrafficNeighbourhoods? @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.

these are amazing! this made me so happy to watch lol

Dozens of mushrooms of various types are growing out of the trunk of a moss covered fallen tree. Bracket around d it.

Last one (I have more but should probably draw a line!)

#mushrooms #fungi

Rain & sunshine

#paris #rain #cafe #sunshine

spiraling rapidly
from the cliff
a paulownia leaf

Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946)
from Lips Licked Clean
Translated by Alice Wanderer

#haiku #poetry
autumn #kigo paulownia leaf/leaves #micropoetry

A stark and atmospheric black and white image features a large, luminous half-moon dominating the right side of the frame against a dark, featureless sky. In the foreground, a silhouetted hillside creates a strong horizontal line, upon which three imposing electricity pylons stand tall, their intricate structures starkly outlined against the sky. Smaller utility poles and a web of wires further emphasize the industrial presence in this dramatic nighttime landscape.

Night

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNight #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Landscape #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #Lumix

Welcome to Prune Juice's first official Complete the Haiga! Write a poem for the image below and the winner will be published in the December issue of Prune Juice! 🧵1/2

#PJJournal #WritingCommunity
#poetrycommunity

The bell tower of a Romanesque church in Aosta, framed from within the nearby cemetery. Two autumn-colored trees frame the shot and, in the center, crosses and graves. In the background are mountains and a cloudy sky.

The bell tower of Saint Orso seen from the old cemetery
#UrbanGaze #Graves
#Cemeteries

the subtle hum
of the tea kettle’s simmer
days of summer
shorten into autumn
the last hummingbird visits

#TankaThursday subtle #5lines #micropoetry

in the blue grey hour
my neighbor leaves home barefoot
surfboard under arm
#haiku

abandoned church—
the cast off shell
of a cicada

#haiku

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Build. More. Housing.

Brown bird with rufous breast and yellow beak is splashing in a shallow bath, surrounded by water droplets.

American Robins are such enthusiastic bathers #birds

E-bikes are an absolute game-changer in terms of giving more people the option of going car-light or car-free, but adoption is threatened by the ongoing moral panic. As the article notes, the solution is not restrictions on e-bikes, but creating more infrastructure to support e-bike riders. 1/2