Bird (he/him)

A grassy path through a prairie landscape. The messy foliage is in full growth of mid summer with a mix of lush greens and yellows. There is a birdbox just to the left of the path.

I'm ready for the intensity of summer foliage again

#nature #photography #landscape #canon

A photo of Canada Geese flying overhead. The perspective of the photo is from directly beneath a V-shaped group of flying geese, with a clear blue sky background.

"A March morning is only as drab as he who walks in it without a glance skyward, ear cocked for geese.”

- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

#birds #birding #nature #birdsky #photography

It seems like I'm unable to message you on here for some reason, I'm not sure how Bluesky message restrictions work lol. Do you have this set intentionally? I can also ping on your store page if you'd prefer

Hey! I have the original of this print and want to send you a picture of it framed. Do you still check twitter DMs? I see you have them closed on here

The treatment of Hughes' work is very reminiscent of the white-washing/de-radicalization of black intellectuals throughout history, and it's crucial to our understanding of US history to resist the watering down of their messages. Thank you for sharing!

Love these little birds

A nuthatch sits on top of a trail marker. The background is lush green foliage.

Do NOT listen to their directions they CANNOT read the trail map.

#birds #birding #birdsky #nature #wildlife #photography

A photo of an egret, a large white bird with a long yellow pointed bill. It is a hazy yellow color from the bright morning sun. In the foreground of the photo is a clumped mass of lilypads floating atop a shallow lake. In the background are patches of open water with a few extra rafts of lilypads.

An egret in the glow of sunrise.

#birds #birding #birdsky #nature #wildlife #photography

A photograph of multiple layers of clouds, illuminated by the setting sun. Near the middle of the clouds in a bright patch is the silhouette of a plane flying into the horizon.

Future bound.

#photography #outdoors #nature #sunset #canon

A photograph of a chimpmunk standing on top of a small log. The background is a weedy patch of tall grass. The image is a summery yellow and green from the rising morning sun.

A chipmunk atop a small overturned log. I'm already missing the weedy green plants and warm summer mornings!

#mammals #nature #wildlife #photography #canon

A photo of a sunrise with thin overlapping layers of cloud cover, causing the sunlight to bleed through in deep orange, red and yellow. The upper layers of cloud are letting more bright light through, causing a highlighted segment of clouds to stand out and show more of a fluffy texture. The lower half of the image is a scene overlooking a calm lake, reflecting the colors above. A hazy dark green treeline shows in the distance at the center of the image. Fronds of a plant on the near shoreline loom in the immediate distance and are out of focus.

To watch a sunrise is to observe a scene played out for billions of years. A moment to reflect on your place in our world, your place in time.

#nature #photography #sunrise #outdoors

Yes!

This is in Northern US!

Thank you! I edit my photos in a software called Lightroom to draw out a bit more of the colors

A squirrel standing at the very end of a wooden plank. The perspective of the image is low to the ground, and the planks to the left and right of the squirrel imply that it is part of a boardwalk. The background is tall fronds of marshy foliage.

A squirrel popped up from the other side of a boardwalk I was hiking on and posed for a quick picture.

#mammals #nature #wildlife #photography #canon

Nice! I haven’t read the graphic novel version of that book yet. I don’t think I’ve heard of The Anomaly before

That was also the last time I read it. The language Steinbeck uses during the short interludes is cynical and straightforward, these are among my favorite parts of the book on my second read. I’d say you should give it another go!

The book cover for The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. This cover shows a family overlooking a vast landscape. A procession of vehicles makes its way up a winding road through the valley and towards a ridge of mountains.

The book cover for A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. A stylized, futuristic spaceport sits at the center of the cover in the foreground, with a galactic cloud of stars across the background.

What is #booksky reading this weekend?

I'm working on these two!
1) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
2) A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge

#reading #classiclit #classics #literature

The same to you!

I think our interpretations are actually quite similar. I agree that we need new systems, new approaches to combating the societal ills facing the world (as you say, cultivating new apple trees). To do that though, we must understand the powerful individuals blocking progress (e.g. the worms).

The bad actors in this case being the billionaires, the fascists, and the politicians that fail to represent what people in the US actually want. You must change your perspective (e.g. split the world in two) and critically analyze the systems/powerful individuals that stall or reverse progress.

Those national divorce comments and some of the response calling MAGA voters worms is precisely why I added more thoughts to this thread. I do not believe that L. Hughes’ intention was to literally imply a splitting of society but rather to examine which bad actors are undermining society overall.

Good morning melon

a man in a space suit with the word interstellar on the bottom right Alt: A scene from the movie Interstellar showing an astronaut launching into space. The screen shakes from the G force of the liftoff.

Watching an innocuous post I made about a poem I enjoy go viral and gaining 2,100 followers in one day

Real 💯

They hang out in cold places a lot longer than you’d imagine if they have the right resources. Maybe they’re from Canada and the cold is nothing to them 😅

A red-winged blackbird perched on a branch, partially obscured by several overlapping layers of thin yellow branches in the foreground. The bird's eye is just visible over one of the nearer branches, giving the illusion that it is peeking.

Sneaky peeky red-winged blackbird

#birds #birding #birdsky #nature #wildlife #photography

“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.” – James Baldwin, 06/24/1963 /end

that we must look out for one another and our communities. ALL members of our community. We must work to find common ground. We must not despair and do their work for them by falling into hopelessness. I’ll stop here and leave you a final quote from James Baldwin. /6

The billionaires, the fascists, and the apathetic politicians that throw vulnerable groups under the bus must be understood as the common enemy they truly are. We must resist the call for minority groups to be scapegoated while our leaders try to push progress backwards, and that means /5