Cal Young 🦖

Tom, Cape Codder here. It brings me no joy to point out that the water is colder up there. Colder water = better clams.
But you must sample them yourself.

Night, Del.

Btw. They are casting spells on ICE. Did you see the witch?
This is Portland last night. Lil different vibe than Chicago.

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C'mon kids! Tree climbin' time!

FINALLY.

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I decided to pull out another of my dvd classics, and I forgot if you leave the menu running too long on the Terminator 2 “Extreme Edition” disc, a terminator walks across the menu and leans into the screen to glare at you. We used to have so much fun with dvds!

When I turned 25 I was legit deeply concerned that I had not yet written The Great American Novel, now at 56 if I could time travel back to meet that young fellow worried about not having birthed a True Work of Timeless Art in his first quarter century, I would, lovingly, turn the hose upon him

Well...uh...yeah, they do.

Your moment of calm this morning, in totally unwartorn Portland. Cedar waxwings lit by the sun, preening on branches.

How researchers restored a thriving habitat for Atlantic puffins in Maine Atlantic puffins face an increasingly precarious foothold due in part to a loss of habitat and to troubles tied to warming ocean waters and climate change. But an effort off the coast of Maine…

Puffins return to Maine after half a century of absence. Eastern Egg Rock now hosts the only puffin colony in the United States, restored through decades of painstaking work after the birds were hunted out a century ago. buff.ly/RB0Ibz0
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Nice picture! I'm pretty sure that cat sees you as a mark, not a benefactor.

The chick in the flounce skirt has some big brass ones. Fewer cameras and they would have slammed her into the pavement when she put hands on them.

nyx (black cat) sitting in an olive duffel bag on my bed. the bag needs to be packed

nyx (black cat) sitting in an olive duffel bag on my bed. the bag still needs to be packed

nyx (black cat) sitting in an olive duffel bag on my bed. the bag will not be packed

her motto is “always helpful”

I was howling when they kept kicking the cuffs away.

They ran those fuckers off

Was thinking about this. I deliberately sit in the back of the plane. For a lot of reasons.

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

YouTube video by Get To Know Nature Catbird Calls! And Fledglings

Two minutes of catbird fun! Including how they got their name. Plus the cutest baby

#birds 🌿 🧪

good girl

Tooting Common: Heavy horses prepare ground for flowers Heavy horses are helping rewild Tooting Common by preparing soil for 33 native wildflower species.

Heavy horses help rewild Tooting Common with wildflowers

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I remember flying from Houston to Baltimore. We flew parallel to a long, very lively front. Was like a 20 minute light show. Saw some sprites too!

Ah. Was worried you had your hand on the zoomie levers.

This is a good point, Stoat. How did you get this picture, dude?

You're exempt today because of the spider thing.
I hope you are feeling better today.

Pretty sure Blixy is a witch.