Lisa Schmidtfrerick

Close up photo of a fallen yellow-green leaf with brown spots covered with water droplets.

Sometimes instead of paying attention to the news I wander around the yard with a camera.

#52frames_shootfromabove brought me to the top of a local parking garage, where I captured this image of the sun bouncing off the windows onto the alley below.

In the airport near a bunch of young women all wearing next to nothing, thinking about how people used to sort of dress up for travel and really hoping that in 15 years they won’t be telling someone how women were once able to wear shorts and tank tops in public. #handmaids #religiouswrongs #women

If you are angry about this email your Congressional representative and Senators and remind them that they were elected to serve in a DEMOCRACY and you’d appreciate them upholding the CONSTITUTION and THANK THEM FOR THEIR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Clearwing hummingbird moth stopped by earlier today:

Analogy?

KFF reports that 60% or more of adult Medicaid recipients are already working, others are caregivers for dependents, in school, or disabled. Medicaid is another form of corporate welfare.

Coffee and camera

I read this too quickly and saw “hops” instead of “hope” 😆 We might need both. And chocolate.

Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era

Today, the NYT posted an article on the normalization of atrocities that struck us. They are right - in our grasp for normality, we become numb to horror. But important points were missed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

The manatee grass washed up to speak for threatened and endangered species:

FDA says it will limit access to Covid-19 boosters for Americans under 65 Critics say shift will negatively affect people who are not high risk but want to be vaccinated against the disease

The irony of the party who screamed non stop about individual rights to get vaccinated now telling me that I can’t get one: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Surprising no one.

ICYMI ICM sunset

Making the most of a shrouded sunset. #icm

This is what corruption looks like.

(2/2) There were no early symptoms and she was too young for preventative screening. We need investments in disease research, global public health, and emergency preparedness. And instead they fucking cut funding for all this AND for healthy foods.

I am sorry you are experiencing this. Agree. I am someone who was perfectly healthy, did all the “right” things and had no family history and still had a heart attack (spontaneous artery dissection) at 46, and then lost my triathlete sister to colon cancer when she was just 41. (1/2)

Nope, nothing odd or concerning here…just a typical day in a former democracy.
#whereiscongress #someonestopthis

Thanks for the repost @byanother.name - glad to have found you!

Appreciating that our dog gets me out to see these things. #icm #icmsunset

A card reads: "These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." A long list of words follows, including: biologically female; biologically male; BIPOC; Black; breastfeed + people; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; commercial sex worker; community diversity; community equity; confirmation bias; cultural competence; cultural differences; cultural heritage; cultural sensitivity; culturally appropriate; culturally responsive; DEI; equity; feminism; genders.

Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SpaceX rocket explosion leads to flight delays at Florida airports over fears of falling debris "We will review the data from today’s flight test to better understand root cause," according to the company owned by Elon Musk.

Where’s the accountability? Anyone else think SpaceX should be paying the airlines and travelers who were inconvenienced by yesterday’s rocket failure?

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Trump Speech to Congress: Watch Live With Updates and Analysis

President Trump said in his address to Congress that he inherited an “economic catastrophe” from Joe Biden. The U.S. had the strongest economy in the world when Trump took over, but it's shown signs of strain from Trump's federal funding cuts and tariffs. Follow live.

Somehow gutting the #EPA doesn’t seem like the best road toward protecting kids from toxins.

Out waving my camera around at slow shutter. What are you doing to maintain some sanity these days?

Another striking sunset over the Gulf of Mexico.