JP Andrews

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Tree trunk on left side of frame with green leaves along the top, and brown ground covered with apples that have fallen to the ground

End of the Gravensteins for this year

Group of small white paddle boats with colored lights at night in a San Diego marina

San Diego rainbow boats

Green grass in foreground and pink wall in background, pink flower where they meet.

Bucket of apples, green apples with pink stripes, Gravensteins.

Gravensteins

Birdhouse on a pole in a brown field, with fog and trees in the background.

Sebastopol, CA

Sail raised in front of blue sky with whisky white clouds.

“I found that what I had feared and hated, I now feared and loved.” EB White on sailing and the sea

Photo evidence of a totally smooth arrival totally not circling or diverted at all

Morning walk on the high line

Sights and sounds of dci

@sfomuseum.bsky.social appreciation post.

Take flight Santa Barbara

Wild fennel field

Row of 6 boats floating in the harbor, white clouds with blue sky peeking out in background.

Harbor waking up

*its, obviously.

PercussionFest in Santa Barbara.
It’s own kind of fireworks. Collaboration, creativity, aspiration.
Here’s to taking care of each other—everyone— and building something better.

Lake Street Dive with the Huntertone horns at the Santa Barbara Bowl. It will never not stun me to watch amazing live music with an ocean view.

Mason jar filled with green beans in liquid, sitting on white surface with blue background.

First dilly beans of the year

Patio corner with small green plants in foreground, cement patio in background and small citrus in a black plastic pot in the center, all covered in small purple flowers.

Jacaranda blossoms blanketing everything

Group of dozens of yellow and pink flowers (I think Alstroemeria) with a small bit of wood lattice fence in the background at the top of the frame.

Mom’s yard. Arcata, CA.

Looking up the trunks of 3 redwoods toward the sky

Redwoods, Humboldt county, CA

Large silver metal building with roll up door and blue sky.

Ashland, Oregon

Ashland, Oregon.

Jacarandas in bloom

Santa Barbara coastline

Ochre sea star

The bows of five brightly colored fishing boats in white, navy, and sea blue-green.

Santa Barbara harbor

Santa Barbara Mission.

Overhead view of three containers of favas, bowl of unpeeled, colander of peeled and skins in compost bucket.

Spring means favas