Jugglercat

Female hummingbird flying toward the hummingbird feeder

You can be so small
And people will still notice
All the things you do

A female ruby throated hummingbird hovers near a hummingbird feeder. In the background are tall stalks of goldenrod that I need to clear out of the hummingbird garden.

Summer visitor
Lady hummer hovers near
Sweetness draws her in

Yellow and black striped tiger swallowtail butterfly. Its wings are spread as it rests on a purple coneflower (echinacea).

We're not everything
There is a world around us
I want it to thrive.

Thank you! I feel like I've been incredibly lucky to find the right person!

Me and My Arrow from the movie The Point

A thread-waisted black wasp (sphecid family, I think) enjoying the tiny yellow flowers on bronze fennel

You can be pretty
And still look fearsome as you
Drink in sweet flowers

~Lesson from a nectar loving wasp.

My sign. At the top it reads "How many FBI agents does it take to scrub (47)'s name? 1... 2..." Under the top statement on the right is a picture of the Tootsie roll owl. The rest of the picture are papers spread out from the Epstein file at the bottom. All visible papers have Donnie's name in various forms: DJT and Me, My 50th with (47), etc.

Husband's sign reads above "Cancel (47)" with a photo of his face circled and crossed out in red and below "Not Colbert" with a photo of Steven.

We made new signs for the protest before our anniversary. 34 years and we're still doing stuff together.
My sign is on the left, his is on the right.

Watership Down, Animal Farm, and The Book of Merlyn. I didn't completely understand them at the time, but I was a reluctant reader who preferred stories that featured talking animals and/or magic. I always return to these tales now, when I think about different forms of government.

Eastern cottontail rabbit sitting in the grass, its closer ear turned toward me as it decides whether it should go back to grazing or hop away.

Give me a world of
Peaceful nature warriors
Make us human kind.

Only 1000+ ?
It must have taken them, like, forever.

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" ~Obi Wan Kenobi

New edit:

If you strike Stephen Colbert down, he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

YouTube video by Humphrey Chin La Marseillaise - Casablanca (HD)

Happy Bastille Day. Vive la France!

Fluffy black cat (left) and not so fluffy orange cat (right) lay on the floor in front of the storm door staring out the window at a female cardinal (upper center) standing on the sidewalk.

Morning bird watching
Relaxing pastime with friends
A peaceful moment

Good Trouble Lives On On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, v...

NEXT THURSDAY: People all across the country will gather together in honor of the late Rep. John Lewis to participate in the Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. In the face of an authoritarian takeover, it’s more important than ever that we stand up, speak out, and make some good trouble.

This sounds like the ravings of a sexual predator.
No one ever believes the rape victims, and some of these victims were YOUNGER than 15. They can say whatever they want, but it doesn't make it true. Even ONE underage victim is too many.

Photo of a gray cat laying on an open book on top of a white blanket.

She had the whole bed
But the best place to settle
Where I'd see her best.

#Cats

Overhead view of 3 cats at the storm door. On the left, laying down and staring out is a gray cat. Mirror image on the right is an orange boy with beige stripes at the tip of his tail. Center, looking up with his big green eyes is a black tuxie cat with expressive white whiskers.

Feeling the same. Here's some of mine.

Thank you! I'll check it out.

Bright red tubular flowers with yellow tops that spread into 5 petaled stars.

The only rockets
To see are in my garden
Bursting in the sun

(I once liked the 4th. Then I learned how harmful it is to animals. The pandemic brought even more fireworks into our neighborhood, long into the night. And now the stupid bill. I just don't want to celebrate the day anymore./rant)

EPA Punishes Employees Who Sent Zeldin “Declaration of Dissent” The Environmental Protection Agency is targeting employees who raised concerns about the direction of the agency under the Trump administration.

Today the EPA placed at least 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed and publicized a “declaration of dissent” against Administrator Lee Zeldin and the greater Trump administration.

We're draining our government of knowledge and experience.

newrepublic.com/post/197616/...

Three fully open purple coneflowers seen level with the camera with several other partially open blooms in the background

Where there's life, there's hope
You are surrounded by life
When you stand outside.

I'll never give up
I will not leave our children
With a hopeless world.

Bumblebee hovering amid the small purple blooms of downy skullcap.

Little bumblebee
Shakes the pollen from flowers
As it buzzes by

This from the regime that got Latinos to vote by telling them only the criminals would be deported, not the hard working migrants. I'm sure this will work out fine for their "witness".

3 virescent sweat bees, with metallic green heads and thoraxes and yellow and black striped abdomens, circle around the edge of a purple coneflower's center. The pollen on their back legs looks like fuzzy yellow chaps.

This is a well pollinated flower.
Thank you little native bees!

The flower face of a not completely open purple coneflower, its hot pinkish purple petals still unfolding.

Beautiful flowers
Take time to unfold themselves
To the rising sun

Nature is needed
To lift our hearts, but also
To teach us the way.

Juvenile robin standing in the grass, hoping its parents bring some food

Some care more about
What lands they can take from us
Than the life on it.

🦅 Included in the GOP Reconciliation Bill are provisions to sell off 3 million acres of America's public lands - with no Tribal consent, no public input, no regard for environmental protection.

America will be stripped of her beauty, while the unconscionably rich cash out.

We're being played.

The billionaire Palantir CEO —the company building a database to track Americans, and helping ICE abduct immigrants, who proudly admits that his company kills people…

… is a Big Money Andrew Cuomo donor.

You won’t be an opposition leader when you’re owned by the opposition.

To get around character limits, I've enclosed the text in an image file below.

You can contact your Senators here senate.gov and can share without restriction.

2 Protest signs in the style of Schoolhouse Rock: #1 says "Schoolhouse Rock Taught me:" and image of 3 patriots, with the one on the right sticking out his tongue. #2 says "No More Kings" and image of Trump on golden toilet

Protest sign that says "NOPE" but the "E" is a sideways crown.

Protest sign that says "No reign on this Parade"

Image of a gold painted toilet. On top of it is a royal flush with the king crossed out, a pink taco stuck to it, and a roll of toilet paper with brown images of Trump.

Sights from the Mt. Kisco, NY protest