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@ai6yr nice work!

Two bonded grey and white siblings cuddling together welcomed into a new house.

Welcoming two new kitties into the household this week. They won’t replace my son’s well-loved cats that went over the rainbow bridge or heal those holes in my heart. But it will help. These were adopted from the Orphan kitten project at UCD. Hand raised by […]

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Hot air balloon and rugged desert landscape with rocky vertical cliffs

Desert landscape and rocky mesas. Cores of long collapsed volcanoes

Scenic highway section in high desert

Four Corners area - high elevation desert and rugged mountain scenery never disappoints. #outside

[Fascism, Defense, Misogyny]

@ai6yr wRAF 👀👀

@ai6yr i am still a never-had-COVID and would like to keep it that way. I recently got the Covid shot, plus RSV and flu shots all at the same time just get it out of the way.

@ai6yr ugh. Perfect time to have to hop on a plane for work.

[Flood death, California]

@ai6yr horrible.

Pink and yellow ball type dahlia.

Light and dark purple Dahlia, with the edges of the pedals line the dark purple, this is “cream of cassis”.

Light and dark purple Dahlia, with the edges of the pedals line the dark purple, this is “cream of cassis”.

Light and dark purple Dahlia, with the edges of the pedals line the dark purple, this is “cream of cassis”.

Backyard dahlias. Yolo county.

Flower field with colorful zinnias

Flower field — Sonoma County.

@ai6yr I wonder if rubbing predator scat or urine on it would help (mountain lion or coyote). Hmmm — now to track some down though.

@ai6yr isn’t this a sign that the weather currents (jet stream) are destabilizing. Not good.

@ai6yr barf

Lavender and white flower head with whitish wooly phyllaries

and white flower head with whitish wooly phyllaries

Lady lying down on gravel road to take pictures of flowers

Light purple and white flowers with whitish wooly phyllaries and leaves

Some flowers are short and it is easier just to scramble to a horizontal position to photograph them. Spring is long gone but a few Serpentine flowers are still out. San Mateo county. Wooly-flowered aster. Lessingia hololeuca. #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

@ai6yr this is very motivational to get my sewing machine back out! I was quilting a bunch for a while but put it down. I only know how to sew a quarter inch seam. A bunch of those and “boom” you have a blanket. What you are doing is much much harder.

Active shooter drills text warning that is actually a drill.

That’s a heart attack this morning. “Active shooter” warning and then Ooops - that was a DRILL. Someone needs more coffee. Only in the US - are we great yet? Our poor kids. #oops

Are you able to work into Davis? I have some contacts at elementary schools and preschools here

@conejoclint UCD is researching if there is a link between wildfire smoke and autism.

What are you looking for? This is probably not what you are looking for - but UCD PD is hiring a dispatcher. They have excellent benefits.

Cute tuxedo kitten and beautiful little grey mama with green eyes

Tuxedo kitten one year post adoption. Celebrating with Sprinkle Cake and a “one” candle. Kitten is gulping down a birthday cat-churro - his favorite treat.

Very hungry grey mama kitty with crunchies on the steps.

Cute tuxedo kitten and beautiful little grey mama with green eyes

A happy ending for the stray mama and kitten I found last year in my yard. The mom showed up first, and then brought her kitten over from where she stashed him. I was watering a plant outside and this little tuxedo kitten wandered out all wet. My neighbor found […]

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@ai6yr that is a gorgeous machine

@ai6yr or a food mill

@ai6yr would a cherry pitter work?

Black kitty peeking out from garden foliage.

Black kitty peeking out from garden foliage.

Kitty aka Buster Posey - named for the SF Giants player when my son was in little league - “doing a hide” in the goldenrod and California fuschia. This combination of plants is dense enough to keep the weeds down. The kitties all love to watch me when I garden. It […]

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@ai6yr 👀👀

Aquatic buttercup in a pond with white flowers. Note the floating pinnately lobed aquatic leaves.

Large pond filled with water with conifers at back. Kid standing at the meadow edge at right.

Aquatic buttercup with diffuse floating leaves. In a perennial pond and wet meadow north Lake Tahoe. Exploring ponds and meadows looking for frogs and other creatures. We look at iNaturalist for known locations of whatever species we are looking for, the time of […]

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Anybody following the Windy Gap Fire near Granby Colorado — Grand County. Any updates appreciated. My cousin lost her house in the Troublesome fire@a few years back. Rebuilt. Now evacuating again. #FireWx #coloradowildfires2025 #colorado

Fresh peach pie with a big piece removed on the kitchen island

Pie practice. This is pie number two — peach pie with fresh peaches delivered by two dear friends. I have my college age son home for the summer and we are trying to crack piecrust and pie. This one turned out good!

@ai6yr whoa

Rosie pink Dahlia with yellow undertones

Hot pink Dahlia with black eyed Susans in the background

Light pink Dahlia

Yellow gold Dahlia

Today’s bloomscrolling break. Dahlias. #bloomscrolling

@ai6yr thanks!