Patsy Cline

The Trump administration has unfurled banners on the Department of Education building featuring Booker T. Washington, Catharine Beecher, and Charlie Kirk. Washington and Beecher were influential figures in American education whose legacies shaped schools and teaching nationwide.

Primroses, hedge bedstraw, ivy, grass, leaf litter - in the bank of a hedgerow, Dartmoor, Devon

Primroses, hedge bedstraw, ivy - bank of a hedge #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour

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"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The Open Window", 2025.
Mark Beck (American Artist, born 1957)
Acrylic on Canvas

"Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?"

~ David Baldacci, ‘The Camel Club.’

#Illustration

A 3×3 collage of close-up photographs of daffodils in bloom, showing different varieties in shades of yellow and white. Some have bright golden trumpets, others pale petals with contrasting cups, all set against soft green garden backgrounds.

According to old tradition, daffodils bloom around 1st March in honour of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales. His feast day falls on this date and coincides with the beginning of meteorological spring. #StDavidsDay #FolkloreSunday

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Good Afternoon 🕊️

Good Afternoon 🕊️ #SundayYellow #orchids #phalaenopsis #flowers #indoorplants #nature

#FlowerReport for this Sunday morning 🌄☕. Coastal SC 🌅💐☕❤️🙌💐🌷🌷🌷🌷💫🫶🙏 Peace on earth 🌍🙏🫶🌍.

“Rabbit Rabbit.” Iranian tile with two rabbits, two snakes and a tortoise. #Iran #Art #FlowerReport

Join us ! 🌺🌼🌸

Finally, I have something for the #flowerReport. it’s not much, but with the rest of my yard buried under several inches of snow this is a big deal. tulip time is coming to N NJ.

And please don’t forget to support your local #journalism.

Multicolored tulips: pink, yellow and red, red and orange. With green stems and leaves.

My tulips are blooming. I dedicate these to everyone opposed to war, violence, and suffering.

🌱 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

A bunch of bright pink tulips reach for the sky

A long row of beautiful pink tulips in a garden bed

Oodles of pink tulips for the #FlowerReport

#bloomscrolling #Flowers #NaturePhotography #gardening

Dermatophyllum secundiflorum, aka Texas mountain laurel (unrelated to true mountain laurel), a local stunner with fragrant purple flowers.

Cercis, possibly cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, under blue sky with scattered white clouds.

A yellow jasmine (I think…can anyone ID?), growing in someone’s front yard.

I bring you a special traveling #FlowerReport from Austin, Tx:
Texas mountain laurel, redbud, and yellow jasmine

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Cherry blossoms, SF East Bay #FlowerReport #California

#March1st is #MeteorologicalSpring and it shows here in #MyGarden 😍

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #March #FlowerReport

Shown: A basket of a variety of tulips growing indoors, in shades of yellow and pink.

Sunday #FlowerReport from S Wisconsin: the basket of tulip bulbs at peak bloom. I have enjoyed watching them emerge over the past 4 weeks. Best wishes and kind regards, dear correspondents. Meteorological spring begins today.

My photo of another of my camellia blooms this morning and tucked away just behind the bloom is a little wasp nest.

A lovely camellia bloom from my #garden is giving me joy this morning, and if you look just behind this lovely, you'll spot a little wasp nest tucked away. Sometimes, it's the little things that makes you smile.🌱☘️🍃
#FlowerReport #bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography

A close-up, color photo of a head of a Victoria Crowed Pigeon. They're known for their blue lace-like & elegant crested heads & red eyes. 📷 Frank Aulich Sept. 29, 2025

#BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin
#Blue

"Crowned by Nature"

A Victoria Crowned Pigeon is the largest of their species, known for it's striking appearance, blue, lace-like & elegant crowned heads & red eyes.

#Birds #Birdsky
#Pigeons #Nature
#BirdPhotography
#BirdWatching
#Photography
#PhotographyIsArt

#SundayYellow
"Take me with you",said the petals to the sky, wanting to be where you are,where the gold meets the blue and the sun never learned to say goodbye 🧡

Several good big clumps of miniature daffodils, growing from a grass verge still littered with last autumn's leaves, a sheltered spot in full sun (when available) in front of a dry stone wall

The first day of March, the first day of meteorological spring and the first eruption of little golden trumpets.

Daffodil 'tete-a-tete' for #SundayYellow 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #UKGardening

#SundayYellow #BirdOfTheDay A Male stonechat surrounded by yellow gorse bushes from our local heath.

#SundayYellow #BirdOfTheDay A Male stonechat surrounded by yellow gorse bushes from our local heath.

Dozens of false sunflowers blooming from my July garden . Smaller version of sunflowers with deep yellow petals and yellow orange centre and dark green glossy leaves .

Sunshine memories on a snowy and cold Sunday morning!

Happy first of March.

#SundayYellow
#Stunday
#MyGarden
#gardening
#Flowers
#falsesunflowers
#bloomscrolling

Gold Stars also known as Spring Gold, tiny member of sunflower family, blooming 2/27/2026 on the exterior grounds Fort Simcoe State Park, near White Swan, WA…
#stunday #WashingtonisBeautiful #PNW
#wildflowers #bloomscrolling #photo
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#WashingtonState #SundayYellow

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FourOrMore, captures of 4 or more birds in 1 photo, the Alt theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue in its plumage.

Here are groups of Black-headed Gulls, Lapwings, Coors & Teal.

#birds #EastCoastKin #photography #CanonR5mkii #ukbirding #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social

A tight flock of red knots sweeps low over the shoreline of Lough Foyle, their pale winter plumage glowing creamy white against a soft blue-grey sea. Wings are fully outstretched and slightly blurred with motion, revealing silvery underwings edged in darker tips. Their short, straight bills point forward in unison as they bank together, yellow-green legs tucked neatly beneath streamlined bodies. Droplets of water hang in the air below them, suggesting they have just lifted from the tideline, moving as one coordinated wave over the calm coastal waters. Interesting facts about red knots: • Red knots are remarkable long-distance migrants, travelling up to 15,000 km between Arctic breeding grounds and wintering sites as far south as Africa and South America. • In breeding plumage they turn a rich brick-red on the chest and face — a dramatic change from the pale grey winter tones seen here. • Lough Foyle is an internationally important site for wintering waders, and red knots rely on estuaries like this to refuel on shellfish and small invertebrates. • They can almost double their body weight before migration, storing fat to power nonstop flights over vast distances. • Red knots often feed by touch, probing mudflats with sensitive bills to detect buried prey without needing to see it.

Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social has said today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FourOrMore, captures of 4 or more birds in 1 photo, the Alt theme is #Blue, Blue in its plumage. Gone with Red Knots, migratory shorebirds, visit here in winter from arctic regions. #birds #EastCoastKin

Interesting facts in Alt

#Stunday Tête-à-têtes on the balcony!!
🌿🩵☀️🩵🌿 Have a fab Sunday folks!! #EastCoastKin
🌿🩵🌿💛🌿🩵🌿 #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #SundayYellow #photography #BlueSky #sunshine #FlowerReport #DailyFlowers #Manchester #springtime #MyBalcony