NorCal Lynne 🍂

Greenish-yellow butterfly with pink wing edges is perched on a tiny cluster of three white aster blooms with yellow centres.

Last of the season - Clouded(?) Sulphur butterfly
#invertebrates

SNAP is also a jobs/subsidy program for American farmers, so reducing how much the feds buy and send to food banks hurts farms across the country.

A bright pink dahlia with red-striped petals. In the background, additional pink and red dahlias and assorted greenery, moderately blurry.

A burst of color for your feed: dahlia #bloomscrolling

View of the mountainous landscape in the interior of Iceland with interesting rock formations in the foreground. Wild landscape of the Icelandic highlands in the evening light.

ISLANDSKÁ VYSOČINA…
fotka z nedávné návštěvy jižního vnitrozemí Islandu 🇮🇸

#bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature #iceland

A male Anna’s Hummingbird perched on a branch with his eyes closed, with a bright red gorget, and gray front.

For the #Relax theme of the #BlueSkyArtShow, a napping hummingbird.

#birds #photography #birdphotography #annashummingbird #hummingbird #birding #nature #naturephotography

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

A charcoal drawing of three cats sleeping together in one big ball of cats.

The Cats: Tsching, Batzar and Blanc-Blanc.
Drawing by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923). National Gallery of Art. #Caturday #SciArt #Art

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian gold head ornament viewed from the front against a grey background. The headband is made of hammered sheet gold, the ends of which have been tapered to a narrower width and rolled to form loops. A string would have threaded through the loops to fasten the band around the head at the back. The front of the band is decorated with a central head of an antlered stag, identified as the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica). The stag has two large antlers, large ears and a triangular-shaped head. It is flanked on either side by two gazelle heads. The gazelle heads have long ears and long curved horns which point outwards at the tip. Between the animal heads are four 8-pointed flowers or stars. Dimensions: height of central stag 8.9, length of headband 49.5 cm. Dated to the Second Intermediate period (c. 1648-1540 BC) when northern Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos from the ancient Near East. Said to be part of a group of objects found in the Eastern Delta near Avaris, the Hyksos capital. The headband shows a mix of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian artistic styles.

Something lovely for the weekend!

Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Three very large birds with long necks and legs trailing are flying across the frame left to right. The two at the front have beaks open, calling.

Sandhill Cranes always announce their presence. So loud! #birds

Cute whiskers. 😻

Good lord

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

A collage of nine photos showing different varieties of cosmos flowers. Blooms range in color from deep pink, pale pink, and magenta to creamy yellow and pure white, all with bright yellow centers. The flowers appear both singly and in clusters against green foliage.

According to some traditions, Cosmos are another birth flower for those born in #October. Their name comes from Greek ‘κόσμος’, a word used to describe an orderly arrangement, beautiful decoration or adornment. These airy, delicate #flowers are symbols of harmony and perfection.

Happy to know you enjoyed it. 😊

Thank you 😊
It’s a favorite in my garden.

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia has sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — after Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein the 'greatest blackmailer ever' — urging him to testify before the panel about his knowledge of Epstein and his crimes.

Catch that fish! I thought the red salmon had outrun the brown bear but no so. A valiant effort though. Katmai NPP #Alaska 🦊

Yellow eyes, light through orange wings on small white and yellow flowers.

Happy Fly-day!

Orange sulfur butterfly in natural light
(Colias eurytheme)

on asters in back of a parking lot
on Elston and Webster Ave
October 2nd, in Chicago, Illinois

#eastcoastkin #FlyDay #Lepidoptera #butterflies #macroPhotography #macro #photography #nature #chicago #urbanNaturalist #art

You’re welcome. 😊💜

Thank you 😊

Screenshot of message from UPS: Hi Adam, All import fees must be paid prior to delivery. Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied. Total Amount Due 119.20 USD Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes. Pay Now ›

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Thank you. The Love Song rose in the right light is such a calming color. 💜

😊

A coyote perches on a few, small moss-covered ledges sticking out from an otherwise pretty shear limestone cliff. Boreal trees grow on the edges and on top of the cliffs.

A coyote perches on a few, small moss-covered ledges sticking out from an otherwise pretty shear limestone cliff. It's looking down at other coyotes (out of frame) on the ground. Boreal trees grow on the edges and on top of the cliffs.

A large coyote with a decent-sized fish in its mouth pauses in its climb up a limestone cliff. It's partially obscured by the frees growing on the cliffs.

As it turns out, coyotes are good climbers. They loped up and down these limestone cliffs like they were mountain goats. #mammals 🌿

Through the portal, Autumn’s Golden hues are seen highlighted by the setting Sun. ☀️ 🍂

We are getting some of Fall’s golden highlights here! 📷 🍂…

Justice Jackson is obviously correct. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE are now illegally going to have their status terminated early — as every court other than the Supreme Court has found so far.

Not a single word of justification from the Justices in the majority to justify this. NONE. Not one.

Both photos are a butterfly called a California sister. The first shot is wings open , the second wings closed.

California sister butterfly. Wings open & wings closed. 🌿 #invertebrates

Trump administration slashes $550 million in Colorado clean energy grants. Democrats call it revenge. Mostly blue states, like Colorado, are losing $7.5 billion in federal clean energy grants. Democrats say it is an act of political revenge.

The Trump administration’s cancellation of over $550 million in Federal funds for energy projects across Colorado — including critical programs at Colorado State University in Fort Collins — is UNLAWFUL.

We will use every legal and legislative tool to reverse it.