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I’m re-reading A Writing Life by Annie Dillard. Here’s a favorite passage.

I’m tea-dying paper today. Rice, mulberry, wet strength tissue papers, in rooibos tea. Smells delicious.

This petite painting captures the hues of golden sunflowers against a viridian backdrop. The oil paint is applied in thick, luscious brushstrokes, imbuing the painting with beautiful color and texture. "Viridian Sunflowers" Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson 2025 9 x 12 in Original Available 3D Textured Replicas Available Canvas Prints Available

This petite painting captures the hues of golden sunflowers against a viridian backdrop.

Viridian Sunflowers
Original Oil Painting
by Erin Hanson, 2025
9 x 12 in
Original Available
www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/vi...
#originalart #art #womenartist #artist #oilpainting #sunflowers #bloomscrolling

Colorized virga in Northern New Mexico.

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) has a nice green nucleus and coma with tail that fades out to the upper left.

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) this morning at 5:40am MDT, right at the edge of astronomical twilight.

#astronomy #astrophotograpy

Old peeling desk.

My laundry room friends, Wahida and Juanita.

Falling leaves sound like
rain on the porch roof.

Honesty & awareness of the past are how we move forward, not patriotism based on false myths & erasure. I’m ashamed I didn’t learn the truth about Columbus, his missions & actions until I did independent reading while I was in graduate school.

From Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States:

"They're saying this because they want to say that you are Antifa, that you are a terrorist. That they are allowed to come after you. Don't let them get away with this."

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social is a chilling must-read: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-you-an...

Experimenting with new techniques for mixed media art. I photographed these flowers, converted to grayscale, & printed on wet strength tissue paper. Then I adhered it to a gessoed panel. The paper disappears into the background, leaving the flower and revealing whatever is underneath the tissue.

“Mark Bray, an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University… left the U.S. for Spain Thursday night due to death threats he has received after he was accused of antifa membership.”

He’s a historian of fascism, author of Antifa: The Anti Fascist Handbook. Guess what I’m reading now.

Got pallets. Going to cut them in half and use them to shelter the bushes I just planted over the winter.

We’ve got wood. Not yet stacked and covered. Still no fire needed in the wood stove. This year the company I usually order from delivered some crap stuff mixed in. I called, they’re going to make it right by delivering an extra cord. Excellent customer service! Allpine Lumber in La Jara, CO.

‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings - STAT

Storm seen from a distance. I love the open landscape that allows weather phenomena to be seen as they move across the land. ❤️NM.

Moon rising over the Sangre de Cristos Mountains, outside of Taos, NM.

Virga and a trace of a rainbow.

Something I made.

Mullein as tall as the trees.

Noisy, hungry frogs sadden farmer's life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt.

Become ungovernable

Hegseth said in his talk to the military brass that he wanted them clean shaven bc he didn’t want them looking like a bunch of Norse pagans. Personally, I think that sounds like an army worth having. Although an army of clean shaven square jawed Christian Nationalists is terrifying in another way.

Quintessential NM: coyotes left a scat message to our dogs on top of a tumbleweed at the driveway end. Coyotes and roaming dogs in our neighborhood have corners where they leave notices to all the others. The end of our driveway is one of those communication centers. Sky duly urinated on top of it.

Sept 28-29, 2025 #timelapse from Crestone, Colorado USA

There are flashes of lightning to the west that illuminate this view of the east. There's also a hint of northern lights bottom left around the 1:40 mark.

Fracture by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License

YouTube video by BookerBird66 Violent Femmes-Dance Motherf*cker Dance

When all else fails:

I love the light in the early evenings in the Fall here in northern New Mexico. Today there were thunderstorms all around but they never hit here. No rain, just distant thunder.

An assortment of found objects at our gate.

Digging through stuff and found this. Forgot I made it. Such a peculiar thing to come across something you wrote or made or forgot about. It’s like another version of your self made it.
#mixedmedia
#art
#collage

I hope pain and trauma can heal like the Japanese art of Kintsugi. I hope we heal more beautiful than before…

Billie Bond
Rosa and Aster 2924
Glazed Stoneware, reclaimed porcelain encrusted flowers, 24ct gold leaf, epoxy, Jesmonite base.