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We are seeing autumn reds on maple trees and others much earlier this year, these were taken in Pound, VA on the southern side of Pine Mountain.

What Israel is doing and has been doing for nearly two years now in Gaza is simply wrong, immoral, and utterly horrific and the U.S. government (and by extension we the citizens) are complicit in this unless we loudly, publicly say NO.

One September long past this little grasshopper stayed still long enough to have their portrait taken.

the hat he has on going to the vehicle is NOT the same hat as the one where he is shaking hands with Gruden. Different patch on the side.

Early every Sunday morning hubs and I have breakfast at our locally owned casual dining place. Been doing it for more than a decade. Great community resource. Love the folks work there. Usually pretty quiet at 8 am.

I created this account while my primary account was suspended for two weeks. Found I liked having a feed that wasn't clogged with lots of posts from people trying to "boost" accounts. Not planning on following back people who don't make original posts on a regular basis.

lots of green vegetation, a mass of white virgin's bower blooms with a large yellow and black butterfly, off to the right a small dark purple bunch of ironweed flowers

close up of a yellow rose from my yard, green background

three yellow roses in various stages of bloom against the backdrop of a mowed lawn and dark trees.

A butterfly in the yard, and my roses winding down for the year.

a weathered wooden fence choked by virgin bower and the earliest hint of goldenrod just starting to bloom.

a frond of goldenrod against green leaves and the ground.

at the end of August the golden rod is just beginning to show up (one from this year and one from a past year).

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder?

“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

Dream Themes How Real Life Anxiety Invades Our Dreams

no rest for the weary
reflectionsofasociologist.substack.com/p/dream-themes

for many of us at least one of these conditions is already part of our medical history, so claiming it makes no difference as it is already written into the medical record.

driveway gravel, some weeds and a red spotten newt eft (the juvenile form) bright orange with red spots partially outlined in black.

driveway gravel, some weeds and a red spotten newt eft (the juvenile form) bright orange with red spots partially outlined in black.

the weather channel tells me that we will have at least another 10 days of these marvelous cool nights before it warms up again. I often see these red spotted newt efts in late August when it cools, haven't spotted one yet this year so this is from a few years ago.

👏 I would use it several times a week. I'm particularly interested in climate science and find that many folks in that area post in languages other than English. I already use the links to Google translate at least that often, so maybe more often as it would be more convenient.

YouTube video by MSW Media Women in Independent Media

If you haven't seen this yet, be sure to watch it. If the present political/social/economic moment has you terrified, overwhelmed, and feeling alone, be absolutely sure to watch to the very last second!
youtu.be/zOjHo_C8Pt8?...

I use it have all my life, but I'm 74 and read a lot of 19th century literature as a child.

a car windshield damp with dew, reflecting blue sky and white cumulous clouds, and a single yellow-brown maple leaf with many holes in it sitting on the windshield.

Overnight temperatures dipped to 50 F, a tiny harbinger of autumn in the air, and on my car windshield.

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🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections Learn more here.

🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted.

A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!

*UPS is laying off employees and/or offering buyouts due to tariffs (less shipments coming here), and people are ordering less because we’re all struggling.

We are about to CRASH CRASH. Buckle up!

*Source - my brother works for UPS and told me plus I just Googled it to confirm.

we see this a lot in the voluntary trees (mostly tulip poplar and maple) that take root in our chain-link fence line, we'll cut them back and they will after some rains flush new growth again, and have to be cut back again.

we don't get as many wild sunflowers these days because the trees have grown up closer to the yard and there's too much shade, so these are from Augusts past. I do miss these shiny yellow faces.

1984, a AT&T PC with 512K RAM and two floppy drives, purchased by my university employer but due to security problems we were encouraged to take them home and use them from home. Not connected to the internet. Used WordPerfect on Floppy disks.

a rough barked maple tree, some weeds and a beautiful orange and white cat.

An orange and white cat sitting among grass and other vegetation next to a chain-link fence.

Today are some pictures of my cat Jake back when he was feral and lived outdoors. He's been indoors for six years and isn't feeling too well, so has to go to the vet for a few days to figure out what's going on.

a mass of tiny white blossoms, four petals each with large numbers of stamens on each blossom against dark green foliage.

a close up of a cluster of virgins bower flowers (small, white four petaled) with a large bumble bee.

extreme close up of a tiny cluster of virgin's bower flowers (small, white, four petaled with multiple stamens) with a large bumble bee busily extracting nectar.

One of my favorite wildflowers blooms in late August, called virgin's bower, it is a opportunistic vine that weaves its way through other wild shrubs, and has a delicate white blossom. First picture is this year, the one's with bumble bees from previous years.

Poke berries

joe pye weed and iron weed against the forest edge

Jewel weed, which provides food for a host of different pollinators including hummingbirds which are currently migrating through our area of Kentucky.

Restarting my series of daily posts of mostly flora & fauna in my neck of the eastern Kentucky woods. Photographs are from past as well as present, all photographs were taken by me, & unless otherwise designated are from eastern Kentucky, either my local neighborhood, my yard or local region.

Since Bluesky has not responded, I decided to create a new account, but am making no attempt to hide my identity (quite the contrary), or "get away" with violating standards.
Here's to new life on Bluesky.