Lisa DiDio

Macro photo of bright orange petals, showing slightly less than the upper half of the flower (a marigold). The tips of the petals are catching the sunlight and glowing. Black background.

A burst of color for your Monday: Calendula (aka marigold).

#photography #MacroMonday #flowers #FlowerReport #bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #nature

You first.

LOVE

A blooming calla lily.

Indigo grape hyacinth blossoms burst from a tuft of green foliage.

A cluster of hot pink gerbera daisies in bloom.

Hello from the garden, where it’s beginning to look like spring. 🌱

#gardenskye

they really thought they could stop theater kids by threatening them with negative attention

For our own safety: as the Frizz, I AM DECLARING THE AGE OF SCOLDING OVER

We do not ask what protests we are attending

We do not talk about organizing

We do not talk about what resistance groups we may or may not be a part of

THESE ARE NOT SOCIAL MEDIA SAFE ACTIVITIES

Anyone else feeling extra spicy about doing their taxes this year?

Happy book birthday! This looks fabulous. Adding to my list.

Good times! Happy V Day!

I spent yesterday adding words to pictures and glaze to bisque ware. Today is for wheel time. My hands are itching to be covered in clay.

#pottery #ceramicssky #artfeed

Digital illustration of Gunnison Sage-Grouse at a lek, where males display for choosy females by dancing and inflating their bright yellow chest sacs. The ground in early spring is still covered in snow.

This valentine's day, take some courting tips from these Gunnison Sage Grouse. Go to the club, puff out your chest, dance, and give a complex series of booms, pops, and whistles. 🪶🎨🐡🧪 (for @instbirdpop.bsky.social annual report, 2021)

Promote your books. Share your art, your music, pictures of your garden, sunsets, your cats. Help us remember that beauty and joy—and cool stories—are out there just waiting for our attention.

A writer's greatest fear isn't rejection. It's accidentally using the same word within two paragraphs of each other

Your art is gorgeous and watercolors are HARD. 😅

Three wolves in a tall grass prairie The photo is pretty fuzzzy because of the hi Iso and the type of lens I used. It's not a great photo from a technical point of view but as aa thumbnail it's adequate. The composition is great tho so.....

Introducing
Wolf Wednesday

I heard of crown shyness for the first time last week and here it is again. So cool.

A chunky tabby lounges on a pair of round ivory pillows, looking restful and pleased.

Jasper hopes you take a time out (or two) today.

#cats #catsofbluesky #catsky

Beautiful!

This is stunning.

Welcome, Emily! I’m happy to see you here.

It's a fox in a tree. That's not a metaphor for anything, but there is a long crooked branch coming off the trunk of a dogwood -- the branch goes from lower right to upper left. And upon that branch is a red (really, orange) fox. The fox is lean and long -- a narrow snout, ears tucked back a bit, floofy talk curled downward. The fur is mostly orange but peppered with a kind of faded orange-gray at the haunches. The fox is trying to get to a bird feeder that is out of frame. So, to me that means, the fox is in a tree and going for the bird food, which suggests foxes are birds. It's just science. Foxes are birds. Nothing matters anyway, so foxes might as well be birds. Tell everyone. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

Already the news is rather, um, effervescent this morning, so let's all just stop here and rest and enjoy this bird break, featuring a photo of what is definitely, absolutely a bird

(photo by me)

All, I just saw someone post to bring up one topic per call for staffers.

Here's why I've consistently said it's not a good idea based on experience as a constituent affairs director (current staffers, feel free to correct me...! ):

If you call too much, you start developing a rep in the office.

So excited for this!

illustration showing a variety of items spread out - a book, tarot deck, feather, lighter, keys, scissors, makeup, mini cauldron, candle, safety pins, shark's tooth, leaves, a spider, a hair tie, bones, little perfume bottles, crumpled tissue.

what's in a witch's bag 🖤🗝️🗡️💄🕷️🧷

Never going to stop shouting about this. You need to buy trans books now. Especially in hardcopy or DRM free formats.

Don't say "it'll never happen." Look around. It's already happening.

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Copy editors don't need to know everything.

Copy editors simply need to possess constant curiosity, the instinct to look up things that smell even slightly off, the ability to listen to what a writer is doing before laying down the law, and a dictionary or two.

It’s a good time to share our skills and expertise.

Excellent!