Carey King

“I voted” sticker.

In the mailbox! Si!

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

#WarRavagedPortland

Thank you!

White spider on the last of the French Lace roses.

#BlueSkyArtShow
Many of the #StunDay posts are of big beauty. Little can be beauty, too.

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white … (Robert Frost, but without the moth)

Brown female flame skimmer dragonfly

Female flame skimmer dragonfly
#InsectThursday

Dahlia, close up.

My last dahlia of 2025.
#MacroMonday

I always wrap my styrofoam in Saran while the paint dries. Doesn’t everyone?

I have a video of a heron in our orchard, stalking and catching … a gopher. Who knew?

Awkward landing by nuthatch

Nuthatch: nice routine but did not stick the landing.

In a word: yes.

A denizen of the US Left Coast here. I’ve asked a friend in New York to text me when it starts so I have time to change into fresh unmentionables. If The Rapture goes west to east though, the deities will have to take me as I am.

Or leave me as I am. That works too.

Rusted metal angel wing on angled wire grid

Oh. // #angles //
#BlueSkyArtShow

Almond cake with figs

Not much of a baker, me, but managed a pretty tasty almond fig cake with the last of the conadrias.

As always, an accusation from a MAGAt is a confession.

A boatload of heirloom tomatoes awaiting their journey to sauce.

A couple of days ago we canned our third batch of sauce; probably 50 quarts. I thought we were done. But no.

I never want to see another tomato as long as I live.

Thank you! I have a last batch of conadrias that are just coming ripe. Yum!

Just … LOL.

Mine picks his own. Andalsotoo, strawberries.

TY!

Antique door hardware

#BlueSkyArtShow #shiny
Antique door hardware

Heirloom tomatoes in a basket

#FoodOnFriday
Early in the season, you pick a single Early Girl, a small handful of Sungolds, waiting impatiently for the real harvest.

Then they all come ripe at once.

Those townsfolk make my heart sing.

Skyline reflected in a wall of windows

#BlueSkyArtShow #skyline

Masterful.

Shadow of tread slats

#BlueSkyArtShow #jagged

Pomegranate seeds on starburst plates

#FoodOnFriday
Pomegranates and pottery

I don’t know what quirk of the algorithm gods landed me in your sphere but hallelujah.

Rapt. Simply rapt.

Yeah. I’ll take “Things that did not, do not, and never will happen for eleventy zillion dollars, Alex.”