Shannon Bernardi

A head-on view of a small Canine skull, surrounded by a loose pile of its other bones.

Because I haven't posted enough about BONES on this account... fun fact: I've been cleaning, collecting, articulating skeletons for over 10 years now.

Here's a juvenile coyote skeleton, she was tragically hit by a car last summer...

#art #artist #bones #coyote #morbid #skull #skeleton #oddities

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First good bumblebee photo of the season! Unfortunately, she wasn't foraging on one of my native plants, (that's Creeping Charlie which snuck into the back lawn somehow) but at least she appeared to be very healthy.

#bees #bumblebee #bombusimpatiens #invasiveplants #nature #pollinators #wildlife

Terrifying times.....

In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

The new look for MAGA, both men & women, is a grotesque mix of plastic surgery & exaggerated porn-style makeup, all designed to signal blind loyalty to a man obsessed with image over any actual policy. "Mar-a-Lago face" is a disturbing display of submission to Trump's toxic, narcissistic power trip.

Three biodegradable "peat pots" in a sunny window. Each pot has 2 or 3 healthy, green, 4 inch tall native plant seedlings growing out of it.

Something positive! My Desmodium canadense seedlings are looking amazing!! Can't wait to get these babies in the ground...

#bees #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #seeds #wintersow #green

dubbing this political epoch in the US "The Stupids"

#resist #trump #humor

Close up image of a delicate yellow Eastern prickly pear flower, with a few water droplets on the petals.

I am so fn excited for the next season of rewilding our yard! Here's a shot of Eastern prickly pear, Opuntia humifusa, growing happily amongst a shabby patch of turfgrass. 6.25.2024

#cactus #flowers #gardening #nativeplants #rewild

Some of y'all have never seen an early 2000s Darwin fish bumper decal, and it shows

#evolution #humor #ichthys #religion #science #oc

Just saying.

Economic blackout day! I still went to my favorite locally owned coffee shop, showing them a little extra love by purchasing a 40$ box of handmade chocolates, in addition to my usual order of a single chai latte ☕️✨️

#blackout #resist #shoplocal

Something positive - my Desmodium canadense seedlings (babies 🌱) are 1 month old today!

#nativeplants #bees #goodnews #gardening #resistancegarden #wildlife

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they're selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: we may be many and they be few but they need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. ― Arundhati Roy, War Talk

"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they're selling: their ideas, their notion of inevitability.

We may be many & they be few but they need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. I can hear her breathing.” - Arundhati Roy

Thank you for your hard work!

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Some good news, my Desmodium canadense seedlings are looking happy in their low tech winter sowing set up....

#nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #ecology #bees

This morning, for the first time in my life, I phoned my state Senators to voice my grave concerns about Elon Musk.......

#politics #endfascism #Muskrat

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Mentally I'm field dressing the Qanon Shaman

#resist #resistance #trump #Qanon #hunting #huntress #TGIF #politics

A close-up of a striped sweat bee foraging on purple Echinacea flower. The flower is part of my front lawn pollinator pathway, and in the background is the grey pavement of the road.

Don't mind the pavement in the background. Patchy front lawns and "hell strips" are ideal for small, beginner friendly pollinator gardens.

This female striped sweat bee, Agapostemon virescens, is nourished by our Echinacea planting.
#animals #bees #flowers #garden #nature #pollinatorgarden

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.

What a cuck

A view as seen from the foot of our driveway. Looking out over a roadside hedge of native wils flowers, including orange butterfly weed, yellow coreopsis, and tall annual Fleabane.

Our front lawn pollinator pathway, same perspective as yesterday's post. Photo taken July 2024... we had a lot of annual Fleabane volunteers last year.

#bees #climatechange #garden #ecology #entomology #nature #milkweed #nativeplants #naturalyard #rewild #sustainability #homegrownnationalpark

Our humble little front yard "pollinator pathway", asleep for the winter

#bees #entomology #ecologicallandscape #garden #pollinators #pollinatorpathway #snow #winter #wildlife #homegrownnationalpark

TGIF.....

A small patch of Eastern prickly pear cactus, some of which have yellow flowers, growing in the author's front lawn. A paved road is in the far background.

My Eastern prickly pear, Opuntia humifusa, has been loving and expanding on its home (our front lawn) since it was first installed in May 2021

#cactus #plants #Opuntia #ecologicallandscape #rewild #naturalyard #killyourlawn

For the love of Pete Buttigieg, please consider that posting AI generated images of Trump & Musk on a platform that Trump & Musk are banned from isn’t going to do jack squat for democracy OR the limited supply of water that these wasteful AI technologies use to cool down their data centers.

Also, this shouldn’t need be said aloud - but if you think that using AI-generated photos of Trump & Musk as naked & fat to bully and shame them

is useful or helpful to democracy, then you should check the age on your driver’s license and make sure you made it past the 5th grade.

A close up of a monarch butterfly which landed on a pink Chrysanthemum flower. The butterfly's antenna are pointed downward toward the surface of the flower. It is very muxh engaged in sipping nectar from the blossom

Perks of being seasonal help at the local garden center

#pollinators #monarchbutterfly #nature #wildlife

A little less lawn this year...

#bumblebee #bees #climatechange #garden #sunflowers #killyourlawn #rewild

Working from home today, but plauged by feelings of survivors guilt from being fortunate enough to say that I worked from home today

#home #workfromhome #feels