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In a world of political ghouls be a Mamdani

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). There are small undulations and kinks in the tail. Nikon D850, 500mm, ƒ/5.6, ISO 800, 30 seconds.

The waxing gibbous Moon.

Another image from Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) -- this time using the zoom lens at 500mm. Focus is just a bit soft -- operator error, of course.

Nikon D850, 500mm, ƒ/5.6, ISO 800, 30 seconds.

Bonus: gibbous waxing Moon.

#astrophotography

Last bits of brilliant yellow and orange foliage along the Rose River in Shenandoah Natl park. Water flows around the large rocks in the shallow river bed.

Looking up towards the mostly bare tree canopy. A bright blue sky with white sun shines through the tree tops.

Just past peak leaf here along the Old Blue Ridge Turnpike in Shenandoah Natl Park.

Sky-Driven Cities: When the Moon Wrote the Master Plan #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Sky-Driven Cities: When the Moon Wrote the Master Plan
Ancient North American earthworks were not enigmatic piles of soil but city-making instruments that organized neighborhoods, movement, time, food, diplomacy, and power.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth

A dark mountain ridge is silhouetted against a soft, layered sunset sky with shades of orange, yellow, and deep purple clouds. The scene feels calm and atmospheric, capturing the quiet end of the day.

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me-
and I’m feeling good. 😄
-Nina Simone

#sunrise #morning #nature #forest #photography #landscape

Wait until you hear about postal blue, which coincidentally I was discussing in class this past week.

Yeah, there's a specific blue just for the PO which is very close to SkyDome blue.

One more view of this morning’s sunrise, with me walking the beach as I do most mornings.

Dartmoor slope in dark gold with a lone hawthorn tree on the ridge

How happy I was if I could forget
To remember how sad I am
Would be an easy adversity
But the recollecting of Bloom

Keeps making November difficult
Till I who was almost bold
Lose my way like a little Child
And perish of the cold.

Emily Dickinson

“I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.”

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Connecting cutting-edge research with policy and practice for forests and communities

#FLARE2025 brings together scientists, policymakers, and Indigenous leaders in Peru to explore research for forests and livelihoods.

Learn more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/47iNEdR

#Trees4Resilience

Meet the Scientist Using Indigenous Storytelling to Save Lives Abigail Echo-Hawk, a preeminent Native American public health expert, discusses RSV, “data genocide” and positive change driven by Indigenous storytelling

🔷 The Power of Storytelling in Medicine 🔷

Abigail Echo-Hawk, a preeminent Native American public health expert, discusses RSV, “data genocide” and positive change driven by Indigenous storytelling

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Female Red-bellied Woodpecker sits on feeder, taking a rest from filling her red belly.

My girlfriend’s back!

Though the male Red-bellied Woodpeckers visit daily, she has been hard to find this summer. Hopefully, now that nesting season is over, she’ll be around a lot more. (Don’t tell the others she’s my favorite.)
🪶

A pink tobacco flower shaped like a five petal star. The leaves, a blue glass bulb and a giant fake spider web make up the background.

#bloomscrolling

Congratulations Ireland! 💚

I mean so what if bluesky is a retirement home for people who’ve been online too long, we get our little bingo nights & whatever popping.

Front view of a stocky forest bird perched on a mossy branch, showing a teal-blue throat and face, olive-brown body, and a small dark chest spot against a soft green background.

I found a very friendly Keel-billed Motmot just a few minutes away at Heliconias Rainforest Lodge. These birds are typically very elusive, but I hung out with this one for an hour or so. It was so comfortable with me, it flew behind me to catch insects to eat and then went back to its perch.

#birds

Me a little out of focus holding my enormous black cat Snufkin who - and I cannot stress this enough - is truly huge

Snufkin alert

A gravel road passing under a sunlit cliff face with a colorful red tree growing out of it

Stone and wood gates in front of evergreen, orange and yellow trees

Fall colors, a lake, hills and granite boulders in the foreground

Bright red bushes in front of a pond

A few pics from my bike ride in Acadia NP (Passamaquoddy and Penobscot territory) yesterday and one from my run today. Fall colors still popping!

@actualkatherine.bsky.social 🤔

Already melting, natch. Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Wings's newest. No, it's not up on the site yet; I took the shot without the bail even being...

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Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

The rains arrived shortly after this moment of light accenting the Fall hues along the slough.

Just before the rains arrived 📷 🍂…

Nothing received yet. Please help! 💕💸

A tiny. buff-colored dog in a bee costume.

Got licked by a bee

Me standing in front of a huge pile of squash at varying stages of ripeness I am holding the biggest one.

Winter squash harvest 🎃

Maurice and his brother Skinny.

Skinny and his brother Maurice.

It's fall portrait day for Maurice and Skinny D. Cat. #CatsofBluesky

A picture of a mushroom with a blurred background. The mushroom has cream and brow hues.

A picture of a mushroom with a top knocked off. The top is upside down and shows miniscule inner walls.

A picture of a mushroom with a bulbous head

A picture of a mushroom with organic matter on its top

Mushrooms!

A picture of pine trees in the background with blue skies and growing brush in the foreground

A picture of the outdoors with clouds resting non the blue skies looking down at a growing forest

I needed this badly

#eastcoast
#nys
#fall

I've been meaning to go to the mall lately.

The mall:




#eastcoast
#nys
#fall