Ken Goering

I enjoy re-watching “Home For The Holidays” (1995), with Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, and a pre-Marveled RDJ, every four to five years. More serious, IIRC, than most holiday movies, but definitely has its comedic moments.

A mostly blue bird, about the size of an American robin, with a gray chest and belly is perched on a bare tree branch. The bird is perched in side profile with its head turned slightly toward the camera.

A Woodhouse's scrub-jay perches on a bare branch along the Kayenta Trail in Zion National Park last weekend. The steep walls of Zion Canyon would prevent the sun from reaching this tree for at least another hour. #birds #nationalparks #utah

A tiny bird, about the size of a ping-pong ball, with a very long and slender beak is perched at the top of a bare tree branch. The bird has iridescent green feathers on its wings, tail, and along its back. It is perched in side profile. The sky in the background is clear blue.

This Anna's hummingbird had a steady perch just outside the dog park in our Las Vegas campground all winter last year. We arrived at the same campground for the winter yesterday, and I was really happy to see the little guy on the same treetop again this morning. #birds #lasvegas #nevada

They’re still tied.

On a night of magnificent Bluesky content in re: this game, you continue to shine.

The game will be over mid-November; you didn’t miss much.

Tomorrow’s (today’s) newsletter still on time?

Seriously speaking, Steven, I honestly didn’t know any of that happened to you until today (missed some s#it between Twitter and Bluesky). I admire your writing, and I don’t admire a lot; I’m glad you’re on this side of it.

Stay loose, just in case.

Southpaw?

I mean, no one is pro-cancer; I don’t think we needed the Jonas Brothers to convince us otherwise during an MLB World Series game.

I just love major league baseball. Sometimes it makes absolutely no sense, and it’s all the more entertaining for it.

The ump’s strike zone is an ever-mutating amoeba-shaped ellipse. Fascinating, unless one has a rooting interest in this game.

That was just weird, right? That shouldn’t go unnoticed for programming decisions in future MLB series.

Deep cut, Patrick.

Thank you, Vinny. I’m lucky king forward to reading your gamer tomorrow morning.

A small pale-blue bird is perched on a wooden railing. It is perched with its body forward and is looking to its left. Its wings are folded inward.

A mountain bluebird monitors the goings-on at our campground's dog run in Parowan, Utah, last week. #birds #utah

A small bird is perched at the top of a brown metal structure. The bird is very pale blue and white, and the late-afternoon sun is darkening both colors. The bird is perched facing toward the camera and looking to its right.

A lovely mountain bluebird enjoys the last moments of the late-afternoon golden hour. Photo taken last week in Parowan, Utah. These birds added a lot of pretty color to our stay in Parowan. #birds #utah

A small bird, mostly light brown and gray, is perched on the top of a bare tree limb. Its black beak is very sharply pointed. The bird is in side profile, and the Utah sky in the background is bright blue.

When I saw this bird before photographing it, I thought it was a female house finch. However, it's a pine siskin, and it's a lifer! Photographed in Parowan, Utah, last week. #birds #utah

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

A small bright-yellow bird is perched on a bare tree branch against a brilliant blue Utah sky. The bird has some darker brown feathers on its head. It is in three-quarter profile. Fillmore's current population is about 2,600; the population of Salt Lake City is about 200,000 and 1.3 million people live in the SLC metropolitan area.

A lesser goldfinch surveys the greater Fillmore, Utah, region earlier this week. Fillmore was intended to be the capital of the Utah Territory and construction started on a capitol building (still standing) in 1852. The legislature decided in 1856 to move the capital to Salt Lake City. #birds #utah

Nope — their numbers got really low in the early 20th century, but they’ve rebounded quite well (I read that current population nationwide is 7 million).

Several large birds are walking away from the camera. They have a wide variety of brown-colored feathers, with longer dark-brown tail feathers, and their heads are bare.

A small flock of wild turkeys at our campground in central Utah earlier this week. They weren't particularly interested in having their pictures taken. These are large birds: adult toms weigh an average of 17 pounds (7.6 kg) and adult hens average 9.4 pounds (4.6 kg). #birds #utah

A large white bird with its huge beak open is floating on water, with a much smaller white and gray bird seemingly within its grasp (it's not). Another white and gray bird is flying over the large white bird.

I was afraid things were going to get a little chippy between these ring-billed gulls and American white pelican, but they worked out a solution to whatever was going on. Photo taken late last month on the Snake River at Massacre Rocks State Park near American Falls, Idaho. #birds #stateparks #idaho

I completely agree with this, and I’ll add that it also became okay to be a jerk in public because the nation’s chief executive was doing it all the time. And is doing it again.

A small bird, mostly different shades of brown, is hopping across a gravel hiking trail. The bird has a couple of swaths of russet-brown feathers in its head. It is in side profile and facing the right side of the image.

A lark sparrow on one of the hiking trails at Golden Spike National Historical Park in northern Utah. The park commemorates the site where, on May 10, 1869, the first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed. #birds #nationalparks #utah

Why just one? There are multiple dinosaurs available.

Back Basin at Yellowstone National Park Norris Geyser BasinSeptember 12, 2025 Norris Geyser Basin, located in the northwest quadrant of Yellowstone National Park, is one of the most active hydrothermal regions in the park and contains ra…

We spent some pleasant hours strolling about Back Basin in Yellowstone National Park’s Norris Geyser Basin earlier this month, and I had some recollections of the spectacular sights and sulfurous smells. #nationalparks #wyoming

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Two birds are in the middle of a river. The one on the left is swimming. It is black, with a long neck and a long dark-orange bill. The one on the right is much larger than the other, standing on a submerged rock. It is white with black wingtips, with a long neck and a long pale-orange bill.

In southeastern Idaho, a double-crested cormorant and an American white pelican trade fishing tips and tricks on the Snake River as it flows through Massacre Rocks State Park. #birds #stateparks #idaho