Grace🌸⚾🩷

The Americans need to report their IQ like they report their weather. It says 67 but feels like 5.

It's a weird month.

A bright, light blue damsel fly is sitting on a piece of seas grass. Its thorax is mostly blue, with some black stripes. The abdomen/tail is blue and black striped.

Since bumblebees and dragonflies are already taken, what about damselflies, like this Boreal Bluet?

A shiny dark blue bird with a white belly and throat stands on an elegantly curving branch against a leafy green background.

The absolute elegance and shine of a Tree Swallow is always a delight

#birds 🌿

An aeolid nudibranch on the surface of a birght red sponge. It has a white head with purple-tipped rhinopores and tentacles. The length of its body is covered in pale blue, white-tipped cerata. #Macro #UnderwaterPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

An aeolid nudibranch, Anilao. No idea what sort, alas.

#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿

A young-ish Cactus Wren shows off beautiful 'speckled' plumage as it scours the apparently barren wasteland that is my gravel backyard for crumbs of suet dropped by the piggish finches on my feeder above, not pictured.

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
~Eckhart Tolle

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📸 Cactus Wren, the largest Wren in the US! Generally. 🪶

#WrensDay 🌿
#CactusWren
#BirdPhotography
#Birding
#Birds

Amen!
Hallelujah! 🙌🏾
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#MorningPrayer
Before dawn, Lord,
the women went to your tomb:
fearful, despondent; all was over.
They returned with joy and hope,
with exhilaration
at your new life bursting forth,
and excitement
in the new dawn of your kingdom.
May our lives be transformed
by your resurrection.

Amen
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#MorningPrayer
Keep our hearts and minds,
our focus and faith,
fixed on you, Lord;
upon your call
and your kingdom.
Let us be not distracted,
diverted or derailed
by the lures of selfish gain,
but nourished and nurtured
by your gift of yourself,
ready to share your love with all.

Simple flowers on the ends of thin branches are silhouetted against the full moon in a dark sky

The clouds retreated just in time for some moon shots before bed. I love the changes in the trees now that spring is here

#MoonSilhouette 🌿

Amen.🌿
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#MorningPrayer
Fill us, Lord Jesus,
with your Spirit
and with your wisdom,
that we may discern today
your presence among us
and welcome you with joy.
Keep our focus on your agenda
and on your kingdom
rather than our selfish desires,
that we may follow
where you lead,
to new life.

A house finch with a rosy red face and breast, perched on a branch and giving us the eye

Getting checked out by a male house finch. They built a nest outside the kitchen window and get upset every time the door opens. 🌿🦉

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Hand embroidered artwork of a Superb Fairy Wren on a branch with a green fabrics background

#BlueSkyMonday
"Superb Fairy Wren"
Thread painting - hand embroidery artwork
#birds #WildlifeArt

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 86

In the time it takes to blink your eyes flying #bees will beat their wings approximately 65 times.

‘Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings…’
- John Gillespie Magee Jr

#bumblebees
#nature
🐝🌍

Words often feel inadequate in nature 🌍

Hakuna Matata?

Camera traps are a relatively non-invasive observation method, but that doesn't mean they go unnoticed. Some inhabitants of Murchison Falls National Park, where we are carrying out multiple species monitoring, are VERY observant.

They soon realise there's nothing to worry about. 🌍🦇🧪

Making a face platter from start to finish. Super sped up art process video. #artprocess #potteryvideo #ceramics #pottery #platter #plate #sculpture #face #timelapse #clayart #art #handmade #makersgonnamake #creative #craft #clay

Another cathedral style mug with my new glaze on it.

#art #clay #ceramics #pottery #mugs

The plants on this travel mug will be popping up in my yard again soon. The peeper frogs in the ponds are warbling and spring is imminent #ceramics #pottery #art

Moorcroft Pottery The Winter's Tale 769/6 Rachel Bishop Limited Edition of 250

Moorcroft Pottery The Winter's Tale 769/6 Rachel Bishop
Limited Edition of 250
#MoorcroftPottery #TheWintersTale #Art #Shaskespeare #Ceramics #Stratford
www.bwthornton.co.uk/moorcroft.php

Allen’s hummingbird and cape honeysuckle

Allen’s hummingbird and cape honeysuckle. 🌿🪶

Great horned owl well hidden in a palm tree

Great horned owl well hidden in a palm tree. 🌿🪶

Zoomed-in shot of small rattlesnake resting, while curled up among dead leaves and scattered green grass.

Same small rattlesnake from further away, when we were on our way back an hour later. Hard to distinguish from the brown twigs and leaves and grasses in their area.

Our snaky friends are out and about these days, so I wanted to share this juvenile Northern Pacific Rattlesnake that my fellow hiker spotted on Friday, at Bouverie Preserve. S/he blended in so well that it took me a while to see! 💚

#Snakes #Reptiles #NaturePhotos #iNat #Hiking #NorCal 📷🐍

A woodpecker perches on the side of a wide tree trunk, its back blending in well with the bark.

A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker demonstrating some impressive camouflage. I heard it tapping away well before I saw it.

#birds 🌿

I'm continuing to enjoy the shapes made by ferns

#NativePlants 🌿 #SignsOfSpring

A wood anemone is just a bunch of yellow tulips

#macromonday #macrophotography #stacking #laowa25mm
#woodanemone #yellowtulips #anemonenemorosa #vitsippa #vårtecken #naturephotography

Houdini Fly (Cacoxenus indagator) Houdini Fly from Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA on April 14, 2020 at 08:06 AM by Colin Purrington

Here's an adult Houdini fly (Drosophilidae). They lurk around insect hotels and dart into mason bee nests to lay eggs. Again, please post your pics on iNaturalist so we can track the spread of this pest in the United States. www.inaturalist.org/observations...