Katura Reynolds

YouTube video by Sesame Street Sesame Street: Ernie Learns to Put Down The Duckie

Some of the best life advice cane from Sesame Street (no surprise) youtu.be/acBixR_JRuM?...

Low-key parenting milestone: teaching the kid how to put a bicycle on the bus rack.

I like it when Seattle coffee shops play Jimi Hendrix. (Feels like it doesn't happen nearly as often as one would expect.)

Large woodpecker, black with white face stripes and a jaunty red crest, on a tree trunk in a city park

Large woodpecker, black with white face stripes and a jaunty red crest, on a tree trunk in a city park

Please enjoy this pileated woodpecker, who is proud to be flinging bark chips everywhere in search of buggos.

White summer fedora set jauntily on a desk at Seattle Public Library's central branch

Busy summer of doing things: feels good to finally step back into my old routine of writing and drawing at the library again.

always bears repeating & boosting: in this environment, doing things slowly and well is a form of resistance

5 things you can do if you’re pissed off about the latest Trump EO Donald Trump opened an area of about 250 million acres of protected American waters to industrial fishing fleets on Thursday.  This sets a very dangerous precedent that our public lands and wa…

Do you like the idea of mining, logging, and drilling in National Parks? Then you'll LOVE the latest executive order opening our ocean parks to commercial fishing.

Here's what you should do about it, courtesy of @taotaotasi.bsky.social

www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...

You want to see an octopus riding a shark.

🎥: University of Auckland

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

Moss! Moss! Tiny keyboard typo issues...

Please enjoy this clump of mosd ans lichen. #HappySpring

Ugh, my little world is topsy-turvy enough at this moment that I am not even tracking March Mammal Madness this year. //facepalm// Keep up the learning and winning, my friends! Next year I hope to cheer along with y'all!

Mug of hot cocoa with an Wall-E style robot, featuring big sad and anxious eyes, drawn in the foam. Big slice of chocolate cake in the background, because yeah.

Yep. I feel ya, little cup of cocoa.

A very large Exmoor Horn ram, with a small yet noticeable smile.

look at this absolute unit

Protect Transgender Athletes - Senate Vote Monday 3/3 ⭑ 5 Calls On January 14th, the House passed the deceptively-titled Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which is now scheduled for a vote in the Senate. …

Time to call your reps! 5calls.org/issue/s9-wom...

Notebooks and pencil on a wooden library table

Still life with book in progress.

Twitter post screenshot of the San Miguel Sheriff account. 5 years ago they posted about a boulder on the road but referred to it as "Large boulder the size of a small boulder".

Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️

a photo of a fluffy looking, round, very orange sea slug nudibranch with lacy little rhinophores like antennae and a circle of butt gills. this is the little red dorid, rostanga pulchra

I feel like everyone needs a cute little orange sea bunny nudibranch today.

#Invertebrates

Pen and pencils spread out atop two notebooks, one of which is open to a page of doodles; the other, closed, has a shiny "welcome back to your library" sticker.

Still life with a book in progress.

Oooh!

Altadena Wildfires My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly.

“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.”

Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:

Oh Gwen. I am so sorry to hear this.

Wow, the blackout while evacuating makes it feel that much more surreal. Glad you got to safety.

Officials Warn of ‘Devastating Loss’ as Southern California Wildfires Burn Out of Control (Gift Article) Parts of Santa Monica were ordered to be evacuated as fast-moving flames destroyed homes along the coast in Los Angeles. Winds were picking up overnight, potentially fueling the fires.

SoCal fires, holy cats. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Awww, thank you Laura! 💝💝💝

Pink mushrooms growing on side of mossy tree trunk

Smol frilly shelf fungus on a log

Blurry but colorful mosses and lichens on fallen twigs

Sharing some adorable fungi, moss and lichens, just because.

Small art prints featuring capybaras, wasps, frogs and ravens

Close up of raven bookmark, the raised texture is so cool

Weasel doodle on the Secret Stoat greeting card, adorable!

It is #SecretStoat season, and my mystery weasel sent awesome little artworks! Including a 3D-printed raven bookmark that is AMAZEBALLS. Big thanks!

Pie graph of daylight (8:24 hrs) and nighttime

Pie graph, made of actual blueberry pie, showing day to night ratio at the solstice

Happy winter solstice! Graphing the day to night ratio in blueberry pie.

Watercolor sketch of little mushrooms popping out of the leaf litter. This is a full sized painting but you can see the lines where it got chopped into 4 postcards

Watercolor sketch of little mushrooms popping out of the leaf litter

Watercolor sketch of little mushrooms popping out of the leaf litter

Watercolor sketch of little mushrooms popping out of the leaf litter

Mushroom doodles, chopped into postcards.

A new issue of Real Change has hit the streets of Seattle! Read all about how folks are protecting themselves post-election, the SAM VSO Union & more!

PLUS: Every issue has free, limited edition wrapping paper by @katura.bsky.social!

Stop by the Wallingford Post Office to say hi to Harlan 📰💕

Was recently talking to my nephew about how he cannot abide wearing hats. Meanwhile, I literally can't go out the door without a hat on these days. I think it may have something to do with how often I am dive-bombed by gulls and crows lately? Pondering...