Bog Witch

Water Lilies, The Clouds - 1903
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10895

pigeon pigeon pigeon pigeon pigeon

A pumpkin patch in a variety of shapes and colours, some with carved faces with different expressions. Between the pumpkins are black and white cats, crows, frogs, bushes, twigs and mushrooms.

I've been waiting all year to repost this 🎃

Road

Road, 1876
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11887

What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One » The Urbanist # The City of Seattle will be removing an East Union Street bus only lane set aside for the Route 2 this weekend, ceding to requests from nearby property owners who have complained about traffic chang...

NEW STORY // What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/01/w...

an old truck rusts in a field in Olympic National Park

Sometimes, the most important work you can do is to rest and watch the world go by.

Rocks and Waves - 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104999

Étretat, the Aiguille and the Falaise d'Aval ~1867
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109670

1!

Other than pumpkin spice, what’s your favorite Fall flavor?

1. mossy forest morning
2. damp squirrel
3. wood smoke in the fog
4. dark rum for dark times

Rowboat on the Seine at Jeufosse - 1884
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9980

YouTube video by AIA Washington Council Thousands of Washington Buildings Could Collapse in the Next Quake — Retrofit Now

Today, state building experts are drawing attention to the importance of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings, located all over our state. URM buildings have the most potential to experience collapse and damage during an earthquake.

They created this 3-min video.

#FixTheBricks
youtu.be/2HE56WwI6zE?...

Arizona lawmaker calls for WA congresswoman to be executed for urging Trump protests An Arizona Republican state lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman from Washington state because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in ...

An Arizona Republican state lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman from Washington state because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in the streets.

Rain on a River - 1938
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104280

they should invent a kind of news that is good

can’t emphasize enough how funny the video is

it’s a really good time to pick up reading as a leisure form of escapism

Kimmel show not to return to TV stations in Seattle and Portland until Sinclair’s demands are met, including an apology.

“Furthermore, we ask Mr. Kimmel to make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA.”

Locust Trees - 1932
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104323

This week, researchers at Friday Harbor Labs released 29 lab grown sunflower sea stars into an urchin hot spot near San Juan Island with the hope that they will help keep the urchin population in check.
@uwenvironment.bsky.social

More on the project: www.washington.edu/news/2024/02...

The Flower Meadow - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110111

Morning on the Seine, near Giverny - 1896
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10668

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

Biology Department

xkcd.com/3140/

Hearing from a reader that part of the Bicycle Weekend route (this is the penultimate one of the year) is closed off to people walking and biking for what looks like a Rivian commercial shoot. Real classy, Seattle. We get only a handful of car-free days a year, and you give one to a car company.

House with Dead Trees - 1932
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104325

QUALITY CONTROL TEAM 🚨😺🚨

#caturday

Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”

Sun's out, guns out! Let's blast that thing out of the sky.

Infographic on the chemistry of dahlia flower colours. The colours of dahlias are a result of anthocyanin-, chalcone- and aurone-derived pigments. Colourless sflavones also interact with and stabilise anthocyanin pigments. Chalcones and aurones lead to yellow and orange dahlias, while anthocyanins play a part in orange, pink, red and black dahlias. Blue dahlias aren't seen because dahlias lack an enzyme for making delphinidin, the anthocyanin which leads to blue flowers.

As summer fades, dahlias are blooming. This graphic looks at the chemical cause of their colours and why you won't spot a blue one! www.compoundchem.com/2021/09/12/d...
#ChemSky 🧪

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.