Peggy Magee Asbury

Plus all they did was run a program that deleted the word "transgender" without fixing the resulting grammatically mangled sentences. It's all so half-assed, like a bunch of 5th grade bullies who just now learned how to use a spoon. Ugh. 3/

Today it's the removal of all reference to trans people from the Stonewall National Monument's website that has me pulling out my hair. Because WHO LED the Stonewall Riots, for god's sake!! 2/

Personally, I've got big things hanging over my head, like the possibility of losing Medicare and Social Security, but it's the sheer pettiness, the ignorance, and the incompetence that are really getting under my skin. 1/

I just read that one of my favorite authors, Celeste Ng, is being banned in red states. I decided to reread my copy of her book, Our Missing Hearts. I challenge everyone to read a banned book in February; I especially recommend Our Missing Hearts. Be a defender of books that speak truth to power. ✊

The Alaska Native Veterans Honor Bridge, Nenana, Alaska. A tied-arch bridge behind which is a sunrise reflecting on clouds.

Somebody started a thread of bridge photos. Which I missed. So, anyway, here's a photo of the Alaska Native Veterans Honor Bridge in Nenana, Alaska. Love and respect to indigenous American service members past and present. ❤️

Flickr.

That is too amazing to be anything but a grimoire.

Thank you, Jimmy Carter. Just ... thank you so much.

What a beautiful creature and what a fabulous photo!

Photograph of the center of a dahlia in black and white. It seems to glow with an internal radiance.

This far north it's the time of year where the lightest it gets outside is twilight. So I'm posting a photo taken last fall when the dahlias were still blooming radiantly at the Georgeson Botanical Gardens in Fairbanks. Hope it reminds you of warmer days.

The quake app on my phone has been jingling regularly since late this morning. Can't decide if Adak is going to sink under the waves or an entire new continent is going to rise up out of the North Pacific. :)

This is all my wildlife photos ... 😄

What an absolute joy of a photo. ❤️

Just gorgeous ❤️

Winter view looking up at the birch and spruce trees in the boreal forest, branches covered with snow and frost, with the sun just touching the tree tops with a pink glow. Blue sky with high clouds.

Minus 20F this morning and the sun was just touching the tops of the trees.

That's the best ALT text I've ever read. And Hobb's was super cute. too!

Now commences The Shoveling of the Snow. Later featuring The Aching of the Back. Not to mention The Moaning of the Afflicted. Yay.

🌿☕ The Greek name for forget-me-nots is mouse ear.. myosotis from mus (🐭 )& otis (ear) because of the shape of the leaves

In Greek legend, Zeus thought he had named all the plants but a small blue flower was left who called "forget me not"

Zeus decided that was good enough & that became its name 🍃

Yay! I love #findthatlizard!

A small, blue pond reflects the sky and the surrounding birch trees in a northern forest.

Boreal forests are the places where magic is born. (Creamer's Field Waterfowl Refuge, Fairbanks, Alaska.)

Glad to know his name; the OM1 was a pleasure to use.

I had a 110 film camera and was frustrated with how blurry my family photos were, so I did some research and picked the OM1 as my first SLR. Wow! What a difference and what fun! I have a Nikon D75 DSLR 50 years later and I entertain my ancient self by wandering around outside pointing it at stuff.

I used Kodachrome when my kids were growing up, because it was cheap to have developed. I've a collection of slides of family activities and Alaskan scenery. I'm so glad I chose it. I'm no fine arts photographer, but that film and my Olympus OM1 captured some amazing landscapes and family moments.

I walked into my high school cafeteria and staff were crying. I was shocked and heartbroken, and I was suddenly tossed out of my little world of family and friends and into the wider world forever more.

Libraries feel like something about which we could very easily be saying, “Remember that place where you could borrow books, for FREE, and return them when you were finished?” And kids would say “What?? No way!” And yet there they still are, despite everything we’ve become, existing. Remarkable.

It made me cry.

Hooray!

A frosting of snow atop the dark branches of tree with a few orange and yellow autumn leaves still clinging on, growing in front of a weathered cement wall.

Winter tree on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus a few years ago. Just a quiet moment for you in between posts about current events.

I don’t know about y’all, but I sure do miss the daily doses of joy from Kamala & Tim 😢 They filled us with so much happiness and hope. And now we’re just here…with a dark cloud over us. I’m so glad you’re all here 💙

It's probably been said a million times since the election, but this would be a really good time to renew your library card, use the heck out of it, support public libraries in any way you can, and be actively and loudly against banned books.