Jen Britton

A white Aida cloth measuring around 30 x 15 inches is spread out on a butcher block table surface. It is a little more than a third filled with stitches in shades of brown, red, black, and assorted other colors, growing from the left edge of the cloth, and beginning to resemble a nebula.

Thread Nebula update #16

All the ice and snow and cold this month means I am avoiding outside and making big progress on the nebula. Also I really need a treadmill. 😅

The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula in cross-stitch #crafting #crossstitch #astronomy

Among rolling prairie hills, a sabino mare with a wide blaze is walking down a slope from right to left in the lower right corner of the frame. The sky is a clear light blue above the hills.

This Theodore Roosevelt National Park cutie here is Oakley. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

This is a somewhat closeup image of a wild palomino pinto horse, in which we see him in head, shoulders, front half of body profile walking purposefully left to right in the frame. His ears are swiveling in different directions and his mane, which falls to the far side of his neck, is lifting a bit in the wind. The setting is an expanse of sagebrush under a clear blue sky and there are two out of focus horses in the background framed under his neck.

Meteor of Sand Wash Basin, one of the most fabulous wild horses I know. He's so dreamy. #wildhorses #photography #wildhorsepc

Backlit against a late afternoon sun and with a clear blue sky, a coyote is standing facing right to left in the frame, as we look upwards at him on a rocky ridge. He is peering at the photographer while giving his chops a big lick with his mouth open and tongue flapping upwards on the left side of his face.

Time for snacky snacks! A coyote in Lake Pleasant Regional Park. #wildlife #photography #carnivorecoexistence

With orange sunset tones, we see two horses - a red roan pinto on the left and a gray curly on the right - having a scuffle. The image is close enough in such that we see the front halves of each horse. The gray on the right is rearing and flapping his front hooves at the pinto, whose front feet are solid on the ground and his head held up high to avoid the gray's flying hooves. The sky cloudy and deep orange with sunset.

I followed one of the big Salt Wells Creek band confederations up to the top of one of the little mountain ridges in the range and was treated to this spectacular view of Cosmo and Julian having a little slappy scuffle. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Three white ibises - medium sized white shorebirds with bright orange legs, long curving orange and black bills, and orange plumage on their faces - are standing together facing left to right in the frame, in a tidal marsh mud dotted with short green shoots of grass.

White ibis on springtime Shackleford Banks

Hope all my american pals are burning up the phone lines and emails of your congressional reps to demand ICE and CBP get chucked into the trash can.

#photography #wildlife #birbs

Two wild bay pinto ponies stand together looking at one another in a grassy swale between sand dunes in a barrier island landscape. The right side pony is a very young foal who is looking at the mare on the left with curiosity.The mare is looking generally towards the camera and appears to be enjoying herself.

Assateague Island: from that time auntie Starlight babysat Morning Glory's little guy Braveheart
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

I definitely yelled THEY ARE GOING TO KISS

I loved it!

A view from above of a beach, with the top half of the image beige colored sand with a wrack line wiggling across the frame. The water is a blue-green jewel tone striped and mottled with the white foam of the waves.

The aerial approach to Sable Island, that little strip of land in the North Atlantic that you might see indicated on in-flight maps on transatlantic flights
#photography

A super solid and stout buckskin horse with tall hind socks and a wide blaze on his face is trotting from right to left in an oblique angle towards the camera, looking bright and confident. His setting is an arid sagebrush steppe ecosystem with a dirt-brown mountainside rising in the background.

This big boy is absolute solid muscle but also an adorable muppet. He is known variously as Samson or Scarface and he lives in Salt Wells Creek. He used to be part of Bubba's band but established his own band after Bubba's death. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A white crowned sparrow - a smallish songbird with cream colored breast feathers and bold black and white stripes on its head - perches in a desert shrub.

A white crowned sparrow at home along the lower Salt River in Arizona #photography #birbs #wildlife

Amid sparse desert vegetation with a dirt covered slope rising in the near background, two burros stand together. There is a very young burro foal, and her older sibling is resting her head over the foal's back affectionately.

Wild burro siblings in Lake Pleasant Regional Park, Arizona #wildburros #bonkersforburros #photography

A chestnut pinto pony with a thin blaze on her face walks purposefully towards the camera a mid barrier-island vegetation including marsh grass, scrubby evergreen trees, and bayberry bushes.

This cutie is the Assateague Island filly N2BHS-AIOW Aster Linia.

#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Make the death squads follow a couple regulations, sure, thanks for nothing Chuck.

YouTube video by Eric Griffis Which Side Are You On Florence Reece Original

The Bruce Springsteen and @billybragg.bsky.social songs honoring Minneapolis have me thinking about the great tradition of protest songs and my favorite, Florence Reece's Which Side Are You On from the Bloody Harlan conflicts
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This is stunning! I always struggle with winter landscapes and this is such an inspiration.

people call them names like "big dummies" and sometimes even worse

There is no reforming ICE and CPB, they recruited straight from white supremacist militias! The moderate position here is the shut the entire thing down followed by criminal prosecutions.

A vermilion flycatcher - a small bright red songbird with black wings and a black stripe across its eyes with a small black bill - is perched among mesquite branches in the left side of the frame looking towards the right, with the mottled light coming through the tree as the background.

A vermilion flycatcher, aka lil red jerkface, in Arizona's Sweetwater Wetlands
#photography #wildlife #borb

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

Do I have this right

"the real work is in disregarding the pain I have observed in my community and indulging in my own comfort instead, I am a light worker"

A wide angle shot of a weedy meadow surrounded by a line of shrubs and trees. There is a row of horses - chestnuts, dark bays, a couple of grays, and a foal - variously grazing, biting at flies, or just standing and relaxing together. The sky is very cloudy.

A gray and a dark bay horse are walking with some curiosity towards the camera through a meadow of short grass and tall weeds, under a cloudy sky.

Two horses stand side by side, both facing right to left in the frame. Closer to the camera, a bay pinto with blue eyes has her head down to graze, while the dark bay with a blaze behind her has lifted her head from the grass to look around. They are grazing in a weedy meadow under a cloudy sky.

A chestnut horse with a wide blaze and stockings is walking towards the camera as two chestnut bandmates are grazing behind her; they are in a weedy meadow dotted with some young pine trees under a cloudy sky.

A day in the life of free-roaming horses in the (poorly reclaimed) coalfields of Breathitt County, Kentucky: this was from a couple years ago & since then county animal control has rounded up most/all of them up and any not placed in safe homes will have gone to slaughter by now. #photography

Four sandhill cranes fly from right to left in the frame above a field mowed to a brown winter stubble, with a brown mountain dotted with junipers rising in the background

Sandhill cranes at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
#photography #wildlife #birbs

Small in the lower left corner, a wild pinto pony with a wide blaze marking is standing facing left to right in an oblique angle to the camera. He is standing among sand dunes with sparse and tall brown grasses, and we can see additionally layers of dunes and pine forest stretching into the background under a cloudy light orange sky.

Assateague Island stallion N9BM-JQ Billy Bob, having some quiet time during a winter sunset
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

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A wide angle image of a rocky creek bed in a desert canyon featuring creekside trees with autumn colors and canyon walls rising in the distance

Sabino Creek in the Coronado National Forest outside of Tucson, on a pretty winter evening

A head and shoulders portrait of a bay roan horse, looking right to left in the frame. He has a star marking on his forehead that we can see as his forelock is swept aside in the wind, and he has a lot of scuffs and scars on his coat. The background is flat arid grassland with a clear light blue sky.

This beautiful fellow is part of the White Mountain herd.
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A black bear is big in the frame, facing left to right and looking chill. The setting is mid-spring semi-agricultural land with an array of grasses and other plants.

A black bear in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, obviously reflecting on the fact that immigrants are vital members of our communities
#photography #wildlife