Jumping Frog

We all have our own forms of blizzard preparation

We are ready. Bring it.

Sneaking in our anniversary dinner before the snow begins

YouTube video by Club Music 80 Patrick Hernandez - Born to Be Alive - Official Video (Clip Officiel)

But Are You Born To Be Alive? #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UaJ...

#AT40 I must inform all of you that I will not, and have never, and never will, shake my "groove thang"

Scott Prior (American Artist, born 1949)
"Flowers in Sunlight", 2007.
Oil on Panel, 26 × 18 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Michael James Smith (British Artist, born 1976)
"December Delight", 2025.
Oil on Panel, 12 × 12 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

YouTube video by Bob Dylan - Topic Rocks And Gravel (Solid Road)

#MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNkh...

Abstract Force: Homage to Franz Kline | Audrey Flack
Oil on canvas

YouTube video by Duane Allman - Topic Morning Dew

#MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl2a...

Sussex Street, Cambridge, one of my favourite places. The arched bridge between the two sides is a relatively recent architectural addition by Sidney Sussex College. Ive done quite a few paintings and drawings of this street.

Lights coming on in Sussex Street, Cambridge, watercolour, gouache and Indian ink (see alt text).

Mellow cat is mellow

Resting up before the night zoomies

I don't know what Bluesky thinks "show less like this" means, but it doesn't show less like that.

Houses in Auvers - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14797

Chocolate heart shaped cake with red and pink heart sprinkles on top

If you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day treat I recommend this PennDel’s Bakehouse chocolate strawberry heart cake! It might be the best cake they’ve made.

They offer many sweet & savory baked goods - including vegan and gluten free. They’re on Portola at San Pablo in El Cerrito - check them out!

An oil painting of mixed flowers in a vase is being completed on an easel in the studio. Other objects included are glass bottles amd shells

A flower still life in oil on gessoed board from nearly a decade ago (sold). The camera distorts the difference in size between the painting and the subject but gets the colour pretty acurately (an excellent DMC-LX5- still in use)
#oilpainting #stilllife #flowers

Mark Anderson (American, b.1987)
"Nocturne," 2026
Oil on panel

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

An oil painting with pelargoniums and a wooden lizard

Another still life, this time featuring pelargoniums, a wooden lizard and a wooden bird with a long beak, poppy seedheads and autumn colours in the leaves outside the studio window. That old earthenware pot with twisty handles is a favourite. Oil on gessoed board, 2019.
#oilpainting #stilllife

A heavily worked oil painting still life on gessoed board. The ceramic owl on the windowsill and the African carved bust on the right have both appeared in various paintings and drawings.

Still life in oil sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition in 2020. This one shows quite a bit of impasto built up during the process of composition.
#stilllife #roses #studio

Seniors earned their Social Security and Medicare benefits by working and paying into the system. Receiving those benefits isn’t up for negotiation.

I promise to always protect the benefits millions of Arizonans depend on.

Mark Grantham (Canadian, b.1966)
"February on June Street, Halifax," 2015
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

In *Texas*

Donald Trump is suing the federal government for $10 billion. That is your money. Never in our history have we seen something like this. The billionaire President always has a new plan to make himself richer, but never a plan to make your bills more affordable.

Correct

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

Just kinda seems like refusing to tell us which ICE agents murdered Alex Pretti undercuts the idea that they’re wearing masks to protect themselves — rather than to be able to kill people with impunity.

“They are using the mechanism of armed officers with masks who are killing citizens to create disruption so they can use more force to eliminate the possibility they could be removed from office and suffer criminal sanctions for the crimes they are now committing”