Julia Keller

Our bluebell woodland

Shivelight and shadowtackle

Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood

The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888

A Barred Owl sits on a high perch in a maple stand. The background is a mix of warm fall colours.

Barred Owl with an autumn backdrop.
#birds #owls #barredowl #wildlife #photography #nature #fallcolours 🪶

Heretic Coffee in Portland, Oregon has announced that starting Nov 1st they will provide breakfast to those in the community who will be facing hunger due to SNAP benefits not being sent out in November.

"we know it’s not much, but we’ll do our best to keep you fed" - Heretic Coffee

#Pinks

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Volunteers in Cumbria to plant miles of new hedgerow this winter The Countryside Charity is aiming to plant and restore 27 miles (43km) of hedgerow.

Nice bit of news.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.

RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Good morning.

Lottie walked.

Time for a brew.

Rest in power

Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶

@mark-carney.bsky.social Canadas PM
Stopped by the Ottawa Humane Society in Nepean to meet some of the newest staff.

They’re working here because of the Canada Summer Jobs program — a great initiative that connects hardworking young people with opportunities in their community.
#CanadaStrong

Man of the people

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

DM or follow me (so I can DM you) - I’d like to talk about Ohio. Deeply admire your work on behalf of democracy and working Ohioans. Thanks.

“As the training period came to an end, the staff determined that Gilbert was not suited to be an assistance animal. In Gilbert’s case, to put it bluntly, his work ethic was lacking.

“‘He had all the skills. He just didn’t want to do it and felt like the Hortmans’ couch is where he needed to be’”

🇺🇦🕯️ Zelensky: Odesa. Heroes' Alley. Together with the leaders who are participating in the Ukraine-Southeast Europe Summit today, we honored the memory of the fallen defenders of Ukraine.

Eternal honor to our heroes who defended Ukraine at the cost of their own lives.

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter the words, but to live by them."

— John F. Kennedy

Donald Trump is a deranged lunatic who wouldn’t be allowed to manage a Wendy’s. But I guess we all have to pretend like this is normal and not 25th amendment behavior.

People who treat this as acceptable are the insane ones.

The WSJ’s Jonathan Clements Wants to Leave a Living Legacy After receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, the former columnist hatched a plan to turn kids into lifelong savers.

Jonathan Clements knew exactly what he wanted instead: to launch Roth IRA accounts for young people from poor families who have never invested before, with the objective of turning them into lifelong savers.

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Beautiful spring colours at Sandringham yesterday

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River - Inside Climate News “We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings.” For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, everything in nature has...

Brilliant breaking news: this year’s Goldman Prize—the Nobel of environmentalism—is won by activist Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari for her work defending the rights & life of Peru’s Marañon River.
“For us, the river isn’t just a body of water. It’s fundamental.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...

Same! Hope your own work is going well, my friend.

Thanks for keeping Bradbury’s legacy so bright and fresh, Sam! (And the typo was a lovely one . . )

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I read this upon your recommendation a few years ago. A moving, superb book. Thank you.

Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’ A new social studies agenda approved by the education board would require high-schoolers to review baseless claims related to President Trump’s 2020 election loss.

Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun

"Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’"

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

The Felling of the U.S. Forest Service The Trump Administration has cut two thousand workers, making it harder for the service to fight wildfires and repair storm damage across the country.

“My community has been gutted. The trail crew, wilderness crew, timber crew. We truly care for this resource we’ve been protecting. You have to be standing there to understand the beauty of it & how delicate it is.”

On Trump's felling of the US Forest Service.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.

just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.

I'd be pretty psyched if Zelensky were the U.S. president.

If Russia ceases combat operations, the war is over. If Ukraine ceases combat operations, Ukraine is over

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…