Aspen

It's hard isn't it. One of ours passed two years ago, I've still not handled the paw prints and impressions or managed them into a shadowbox with his ashes. It still hurts. I'm sorry for your loss.

The stink, it brings us all together!~

More art for Tasha Greenwood’s Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants, published by Storey

Sea otters help protect kelp forests by snacking on sea urchin populations that would otherwise overgraze kelp.

#kelpforest #seaotters #illustration #natureart #seaweed

A random sign outside that says "are you tired of being human?" with the post author replying with "Monday thru Sunday, 365 days a year."

Monday thru Sunday, 365 days a year.

Took a drive out to my "home town" for the first time in 10 years to help my aunt out. It's weird knowing every turn in the road but not recognizing any of the landmarks.

A crow kicks a small ball of snow. They then start rolling it into a larger ball while saying "trust the process...". They kick more snow into a pile and stick a branch in repeating "trust the process" to itself. They place small stones. They say "Phew!" and stand back to look at its creation, which we see now is a mess of a project that looks somewhat like a melted bird. The final panel the crow says "haha it's terrible".

Finished is better than terrible #oldknees

A wolf head snarling with a moon behind the head on the left side. The wolf has 9 pupil-less eyes.

Multi-eyed wolf comm. from a couple years ago.

Ok, I did a design for stickers with yesterday's drawing. Decided to include a simpler message this time.

Don't really have money to print them atm, but hopefully will do it soon 😅

he must hunt
he must forage
but above all else he mustelid

Friendly reminder, so friendly, in fact, that it features a cute wizard otter.

Two river otters hanging by a river bank. One otter on the rocks has a green fish in its mouth.

River otter sketch commission from a minute ago.

How did a toilet photo become a breakthrough for science? 📸🦦

Scott Loarie of @inaturalist.bsky.social shares how a camper in a remote Colombian cabin snapped the first confirmed photos of a living Colombian weasel, a species once known only from 1800s museum skins.

A cartoon drawing of the rear of a station wagon. Inside, an eight-legged Garfield plush is suction-adhered to the interior of the rear window. Xenomorph-like figures are shown to be driving the car. The cargo area of the car is filled with cartons of milk. A parking pass with the Weyland-Yutani logo is on the rear window.

That's surely a North American River Otter and not a Sea Otter. Still cute(er).

Alchemical Love

Yeah pretty brutal that it feels like all the mid-size town “niche” shops are shuttering. These folks are going to try and move next door into a unit 1/4 the size, but they’re not sure if it’ll work out or not. Our art supply closed a couple years back too ☹️

The local fabric store is closing out… busiest I’ve ever seen it; no advertising, just word of mouth Facebook posts… haul incoming

no new pictures
Where are you at mentally

YouTube video by Alice Di Micele - Topic If I Were an Otter

If? Hufff.

youtu.be/IprUsSZn-Ms

The Otters of Buckfastleigh, Devon. Quite willing subjects when not eating fish.

#photography #scape #CanonPhotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #otters #otter #UKwildlife #BritishWildlife #wildlife #nature #Devon #Buckfastleigh #riverlife #animalphotography #naturelovers

An inspiring little poem
from Kenneth C. Steven
accompanied by a beautiful
piece of art from
Charlotte Strawbridge
(@cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social)

Little comic about therianthropy 🐾

チップと一緒にいるのはラッコの百々目崎（どどめざき）さんで、元々メイの海洋生物フレンズの一員（Xrdのときはメイが召喚してた）だったのがチップとメイがストーリー中で仲良くなったときに忍者になりたくてチップに弟子入りしたとかそんなだったはず_(‘ω‘*_ )_

Woodcarved standing up otter on a workbench, next to a carving knife and a few wood chips.

Another point of view

First otter of 2026

Armageddon, Ragnarok, the Apocalypse. So many different versions of the end of the world. The problem with all of them is they have a distinct lack of mustelids.
So I propose a new end of times.

The Bitenning

Endless hoards of mustelids will rain down from the heavens and they will bite everything

A giant pink pine marten in a city, he’s looking at a taxi with his paws up ready to pick it up and licking his lips with teeth showing. There is people standing around watching. There is smoke in the background

Taxi Hunting 🚕

I really hope when this SoW is over, they run out of money for us entirely. We've already tried to convince them to take another contractor from our team without much luck. Please, gods of labour, bring me something different.

I'm so over it. The virtual desktop that is like operating a computer with oven mits. The project managment that drags on and constnatly changes priorities. The stack and poor choices made long before me. The inconsistency of an ancient MUI 4.x app. The lack of control as an external contractor.

I've been working with the same client, on the same suite of products, for over 3 years now. This is the longest I've ever worked on any one project. The longest I've worked on any _one_ thing.