Colleen

Watercolour painting of a road into the woods, on a snowy winter afternoon. Ruts in the snow lead into the distance, through a winter woodland. Shadows lay across the road creating stripes across the snow. Golden light highlights a couple of tree trunks in a bend of the track.

This might be the last snow painting I post this year. I painted this in my driveway, on a snowy day in late February.

#watercolour #pleinairpainting #winterwoodland

The Milky Way over Spey dam in Laggan.

I cannot wait to be back to the stunning Scottish Highlands, there’s so much there for me to explore.

Good evening #Bluesky

This is our home galaxy over Spey Dam at Laggan.

Oil painting in classical old master style of yellow onions, shallots, garlic, and torpedo onions with dried tangled tops

Finally calling it quits. This is a Davinci moment he said »no painting is ever finished , only abandoned ». Just in time I broke my shoulder 2 days ago won’t be painting for a while sorry about the glare at the top

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

OpenAI right now

I saw a post saying that ICE is pausing its tip line, so I decided to call myself to verify.

The recorded voicemail said they are not currently accepting immigration status tips.

Good job, friends.

EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"Two observations of the galaxy NGC 1512 are split diagonally, with Webb’s observations at top left and Hubble’s at bottom right. The galaxy’s core is centered and circular, with two prominent dust lanes crossing the large diagonal bar structure appearing toward the top left and bottom right. The central bar is blue at top, looking like a gap until a closer examination shows it feeds a larger, oval shape that looks braided with many spiral arms. In Webb’s image, the spiral arms are composed of many filaments in shades of orange. In Hubble’s image the bar is a light pinkish-brown and the spiral arms are a mix of bright blue star clusters and dark brown dust lanes."

1/ 🔭🧪 #extragalactic

This amazing image combines Webb (at top left) & Hubble's (on bottom right) face-on views of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512.
Webb’s observations put together near- and mid-infrared light & Hubble’s ones display visible & ultraviolet light.

➡️ webbtelescope.org/contents/med...

Weather or Climate: What's the difference?
They're not the same but closely related.The difference between weather & climate is simply a matter of time. #Weather refers to short-term conditions of the atmosphere, while #climate describes the average weather conditions over a long time period.🧪🎢1/3

My message to Zuck

Zuckerberg Achieves Trump Lap Monkey Badge and other Platform News You’ve likely seen that Mark Zuckerberg, newly re-branded as Donald Trump’s fluffy lap monkey, has announced that Facebook and Meta’s other properties are getting out of the content moderation…

"That Melania doc? Turns out Amazon paid not for ownership but simply licensing a whopping $40m. $40m straight into the Trump family’s pocket. There was a bidding war. Disney and Paramount got outbid. Sad! They lined up to get a chance to hose Trump down in cash in a licensing wet t-shirt contest"

Corporate Enforcement Tracker - Public Citizen

Today we release the new Public Citizen Corporate Enforcement Tracker!

This resource tracks ongoing investigations & cases against alleged corporate wrongdoing that are at risk of being dropped or weakened by the incoming Trump administration.

www.citizen.org/article/corp...

You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.

Happy New Year from Australia, where it’s now 2025! 🎉

Let’s get this shitshow underway!

After hearing how eating too much sugar and carbohydrates affects the human body I’ve decided to cut back on the amount of people I listen to

Photo of a cute shorthaired white cat with grey across the top of her head and two black patches that resemble thick eyebrows.

How cute is Gumdrop? LOOK AT THOSE EYEBROWS. She is a tiny senior lady available for adoption in Burlington, VT - I photographed her yesterday and she is desperately lonely! 😢 www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Piotto (Universita degli Studi di Padova), and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat, blue background toward the bottom, and become thicker and smokier toward the top. Stars on one side light the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the bottom-right corner of the image toward the top-left corner. It begins as a dark and obscuring cloud at bottom right and gradually becomes brightly lit by many stars at the upper left. Other large, foreground stars lie between the nebula and the viewer. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chalmers University & University of Virginia), R. Fedriani

Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. A rosy, bloomlike tendril of red nebulosity shines near the center-top. Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Boyer (Space Telescope Science Institute), and J. Dalcanton (University of Washington); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

my favorite hubble images from 2024 🌌

this is probably my favourite photograph of 2024, taken on a long May evening at the shipwreck on Rhossili beach in the Gower, Wales

Tell him, Mark!

An upward shot of a cluster of mature Mycena semivestipes growing off the side of a decaying log under gray winter skies All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

I’ve won a few battles but not the war. Tomorrow is a new day. Charge!

Adore this. It needs a tickle!

💚🔬 #iseemoss

( Not my picture) Snapdragon seed pod dried on the plant. There are five pods that resemble tiny human skulls with open mouths.

Snapdragons are my favorite flower to grow. They do however produce seed pods that look like the screaming skulls of the damned.

If you are a beginner seascape painter or want to be. Here are the two books that can get you started #1 E John Robinson “Marine Painting in Oils”get a cheap copy on Amazon for a few dollars. Same for #2 How to Paint Successful Seacapes, Techinques in Oil
these 2 cover it all

On the easel. I love painting onions. I got two huge red torpedos with tops. Loved how they dried, damn mess what was I thinking. Trying to fight my way to the finish, losing so far #alliums #oilpainting

a snow owl sits on a fence post - watching for its next meal.

Also from yesterday's exploring east of Edmonton. A gorgeous snowy owl. #owl #snowy #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

2 small oil painting of the big sky and wet sand reflections along the Oregon Coast

Finished 2 versions of “Beach Walk” you can see the tiny figure if you expand it. Small oils each 6x12 tiny size but big scale. Just how I feel when I walk there.

I Have Created A Turkey Fiend | Defector Last week, I owned a cat. Today, I own a turkey fiend.

This is Smudge also

(gift link)

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I recently started trying to keep plants alive and I didn't realize that eventually I'd have to punish the plants by hacking off the parts that were growing too well. What kind of sick hobby is this

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