🕊️Elizabeth

Friends, vikings, countrymen: lend me your eyes. May I present what just happened an hour ago in Iceland?

It was an early, short substorm, but it was a good one. Literal space weather!
#northernlights #aurora

VERY sparkly Chalcid wasp on the goldenrod!!

#artadventcalendar day 4 VERY sparkly Chalcid wasp on the goldenrod!!

OMG.

An ornate iron gate stands atop a snow covered slope after a snowfall. The sky is blue, and white, fluffy clouds are overhead. A beautiful day at a Wisconsin winery, in December 2024.

#AdventArtCalendar

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Evening photo with atmosphere
#boats
#reflection in the water
#light
#Groningen

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Governor Mouton is a real beauty and a Camellia I always look forward to seeing in my garden.😍I am leaving on a adventure tomorrow 😉🧳✈️

#Flowers #Gardening #Camellias #Winter #Boston #December #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport

A very worthy idea. Unfortunately, the billionaire investors in the US and UK typically operate by “socializing the risk” of these projects, and “privatizing the profits.” Benefiting the public doesn’t enter into it.

It’s exquisite

Forest floor: a fallen log, nestled among dry, brown leaves, and with a vibrant green fern draped over it. Everything is sprinkled with a light dusting of snow.

#AdventArtCalendar

If working with a florist: I have started to recommend providing the designer a price point, and then asking them for their recommendations. They’re well-trained in what is “appropriate,” and what flowers/materials they have access to. They often come up with options that might not occur to me. ☺️

Delightful

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

A cedar obelisk rises from a snow covered garden; it is dark outside, and a lighted evergreen wreath is displayed on it.

#ArtAdventCalendar

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

…and Congress gave Michigan the Upper Peninsula in exchange for giving Ohio the “Toledo Strip.”! My home state of Wisconsin’s loss (as maps of that period included the UP in Wisconsin territory).

A frosty spruce tree on the right with snow all around. There is a pale band of aurora in the dark blue night sky.

day 1 #ArtAdventCalendar all aboard the posting beautiful things train! Let's make everyone's timelines joyful and inspiring!

A snow-covered cedar obelisk sits outside the entrance of our apartment. The trees and raised garden beds are also blanketed in several inches of fresh, fluffy snow.

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca #ArtAdventCalendar

In my midwestern backyard, I have witnessed the same behavior: a squirrel menacing a Cooper’s Hawk.

I’ll meet you at Baumgartners in Monroe!

Butter: It’s in a cast-off from an old neighbor who gave it to me when she was moving (come to think of it, I haven’t seen it since WE moved last month. So maybe I need a butter dish? 🤔 🧈)

You don’t get to determine which judge is an “activist.” You (and this entire administration) are in contempt. “No one is above the law,” applies to you, too.

The purple fringe lily (Thysanotus tuberosus) has three petals that are fringed at the edges. A black and yellow hoverfly is resting on a petal as it feeds on nectar. Background is blurred bushland. South coast NSW.

The gorgeous fringe lilies are flowering in local bushland (south coast NSW). Here's one with an appreciative hoverfly.
#FlowerReport #ozplants

A macro close-up photo of a blossom with five petals that are white, but have a lot of pink veins and shading on them. Ringing the center are the red stamen with roundish light green anthers atop them. Some are standing up, and some are dipping toward the red stalk in the purple center, on top of which is a small flat green disc. They almost appear to be bowing, or leaning over to get a better look at the disc.

#FlowerReport:

A New Zealand Manuka tea tree blossom, found in Mountain View on Thursday afternoon.

A white and brown cat sitting among a large stand of lavender-petaled aster flowers with yellow centers.

Lola enjoying the asters.

#FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling 🌱

that’s an achievement! 🤗

(and we’ve already had < 20F temperatures this fall, so yes: definitely an annual for us)

Interesting… 🤔

Wow! Not familiar with these but they look like “true” zinnias. Do they come back from seed, or do the plants survive as perennials there?