"Nijs says being able to ring the doorbell fills people with a “positive feeling,” and many people have told her about the calming effects of watching the canal’s fish. But the biggest benefit has been for the fish themselves."
04.03.2026 00:47 — 👍 43 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0The lovely, teeny tiny Snowberries flowers are endless fascinating to me! I marvel at them, blossoming there next to their own berries.
03.03.2026 18:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pink petaled Salmon Berry flower, in focus, with soft blurred forest beyond
The first Salmon Berries are blossoming. They follow the Oso Berries. I can't recall who is next.
01.03.2026 03:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That is an interesting coincidence!
27.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ursula Le Guin quote about science and poetry.
"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014.
27.02.2026 03:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
River of Grass, a watercolor painting in blues, of flying bird silhouettes, between hills, through a valley, by Rod of Heron Dance
"The great rivers flow below mountain streams.
and the streams come willingly,
carrying what the mountains cannot hold.
The valley asks for nothing,
In its stillness,
it holds the hidden places
where life is abundant"
- Rod, of Heron Dance
The Lowly Hidden Places share.google/FymHUUWbueS1...
"I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent, and working at a pace so slow, that I would be able to hear myself living." Elizabeth Gilbert
24.02.2026 06:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Woot!
...or maybe that should be, hoot?
"With simple, poetic lines, The Weedy Garden: A Happy Habitat for Wild Friends invites young readers to imagine they’re the animals in a garden: “If you’re a bumblebee” or “a slender green snake” or “a tired turtle.”
18.02.2026 02:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Park insiders and nonprofit leaders interviewed for this story see it differently. They believe the administration’s new tool and guidance are part of a broad attempt to control the nation’s narratives by rooting out stories that feel threatening or inconvenient and silencing critical voices..."
12.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"I metabolize fact into story and, in doing so, discover daily reminders that the unifying tale of nature is one in which I am excited to play a part. In turn, paying attention becomes rewarding and worthwhile...I embrace fun and fantasy with intention."
10.02.2026 02:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LA Times, A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a hundred years
Things change. Salmon swam their full journeys up the Klamath River in more than a century.
- Rebecca Solnit
"Even in all the madness, the world keeps offering us these little proofs: that imagination is not just escape; it’s a bridge. And sometimes the strongest bridges are built out of nothing at all."
07.02.2026 03:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Human hand on mossy tree trunk
“Life is a garden, not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate. Wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
Lawsuit Seeks Records on Trump’s Extinction Plan
“Americans want to live in a country where animals and plants on the brink of extinction get the protections they need to survive. The Trump administration is hiding information about its efforts to gut these protections”
"The 1920’s saw brutal efforts to eliminate Jewish religion and leave it with only a secular cultural identity, explaining why my grandmother learned in Yiddish that there was no God."
1200 Years of Jews in Ukraine | Rebyehoshua share.google/aiYX3EKwOCGb...
Darwin, filled with plants
"Illustrations for an article that argues that despite the fame the fascinating animals of the Galapagos have earned, it was really the archipelago's plants that inspired most of Darwin's ideas on evolution."
Gaby D'Alessandro share.google/psd4yGHWVx9J...
“There are big things we can’t control—climate change, pesticide use, global insect declines,” Silver says. “But we can help at the nesting-site level. That’s where individuals can make a difference.”
This Woman Is Saving New England’s Swallows, One Clay Nest at a Time share.google/6HA2f1GZNRic...
I am weeping to see their faces, listening to the polite interactions...
Coffee, hot chocolate, donuts - such small, simple kindness as a short break from the madness.
Star-lit sky over conifers
I had so missed the stars!
20.01.2026 19:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"I think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. That there isn't their life and our life. Nor your life and my life. That it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us entangled with it as deep as entanglement goes." Kate Forster
19.01.2026 21:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The order prohibits retaliation, arrests without probable cause, the use of pepper spray or crowd-control weapons, and vehicle stops made without reasonable suspicion. It also makes clear that simply monitoring or following ICE from a safe distance does not justify a stop or detention." - Alt Parks
17.01.2026 03:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“As an American, I never thought I would see federal agents in masks jumping out of unmarked cars and grabbing people off our streets,” Ferguson said during the speech. “Let’s get that legislation to my desk immediately.”
16.01.2026 16:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Black dog in a back seat, making direct eye contact
The Witness
"...This painting is an act of protest.
The dog saw.
The world saw.
We are responsible for what we do with that knowing.
If this speaks to you, sharing is one way of bearing witness."
Ken Gorczyca, DVM
Veterinary Death Doula and Artist
Www.Kengorczyca.com
"These Sustainable Garden Trends Have One Thing in Common...
They work with nature instead of against it. They save water, support wildlife, reduce maintenance, and create landscapes that age beautifully."
Seema Patel's watercolor of the Peace Walk
Seema Patel painted this for us all.
aphotoathought.blogspot.com
We must do better. We can do better, together.
"In a world where trust between law enforcement and communities is vital, BlueBridge provides a unique solution: enabling officers to offer immediate, short-term assistance to struggling individuals they encounter while on duty."
I have seen the video too...
How is this happening in our country?
This is what happens without empathy, when the other is viewed as the enemy.
Any road back from this is rough and long.
How can we, each of us, begin?
