Paula Kate

A male common grackle in a green spruce tree displaying! He is calling and fluffing all his feathers. And those feathers are vivid blue on his head, and incredible purple , blue and bronze on his wings!

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣
The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

These reliably turn color in the fall in Southern California, no matter the weather, and they are everywhere.

I read it.

Perfect little period piece.

Marking so I don’t forget to read this

A long bright pink dress with long sleeves. The skirt is plain but the bodice is decorated with black accents at the waist and in a corsage centre front. It has buttons one the bodice and a white fichu over the shoulders

The House of Worth was renowned for its fancy dress commissions, catering to those spectacular costumed c19th costumed parties. This is the 1770s for a turn of the century audience, a c1900 gown imitating an c18th lady @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Today is gloriously sunny with an expected high of 75°F (24C), and I am so happy to have all my windows open.

So are the cats, because it means they have unrestricted access to the back porch.

I feel like this painting should have a Wikidata item already, but I couldn’t find it, so I made one here: www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1359...

Ugh.

Oh my lord this ⬇️ (sound on)

*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

Yes. Crash (sometimes Russian crash). books.google.com/books?id=LTY...

I abandoned a historical mystery series when a character mentioned that opening the Suez Canal would improve sailing time from Alexandria to London.

View of a woodpecker on a hummingbird feeder through a kitchen window.

First time we’ve ever seen a woodpecker on the hummingbird feeder.

Book fodder.

This 👇

Wil Wheaton

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Wrangler cowboy cut starts at size 27.

I need to cut back the basil in my kitchen window. It does have that effect.

Bunchleaf penstemon, I do believe. www.wildflower.org/plants/resul...

So perfect!

Landmark needlework collection donated to National Museums NI through Cultural Gifts Scheme Acclaimed antiques dealer Lanto Synge donates one of the UK’s most important private textile collections to Ulster Museum.

www.nationalmuseumsni.org/article/lant...

These LA homes were about to be torn down. Now they’re getting new life in fire-ravaged Altadena The Historic House Relocation Project aims to get residents with fire-damaged lots into homes faster, while restoring character to the neighborhood.

This is such good news. laist.com/news/housing...

I’m not big on movie merch, but I do have a gen-u-wine Blue Blaze Irregulars patch somewhere in my stash.

"Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders."
(Words by Mary Schmich)

I was in line to check out at a SavOn pharmacy and Clint Eastwood walked in with his wife and kids. Everyone in the store just stopped what they were doing and watched Eastwood walking around the store.

Map of northern and western Europe showing computed square-rigged sailing routes between the Baltic Sea and Spain. Outward journeys curve northwest via Shetland and the North Atlantic, while return journeys favour the English Channel. This asymmetry arises from prevailing winds, currents, and the hydrodynamic limits of medieval sailing vessels. A spherical (non-Mercator) projection is used, better reflecting great-circle geometry and the true spatial relationship of regions such as Scandinavia, Shetland, and Iberia.

Hours of fun spent realigning my foolishly London-centric assumptions about medieval European trading networks. Shetland, for example, was far from peripheral: a non-Mercator map-projection helps.

I've rebuilt the journey-timed, square-rigged sailing algorithm for docuracy.github.io/Historical_S...

A home with a proper number of bookshelves!

A large, bulbous space station floating above a green and blue planet

A large, metallic plaza filled with people, smoke, and hovering spacecraft

Have you heard about the new #murderbot short story coming from Reactor this week? Today, we're thrilled to share two stunning full illustrations by Jaime Jones related to the upcoming novelette "Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com 💫

It’s sitting on my to-be-rewatched pile.