cicada song

three bumpers stickers on a car. “you can’t eat coal”, “randonnee: french for can’t tele” and “i heart eating coal”

am i having a stroke

(Willful?) ignorance of history seems to be the basis of most denial about the eugenicist roots of the current government & many of its most ardent supporters.

I recently spoke with a psychiatric nurse practitioner who hastened to tell me that the new EO is only for people with psychiatric issues who are also homeless and/or criminal.

The level of denial about what's happening continues to boggle my mind. #disabilityrights #humanrights

Sunset over Lake Erie for #blueskyartshow on Fujifilm for the theme #alternating

#believeinfilm #fujifilm #cleveland #midwest #eastcoastkin #sunset #nature #lake #film #photography

The sun sets about mountains on the horizon beyond rippled sand.

Sunset above gypsum dunes in New Mexico.

📍White Sands National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #NewMexico #southwest #mountains #desert #nationalparks #whitesands #sunset #sand #sunsetSunday #mountains #ripples

Live at KEXP: arguably Seattle's best export.

Here's the archive of live performances dating all the back to 1993, hosted by the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5B...

And of course, a portion of performances are available on YT.

Enjoy!

"Women's work" is free & has no value, as we all know.

Care giving, shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, emotional labor, etc., are all things for dummies. Women are just lucky that fellas are willing to put up with their complete uselessness!

(Hire those out and get back to us w the invoice.)

A green and white Washington State car ferry cruises on a calm Puget Sound at golden hour. Tahoma/Rainier rises behind above a dark green treeline. The snow level is low in the middle of summer.

I love the simple symmetry of car ferries. Endlessly #alternating bow and stern between each trip.
#blueskyartshow #ferries #pnw #mountain #landscape #photography #eastcoastkin

A small, bushy sagebrush plant with silvery-green leaves grows out of dry, rocky soil scattered with pine needles and small stones, illuminated by warm sunlight.

Artemisia frigida (Prairie sagewort)

#Photography #Nature #Landscape #Outdoors #Flora #Colorado #Nikon

Two tall, curved Indigenous art sculptures frame the sun high in a clear blue sky, with a shimmering lake and mountain silhouette below.

Two tall, stylized Indigenous art sculptures stand on a waterfront pathway with a turquoise lake and mountain range in the background under a bright blue sky.

Sp’akw’us Feather Park Squamish British Columbia Canada. Day 2 of 5 day photo adventure through Canadian Rockies and Coastal Mountains.

#sqamish #featherpark #photography #canada #rockymountains #vancouverarea #travel #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes

Top of the Falls
Sol Duc Falls
Olympic National Park
Washington

#washingtonstate #waterfall #nationalpark #PNW #landscape #photography

Lawrence’s Goldfinch perched on a branch

Lawrence’s Goldfinch tilting its head inquisitively

Los Pinetos Trail, crest overlooking the North San Fernando Valley. So many beautiful creatures up here! Red-shouldered hawks, ravens, lesser and Lawrence’s goldfinches, scrub and Steller’s jays, phainopepla, two coast horned lizards, and hooded orioles. Some beautiful bugs as well - I’m not as fluent in handling those IDs, but I try to record what I can nonetheless.

Descent down the “Viper trail” portion of the Los Pinetos Loop - this section was really nasty, very steep, very slaggy, with lots of scrabble and loose dirt. The descent can be really difficult without poles, and should be taken extremely slowly with a low center of gravity! I got down just fine - but my knees and feet are howling from the effort.

• Lawrence’s Goldfinch •
• Spinus lawrencei •
• Placerita Canyon •

Tackled the Los Pinetos Loop today! 6.9 miles, 1,768’ elevation gain, 2h48m total time. Thrilled to get a good snap of Lawrence’s Goldfinch, too!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #hiking #SoCalHiking #SFVaudubon #nature #wildlife

Closeup of a Young California Quail - really pleased with the level of detail I captured on this one
#birds #wildlife #naturephotography #photography

A swamp sparrow in juvenile plumage perches above some insect-shredded leaves

Swamp sparrow fledge - Albany County, New York, July 2025
#birds #birding

A young Black phoebe is perched on a fence. Its belly is white, its chest, head, and wings are black.

Phoebe!
I think this is a youngster from our long visiting Black phoebe. That one would wait on the fence and catch snacks on the fly if I tossed well 😊
This one is not so bold, yet 🤞

Have not seen our long visiting phoebe for a month, sigh
Flycatcher
🪶

Absolutely love mourning doves, such sweet birds.

#naturephotography #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #birds #dove #carpetman #canoncamera #R7 #adobelightroom

A mystery gull lays on a messy-looking nest on the roof of a building, near the top. He has a yellow bill, unstreaked white head, and a very dark mantle. If he stood up, he would have dull greenish-gray legs.

A mystery gull lays on a messy-looking nest on the roof of a building, near the top. His head is tucked in this photo, but he has a yellow bill, unstreaked white head, and a very dark mantle. If he stood up, he would have dull greenish-gray legs. He is surrounded by four American Herring Gulls.

A mystery songbird is perched upright on the head of an old thistle plant. He has a pointy pink bill, red mask, and mostly white body with tan smudging on his breast. He is surrounded by thistle plants.

A mystery songbird is perched upright on the head of an old thistle plant. He has a pointy pink bill, red mask, and mostly white body with tan smudging on his breast. He is surrounded by thistle plants.

I interrupt my nightjar photo series to pose a challenge to my bird-aware friends + followers...

Based on the two unusual bird species in these not-so-great photos, can you deduce where I was last weekend?

#birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2025

Human Rights Watch published a 155-page article earlier this year about the U.S. gig economy's major players and the living conditions of their workers.

www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

The Gig Trap The 155-page report, “The Gig Trap: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US” focuses on seven major companies operating in the US: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, ...

Today, I delivered food in 110F heat index weather w/o AC for less than minimum wage, thanks to the algorithmic vicissitudes of the DoorDash Dasher app.

It's a cycle of hand-to-mouth poverty that's hard to escape.

#labor

www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

The TV on my dentist’s ceiling is set to the wrong aspect ratio

#firstworldproblems

Internal Dialectic:

Capitalism & technology are devastating life on Earth.

vs.

Learning to code in order to earn a living wage at last.

#infj #firstworldproblems

A picture about a damselfly flying by giving the photographer a glance

Trying to capture these in flight is difficult, enriching practice.

#100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing #dragonfly

Dominion Arboretum at Dow's Lake, Ottawa. #summer #nature #trees #water #city #travel #biking #MyOttawa #photography

Pale green stalks of lichen rise up out of similarly-colored leafy structures nestled in a crack in auburn-colored Douglas fir tree bark. The tippy-tops of the lichen stalks have smooth, bright red bulbs on them. Super funky!

It’s been a while since I posted something for Fungi Friday. But I found these adorable (probably) cladonia lichen on a huge Douglas fir recently. #FungiFriday #Lichen #FungiFriends #Forests #Trees #PNW #Nature #Photography #iNaturalist #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter

Managed honeybee hives negatively affect the reproduction of native plants in a dryland nature reserve
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A photograph of an off-white, wooden cottage, mostly blocked from view by a thick pollinator garden. There is grass lawn in the foreground, hackberry and pecan trees in the background and a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Lots of greens and blue.

I'm going to start calling it my privacy meadow.

(the goldenrod hasn't even arrived and its already taller than me!)

A small brown, orange, and white skipper butterfly clings to the bottom of a spiky, cream-colored, ball-shaped blossom of a buttonbush, with a green background.

Buttonbush is always, ALWAYS a pollinator magnet when its in bloom. It likes wet soil, and probably has delicious nectar. This Silver-spotted Skipper thinks so, anyway. Saul Lake Bog Preserve, Michigan. #insects #butterflies #nativeplants #photography

Their name is pretty close to the original Náhuatl (aka Aztec), tomatl.
From there, they've become a staple around the globe.
#wildflowers #plants #flowers #prairie #nativeplants #invasiveplants #trees #gardening #naturehistory #herbs #foraging #edibleplants #naturalhistory #tomato #tomatoes #yum

The power of native plants!! My monarda fistulosa brings all the pollinators to the yard!!!

#garden #pollinators #natives