Dauntless Fool

Northern lights erupt over Burnt Lake in the BWCA. Reflecting in the water. Dark silhouettes of trees line the shoreline.

Enjoy your evening. Here’s a photo from this past September trip to the BWCA.
The Ojibwe word for Northern Lights is waawaate.

Waawaate arrive,
The ghost spirits are dancing,
Minnesota Strong!

#Photography #Haiku #BWCA #MinnesotaStrong

Fuzzy bunny cat sleep.

He works hard. #caturday #cats #weekend

Birds nest fungi spores doing their happy thing.

Hey! Look at these fun guys! #fungi #gardening #nature #photography

The full moon behind the trees.

Snow moon. #moon #nature #photograhy

Brown and soft grey dove in the snow.

Dove in the ice and snow. #nature #photography #birdoftheday #bird #birdphotography #eastcoastkin

Rivers of red holly berries on white ice.

Birds stripped the Holly berries from the tree, leaving them to look like blood on the ice. #nature #photography #eastcoastkin

Salt marsh on the Delaware Bay towards late afternoon. Everything frozen including the sky.

The frozen salt marsh. #nature #photography #eastcoastkin

Red-wing blackbird in the ice of the backyard

Blackbird #snow #bird #photography #nature

Fur baby likes the desk.

Crazy news day but is it #fursday? #cats #catsofbluesky #meowsky

Gas lamp next to red brick!!

Gaslighting! #thursday #photography

I got here early. The view from the Belvedere, with my wine. Waiting.

Vacation. I will not speak or think of work. I will remember time is precious, and I will enjoy it with those I treasure, at a place we treasure. 🩷 #magfest #music #videogames #theprotomen #nationalharbor

Fishy

#Photography #photosky

Red-headed finch all fluffed up on a tree limb, red tinging his head and breast.

It’s cold outside! #photography #birds #nature #eastcoastkin

The Wolf Moon, one day past.

My first real moon photograph!! Breathtaking. #photography #astrophotography #astronomy #eastcoastkin

Furry cat looking contemplative.

The star of the show! #caturday #cats #meowsky

Whose sky is this?

Through her being, he moves—
a tide remembering the moon..

She is not the path,
yet his motion learns its shape from her—

She gathers
she stands

When movement becomes meaning

#Who’sSky

Totally innocent looking cat. Hasn’t been up to anything. Can’t catch mice.

Up to no good! #caturday #cats #furball

Good morning from the Susquehanna River in Conowingo, MD, home to the largest population of bald eagles on the East Coast.

Big mouth yawn of cat

Caught mid-yawn… #cats #catsofbluesky #caturday #apexpredator

My majestic Maine Coon mix-up of a fluffball. Green eyes and pink nose, knowledgeably posed on a desk.

Hello Mister! #cats #catsofbluesky #fluffyfursday

Dark trees frame a brilliant white pearl of a full moon in a blue sky.

December Moon #moon #nature

Shoebox on its side with warp set up and blue wave weaving.

Shoebox weaving!! #weaving #fiberart #artist

Starry sky behind the scrub pines on the Delaware Bay, and a falling star!

No aurora, but I caught a falling star! #nature #astronomy #meteorshower #tauridmeteor #fallingstar #DelawareBay

Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.

Just standard embroidery floss!

#caturday

Meteor shower & MaunaKea West view LIVE from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) YouTube video by Asahi Astro LIVE　朝日新聞宇宙部

I have fallen in love with watching the sky on this live cam from Hawaii. #astronomy #meteor #telescope

www.youtube.com/live/qJ8lYpl...

This colorful image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary tapestry of stellar birth and destruction. At the center of the photo, a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. This mayhem is all happening at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, a vast stellar nursery located 4,000 light-years away and visible in binoculars simply as a smudge of light with a bright core. The giant star, called Herschel 36, is bursting out of its natal cocoon of material, unleashing blistering radiation and torrential stellar winds (streams of subatomic particles) that push dust away in curtain-like sheets. This action resembles the Sun bursting through the clouds at the end of an afternoon thunderstorm that showers sheets of rainfall. Herschel 36’s violent activity has blasted holes in the bubble-shaped cloud, allowing astronomers to study this action-packed stellar breeding ground. The hefty star is 32 times more massive and eight times hotter than our Sun. It is nearly nine times our Sun’s diameter. Herschel 36 is still very active because it is young by a star’s standards, only 1 million years old. Based on its mass, it will live for another 5 million years. In comparison, our smaller Sun is 5 billion years old and will live another 5 billion years. This region epitomizes a typical, raucous stellar nursery full of birth and destruction. The clouds may look majestic and peaceful, but they are in a constant state of flux from the star’s torrent of searing radiation and high-speed particles from stellar winds. As the monster star throws off its natal cocoon of material with its powerful energy, it is suppressing star formation around it. However, at the dark edges of this …

Lagoon Nebula (Visible-light View)

Side by side picture of weaving.

Woven on a rigid heddle, about 6x10.

I made it up as I went along although I had a general idea of the overall picture. Thank you!