Early Apples 🍎🍎🍏🍎🍏🍏  “there were four apples on the bough, half gold, half red 🍏 That one might know. The red was ripe inside the core  🍎 The color of the leaves was more like stems of yellow corn that grow through all the meadows floor….” — Swinburne  #poet #August #poetry 🍎🍏🍎 #apples 🍎

Congratulations! 🎉 Abdul El Sayed 🎈 And good luck in the Midterms🌊🌊  His message: “Money out of politics; Money in your pocket: Medicare for all!!!” 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 #michigan #midterms #ElSayed #michigan Work Hard. Abdul 🫏

River of Life 💦💦💦💦💦 “Like a huge river. the tide of life flows onward, and we all are its passengers. 💦 We cannot step across its swelling flood. We are the helpless. “ — Percy Shelley 🌹 b. August 4, 1792 #poet #botd #river 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 💦 Kenai River, Alaska 

 Happy Birthday 🎈  Martin Sheen Aug. 3, 1940 #botd 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 Martin Sheen is known for a distinguished acting career and decades of nonviolent #activism for liberal causes. #democrat 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 Environmentalist, #philanthropist ❤️ Extraordinary human being #MartinSheen  Happy Birthday❗️❤️

Woodpecker Bird of #August  🔴 🔴🔨🔴❤️ “Let the woodpecker drum and drum on a  hickory stump. He has been swimming in red and blue pools somewhere hundreds of years and the blue has gone to his wings and the red to his head let his redhead drum and drum. ” — Carl Sandberg  #Poet #woodpecker

Rewriting  History 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸 George Orwell warned that those  in power reshape history to stay in control. #History 🇺🇸 “He who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.” #Orwell #Smithsonian 🇺🇸 The Art of Changing  History

August 🌞 by John Updike 🌞 The sprinkler twirls The summer wanes The pavement wears popsicle stains. The playground grass is worn to dust The weary swings creek Creek with Russ The trees are bored with being green….. #JohnUpdike #poem 🌞 On a Swing. #art Melanie Pike #august

Ode to a Cat 2 🐈 “... any cat is a cat from whiskersto tail, from hopeful vision of a rat to the real thing O independent wild beast of the house, arrogant vestige of the night, lazy gymnastic, and alien…” #caturday from #poem Oda al Gato 🐈 Pablo Neruda 🐈 Painting by #art Yana Golikova

Fetterman ‼️❓ #poem  Fly 🪰 in the Ointment 🪰 Thorn In my side🌵 He called himself a Democrat 🫏 🫏 Methinks, perhaps, he lied. 🤥 #Fetterman #????  🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘‼️ What is a Federman? ?????❓❓??????❓

Longfellow Pastoral ☘️☘️☘️☘️🌱☘️🌱☘️ Now when the world  and the brain are numb in the torpor of August  over the tassel corn and fields of the twice-blossomed clover, ☘️ dimly the hills recede. — Longfellow #poet #FlowersonFriday ☘️ ☘️☘️☘️ ☘️☘️ ☘️  Meadow clover ☘️ #pink #clover #field

Whistleblowers‼️ ❓‼️ National Whistleblower Day is observed on July 30 ‼️ It commemorates the 1778 Continental Congress law that protected individuals who reported misconduct. ‼️ Whistleblower are the first line of defense against corruption, fraud, and wrongdoing. ❓ We need some #whittleblowers

Concert for Peace 🕊️ 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ Pope Leo XIV is leading a Peace Concert tonight, July 29, to promote global peace through music. 🕊️ This concert brings together young voices from war-torn countries in peaceful harmony. #popeLeo #peace July 29,4PM EST Thank you, Pope, Leo  🕊️ Castlel Gandolfo 

Happy Birthday 🌼 “ Elected officials who believe their own political survival is more important than anything else threaten the survival of our republic.” #quote #LizCheney Thank you for your courage, and Happy Birthday 🎈 Liz Cheney

First Lady 🌹 “ We should all do something to right the wrongs we see.” “ Love of books is the best of all.” “ a great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.” #quotes #FirstLady #Kennedy Jackie Kennedy, Onassis #botd b. July 28, 1929 A Lady First 🌹

Riding a Blue Wave 🌊 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 “ we have all the makings of a blue wave.” — Kirsten Gillibrand 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 “ repair, reform and return to sanity. We need the largest turnout—a blue tsunami. “ #midterms — Neil Young 🌊 #bluewave #quotes #bluemonday #ar 🎨 by Marc Chagall

Yellow Jersey 🏆 🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻 Tour de France Tadej Pogacar 🏆 Congratulations to the winner and all the riders in the 🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻 Tour de France 🇫🇷 #France #cycling #Sundayyellow Awesome cyclist ‼️ 🏆 Tadei Pogacar 👏

Gaia 🌍 James Lovelock is best known for the Gaia Principal, which treats earth as a self regulating system where life influences its biosphere and climate 🌎 Lovelock said our carbon emissions are like a fever that could push Gaia into a hotter state. #gaia 🌎 James Levelock🌹 b.July 26, 1919.

David Bowie on Caturday 🐈🐈🐈🐈‍⬛🐈 Photo of young David Jones, later Bowie, with a cat at his home on Four Plaistow Grove, south London, where he was about nine years old. 🐈🐈🐈🐈‍⬛ #UK 🐈 Photo by Gerald Fearnley ❤️ #caturday 🐈‍⬛

Flowers of Lebanon 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 🌼 Bibi Zogbe 🎨 Is known for painting flowers, and scenes of Lebanon, where she was born. #lebanon #art 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼 “ Even the tiniest flower can have the strongest roots.” #FlowersonFriday Flowers for Lebanon

Amelia Earhart 🌹 b. July 24, 1897. “ You won’t know until you try.” 🦅 “ adventure is worthwhile in itself.” 🦅 “ you can do anything you decide to do..the procedure. The process, is its own reward.” #quotes #botd #AmeliaEarhart Amelia Earhart 🌹

And Ukraine? ❓ 🇺🇦 Putin must be stopped. 🇺🇦 Mr. Fifapeaceprize said he could fix this on his first day back in office. So fix it.. 🇺🇦 #Ukraine #peace

“Grasshopper” On His Birthday 🖌️ Edward Hopper was called Grasshopper by his classmates due to his tall lanky figure. 🖌️ Known for painting urban life with stark light and shadow, highlighting solitude, and isolation…. #artist #botd #art 🖌️ Detail from “Nlghthawks” #EdwardHopper

USURY‼️‼️ 💰 Bernie Sanders : “Major banks earned $49 billion profit last quarter while charging 25% to 30% credit card interest rates.” #creditcard 💰‼️ Sanders wants Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for 5 years . #interestrates 💰 Bernie Sanders For working families, not greedy banks

Louder‼️ 🖇️📎📎🖇️ Where are the? PROTESTS? 🖇️📎⁉️❓ Is there anything in the works? ❓ “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” #quote — Desmond Tutu 🖇️🖇️📎📎📎📎🖇️ #ICEout #nokings We need to get bigger. And louder.

Our Best Wishes 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 to Andy Burnham 🇬🇧 Wishing you every success as you begin your tenure as Prime Minister. #uk 🇬🇧 May your time in office bring hope and stability to Great Britain. #andyburnham 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 PM Andy Burnham

Blue Tarps 🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷 Trump‘s name was affixed to the Kennedy Center on December 19, 2025 just one day after Trump‘s Board voted to rename it 🔷 In May a federal judge ruled that putting Trump‘s name on the #KennedyCenter was illegal. 🔷🔷 Two months of blue tarps. #blueMonday 🔷 Kennedy defaced

Firefighters 🔥🔥 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 “. . .unable at times to distinguish day from night 🔥 we have only a blood red sun and an orange faced moon 🔥 temperatures rise fires rage, a neighboring National Forest becomes a charred citadel. —Terry Tempest Williams #poetry 🔥 #firefighters #fires Thank you, heroes

🇿🇦 Mandela Nelson Mandela Born on this day July 18, 1918 #botd 🇿🇦 “ no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, his background or his religion.” #tolerance #NelsonMandela 🇿🇦 Honoring Madiva 🌹 on his birthday

Sanctuary 🐈‍⬛🐈 🐄🐖🐓🐐🐄🐐 🐈 Robert Downey Jr. maintains an animal sanctuary on his Malibu property where he rescued and cares for alpacas, goats, pigs, chickens, cows, and cats. 🐈 Robert Downey Jr. Kindness to animals. #caturday #sanctuary

Painting Flowers 🌺 🌻🌻 🌺🌺🌺 "I paint flowers so they will not die." —Frida Kahlo #quote #sunflower #FlowersonFriday 🌺🌺🌺🌻🌻🌻🌺🌺 Frida’s Flowers