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Sound on for the local suburban coyote squad adding creepy ambience to the impressive sunset. #sunset #coyote #abendrot #unheimlich #eerie

Sunset phone camera exposure experiments, 4 ways. Wildfire smoke with the assist. 😕 #sunset #firesky #abendrot

A collage of four pictures, showing very similar framing of a pine tree in front of clouds turned red and orange with the sunset. The four differ by the lightness of the foreground and background and how deep the red or orange tones are.

Sweet and spicy summer bounty is finally arriving. #poblano #peppers #tomato #veggiegardening #chilischoten #tomaten #gemüse #gärtnern

Three dark green poblano peppers in the upper left of the frame, and a pile of red and orange cherry tomatoes on a speckled gray granite countertop spilling down toward the lower left of the frame.

Making-a-wish on a salsify seedhead that I were back in the mountains today. (and it wasn’t so blasted hot). #salsify #seedhead #wildflowers #tragopogon #wildblumen #Bocksbart #Samenstand

Hand in a blue sleeve cupping the giant dandelion-like seedhead from a salsify plant. The spherical puff is as large as the entire palm and most of the four fingers next to it.

FrontRangeWildflowers@frwildflowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is one of my favorites. I’m jealous.

Parry’s Gentian along Straight Creek yesterday 🌿

Oregon 🕎🎲@oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guilty. 😬

Those assembly turn cranks that won't get thrown in the trash

J. Stryker 🍂 | Rocks fall, everyone dies.@easterncoyote.bsky.social · 2w ago

A gray tabby kitten meows in front of a red-and-black antifascist flag symbol on a pink background. The text reads, “Sometimes Antisocial. Always Antifascist.”

I made chokecherry jelly from my backyard yesterday. 🫙🫟 #prunusvirginiana #chokecherry #nativeplants #eatyourlandscaping #einheimischePflanzen #essbareLandschaft

Collage of four pictures: Upper left, black chockcherries hanging from a leafy branch. Lower left, chokecherries being washed in a sieve with a bowl on either side, holding washed and unwashed. Upper right, a jelly strainer and bag with bright pink liquid accumulating in a jar beneath it. Lower right, small mason jars with silver lids labeled “Chokecherry” and the date.

Happy #caturday. 💜

Close up face of calico and white cat, mostly orange with a white ruff, white streak down the center of the nose, black splotch on her left cheek, and green eyes.

ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™@trahias.bsky.social · 3w ago

Beautiful larkspur. I always find their wild cousins ragged and torn up, but these guys were living the cushy life in a garden, and look fabulous. #larkspur #delphinium

Royal purple flowers, with five forward facing “petals” (actually sepals, I guess) coming together to form a nectar spur off the back of each blossom. On a backdrop of green foliage.

Oscar Nussio (Swiss, 1899-1976) Engadiner Landschaft mit Silvaplaner und Silsersee [Engadine Landscape with Lake Silvaplana and Lake Sils], 1954 Oil on canvas 80 x 90 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3w ago

Penstemon from my hike a few weeks ago. #wildflowers #penstemon #montane #breathe #wildblumen #wandern #heimatmeinesherzens

A spike of purple penstemon flowers on a backdrop of long wild grasses and rock formations against a blue sky.

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w ago

It took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3w ago

I respect Massie for saying these words out loud. I’d prefer to just be posting flowers and cats all the time, but I’m So. Damn. Angry. at the leaders of this country… both/all parties. Gotta go breathe now.

Thomas Massie: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.”

#caturday face

Picture looking up at the of the face of a tortoiseshell and white cat (mostly orange and black face, with a white stripe down the nose and white chin), with a blue sky and part of a cat tree in the background.

ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™@trahias.bsky.social · 4w ago

Good morning, my lovelies. Good morning, my enemies. 😂 #bloomscrolling #roses #beetles #japanesebeetles #rosen #käfer #popilliajaponica

Close up of two neighboring round, pale pink roses, just short of full bloom.

Close up of pink roses, but in the center of one rose there are 7-9 Japanese beetles. They have shiny green metallic heads and thoraxes, and coppery metallic carapaces, with black legs. They are clustered in a pile in the center of a rose, eating and likely making more baby beetles…

Bryan Angus (Scottish Artist, born 1960) "Crovie North", 2023. Two Color Reduction Linocut, 26 × 36 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

This lovely critter slowed down enough for me to get a good pic. I have no winged-bug-friend identification skills. (“white one with spots? nubbins on the end of the antenna, not feathers? eats tansy mustard?” 😜) #maybebutterfly #vielleichtschmetterling

A white winged butterfly(?) with orange and black spots, perched with wings flat out in a triangular shape, resting on a wild tansy mustard frond.

Belated fireworks. The kind that are safe around here. #fireworks #flowers #wildflowers #summer #drylands #feuerwerke #blumen #wildblumen #sommer #trockengebiete

A collage composed of four trapezoids around a central square, showing five types of wildflowers. The central square is the bright yellow of sulfur flower/Eriogonum, surrounded by blooms of a blanket flower/Gaillardia, the red orange plume of a paintbrush/Castilleja, the traditional yellow center with fine white daisy like petals of a fleabane/Erigeron, and the blue lavender starburst of a blue lettuce/Lactuca.

Whimsical little balloons of my tomatillos this evening. #tomatillo #gardening #littlejoys #gärtnern #kleinefreuden

Tomatillo plant with the balloon-like fruits and some yellow flowers.

Just a random tiny pineapple post to cheer us all up today. #teenypineapple #winzigeAnanas

A very small pineapple fruit is - yellow, with many green leaves coming from the top- on a plant in a container.

Sometimes we nerd. #overlycomplicatedcardgames #marvelchampions #lcg #superheroes #nerd #spielen #tischhelden

Colorful cards from the game Marvel Champions - The Card Game arrayed on a black tabletop, with tokens and trays scattered about.

Adam Grant@adamgrant.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Take time for yourself.

Resting is not a waste of time. It's an investment in well-being. Relaxing is not a sign of laziness. It's a source of energy. Breaks are not a distraction. They're a chance to refocus attention. Play is not a frivolous activity. It's a path to connection and creativity.

After a fresh shearing earlier this week. Drought’s tough, but everything is hanging in there. #tamamono #niwaki #stroll #garten #beschneiden