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Art by Ray Troll, sentiment by millions…..

I can’t deal with the news. Here’s an Emma blep.

Beautiful native plants, Henderson’s Checkermallow in foreground with fireweed blooming in background. Pearly Everlasting also but it’s not blooming yet.

I have this crow with a deformity that has taken residence in our yard. Despite its beak it seems to be in a bonded pair, preens, and feeds easily. I wonder what caused it?

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

I was taking a photo of ceanothus in bloom, and accidentally caught a mid-flight bumble ❤️

Why isn’t this being covered in American media?

INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river... Devastating! 😭 www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

Clean air and clean water are for everyone, and the ability to spend time in natural spaces is essential.

Oh, it’s world bee day?? Yay!

I don’t remember the Mt. St. Helen’s eruption 45 years ago today, since I was two weeks old. But I did find this bottle of Jim Bean in my local buy nothing group to commemorate it.

There’s a difficulty in advocating for the importance of a position when you feel “lucky” for having anything at all. There has to be a better way.

This is a photo of the surface rupture we saw in the webcam footage of the Myanmar #earthquake. The webcam was positioned on the opposite side behind the gate. Source is the YouTube channel that also posted the footage. 🧪⚒️ youtube.com/@sagaingeart...

We’re in unprecedented times.

I take care of my neighbor’s puppy (mini golden) while they’re at work. Emma, my 15 year old husky mix, makes him nervous... She just wants to play *poke poke*

Sunshine on a cloudy day. I’m always torn about having a feeder, but it’s so nice having the birds up close. When my kids’ friends are over, it’s sometimes like it’s the first time they’ve seen a bird up close!

Wow! 🤯

#NoMowMay was created in the UK, and American lawns and bees aren’t the same. So if you’re an American and really want to help, it’s better to add native plants and flower beds to your garden.

My daughter has always loved dandelions, probably because they are the only ones I let her pick. I hope that it never changes. #bloomscrolling

Day 3 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver onto fossils (badly) in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Fossil is the nautiloid Cymatoceras nebrascense (PRI 78775), comedian is H. sapiens #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth #desperatetimes ⚒️🦑

My great camas is really great this year. #pnw #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

For Indie Bookstore Day we visited two Eastside shops, my usual @brick-mortar.bsky.social and new-to-me @chrisbooktree.bsky.social - going have to step it up to make it to all 29 Seattle area shops!

A large mosasaur finds a meal in a Komoksodon kwutchakuth. Named in honour of the K'ómoks people of BC and the word for shark, kwutchakuth, in the Comox language. The diving birds are Maaqwi cascadensis whose fossils were found on Hornby Island here in BC. Ma'aqwi means "water bird" in Coast Salish.

A trio of trillium #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #pnw

She’s enjoying “freedom” since she can’t really run anymore, she can join the kids out front for an egg hunt. She still tried to escape.

Took a needed break from the US and US news for a week. Not long enough but what a weight we are all carrying daily…

Salmon berries (Rubus spectabilis) are blooming! #pnw #nativeplants

The late tulips are starting to open, and in between the native fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) is shooting up. By mid summer it’ll be filled with bumblebees and hummingbirds!

Out late-ish, kids not yet in pajamas but somehow the dog is…

I got a little carried away buying bulbs last spring, but I’m not mad about it.

Not too often my two passions overlap, but yesterday I saw a talk from UW professor David Montgomery on fossil salmon from WA, who also wrote the Hidden Half of Nature which is my favorite popular science book I’ve read this year. Check it out if you garden (or if you eat food, for that matter).