Lenore Edman

Sun pillars are rad!

I’m still in Halloween mode but the craft stores have all jumped to the winter holidays so I guess y’all can get ready for gift giving. Especially with wrapping paper like this.

Bluesky fam! 👇

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like.

Sun pillar tonight in Peekskill, NY. Fuck, yeah, atmospheric phenomena!

Doing my due diligence in giving people info to help me with my birthday fundraiser. Venmo, Cashapp, PayPal links in here: ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The alt text is epic. It is lovingly inaccurate without being misleading.

btw, robot karaoke is back on the @wonderville.nyc stage on monday. you cannot pay me to slap you, but it's a free and always a fun time pools.events/event/q66LUy...

Excellent night for atmospheric phenomena! Not just moondog and tangent arc, but also faint circumzenithal arc! First time for lunar cza for me!

It’s officially autumn and I’m roasting coffee. The shortening of the days is a little intimidating but the cooler weather is welcome. I mowed the lawn today in advance of the wet weather predicted for the weekend.

I'm fundraising for by birthday today. Info is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Maybe enticing to folks here is my wishlist for what got stolen out of my car 3 days ago. Lots of batteries and cables, important to my engineering work and I can't afford again. www.amazon.com/registries/g...

One of my favorite things I have seen this year was a Steller’s Jay trick the Merlin app into labeling it as a Red-tailed Hawk.

I hear it’s #fossilfriday and we recently went to Florida, mostly to look for fossils. (Yep, got some shark teeth.) We did some beach combing in between scheduled activities and found these lovely little oysters.

I recently got back from vacation in Florida and I really enjoyed watching the dock pets. I’m more used to egrets being silent hunters than greedy beggars.

I’ve restarted roasting coffee again. Today is warm and cloudy, a nice day to be outside.

tonight is robot karaoke at @wonderville.nyc! sing with us 🕯️😈🎤🕯️

I offered to help my mom in the garden and managed to snag harvest duty.

Petrichor!

I’m sitting here by the marsh. The tide is high and the egrets are standing around in the sun, preening. Earlier when it was low, the yellowlegs were running across the mud and eeping.

One of my favorite things about Portland is walls of moss.

The air quality is currently described as “moderate” here.

OK. Let's Golden Goal this. First person to post a photo *they've taken* of either of these two birds will win the match on that bird's behalf. #WorldCupOfBirds

The other day, I stumbled across a t-shirt that said "the trans agenda is an average lifespan," and boy, if that doesn't sum up a lot.

This snowy egret did not mind us visiting its tidepools. I just love their hi viz feet.

I sent my dad some pictures of tidepool finds and he replied, “Those are pretty esoteric critters!”

Sometimes you find cool critters outside of the tidepools.

I would like you all to see this very stylish crab in its algae outfit.

Natural patterns are neat.

Can you find the tiny octopus? 😍 It's arm span is only about 20 mm, with a pea-sized body.

When you’re looking for nudibranchs and there’s another little white spot down lower in the pool but you say “those aren’t cerata!”

This is what I am here for. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Y’all. There is nothing quite like seeing an octopus. This tidepooling trip is wildly successful.

The red shouldered hawk in the tree next door sounds like a frog with the hiccups.

We’re getting a good thunderstorm which is going to make weeding so much easier tomorrow! Also it smells so nice out right now. In other garden news, my mullein are starting to bloom!

My friends, it is firefly season!

When Luna wants to be brushed she chirps and leads me to her brushy spot. She loves it and sometimes even helps guide the brush where she wants it to go. I do a better job when I’m not holding a phone in the other hand though!