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Look at the one at the top of the door jamb. Wants / hopes / plans to fly free but isn’t quite ready

Grey-tree frog who is maybe not as sneaky as he thinks

I recently visited Converse Basin Grove in Sequoia National Forest. A little over a century ago, a lumber company cut down roughly 8,000 giant sequoias here, nearly wiping out one of the greatest sequoia groves on Earth. What remains today? californiacurated.substack.com/p/giants-fal...

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In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Flowers make everything better! Fall flowers are showing off in all of their beauty. Come see us at our Delaware Farm market for all kinds of flowers in each season. Thank you for supporting small businesses; your choices matter. Growing since 1832. #delaware #flowers #garden #farmlife #familyfarm

I'm camping near North Bay, ON and there are so many cool fungi. Lots of Amenita muscaria in different stages. Anyhoo here are a few cool squishy bois.

A tree and fence against a hazy sky #Photography #BlueskyArtShow #Minimal #BoulderColorado

Rock Ptarmigan Arctic grouse feathers mottled brown in summer to pure white in winter. Alaska, Canada ,Greenland, Scandinavia, Scotland, Russia, Alps and Japan Female builds a nest, incubates Chicks hatch with feathers, walk after 12 hours feed themselves, mother protects them 12 more weeks.

Lustrous Pyrite with quartz and epitaxial galena crystals. Sharp well formed crystals in excellent condition. 1990's mined Huanzala mine, Huallanca, Bolognesi Prov., Ancash, Peru. 4.25 inch. 2 pound www.goldenhourminerals.com/shop we pay taxes goldenhourminerals.etsy.com/listing/1602... you pay tax

When my family visited the kids weighed twice what they arrived weighing

Halloween is fun especially for kids. Havel a party for them. Same sugar high but lots safer. Get their friends’ parents together too

Do these agencies have a responsibility to issue recalls of contaminated food? Yes, these agencies have a responsibility to issue recalls of contaminated food. But more than that these agencies have a responsibility to prevent these recalls from ever being necessary.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

When does graffiti become a mural. House near me has a huge bougainvillea bush. Outside on the fence someone painted the bush spilling over it with hundreds of blooms Nobody ever damaged despite graffiti on nearby fences

Good Morning ☀️ 🏜️ More from Wednesday morning in the Sonoran Desert

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

It’s a marvelous mossy mushroom Monday. May all you magical magnificent meople make it more marvelous hahaha 😆😀 #mossymonday #nature #mushrooms

Beautiful colours of the Blue-Throated Barbet 22cm Native to high altitude Himalayas and SE Asia Male and female blue-throated barbets are identical in appearance. approximately less than 50% of all bird species are sexually monomorphic, meaning males and females look virtually identical.

As the week begins new recalls are being issued for tofu contaminated with ink, for mangoes contaminated with salmonella, for white rice contaminated with foreign material, and I must admit that lately my appetite for information, is making me lose my actual appetite.

Lichen on Red Rock, Sedona, Arizona. #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #sedonaredrocks #sedona #sedonaarizona #arizonahighways #lichen

The costumes of the Notting Hill Carnival, London, which celebrates the Black British Community, are designed months in advance #WomensArt (image by P.Jordan)

I sent the historian an article about how Nazi ships 
have been emerging 
from the Danube as extreme heat causes the rover to shrink, 
and the historian replied 
that these days 
there seem to be Nazis 
emerging everywhere.

Good news from Monga Bay

My Russian sitting distafff. I'm trying to stabilize areas of paint loss, and slow down further damage. I suppose I should stop taking it to workshops, where I inevitably drop it on the floor when I forget I'm sitting on it, and stand up without holding onto it first. #handspinning

Amazing what a bit of rain can do! Just spotted this slime mold called Scrambled egg slime! So bright and yellow! Also known as Dog vomit slime or Flowers of Tan (Fuligo septica) #fungi #slime

I sent my aunt, the doctor, a study from “Circulation: Population Health Outcomes” which found “ominous” evidence of “artery damage in nearly 8 in 10 young adults,” and by way of reply my aunt sent me multiple studies on how Covid-19 causes lasting damage to arteries.

🧵Spotted on a Rainy Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) is marching down the footpath with a fist full of daffodils. Holding them out in front of her like a magnificent talisman to ward off the grey of the day. (1)

🇳🇵🇳🇵 Nature is powerful and beyond containment, we hope Nepal heals and China uses this as an opportunity to work in harmony with them

Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops): 21cm (8.3in). This small owl is aka the European scops owl or just scops owl. This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. Beautiful photo taken by Luca Vignati in Italy #scopsowl #nature

Tufted Tit-tyrant. This species is found in western South America; its range stretches from southern Colombia south along the Andes mountains to Tierra del Fuego. The bird's head is black overall with white supraloral and postocular stripes. 📸: @jorgebedoyabirder

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (80s?) who is small in stature, with a vibrant personality is standing in the biscuit aisle of a supermarket. She says to a passerby: "The problem with biscuits is that I eat all the biscuits! I never regret it. But I DO eat them all." (1)

I sent, my friend, the scientist an article titled “Why scientists see AI leaders as false prophets,” and she replied: it’s because they are false prophets; so I sent, my friend, the computer programmer the same article, and they replied: their profits are false too.

Andrea Masse is a master mask making, her work has featured in films, on TV, Cirque du sSoleil and The Metropolitan Opera #WomensArt

Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s dress designs #WomensArt

Upon a temporary wall at the art museum a simple sign explained: “The Gallery of Conscience is CLOSED for construction” so if you are wondering what has become of our conscience just know it is a gallery that is closed for construction though hopefully it will open soon.

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