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Didn't have adding "cheesecake" to my muted words list, but here we are

I'm very excited to be starting a series of classes at College of Marin this week with the watercolorist Julie Cohn. I just love her work.

Super-bright moon this morning just before sunrise over Corte Madera Creek #Marin #California

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OnOneLeg - birds seen balancing on one leg. Here are 2 slightly iridescent Black-necked Stilts each standing on one leg in Corte Madera Creek #Marin #California. I like the sly expression of the one on the right 🪶

I got a great shot of this adorable Spotted Sandpiper on Corte Madera Creek #Marin #California this morning. 🪶

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #BrownBirds. This Great Horned Owl has many shades of brown in seemingly every feather. 🪶

Poppies, three ways. Caran d'Ache Aquarelle II crayons on mixed media paper, from my own photograph. #ArtYear #Painting #Pastel #Crayon

#BirdOfTheDay is #LMNO, any bird beginning with one of those letters. How about a Mourning Dove, really feeling itself, on a beautiful blue sky day. 🪶

Happiness is exchange JSTOR articles with your adult daughter at 5:00 in the morning on equally bizarre/erudite topics

Whoo effing hoo! 🎉

Fallon should go for new Sexy!Josh just to see how Harrison reacts #TheArchers

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #juveniles, so here're four juvenile peregrine falcons on the spire of Our Ladye Star of the Sea, Greenwich, London, a few years ago. These four would hang out together in the early morning before flapping off to terrorise the local pigeons. #birds #birdphotography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Juvenile. I know this is not a great photo, but it's very special to me: I was able to get close to a young California Condor at #Pinnacles National Park #California. This bird was brought back from near-extinction and every sighting of one is like a miracle. 🪶

Owl of the Day: Southern white-faced owl 📷 Jason Thompson

Even the bird looks alarmed.

Poor Elizabeth facing a truth bomb: the one thing a sexy baby voice can't cure is the inevitability of death. #TheArchers

Alright, my friends, I need some help. My friend Bob is a talented nature and bird photographer and every year I paint one of his photos for him for the holidays. I can't decide this year! Please vote on one of these five:

#Abstract #Watercolor #ArtYear #Painting

By golly, it's raining here in Larkspur #CaWx

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Seasonal, a shot from whatever season you have now. My favorite seasonal birds in Autumn/Winter are the winter ducks, but they haven't quite arrived yet here in #Marin #California. Here's a photo from last year of a lovely Bufflehead, looking iridescent. 🪶

A real barnstormer of an analysis of this poem by #EmilyDickinson in today's NYTimes.

Don't sleep on the National Zoo's livestream of Zurah the Cheetah and her 5 little babies! nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...

I can't explain how or why this happened. #Graphite #ArtYear #Sketchbook

Future #TheArchers script, maybe: "Grandma Pip, tell me again about the time the stately home chimney MacGuffin collapsed onto the orangery MacGuffin!"

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Black&White: any bird with black and white plumage. Here is a handome a pair of Yellow-billed Magpies at #Pinnacles National Park #California

Himalayan Blue Poppies in a Vase, #Watercolor after a 2018 photograph from T. M. Glass called "Blue Poppy in a White Chinese Vase." #ArtYear #Bloomscrolling #Painting

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LittleLegs. Here's North America's smallest sandpiper, the Least Sandpiper with its wee little legs 🥹 Corte Madera Creek #Marin #California 🪶

Dropped my ballot off at the College of Marin drop box! Feels very good. #IVoted.

Beautiful morning on the Southern Marin Line Fire Road. So autumnal. Here's a lovely view of Mt Tam with the morning mist just burning off.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflection. Egrets are so great for reflections, because they stand still! This is a Great Egret at Bothin Marsh, #Marin #California

We had guests today and wires got crossed, so there were TWO cakes, a Devil's Food layer cake and Princess Cake. I am not complaining.

Go to your camera roll & search for “boat”. Post the one you like. SF Bay in Sausalito with bonus Mt Tam in the background.

This is Oliver. He belongs to a neighbor on the ground floor of our condo complex. While I was on the balcony birding the creek, he walked over and looked up at me with his winsome face. I don't know if you can tell from the photo, but he's ginormous. A true gentle giant. 🥰

Exciting morning on Corte Madera Creek, #Marin #California, where I saw my 140th species from the balcony, an Eared Grebe! We've lived here 3 1/2 years and new i.d.'s are a lot rarer. I like that first photo where he's diving -- look at how he splays his little feet 🥰 🪶

Excuse me, sir, do you denounce the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood?

A fanciful elephant in the #Sketchbook this morning. #Watercolor #ArtYear

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Larus; any species of Gull. Love me a Heerman's Gull! They're so pretty. Goat Rock Beach, #SonomaCounty #California 🪶

Tiger https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/tiger-1912

One of many scribbles I did while on my phone with my dad for 90 minutes while he explained warehouse robotics to me. #ArtYear #FloralArt #Bloomscrolling #Watercolor #Sketchbook

Be sure to check out photos from today's #BirdOfTheDay #Dawn (Alt: #Dusk). They are uniformly spectacular! Here's my contribution: Brown Pelican at Crissy Field #Presidio #GGNRA #SanFrancisco #California at #sunrise. 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae, any of the species. Here's a Great Tit that I saw at #RHSWisley. 🪶

At the #deYoung Museum in #SanFranciso they have an installation called "Exomind (Deep Water) which features a sculpture of a woman whose head is an actual beehive. It's covered a lot of the time to protect the bees but today it was uncovered and spectacular! #FAMSF

Struggling with this baby portrait and the little tyke's uneven eyes 🤪 #WIP #Acrylic #Painting #Portrait

Surprised and delighted to discover a blossom on my Baby Toes #cactus (Fenestraria rhopalophylla). #ContainerGardening #Gardening #Cacti #Succulent

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #JKLM bird species starting with these letters. Here's a lovely (American) Kestrel on the Citron Trail in Larkspur #Marin #California 🪶

Wood on the Downs https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/wood-on-the-downs-1929

Okay, #Marin locals, help me out on Measure CC. As a Kaiser user, I don't benefit from this directly. If prices are too high for a private medical corp to maintain itself, that's kind of on them, no? On the other hand, I want to be civic-minded; it's the only trauma center in Marin. So: yes or no?