Rhythm ‘Round

Sirenia 💜🫠🥹

POV ur inside a baitball of mullet. A lot of Coralheads didn’t get much work done yesterday, mesmerized by the mullet run that blotted out the sun and turned Coral City into a marriage of heaven and hell for predators and prey 🪸🐠👀

Foureye butterfly kisses 😘🦋🐠 #foureyebutterflyfish #butterflyfish #butterflykisses #coralcitycamera

Watching a caterpillar catch a ride on a grass raft in a stream

I like big butts and I cannot lie

If you're a gardener and this resonates with you, you belong in our free regenerative gardening community at LearnDirt.com 🌱

Today’s bounty #vegetables #garden #growfood

#Poetry #Painting #Nightime And you are quiet like the garden, And white like the alyssum flowers, And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies. - Amy Lowell 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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Sammie’s “spot”. I think he likes to listen to the hum of pollinators as they go about their morning #garden #granddog #pollinators #pnw

How about a law that all Data Centers must operate entirely off grid using renewable energy. And another requiring their cooling mechanisms use only closed loop cooling systems. How about if taxpayers don't end up paying the bills.

Libraries are essential to a democratic society. People who would defund libraries are anti- democracy and anti-American.

In Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood:

Enjoying a taco in West Seattle, looking at downtown Seattle #seattle #westseattle #umbrellas #hawaiianfusiontacos #pnw

We, as a culture, are becoming so quick to judge. What if we start assuming people are coping with their lives, helping their autistic, or even neurotypical, child with things we don't even know about? What if we assume people are doing the best they can every day, until proven otherwise?

Amazingly, the difference between low and high tide on this Oregon beach is 15 feet! So this wall of seastars will all soon be snugly back underwater. #marinelife #pnw #Oregon #nokings #photography #starfish

"No peer-reviewed studies have examined how radioactive material released by mining would move through marine food chains or what doses marine life would actually absorb" www.postguam.com/news/local/n...

Gardener, oil on canvas, sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition.

Went to Super Secret Mega Low Tide on the Oregon Coast and am happy to report there are a million starfish! Lots of babies. #seastars #marinelife #nature #pnw #beach #tidepools #nokings #goodmorning #photography

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Home is where you are 🌼

This mural depicting singer Amy Winehouse was created by one of my favorite street artists: Eduardo Kobra (Photographer unknown) #streetart #art #newyorkcity #murals

The banner that says “This Is Our House” at the world cup game is just tacky. I tell my guests welcome and to make yourselves at home. Then I may proceed with beating them at Twister.

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean. ' The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:

Grow food! #gardening #growfood #radish

2/3 The numbers: 8 billion marine animals killed by fishing daily. Over 60% of all ocean plastic comes from abandoned fishing nets and lines. Ghost gear suffocates ecosystems with no end date.

1/3 Fishing gear kills more marine life than any other form of ocean plastic. Lost nets alone threaten 66% of marine species, every sea turtle species, 50% of seabirds, whales, sharks, dolphins. The fishing industry’s deadliest hidden legacy. 🌊

Something I saw on my 🚴‍♀️ride: Ox-eye Daisy. Some say invasive, I say this is a public wild-space and these daisies lining both side of the trail brought me joy. Shine on, Ox-eye daisy

Teenage Scootin’ Green Sea Turtle!! 🤙🐢🔮 #greenseaturtle #seaturtlesofcoralcity #seaturtle #gowiththeflow #coralcitycamera

What matters most is clean air, pure water, and fertile soil. We need the trees, the bees, and the seas. Raise ecoconsciousness Promote environmentalism Embrace biodiversity We must become relentless stewards of our miraculous planet. Nothing else is more important.

On this World Oceans Day we are proud to unveil the latest extension of the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1, 2023, and running for three years through May 1, 2026 🪸🌎🪸

Today I knittted a tiny emotional support sea lion 🦭🩶 #knitting #knitsky #sealionl

Explore your passions. Dig right in, up to your elbows. Let your hands teach your brain. Let your exploration lead you to unexpected conclusions. Make stuff with thoughtful fury.

A fitting tribute to #worldreefawarenessday from @rhythmround.bsky.social, a dedicated CCC watcher and YouTube moderator that created 100 artworks in the past 100 days inspired by the characters we see on the Coral City Camera!

100/100 West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus. Manatees gracefully glide over the coral reef on the way to and from sea grass beds. More in alt. #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #manatee #seaelephant Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social

#SundayFishSketch

99/100 Redtail Parrotfish, Sparisoma chrysopterum. Without the reef there are no parrotfish! #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #fishart #parrotfish Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social

98/100 Spotted Moray, Gymnothorax moringa #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #fishart #moray #eel Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social

97/100 Spot-fin Porcupinefish, Diodon hystrix #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #fishart #porcupinefish #puffpuff Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social

96/100 Spotted Drum, Eques puntatus #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #fishart #drum #spots Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social

95/100 High-hat Drum, Pareques acuminatus #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #fishart #drum #high-hat Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social

94/100 Caribbean Reef Squid, Sepioteuthis sepioidea #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #fishart #squid #cephalopod Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social