always.

Image of Jolly Ranger on black tree background. Text reads, “GUTTING America's Best Idea. The Trump admin is once again proposing massive budget cuts to the National Park Service for FY2027. We need your voice.”

Image of trees behind black background. Text reads, “This administration is spending ~$1 billion PER DAY on war. Meanwhile, all 433 national parks sites operate on just ~$9.5 million per day. 3-4 days of war spending equals 1 year of national parks. This isn't about affordability, it's about priorities.”

Image of trees behind black background. Text reads, “You -THE PUBLIC- value protecting public lands, wildlife, and cultural history. But the FY2027 proposal includes a $736 million cut (down 25%) to the National Park Service.”

Defunding America’s Best Idea.

The proposed FY2027 budget includes a ~25% cut to the National Park Service, along with major reductions to other public land agencies.

Great news but...Maybe dont use "roadmap" as a metaphor if we're trying to phase out (de-normalize) fossil fuels (and their infrastructure).

Every single one of these videos should be shot in a car or at the airport on the way back to Washington, not in a leafy backyard. Where’s the urgency?

what a cool article! need to go check on my Nikon in the closet...

Map of the contiguous United States showing the spring bloom index anomaly as of April 5, 2026 from the USA National Phenology Network. Many areas are earlier than normal.

"Spring bloom has been mostly early across the country, with central states seeing conditions for bloom 2-5 weeks early than a long-term average (1991-2020). Denver, CO is 35 days early, and Nashville, TN is 17 days early."

Information from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

macadamia

researching and editing ARE actual writing!!!!!!!!!

an array of ten solar panels held up by a wooden structure with trees in the background.

finally officially powered by the sun! (and heated by the forest in the background.)

loose electrical wires surrounding a gray breaker box and a bright yellow box mounted to a wall

Its a good day to join the off-grid solar system.

the rocky summit in the foreground, the South Bubble in the middleground, Penobscot Mountain in the distance above the sliver of Jordan Pond

'View From the Summit' (2022) -- Mount Pemetic Summit, Acadia National Park, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Stone ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

black and white photo of tall vertical cliffs at tje ocean's edge, topped by forest of pointed spruce and fir trees.

The granite #stone cliffs of Acadia National Park. #BlueSkyArtShow

more evidence of the importance of #nearbynature

tiny animal tracks zigzag across a snow covered beach, a calm silvery sea darkening toward the horizon where it meets a cloud filled sky

Someone beat me to first tracks.
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A snowy morning at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park for this week's #BlueskyArtShow #horizontal theme.

I just got an email pushing a new book, and ... I'm not going to call out the book itself, cause I don't wanna ruin anyone's day, but ... I am going to subtweet it.

It's yet another book on how the problem with climate change is ... the way we talk about it! "Framing"! "Messaging"!

Changing the language is not THE solution, but its part of 1. dissolving power - (stop using their words and symbols, eg "pipeline" as metaphor) and 2. imagining a new reality into being ("combat climate change" vs....)

water tumbles down a rocky waterfall along a stone wall

Snow is melting fast and things are #flowing

#BlueSkyArtShow

i needed this.

A blue whale seen by the New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team over Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on Feb. 27, 2026. (CREDIT: New England Aquarium

Last week, an aerial survey team spotted endangered blue whales two days in a row in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

This is the same area the trump admin is now slashing protections for

“Seeing blue #whales outside of their Canadian feeding grounds is rare," they said

after his alcoholic father split, my paternal grandfather left high school to work in a cigar factory then the mailroom of the @nytimes.com and retired as head of classified advertising 50 years later.

please dont call them parks.

I wrote a poem about that time I was almost a bicentennial baby and the circus came to town. Thanks to @zoeticpress.bsky.social for publishing it, & much-needed encouragement.

A very thorough article that mentions how long it takes to create and install signage - usually a multiyear process of intention and collaboration and layers of review.

whoa

in rural Maine, where commutes are longest, we dont need massive new infrastructure. we need electric buses - cheaper and the roads are already there.

thank you!

Recognizing that people have unmet needs/explore ostensibly convenient technology that is being heavily marketed at them is one thing -- calling it "useful" plays into the narrative of not just Big Tech but also the EA money behind the article at the top of this thread.

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Goo morning, monsters.

The mist holds out its invitation back to the water. Come home. Come be held. Follow through the beading moisture to the shore and let it direct a new form, wriggling and gleaming, propelled by appendages that keep a body distant from every terrestrial worry.

View of a large 800 yr old olive tree in Valldemossa, Mallorca, a cornerstone of the UNESCO-listed Tramuntana mountain landscape, with many trees being over 1,000 years old. Grown on historic drystone terraces, these ancient, gnarled trees produce high-quality organic oil. Known as the tree of life. ❤️🇪🇸

A thriving 800 yr. old olive tree in Valldemossa, Mallorca, Spain.🇪🇸
The tree of life, an ancient symbol of
Endurance
Longevity
Survival
Nourishment
Healing
Renewal
Protection
Resilience
Hope💙🕊️
#BlueSkyArtShow #Wood #Nature #Writing #OliveTree #Photography #Spain #Mallocra #Spain #TreeofLife

The eternal life of #Wood.

#BlueSkyArtShow