Some mixed messaging nor-east

pretty tho

*not strictly signing up to a WT Claim, but joining #ToitūTeTiriti in THEIR application to be an Interested Party to Ngāti Hine's Claim.

i was very happy to sign same form to tautoko opposition to #RSB in 2025. grateful to Eru & crew for allowing all to participate
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I remind myself "look up", on my way to and from work, and there are some amazing cloud formations, especially now we (in the southern hemisphere) are going into the colder months. My favourite is Lenticular clouds, and how they layer upon each other like hats.

An Iris blue sky filled with white fluffy clouds.

These fluffy clouds caught my eye on my walk home from work.
#tinyjoys

Hmmm, I will have to look that up. Thanks for the idea.

Making my way through Fury by Colin Forbes. Enjoying a old novel.

Awesome! Seams don't really need to line up. Keep going.

I think I have some potatoes that grew in the compost??
and maybe an old spring onion lurking in the garden.
I will have lemons in about a month's time.

Are they a type of guava?

Historical illustration showing detailed black and white drawings of various fossilized Cretaceous marine bryozoans from the genus Cellepora. The image displays multiple square and irregularly shaped fossil fragments, each with distinctive honeycomb-like or tubular pore structures. Some fossils have elongated, neck-like openings, while others show rounded or hexagonal cells. Each specimen is numbered and accompanied by scientific names and descriptions at the bottom, highlighting species such as Cellepora Zangis, Vesta, and Simplex. The illustration emphasizes the intricate surface patterns and pore arrangements characteristic of these Cretaceous bryozoan fossils.

🦖 Paléontologie française: .
Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1840-1894..

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Sorry, this needs a short story:

Sitting in the Las Vegas airport over a decade ago waiting for my connection, already miserable because I am traveling with a cold. Two minutes before being called up for boarding, I feel a *bonk* on the back of my head. 💥

🧵 1/8

Fowl play? 'Bird of the Year' winner in New Zealand contest is a bat The winner by a nose (not a beak) was pekapeka-tou-roa, also known as New Zealand's long-tailed bat.

For #InternationalBatAppreciationDay, please join me in remembering that time in 2021 when New Zealanders showed so much love for local bat pekapeka-tou-roa that they voted it "Bird of the Year" 🦇

Reflected in a still pond is a curved bridge, and several trees with vibrant orange and yellow leaves. In the background are more green trees. A duck is waiting next to me, so I can take the photo. The duck then slid into the water, and the reflection had ripples in it.

Spent most of the week in Ōtautahi. Plenty of fallen leaves on paths and roadways.
Autumn is my favourite season.

Botanical gardens Ōtautahi, Christchurch.

#garden #art #reflection #autumn 🇳🇿🌱🍂

The "waitabit tree" is all I can remember.

Large stone figurines holding hands and dancing naked in a circle.

Happened upon these "bums in the wild" while in Ōtautahi.

Joy of Eternal Spring by Llew Summers

#museumbums

Great work Paula. I always look out for your work.

Wellington friends, I need a favour.

Next Monday afternoon 20/4 at 2pm, I have a gastroscopy at the Rutherford Clinic in Lower Hutt. I can get out there by myself, but due to sedation, I will need a lift back into town.
If anyone can help, please let me know. Will reimburse your fuel costs.

Ta!

Holacanthella paucispinosa on the cover of this month's issue of Nature Ecology and Evolution. Photo by Frank Ashwood

Breaking news: giant springtail from Aotearoa NZ made the cover of @natecoevo.nature.com!

This amazing pic of H. paucispinosa by @frankashwood.bsky.social should lure readers to the global study by @zheng-zhou.bsky.social et al on soil animal trophic diversity 🌍🌿🕷️🪱🪳🧪
www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Congrats Team, awesome achievement.

I managed to get flights a day earlier, and avoid a cyclone. An urchin's graduation this week. Proud mama.

My Rorschach Quilt
(2023? 2024?)

Steal her look: Bull Kelp! I took the photo of the holdfast in the bottom left corner, others are from the internet.

April 16th is Bull Kelp Day and you know what that means #BullKelpDay

If you loved my tūī bathing video then here you go: I cut together the wax eyes and a sequence of Mr Pīwakawaka on his own. And lopped off 30s to appease the Bluesky gods 🥺 #nzbirds
Sound up, they're a chatty little bunch and I think the tūī can also be heard warbling in the rātā throughout

Sending hugs.
That is a tough year for you and the whanau. T
ake care, rest when you can, drink plenty of water.
If you can, go for a stroll in some nature.

A cats paw poking out from underneath a grey sheet. This cat likes to pull the underwear off the clothes rack, so I am pegging them up higher.

Old cat helping me hang the washing inside, cyclone prepping.
Nil 🇳🇿

Hugs. It's a tough time.
I had to get a loan from the bank to pay for one.

#Tinyjoys

Last week the roofer fixed one of the leaky roofs.
The rain today is doing it's best to test the result.
So far, all is dry in that room.

art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.

That’s us somewhere under that cloud. I was watching live at that point in time 💚

art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. See ALT for more

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Ive been getting different coloured ones off trade me. They are a larger fit, and really comfortable.

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d
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