Bottlebrush blooms before they unfurl.

Accurate depiction of war by Borislav Sajtinac www.instagram.com/p/DTLiAD-gNmd/

Sedona lichen

‘A win for nature and people’: Elizabeth line soil used to create Essex bird haven A record 39,000 birds are overwintering on Wallasea island wetlands thanks to soil transported from London tunnels

‘A win for nature and people’: Elizabeth line soil used to create Essex bird haven

Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’ The American British author on pet peeves, the perils of fantasy dinner parties, and revisiting The Short History of Everything two decades later

Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’

From the garden.

Under the rock.

One thing that most articles like this fail to mention is that California's population hasn't grown since 2019. So even though new construction has been below target, housing supply relative to population has been increasing at least.

Ooh, Michaeleen Doucleff has a forthcoming book!

Tea steeping in glass mug.

Only half way through this documentary on birding, but it is funny and makes me think humans are interesting.

Might need to finally go to Sacramento: here2day.netwiz.net/portfolio/pu...

Just found out that some people call the otherwise awkwardly-named planting-strip or sidewalk-extension a road-verge and I love it.

Fern pine fruit in bird bath.

Peeling bark of the madrone.

Some years ago I joined the Mediterranean Garden Society, and today they posted about a lovely California garden whose owner had recently passed away. www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/107-montecit...

in the mixing bowl

Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve

Montaña de Oro state park has very toothy rocks.

Tower of jewels not yet towering, not yet beeing.

Sunlight through a dead leaf.

Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather (Full Documentary) YouTube video by OoS Pictures

The full documentary Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather is now out on YouTube:
youtu.be/X6VCTfzl1DU

Authored by Realms Unknown co-host Henry Fraser no less!

Hiking to Taft Point in Yosemite

Russian Ridge mothers' day hike.

Bumblebees and their purple flowers (Aristea inaequalis in California and teucrium in Croatia).

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk begin speaking.

www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2025/04...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim The train took us to the maker's bench, and we laid out our son's body, chest open. Tonight the maker would give him a mainspring and wind him for the very first time. "Should we name him now, or afte...

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/carn... Poignant fantasy story about the finiteness of life and how we use our energy. Recommend.