A small hummingbird with faint orange on its sides, a white belly, shining green feathers on its head, and the same green feathers mixed with white on its throat, perches on the branch of a plant. It's turned to the right and has its beak against the branch as it sticks its long, curved, clear tongue out. Behind the bird is an out-of-focus bright red lily flower. 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM M, f/7.1, 1/2000, ISO 1600, 500mm 7/30/24 Northern Oregon Coast

A rufous hummingbird cleans its beak on a flowering lily. The #birdoftheday is #petalsandperches so this little guy should fit in

#birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdoftheday #hummingbird #rufous

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A closeup image of a crescent moon in the shape of a smile

the moon out here smiling at me tonight

A sliver moon is setting in the western sky. The moon is hazy from thin high clouds in a dark sky.

Cheshire Cat grin is expanding but so are the high clouds as a weather system passes by to the north and gives us only a few thin clouds instead of rain.
San Diego county
18% illuminated waxing crescent tonight 🌙

Just finished this new painting
'Soar III'
30x 24 inch acrylic on canvas
monica-morrill.jimdosite.com

He only cared about ONE thing...how it looked on TV. Enough has been said regarding the impossible healing job...not enough said about the depravity it takes to kill your followers to make good television.

The morning mist hovers over the silhouetted vista as the distant mountains are woken by pre daybreak light. The waterway is calm as it holds the reflection while edged with auburn grasses.

The morning arrived 📷🕊️ …

Male morning dove singing to the ladies on top of a Saguaro

New prickly pear cactus pads/nopales

Yellow flowers

Large pink Cactus flower

Beautiful day today.

Very sharp image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula showing protuding narrow jets emerging from the rounded tips of the gas clouds.

Zoom in on a clump of a nebula showing a grainy, fuzzy thin line that has a white arrow annotated to it. This is the jet from the protostar. Image is fuzzy taken with my telescope

Ohhhhh ... love doing these.

Left: Hubble Telescope image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula. That's a thin stellar jet from young stellar object buried in the cloud

Right: same, but from my backyard telescope. Can just see jet!

Original: @esa.int - www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

🔭 #Astrophotography

Snowcap Hummingbird

found in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

📷: John Crawley

#birds

Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”

A potted cactus from the posters collection with 10 bright orange flowers. The photo doesn’t do justice to how bright orange these cactus flowers are.

Such a nice time of year to be a cactus grower 🧡

The Qiantang river's tidal bore is the world's largest and most powerful of its kind. Sometimes two tides meet together forming a shape like a cross, that can become even more captivating at sunset.

Original post

🆕 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a renewed view of the Trifid Nebula, a scene it first observed in 1997.

🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

@science.esa.int @stsci.edu

Tuscon, Arizona
#photography

Another beautiful cactus flower this morning

In a nutshell. 😊

Trump reminds me of serial killers who love to see themselves portrayed in the media and how they are outsmarting the police.

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲

“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”

www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.

Apparently like every day.

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We live in a world ruled by incompetent, petty, vindictive, and small minded men and women. The proof is everywhere. Do better. Be better.

Well done Mamdani. Well done. Sometimes it takes an immigrant to get the job done.

God it isn’t just that they’re incompetent, they’re just SO STUPID

When Trump first ran for president it was well known he was a racist slumlord.

This should have ended him right there.

He's winning at losing!

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Male Red-bellied Woodpecker and male Northern Cardinal face each other from opposite sides of a feeder, appearing to converse.

Good gossip at the feeder today — photo thread 🧵
#birds

An acrylic painting of two red adirondack chairs at the edge of a dock on a lake under an abstract sunset.

My painting TWO RED CHAIRS