💚🖤 Tue, Apr 21
More rare friends came by yesterday: siblings T167A & B were traveling w/T90s down Puget Sound. So far as we can find, this was just 167s 2nd time documented inland Puget Sound (1st was 2017). Lots of gray whales too, not all happy...
📸 T90s & fin of T167A by Jason Luc 4/20.
#psws
Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering
Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...
Young, humpback whale launching itself into the sky: #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
"This is an important thing to think about."
The Marvelous Spatuletail, found in just one valley in northern Peru and is one of the rarest hummingbirds on Earth. [📹Alex Fine]
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Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
My painting of a blue campanula
Art with flowers
Guy in the coffeehouse complimented my knitting and it turns out he knows how to knit (!) because a bunch of elder gay men in a Seattle coffeehouse adopted him and taught him how and that just sounds like the most impossibly charmed life.
Update: I got 4 comms in total and I couldn't be any more excited. Thank you so much to everyone who shared my posts, it means a lot 🌼🌱 We got this, friends! Thank you for supporting real art.
No "case of the Mondays" here! It's a gorgeous day in the Salish Sea and we're off to find some whales! 😎🐳
📷: Prince of Whales Whale Watching
That face 🤩❤️
I’ve been working on my HAED since 2017, it isn’t as big as your gorgeous piece 🤩, BUT I am determined to finish it by the end of the year!! Can’t wait to see your finish.Happy Stitching 😊
Counted cross stitch project in progress.
Spent the afternoon cross-stitching. First time I've had the mental energy to attempt this in months. Page 3 almost done.
My flower painting 🌹
Beautiful Brussels Belgium 🇧🇪 the Flower Carpet
Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona. Shot on an Iphone 5s June 2015 #antelopecanyon #page #arizona #slotcanyon #landscape #photography #iphonephotography #cvvhrn
mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.
In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.
This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.
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Photo of colorful cross stitch in progress
Cross stitch progress. Filled in some accent areas. Also had to fix the last row of green stitches on the right.
I wanted to give myself an embroidery challenge, gonna try and do a series of Cryptids. Started with my fave boi mothman
textured acrylic painting, gestural strokes, bright colours, varnished layerings, rich plum and navy skies scattered with wind-torn blossoms in cream and blush tones swirling like nocturnal butterflies, ancient gnarled branches with lichen patches and magenta blooms, soft copper moon obscured by drifting smoke-grey clouds, delicate petals catching moonlight as they tumble through air, tangled lines, soft edges, negative space --ar 7:5 --stylize 300 --v 7
`Blossoms in shades of cream and blush` #synthart
My flower painting of peonies
Orca whales know what humans are. They're top tier predators. They can chase seals at 35 mph. They watch us drive by in our boats, perform for us when we whale watch, they respect our frailty when we canoe or paddleboard. They even observe us standing around campfires on the beach late at night.
“Be still and the earth will speak to you.”
~ Hopi
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
A groundbreaking expedition off Chile has filmed the elusive Type D orcas for the first time, revealing their unique features and confirming a potential new species.
Pet portrait painting demonstration in oils of a tortoiseshell cat lounging on top of a fence by American artist Patrick Saunders for a painting workshop
My pet portrait demonstration Friday morning on the final day of my first painting workshop for the Associated Women in the Arts.
“Pebbles”
• Oil on Linen
• 14” x 18”
• 2 Hours
Violet Fronted Brilliant
Found in the Andes, from Venezuela to Bolivia
📷: Luis Alcivar
#birds
My words are truly genuine, I had no expectations. Since I can't lower my prices and we're all struggling, I knew it was very difficult to get new comms. So this made my whole day!
American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026.
Photo by Jose Raposo
Photo: a baby chameleon rests atop a red flower against a green and yellow backdrop. Source: Mehmet Karaca, Kapıçam Nature Park, Turkiye, Wiki Loves Earth 2024.
A baby Mediterranean chameleon
📸 Mehmet Karaca,
Kapıçam Nature Park, Türkiye
Wiki Loves Earth 2024
