A tulip field of mostly mixed color tulips like a multicolor polka dot field, with trees in the background.
I haven’t had much time to go through pictures of the peak of the tulips blooming (a week ago). I like this view, it feels almost impressionistic. Another reason to love Oregon spring. 🌿
A Groundhog makes his way across the short spring grass in early April in a mild light. (I love the wonderful rough texture of his coat and variety of greys and browns it exhibits.)
The groundhog is out.
#Groundhogs #Woodchucks #nature #wildlife #photography 🌿
Pink magenta tulip
One year ago today 🌿 One of my tulip blooms
a shooting star flower close up; other flowers and buds in the same nodding umbel are blurry in the background. the flower is angled mostly towards the ground, with a thin style wrapped in tan anthers with maroon connective tissue dangling down, forming an inverted cone. they are completely exposed, however, because the long white lobes of the bell-shaped corolla are sharply reflexed backwards, as if they were streaming behind a cone of stamens plummetting down through the atmosphere. at the rim of the flower's mouth where the corolla lobes turn away, their white color is replaced by sunny yellow, with a necklace of maroon patches on the leading edge.
at the top of a smooth green scape, an umbel of white flowers in various stages of development; most are tightly wrapped buds; some are fully mature, others growing, other wilting. the flowers grow long, nodding stems, such that the flowers face the ground when mature. they have a cup-shaped green calyx with five triangular lobes which reflex back to accommodate the corolla lobes, but they straighten back out when the corolla wilts. most of the flowers here have droopy corolla lobes, but one in front is in full flight with its five white lobes pointing to the sky, its stamens and style forming a cone pointing to the earth. at the rim where the corolla bends back, the flower has a band of yellow with a ring of maroon patches.
a shooting star growing among ferns and forbs above a layer of last year's leaves at the bottom of a forest holler. the shooting star has a basal rosette of large oblanceolate green leaves and a green scape standing straight up from the middle. at the top of the scape there is an umbel with about half a dozen blooming white flowers on long nodding stems. the flowers face the ground, with a cone formed by style + stamens pointing down while strongly reflexed corolla lobes stand upright heading the opposite direction.
🌼 eastern shooting star 🌿
Primula meadia
stunning flower with equally remarkable fragrance
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Handsome House Finch awaits his turn at the water bowl over native grass as a forest's edge
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The U.S. Senate just voted to pollute one of Minnesota’s most beloved places: the Boundary Waters.
Let’s be clear why: more money for billionaires.
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Minnesota folks:
Reminder that we have extra tornado sirens today at 1:45 and 6:45 for severe weather awareness week.
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ICE agents are now facing a kidnapping probe in Minnesota. Virginia just defunded Confederate organizations after 76 years. A federal judge blocked student voter suppression. The regime is losing on every level. Share this edition.
Yes, I agree with you. The thin skinned orange menace can't believe he lost the state of MN even after he cheated. His retaliation continues.
Trump has it in for the state governed by the person who ran for VP in the party that ran against Trump in 2024. T is all about grifting & smiting his perceived enemies.
T already ICEd Minneapolis. Now this.
The GOP-held Senate just voted to allow copper mining in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota - a vote to defile a national treasure.
So long, BWCA. A hearty fuck you to every Republican senator for disregarding the people of Minnesota, and especially to hockey cheater Rep. Pete Stauber. Your contempt for Minnesotans knows no depth. Hope the exchange rate of Chilean Pesos to USD was worth it.
#BoundaryWaters #NoMiningBWCA I don’t know when this vote closes. But I want everyone, particularly Minnesota’s, to #RememberInNovember.
Damnit!! The Senate voted 50-49 to lift the moratorium on mining within the watershed for the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota. The most visited wilderness area in the US. Damn them to hell.
Watching Tina Smith defend Boundary Waters last night had me wishing she was the senator running for Minnesota governor.
Congressional Republicans have sent President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban on mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, hoping to clear the way for a South American company to extract precious metals from the region’s pristine forests, lakes and bogs.
The Senate just voted to allow mining upstream from a pristine wilderness area in Minnesota, the Boundary Waters. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...
Damn their hides.
Stauber's cute end around using a CRA for this worked. He has broken the contract with Minnesota citizens, current and future.
There will be two emergency boundary waters distress sirens throughout Minnesota today at 1:45 and 6:45
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I don't think this will end well for the Chilean mines exporting Minnesota's minerals to China. Just like Minnesotans love their neighbors, they really love the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
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Devastating news. Is nothing sacred? Will we sell off every pristine piece of wilderness to foreign interests to the benefit of the owner class?!
Minnesotans won't see any benefit from Chilean mining - quite the opposite. The Canadians will never forgive us.
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