There’s a great podcast about birds called Okay, but…Birds by Scott Taylor at the Univ of Colorado. There’s an episode about making your yard attractive to birds. Lots of other really fascinating topics too.
All who believed were together and had all things in common. They would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.
—Acts 2
A muskrat sits on a log in a lake eating.
Muskrat, havin’ an afternoon snack at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #photography #animals #muskrat
Movie poster for “Julia” showing Jane Fonda as Lillian Hellman in the foreground and Vanessa Redgrave as her friend Julia in the background.
post your favorite #film from the year you turned 18
“Julia” (1977) with Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Fonda. Won a couple of Oscars.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(...
A great blue heron stands alert in a lake, with dormant reeds and cattails nearby.
A great blue heron fishes for its dinner at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #photography #birds
A bog with still-dormant reeds, with some bare trees surrounding.
Mid-April #bog on a rainy #spring day at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #photography
Slow and deliberate is better than move fast and break things. #ArtemisII #Integrity
NASA is one of the best things about this country. Hope. Innovation. Exploration. Wonder. Give them, the post office, and the national parks service all the money from ICE
As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII
There is no death for an otter,
only life to the end.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
I just called #Minnesota Rep #BettyMcCollum @mccollum.house.gov in DC at
202-225-6631. If you live in #MN4 you could do that too. The staffer said they’ve been hearing from a lot of people today, but the fact that I got through makes me think not enough.
Well, well…
If the 14th amendment was not meant for modern immigrants, then the 2nd amendment was not meant for modern arms.
#truth
Thanks for this info. So far I’m still not getting AI at the top of the page, at least, when I do this, but I hope there will be another way to opt out soon on google. Maybe if enough people do it they’ll get the hint.
One can always hope. 🫤
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I donated.
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Seen in a coffeeshop, a grey dog, perhaps a chihuahua with ancestry from a larger breed, wears a fashionable outfit consisting of a grey and purple shirt and a pair of white pants with grey and lavender stripes. Its human’s denim-clad leg is visible in the right side of the photo.
Who says #SaintPaul is boring? #Minnesota #dogs #fashion #chihuahuas
Ducks swimming on a lake leave wakes that make interesting, artful designs on the water. On the shore there are bare winter trees and several metal scaffolds with lights for the nearby airport. These are reflected in the water, creating an impressionistic effect.
Mallards make #art. Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #photography #birds #ducks
Another $200 billion for war? But still cutting food and housing assistance? Health care?
We aren’t going to be able to wait till November, yall.
A winter view of the Mississippi River with large ice chunks. Across the river on the snowy bank are bare trees and a few houses in Minneapolis. In the foreground are some black railings with thick bars that make interesting curved and angled visual effects.
#MississippiRiver Overlook just north of the Ford Bridge in #SaintPaul, #Minnesota. This is a color photo. #photography
A nearly colorless winter scene of a snowy riverbank with a curved wall surrounded by bare trees and an icy river below.
The Horace Cleveland Overlook, on West #MississippiRiver Blvd, #Minneapolis, #Minnesota, seen from across the river in #SaintPaul. This is a color photo. #photography
We visited NORAD in Colorado Springs in the late ‘70’s as part of a social studies class. Doubt if they’d let a bunch of high school kids do something like that these days!
A adult bald eagle with its foot on an animal carcass stands on ice at the edge of a lake and looks at the camera.
Shore lunch.
Bald Eagle, Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #birds #photography
A young bald eagle, with mottled brown and white feathers, flies in front of bare winter trees on a sunny day.
A young bald #eagle in flight at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #birds #photography
Ripply ice at the edge of open water reflecting a blue sky. A bare winter branch is caught in the ice.
On the edge of #spring, at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #photography #winter #water
Flat brown fungi with white edges resembling turkey feathers grow out of the end of a broken tree trunk.
A fine #fungi (trametes versicolor, aka turkey tail) at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #mushrooms #mushroom #photography
A swamp with some ice and snow and other areas of open water, populated with clumps of dried yellow and brown winter vegetation. There is a bare winter tree just beyond, standing in front of a field of reeds. Beyond that is a bank of winter trees, barely visible in the fog.
A foggy #bog at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #photography #fog