Wow. It makes me feel young again!

Repetition, is it required? Asked Tchaikovsky when he was hired.

If it sounds nice, or better yet sublime, then it sounds twice as nice the second time.

Thank you Josefa Heifetz!

🧵preface to say I love and mad respect to nurses but

Tapping a vein be like:
🧑‍⚕️Nurse 🔪🔪🔪
🧛Phlebotomist 💨🌫️☁️🌬️🥷

Like we joke about phlebs being vampires but I propose Blood Ninja as a more accurate and just as cool nickname

A yellow Labrador retriever and a man crouch outside double doors

Close-up of a dog's moist nose and muzzle

A couple dozen people stand around a table looking at the man speaking. Meanwhile the yellow lab stands gazing into the camera

Dogs with jobs! Pups go on pest patrol as rodenticides are phased out
See story by @cchamplin.bsky.social
ucanr.edu/blog/green-b...

I love you little owls

A dirt road leading away into the distance with dark trees on the horizon and pillows of clouds rising overhead.

Nothing changes
Until everything changes.

Nothing works
Until suddenly something does.

Dictators remain in power
Until they're not.

And until then, we ride.
#mtbpics

A flock of pigeons roosting in a dead tree, backlit, with rolling hills in the background, under a cloudy sky

Scene at the top of my ride today. Merlin app suggested Band-Tailed Pigeons, and I think it’s right.

Watercolor painting of a curious, puplish, griffinish creature admiring its pile of winter squash, gourds and pumpkins. Text on the upper left reads: © goldeenogawa.com • 2025

8. Autumn
#repostyourart
It's all about the pumpkins!!! 🎃
#artwork

I’m old enough that medical providers sometimes look at me with concern about that one

I always feel a little awkward about answering that “have you fallen in the last year?” question that shows up on medical history forms.

Uh. Yes.

But don’t worry about it

Seconded!

Grayscale ink painting of Half Dome in Yosemite.

Day 5 of #repostyourart: Mountain

Going real far back with this one from my DeviantArt days, Half Dome that I painted in 2013. I painted this in one sitting with Chinese ink, easily one of my favorite media.

#Watercolor #FineArt #SciArt #LandscapeArt #Ink #repostyourart26 #halfdome #yosemite

FROM THE ALPS - watercolor painting of snowy, rocky peaks under a cloudy sky, looming up out of forested hills. A tiny person on a giant golden eagle soars down out of them. Text at the bottom reads goldeenogawa.com © 2009

BANDUR ORBITING - colored pencil illustration of a gorge in Georgia with towering mountains and a little grassy knoll in the foreground. Out of the clouds in a humongous dragon, only partially in frame, appearing to be made of the same rocks as the mountains below. On the little grassy knoll is a cloaked human and a red horse, looking up at the dragon. Text along the bottom are defunct attribution links. Illustration by Goldeen Ogawa 2010.

2024 YEAR OF THE DRAGON - THE BIKE WON'T KILL YOU IT MAKES YOU STRONGER - colored pencil illustration of a yellow-and-green serpentine dragon coiled around a full suspension mountain bike flying through the air over a conifer forest. Framed by the dragon's tail are some volcanos from Central Oregon: Moon Mountain, Ball Butte, Broken Top, and Broken Hand. In the bottom a red-tailed hawk is affronted that she is not the main character. Text along the bottom reads © goldeenogawa.com • 2024

2025 YEAR OF THE SNAKE - BE YOUR OWN RAINBOW Colored pencil illustration of the view looking west from Shepherd Saddle, Kaweah Country, CA, toward the Sierra Nevada Mtns and Sequoia Nat'nl Park. Castle Rocks rise over the Kaweah River canyon with a glimpse of Sawtooth on the horizon. Behind the sunlit mountains is a stormy gray sky, with rainbow arching across. On the left side, the rainbow contours around the curves of the foothills, gradually morphing into the body of a shimmering purple serpent looking back at itself. The serpent is based on a striped variant of a California Kingsnake. In the lower right corner a female American Kestrel does not appreciate the competition in gopher hunting.Text along the bottom reads: © goldeenogawa.com • 2025

5. Mountain
#repostyourart
*laughs in mountain biker*
#art

cc @ahhayashi.bsky.social How about a bottle holder like that for Lola?

Roads less traveled: the safety surprises of big cities The most effective way to stay safe on city streets is remarkably simple: drive less. A new report from StreetLight Data suggests that the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) is the single most important fac...

New Report from StreetLight Data "found VMT contributed the most to risk, with a nearly direct link between the total miles driven and the reported number of fatal crashes."

This is why investing in transit and active transportation is so important. Lower costs, cleaner air, safer cities!

I guess there are still more people riding muscle bikes than riding E bikes. And we know there are more people driving cars.

Yordl-EEEE-drt (at least, that’s what they always sound like to me) your leader

Photograph of an artist's work table with panels of an in-progress oil painting laid out. Bits of floor and a sliding glass door are visible in the background.

Happy Fool's Eve everybody! I you can now get all the March CSA goods in a simple Patreon post, $5 for non-subscribers. It's a great way to support your friendly chimera artist and see some neat things. Check it out:
www.patreon.com/posts/march-...

It’ll always be Candlestick Park to me

Wow! A spinning thing on a stand is of course super interesting to a child. It reminds me of PTO injuries to farm kids. Sobering.

The Ride-Hail Utopia That Got Stuck in Traffic Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.

Never forget, for many years Uber insisted it would reduce traffic in cities. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber & Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic. They now admit they increase congestion.

Now boosters lie about driverless cars. Don’t believe them either.

Our town is small, but we draw lots of visitors on their way to #SequoiaNationalPark and meeting them is such a joy.
#NoKings3
#Resistance

Done

I love you little owls

A similar propaganda poster from World War II with Hitler is shown in the next post. This one shows Trump riding next to the man and encouraging you to walk bike or transit today.

When you ride ALONE,
you ride with Trump!

You too, @mattmahansj.bsky.social

@merdeka7.bsky.social @warriorchicken.me

And a close-up, of course

Mexican poppies on the BLM this morning

It could happen!