I gave up on the damn things years ago ... Wrapping in a soft quilted bag for travel does it 😜

D'Oh! Mt Hood, just in case you don't speak Portlandian 🧙‍♂️

Wearing white before Memorial Day?

📷 From the balcony in the Pearl District, PDX

I usually don't include this info, but:

Fuji X-T3; XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + 1.4x
ISO-1600, f/32, 1/640sec
560mm actual; with Crop sensor + 1.4x teleconverter 840mm

Processed in LR, serious denoise applied

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I sent the memo out yesterday ... where the hell is everybody?
OK, I'm starting without them
[singing notes from "I Sing the Body Electric"]

📷🦉Savannah Sparrow with issues about cohort not arriving to sing at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, near Brigham City UT, April 2026
#birds #sparrow #marsh

"Trevor, stop looking at your chest, you'll go blind!"

📷🦉Clarke's Grebe at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, near Brigham City UT, April 2026

Though, shooting through wispy vegetation does produce some fodder for @theineptbirder.bsky.social

#ornithology #ineptphotographer

Not quite punk, not quite D.A.

📷🦉 Red-breasted Merganser (RBME) at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, near Brigham City UT, April 2026

#birds #merganser #NWR #Utah #waterfowl #pointynose

Who dat on the levee?
Don't look, it have long lens ...
[Ms. CITE giving me some side eye while Mr CITE is frozen]

📷 Cinnamon Teal (CITE) at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, near Brigham City UT, April 2026

The Price of Beer in the United States — Beervana Pop quiz: which state has more expensive beer, Wisconsin, Colorado, or Texas? The folks at Toast have some numbers out this week, and they’re quite interesting.

www.beervanablog.com/beervana/202...

Just above the horizon ...

📷handheld zoom at moonrise two days ago ...

He thinks he's got a shot at the 2028 nomination ... He got this job by running in 2024, then standing down in exchange for a cabinet position ...

Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for March 19, 2026 | GoComics Read Tom the Dancing Bug—a comic strip by creator Ruben Bolling—for today, March 19, 2026, and check out other great comics, too!

@rubenbolling.bsky.social from 2018 ... nail/head ;-)

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Late season blanket ...

Mt Hood morning from the SkyPalace

So, where WAS Kevin?
Kevin: Oh, Linda Lou is home, time to do some courting!

Linda Lou: Kevin! You can't be here, my Dad is home from work! Thanks for the food gift ...
Oh, crap, he heard you! Go, quick, now!! I'm in so much trouble ... Meet me later at the live oak?

Kevin: Oh yeah 😜

What's Trevor up to?

Trevor:
Ahh, that's Kevin down there ...
Dive Bomb Kevin!
Prepare for Landing!
Hey, where's Kevin????

[Trevor watches too many war movies]

🦉Nanday Parakeet, introduced to south Florida, living large in Venice FL 2026

#birdoftheday #green

Made the cold, snowy pilgrimage to NYC and the Ed Sullivan Theatre to see John Oliver on stage ... oh, yeah, Stephen Colbert was there two ;-)

Hadn't been in ABQ in years, stopped to have dinner with a friend at M'tucci's Bar Roma, had to stop at Tractor ;-)

It seems that "Dirt" is trending in brew pub names ...

At Dirt Farm Brewing in Bluemont VA

#brewery #brewing #IPA #marginallyshirtworthy #virginia

Just popped in to get plowed ...

Tractor Brewing, Albuquerque NM (getplowed.com)

#brewery #brewing #IPA #getplowed #ABQ #notshirtworthy

Heading south from Santa Fe ...
Mormon Battalion Monument; long ride, troubles surmounted, but with some recent 'editing' of a certain word from the original to the removed ... you can guess which of two words it likely was ...

#mormonbattalion #santafe #algodones #newmexico

Tank art by "SlipKid" near Budaghers Drive,
Budaghers New Mexico 87001

#slipkid

A recent visit ...

Dirt Road Brewing Philomath OR

[IG]dirtroadbrewing

Wrecker of suet ...

Low quality video of a Pileated Woodpecker making a mess of my suet block ...

Graham Platner Really Might Be Doomed. Pay Attention to Him Anyway. The candidate embodies a quarter-century of raw American frustration. It’s the source of his strength — and potentially his downfall.

I've been reading Politico for 15 years, quite often where Graham was bartending ...

very few times have they committed 5 full pages to one person ... It's a good read ... though long, it's worth it ..

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Yes, along with all the other ongoing chaos ... mostly, just vote for thoughtful, rational, deliberative reps, state and national ...

This is troubling, but not unexpected, hearing similar plans for OR/WA/CA forests

📷Circa 1994 (blue shirt, binocs, compass - pre-GPS🛰️) ... doing bird surveys on the Ottawa, Chequamegon, Nicolet and Hiawatha NFs ... and I am a Card Carrying Yooper 😄

#michigan #yooper #USFS #forest #whenIhadhair

Opinion | Massive national forest project needs a closer look at impacts, alternatives - Bridge Michigan The Forest Service must take a more careful look at the project’s impact on the adjacent Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness, surrounding state and private lands, and the long-term health of the Ottawa Na...

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Yeah, I have two boxes of issues from '78-'85 ... if only we had some tech to scan and summarize those 😜

There was a graphic short story in Heavy Metal like that (early '80s???) with the guy being prepped to go in to work his one hour (once a year) and the robots telling him how smart and special he was ... don't remember the ending ...