❄️ Hold ‘til it’s cold ❄️

Guide to commenting on the proposed “Schedule F” to prevent Trump lackeys from being in charge of the administration of our Forests & Grasslands 👇

Overwhelming public comment is needed to slow down this autocrat’s dream to replace the civil service with party loyalists.

“If this new-look Schedule F survives the inevitable court challenges, it will mark a major step forward in a MAGA quest laid out by J. D. Vance in 2021 to ‘fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state,’ and ‘replace them with our people.’”
@theatlantic.com

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

“Jabberwocky” Lewis Carroll

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings.

It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me

Not to mention the outlook for Meals on Wheels is grim. More older folks who are being extirpated, for what reason?

It must have been so harrowing for you, stay hopeful.

Any idea where Angus King (I) will vote?

Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

Governor Janet Mills, effectively told Trump, “I won’t bow down, mushroom boy!”

What’s “severed” mean in this post?

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

Horrendous.

The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.

I can’t see the responses.

So lovely, in the depths of a Maine winter it makes me feel happy to see once again my spring favorites; the pale yellow primula, the Anthriscus sylvestris’Raven’s Wing,’ and others. Thanks for a breath of May!

This year’s Christmas card: Landmark, acrylic on linen, 15” x 16”. A blueberry barren in late fall in Maine.

Every super-early morning. I am now friends with the night.

Another recent painting, Northern Lake, 13” x 30”, acrylic on linen, at Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine. When I first saw that lake from above, shimmering in the distance, I found it haunting, and knew I wanted to paint it. It took years, but this was a good time to paint it, it has such calm.

Early morning again, the same for so many. But the darkness slowly lightens.
Here’s a painting: Haymock Lake Nocturne, 14” x 18”, acrylic on linen. Haymock Lake is in northern Maine, north of the Golden Road.