Light brown female cardinal with red beak eating seeds on a red platform scattered with snowflakes with a snowy tree behind.
Bright red male cardinal looking to left and stretched out along the red platform of the feeder.
My cute cardinal couple #Birds
Red male cardinal, with a tree branch behind him looking like an extension of his eyeliner.
Srsly, these two are just out here posing like pros.
Light brownish grey female cardinal facing left at the feeder with seeds in her beak The tiny red dot in her crest by the tip of the arrow is the male cardinal, lurking in the tree behind, waiting for her to leave.
Red male cardinal looking cranky and critical of the seed selection at the feeder.
Light brownish grey female cardinal on a red platform leaning to right at the feeder with seeds in her beak The tiny red dot behind her to the left by the tip of the arrow is the male cardinal, lurking in the tree waiting for her to leave.
Yesterday and today, a female cardinal comes to the feeder while the male lurks in the birch behind, then zooms up after she departs! #Birds also, the squirrel baffler is baffling the squirrels, hurray!
Gosh!!!! Thank you so much @rickriordan.bsky.social for reading and recommending my book!!! ✨🍩✨
Red male cardinal looking left, crest up on orange bar at birdfeeder.
Greyish brown female cardinal, looking left, with red-tipped crest up, and sunflower seed in her beak, on orange platform at feeder.
Crests up for this cardinal couple at the feeder. #Birds I like how the tree branch behind him looks like an extension of his face mask!
Hi! Want to talk about LeGuin's Dispossessed tomorrow at 2 at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social ? www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/46465... Next month we're reading The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara on Sunday 5/24, and then Bloodchild by Octavia Butler for Sunday 6/14. It'll be fun, you should join us!
I had a friend insist that to be a bad coworker was to be a bad person because you let others down. I've never forgotten it. Because, whatever their reasons for being a bad coworker, if they're not addressing them by improving or leaving, but sticking around to keep sucking, that's on them.
No lie: I was planning a wedding in the 90's, discussing it in car in Philly, Lightning Crashes starts and fiance says, what about this song for the first dance? Me, after a long pause, "Listen to the lyrics." Him: "...oh" Me, two months later, breaking up with him.
Has he never looked at a magazine in the grocery aisle checkout in the last century?
Light brown house sparrow on red platform
Brown white and black sparrow on red platform
Skinny awkward tan and brown sparrow
Incoming white nuthatch for orange landing platform
New feeder setup with squirrel baffler. The squirrels are baffled but all the birds haven't found the new location. Sparrow, sparrow, sparrow and OMG an avenging nuthatch. (I think) #Birds
Just submitted an essay I reworked for a contest. It's better than it was, not as good as it could be. But I made it in by deadline!
No, Park Nicolet, I have not scheduled my mammogram yet. Stop sending me an email asking what you already know when it's just a reminder that it's been a year. I don't need this guilt that borders on gaslighting, all right?
My frozen shoulder and I resemble this post.
Male red cardinal facing camera, head titled quizzically to the right, on an orange platform
Male red cardinal on orange platform looking determinedly to.the right in profile
Red male cardinal, on orange platform facing left, posing for posterity
Squirrel butt, grey and furry at the bird feeder.
What's up? Squirrel butt. And an absurdly preening cardinal. #Birds
I put that there! I thought between the Butler and Solnit was pretty good company.
Popcorn down my bra
Heartless young, they laugh at pain
Trylon date night: Thief
I would've tagged @trylon.org in the haiku, but the .org would've messed up the meter.
Those gums!
I don't read the person outside the arch as an old man, but as a grey-haired elder woman, with hair brushed forward to look like a beard, as I do the hermit. One of the things I like about the Smith deck is the gender fluidity I see in it.
One of my books differentiates between throwing the wands down ahead of you or behind you.
I also love the particulars of the Smith deck. I just connected that I think it's the same person in the Hermit and the 10pentacles.
Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what
I have an application due tomorrow. Previously, I'd be frantic, sweeping everything aside, going after some image in my head, giving up in exhaustion when forced to, consoling myself that I did my best. Today, I wonder, what if I just do the minimum, then polish it up a bit if I have time?
Hello gorgeous.
also nobody in the history of cinema has ever gone as hard as John Leguizamo did as Tybalt
Was at my college kids volleyball tourney today. Been a year or more since I've watched a game. Couldn't remember what the little tricksy guys in the different jerseys were. The best my brain could produce was "bandito".
Ooh, now I must re-read for this! But I can see this! Especially her friend who can't organize herself, plus I think there's that autistic justice bent in Miss Devine! I'm currently revising a paper on relationships/marriages in the books.
Cardboard box reading QTY: 6PC. DESC: 24" GIANT SPARKLE RUBBER CHICKEN
Happy Giant Sparkle Rubber Chicken morning to you.
Last night submitted 2 new apps to MA programs in lit. Woke early to get my younger back to college after spring break. So far, email from the uni that rejected me last month, saying what to expect in the fall. Twist that knife. Warnings of fire and snow, then not 1 but 2 bald eagles guiding my path
Hi I just submitted two grad applications.
Am I the reader I am today because of this, or despite it? Please excuse me while I return to my audiobook of The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart.