A "Little Free Library" filled with only Merriam-Webster Dictionaries

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

Moments later, a (different) middle aged, western-attired woman turns almost a complete circle to watch a wheelchair robot pass by, and says, "What the hell?!?"

🤖🦽

Snippets at the airport

50-something year old man tells his female companion (while using the check-your-bag-via-scanner-and-ID-kiosk-and-automatic-baggage-carousel), "Oh, we're WAY behind. Canada and Europe have been using these for years."

1/2

😆 Relatable.

screen cap of marbled murrelet pair reported on inaturalist with a clear photo and map

Annnd, I was not the only person to see them. This inaturalist report is from the same place, at about the same time. VERY happy someone got pics!🥳

Thank you! They were busy diving, so twice I showed DH, and they disappeared, as if on queue.😅

Aw, thank you! So, maybe I was EXTRA lucky (moved here weeks ago).😲

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🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

🐠 🐟

😍😍😍😍😍

Right? When I was at Mt. Rainier, my friend ran the marbled murrelet monitoring work. So far inland, it's amazing.😲

They ARE. Teeny and a v distinctive silhouette, which is helpful.😊 I hope you get to see some, one day!

Thanks!!! 💃

Puget sound under a partly cloudy sky, looking very silvery, with an island in view. There are two people on the edge of the shore looking away.

They were out THERE.😍

omg, right? Near a major airline hub wouldn't hurt, either.😊

Just saw two marbled murrelets in the Sound--soooo exciting!

Like a famous movie star sighting for a conservation biologist.
🤩🥳💖

Sooo tiny!!

Okay so now y'all can understand why I almost burst into tears when this Blackburnian landed right in front of me today in my backyard park and let me get this shot:

#birds

That is adorable.😻

A Great Blue Heron takes flight. It's wings are concave as it is lifting into flight.

I saw a nice Great Blue Heron yesterday. I kept clicking as he departed and got a shot where the wings are perfectly concave. Fun, fun click to get!
#birds #GreatBlueHeron

<literally JUST watched a vid of domestic ducks on the post before yours>

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A lady in a raincoat clutches for plants next to a sign that says these plants feed bees

Lots of plants and a stack of Philly biodiversity scenes and a sign that has a bunch of insects and plants on it illustrated

Giving out native plants at our Native Plant Extravaganza in Port Richmond’s Campbell Square Park!

We planted about 75 plugs and distributed an additional 75 to neighbors for their backyards and planters.

The graphic contains a photo of the Earth and a fist in the air in protest. The graphic reads: "Virtual & Accessible Earth Day 2026 Organized by Stand Up for Science, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 8PM ET. DEFEND OUR PLANET. Defend our planet, public health, science, and th workers who protect them. LINK IN BIO." The graphic also contains the Stand Up for Science and EARTHDAY.ORG logo.

This Wednesday, we’re defending four things: the planet, public health, science, and the federal workers who protect them. Stand Up for Science and the planet at our Virtual & Accessible Earth Day Rally! Visit this link to register!: zurl.co/usfvJ

#EarthDay #EDVR #Climate #StandUpForScience

eeeep! Such fabulous spp.!

<Moved to WA, misses desert mallow🧡🧡🧡>

Spectacular!! 🥳

silvery blue and green and grey with a fine pattern of water wavelets

Beautiful wave patterns on the Puget Sound.🤩

Close up of bubble snail on a rocky shelf. Bright blue edges around a ruffled, petal-like mantle of rose and maroon. Two tiny eyes peep put from the centre. The lower half of the image is a colour palette picked from the animal

Hydatina physis, aka a bubble snail, which is a type of sea slug. Those little eyes peeping out from behind the head shield get me every time 👀

#rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

With the help of an arborist, the camera was in place in December 2025, and the stream went live on Jan. 12. Peace and Harmony arrived on March 28 and March 29, and have been racking up the YouTube views ever since.

https://theoregonian.visitlink.me/TF_BXo 

📷: Royal Oaks Country Club

Northern Lights Forecast: New York And More States Could See Aurora Tonight A moderate geomagnetic storm could produce northern lights visible “as low as New York to Wisconsin to Washington state,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.

A moderate geomagnetic storm could produce northern lights visible “as low as New York to Wisconsin to Washington state,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.

Interesting thread.🤓

Screenshot showing two photos one on top of the other, of a view of ridge with lots of trees/forests with blue skies and hazy clouds in distance; UC San Diego logo up at top left; white words written on red rectangle with “now” and “last year above and below showing lack of snow in top photo

Uff.

#CA what snowpack?

Bright green bottle brush shaped plants grow up from the ground and unfurl, while cream-colored reproductive shoots fade during this plant's annual life cycle.

Horsetails (Equisetum)!😍

Lo the Ancient Ones persist.