A male Pileated Woodpecker fluffs up his head feathers while checking out trees for food in the marsh.

Busy planting up the pots and containers in the garden so I can paint from them in the summer sunshine. This oil was sold in 2022 and most years I prop up my easel here for some new work.

Busy planting up the pots and containers in the garden so I can paint from them in the summer sunshine. This oil was sold in 2022 and most years I prop up my easel here for some new work.

Hand-knitted jumper, on display at the National Library of Scotland

What every well-dressed librarian is wearing @natlibscot.bsky.social

Trump Calls His Own Energy Secretary a Liar on Gas Prices: 'He's Wrong' It must be fun to be in the Trump inner circle, repeat his own statements on gas prices, and then have the President denounce you anyway.

www.jezebel.com/gas-prices-t...

Andy Saunders - Bluebell Wood.
Oil on board.

oil on canvas composition, Impressionistic abstraction, layered brushwork, thin glazes, scumbled highlights, surreal dunes seamlessly rise into elegant slender towers, flowing geometry with elongated smooth vertical curves, clean surfaces, sharp elegant edges, calm and majestic negative space, bright crescent moon, wet-in-wet blending, luminous atmospheric haze, impasto accents, strong visual flow --ar 5:7 --stylize 400 --v 8.1

"Goodnight moon" #synthart

Tiny blue flowers hang their heads amidst bright green leaves.

#BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday
#MacroMonday #Squill #VT #BloomScrolling #Spring #ECK

Cleveland outfielder Oscar Gamble. Also Cleveland outfielder Oscar Gamble’s awesome afro.

#PhotoShare
Paris
1932

He only cared about ONE thing...how it looked on TV. Enough has been said regarding the impossible healing job...not enough said about the depravity it takes to kill your followers to make good television.

First Maya molar with jade inlay from Popol Vuh Museum: the Maya had therapeutic dentistry with sacred materials 1,500 years ago

First Maya molar with jade inlay from Popol Vuh Museum: the Maya had therapeutic dentistry with sacred materials 1,500 years ago

This is like pleading the fifth, right

#fanart #drawing of #usagi from #sailormoon in an outfit inspired by the #pokemon #pichu designed by @miclipse1.bsky.social #talentlessart

[⚡] Fanart of Sailor Moon✖️ Pichu

how ridiculous for Tampa Bay Lightning fans to chant "USA, USA" last night against Montreal Canadians? Montreal has more USA born players than Tampa, and Tampa has more than half its team from Canada.

from yesterday’s hike. devil’s lake

A broad, still expanse of water fills the foreground, so clear that the lakebed—small rounded stones in muted grays and browns—shows through beneath a thin veil of reflected sky. The surface is nearly motionless, acting as a mirror for the dawn above. At the horizon, the lake narrows into a distant valley framed by layered mountain ridges. The mountains rise on both sides in dark, cool silhouettes—deep blue to charcoal—softened by early light and atmospheric haze. On the left, a dense forest of conifers forms a continuous, shadowed edge that slopes gently into the water; on the right, the mountain face is steeper, its contours more pronounced but still subdued in the low light. The sky is the focal point. A scattered field of mid-level clouds stretches across it, each cloud catching the first light of sunrise. Colors transition from pale gold and peach near the horizon to cooler blues and soft grays higher up. The brightest band sits just above the distant valley, where the sun—still hidden—pushes a warm glow outward, illuminating the undersides of the clouds. This light is duplicated almost perfectly in the lake’s reflection, forming a symmetrical composition: sky above, sky below, divided by a thin, horizontal line of brighter water near the center. The reflection is slightly softened by faint ripples, but remains remarkably crisp.

#MountainMonday
#BlueskyMonday

Sunrise Glacier National Park

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

The Cancer Victims Who Could Sink Bayer’s Roundup Settlement With thousands of cases piling up in U.S. courts, the company’s relief plans still face hurdles.

The Cancer Victims Who Could Sink Bayer’s Roundup Settlement

Pike Place
Seattle

White star bursts of allium flowers in my front garden

Wild garlic 🌱

#GardensHour #Bloomscrolling

Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery.

We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.

💯 🎯

(the midterms can't come soon enough)

I cant wait till the cabinet is empty

well... THAT's pretty eye opening, actually, Mike, to just say it out loud like that.

Did that sound different in your head?

New Moon 🌕🌑 A piece for my ongoing series “A Starry Place”, where I explore spaces that are meaningful and nostalgic to me!!

SCOTUS To Hear Case From Catholic Preschools That Don’t Want To Enroll Kids With Same-Sex Parents SCOTUS To Hear Case From Catholic Preschools That Don’t Want To Enroll Kids With Same-Sex Parents

SCOTUS To Hear Case From Catholic Preschools That Don’t Want To Enroll Kids With Same-Sex Parents