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  Brilliant. Bright red fungus growing on a rotting log. A random selection from August 2020. #fungus #red #nature #iphoneography

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  “The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy ‘consumer alert.’” https://wapo.st/4kUsBEF #23andMe #privacy

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  “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.” ― Maya Angelou

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  "President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, reviving his failed first-term attempts to scrap the grantmaking agencies as he moves to reshape the nation’s artistic and cultural landscape." https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/03/trump-budget-nea-neh-eliminate/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ2MjQ0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHR...

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  “Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art.” “A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.” https://www.npr.org/2025/08/24/nx-s1-5511241/smithsonian-white-house-art?utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=threads.net&utm_medium=social

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  We came home from an errand this afternoon, looked out a window, and spotted a Great Blue Heron .... right there! We rarely see them on this side of the pond and never so near. What a treat. It didn't stay long after we first sighted it before casually walking down the slope toward the pond's edge. #birds #birdsofnorthamerica #GreatBlueHeron

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  Leaf Fall

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  This morning I woke up following a strange and memorable dream. In one part of the dream, I clearly saw a wall calendar with the date March 1989. Many things happened that month in history, of course, with the most prominent probably being “The Great Québec Blackout”. I’ve no idea why my brain chose to display that calendar page, and I’m not ascribing it to premonition. But why dream March 1989? https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/03/12/the-great-quebec-blackout/

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  Rising Bridges. I dug this photo out of the archives yesterday in response to another person’s post. The tall, concrete, arched bridge in the background, frames a steel box bridge in the middle space, both rising from the green trees of the foreground. #bridges #photography

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  Tonight’s full Cold /Long-Night Moon. View from our house. #moon #moonphases #fullmoon

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  Off Barr Road, April 2013 #TimeLineCleanse

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  Red, White, Blue, and Yellow. February 1, 2026

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  One of the regulars at our bird feeder station, a tufted titmouse, checks out the lunch prospects below as snow lightly falls all around. #birdsofnorthamerica #birds #birdfeeding #titmouse

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  An incredibly bad idea: We’re about to turn night into day. Proposals before the FCC involve mirrors that could bathe entire cities in sunlight and, from SpaceX, a million satellites to serve as data centers. https://wapo.st/4rUr58z

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  It's "Odd Duck" Season on our pond -- the time of year when migratory waterfowl use the waters neighboring our house for rest and refueling. Our first guest this year, spotted today, is a male Lesser Scaub. This is actually a photo I shot here on April 1, 2024. Same bird? I don't know. I hope to have opportunities to make some new photos in the next day or so -- sunny tomorrow -- and we'll see if any duck friends show up. And yes, its bill is a delightfu...

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  I haven't posted in a while so here's a picture from a month ago: Wearing his full seasonal colors, this American Goldfinch waited his turn at the feeder, clinging to supports for a hanging plant. #birds #birdsofnorthamerica #AmericanGoldfinch