One of MANY house finches I heard before turning a corner and seeing them.
A painted lady (or related) butterfly seen while out walking today.
A painted lady (or related) #butterfly seen while out walking today.
Frankly, I’m more surprised by the fact that the pay phone is STILL THERE than that it’s not in use, never mind *why*.
Frankly, I’m more surprised by the fact that the pay phone is STILL THERE than that it’s not in use, never mind *why*.
Something to add to last night’s quake: the alerts aren’t actually that helpful if you’re …
Something to add to last night’s quake: the alerts aren’t actually that helpful if you’re close enough that the shaking arrives at the same time as the signal.
Well, ShakeAlert works.
Well, ShakeAlert works.
We’re fine, it wasn’t huge. Here, at least.
Anyone know what these electronics components are? They’re in an Arduino kit, but they don’t …
Anyone know what these electronics components are? They’re in an Arduino kit, but they don’t look familiar and we can’t match them with anything on the list. The kid & I both think they’re some sort of capacitor, but we can’t decipher the markings.
A lesser goldfinch having a snack
Too many Mondays this week
Too many Mondays this week
Some butterflies spotted the other day while hiking.
Some #butterflies spotted the other day while hiking. A gulf fritillary (orange), some kind of blue, possibly a marine blue (tiny with brown wings and a blue body), and possibly a cloudless sulphur (yellow).
The blues are always hard to spot because they’re so small, and the sulphurs just don’t want to pause most of the time. But the fritillaries are more willing to stop, and there were SO MANY of them at the gardens on Monday.
Maybe a cloudless sulphur? Whatever it is, these yellow ones hardly ever pause long enough for me to take a picture.
There were so. many. fritillaries.
Twisted tree and canopy
Twisted tree and canopy. The tipu trees near the old office never sprawled like this. Or didn’t have the chance to, more likely.
Gulf Fritillary
A bronze age stone slab found in a prehistoric burial mound turns out to be …
A bronze age stone slab found in a prehistoric burial mound turns out to be Europe’s oldest known map that we can link to a specific territory.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/europes-oldest-map
#prehistory #maps
California Ground Squirrel
OneThree of four ground squirrels I saw, three outside the chain-link-enclosed area where they seem to live.
This one was looking around outside the fence before it ran inside, joining another one that I hadn’t seen until they both started moving.
This one was eating, then ran back to the fence for safety as I got closer, looked around for a bit before diving inside.
This one was darting around the lawn nearby.
Black Phoebes: Area Closed
Believe it or not, these are two different black phoebes on two different “area closed” signs in the same park at the same time!
House Finch (on rock)
Kingbirds
Western Bluebird
Western Bluebird
Well, that didn’t take long.😩
So I opened up a random article collecting photos & video clips from Louisiana over …
So I opened up a random article collecting photos & video clips from Louisiana over the last couple of days and we looked at them for a bit.
I think he got the hint this time, ’cause he stopped asking for that hoverboard.
For now, at least.