Green and purple flowers at a botanical garden. I can’t remember what the plants are, but the purple puffballs appear to be mimosas.
#garden #nature #plants #flowers #florespondence #photo
Went for a hike at a nature preserve that I haven’t been to in ages. …
Went for a hike at a nature preserve that I haven’t been to in ages. That was destressing, but also dehydrating.
On the way home I stopped at a grocery store that I also haven’t been to in ages, unless you count curbside pickup. That…was re-stressing.
Yeah, I realize my explanation for why I’m out here is a bit Farfetch’d, but it’s the truth. You wanna make something of it?
Yeah, I realize my explanation for why I’m out here is a bit Farfetch’d, but it’s the truth. You wanna make something of it?
A swallowtail butterfly, photographed using the classic technique of desperately following it with the camera…
A #swallowtail #butterfly, photographed using the classic technique of desperately following it with the camera and clicking the shutter when I hope it’s pointing vaguely in the right direction to at least catch it in frame and it probably won’t be in focus anyway but with luck it’ll at least be identifiable and…hey, not bad!
(Otherwise I’ve basically given up trying to actually aim at butterflies when they’re flying.)
Western Tiger Swallowtail
Sign at a local bar/club/lounge on a partly cloudy day.
Sign at a local bar/club/lounge on a partly cloudy day.
This is the same place that proclaimed “We missed some of you!” when they reopened after the winter pandemic surge shutdown.
I think they’ve mostly been doing “patio” dining in the parking lot, but inside gathering spots have been slowly reopening over the last month or so as case rates plummet in California and vaccination rates climb.
You want dessert for your dessert???
Kid goes to the kitchen after dinner.
“What are you looking for?”
“Dessert.”
“Did you forget we have cake?”
“No.”
“You want dessert for your dessert???”
This kid…
Found these two together at a Pokemon Go gym. Seemed appropriate.
“Hi, I loved your article on [subject I’ve never written about]…”
“Hi, I loved your article on [subject I’ve never written about] at [link to tag archive and/or a blog post on another subject entirely that might have included two words separated by a half-dozen paragraphs that could conceivably have matched a search vaguely related to the subject they are talking about]. I really think my article at [spammy site] would be a big help to your readers!”
Anita Donut
Yeah, I could use one too, but it turns out they don’t have any at this time of day.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve had a donut since last March. I used to only have them when someone brought a box in at work, or occasionally I’d stop by a donut shop on the way to work. Neither of those have happened for a while.
California Ground Squirrel
I see tree squirrels around town all the time, but this is the first ground #squirrel I’ve spotted in ages. You can tell by the narrower tail. and the pattern of the fur.
And when I moved too fast it dove into the hole instead of running off.
Where’s the, uh, euphemism?
Thinking about the multiple levels of euphemism in the term “bath tissue,” which is tissue, but not something you would use in the bath.
And that’s that!
“I deleted the ground on accident!”
“I deleted the ground on accident!”
Kid: “I forgot to anchor the ground!”
Kid: “I forgot to anchor the ground!”
Chasing Hawks
Three smaller birds tried to chase away a pair of hawks from an electrical tower. One of them flew off while they chased it. The other waited a bit, then flew off to join the first one circling farther away.
Pair of Red-tailed Hawks
I heard these hawks calling to each other, then they each landed on this tower. I thought I saw a third one land there too, but by the time I was in a position to take any pictures, there were only the two. After a minute or two, a group of three smaller birds showed up and chased one of the hawks off. A few minutes later, the other flew off to join it, and I could see them circling together off in the distance.
This squirrel ran across the street, under a car, across a lawn and up into a tree.
This #squirrel ran across the street, under a car, across a lawn and up into a tree.
“This article is about the first Death Star plans. You may be looking for the …
“This article is about the first Death Star plans. You may be looking for the second Death Star plans.”
I don’t think he knows about Second Death Star plans, Pip.
People complaining about a non-binary actor being cast as Desire in Sandman. Did they even read the comics?
People complaining about a non-binary actor being cast as Desire in Sandman. Did they even read the comics?
Don’t like the ‘woke’ casting of Netflix’s ‘Sandman’ series? Neil Gaiman doesn’t care
The comic was a genre-busting, gender-bending horror-ish fantasia that simply didn’t care about convention. So when self-proclaimed fans objected to the show casting nonbinary and Black actors, how did they think Gaiman would react?
And not surprisingly they’re also complaining about Black actors, both in roles where the race isn’t a key characteristic and in roles where the character doesn’t technically *have* a race (ex. any of the Endless, who aren’t even human, they just appear in a form familiar to whoever is seeing them – I mean, we’ve seen some of them as cats and Martians).
And the idea that Gaiman is somehow capitulating to “wokeness” or progressiveness…again, did they even read the source material that they claim is being sullied?
Sandman was about stories and change. Dream’s main character arc is realizing that he needs to change, but can’t.
And it was groundbreaking in who it included and what stories it told in the medium…30 years ago.
Freezing the form of the story would be kind of weirdly metatextual, but not nearly as awesome as making something that’s groundbreaking *today* could be.
Canada Goose
Most of the geese were toward the back of the park, not out front like they are sometimes.