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Retired foster parent for medically fragile infants. Systems Analyst

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · Apr 25

Look at the one at the top of the door jamb. Wants / hopes / plans to fly free but isn’t quite ready

Figen @thefigen.bsky.social · Apr 25

Russian painter Andrei Popov's work "Raising Children" ...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 6h

King James Version

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed,

pazooter @pazooter.bsky.social · 17h

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 1d

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DRMeyer Art and Photography @drmeyer1.bsky.social · 1d

“All things are symbols: the external shows of #nature have their image in the mind, as flowers and fruits and falling of the #leaves.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#environment #Longfellow#visualhaiku #contemplative #zenmoment #miksang #minimalism #mindful #pnw #trees #wabisabi #autumn #alder

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 7h

Love the way people chime in with suggestions.

Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 1d

Do any fungi folks know what these little gumdrop-looking globes are? Each one was under a millimeter in diameter. I found them on the underside of a fallen, decaying Joshua tree branch in the Mojave Desert. 🍄

A closeup photo of decaying wood, covered with many small, white, round, gumdrop-looking growths, perhaps the fruiting bodies of a sort of fungus.

foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 7h

They did. While laughing hysterically. And then left it in so we could laugh and complain

foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty sure I did that picture in a 2500 piece jigsaw puzzle

foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 7h

Sounds reasonable. I’d rather geckos 🦎 around than the bugs they eat

foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 7h

So sorry. Got to the “safe pistachios “ and could almost feel the attack. One of my allergies.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 12h

Peltigera venosa, our Fan Pelt Lichen, flourishing on a mossy Ceran St. Vrain slope 🌿

Green lichen with leaf-like pads and weird red spore bearing parts

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 11h

2024, I almost stepped on this Carolina mantis because she was on my front door threshold ... where I was stepping. I stepped over her and took some photos. The wings are gorgeous. #Invert

Close-up of mantis wings, with lovely dark and cream colored patterning

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15h

"Sara" has worked in Watsonville CAs strawberries for 16 yrs. "I earn piece rate. It's raining which makes the rows slippery and the mud sticks to our shoes. It's dangerous as we still need to work fast to make enough money to pay our bills." #WeFeedYou

A farm worker harvesting strawberries in the rain wearing a plastic poncho

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betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 11h

Saw this Great Blue Heron this afternoon at Berkeley Aquatic Park. From a distance I thought it was a piece of wood because it blended in so well with the old wooden retaining wall behind him. Always delighted to come across a heron.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Large shorebird standing along the shoreline of a large lagoon in Berkeley that is connected to San Francisco Bay. There is an old, wooden retaining wall behind him. Water is pale greenish, gray.

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 7h

One advantage: wear a mask 2 times in a row to a restaurant and you are pointed to the most isolated table and given excellent service. Pretty sure it’s the masks that have the bartender pouring our favorite beer before we close the door

foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 7h

Read almost the entire article wondering about the usual 1% - 10% that have a reaction to something ordinary. Good discussion near the end of exactly that problem particularly where hospitals are concerned

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 16h

Probiotics in home building: sanitary living conditions, have they gone too far?
#,IdeasInArchitecture #HealthyBuildings
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The Probiotic Home

Architects and microbiologists are exploring whether making buildings hospitable to friendly microorganisms can improve human health.

www.nature.com

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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 22h

This old Rowan tree seems to have grown a mushroom friend to brighten up the autumn. 💚

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#trees #mushroom
#FungiFriends
#photography
#EastCoastKin

Thick trunk of a rowan tree with a mushroom growing under one of its branches.

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 8h

AmphiFa forever

foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 11h

Appropriate for the time of year

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 21h

#Spooktober #Cobweb #31DaysOfHalloween

Cobweb and barbed wire.

#EastCoastKin #Macro

Macro image of a perfectly formed cobweb with dew drops attached to rusty barbed wire that's wrapped around a weathered and splintery wooden post.

foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 12h

Wow!! It’s really fast. And obviously not afraid of a human

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22h

The frilled lizard is an iconic Australian reptile because of their utter fearlessness.

Their scientific name, Chlamydosaurus kingii, translates to 'King cloaked lizard' & you can see why.

They're one of a few modern lizards that can accurately be called bipedal, running upright on hind legs.

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Rachel Wells @rachelwells1.bsky.social · 19h

Freedom of press forever.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 18h

Yessss !

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 12h

Read his first comment about the sample @thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social had tested. Well traveled bees

TheSnarkyFarmer @thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social · 18h

#TheOutpost 🐝🌻👨‍🌾🌱🌿
Penn State Honey and Pollen Diagnostic Lab offers pollen identification service | Penn State University www.psu.edu/news/agricul...

Penn State Honey and Pollen Diagnostic Lab offers pollen identification service | Penn State University

The Penn State Honey and Pollen Diagnostic Lab now is accepting honey and pollen samples from researchers and beekeepers who would like to identify the plants at the genus level from which honeybees a...

www.psu.edu

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h

If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink.
In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.

I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media

The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

www.stopthepresses.news

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Rodney Thompson @newmexicogunner.bsky.social · 17h

Continuing with my Balloon Fiesta this week I present a blue parrot against the beautiful blue NM sky for #BlueTue and #ColorADay. It also works for #AnimalArtTuesday. I think

A blue parrot hot air balloon set against the blue New Mexico sky from the Balloon Fiesta last week.

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 16h

Looks interesting but there’s a paywall