After we moved to a new place this summer, I found in a box these books that I read over half a century ago. (I’m 67.) I’m sentimental and I keep things. They conjure so many memories of how much I enjoyed #sciencefiction as a teenager. I have read little of it since. #heinlein #asimov

In our new house, I admired a bowl glorified by sunlight on the old bureau we reincarnated as a sideboard. Then I saw the still almost empty china cabinet hosting a 17th-century Dutch still life. Sadly, Clara Peeters and Brueghel the Elder lacked cocktail shakers and their playful way with sheen.

This is exactly the attitudes I grew up around.

Working on my next book, about the always fadcinating #charlesdarwin and #emmadarwin, at the dining table to be near the springy view at the big window. Five whitetail deer just paraded along the ridge trail right behind the apartment. Nature is just as creative today as it was a million years ago.

#bloodoranges and #roastedchickpeas on my desk. That’s all.

The 12-year-old deciding he is not at all too old to covet what he calls “museum-quality models.”

#monarchcaterpillar in western Pennsylvania, from September

Lemons, blood oranges, and, yes, avocados, not limes. Every day of this evil coup I remind myself that the world is also still full of beauty.

Ohio sunset, October 2024, before the coup

Canada geese in a wintry river & their tracks in snow beside it. I thought the 3-toed tracks might be from other birds such as coots or rails. But an ornithologist I consulted said no, those tracks are by geese. in deeper snow, not and thus show only toes, not webbing. #Canadageese, #tracksinsnow.

Amelia Island, Florida

If this goes through, my son loses the autism support person who enables him to attend school. To use one example among millions.

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47 and the Muskox remind us that the mass of narcissists lead lives of loud desperation.

#Cannonballjellyfish in the surf, #NorthCarolinacoast.

Everyday beauty on the street in Pittsburgh in autumn

My first post on Bluesky ought to celebrate beauty and wonder, in contrast to cold weather all week and the cold coronation yesterday. This is the woods of #westernPennsylvania a few months ago. We know that Earth will turn and the warmth return. The world is rich in #beauty and connection.