Alexander Calder, American (1898-1976), Un effet du japonais, 1941, sheet metal, wire, rod, and paint, 80 x 80 x 48 in, Calder Foundation, New York City, New York, USA
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Alexander Calder, American (1898-1976), Un effet du japonais, 1941, sheet metal, wire, rod, and paint, 80 x 80 x 48 in, Calder Foundation, New York City, New York, USA
A male mallard duck with grey and brown body, dark green head, white neck ring, and yellow bill has its wings straight up, partially obscuring his bright green head, as it lands behind a softly out of focus ridge of white snow that is artfully obscuring the bottom portion of the image.
I kinda like this shot of a Mallard drake touching down on a frozen pond behind an out of focus snow-covered ridge in the foreground.
Saint John, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #duck #MALL #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
Kinda!
This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.
You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
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current constituent here. it’s so hurtful what he’s doing and you’re correct.
☀️Petits soleils printaniers💛🌿
#photo #printemps #nature #fleur
Let’s just say that deploying rolling vacuums the size of Sherman tanks a mile under water to rip through habitats that have evolved over millions of years and that we barely understand is the definition of epic ecological disaster.
This is Summit. He is a friend to pretty much everyone he meets. But has a special soft spot for the little critters who stop long enough for him to say hello. 13/10 (IG: bakerbarnes)
Weeping plum blossoms at Jonan-gu.
Weeping plum blossoms at Jonan-gu.
Weeping plum blossoms at Jonan-gu.
Nao-san enjoys the plum blossoms at Jonan-gu.
🗺️🤔SOUTH OF THE CAPITAL🧭🌸
Second only to Kitano Tenmangū as the go-to destination for plum blossoms, Jōnan-gū's "Spring Mountain" (春の山) reimagines a Heian-period style garden.
even the mean monks
come to eat rice cakes-
God of Jōnan
腹あしき僧も餅くへ城南神
-Yosa-no-Buson (与謝蕪村).
"Geinrust Farm with Two Cows by the Water's Edge," by Piet Mondrian (ca. 1905). The painting presents a composition marked by horizontal symmetry: in the upper half, a dense row of trees in shades of dark green and earth; in the lower half, these same trees are mirrored in a perfect reflection on the vibrant and luminous blue water. In the center of the bank, between the green of the treetops and the blue of the river, appear two small cows in shades of brown and white, giving a touch of life to the static landscape.
Piet Mondriaan - Gainrust Farm with Two Cows ar the Water’s Edge , ca 1905. Nitess💤
Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.
The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.
The greatest American conservationist you've never heard of: Rosalie Edge, “the only honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation.”
#internationalwomensday #conservation #protectpubliclands #publiclands
You have no reason to know him, but that is "Quint"...the five point buck, staring back at you in black and white.
It is earth's eye;
looking into which
the beholder measures
the depth
of his own nature
~Henry David Thoreau
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#StunDay
#LookingAtYou
#Mammals
#Monochrome
#Classicmono
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#ImageAndVerse
#SundayVibes
Amulet, Tlingit, Alaska, North American First Nation, c. 1840-70, antler and abalone shell, 6.4 x 14 x 0.6 cm, The Met, New York City, New York, USA
A federal judge has been asked to block Trump from closing and razing the Kennedy Center. "This is a case about the ongoing desecration and impending destruction of a cherished
national monument," the lawsuit says. f9c23fd5-1644-4a5f-a561-d04e6b5736d6.usrfiles.com/ugd/f9c23f_b...
So sorry for your loss.
I’ll take your word for it and thank you
I’m hearing this has been reversed to replace wall with detection devices only. I hope that is correct. thank you for helping to expose the terrible plan!
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Massika-Saki Indian, Wakusasse-Musquake Indian, plate 3 from Volume 1 of 'Travels in the Interior of North America'
Massika-Saki Indian, Wakusasse-Musquake Indian, plate 3 from Volume 1 of 'Travels in the Interior of North America' https://www.wikiart.org/en/karl-bodmer/massika-saki-indian-wakusasse-musquake-indian-plate-3-from-volume-1-of-travels-in-the-interior-1833
The Senate ENR committee advanced Steve Pearce’s nomination this morning.
Our response: “Pearce is Trump’s hand-picked hatchet man to liquidate the West for private profit. Every senator who voted for him showed they’re willing to let our country’s wildest places be torn up and sold for parts."
DHS is rapidly pushing to wall off Big Bend National Park.
Big Bend's former NPS superintendent says:
“This is the biggest incursion on the integrity of national parks since the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite more than a century ago.”
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Surrealist painting by René Magritte entitled "L'oiseau de ciel" (The Bird in the Sky). The silhouette of a bird in full flight fills the center of the canvas. Instead of feathers, the bird's body is composed of a clear blue sky with fluffy white clouds. The background behind the bird is blue.
René Magritte, L'oiseau de ciel / Sky bird - 1966. Morning
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Went back out with my camera today and the woodcocks started displaying at the exact same time (down to the minute) but of course tonight they stayed in the grass instead of the trails so I saw one for about 30 seconds before I couldn’t see any more for the rest of the night, no time for a tripod:
Old stone wall with bright green rye grass - years ago a peach rolled over the wall and grew. my old buddy
pink peach flower peeking out of its fuzzy bud
Something nice. The volunteer old stone wall peach tree survives another winter - years years and years ago a peach rolled over the wall and grew. hacked at but kept on. my old buddy.
When the Gestapo went to Picasso's studio to smash it up in 1944, they pointed to postcards of his famous work, Guernica (depicting a fascist atrocity), and they wanted to arrest him for "degenerate" art. They asked him, "Did you do this?" and he replied, "no you did"
A distant selfie of me standing in nearly waist deep water of the middle of the Rio Grande River, with massive canyon walls on either side and clear blue sky overhead. This is Santa Elana Canyon, where the proposed border wall would begin. That would be a travesty. Besides, these canyon walls are their own, natural border wall.
A desert landscape in which the foreground is dotted with green shrubs and the background consists of mountains and two small peaks at the center. The sky is a warm yellow-orange due to the just-rising Sun. A large ocotillo cactus sticks up on the left side of the frame.
A photo of a desert landscape featuring rugged mountains under a cloudy sky just after sunrise. The foreground includes various desert plants with sunlight peeking behind a mountain peak, creating a warm glow and highlighting natural terrain textures.
A photo, taken at high elevation, of a mountainous landscape featuring layered ridges and peaks under a clear blue sky. Sunlight casts shadows highlighting rugged terrain and sparse vegetation, with distant mountains fading into a hazy horizon.
I've been to all 254 TX counties, and Big Bend is the very best of Texas. The stunning, expansive desert landscape still feels untouched. It deserves to stay that way. It breaks my heart thinking about it being needlessly ruined for a f***ing wall. Here's some photos I've taken there. 🧵4/4
