Molly Bangles

An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

An American Crow, cawing, perched on the pole of a metal apparatus/antenna of some sort that has the word “transmitter” on it in big red letters.

Close crop of the crow in the previous photo, beak open, calling.

Transmitter 📡

American Crow in Astoria NY, 3.8.2026 🪶

Burrowing owl cautiously peeking out from their burrow.

Good morning! 🪶

Awesome!!

Every once in a while I’m lucky enough to be filming when a falcon takes flight 🪶✈️

Peregrine Falcon, Astoria NY, 3.1.2026

A flock of pigeons in flight in a blue sky, in the diagonal left-half of the frame. At the right of frame towards the bottom is an almost-full moon

Pigeon Moon 🌕🐦

Astoria NY, 3.1.26
#birds

Thank you!

A full moon in a dark sky. The moon has a golden tint to it, and there are traces of a few small out-of-focus tree branches across its surface in the foreground

Moon at full 🌕

Astoria NY, 3.2.26

An almost-full moon in a light blue sky, hanging just above an out-of-focus steel beam and diagonal cable that are in the foreground

An almost-full moon in a gray-blue sky. A large (though small in comparison to the moon) commercial airplane flies forward and up at the right of frame

An almost-full moon, appearing as an out-of-focus orb of bright light behind the silhouettes of bare tree branches, against a dark gray-blue sky

An almost-full moon hangs in a dark sky, craters and shadows visible

Almost-full moon over Astoria 🌝

March 1st, 2026

Also this little guy ⛄️

A medium- sized snowman with their twig-made arms raised, twig eyes closed, and a peaceful twig smile

Close up of a snowman with spiky sweetgum pods for eyes, and an asymmetrical smile, in front of a grove of bare snowy trees, next to a green placard

Extreme close up of a large snowman with small twig antlers, twig nose and mouth and arms. She wears a necklace of spike sweetgum pods, and stands on the promenade in front of the East River and the Triborough bridge

A snowman stands in front of a green park bench, amid snow-covered trees. In the background, someone dressed in a deep purple-red winter coat and hat is sculpting another snowman

Astoria Snowguys ☃️

Astoria Park, 2.23.26

OMG little muffin!

5 Canada Geese standing on the raised shore of the East River, in a snowstorm. One of the stone towers of the Hell Gate Bridge, and the raised train tracks can be seen in the background, obscured by the snow

They weren’t alone, don’t worry 🤍🪶

A Canada Goose stands in profile in a snowstorm, on a snow-covered slope, next to a half-snow-covered tree. The East River is in the background, and the shore of Randall’s Island and part of the Hell Gate Bridge beyond that.

Snow goose ❄️🪶

Canada Goose by the East River, Astoria, 2.22.26

Also not me just learning today that my friend Anke is on Bluesky lol. Please go follow her so she posts more of her pictures here 👀

Turkey Sunset 💖🪶

A woman got on the W train at 34th Street earlier with an open pint of Talenti Double Dark Chocolate and you know what, hell yeah

Good thread here if you’re currently in NYC going wtf over the proposed city budget

It’s ok, you’re not the first person to totally disagree with me about this 😅
I still think it’s better than the tube and the metro. But I’ll agree we are never going to match Tokyo lol

Despite all my complaining, I still think the NYC subway is actually one of the best public transit systems - I just want it to live up to its full potential and do better!

Burrowing owlet looking very innocent.

Good morning! 🪶

Surprise 4-legged Olympic competitor wows cross-country fans Nazgul sprints on the course at a cross-country ski race, crossing the finish line in an unsanctioned quest for glory.

Since everything is presumptive GenAI slop, I had to verify that the viral video of the dog on the Olympic cross-country ski course is real.

It is indeed real, and I am happy to report that Nazgul is back home enjoying his newfound fame.
www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...

Just give me back my 30-day unlimited MetroCard 😩

Extreme close-up of a section of a king cake - braided pastry/bread drizzled with white icing and topped with purple, green, and yellow decorating sugar.

Happy Lundi Gras to all who observe

Instead of just creating these paintings separately/on their own, I can only seem to do them in the most roundabout way, by starting with a detailed sketch and turning it into a basic print first, which adds like eight thousand extra steps, welcome to my brain

One of my favorite things to do is paint over my block prints with fancy paint pens and totally transform them

I gave this guy a color treatment, but never got around to sharing it 🎨🩵🪶

Young Red-tail in Winter, Posca paint pen on linocut block print, 2025

Thanks!

Happy Friday, please enjoy this minute of Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks 🪶🖤🦆

Audubon Park, New Orleans, December 2025

I love them!!