Susan Jennys (she/her)

Wow!!!

Wow! Just wow! Our planet is so amazing!

Episode 43 of the Kilauea eruption is a BEAST. They just zoomed out and uhhh this may be on its way to setting a record for tallest lava fountains. What on Earth. 😍🌋

Cam 2 live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

#parkchat

Available now: PONDS: An Illustrated Guide Now shipping today from online sources. Yale University Press, March 10, 2026.

Available now: PONDS: An Illustrated Guide
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🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #lakes #freshwater

#parkchat

Wildflowers are blooming in the driest place in North America — but not for long Visitors are flocking to Death Valley National Park in California and Nevada to take in a rare phenomenon known as a superbloom.

Visitors are flocking to Death Valley National Park in California and Nevada to take in a rare phenomenon known as a superbloom.

Republicans target public lands protections in a new way • Stateline Republicans in Congress want to allow more mining and oil drilling on federal public lands, and they’ve recently turned to an obscure legislative maneuver to open areas for business.

GOP leadership using the rarely used Congressional Review Act to overrule land mgmt plans that have taken years of research, local collaboration and public meetings to push for coal & copper mining & oil drilling & reverse protections on other lands. 🧪🌿🌎 stateline.org/2026/03/09/r...

​​Native Students Receive Excessive Discipline in This New Mexico School District, Report Finds The Navajo Nation report echoes a 2022 investigation by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica that found Indigenous students were punished more harshly than other students in the state’s Gallup-McKinley ...

The Navajo Nation commission's report detailed harsh discipline, language barriers, discriminatory hiring practices and more.

“It’s our kids, our students, who are suffering the consequences of entrenched racism,” the commission chair said.

With @nmindepth.bsky.social

#parkchat I’ll be a bit late (Lenten schedule in my parish is a killer) but I’m looking forward to the chat!

The Epstein Files Coverup With Representative Maxwell Frost YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

It’s about more than the Epstein Files, it’s about Billionaires consolidating wealth & power & trafficking children at will because they are “too big” to be arrested. It is a global cover up.
This discussion between @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @maxwellfrost.bsky.social is worth your time!

Well, doesn’t that title sound honorable “Interior Proposes to Restore State-Aligned Hunting Regulations on Alaska National Preserves.” What it actually means is the Trump administration just moved to bring bear baiting back to Alaska’s national preserves.

'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

U.S. Forest Service Approves Drilling at Pe’ Sla, Threatening Indigenous Land and Water On Friday, February 27, 2026, the U.S. Forest Service’s Black Hills Regional Office issued a permit allowing exploratory graphite drilling at Pe’sla, a sacred Indigenous site that has been used for ce...

“The U.S. Forest Service’s decision is a direct attack on Indigenous lands and our right to religious freedom — all in the name of potential profit for an extractive corporation,” said Taylor Gunhammer, Organizer, NDN Collective, Protect the HeSapa campaign.

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March 8, 2026 Yesterday, President Donald J.

March 8, 2026

Finished book seven of 2026.
Largely the book is the author’s chronicle of their own ministry struggles. Not apropos for everyone, but a good reminder of pitfalls and quagmires found in pastoral ministry. Sometimes people are AWFUL. Sometimes I’m awful, too. Learn; grow; change; repeat…

Went hiking. Glorious!

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with.

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Susan writes:I get to brag on my parish confirmation students. Today these awesome youth did their spring “outreach project” making homemade-with-love freezer meals for a food giveaway. I’m so proud of these youth. They are tomorrow’s leaders and they give me such hope for the future!

70 degrees on March 8th!?!?
Guess what hubs and I did after our parish responsibilities were complete. Yep! We got to HIIIIIKE!!!! Yippee!!!!
#LakeVermillionStatePark

1855 sketch that launched Yosemite to stardom back in the public eye Thomas Ayres' drawings changed the course of Yosemite history.

Thomas Ayres' drawings changed the course of Yosemite history.

The "Hellcat" of Conservation: Rosalie Edge and the Fight for the Olympic Rain Forests Born Mabel Rosalie Barrow in New York City on November 3, 1877, Rosalie Edge began life as a member of the social elite: educated in private schools, moving in high-society circles, marrying an Englis...

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

My latest miniaturized photorealistic #beadwork project is finished [3.75”x3.75”] & framed, ready for my first “Inpired by Yellowstone” show.
Notes: 13/o single-cut glass beads; 38 colors; two-needle modified overlay stitch; about 43 hours of work start-to-finish. “Square Spring” in Yellowstone NP.

Thank you!

Just keep driving.

March 7, 2026 At 8:50 yesterday morning, President Donald J.

March 7, 2026

"Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks." ~ Anmol Andore

Grandma used to tell us, "Keep things simple, and be kind so you can enjoy life, when it doesn't make you happy, set it aside or toss it away forever."

Completed my beadwork project today - yippee! Now to get it mounted and framed…

#beadwork progress. Only five more rows to complete this photorealistic beaded miniature. Yellowstone’s “Square Spring”.
13/o single-cut beads in 38 colors; two-needle modified overlay stitch.
#WonderlandBeadwork

JackJack thinks he’s king of the hill. Pokey and Theodore are plotting an overthrow methinks.
#AdventuresOfJackJackAndTheodoreAndPokey