Brown Bear & Salmon
Charlie Wemyss
“Dunn Splash”
2026 World Nature Photography Awards
Gold in the Animals in Their Habitat category
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Drakes Estero, Drakes Bay and Point Reyes seen from Mount Vision.
South and North Beach seen from Point Reyes.
My daughter finds these ads highly amusing. And as a family in Northern California, we dress in layers all year round. 😀
MindWare has a fantastic deal on Qwirkle today. It is $12.50, instead of $25. Plus free shipping on every order today.
They also carry all of the other Qwirkle games and Skippity and Hoot Owl Hoot (with the new pop-up nest!).
www.mindware.orientaltrading.com/qwirkle-a2-3...
@425suzanne.bsky.social I just had a cup of rooibos and it's my favorite non-caffeinated tea. I drink a lot of black tea (Irish breakfast) and am not a fan of most herbal teas. Good luck cutting back on the caffeine. Your skeet got me to try again. 😀
It’s in the advanced rules. I haven’t read it yet.
Thanks for getting me hooked on this game. 😀 Have you played the Championship Season?
Flexing in victory: Another go at Qwirkle Flex from Susan McKinley Ross & Reiner Knizia.
The twist in this version: Tiles have one of three backgrounds, & you also score for matching backgrounds in a diagonal(!) pattern from the tiles you play.
BGG game page: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44... —WEM
Zinnias grown from seed
Petaluma
Susan McKinley Ross
September 8 2025
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Vintage Bert & Ernie Sesame Street Novelty AM Radio
Children's Television Workshop
Made in Hong Kong
Circa 1976
Picture taken by me!
September 5 2025
This was my first radio and it still works.
Let's hear it for plastic, vinyl and synthetic hair from the 1970s!
The colors haven't faded at all. 😀
Fence, trails and hills at Helen Putnam Park, Petaluma
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Miriam Schaefer
July 17 2025
Grabbed from the Sonoma County Hiker group on Facebook
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Re-erected tuff moai at Ahu Tahai with restored pukao and replica coral eyes
Rapa Nui
Bjarte Sorensen, March 26 2005
Restored by American archaeologist William Mullo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai
Three ladies picking fruit near Lyon, France
Fernand Arloing, 1910
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Original colour, not colourised
Cleaned, enhanced and transformed by Stuart Humphryes (BabelColour)
I find it useful for staying in touch with old colleagues. Some people I worked with a lot in the past are only on LinkedIn. I occasionally post about something Idea Duck related. I don't know how it is for job searching. I get a recruiter message 5 to 10 times a year.
Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
May 23, 2006
3:00pm Alaska Daylight Time
Photo by Flight Engineer Jeff Williams, NASA
International Space Station
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Negative.
Happy Belated Birthday Chuck! 🎂
At a game night last month, two of us ~50 year olds shared a pair of reading glasses. 😀
Screen capture from Boiling Point
Beat Takeshi, 1990
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House
Zalpie, Poland
www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-p...
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Panel from Peanuts Comic Strip
Charles M. Shultz, April 1968
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Running Fence
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, September 1976
Sonoma & Marin Counties, California
Photo by Wolfgang Volz, September 1976
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running...
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Happy Belated May Day Bluesky! 💐🙂
Purple and orange starfish on the beach
Mark Walz, 2012
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Royal Starfish
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrope...
Standard with two long-horned bulls
2300–2000 BC
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When GDC gives you lemons, what do you do?
Taking a comedic beat? 😀 In his post, the artist talks about wanting it to be 12 panels.
