Summer Jackel

A borzoi chews a bone while laying on a pile of cushions

Trees and evening sky

A twilight forest

A borzoi rests on a deck cushion beside his bone

Peaceful evening. I'm hanging out on my deck with Mako, listening to Trio Squirrelito, a local brass trio, playing down the hill for the community potluck, which was pretty great actually. The clarinet/cornet has a nice 'lazy horn' and there's a tuna. I'm tired but content.

Phoenix, a gold and white borzoi, stands in a shady forest

She looks ahead

Trout, son of Phoenix, looking alert in the forest

Trout and Mako, borzoi brothers, walking in the woods

Phoenix moods! Borzoi walk in the woods

Oh god this made me laugh so hard. Watch til the end.

@coyotetraveller.bsky.social oh no!

everyone needs a baby warty frogfish in their day

A cute rough collie, sitting in the woods

Face of sable collie with pride heart collar tag

She crosses a creek

She stands in the woods

Miz River Storm is finally regrowing her coat, after blowing it in winter like an absolute weirdo. It appears she's growing the thick winter rather than short summer coat back in.

A great zoom on this Tripod. If you were hoping these fish today would be in chronological order sorry to disappoint. I choose chaos. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 631 #OctoOdyssey (2) #MarineLife

Plant community of white blooming trillium and pink blooming sorrel

A banana slug on the forest floor. This one is spotted and their eyestalks are partly extended

A wood trillium growing on the side of a hill. Its stalk is a lovely gradation of red at the base to the three broad green leaves on top. Its bloom has aged to pink

A freshly blooming white trillium

Redwood forest floor in March

4 wood trillium growing under a redwood bough. One blooms white

2 white trillium in bloom. The ivy has been cleared from its stalks, but some creeps behind

A tiny trillium plant, too small to bloom this year

A rough collie sits on the road in front of a patch of wood trillium cleared of ivy, with wood sorrel starts planted and thick ivy cover surrounding.

Weeding this patch of roadside trillium of the ivy choking it out is proving more successful than I would have thought. There are now ELEVEN individuals, including this tiny one! Collie for scale. I started last spring weeding around 3. The transplanted sorrel is doing well and will spread in time.

The REAL cultural story IMHO is how many people are willing to burn down their own lives and this country so they can be bigots.

2 blooming trillium with a third emerging

Blooming trillium and freshly transplanted wood sorrel

A trillium and wood sorrel in the forest, native redwood understory

Trillium blooms white and sorrel pink in the redwood understory

Here are 2 pics of the roadside patch of trillium I cleared of ivy, and 2 of typical trillium patches out in the woods, farther from town.
#bloomscrolling

4 wood trillium growing under a redwood bough. One blooms white

2 white trillium in bloom. The ivy has been cleared from its stalks, but some creeps behind

A tiny trillium plant, too small to bloom this year

A rough collie sits on the road in front of a patch of wood trillium cleared of ivy, with wood sorrel starts planted and thick ivy cover surrounding.

Weeding this patch of roadside trillium of the ivy choking it out is proving more successful than I would have thought. There are now ELEVEN individuals, including this tiny one! Collie for scale. I started last spring weeding around 3. The transplanted sorrel is doing well and will spread in time.

Commission for @dandelionposts.bsky.social

Graphic-styled artwork of an angry dog looking out for threats. The text reads GUARD DOG.

🐶💢👁️🏠
#art

awesome, thank you so much!

I think those are delightful when you're in the mood, and completely fine when you're not. Sometimes it's nice to flaunt your feathers, as it were, and sometimes it feels necessary to be off stage. Respect for your humanity being a necessary condition precedent for any of it.

Ah thank you! To make certain I understand correctly, the crescent cups indicate that it is a liverwort, which is invasive?

A black cockerel with dark eyes and red hackles

Selfie with the cock on my shoulder

I hold the bird outdoors near some sorrel

I hold my cock proudly aloft in the woods

Doin a rock out with my cock out, as it were. This young gentleman is Black Ruby (rooby?), one of the chicks Half-note Hen hatched weirdly last October. He is growing up beautifully and is reasonably tame...great apprentice rooster so far.

2 wood trillium, a shade loving herbaceous plant with three leaves, petals and sepals. These are white

2 more trillium with fresh white blooms

A community of trillium with older pink blooms

2 trillium, a big one that has faded to red beside a smaller one with a fresh white bloom, surrounded by moss and wood sorrel

Wood trillium! These guys are in full glory rn!
#bloomscrolling

Young maidenhair fern emerging from gametophyte phase. I believe; those are either fern gametophytes or liverworts

Maidenhair and licorice ferns mixed together

Lady fern, maidenhair, licorice fern and slinkpod, all lush and green

Lush maidenhair fern foliage

Have some wonderful moist shady ferns

I can't decide if the first pic shows a baby sporophyte emerging from the gametophyte phase, or if those are liverworts. If anyone w more fern fu than I knows, please opine

Gorgeous either way, I love ferns

A tender plant with broad, shiny leaves. Its reddish bloom is close to the ground and is hidden by rhe leaf

Plant from above

Closeup of the odd, three petaled dark red flower

4 flowers in this pic

Here's wild ginger, another cool weird redwood understory shade loving plant in bloom rn
#bloomscrolling

A female acorn woodpecker, a striking black and white bird with silver eyes and a red cap, at a feeder. Near redwood lattice and large monsteras.

Dinosaur sighted!!

Sadly the foreground white trillium isn't in focus, but the view from below wood sorrel growing on a hill is clear

Same scene, pulled back and in focus

Different angle on the same trillium

A different trillium

Pretty wood trillium and sorrel community in redwood forest
#bloomscrolling

I am pleased with it; it's a nice weight, the fabric is lovely, the quality is excellent. Brass is a special order, but I realize now it's necessary.
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Egyptian human with kneeling crocodile illustration on a piece of papyrus with hieroglyphics

Crocodile may have outlasted Papyrus on the field of battle (Round 1 #2026MMM ) but papyrus outlived crocodile by being the substance the final report was recorded on. #papyrusgate

Happy Friday the 13th! 🖤🖤🖤

Three gold and white borzoi playing in a green pasture in golden hour lighting

Mako licks his snout. Phoenix looks up at me. My foot is in the picture

Same as last pic but Phoenix looks away

The boys sit and Phoenix licks her nose

Three silly hounds. Licking their uncannily long noses

A gold borzoi wearing a pretty martingale collar with a wave print

A pretty new collar for Trout! He needed a daily walker with brass hardware that wasn't Halloween themed. I am definitely a 365 days of Halloween person, but I also like bringing out holiday things in time. Chrome hardware dings, rusts and stains nice fabric collars, which are for special occasions

Oh yeah, sure looks like! Nice!
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