the "lost" species Monarda mexicana is still out there! Known from just 2 historical collections (most recent from the 1950s). Imagine my joy in stumbling on a picture of it on @inaturalist.bsky.social !!! We've now documented the first known modern populations and revived the species name:
🍎 didn’t fall far from the 🌳!!!
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Clouds do add to the imagery! I’ve actually found clouds and rain/thunder storms to be quite frequent up there in the summer months when heat in the Central Valley rapidly cools when rising against the Sierra, causing thunderstorms to develop in the afternoons - beautiful natural firework displays!
Dog on a rock in the foreground, a lake and mountain peaks in the background
Different angle
Email to USA Hockey
Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.
Wow.
Can’t wait!
Love the rebel chickadee and loon! Does a rebel quail already exist? If not, would love to see what someone with creative and design skills could come up with!
Scary Ice
Renee Nicole Good smiling by a body of ocean, dressed in red❤️🩹
If your emotions to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota leaving a woman dead are overwhelm, shock, rage, and fear, you are not alone. The person killed in the Minneapolis, Minnesota ICE shooting is Renee Nicole Good ❤️🩹
Down Cemetery Road (Apple) got me through a few treadmill sessions over the past few weeks
I don’t think there’s much info out there indicating that Brendan Fraser is a big Trump supporter
And some just fly south for the winter to avoid participating in the entire nesting endeavor….
(I realize that one’s not biologically sound)
Person on a paddleboard on the Merced River with the granite monolith El Capitan rising above in the background
Actual view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, CA
This is fun!
The Common Milkweed and Common Eastern Bumble Bee are sure living up to their monikers
The cyber equivalent to congratulating someone on their pregnancy when really they just have some period bloat
I took mine into the dealer a couple months ago for 90k maintenance and they didn’t properly secure the hood after doing the work and the hood flew open when they test drove it. They ended up having my car for ~2 weeks to replace several panels that were damaged. 🤦🏻♀️
This is why so many young women are repulsed by the current dating pool. Young guys listen to this trash and look up to people like Charlie.
White canine posing next to a red western columbine flower
Alpine mountain scene with light pink columbine (Aquilegia pubescens) flowers in the foreground and a dog walking on a trail in the midground, with a lake and mountain peaks in the distance
My favorites!
A big eared dog looking expectantly at a hamburger patty with the number 14 made out of French fries on top
This 14-year-old pooch
Dog walking on a rocky beach
Dog and human walking on a beach at sunset
The view from East Beach toward Butterfly? How lucky my dog and I were to have spent many days walking on those beaches
🤦🏼♀️
Love it!
Link to this nice paper @pnas.org :
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
Love the Prine art
