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If you haven't heard yet. This lady named @bethfarnham4pa13th.bsky.social is running for Congress...and check out this policy I clipped from her website.

Most conversations today aren't discussions.

They're speeches waiting for a microphone.

A republic survives disagreement.

It cannot survive the abandonment of discussion.

Republican Virtue: On Talking Without Hearing blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03... #civics

Tulipa gesneriana ‘Didier’ in velvet.

These deep burgundy blooms open in the spring sun to reveal a bright golden center, one of the most dramatic contrasts in the garden.

Cultivated beauty with roots tracing back to Central Asian wild tulips.

#Tulips www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu...

Three states.

One ancient landscape.

From the Three State Overlook near Gallitzin, the Appalachian ridges roll away in endless green layers across Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia.

blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03... #naturemade

The Common Marmoset is one of the smallest, most specialized monkeys in the world.

These tiny primates use chisel-like teeth to gouge trees and drink sap.

Nature builds incredible solutions at every scale.

Callithrix jacchus www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #nature

Blue Ribbon Team has room for big ideas and small joys.

Today Heather Dean reminds us that comfort matters too.

From silk neckerchiefs to thick winter knits, scarves might be one of the most versatile pieces of clothing ever invented.

blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03... #scarves

NY Ironweed -Vernonia noveboracensis throws purple clusters across meadows just as most flowers begin to fade.

One of the important late-season plants for butterflies and native bees.
#flowers #Pennsylvaniahttps://www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictures/new-york-ironweed/

A stone amplifier in Roxbury Park.

Built in 1940 by the WPA, the Roxbury Bandshell used nearly 700 months of labor to create one of America’s rare surviving New Deal music pavilions.

#Johnstown
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We live in the first moment in history where opportunity points in every direction at once.

Knowledge.
Tools.
Networks.
Access.
The challenge isn’t finding a door.
It’s choosing one.
We are, quite literally,

Crippled by Opportunity blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03...

The Colorado River Toad (Rhinella alvarius) is one of the largest amphibians native to North America.

Found across the Sonoran Desert, it spends most of the year hidden underground, emerging after summer monsoons to feed and breed.

www.cernunnosfoundation.com/aquaponics/c... #Nature #Wildlife

Digging back into the early Cernunnos Foundation archive.

Forest Sunflower (Helianthus decapetalus) a woodland sunflower that lights up eastern forests from July to October.

One of the original plant profiles on the site. www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers

This old Eli Lilly sewage idea was an early mental image of what will later become Slagmouth REALcycling.

Same core instinct:
waste is not the end of a process.
It is the start of the next one.
Nutrients. compounds. heat. water. biomass. recovery. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/01...

A light boom defines the work zone.
A tether powers and limits the drone.
The drone lifts single shingle bundles directly from truck to roof.
No staging.
No ladder hauling.
Just flow.
A Bright Meadow Group construction logistics concept.

blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03...

Resilience.
Interdependence.

Adam’s Needle (Yucca filamentosa): tough enough for drought and poor soil, yet dependent on its tiny partner, the yucca moth, for pollination.

A regional permaculture lesson growing in plain sight.

www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #permaculture

Vultures don’t get much love, but ecosystems depend on them.

The Rüppell’s Griffon Vulture is one of Africa’s most important scavengers—and one of its most endangered.

A closer look at a species that literally cleans the landscape.

#Birds #Nature

www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu...

Indiana spoiled me with its grand limestone courthouses. Few places can match them.

But Pennsylvania is holding its own.

The Cambria County Courthouse in Ebensburg is a perfect reminder that civic architecture used to be built with pride.
#Architecture blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03...

Creeping liriope (Liriope spicata) up close.

Most people plant it as a simple groundcover and never look twice.

But zoom in and the flowers are delicate little lavender stars hiding in the grass-like leaves.

www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers

Aristotle talked about truth, politics, and why humans keep reinventing problems.
His advice was simple:
If you claim to know something…
be able to explain it.
Otherwise keep learning.

Civilization depends on it.

A philosophy to live with. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03... #philosophy

Late-season dragonflies are still working the sun-warmed pavement.

This Autumn Meadowhawk paused long enough for a portrait—one of the last aerial hunters you’ll see before winter closes the insect world down. www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #nature

Horseshoe Curve outside Altoona was one of the great engineering feats of the 19th century.

Railroads built America once.

With modern sensors, automation, and high-speed systems…

they could build the next century too.

Invest in rail. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03...

People keep waiting for the singularity like...

Machines wake up.
Everything changes.
But what if the real shift is less noticable?

What if it is just the moment when ideas begin crossing faster than anyone can follow…

…and we are already in it.

blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03...

Some orchids evolved flowers that act like tiny traps.

The Lady’s Slipper Orchid (Paphiopedilum) uses its pouch-shaped bloom to guide insects through the flower so they brush past the pollen on the way out.

Nature engineered elegance. www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #orchid

Bryce Canyon, Utah

Thousands of hoodoos rise from the plateau like a stone forest carved by frost, rain, and time.

Nature Made
Cernunnos Foundation blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03...

Suri Alpaca
Vicugna pacos

A domestic camelid of the Andes, bred for one of the finest natural fibers in the world.

Soft-footed, social, and unmistakably curious, alpacas are now found on farms and fiber operations across the globe.

www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu...

all too often

#Nature doesn’t rush its conflicts.
This tree is being slowly engulfed by Hedera helix, a climbing vine that builds its own canopy inside the host.

But look at the crown.
Those buds mean the tree is still in the fight.

Nature plays the long game.
www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #art

An Injury to One, Is An Injury to ALL

It’s the rule that keeps working people from being picked off one at a time.
Fast worker.
Slow worker.
Young. Old. Sick. Tired.

The job will get to all of us in time.
Stand together or fall separately.
#Labor

blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03...

Threadleaf Coreopsis -Coreopsis verticillata.

One of the most delicate-looking wildflowers in eastern North America — bright yellow blooms floating above fine threadlike foliage.

It’s a tough, drought-tolerant favorite of pollinators.

www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #FlowersOnFriday

The world’s most nutrient-loaded rivers.

Instead of sending fertilizer pollution to the ocean, these basins could grow biomass, produce bio-oil, and clean their own water.

That’s the idea behind the River Refugium Project.

blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/03... #ecology

So if you have that unused homepage link sitting in your profile…

Would you mind lending it to a friend for a bit?

It would mean more than you know.
Thanks everyone.