buy one of those $15 portable butane burners that are at Asian markets. they come in little suitcase-like carrying case. you can make tea/coffee and/or cook breakfast.

These Oregon state parks will have parking fees by the end of the month • Oregon Capital Chronicle On March 30, the department will add parking fees at an additional 22 day-use parks to help pay for park maintenance and operations.

Visitors will have to pay parking fees at 22 more Oregon state parks by the end of the month.

Otherworldly sunset through the Costco cart return door

This is the video of the second of the two Anna's Hummingbirds to fledge getting a meal and then taking flight.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

OH MY GOD.

New thread, obviously, as to not confuse the polling thread. 🪶 🐣

@mondomascots.bsky.social every time i see the East Midlands Railway mascot here in the UK i think of your account! his name is Miles, because the train travels for miles... and he is purple because that's the colour of the train seats! i think he's cute...

What the inside of the 105-year-old walls in your #SanFrancisco Victorian look like

what are our brains for if not to think and create and think some more

Walls of the Grand Canyon about 1200 feet in height. Teeny tiny tents are visible to the bottom left

Canon de Chelly, Timothy O’Sullivan, 1873

What a time to re-read!
And I hope this time is near.

Sleepy owl found resting among items on a New York antique store shelf Shoppers in upstate New York month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: a live owl resting peacefully among items on a shelf.

This isn't really important, what with the war and all, but it did make me feel a little better and maybe it will make you feel better too

Photo of two white and black chickens and a black tan rooster standing in a turtle shaped kitty pool in a hay covered yard. There’s a wooden chicken coop in the background.

We’ve decided that we’re all just going to sit in the pool and pretend it’s summer. 🏝️

Burly Cobb Hen Coop and Barn - 1930
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/39850

After a week or so…we finally have a working squirrel house. In the end we used a kit and added some little touches.
He seems to like it-
SQUIRREL CAM in comments

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

The Land of Lost Opportunity | Arizona Highways In 1932, L.C. Bolles proclaimed himself a “press agent for Paradise” in the pages of this magazine. To Bolles — a road engineer, history buff, and student of archaeology with outlandish ideas — paradi...

The 1930s were a heyday of #nationalpark proposals, but the vast majority of them didn't make the grade. A niche group of scholars investigate why. Here's my story about beautiful places in #Arizona that never became parks. www.arizonahighways.com/article/land...

Disappearing Hourglass quilt that I finished last night.

Disappearing Hourglass quilt that I finished last night. #quilts #quilted #quilting

because he is a treasure.

i like the idea of people waiting at the dock for the ship carrying the Next Thrilling Chapter to arrive

Celebrating the Lunar New Year at Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland.

Today, Milo, a 21-year-old mini horse, was on site to celebrate the year of the fire horse.

A mannequin wearing a black silk dress with short sleeves. It is printed with a large red and cream rearing horse motif along one side of the dress, a 1940s design by Gilbert Adrian

Happy Lunar New Year! It is the year of the fire horse and so Gilbert Adrian’s 1945 Roan Stallion dress seems appropriately flame like as it rampages across the surface of black silk @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The fireplace at Camp 18. They have the best marrionberry cobbler.

Southern Oregon coast near Brookings #TidesOutTuesday #Photography #Oregon 📷

Portland's beloved Dumpling Week is back and it's bigger than ever with over 50 restaurants participating Portland chefs are creating their most imaginative dumplings ever.

Portland chefs are creating their most imaginative dumplings ever.

There are only 130 siheks left in the world. Three of them share a bachelor pad at the Oregon Zoo.

It’s so fitting that Oregon’s birthday falls on Valentine’s Day—there’s so much to love about our state!

cursive is art, too

A New Series from @EmpirePodUK
BRONZE AGE APOCALYPSE:
Over the next six episodes, we're exploring the most dramatic imperial collapse in human history. We’re heading three thousand years into the past—to a world that, in many ways, looks suprisingly like our own...
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Spring is just around the corner! 🌸
Bloom Outlook: www.koin.com/weather/when...