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The Bumble Rumble dahlia is a striking collarette variety with a unique color combination. It's known for attracting pollinators like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Deep pink outer petals with lighter pink swirls and a white, densely ruffled collar. The inner petals have a soft yellow center.

#地衣類 #lichen #fungifriends

#SplitFiction director Josef Fares reacts to fans calling the game 'woke'

"'Another feminism propaganda game' ... what the fuck is this? ... I don't care what you have between your legs, that's totally not interesting to me. Good characters is what's important"

(via Dexerto)

I only counted 6 cute little baby gators while I was recording and only spotted the 7th when I watched the video. Nature is fun!

Good morning from Greece.

An Ophrys lucis to start the day with.

Boss Thinks Female Employee Might Be Ready To Handle Job She’s Been Doing For Past 2 Years

Boss Thinks Female Employee Might Be Ready To Handle Job She’s Been Doing For Past 2 Years
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A group of purple feather duster worms

A bouquet of feather duster worms bursting with color. Cayman Brac. #marinelife #photography #scuba

This is Grecian Foxglove (Digitalis Lanata) it’s native to Europe but is invasive in Minnesota. It may be beautiful but it is highly poisonous and can cause cardiac arrest if ingested.

Close-up of the apothecia disks of Lecanora lichen. The disks are round with brown-purple interior and white rim. The larger disks are filled in, while the smaller disks are concaved making them look like bowls rather than disks. The body of lichen is rough textured green.

Lecanora colony on tree. Small, round, and purple apothecia disks stand out against the green lichen body.

Another mysterious Lecanora sp. Since the undergrowths have died down, I can get close to the trees to check the lichens. This Lecanora sp. with purple apothecia is seen commonly in the low mountains of the area. Tokikubo, Komoro, Nagano #Lichen #FungiFriends
あずき色の子器を持つレカノーラ。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #地衣類

Advent calendar day 7
A cheerful coreopsis for a grey and windy day

I hope you're all taking care as its sounding quite scary for some of you
Hope the storm passes quickly! 🌱

The morning #bee

Got a new phone recently and the cameras on these bad boys only get better. This is fruticose lichen off of a chunk of dead cedar that I found on my worksite.

The Andromeda Galaxy | NASA

It’s surprising how late the flowers were blooming in Minnesota this year, gave me a good chance to get more bee photos!

The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.

Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat, blue background toward the bottom, and become thicker and smokier toward the top. Stars on one side light the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the bottom-right corner of the image toward the top-left corner. It begins as a dark and obscuring cloud at bottom right and gradually becomes brightly lit by many stars at the upper left. Other large, foreground stars lie between the nebula and the viewer.

A portion of the young star-forming region Serpens Nebula. It’s filled with wispy orange and red layers of gas and dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. There are wispy blue filaments of glass in the bottom right corner of the image. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest sources in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of the Webb Telescope.

Hundreds of stars and galaxies in varying shapes, sizes and colors on a black background. Two of the largest, most prominent stars can be found in the top left quadrant and near the bottom right edge, respectively. They are tinged with blue and have an eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Near the center of this image is the ZS7 system, made up of a merger between two galaxies and their black holes. The ZS7 system is not easily seen by the naked eye in this image, as it looks like very small red dots.

isn’t it crazy that this stuff is just out there?

The closest known black hole to Earth is just 1,560 light-years away.

the cover of not like us, big house with a bunch of sex offender alert icons

2025 white house cabinet meeting

I love this color

#pixelart #art #space #grellow

Cute...🤩

7500 light-years away from us

James Webb's view of the M51 galaxy.

A rose made of galaxies..

Waterfall pouring into a clear pool of water.

Instagram is all videos now and I miss the days when my photography had a fighting chance of being seen. So here’s an Oregon waterfall from a few years ago.