A house finch, with bright red upper body, perched on an at-capacity yellow seed feeder. Its chest is facing the camera but its head is cocked to the left, as if it is eyeing the seed port. Some one out peanuts in the bottom feeder tray
House Finch showing their spring colors #HouseFinch #BirdPhotography #Birds #Yarden #Fujifilm #SOoC
Two white open Asian pear flowers with red anthers on a young tree above a rocky path. There’s tree has several visible flower buds. There are blooming yellow daffodils in the background along with a narrow elderberry shrub and a bird bath.
Our “Hosui” Asian Pear tree is now blooming
#HomeOrchard #Yarden #BloomScrolling
McArthur-Burney Falls flows mightily with two primary falls in the center with whitewater fed by Burney Creek and multiple smaller falls -- mostly coming from groundwater. The sun shines at the top of the falls and where their water crashes into a pool. A dozen or so people enjoy the falls from a sunny rock shore. Conifers frame the entireity of the photo, with a bit of grass on the right.
#SilentSunday #BurneyFalls
Is @bsky.app using a ridiculous amount of storage space on iOS for anyone else?
That's insanity. I use web though
A tight cluster of daffodils present their yellow flowers of trumpets surrounded by a frill while manzanita bush on the left shows off its aging light-pink colors, and a sage plant on the right shows a few purple flowers amidst lush green growth. The ground has small rock and dried up leaves.
Yesterday, Manzanitas, Daffodils, and just barely visible on the left, sage, show their spring colors. These daffodils were volunteers so the bulbs either came in with the mulch or a previous home owner planted them and later they got smothered by a lawn. #Yarden
A vine maple, with moss draped branches, like arms, reaching the photographer. Almost as if it is climbing out of the ground. It’s surrounded by a dense stand of narrow, tall conifers . In the foreground, close to the ground, are ferns.
Somewhere near the North Fork Clackamas River on the Mount Hood National Forest in May, 2018 #Mosstodon
Woo. That was a lot of weeding around my front yard native plants. I feel accomplished and now ready for spring. The bees currently give ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to our manzanitas and sage will flower next #Yarden
A 1-2 foot wide and longer area of ground covered by moss and surrounded by small rocks. There's various pieces of wood and smaller amounts of rock in the moss.
Green long stemmed moss with blunt ends grow on the ground, with various sticks and rock interspersed. There's a fly resting on a rock and there's a tiny brown mushroom just in view.
This is my accidental winter moss garden. Our rear fence and winter-happy native shrubs (ceanothus and elderberry) provide ample shade & the ground rarely dries out in the winter #Moss #Yarden #Mosstodon
This interestsus greatly. Our arbitration on this topic starts the first week of March 🤞https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/02/arbitrator-orders-hud-to-restore-telework-for-thousands-of-federal-employees/
Hundreds of pupfish at Salt Creek in Death Valley! The flood damaged boardwalk has been replaced and is a nice walk. The fish have survived here since the ice ages in water that at times is three times as salty as the sea and sometimes as much as 100° (1/2)
Yikes. Fingers crossed everything holds together. Winds are calm here and tomorrow they will only gust to 30. Typisch.
Album cover of Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister.
I insist on this album being played at rock out volume. It seems like it shouldn't work, but it does.
Fiery orange cirrus clouds streak diagonally to the right of the frame with some shadowed desert foliage in the foreground and a mountain range silhouette it in the background
Peachy linear clouds to the south of Kamp this morning
Large bunch of brown eye wildflowers on a mound with some puffy cumulus clouds in the background
Close-up of brown eye, wild flowers, just chalk full of pollen that is yellow inside of their white dish petals
Sunset, sunrise and some pollen-loaded brown eyes. Thanks again Death Valley for being such a great classroom for our students.
That’s amazing. They’re just cruising in the slipstream 😍
It’s reaaaaally really good. Like ants marching!
Here are a few pupfish moments of zen from the newly opened Salt Creek Boardwalk. Literally opened only 3 days ago. We saw thousands of these relicts from pluvial Lake Manly swimming in the salty spring water. They can survive salinities over twice that of seawater and temps from 32F to 100F+!
Ooh!! The boardwalk was closed last I went in 2024. I gotta get out there again
Just finished watching the latest Cockpit Casual. The Life Nomadic: A Scenic Route (Part 1.) 🛩️ @stevenomadic.bsky.social
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A new all-day literary festival launches in Chico CA on Feb 28th at 11am at The Allies Pub downtown. chicosol.org/2026/02/05/a...
Overcast skies, with a ribbon of blue breaking through, let some sun break through to highlight rugged mountains, brown with patche sof red, that obliquely frame the photo. Dark green shrubs, maybe mesquite, dot the landscape from near the photographer and into the distance. Some of the closer mountains have layers of dark and light rock. Those closer mountains are shadowed by clouds.
#SilentSunday
#DeathValleyNP
A wide-angle view of an area north of Ubehebe Crater where yellow flowers carpet the valley and some hills. Clouds are low, touching the peaks of some far off mountains. In the midground, a dirt road crosses the frame in front of some endoheric basins shine, but they're not filled with water, just really freshly deposited sediment.
Back in March, 2024, we went to Death Valley. It was nowhere close to this year’s reported superbloom, but it was a treat seeing the cloud shrouded desert landscape painted with yellow north of Ubehebe Crater #DeathValleyNP #BloomScrolling #Fujifilm #SOoC
