Samantha biobabbler

omg 😭😭😭🤩🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳
🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤

The best part is always when Pink jumps into her human's arms at the end. 😁

aw ... that's so sweet.🥰 I am def going to copy that.😆👍

500-hPa height from the 00 UTC 14 March 2026 GFS forecast. Top left is the ERA5 max for March; top right is the maximum predicted in the model over the run out to 360 hrs; bottom left is the difference between the two, and bottom right is the number of 6-hr forecast times that would be above the ERA5 monthly max. It shows broad areas where the 500-hPa height will be more than 50 m higher than previously observed in March, and the entire southwest will spend at least two full days in monthly record territory

By how much and for how long will the upcoming weather pattern--an astonishing anticyclone--be breaking March records in the west? A lot, and a long time. Here's GFS forecast 500hPa height compared to the March record. Breaking monthly records by >50m, and 2 to 5+ days in monthly record territory.

eeeep!

The photo isn't great--I was shooting through fog into the sun--but I'd never before seen a black-crowned night heron nest. Here you can just make out three chicks ensconced in shadow nestled underneath their mother in a palm tree. #birds

A whole double-crust blueberry pie viewed from above. The pi symbol has been cut out of the centre of the top crust to reveal the blueberry filling (which also allowed some of that filling to boil over one section and run to the edge, eventually creating a semicircle of gooey blueberry filling tracing the edge of the fluting). Large sugar crystals were sprinkled over the top before baking, and combined with the egg wash to form a delicious-looking glossy, sugary, golden-brown crust.

A close up of my hand showing 4 finger nails. They are painted with a soft greyish-blue base, and I painted a whole pie on each (except the pinkie, which got a single slice instead). On the index is a lemon meringue. The middle has a blueberry that’s the inverse of the actual pie I baked - single crust but with a π symbol added to the centre with crust. The ring finger has a lattice-topped rhubarb custard pie. The pinkie features a single slice of key lime pie. For each pie, the crust has been made matte with a special top coat, while the pie fillings and the background are covered with a glossy coating.

A close up of the thumb nail, which features a double-crust cherry pie with “3.14” cut into it to reveal the filling.

Happy π day y’all! I baked a blueberry pie and did a pie manicure to celebrate (sadly the manicure, which I did Thursday night, did not survive to see the actual day since I had swatching to do).

I LOVE a teeny, tiny baby plant!
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Summer the human scarfs down blueberry pie straight from the pie pan. Colored by the talented @FunGirl

Who up celebrating pi day?
#WeirdLittleMushroomFolk
#Gnomes&Goblins
✨🍄✨

Bird tracks in the snow ending at a divot with two clear wing prints on either side.

Sharp-tailed Grouse launch pad
(my subsequent 'heart-attack' not depicted 😂)
#birds

👊

Salticid boy with a blue-grey face and bright eyes, pale legs, peering up at you from a dry leaf

Mr Maevia intermedia, a handsome pale blue-grey leggy boy found in our savannahs. Shy, and very likely they see you much more than you see them
#EmotionalSupportSpood

It's SOOO GREEEEEN going down the drain. Easily the most impressive visual of the sundry hootch I've tipped into the septic system, today.😅

I am keeping some, just not the mostly gone stuff.

Benefit of giant deadline in my face is I care & think LESS, do MOAR!

Reminds me of last days of thesis.😆

omg, amazing shot!

I have an affection for my shy guy, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
#birds

felix the cat is holding a whistle while you work Alt: felix the cat is whistling while he walks above the caption "Whistle while you work"

<packing
packing
packing ...
merrily dumping creme de menthe down the drain>

a cat is playing in a cardboard box with a label that says ' usps ' on it Alt: an orange cat is standing in a cardboard box and tearing it apart, bite by bite.

I have GOT to get off the couch and resume packing!😅

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I DO love a whimbrel.😍

🥳🥳🥳

An oriole stands upright at a feeder between sips. Tall bunch grass bloom stalks can be seen behind.

An oriole stands upright at a feeder between sips. He has raised his wings a bit. Tall bunch grass bloom stalks can be seen behind.

An oriole stands crouched at a feeder as he looks away from the feeder and toward the camera. Tall bunch grass bloom stalks can be seen behind.

The far right corner of the yard feeder just got a visitor today! I believe he is saying “You know this feeder is getting low, right???” in the 3rd photo.

Oops, yes I see that 🫢😫

As more orioles show up, they spread out across the backyard feeders.

#birds

aw ... truly an apt description.😻

Directions:

Apply warm kitty compress for at least 15 minutes.

To increase soothing vibrational hum, run your fingers along its spine from neck to tail.

Cheers!!

The degree to which a PT session kicks my behind is truly impressive.😅

Kitty on my chest, giant mug of tea on my right, Mozart in my ears ... ahhhh.

😊🥱🫩😴

A yellow lesser goldfinch stands at the edge of a backyard fountain birdbath looking at a dark-eyed junco standing in the middle of the water in the shallow fountain. There is a small squirting of water from a pump flowing next to the junco.

Male Lesser goldfinch is being entertained by Dark-eyed junco.
I mean, who doesn’t sing in the bath 🎶 🎵

🥰 #birds

Downloading it now--heavenly!

ooOOOooh!😍

If you see this, post a chef
(you know, if u wanna).😊

Def on my desert island music selection. Magical.

Amazing stuff--THANK you for sharing.
🖤🎶🖤

Very exciting!