Year three of this dalea purpurea and we finally have both many stems and many blooms. Love the bright orange pollen extended far out from purple petals. #bloomscrolling

Out of context quote of the day: "But where can I get a Faulkner audio book read by a sad sweaty Texan?"

Boy howdy are the wildflowers going in the front range right now. Beaver Brook - Windy Saddle was beautiful. Here's a crab spider I discovered while investigating a geranium caespitosum? (Pinewoods geranium). Id will be in the comments if someone IDs my observation in iNaturalist.

I was traveling in the Midwest the last couple of weeks... It's just so frustrating to exist in a place where life is just ... continuing?? as normal... for now. The complicity nauseates me, and also fills me with sadness. My parents tell me to be safe/don't protest. My only response / 1

Look. If you wanna hang, let's hang at a protest. Until further notice, that's basically all I have available. Picnic protest? Heck yeah. Slip n slide protest? Yes. Lil vegan BBQ? Uuuuh huh.

Yo we can make this shit even more fun than it already is.

Elevate your protest, make some friends.❤️

Riding high speed trains is an absolute delight and I really want them in the USA.

I know goal posts have shifted off-to-preventing-nazi-land but that doesn't mean we shouldn't hope or imagine a better future. I'd absolutely love a Denver-Chicago connection.

On Monday March 17, on her way to work, ICE detained 30-yr permanent resident and community leader Jeanette Vizguerra in Aurora, Colorado and are threatening to deport her despite a lack of justification for detaining or deportation. Hit up this petition: secure.afsc.org/a/freejeanette

This morning I'm making a batch of steel cut oats, which I season with fresh ginger and cardamom. Yo, it smells like Fruit Loops. Who would have thought those spices were a part of its distinctive smell??

Look I know that squirrels are little menaces to anyone who wants a kempt looking yard but also the holes they dig everywhere are perfect disturbances for sowing native seeds. Let nature decide which grows and which doesn't.

A billionaire should only exist as a blip in time; the short term consequence of a miraculous new product or technology. The proliferation, let alone the long term existence of even a single billionaire is a deep failing of society.

Bye bye 20 years of inputting my personal data into meta 👋👋

In case you're appalled by #47 and want to give some direct hope and support to Ukraine, they have a website for that! u24.gov.ua The president and VP do not speak for the people. #50501

Made a set of mixing bowls for my sister. They're inspired by the double spouted vintage pyrex mixing bowls, but better because these are not glazed with bioavailable lead glazes. During the spout addition, I decided there was no way I was going to put two spots on each one 😄

In most cases, I'm finding that a person wearing an air filtering mask (i.e. a KN95) in public inside spaces is a person I feel safe with.

I'd be pretty stoked about a government that serves all of the people within its borders, and stands as a model for stewarding the earth long l-term... building cultures that can develop and improve for thousands of years.