Critics say [Governor] Noem is turning the National Guard into a private mercenary force targeting migrants, but the governor’s plans for the National Guard could encompass other activities. “This, to me, is an extension of the fight that’s happening all over Mother Earth, protecting the last beautiful places, protecting the sacred,” Resistance to construction of […]…
Draw a Bird Day — July 8, 2021 — Eastern Bluebird male
Birds are icons across cultures serving as feathered pantheon of our attributes and emotions. Sorrows plummet on crow’s wings. Joy’s infusion in a bluebird’s sighting. The drawing is the first time I’ve used a youtube how-to video to draw anything. It works pretty well especially since it can be paused and replayed. The dimensions are…
Doodads — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly *and* bonus videos!
Since there will be 2 videos at the end and I’m tired, for now, there won’t be full-screen photos of these if you click on the captions. Let’s start with the pretty pictures (aka the good ones) These are the “bad” or not so great pics. Either the color was washed out, the bugs had…
#FF — Swarm
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook It started when we cut the trees. Bigger animals, i.e. bears, deer, squirrels, snakes, bats, rabbits, birds, mice, and such up and left. We never noticed before how much trees’ leaves shaded us from Sol, who seems to burn hotter every year. Their cooling umbrella now gone, and because…
M3! #91 – 070621 — Miss Juneteenth, The Professor and the Madman, Wildlife, White Mane, Time Bandits
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! A really good batch this week. Miss Juneteenth (2020) Starring: Nicole Beharie, Liz Mikel, Marcus M. Mauldin, Kendrick Sampson, Alexis Chikaeze, Mikayla Rivers, Jaime Matthis, Phyllis Cicero, Lisha Hackney, Lori Hayes, Opal Lee, and many more. Director and Writer: Channing Godfrey Peoples Genres: drama Synopsis: The central…
zucchini and cicada
Baby zucchini hide under giant green leaves –cicada’s first song. see full sized image here
TSM 167 — Stranded
Nightsky absconded with moon and left no forwarding address.Gaia’s APB has gleaned zilch. There’s no other way to take it but personally… Designed with streamlined hopes, she wasa vessel built for pleasure and redemption;now abandoned, parched in persistent gloom. She’s beached, far from home, with rusting chains,and warping wood, her finish long etched awayby sea…
Tao-Talk 