Lisa Shykula
LightNews LightNews
banner
beebott.bsky.social
Lisa Shykula
@beebott.bsky.social
300 followers 78 following 100 posts
Cat mom, regular mom, continuous geek
www.beebott.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
beebott.bsky.social
Caught this amazing Great Horned Owl in a tree and mature/immature Bald Eagles for #TalonTuesday! Taken in Longmont, Co.
Great Horned Owl squinting in a tree with one long talon showing. Bald Eagle looks into your soul and judges you from the top of a pole. Immature Bald Eagle has their talons tucked in flight. Classic Bald Eagle flying with wing tips flared.
January 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
beebott.bsky.social
A great #bird day in Longmont, CO, with a Great Horned Owl and lots of Bald Eagles. #Longmont #naturephotography
Great Horned Owl in a pine tree looking sleepy and showing one talon. Bald Eagle on a pole looks into your SOUL against a blue sky. Immature Bald Eagle in flight from underneath and you ca see its curled up orange talons. Bald Eagle soaring in a blue and white sky. Murica!
January 3, 2026 at 6:28 PM
beebott.bsky.social
#BirdoftheDay #HeronsandEgrets a Great Blue Heron in Colorado.
Great Blue Heron is reflected behind foliage at McIntosh Lake in Longmont, CO.
December 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
beebott.bsky.social
Aurora over Longmont!
Beautiful red/pink/purple aurora over houses.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
beebott.bsky.social
Blue heron!
A blue heron stalks along the edge of McIntosh Lake in Colorado. The shrubs are golden and the heron is backlit.
October 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
beebott.bsky.social
Hi @thenrao.bsky.social! We had fun visiting you a couple weeks ago!
One of the VLA dishes facing left. Me making an excited and silly face with one of the VLA dishes in the background. Scenic view of many of the 27 dishes in the Very Large Array with partly cloudy sky and ridge of mountains in the distance. The best and scariest snake warning sign! It says CAUTION Watch out for snakes with a drawing of a rattlesnake rattling its tail and fangs out ready to strike.
July 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
beebott.bsky.social
Balcony House, Mesa Verde
Peaking through a small window in the wall of Balcony House at Mesa Verde into the next room. You can see sandstone and plaster structures and vigas (wood beams) holding them up. A structure in Balcony House at Mesa Verde. Sandstone and plaster walls with doorways. Vigas (wooden beams) stick through a wall at Balcony House at Mesa Verde. The right side is dark as it’s behind the structure. Ray the ranger tells his tour group about the ancestral Puebloan people at Balcony House at Mesa Verde. He is standing in front of a Kiva, near the edge of a cliff.
July 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
beebott.bsky.social
RIP Henry 💕
The bestest boy Henry in a tree. Maybe stuck on a limb. Who’s to say? Henry is a tuxedo cat.
July 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
beebott.bsky.social
A picture of a majestic black and white cat with a tag that says Henry. Text reads, “A very good boy 2010-2025.”
April 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
beebott.bsky.social
Attentive tuxedo cat wants your snacks
March 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
beebott.bsky.social
At the Boulder Bookstore to celebrate the new book by @jonbassoff.bsky.social The Memory Ward. Sounds like another dread-filled nightmare is imminent. Can’t wait to read it!
Waiting with my kid to listen to Jon Bassoff talk about his book, The Memory Ward, which I am holding. Jon in conversation at The Boulder Bookstore.
March 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
beebott.bsky.social
Big birthday wishes to my boy Henry who turns 15 today!
Henry the tuxedo cat, with murder in his eyes at the indignity of the green, shiny and jaunty birthday hat upon his head.
February 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
beebott.bsky.social
Henry is very excited that our preordered copy of The Way Up is Death by @danhanks.bsky.social finally arrived! The @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social fun words on the back say,”File Under: Pub Quiz | Die trying | It’s a trap | Game over, man”
Henry, a black and white tuxedo cat, loafs next to Dan Hanks’ book The Way Up is Death on an olive couch with a red pillow in the background. He’s pretty proud of himself for preordering.
January 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
beebott.bsky.social
Thinking of you, LA. 🩷
The Hollywood sign, zoomed in from Griffith Observatory in LA. The Santa Monica pier amusement park as seen from farther out along the pier. The world’s most perfect palm tree in Culver City. A view of the Angels Flight tram with the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles in the background.
January 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
beebott.bsky.social
Happy New Year ya animals!
A tuxedo cat with his head in a wine glass with a cartoon cat that says, “Happy New Year” and text that reads, “Pleez drink responsibly!”
January 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
beebott.bsky.social
Vaguely unsettling and definitely threatening: the Duolingo 2024 Year in Review!
A graphic from Duolingo of an angry looking Duo the owl on 2024 with the words “I’m a top 1% learner on Duolingo!” A graphic from Duolingo that says, “I’m a top 1% learner!” And then these threatening words, “I’m safe from Duo. For now.” There is a picture of Duo the owl all excited, beak open and starry-eyed.
December 2, 2024 at 11:50 PM
beebott.bsky.social
The Duolingo owl is on FIRE due to my 700 day streak. A phoenix owl? Victim of global warming? Only Duo knows.
November 23, 2024 at 2:56 PM
beebott.bsky.social
Past Lisa was smart and preordered the new @danhanks.bsky.social book that Future Lisa can’t wait to read! #books
A snip from a confirmation email about my preorder of Dan Hank’s new book, The Way Up is Death, with a picture of the cover.
November 15, 2024 at 1:05 PM
beebott.bsky.social
Hello new BlueSky friends! Here is a cat as a welcome gift.
Henry, my black and white tuxedo cat, judges you silently from a lounging spot on the couch.
November 15, 2024 at 3:04 AM
beebott.bsky.social
What is even happening here? @scribeofhades.bsky.social did you let them borrow your tiny hands?
My 689 day streak on the Duolingo app widget appears to be a cartoon of a flame with little hands pushing Duo the owl on a swing. For some reason. The text says, “See you tomorrow!” in what I am choosing to believe is a nonthreatening tone.
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 AM
beebott.bsky.social
For my first video: a sketchy raccoon.
September 13, 2024 at 1:29 AM
beebott.bsky.social
Feeling feisty
Tuxedo cat looks over the edge of his kitty condo Something caught the kitty’s eye Kitty wants to poke
August 16, 2024 at 1:53 AM
beebott.bsky.social
Couldn’t put down The Drowning House by @cmpriest.bsky.social which I read in about 24 hours. Loved that when I looked at maps of Marrowstone Island I could find all the places mentioned in the book! ❤️🏚️👻💀
Cover of The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
August 12, 2024 at 1:35 AM
beebott.bsky.social
Sorry @cmpriest.bsky.social, here’s a better picture.
Henry the tuxedo cat with the book Cinderwich.
June 29, 2024 at 8:48 PM
beebott.bsky.social
Up next: Evil towns and evil apples. @cmpriest.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social
Two book covers: Cinderwich by Cherie Priest and Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig.
June 29, 2024 at 8:45 PM