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I watch and study western water, build playgrounds for hummingbirds and chickadees, but it’s the huge bumblebees that bring quiet joy. Photos are my own.
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With a deadline for new rules looming, the 40M people served by the Colorado River haven’t exactly been kept in the loop on discussions over the river’s future.
Colorado River bigwigs make ‘disturbing’ retreat from the public eye amid tense talks
Top water negotiators declined to speak at an upcoming conference amid closed-door meetings about the future of the water supply for 40 million people.
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May 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Iris after rain... Smells like heaven (I hope)!
May 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Love this iris on Mother's Day. Splendid.
May 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Iris makes some things better. First of all my tall bearded iris looks like clouds in the sky.
May 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Dramatic two-tone tulip.
April 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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This little nodder is such a dynamic addition to an early spring garden. Pulsatilla vulgaris.
April 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Little ground tulips popped up this week.
April 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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This is what cheer looks like emerging through last year's debris. Be a pulsatilla!
March 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Not spring, but feathered visitors are scouting territory. Spotted Towee featured today.
March 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Reminder: Amazon Blackout—starting tomorrow.

Amazon ❌, Whole Foods ❌ off the to-do list!
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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NEW: Tomorrow, The Daily Beans podcast will run without any ads in solidarity with the 2/28 economic blackout. We'll be forgoing any advertising revenue for the day. You can listen and subscribe for free: link.chtbl.com/TheDailyBeans
The Daily Beans
The Daily Beans is a women-owned and operated progressive news podcast for your morning commute brought to you by the Webby award-winning host of Mueller, She Wrote, Allison Gill, and comedian/fund-ra...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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New visitor scoping out the garden scraps. Spotted towhee.
February 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
bumblebeezoo.bsky.social
It is a complex world and im not convinced sledgehammers are the right tool.

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Trump funding freeze includes payments to keep the Colorado River flowing
President Biden promised billions in funds to farmers and others to not take water from the Colorado River. President Trump is halting some of those funds, leaving questions about the river's future.
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February 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
February 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The Salt Lake Tribune analyzed dozens of water rights applications submitted in the two years following a moratorium on most new appropriations within the Great Salt Lake Basin. Here's what we found.
Amid a freeze, Utah granted millions of gallons of new water rights in the Great Salt Lake basin. Here’s where the water will go.
The Salt Lake Tribune analyzed dozens of water rights applications submitted in the two years following a moratorium on most new appropriations within the Great Salt Lake Basin. Here's what we found.
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February 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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On this Superb Owl Sunday, I'm excited to share this Boreal Owl (my first ever!) that I was able to photograph yesterday. #wildlife #birds
A Boreal Owl, around 8 inches in height and floofed up in the cold site on a branch. It is brown and white with striking yellow eyes. A Boreal Owl, around 8 inches in height and floofed up in the cold site on a branch. It is brown and white with striking yellow eyes.
February 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Even a late night at work has its rewards.
February 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer With Sarah Michelle Gellar May Be Back?: Deadline is reporting that a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot is underway, and it's starring the one, the only original slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar.

More than two decades after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended its seven-season…
Buffy The Vampire Slayer With Sarah Michelle Gellar May Be Back?
Deadline is reporting that a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot is underway, and it's starring the one, the only original slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar. More than two decades after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended its seven-season run, the beloved…
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February 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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BREAKING: The Utah Legislature has passed a bill to strip public sector union workers like teachers, firefighters and police of their right to collectively bargain.

The bill now goes to Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk.
Utah bill to end collective bargaining for public workers heads to Cox
A bill banning collective bargaining for Utah’s public employees is now headed to Gov. Spencer Cox for his signature.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM