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David Epithet
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Semi-retired environmental engineer; avid reader; amateur naturalist, photographer, and musician; anti-plutocrat; oneironaut.

My observations on iNaturalist:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=scriv&verifiable=any
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Valley carpenter bee, Xylocarpa sonorina. #insects #bees
Side view of a large, black bee with brown wings, perched on a yellow trumpet flower
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Menifee CA #NoKings

We were set up at the busiest intersection in town. Total attendance was about 500.
October 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Getting ready to go for a walk with a few hundred friends!

This morning's cactus bloom seems auspicious.
A large, white Christmas Cactus flower in the morning sunlight, with my hand for scale.
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Pelicans
A formation of pelicans flying across a cloudy sky
June 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Great sign!
June 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#NoKings #Menifee, CA
June 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Tarkheena Pixel, deep in meditation
May 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Fixed it.
The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot trump card "The Devil," recaptioned "Capitalism."
April 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Hands Off! Idyllwild
April 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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A photo of DJT with a caption, "The man who ruined America"
March 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This afternoon, I glanced out the upstairs window and saw a #bobcat slink down from the hills to get a drink from our pool.
#cats #wildlife #lynx
A grayish, spotted feline crouching on the concrete at the edge of a swimming pool. It has raised its head, and is showing us its left profile. And its spots. It leans way over to get a slurp of water from the pool, showing us its stubby, black-tipped tail.
March 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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February 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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DJT with red tie and smug expression. Caption: "ETHICS are for LOSERS!"
February 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I don't know who made this, but kudos.
February 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Hooded Tube Lichen (Hypogymnia physodes), Lopez Island, WA
A patch of light green fruticose lichen with flattened branches
January 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A little moss/lichen garden we spotted in La Conner, Washington yesterday
A short, round, hollowed out post with several types of moss and chartreuse fruticose lichen growing in the cavity
January 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I'm staying on Lopez Island with my sister for a week. This is a view of the San Juan Channel from the Shark Reef area.
#naturephotography
#landscape
#LopezIsland
A green slope leads down to a dark, rocky cliff surmounted by windswept pines. Beyond and below the cliff is a sea channel with a visibly swift current escaping between the cliff and a dark line of offshore rocks.
January 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Just remember this classic
January 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Here's a lesser green lynx spider (Peucetia longipalpis) on the pelargonium near our front door.

#nature #NaturePhotography #bugs #spiders #SouthernCalifornia
A slender, emerald-green spider with yellow legs crouching on a crimson flower
January 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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This one is special.
January 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Tumbleweed Snowman (a local seasonal landmark)
Several tumbleweeds stacked up, painted white, and tricked out as a snowman. With oven mitts.
January 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I asked this darkling beetle (Eleodes gracilis) what it thought of Elon Musk.
A large, black beetle sticking its pointy nether end up in the air.
December 7, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Contemplative
A b/w photo of a stack of boulders on a hillside. The configuration and markings of the rocks offer a vaguely anthropomorphic age.
December 4, 2024 at 5:52 AM