Dave
@dtobias.bsky.social
Natural resource conservation, travel, photography, tennis, biking, wherever science leads us, and maintaining friendships for life. Card-carrying atheist and anti-extremist, joyously exploring planet earth and humanity. All photos mine unless stated.
This is the inside of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale U. in New Haven, Ct. A beautiful and massive monument to the written word, with material from every nation (even many that no longer exist) going back a thousand years.
#library #antiquarian #oldbooks #papyrus #incunabala
#library #antiquarian #oldbooks #papyrus #incunabala
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is the inside of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale U. in New Haven, Ct. A beautiful and massive monument to the written word, with material from every nation (even many that no longer exist) going back a thousand years.
#library #antiquarian #oldbooks #papyrus #incunabala
#library #antiquarian #oldbooks #papyrus #incunabala
I dunno, seems like they could've spent a little more time with a focus group before landing on that name...
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I dunno, seems like they could've spent a little more time with a focus group before landing on that name...
Sunset on Lake Michigan near Saugatuck, Michigan
September 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Sunset on Lake Michigan near Saugatuck, Michigan
Morning dew, Rhinebeck NY
August 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Morning dew, Rhinebeck NY
Mt. Kisco, NY, 6/14/2025
June 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Mt. Kisco, NY, 6/14/2025
Visited the FDR Homestead in New York's Hudson Valley and was reminded of that great president's Four Freedoms, of which the first and last are so relevant today...
June 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Visited the FDR Homestead in New York's Hudson Valley and was reminded of that great president's Four Freedoms, of which the first and last are so relevant today...
Daughter is fostering FOUR!
June 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Daughter is fostering FOUR!
Let's make sure scenes like this happen everywhere, always...
June 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Let's make sure scenes like this happen everywhere, always...
Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security, had her purse, passport and $3000 stolen at a restaurant in DC yesterday. That's Homeland SECURITY. Where the F*** does he find so many incompetent people?!?!
April 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security, had her purse, passport and $3000 stolen at a restaurant in DC yesterday. That's Homeland SECURITY. Where the F*** does he find so many incompetent people?!?!
Decent turnout in Poughkeepsie, NY!!
April 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Decent turnout in Poughkeepsie, NY!!
Random acts of beauty at a botanical garden - apologies for not getting the scientific (or any other ) names...
April 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Random acts of beauty at a botanical garden - apologies for not getting the scientific (or any other ) names...
March 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Read Mexican president Sheinbaum's disemboweling of tRump - it's beautiful!
March 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Read Mexican president Sheinbaum's disemboweling of tRump - it's beautiful!
Circumnavigating Ka'u crater on Oahu involves climbing many ropes straight up waterfalls and walking along knife-edge ridges...
January 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Circumnavigating Ka'u crater on Oahu involves climbing many ropes straight up waterfalls and walking along knife-edge ridges...
After his digital crypto meme sale, tRump plans to issue his own postage stamp:
January 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
After his digital crypto meme sale, tRump plans to issue his own postage stamp:
The only kind of King I'll follow.
January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The only kind of King I'll follow.