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My bonnet contains a multitude of bees.
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Very best boy totally ignoring the bouncy shenanigans of the Pit Bull next door and the screaming of the Corgi in the end apartment.
Brown dog stretched out flat on his side, on a concrete patio.
May 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Doe
Image of a deer deep in a thicket, looking back at me through an opening in the honeysuckle and black raspberry bushes. The raspberries are in bloom.
May 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Baby flowers on day 5
Image of a planter with tiny seedlings just starting to pop up out of the dirt.
May 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Today’s complete bird list. The great horned owl is a repeat visitor, which is exciting. The turkey vulture was alongside the road, having a snack, on my way home from work.
Image of a page from my journal, including a small photo of an empty parking lot on campus with the caption “the official start of townie summer” and a list of today’s birds: American crow, turkey vulture, northern cardinal, Carolina wren, house finch, song sparrow, house sparrow, American robin, mourning dove, eastern meadowlark, great horned owl ! AGAIN !, red-eyed vireo, rock pigeon, Swainson’s thrush, red-winged blackbird, eastern towhee, downy woodpecker, European starling, northern flicker, cedar waxwing, yellow-breasted chat, common loon, gray catbird, American goldfinch, white- throated sparrow, Tennessee warbler, Carolina chickadee, red-bellied woodpecker, blue-gray gnat catcher, blackpoll warbler, northern mockingbird, wood thrush, tufted titmouse, warbling vireo, brown-headed cowbird, chipping sparrow, orchard oriole, eastern kingbird, chimney swift, yellow warbler, common grackle, pileated woodpecker, Baltimore oriole, red-shouldered hawk, great-crested flycatcher, white-breasted nuthatch, indigo bunting
May 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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It was so quiet walking in to work this morning, that you could actually hear the birds. Usually there’s too much ambient noise from traffic to pick up bird songs.
Screenshot from the Merlin Bird ID app with list of birds: American robin, great crested flycatcher, chipping sparrow, house finch, northern cardinal, and Carolina wren.
May 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Townie summer has begun!
Empty parking lot in pre dawn hours, illuminated by street lights.
May 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Creeping on the upstairs neighbors. Pretty sure he’s also judging them.
Dog standing on concrete, viewed from the back, with his head turned in profile and tilted upward.
May 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Found in a used book I bought.
A drawing on copier paper of two people sitting on a porch swing. One person has dark hair in long braids and is wearing a shirt that says “Girls Inc” backwards. The other person has blond hair and and is wearing glasses. There is a single away of party lights above the swing. Along the bottom is written “Happy Birthday.”
May 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Today’s BÖRBS
A journal page with a list of today’s observed birds and a photo of a dog trancing under a pile of dead tree branches.
May 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Raindrops on columbine
Columbine plant with one fully open flower and multiple buds, covered in raindrops.
May 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Lunch and The Little Prince
A collage of three images. The first two are from The Little Prince, depicting a solid brown, lumpy shape similar to a squashed cowboy hat, and the second depicting the same shape, but as an outline with an elephant standing inside. The third image is a sandwich, viewed from above. The bread is shaped similarly to the first image.
April 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Today’s birds. The red-shouldered hawk was circling above. Two of them, actually. It was a warm, sunny day, so I sat out on the patio and read my book. Then the hawks showed up, hollering at each other. They stuck around long enough for me to get a crappy phone photo of one of them.
A handwritten list of bird species that visited my “backyard” today, and a very crappy phone photo I took of a red-shouldered hawk circling overhead in a bright, clear sky.
April 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Piglet getting his cooties all over the dog’s stuffy.
Photo depicts a tuxedo cat rolling on his back on the carpet with a small stuffed dog toy in his front paws.
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I’ve been keeping daily lists in my journal of the birds that visit my backyard. Spring is coming!
Image depicts a page from my journal with a list of birds that visited my backyard on Tuesday.
March 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Found on the loading dock this morning.
Image depicts a hammer and sickle carved into concrete pavement.
March 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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It’s cold af and everything is covered in ice and snow, but the sun is shining, and the birds have a lot to say this morning. I’m especially happy to hear our resident woodpecker.
Winter landscape of a snow covered field ringed by trees with a bright blue sky above. The field is striped with shadows and sunlight. Screenshot from the Merlin bird identification app, showing the bird sounds it identified from my patio this morning: northern cardinal, downy woodpecker, American crow, blue jay, dark-eyed junco, and house finch.
February 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Fortune cookie has something to say.
Small slip of paper from a fortune cookie with the text: Stay open to the beauty of multiculturalism and the richness it brings.
February 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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1:37 am after the snow stopped falling.
Late night. The sky is a solid blanket of clouds and everything is covered anew with soft bright snow.
January 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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It snowed again, and we are not amused.
Side view of medium sized, short haired, brown dog with floppy ears, standing in snow up to his knees and elbows.
January 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The sky tonight.
Night sky with heavy clouds and a dark band hugging the northern horizon. In the foreground is a snowy field framed by trees.
January 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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We ended up getting a bunch of graupel-y crap, which is more compact than snow, so it’s not anywhere near as thick as the forecast called for. But it’s not done yet.
Snow blanketing a large field, with bare trees in the background, and a small concrete garden statue of a dog in the foreground. The dog is wearing a snow hat.
January 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I witnessed a murder today, in my neighbor’s front yard.
Suburban yard with houses in the background, a large tree, and grassy lawn dotted with dozens of American crows.
January 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I read 60 books this year. Most of them were ebooks, so this is just some of them.
Vertical stack of books, with spines visible. Vertical stack of books, with fore edges visible, with small sticky flags sticking out.
January 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I stg the Swiffers on Threads are going to drive me completely off that platform. They are relentless and apparently don’t understand that “No.” is a complete sentence.

Please enjoy this crappy photo of a doe, chewing cud and judging you.
Doe lying in a thicket, chewing cud, with her back to the camera and her head turned toward it, looking very judgmental.
December 29, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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I’m working remotely today, and my coworker is literally the cutest. Also he never wears pants.
Medium-sized, short-haired brown dog sitting on the couch, on top of a pile of pillows and blankets, in profile, wearing rose ears, side-eying and judging the viewer.
December 17, 2024 at 9:23 PM