Dr Yechiel
@elisdream.bsky.social
I live on Earth and I'm interested in it. I'm especially curious about the ways people here explain their lives to each other and organize and preserve those explanations: literature, science, art, history, religion, libraries, museums, all the treasures.
Sometimes I wish the bears racing across my roof, chasing each other, would go away or at least go to sleep. Logic says they cannot be bears. Bears don't run on rooftops. Bears haven't been seen around here for decades. Some many-footed big insomniac creatures are up there, fast-moving & noisy.
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Sometimes I wish the bears racing across my roof, chasing each other, would go away or at least go to sleep. Logic says they cannot be bears. Bears don't run on rooftops. Bears haven't been seen around here for decades. Some many-footed big insomniac creatures are up there, fast-moving & noisy.
Sometimes I wish I lived in the cool mysterious North, where wild colors dance in the night sky. Here, the night sky is dark & starry, with starlight colors subtle to the unaided eye. Daylight holds the strong colors, so I hang bits of glass & crystal in windows to fool it into coming indoors.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sometimes I wish I lived in the cool mysterious North, where wild colors dance in the night sky. Here, the night sky is dark & starry, with starlight colors subtle to the unaided eye. Daylight holds the strong colors, so I hang bits of glass & crystal in windows to fool it into coming indoors.
#RedWed Noticing something once makes it easier to notice it again. The blue sunshine in my garden wears bright red lipstick; I had forgotten.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#RedWed Noticing something once makes it easier to notice it again. The blue sunshine in my garden wears bright red lipstick; I had forgotten.
#AnimalArtTuesday This is the painted pod of a butterfly vine. I don't know exactly when I got it but I do know exactly where, and I know I haven't been there since 1998. It's old but still brightly colorful and not fragile. The maker added paint, antennae & a pin.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
#AnimalArtTuesday This is the painted pod of a butterfly vine. I don't know exactly when I got it but I do know exactly where, and I know I haven't been there since 1998. It's old but still brightly colorful and not fragile. The maker added paint, antennae & a pin.
#BlueTue This is the captured white shadow of a butterfly vine, trapped weeks ago between sunshine and photosensitive paper. The shadow-marked paper is also trapped behind glass in a frame nailed to the wall. Shadows tend to wander, but this one seems to be stuck. I don't think it can escape now.
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
#BlueTue This is the captured white shadow of a butterfly vine, trapped weeks ago between sunshine and photosensitive paper. The shadow-marked paper is also trapped behind glass in a frame nailed to the wall. Shadows tend to wander, but this one seems to be stuck. I don't think it can escape now.
Someone is worried about both trees & scorpions. Are they most dangerous in combination? Are scorpions unseen here on the ground with us, peaceful unless surprised by a clumsy human, falling from an unwisely-climbed tree? I wonder what happened before this sign was posted.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Someone is worried about both trees & scorpions. Are they most dangerous in combination? Are scorpions unseen here on the ground with us, peaceful unless surprised by a clumsy human, falling from an unwisely-climbed tree? I wonder what happened before this sign was posted.
#GreenSat A faster hiker passed silently behind me while I stopped to study this SLOW HIKERS AHEAD trail warning, oddly high above eye level in the tree, scratched, obscured by leaves. I might be the warned-about slow hiker. There might be others, even slower, somewhere ahead.
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
#GreenSat A faster hiker passed silently behind me while I stopped to study this SLOW HIKERS AHEAD trail warning, oddly high above eye level in the tree, scratched, obscured by leaves. I might be the warned-about slow hiker. There might be others, even slower, somewhere ahead.
#river It isn't that I've lived so much in dry country that running water seems a dangerous thing, likely to jump up suddenly and wash everything away. Living water sings a pretty song in cool shade. I like water just fine, tho I've seen the damage. I just didn't want to get my boots wet.
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#river It isn't that I've lived so much in dry country that running water seems a dangerous thing, likely to jump up suddenly and wash everything away. Living water sings a pretty song in cool shade. I like water just fine, tho I've seen the damage. I just didn't want to get my boots wet.
#alien Earthlings are welcome in Roswell, New Mexico: 2 street views of the International UFO Museum & Research Center; 1 greeting from RALF; 1 invitation to rest in a hotel.
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#alien Earthlings are welcome in Roswell, New Mexico: 2 street views of the International UFO Museum & Research Center; 1 greeting from RALF; 1 invitation to rest in a hotel.
#YellowThu That's probably a nesting box for bluebirds, just taller than the tall grass above the trail where I was walking. I didn't climb up to see.
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
#YellowThu That's probably a nesting box for bluebirds, just taller than the tall grass above the trail where I was walking. I didn't climb up to see.
#YellowThu Argemone, bluestem prickly poppy. The leaves are tough and taste bad so the big animals leave it alone, giving the flowers time to develop oily seeds that feed small birds such as quail. Near Cibolo Creek, Boerne TX.
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
#YellowThu Argemone, bluestem prickly poppy. The leaves are tough and taste bad so the big animals leave it alone, giving the flowers time to develop oily seeds that feed small birds such as quail. Near Cibolo Creek, Boerne TX.
#YellowThu Deer are walking quietly in the tall grass nearby. Sometimes I see clear detail--a bright eye, an always-moving ear--but almost always behind some obstacle: thorny brush, tall grass, sometimes fog. Watching and watched. This is how deer walk in my dreams.
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#YellowThu Deer are walking quietly in the tall grass nearby. Sometimes I see clear detail--a bright eye, an always-moving ear--but almost always behind some obstacle: thorny brush, tall grass, sometimes fog. Watching and watched. This is how deer walk in my dreams.
#RedWed Dogwood berries are white. White berries are less sugary than red ones, so critters tend to save them to eat later, after all their favorite stuff runs out. I saw plenty of red berries while out walking today, November 5; these white berries will probably be around for a while.
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
#RedWed Dogwood berries are white. White berries are less sugary than red ones, so critters tend to save them to eat later, after all their favorite stuff runs out. I saw plenty of red berries while out walking today, November 5; these white berries will probably be around for a while.
Sometimes I wish I lived on a little farm.
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Sometimes I wish I lived on a little farm.
#AnimalArtTuesday Some animals are more imaginary than others.
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
#AnimalArtTuesday Some animals are more imaginary than others.
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#MinimalMonday The view of a dark room reflected in a mirror can be brighter than the room itself.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
#MinimalMonday The view of a dark room reflected in a mirror can be brighter than the room itself.
#Fear Nothing is there in the dark that isn't there in the light. Probably. Still, replacing the broken fixture outside this door was a good accomplishment today.
November 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
#Fear Nothing is there in the dark that isn't there in the light. Probably. Still, replacing the broken fixture outside this door was a good accomplishment today.
#GreenSat In certain light, this dusty green glass bottle casts a dusty green glass shadow on the white wall behind it. Someday I'll finish painting that white wall blue, and then I don't expect to see the green shadow again. I do expect to remember it sometimes, in certain light.
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
#GreenSat In certain light, this dusty green glass bottle casts a dusty green glass shadow on the white wall behind it. Someday I'll finish painting that white wall blue, and then I don't expect to see the green shadow again. I do expect to remember it sometimes, in certain light.
#FoodOnFriday Good food for everyone in Roswell, New Mexico. June 2019.
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#FoodOnFriday Good food for everyone in Roswell, New Mexico. June 2019.
#YellowThu Leaving the li_rary today, I found this _ig yellow letter B _eside the _ack tire of my little red truck. May_e it fell out of someone's alpha_et set. I hope it won't _e a pro_lem for them later.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
#YellowThu Leaving the li_rary today, I found this _ig yellow letter B _eside the _ack tire of my little red truck. May_e it fell out of someone's alpha_et set. I hope it won't _e a pro_lem for them later.
#YellowThu This is not a new photo but I laugh every time I come across it. I remember being in a greenhouse, looking up at yellow leaves fallen on the roof. Google Photos says this is a match for "fish". Strange things do happen but I still think I'm right. You can believe what you wish.
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#YellowThu This is not a new photo but I laugh every time I come across it. I remember being in a greenhouse, looking up at yellow leaves fallen on the roof. Google Photos says this is a match for "fish". Strange things do happen but I still think I'm right. You can believe what you wish.