The ginko tree is a living fossil, unchanged in 200 million years. Unlike other deciduous trees, its leaves all drop within one day. We get a night below freezing, and the next morning at dawn the leaves start dropping. The tree goes from full to bare branches very quickly.

From the June No Kings March, thousands of people in Pittsburgh chanting FUCK JOHN FETTERMAN!

This is a cute meme, but my cat alternates between murder-beast and snuggly-snookums and that's hard to capture in one picture. A video works, though!

I found a lemon tree at the nursery this spring! It grew happily on the front porch, and I was looking forward to having the scent of lemon flowers indoors all winter!

Then I thought to check whether lemon trees are toxic to cats.

"Maybe he won't like it," I hoped.

Ivan is the cutest.