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Rebecca Smith
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Dark skies and ancient trees make my heart sing
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#Aurora from northern Sonoma County just now. Visible with the naked eye as well.
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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#dahlias #bloomscrolling
Small white spider on Chimacum nadjae dahlia
July 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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These have really grown in the last 12 days. #fungifriends
Follow-up photo of white, unidentified shelf-like mushrooms growing on the trunk of an oak tree. Photo shows mushrooms from the top. Ground is covered in leaf dander. Photo of the same white shelf-like mushrooms from the previous photo, taken from underneath so the girls are visible. Blue sky and distant hillside are visible in the background.
December 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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I'd been surprised not to see more #fungifriends since the deluge last month. These are the first I've found.
White mushrooms growing on an oak trunk. Undersides visible. White mushrooms growing on an oak trunk, viewed from above.
December 6, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Just wrote my representative. Here is sample language so it takes you even less time than the five minutes it took me to make my voice heard:
Screenshot of sample text to send your representative in opposition to Nancy Mace's anti-trans bill. "I just learned of the appalling Bill that your colleague Nancy Mace has proposed to ban transgender women from using women's restrooms at the US Capitol. I hope and expect that you will stand against anti-trans discrimination, whether by voting against this bill should it come to the floor in this form, or any other bill, spending package, etc that enshrines hate and fear into law."
November 19, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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Photo of a swallowtail butterfly, pale yellow with black, blue, and red accents, sitting, wings open, on a pink echinacea flower.
November 17, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Photo of tonight's waxing crescent moon in the Western sky at sunset with Venus visible at approximately 1 o'clock relative to the moon.
November 5, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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October 21, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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Curious if you know why we see color in the Milky Way? I noticed it for the first time from the California Coastal Range, where there seem to be purples in my image.
October 21, 2024 at 2:11 AM