A female eastern bluebird brings pine needles to her nest, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in Freeport, Maine. AP Photo #RobertFBukaty

Every year our basil garden gives up another handful of broken glass from years past. The amount has diminished each year, but putting in replacement timbers this year exposed some sections that had been covered for years.

Fun fact: I liked zardoz.

Not pictured are the sulatans.

picture of a cheeseball captioned "Homemade party cheeseball" with a happy woman inset holding a cheeseball on a plate

also my new MC name

California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan, 1972

... at their own peril

Go Seth
#FDP

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You’ve heard RJ but never this like this

aka Inky

(5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936)

This poem was recently discovered after 97 years.

“The clock sings
I count the hours
mechanically
Seven o’clock; twelve o’clock It’s all the same
I am not here
It is the mark of flesh
That I left behind when I departed
So as to know my place
Upon my return.”

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Sheba, RIP
My neib's kitty, who passed away, after they moved. She was a righteous cheetah soul, trapped in a housecat's body

Edit: fisherdah let me know in a comment below that the creator of this board company is incarcerated for some very heinous shit. I appreciate the callout, thank you.

We met Kim (pronounced "keem") on one of the Barcelona breakwaters yesterday. We saw him practicing wind surfing with his skateboard and immediately b-lined to ask if we could take some photos with him.

He talked with us for quite a while. He's a windsurfing instructor, ski instructor, and something else I can't remember. He's also 65 years old. I'd have guessed no older than 50.

I was immediately drawn to his board. I love the 80's board shapes. I asked him if it was an '85 (random guess), and he said it's from '82. I can't recall if he picked it up in California or Florida.

I submitted this for review today with the hopes it'd get picked up for the project, but it didn't, which isn't surprising. It doesn't really fit our brief. I wanted an upside down american flag to go up in an exhibit for the next year, though.

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Just discovered that Carver died at 50, a number in my rearview mirror, and I just don't know what to think.

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i have a very brown thumb but i am trying to make plants grow with a Tiny Gardening™️ set that a friend gifted to me years ago. i have tiny purple basil sprouts peeking through today!

My favorite frame from today's shoot. This is Nico. Nico saw me photographing my kids at the skatepark back in August or September and approached me asking if I'd like to do some photos together. We shot a few frames in that park and I took his portrait. Really warm, kind human.

A couple of months later I reached out and asked if he'd be interested in doing some portraiture for one of my classes. He immediately agreed. We did some wild light painting and acrobatic stuff (he used to do Capoeira). It was a really fun shoot and we agreed to do more in the future.

Jump to about a week ago. I was talking to my team about maybe getting in touch with him for a shoot on the coast for our project. The very next day he reaches out to let me know he's back from Argentina. It's either a universe thing or he's the life force behind targeted ads.

Today's shoot was so much fun. We emulated some iconic shots from J. Grant Brittain and played around on these breakwater blocks. He's not fearless but close to it. Very balletic, yoga-etic, punketic, etc etc.

Among many talents, he's a tattoo artist as well. I plan to work with him on a piece soon.