IcooIey

anildash, 29 days ago to random

Just trying to imagine if people a few hundred years ago had been here to witness, in the span of a few weeks, an eclipse, an earthquake, a supernova as bright as the North Star, and an unexpected appearance of the northern lights.

davidho, 1 month ago to random

TIL there’s something called the sea bunny.

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

what’s a headline from a better timeline you’d love to read?

#HeadlineFromABetterTimeline

IcooIey, 5 days ago to random

Last night with friends one started bemoaning The State Of Things, fear of right wing takeover. Talking about getting out of the country, escaping. They were shocked when I pointed out, this is only because we have rights to roll back. More “freedoms” and protections in law today for more people than ever in history and there isn’t anywhere better to go. My position is we have to defend and fight. For everyone. For the vulnerable. For those w/out the ability to fight and push and advocate.

IcooIey, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

Camping with the scouts this weekend. 30 deg F at dawn, 62 now. Glorious.
#Bloomscrolling
#waterfall
#Sunrise

A forested area with a waterfall cascading over layered rocks, with a fallen tree trunk angled above the water.
A red trillium flower blooming in a natural woodland setting with rocks and leaf litter.
Sunrise over a forested landscape with rock outcrops in the foreground and bare trees framing the view. Mist rises in the river valley below in the distance.

IcooIey, 12 days ago to random

Look at these adorable raku little guys from @moonrabbit cheering up my garden! You too can make a home for tiny gentle spirt sculptures https://www.driftingspirits.art/

Three small sculptures with painted faces placed on a larger rock, surrounded by green foliage and pink flowers in a garden setting.

IcooIey, 1 month ago to random

Data I want to see on an overlay map: child poverty, domestic violence stats, minimum wage, educational attainment, single parent households.

From: @NPR
https://press.coop/@NPR/112251778263600514

IcooIey, 17 days ago to animals

Personal predator in sphinx mode.

#CatsOfMastodon

IcooIey, 8 days ago to Bloomscrolling

At #Area51 today, love-in-the-mist blooming with the foxgloves and chives.

#Bloomscrolling

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

#SilentSunday
#MarshMadness

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

Three sunsets and a sunrise.

Spring Equinox 2024
Winter Solstice 2023
Fall Equinox 2023
Summer Solstice 2023

Horsebarn Hill, Storrs CT, US

#sun #solstice #equinox

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

Forgot to mention this morning, Fish (who is 4) has never paid attention to the TV. His first time watching the waterhole. There was no sound, just images. Rapt!

#Caturday

A cat sitting on a patterned carpet and watching a group of ostriches on a TV screen, with text indicating "Namib Desert - Namibia" displayed on the TV.

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

#MarshMadness

Unexpected bit of beauty.

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

My oldest recently started a job in Corporate America™ and it’s been fun watching their eyes be opened to how jobs work. Has had many meetings peppered with techno-corporate speak. No one does anything, they leverage things.

IcooIey, 2 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Good Morning!
Spring #Bloomscrolling

IcooIey, 16 days ago to animals

Me: YOU DON’T FIT!

Fish:

#CatsOfMastodon

A gray cat sits in a small, partially crushed cardboard box on a wooden floor. He looks sheepish, knowing he doesn’t fit, but doing it anyway as though he can’t help it.

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

It’s Caturday somewhere.
Have felt very curmudgeonly today, but at least Fish is amusing me. Immediately colonized a very small box compressing himself as only cats can to perfectly fit a space he should be too big for. He may think he is invisible.

A gray cat with wide eyes peeking out from inside a cardboard box. Looking at the diagonal head on with his little face squished into the corner. How is he fitting in this box? This can’t be comfortable.

IcooIey, 1 month ago to random

Last year I dug and sorted the tulip bulbs after they faded and replanted in the fall not expecting much. Very pleased! And they are fragrant, too! Cutting for bouquets today.

A bed of pink and yellow tulips and other green plants with a chain link fence protecting them from deer behind and yellow and white daffodils blooming along the outside of the fence and a grassy lawn beyond.

IcooIey, 29 days ago to random

The clouds broke just enough! #aurora Connecticut, US 22:44 10 May 2024
Incredible, so happy!

IcooIey, 25 days ago to random

Yesterday evening our scout troops placed flags on veterans’ graves, a service we do every year. I spoke before we started about how do this to remember the sacrifices of those lost to war, show families and descendants their loved one isn’t forgotten.
1/3

IcooIey, 19 days ago to wildflowers

Mayapple with wild ginger growing beneath.
#wildflowers
#Bloomscrolling

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

#MarshMadness

Three frogs and a toad. All can be found in New England marsh habitats.

#frogs

A magnificent Bullfrog, our largest North American frog, sitting amongst grass and small plants. Bullfrogs are a dark olive on the dorsal side, with bright green below the large eyes and round tympanum and darker stripes and blotches on the legs. There are no dorsolateral ridges. The frogs skin looks moist and glistens.
A close-up of a pickerel frog on wet ground with debris. Pickerel frogs have golden brown dorsolateral stripes bordered by rows of olive green rounded rectangular spots on a brown ground. Their legs have olive green stripes. Their smoothish skin is moist and they are usually found in water.
An American Toad resting on a green lily pad. What is it doing here? Very odd. Looking down on the top of the toad, it has a light stripe down the center of the back and a brown skin with groups of irregular warty bumps. Its outline is more broad and round than a frog.

IcooIey, 1 month ago to random

Needed an image of a storm surge barrier. Who does this well? The Dutch. Right, searching…

Holy cow!! Always wonderful to correct one’s woeful ignorance. If you don’t know about the Maeslant barrier—this is the wormhole for you. WOW!

https://www.netherlandswaterpartnership.com/news/maeslant-storm-surge-barrier-largest-moveable-object-world-was-closed-last-night-first-time#:~:text=Maeslant%20Barrier&text=It%20is%20a%20vital%20part,and%20the%20Port%20of%20Rotterdam.

IcooIey, 28 days ago to random

There’s two places to go in our town for sky stuff. Up the hill or down to the dam. We went down this time, it’s darker, with a narrower view. But far less light pollution. Connecticut, US 22:47 10 May 2024.

#auroraborealis #aurora

Image shows a celestial scene with shades of purple and pink aurora colored night sky with visible stars. Taken directly up towards zenith. There are bands and rays of pink and purple, though the color is misty a diffuse wash across the dark blue sky.