handmade_ghost

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

Is there a throwback #Caturday? Because this is my little fluffy wonder Fell back before she'd come into her full fluff and her tail was just a little scrap of yarn. She's always been such a self-possessed, communicative little soul, and I just adore her. :ablobcatheart:

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

I'm planning to return today to watch the morning show I saw hosted by this pair last weekend. They had so much to say on all my favorite topics (mostly the river, each other, and themselves).

fkamiah17, 2 months ago to random

Man: "Why are you walking in the park alone?"
Woman: "That's a personal question. I'm on my way back to my car"
M: "Can I walk you down?"
W: "I'm fine thank you"
M: "No need to be scared, I'm being a gentleman"
W: "That's nice but I don't know you and you're following me, which is alarming"
M: "You can get to know me, we can be friends"
W: "Why would I want to do that?"
M: "Give me a hug, I'm not going to bite"
Woman starts running.
https://twitter.com/Hplayspiano/status/1771492967217308133
#EverydaySexism #SafeStreets

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

I had a hilarious nonverbal conversation with this robin at the parklet near the lake yesterday morning. If I were better at photo editing, I'd insert some sort of thought bubble for em on the right-hand side of this photo to capture eir purse-lipped, cranky-chicken spirit.

(If anyone out there has their own take or presumed caption, I'd love to hear it.)

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

Chappell Roan is NPR's Tiny Desk Concert today. ❤️

nathanlovestrees, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to ethelcain

This new track from Aurora is great. I love her music, her voice, her writing, and her overall approach to pop music. I'm not sure if there's a name for this style of pop but I love it, reminds me of The Cranberries.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5CguvtN2MvxSmtSR23UNOd?si=Awu0RqqmSou9KUhb6v_HRw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4kfH7Wzr6p646dTIulVQQS

https://youtu.be/iMfQoZUrn4M?feature=shared

#Aurora #PopMusic #NewMusic

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

My first desert phoebe* of the year. I'm sure I've gushed before about my special love of flycatchers, and these particular phoebes are not a common find for me.

This one was sallying about on the ash trees and these budding tips of I-can't-remember (swamp agrimony? help?) that were lining the trailhead near the little wetland alcove under the highway. It was so good watching the gold flash of eir breast under the still-unpredictable afternoon sun.

*currently known as "Say's" phoebe

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

Hi, fellow gamers of @mstdn.games! I saw today's post from Alt Text Health Check and was remembering that time last month when we made the list with 75% alt text. We're not even in the top 50 lately. 🤦

Let's get back on this bicycle, folks! Share your games! 🎉

https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/112124893990120999

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

The arboretum yesterday was full of waxwings up to adorable antics in the hawthorn trees. They guzzled as much of the fairy-food berries as they could handle, and it must have been the entrancing effects of the hawthorn tree that made them almost oblivious to our presence. They lit in the branches as we walked by, sometimes only a foot or two away. I always forget how small they are. They are such brilliant, lovely little friends.

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

Some #TuneTuesday #Lullabies:

Sung to my daughter:

Lyle Lovett's "If I Had a Boat" https://tinyurl.com/mruubmaw
and
Billy Bragg's "Ingrid Bergman."
https://tinyurl.com/3fh52ne2

Often stuck in my head: Shriekback's "Cradle Song"
https://tinyurl.com/3zua52zw

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

I'm so used to the funny, cranky expressions I usually see on the faces of golden-crowned sparrows that this little friend completely disarmed me. E was sitting in the brush high up the cliffside with me, above the river, both of us just watching Saturday's sun come up together.

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

Queenfisher joy.

nathanlovestrees, 2 months ago to random

Recommend this kids book version of Ovid's Metamorphoses

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

If this little friend can navigate all the thorns in eir path, maybe I can navigate some of mine. #BackOnMyBushtit

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

#SilentSunday #MarshMadness

handmade_ghost, 2 months ago to random

"As a cat, caught by the door opening, on the perilous top shelf, red-jawed and raspberry-clawed, lets itself fall floorward without looking, sure by cat-instinct it will find the ground where innocence is . . .
so do we let ourselves fall morning-ward through shelves of dream."

from "Cat-Faith" by Alastair Reid
#Caturday

angusm, 2 months ago to Birds

Egrets -- I've had a few/But then again, too few to mention.

#MarshMadness #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #photos #photography

handmade_ghost, 10 months ago to random

So, I went up the mountain again today, and I found this egret tree, and I wish I could convey the gorgeous unholy sounds that were coming out of it.