Enjoy this sunset from Spanish Fort, Alabama (Vagabond son is on the move again.)

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Blowing Rock, NC (US) Part of the “Tail Of The Dragon” scenic road in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Red-shouldered hawk (My son’s backyard, North Carolina)

I’m so deeply offended & tired of the media framing 47’s unpopularity ONLY in terms of his impact on our finances.

YES, everything is way too expensive. (I live on Social Security & I’m aware!)
YES, the Billionaire Boyz and mega-corporations are screwing us silly & have been for a very long time.
BUT…50,000 non-criminals were detained last month, families were brutally separated, migrant kids are processed with no legal help, TPS immigrants will be returned to chaos, DREAMERS are in jeopardy, the U.S. is still killing boaters extra-judicially, we’re still at war, and #ClimateCrisis mitigation is a big, fat joke to 47 & pals.

Most of us live moral/ethical lives and stand at odds with this AMORAL administration. Don’t tell me I care most about prices when our collective values are violated every hour of every day!

#media
#StopTrumpNow
#Voteblue
#GOTV

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Late-summer crape myrtle tree blooming its heart out.

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(American Southwest)

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Glacier National Park, US

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Late-blooming oleanders in late-summer sunshine.

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Wednesday, July 29🌺

1. Peaceful, quiet, sunny days with few interruptions and a limited to-do list.
2. Caught up with all seasons’ podcasts from Fr. Jim Martin on the Jesuit ‘America Media’ channel. He is a skilled interviewer & had some remarkable guests. Looking forward to new content soon.
3. Oleander seeds look like dust bunnies & disperse wantonly in early spring, growing EVERYWHERE. This one (below) just bloomed in a pot of holly & is peeking, voyeuresque, through my bedroom window. 😳

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(Near Phoenix)

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Thursday, July 23🌺

1. Had a lot on my “to do list before the housecleaner comes” so I drank real coffee and OMG I FELT GOOD TODAY! Got everything done, including spraying floor tile grout with bleach, which both asphyxiated me & wrecked my unused muscles — but the floor is sparkle clean!
2. Filling the hummingbird feeder yesterday when a glorious ruby-red dragonfly sat on a nearby leaf. As serial killers go, they’re stunning. (95% kill rate, more than most earthly predators!)
3. I may get flooded this coming El Niño winter, but this has been the nicest summer I can remember, even if the blooming shrubs & trees are out of sync.

I see Fedi has pretty much eschewed using CONTENT WRAPS for insects, ugly bugs, spiders, bats, moths, and other creepy thingies. 😱😡

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Lake Louise (July, 2026, taken by a traveling friend.)

Large pic, click to view.

What has Mitch McConnell had to say about Lindsey Graham?
Anyone know?

#LindseyGraham

The list of “undesirables” and implied “expendables” keeps growing, and with it the change in policies & enforcement:

Immigrants (documented & undocumented). Detained immigrant children. Asylum seekers. Disabled/Seniors/others on Medicaid. Trans folks. Unhoused. Veterans. Families using SNAP benefits. “Antifa terrorists” & protesters. Haitians & Somalis on TPS. (Plus, non-whites, non-Christians…and others I can’t recall right now.)

With its recent rulings SCOTUS has made our Constitution a tragic joke.

🔺The first movie I remember seeing was a 1945 newsreel of victims just released from Nazi death camps.
🔻I think it’s time to wake up before ”the list” becomes an American Holocaust. (Look at the people in charge!)

#StopTrumpNow
#ReformSCOTUS

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Juvenile gull inspecting discarded restaurant ice on a Monterey CA wharf.

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