Clouds, Breeze, Trees, Summer. Paintings By Renato Muccillo.

Drawing from 'Saint Germain' (French, circa 1896).

Gouache on paper.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Wikimedia.

There's a park in my city that's right at the edge of a cliff. Once I was sitting there having some tea and looking out over the distance, and this hawk came gliding along the edge of the cliff exactly level with me, about ten feet away. She didn't see me -- she was hunting and she was focused. She was a red-tailed hawk and her eyes looked a lot like this. I love their faces. I'm so glad they exist.

Blue Hawk

last night my partner held a somber little passover seder to show me what it’s about and when they got to the part where they were supposed to open the door for elijah they paused, frowned, and said “oh. huh. there is a clown.” and I looked out. and sure enough. there was a clown.

Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) skin detail

Photos by Pete Oxford

"Dark Flora" series 🌿

(Prints are available for a limited time)

Coyote | Sheryl Hester

[Image description: a Bluesky post from user Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reading: If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity. User has shared a screenshot of a New York Times headline reading, Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard. An official on the administration's antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization. /End image description.]

So this is definitely a case of "we did not expect Harvard to fight back and we forgot they have billions of dollars and the best lawyers"

good morning dykes, just remembered this photo exists 🫃🏻