SharonMcConnel

@SharonMcC@syringa.social
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Joy & kindness over bigotry. Live & let live liberal. Rural crone. Gimpy & creaky. Binge reader. Admin, genealogy websites SW #Idaho

#today #reading
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BlueSkyhttps://bsky.app/profile/sharonmcc.bsky.social
Goodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8471485-sharon
history & genealogy sitehttps://www.gem.idgenweb.org/index.html
Meanderings bloghttps://sharonsmeanderings.wordpress.com/

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.

We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

The hills are alive with foxglove!

#bloomscrolling #florespondence
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/masked-men-in-u-s-border-patrol-vests-brutally-beat-take-santa-ana-father/

Fajada Butte
Chaco Culture National Historic Park, NM

Happy Solstice! I don't have a solstice photo, so looked through my images and found inspiration.

Fajada Butte is famous for its Sun Dagger—an astronomical petroglyph created by the ancient puebloans to calculate the solstice (and Spring & Autumn equinox).

The photo I was going to post was small, as I'd originally processed it years ago. In finding the original I instead chose this one taken with my phone out of the window of my friend's car as we left the park at sunset. I thought the motion blur would serve as a nice metaphor for the passage of time since the Sun Dagger was first used to determine the Solstice.

#photo #landscape #history #ancientPuebloans #solstice #NewMexico

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bed in Summer”
published in A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

#Scottish #literature #poem 3poetry #summer #kidlit #19thcentury #Victorian #Edinburgh #RobertLouisStevenson

#Today

A clutch of quail chicks, first sighting of the year.

A #summersolstice blessing

@mastodonmigration - b-sky reminds me of my step-grandfather who would read newspaper articles he found interesting out loud. I don't need to see the same links to the same news stories etc repeatedly. Mastodon is best choice for original content.

Hen and Chicks
Redondo Beach, CA

Someone posted a nice photo of a whole flock of hens and chicks yesterday. I'd give them a hat-tip if my memory was better. If that was you, feel free to take a bow. Just one "hen" here, but loved the low light.

#photo #nature #plants #succulents #California

It's been about 7 years since I first noticed a "Witch's Broom" in the #Boise National Forest. Until today, I didn't know what it was called. And now I know what it was in a number of pine trees I saw during a hike.

https://www.geographyrealm.com/witchs-broom-trees/

#Idaho #Tree #WitchsBroom

Witch's Broom in Trees: Dense Clump of Leaves and Branches

Witch's broom affects trees like birch, spruce, and pine, causing dense twig and leaf clusters due to pathogens, parasites, and environmental stressors.

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Hen and Chicks
Redondo Beach, CA

Someone posted a nice photo of a whole flock of hens and chicks yesterday. I'd give them a hat-tip if my memory was better. If that was you, feel free to take a bow. Just one "hen" here, but loved the low light.

#photo #nature #plants #succulents #California