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Do you make crafts? Do you like to look at crafts? Would you like to get (or give) advice about crafts? All crafts are welcome. Share photos, stories about projects in progress, and connect with other crafty folks.
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Abstract Art on a Northern Lake
Jun. 17th, 2025 06:39 pmjesse_the_k posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
common_natureI’m staying near a northern Wisconsin lake at 45.658965, -89.497625, where I’ll be revelling in 15:45 hours of daylight on the summer solstice. The logged-over forest is mostly red pine, and wow they’re pollinating—creating very abstract art near the dock
Pine pollen forms semi-opaque circles over shallow sandy beach
( two more pics )
Where do migratory birds have their home?
Jun. 17th, 2025 05:43 pmysabetwordsmithWhere do migratory birds have their home?
Below are just three screenshots from a series of 16 photos on the Instagram account of somadifusa (Laura Ortiz), of murals she and the tattoo artist Azul Luna (Instagram account azulunailustra) painted in Bogota, Colombia.
I'm captivated by these images both of traveling swallows, some bearing backpacks and baskets, some with shells on their back like hermit crabs, and of hearts that are also nests, or that morph into shells, or sprout flowers and eyes. "Home is where the heart is," or the heart makes the home.
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Below are just three screenshots from a series of 16 photos on the Instagram account of somadifusa (Laura Ortiz), of murals she and the tattoo artist Azul Luna (Instagram account azulunailustra) painted in Bogota, Colombia.
I'm captivated by these images both of traveling swallows, some bearing backpacks and baskets, some with shells on their back like hermit crabs, and of hearts that are also nests, or that morph into shells, or sprout flowers and eyes. "Home is where the heart is," or the heart makes the home.
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Birdfeeding
Jun. 17th, 2025 03:08 pmysabetwordsmith posting in birdfeedingToday is partly sunny, steamy, and hot.
I fed the birds. Sparrows and house finches have been all over the feeders today.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I checked the grass patch by the garden shed. Something had eaten about half the seedling clover. :/ So I sowed more Bee Lawn Mix, watered that, and watered the recently planted wild indigo.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I took some pictures around the yard.
My wildflower garden is swarming with baby praying mantises, at least two hatches. I've seen a tiny brown one and a slightly larger green one. :D
I've seen a mourning dove in the forest garden.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
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I fed the birds. Sparrows and house finches have been all over the feeders today.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I checked the grass patch by the garden shed. Something had eaten about half the seedling clover. :/ So I sowed more Bee Lawn Mix, watered that, and watered the recently planted wild indigo.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I took some pictures around the yard.
My wildflower garden is swarming with baby praying mantises, at least two hatches. I've seen a tiny brown one and a slightly larger green one. :D
I've seen a mourning dove in the forest garden.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
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Birdfeeding
Jun. 17th, 2025 03:07 pmysabetwordsmithToday is partly sunny, steamy, and hot.
I fed the birds. Sparrows and house finches have been all over the feeders today.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I checked the grass patch by the garden shed. Something had eaten about half the seedling clover. :/ So I sowed more Bee Lawn Mix, watered that, and watered the recently planted wild indigo.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I took some pictures around the yard.
My wildflower garden is swarming with baby praying mantises, at least two hatches. I've seen a tiny brown one and a slightly larger green one. :D
I've seen a mourning dove in the forest garden.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
.
I fed the birds. Sparrows and house finches have been all over the feeders today.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I checked the grass patch by the garden shed. Something had eaten about half the seedling clover. :/ So I sowed more Bee Lawn Mix, watered that, and watered the recently planted wild indigo.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I took some pictures around the yard.
My wildflower garden is swarming with baby praying mantises, at least two hatches. I've seen a tiny brown one and a slightly larger green one. :D
I've seen a mourning dove in the forest garden.
EDIT 6/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
.
Tuesday word: Pogonip
Jun. 17th, 2025 12:21 pmsimplyn2deep posting in 1word1dayTuesday, June 17, 2025
Pogonip (noun)
pogonip [pog-uh-nip]
noun
1. an ice fog that forms in the mountain valleys of the western U.S.
Origin: 1860–65, < Shoshone paγɨnappɨh thunder cloud; compare soγovaγɨnappɨh fog (with soγo- earth), yaγumpaγɨnappih fog (with yaγun- valley)
Example Sentences
Fog is made of water vapor, yet sometimes ice particles can create the ephemeral mistWhen the air temperature is below freezing and relative humidity is greater than 100 percent—an infrequent combination—these ice crystals can form and hover to form a “pogonip,” or ice fog.
From Scientific American
Hoping to add our own pin to Rugg’s map of Bigfoot sightings, we charted a course for Pogonip Open Space Preserve.
From Washington Post
The outdoors seeming like the safest place to meet because of the pandemic, more walks followed, including along Twin Lakes State Beach in Santa Cruz and through Pogonip, a local park with a network of trails.
From New York Times
Pogonip (noun)
pogonip [pog-uh-nip]
noun
1. an ice fog that forms in the mountain valleys of the western U.S.
Origin: 1860–65, < Shoshone paγɨnappɨh thunder cloud; compare soγovaγɨnappɨh fog (with soγo- earth), yaγumpaγɨnappih fog (with yaγun- valley)
Example Sentences
Fog is made of water vapor, yet sometimes ice particles can create the ephemeral mistWhen the air temperature is below freezing and relative humidity is greater than 100 percent—an infrequent combination—these ice crystals can form and hover to form a “pogonip,” or ice fog.
From Scientific American
Hoping to add our own pin to Rugg’s map of Bigfoot sightings, we charted a course for Pogonip Open Space Preserve.
From Washington Post
The outdoors seeming like the safest place to meet because of the pandemic, more walks followed, including along Twin Lakes State Beach in Santa Cruz and through Pogonip, a local park with a network of trails.
From New York Times
music: A Wistful Satellite Song
Jun. 17th, 2025 10:33 amjesse_the_kI’ve been a Karine Polwart fan for decades, which led me to her recent collaboration with Julie Fowlis and Mary Chapin Carpenter. "Looking for the Thread" mixes Scots Gaelic and US country and a little bit of rock’n’roll.
I was moved by this farewell from the POV of a dying satellite—can you tell me if this matches an actual satellite that circled our planet?
Or on SoundCloud or on Spotify.
Dogwood Leaf Beetle
Jun. 17th, 2025 09:27 ampauraque posting in common_nature
Getting into my car after a walk, I found this elegantly decorated beetle on my shirt. It has the very appropriate scientific name of Calligrapha philadelphica, also known as the Dogwood Leaf Beetle.
When it opened its wings to fly, I was surprised to see its inner wings were red. I guess that could be the wax seal on the parchment. :)
( photo showing the red wings )
Photos: Thrifted Paintings
Jun. 17th, 2025 05:11 amysabetwordsmithI found these three paintings at the Thrift'n'Sip Indoor Rummage Sale. There is a seascape, a forest, and a flower garden with a birdbath.
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FIC "Night Watch" (Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You - MRJ) Parkins/Wilson G
Jun. 17th, 2025 09:23 pmsweetsorcery posting in historiumCreator: sweetsorcery
Title: Night Watch
Fandom: Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad - M R James
Rating: G
Word Count/size/length: 1,611
Characters/Pairings: Professor Parkins/Colonel Wilson
Notes/Warnings: Hurt/Comfort, Touch-Aversion/Touch-Starvation
Summary Colonel Wilson offers Parkins comfort, and perhaps more.
Originally written forbitesizedfandomsex.
Link: Read on AO3.
sweetsorceryTitle: Night Watch
Fandom: Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad - M R James
Rating: G
Word Count/size/length: 1,611
Characters/Pairings: Professor Parkins/Colonel Wilson
Notes/Warnings: Hurt/Comfort, Touch-Aversion/Touch-Starvation
Summary Colonel Wilson offers Parkins comfort, and perhaps more.
Originally written for
bitesizedfandomsex.Link: Read on AO3.
FIC "Mon cœur est pour toi" (Aces High) Captain Sinclair/Stephen Croft T
Jun. 17th, 2025 08:41 pmsweetsorcery posting in historiumCreator: sweetsorcery
Title: Mon cœur est pour toi
Fandom: Aces High (1976)
Rating: T (for themes)
Word Count/size/length: 1,989
Characters/Pairings: Captain Sinclair/2nd Lt Stephen Croft
Notes/Warnings: WWI, RFC, brief talk of death
Summary Captain Sinclair is under a spell he has no desire to break, and he's not the only one.
Link: Read on AO3.
sweetsorceryTitle: Mon cœur est pour toi
Fandom: Aces High (1976)
Rating: T (for themes)
Word Count/size/length: 1,989
Characters/Pairings: Captain Sinclair/2nd Lt Stephen Croft
Notes/Warnings: WWI, RFC, brief talk of death
Summary Captain Sinclair is under a spell he has no desire to break, and he's not the only one.
Link: Read on AO3.
2025/092: A Conspiracy of Kings — Megan Whalen Turner
Jun. 16th, 2025 09:22 amtamaranth2025/092: A Conspiracy of Kings — Megan Whalen Turner
All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung. [p. 79]
Sophos, the heir to the kingdom of Sounis, was one of Eugenides' companions in The Thief. He doesn't especially want to be king, though he'd quite like to marry the Queen of Eddis. But suddenly catastrophe strikes, Sophos loses everything, and Sounis is under threat. In order to save his country from civil war, he has first to save himself.
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The Great Farting Oxygen Event
Jun. 17th, 2025 12:02 amysabetwordsmithThis is the earliest mass extinction we know of on Earth, and it may well have been the worst. However, it usually doesn't appear on the standard lists of major mass extinctions.
Currently we are in the Anthropocene, whether people want to admit it or not. We are also in the midst of the Anthropocene Extinction, whether people want to admit it or not. See the insect apocalypse, amphibian apocalypse, and bird apocalypse.
Despite these grim statistics, humanity is not the most destructive species the Earth has ever known. That honor goes to whatever organism first discovered fire, harnessed the power of the Sun, and farted so much oxygen that almost everything else died.
Currently we are in the Anthropocene, whether people want to admit it or not. We are also in the midst of the Anthropocene Extinction, whether people want to admit it or not. See the insect apocalypse, amphibian apocalypse, and bird apocalypse.
Despite these grim statistics, humanity is not the most destructive species the Earth has ever known. That honor goes to whatever organism first discovered fire, harnessed the power of the Sun, and farted so much oxygen that almost everything else died.
Write Every Day Day 17
Jun. 17th, 2025 12:30 amcornerofmadness
It’s my birthday and I felt like a picture prompt today
On the 16th I edited and posted my
getyourwordsout Yahtzee story adding about 422 words.Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.
Day sixteen -
ysilme, cornerofmadness, china_shop, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, goddess47, cmk418, trobadora, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, yasaman( other days )
Found a farmer's market
Jun. 16th, 2025 11:10 pmcornerofmadnesswent shoe shopping today, a thankless and fruitless task but I did stop for sushi for lunch (found one of their rolls the Boston Bay roll, a deep fried tempura treat stuffed with crab, shrimp and egg) and on the way to the pharmacy found that the farmer's market at Holy Trinity was on. I got caramelized onion humus and dill pickle humus and ranch dill pickles. I'm happy until I got home.
EVERYTHING I wanted to do for my birthday tomorrow is closed for absolutely random reasons like fire alarm installation, delays in opening for the season and 'no reason given.' So annoyed. Ah well.
It's music monday. We're up to K in the alphabet. Like I said I'm sharing from the last 5 years but feel free to share any K songs you'd like to
( not a lot of Ks )
EVERYTHING I wanted to do for my birthday tomorrow is closed for absolutely random reasons like fire alarm installation, delays in opening for the season and 'no reason given.' So annoyed. Ah well.
It's music monday. We're up to K in the alphabet. Like I said I'm sharing from the last 5 years but feel free to share any K songs you'd like to
( not a lot of Ks )
Birds and turtle eggs
Jun. 16th, 2025 10:41 pmribirdnerd posting in birdfeedingI'm still seeing continuing Red Bellied and Downy Woodpeckers on my suet feeders.
Over the weekend, I attempted to expand my garden. Much to my surprise, I turned up several intact turtle eggs in the soil. So I immediately reburied them and attempted to fence off the area to protect them. Every year the raccoons seem to get to the eggs so I hope I can save them. We shall see!
I also saw a female deer in the woods, the first I've seen in a while. We have several chipmunks around as well as a stray or dumped house cat who seems to come out every morning.
Over the weekend, I attempted to expand my garden. Much to my surprise, I turned up several intact turtle eggs in the soil. So I immediately reburied them and attempted to fence off the area to protect them. Every year the raccoons seem to get to the eggs so I hope I can save them. We shall see!
I also saw a female deer in the woods, the first I've seen in a while. We have several chipmunks around as well as a stray or dumped house cat who seems to come out every morning.
Posting early
Jun. 16th, 2025 08:30 pmsilver_chipmunkBecause I want to pack up my computer because we are leaving tomorrow.
So I got up this morning at 9:00, Theo came and joined me in my room, and we sat a bit before I went down and had breakfast and coffee.
Then I didn't do much of anything except hang and talk to Dani, until Dani and John took Theo's camp trunk to UPS to send.
I got my book and read, and socialized with Theo.
They got back, and at some point I drifted off to sleep for a nap. Then they went out to do some shopping, and I stayed with Theo.
Then Dani's aunt, who is going to house sit while they are gone, arrived, with her dog Zoe. Shawna (if I spelled that right) is a very nice person, and we visited while we were waiting for John and Dani to return.
They got back, and again we hung out for awhile, and then at 6:15 I got on the computer, and at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB.
Moose got into the kitchen and ate the cats' food, and I had to pull him out.
Now Dani and John are getting fried chicken for donner, so that will be nice.
Tomorrow is the start of our Road Trip!
However, sad family news. Cousin Virginia, who had been in hospice for several months, died this morning. She was 91 or 2, my mother's first cousin, and a very sweet person, that I didn't get to see an awful lot, but was very nice whenever I did.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Good books.
3. The life of Virginia.
4. Naps.
5. Fudgesicles.
6. Heading home tomorrow.
So I got up this morning at 9:00, Theo came and joined me in my room, and we sat a bit before I went down and had breakfast and coffee.
Then I didn't do much of anything except hang and talk to Dani, until Dani and John took Theo's camp trunk to UPS to send.
I got my book and read, and socialized with Theo.
They got back, and at some point I drifted off to sleep for a nap. Then they went out to do some shopping, and I stayed with Theo.
Then Dani's aunt, who is going to house sit while they are gone, arrived, with her dog Zoe. Shawna (if I spelled that right) is a very nice person, and we visited while we were waiting for John and Dani to return.
They got back, and again we hung out for awhile, and then at 6:15 I got on the computer, and at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB.
Moose got into the kitchen and ate the cats' food, and I had to pull him out.
Now Dani and John are getting fried chicken for donner, so that will be nice.
Tomorrow is the start of our Road Trip!
However, sad family news. Cousin Virginia, who had been in hospice for several months, died this morning. She was 91 or 2, my mother's first cousin, and a very sweet person, that I didn't get to see an awful lot, but was very nice whenever I did.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Good books.
3. The life of Virginia.
4. Naps.
5. Fudgesicles.
6. Heading home tomorrow.
