A fallen pixie cup with a crowd of onlookers - perhaps a macro crime scene!

Thistle after the seeds are gone.

Listening to Chuck Schumer on the NYT podcast isn’t doing much to enhance my faith in either Schumer or the Times.

Sand Cliff near Washburne State Park. It's annoying that people see this as a graffiti magnet, but none of the carvings last long as storms roll through.

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets

I guess the Nazis will have to find some other way to wave their dicks around in public.

Investigate: all the corruption of the past 2 years.
Indict: Stephen Miller, Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump Jr., Steve Witkoff and too many others to count.
Impeach: Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., Markwayne Mullin, Donald J. Trump…
Imprison: the whole sorry lot of them.

Skeletal remains of a cow parsnip seed head.

I am not a lawyer (hooray!) but I dug a bit into the Antiquities Act, which controls the creation of National Monuments. The authority for the President to do so is in 54 U.S. Code Subtitle III Division C Chapter 3203, but the justification is in Chapter 3201, which includes

It is declared that it is a national policy to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings, and objects of national significance for the inspiration and benefit of the people of the United States.

So if Trump has declared the Oval Office to be a National Monument, that says we should all be able to use it for meetings, no?

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OVAL OFFICE NATIONAL MONUMENT

Yes, this is for real. The wannabe emperor is a complete loon. Look for this to get reversed on day 1 of the next administration.

I don't know what kind of leaf this is, but with the sun and the water it was pretty enough to catch my eye.