Just heard BBC interviewing ex-Trump administration ICE thug Greg Bovino. He’s calling for 100 million people to be expelled from the country in mass deportations. That’s more than 1/4 of the population. What an idiot.

Just saw an (idiotic) editorial denouncing the rioters in France as “paid anarchists.” Damn, if only I’d known I could collect a paycheck when I was active in anarchist circles instead of doing everything for free!

“Hello Dahlia”

bright pink flower

This lens is really tough to work with and produces a lot of duds but every once in a while I get a shot I really like.

A nutria perched on a log in the middle of a swamp. He was a long way off, but I wasn't about to wade out for a better shot.

A heron waits for lunch to swim by in the middle of the Willamette River

A cormorant and a turtle discussing the news of the day.

“Beautyberry”

a cluster of bright purple berries

NASA adopting Apollo’s urgency to build a moon base and land astronauts within two years

It’s safe to say at this point that this absurdly complex plan is not going to happen, no matter how much the Trump administration wants a moon landing on their watch. Hopefully they won’t kill any astronauts by cutting corners.

Great egret adjusting his stance