Can't we impeach yet?

One flat branch of cedar making a curve on an asphalt road. No color but varying shades of black and white

Cedar

I think it fits the theme perfectly - how lovely!

Bumblebee thoraxes need to reach 86°F for flight. They do this by vibrating their flight muscles. They can get to 104°F while flying.
I love reading. #books

They're also delicious

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Bright yellow spider on dark green pine needle over dark green background.

Yellow Crab Spider, Northern Wisconsin Bog, 2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #openings #EastCoastKin #naturephotography

I love this! I loved that show and Niles was the best!

Large silkmoth with red patterns on the center of its wings, and grey to cream colored bands near the edges.

Glover's Silkmoth, Custer, SD 2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #opening #openings #naturephotography #EastCoastKin

White gazebo in a park with bare trees seen through a wet car windshield, which distorts the scene and makes the lines wiggle as if painted.

One of my favorite filters is a rainy windshield. Village park gazebo near home.
#EastCoastKin #photography

Horizontal photo with lower quarter slightly rolling winter farmland and the upper three-quarters blue sky with fluffy clouds.

I've been segment hiking the Ice Age Trail, which runs about 1200 miles across Wisconsin, following the glacial retreat across the state. This segment was mostly a connecting route on road, but the skies delivered!
#photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #IceAgeTrail

Having taught the class many times that used it as an example for subject analysis, I don’t remember anyone knowing who he was. I didn't know who he was!

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Meet the Hine's Emerald dragonfly. It is rare. Some bogs in Door County are the best places to find it. Do you support the Hine's Emerald becoming Wisconsin's state insect? This question is for you to answer on the DNR Spring Questionnaire but only from April 13 to 15. Some reasons to support selection of the Hine's Emerald as our state insect: - The Hine's Emerald depends on healthy bogs, which are a cherished feature of Wisconsin's natural landscape. - Like other dragonflies, its nymphys and adults prey upon mosquitoes, etc. - The Hine's Emerald is the only federally endangered dragonfly. - The Hine's Emerald is found only in a handful of states with the most sizeable and significant population in Door County. - Its thorax is prominently marked with Green and Gold!

The Wisconsin Dragonfly Society is leading efforts to install the Hine's Emerald dragonfly as our state insect! Vote in the DNR Spring Questionnaire on this incentive April 13-18. #WDS #dragonfly #WIDragonflySociety #odonate

Trunk of a tree in a bare spring forest with a small sign attached to it that says white ash.

White Ash lookin' ash

The WDS Annual Meeting is 6/27 and 28 in Mellen, WI. Field trips leave from Gilman Park. The location & dates were chosen with striped emeralds (Somatochlora) in mind. Let us know if you will attend: registration@widragonflysociety.org.
More info: widragonflysociety.org/index.html

Inclement weather may force us to reschedule, in which case we will notify you in advance by email.
#wisconsindragonflysociety #odonate #dragonfly

If it is sunny and above 65 F, we should see them and much more! Bring a lunch and sturdy shoes - waders are not needed. We should be finished by 2 PM. There is no fee. If you plan to join us, please send an email to registration@widragonflysociety.org and mention Sandhill.

Dan Jackson will give a presentation on dragonflies in the headquarters building and then we will drive the gravel loop around the wetlands and woods, stopping at several spots to look for early-season dragonflies and damselflies. Two species of boghaunters will be our primary targets.

The Friends of Sandhill invited WDS to create a dragonfly event on May 23, 2026, at the Sandhill State Wildlife Area, which is near Babcock in Wood County. The address of the headquarters is 1715 County Hwy X. At 9:30 AM on May 23,

In 2025, ode watchers submitted 8711 sightings from 1594 locations across Wisconsin to the Wisconsin Odonata Survey. This is the third highest number of submissions per year in the history of the WOS project. wiatri.net/inventory/od...
#dragonfly #damselfly #odonate #wisconsindragonflysociety

You're most welcome. I can't identify species here, but definitely damselfly, not dragonfly. Damselflies usually hold their wings folded together (but not all) and are more delicate than dragonflies.

This is a damselfly

White lily with yellow blotches and light purple center

I spent last week on the beach in southern CA. This week I'm back in the very frigid Upper Midwest. We sure appreciate our spring here, when it finally arrives!
Took the photo of this slightly spent Fortnite Lily in Laguna Beach.

Side of a bright blue building with one white window covered from inside with a wooden board also painted white. Snow on the ground and a reddish-brown simple vertically slatted fence running in front of the building.

I'm late, but here.
#BlueSkyArtShow #vibrant

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Small child in light purple shirt and shorts walks from the left across an empty sand beach with green grasses in the background.

She's 29 now, in the blink of an eye

#BlueSkyArtShow #small

Thanks for all your comments. I cried just reading this one as I think of my dad and brother, lost 11 months apart.

I like that idea of "practice". It's not "one and done"

Thank you!