BClear
Minnesota Master Naturalist • Artist • Photographer • Writer • Baker • Medievalist • Lutheran
- Diamonds dancing on the #MississippiRiver under the I-35 Bridge in Mendota Heights, #Minnesota. #photography
- A perfect #spring day on the #MississippiRiver at Hidden Falls Regional Park in Saint Paul, #Minnesota. #photography #fishing
- This snapping #turtle and I both enjoyed the evening at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota.
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- Sound up: A sunset symphony of #birdsong and boreal chorus #frogs at Fort Snelling State Park #Minnesota this evening. #birds #birdvideo #wetland #wildlifesounds #wildlifeaudio #natureaudio #naturesounds #nature
- Reposted by BClear"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]
- This.
- Reposted by BClearIt was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
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- Reposted by BClearMinnesota lost a legend yesterday in wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg. Gwen and I are sending our love to his family. Here’s his photo ‘Chased by the Light’ taken in Ely.
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- Reposted by BClearbeing an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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- Reposted by BClearA coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi
- Two Canada #geese appear to be discussing the situation at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota.
- So cool.
- Kind and Nice are not synonyms.
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- These two Canada #geese come back to nest at this same pond at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota year after year. They seemed a bit stymied by the ice in it today, though. The wing-flapping didn’t conjure any open water, alas. #photography #birds #winter
- A bright, fresh day at Sakatah Lake State Park, #Minnesota. March 7, 2025. #photography #snow #trees #forest
- The ice-covered Mississippi River at Hidden Falls Regional Park in Saint Paul, #Minnesota, at #sunset on February 22, 2025. #mississippiriver #photography
- Reposted by BClearSend this to people who claim AI isn't taking artists' jobs. There is no amount of 'adapting' that will spontaneously generate more work if companies decide they don't want to pay you anymore. www.ft.com/content/185e...
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- Reposted by BClearHis rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves
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- The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory, Como Regional Park, Saint Paul, #Minnesota. It includes a #Japanese #Garden - #sansui style, a gift from Masami Matsuda, a prominent Japanese landscape architect, that represents friendship and #peace between #SaintPaul and its sister city #Nagasaki, #Japan.
- Take heart friends, and be of good courage. (cookies & photo mine) #valentinesday #valentine #cookies #baking
- A color photo on a monochromatic day. A house on the bank of Pickerel Lake in Mendota Heights, #Minnesota. #photography
- Deer tracks on a pond at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota.
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- A sleeping tree in winter, Hidden Falls Regional Park, Saint Paul, #Minnesota. #photography
- Resistance ≠ Futile
- Reposted by BClearI sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
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- 🎶 Oh the (setting) of the sun, and the running of the deer…🎶 at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota.
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- Reposted by BClear“Don’t talk to me until after I’ve had a coffee” “But you don’t drink coffee?” “Exactly”
- Reposted by BClearFocus on 1 or 2 things. Go deep on those. Focus on "news" about those things first and foremost. Think about the concrete actions you can take to impact those ONE or TWO things.
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- Reposted by BClearThis is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling
- An evening walk heading upstream along the west bank of the icy Mississippi River at Minnehaha Falls Park, Minneapolis, #Minnesota. #mississippiriver #photography #winter
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- You don’t have to believe everything you think.
