Notices by Carolannie (carolannie@c.im)

A spot to chill
#Photography #CoolSpot

Madrones at Discovery Park (Arbutus menziesii)
#SeattleWashington #Photography #DiscoveryPark

Evening flight coming in for a landing
#Photography #BoulderColorado

h/t Richard Gregson
#OurTimes

A new restaurant is opening on Roosevelt. I wonder if it's Cuban?
#Photography #MapleLeafNeighborhood #SeattleWashington #TheMainDrag

Creating a grass roots movement, organizing people. We've forgotten E Pluribus Unum, the strength of union and community
#WhatNext #DNCFail
#Grassroots #EPluribusUnum
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/26/not-me-us/#the-people-no

@bmacDonald94 That's a problem with no solution that I know of! (tl:dr the best authors etc are often not uniformly good people)
*Steps on soapbox*
Look at how Tolstoy treated his family, or Dickens, or Ghandi! I would still read them or consider their good work valid while still condemning their awfulness as family people. One of my favorites is E. F. Schumacher: he had great ideas! but he seemed to think women should be doing all household tasks while men went about happily living in a small beautiful world. Or the writer Wendell Berry: he writes great stuff! But I met him and then he made a presentation where he claimed that women are "more earthy, more in touch with the body and its functions and more tied to nature's cycle" which is at best a gross generalization and also a mindset that allows women to be excluded from less earthy thoughts. ARGH!
*So now I'll get off my soapbox*

@bmacDonald94 he was a misogynist who claimed women can't be funny and aren't creative. He was a pretty standard upper class Brit

@bmacDonald94 ahem. I don't know that Hitchens is a good example

A great story about quilters and art and history...and Black quilters. Do go look at the quilts on their site
#Quilting #ArtHistory #BlackArt

https://www.contrabandcamp.com/p/parable-of-the-sewers

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon
#WarAndPeace #VietNam
https://youtu.be/95OnIyTThbU?feature=shared

Bernie and AOC
#USPolitics #WhatNext #ProgessivPopulism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrats

Backlit hellebores
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScroll

Luscious vanilla
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #BloomScroll ##MapleLeafNeighborhood

Ecologists contend with the fact that many ecosystems we love and want to restore and rewild are in fact human-created ecosystems. Native plants in these systems are indeed native but selected by humans in human-created ecosystems. Which means insects, animals and other biota in those systems are influenced by humans.

We will never go back to pre-human ecosystems. Our world is shaped by our behavior. We depend on our world to survive. Our world depends on us to survive. We depend on each other to survive.

We are part of nature, we shape nature, we try to optimize it for our survival. We are natural beings. We are part of the world's ecosystems.

#Ecology #Ecosystems #NaturalHistory #IndigenousEcosystems #Restoration #Conservation

https://prairieecologist.com/2025/03/21/are-prairies-less-natural-because-they-need-us/

The humans couldn't finance a dam. The beavers fixed the problem
#Sustainability #Resilience #Ecology
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/beavers-prague-czech-republic-dam.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.Q-Lj.G4huybjvZ7Dc&smid=bs-share

Some yellows seen while walking the dog this morning (in the wind). He loves cold weather and wind. Maybe we should move to the North Pole. Meanwhile I hope you're not allergic to willow pollen.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #SpringYellow

Yard art from my Georgetown breakdown walkabout: a pair of big tree stumps. I didn't check to see if the second one had a face on the back!?
#Photography #SeattleWashington #GeorgetownNeighborhood #YardArt

When we walked in fields of gold
#Photography #Artsy #TextureTuesday

Earthworms! Unsung soil heroes
#Ecology #SoilEcology #Science #Resilience #Sustainability #NaturalHistory

https://xerces.org/bug-banter/underground-heroes-earthworms