Here is a live cam of Athena the Great Horned Owl who lives at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. I appears to have infrared function so you can see her at night! #ladybirdjohnsonwildflowercenter #birds #owls #wildlife #cornell
08:55 PM - Mar 14, 2024
Here's #whatsintheyard today - all natives:
4-Nerve Daisy - simple & yellow
Grey Globemallow - lovely grey/orange combo
Spiderwort - shocking intense purple
Texas Paintbrush - such a bright orange
Texas Bluebonnet - or pretty weeds as I call them
Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum - pretty white umbels
4-Nerve Daisy - simple & yellow
Grey Globemallow - lovely grey/orange combo
Spiderwort - shocking intense purple
Texas Paintbrush - such a bright orange
Texas Bluebonnet - or pretty weeds as I call them
Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum - pretty white umbels
09:07 PM - Mar 12, 2024
Deep into our annual NYE viewing of Interstellar. Coop is in the construct trying to get himself to stay. I'm not one to proclaim one thing or another to be my favorite, I like to leave options open. But this movie to us always gets better with repeated viewings. #newyearseve #movies #interstellar
12:00 AM - Jan 01, 2024
Currently our favorite Xmas song from the always funny Rachel Bloom and her old show Crazy Ex Girlfriend: #holidayseason #xmas #christmassong #irreverenthumor
02:00 AM - Dec 17, 2023
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pro tip: we have a lot of problems in this world. "Nazis don't have enough free speech" isn't one of them
10:37 AM - Nov 18, 2023
I would assert that Dante, the street dog from Coco, is the best animated dog ever. #coco #dante #animation #diadelosmuertos #dayofthedead
08:00 PM - Nov 02, 2023
If you love Hammond organ in rock music you'll love listening to Lachey Doley a keyboardist/singer/composer from Australia. His fingers work at Warp speed. He also plays an astonishing Whammy Clavinet - look it up. Follow him on Insta @ lacheydoley #music #rockmusiclovers #hammondorgan
12:48 PM - Oct 27, 2023
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A rare thing this performance of Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles. Note Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoffrey Downes and Trevor Rabin all there playing along. Plus vocalists Debi Doss and Linda Jardin from the original recording. Well done. #music #popmusic #TheBuggles #MTV
12:08 AM - Oct 20, 2023
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01:26 PM - Oct 14, 2023
6 Threaded Spouts
Fall #whatsintheyard is a bit sparse after the relentless heat and drought in Austin this year. First up - not a bloom but the resultt of one - seed heads of Clematis texensis, Scarlet Clematis. It's native to the Edwards Plateau, also known as the Texas Hill Country. #gardening #nativeplants
01:03 PM - Sep 30, 2023
My bet: Donald Trump is threatening General Milley because General Milley is on the government's witness list for the trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
03:41 PM - Sep 23, 2023
Bob Menendez appears to have been a paid agent of a foreign government -- and he's STILL receiving national security briefings, every day he remains in office.
If he won't resign, the Senate can and must expel him by a 2/3 vote.
If he won't resign, the Senate can and must expel him by a 2/3 vote.
03:42 PM - Sep 23, 2023
No, it's not the greatest movie ever made, but dang it A Million Miles Away got me weepy several times. I'm a sucker for space and NASA stories as I grew up in the town directly across from the Johnson Space Center. Michael Peña is delightful as astronaut José Hernández. #nasa #movies #spaceflight
10:52 PM - Sep 22, 2023
DO NOT SKIP the season 3 recap of Sex Education on Netflix. Go to the show & play EP 1 of SE 4 and the recap will start. It is hands down the best, funniest, most deftly written recap ever. If there was an award category for recaps, this one just won. #sexeducation #gilliananderson #streamingshows
03:44 PM - Sep 22, 2023
02:09 PM - Sep 21, 2023
Saw my first fall Monarch today. Healthy, strong flying female feeding on a Gregg’s Mistflower blossom. Gregg’s Mistflower is an excellent butterfly support plant, much better behaved than Blue Mistflower seen in the background. #gardening #monarchbutterflies #nativeplants #texashillcountry
07:42 PM - Sep 19, 2023
Been a long time since I last listened to Chris & Cosey. Forgot how much I liked this record back in the 80s. Exotika was a new sound in it's day. #music #electronicmusic #edmmusic #industrialmusic #minimalwave #synthpop #synthesizers #chris &cosey #throbbinggristle
12:59 PM - Sep 09, 2023
11:57 AM - Sep 09, 2023
Really sweet Zero 7 performance live in studio of their song Destiny. Featuring -natch- Sia and Sophie Barker. Recorded for "SETS Without A Net" at San Diego radio station KPRI. So, so good. #Sia #Zero7 #chillmusic #music
05:49 PM - Sep 03, 2023
The Sevilla Margarita: Dunno where I got this recipe - I cannot find it online. Amazingly, it's a margarita with marmalade and prosecco in it. This is a stellar brunch cocktail. The double straining step is key, you don't want the marmalade chunks in yer drink. #margarita #Cocktails #marmalade
08:14 PM - Sep 01, 2023
The first single to top the newly created UK Indie Chart in 1980 was "Where's Captain Kirk?" by Spizzenergi. Followed up by "Spock's Missing" a few months later. Always liked this band, which BTW changed it's name every year keeping the word Spizz. #Punk #NewWave #StarTrek #Spock #CaptainKirk #music
11:58 PM - Aug 31, 2023
As Idalia approaches Florida, let us not ever forget that TFG or Kumquat Gaddafi as I call him, wanted to drop a nuclear weapon on a hurricane. President #biden has already approved an Emergency Declaration for Florida. #Idalia #HurricaneIdalia #Florida #TropicalStormIdalia #hurricane
01:06 PM - Aug 28, 2023
Potential energy emergency this evening in Texas - oh what a surprise. In the graph you'll see some of the lines cross over and that's NEVER supposed to happen. So we've got our thermostat set on 81º for a few hours & have fans on. BTW it's 102º outside at 6pm central. #energy #TexasWeather #ERCOT
06:56 PM - Aug 24, 2023
This is the list of WiFi networks I can see at my mom's retirement center. Getting old does not have to boring or humorless. #Aging #elderly #Retirement #Wifi #humor #melbrooks #GeneWilder #terigarr #YoungFrankenstein
09:58 PM - Aug 22, 2023
Next Tuesday will be interesting for Texas. ERCOT, the power grid manager, is forecasting a shortage of power that day. The first image shows the entire graph, the second zooms in and shows demand/capacity details. Might not happen, but who knows? #Texas #PowerGrid #electricity #ElectricityCrisis
03:21 PM - Aug 11, 2023
Standing Cypress, Ipomopsis rubra, in it's first year of growth. It's a biennial & will stay in this little round form until next spring, when It will turn into a giant (5-6 ft tall) spike covered in bright red tubular flowers. Loved by bees & hummingbirds. #gardening #nativeplants #CentralTexas
06:34 PM - Aug 06, 2023
Some older folk may remember the Nation Lampoon Radio Hour. Sure it's all inappropriate now, but it still makes me giggle. That's Bill Murray as the bass player. #nationallampoon #BillMurray #thatsnotfunnythatssick
04:49 PM - Aug 06, 2023
American Landscape by Charles Sheeler, 1930, de Young Museum (San Francisco, CA)
#art #ModernArt #AmericanModernism
#art #ModernArt #AmericanModernism
07:56 PM - Aug 03, 2023