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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fire @ the Berkeley waterfront, Berkeley Meadow area. BFD on site.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Controlled burn on Angel Island. Smoking up the #SFBay big time. Shut your windows!

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Digging the majestic, stalwart Lodgepole pines in the vast stands of them, Tioga Pass region. #Yosemite

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why am I supposed to care about the celebrities that keep being shown in the stands at the U.S. Open final? I like seeing crowd reactions, but I just can’t care about famous people.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Another river dwelling on the Albion, under a nice sky.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A once charming hand-built mini houseboat, now languishing in tidewater about a mile inland up the Albion River in Mendocino County.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The best patisserie I’ve ever visited in decades of dessert eating: Franny’s Cup and Saucer in the bucolic little town of Point Arena, CA. I wanted to buy EVERYTHING, but settled for 5-6 items. No better ginger cookies anywhere. #MendocinoCoast

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Pelicans enjoying a fine summer day, watched over by the Point Arena lighthouse. #MendocinoCoast

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Crustacean exuviae covering a beach, near Manchester CA.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Royal Caribbean cruise ship vs. Olympic sailing qualifying racers, off San Pedro CA. Talk about Goliath and David.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Cruise ship passengers and gantry cranes, Port of LA #SanPedro

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A palimpsest of something on the old airfield, & the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge. From Alameda NAS bird refuge on a perfect day of silky bay breezes and chattering, breeding terns (a colony of whom I guard against predation). Gee I love living in the SFBayArea.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A real stunner of site specific art up at the #UCBerkeleyBotanicalGarden: a perfect, monumental pyramid of redwood branches and twigs, catching the afternoon sunlight. Mesmerizing! Part of a show that’s at the Berkeley Art Museum thru November. #BAMPFA #UCBerkeley #Berkeley

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sierra tiger lily, Donner Pass. Springtime along the Sierra crest! #wildflowers

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Osprey nesting on the SF Bayshore, El Cerrito, with a #SanFrancisco backdrop.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Humans soaking up the experience of #redwoods in a sun-dappled, midsummer Muir Woods.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

HIPPOPOTAMUS HOLLERS FOR HOTDOGS?

The Zookeeper smiles, but Nancy is amazed as the hippopotamus apparently hollers for hotdogs

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/06/2026

Ossoff: “The election deniers, they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission. And you may have seen that one of those election deniers now asks to represent Georgia in the Senate.”

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Nice cumulonimbus over the northern Coast Range (Mts. Sanhedrin and Hull), from #Ukiah.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The amazing Kitka, in the equally amazing setting of a redwood grove. Exquisite Eastern European a cappella vocals in an acoustically perfect place.

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IQuitX @nothappy-1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm not going to repeat what he said, but UFC fighter Hokit is a despicable piece of shit. The sponsors, Monster energy drink, Bud Lite, Dodge Ram, and Jose Cuervo have not said a word. I say boycott them.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Flame skimmer #dragonfly @ the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. All the water features in this glorious place are loaded with colorful insects during these waning days of spring . @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Seen today, triggering the nostalgia for vintage pickups, an early 70s Courier.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Elk clover umbels resembling fireworks (only better), Muir Woods National Monument.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Leopard lily (Linium pardalinium), today.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?

Headline from March, 'The March is Going Better Than You Think.'

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Muir Woods, last Thursday after the lovely late spring rains came through.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Madonna Inn, SLO. You’re gonna get kitsch, but for $500/nt, the careworn, noisy experience was a major bummer. (Was attending an onsite wedding, even the convenience wasn’t all that great.) Live and learn.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Poster for an appearance by Charlie Chaplin at the Metropole Theatre in Zagreb (from the Zagreb City Museum, n.d.)

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Mermaid signage at a candy shop, in the Vienna-like small city of Varazdin, Croatia.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A great rail-trail outside Rovinj, Croatia: the Strika-Ferata on a disused steam train line originally built by the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Beautiful farms, ancient “field churches”, & concluding w/ a cold beverage by the Adriatic Sea

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Three geometrically ideal loggia in the Istrian hilltowns of Croatia.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Rovinj, Croatia. A Thursday sunset, St Euphemia’s Church silhouetted by the Adriatic.

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Friends of Sunset Dunes @sunsetdunes.org · 14/04/2026

🎂 Happy First Birthday to Sunset Dunes! One year in: 📈 1.7M total visits, 39,000 avg weekly visits 🛒 Revenue increases of up to 44% at local businesses 🚗 Crashes are down in the neighborhood And so much more! Thank you for making the park’s first year so successful! We’re just getting started.

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Douglas Fir-rederic @douglasfirtree.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Jacaranda blooming way earlier (usu. 6-8 weeks from now), looking good with this morning’s fine cloudscape. San Pedro CA

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