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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

On this day, honoring the loss of a loved one, 1 yr ago, he did so much for refugees seeking asylum & sanctuary, decades ago - we need his courage & wits now. COHA site down, so a reprint: In Struggle & Solidarity: The Enduring Legacy of Joaquín Domínguez Parada. eveningreport.nz/2025/06/30/i...

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

screen capture from the nest cam, credit to Friends of Big Bear Valley. They welcome donations to rescue the eagles' home from elitist develpment (San Bernardino mountains, So Calif)

live nest cam screen capture, 25 June 2026, two young bald eagles soon to fledge, a young eagle face close to the camera and sibling on a branch at edge of nest (overlooking lake) flapping wings in ongoing exercises to build the wing strength to take first flights. Image credit goes to FOBBV, Friends of Big Bear Valley.org https://friendsofbigbearvalley.org/

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

2025, same place: Several hundred people spell “Impeach + Remove” human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday [August 2025] against Trump. Good hearts also spelled out No King on the beach with their physical selves on No Kings days. Photo Stephen Lam/S.F. Chronicle

Several hundred people form a “Impeach + Remove” human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday [August 2025] against Trump. Photo Stephen Lam/S.F. Chronicle

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

wildflowers, mid July 2026, showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa, native type in northwestern California. Extinction rebellion (no kings, but for las mariposas monarca, monarch butterflies, crossing borders) #wildflowerhour

color photo close-up of budding & open flowerheads and the large lanceolate leaves of showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa, mid July 2026, northwestern California

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

as well as being the type to hang washing in the sun, in younger yrs with friends to San Francisco Opera standing-room cheap tickets, including The Rake's Progress with David Hockney sets

color detail of David Hockney drawing for set design for opera The Rake's Progress, heads of diverse characters drawn in cross-hatched compartmented box, banner above lettered "Leave all love and hope behind / out of sight is out of mind"

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Jaoquin Dominguez Parada: he fought to stop inhumane deportations, he saved many lives. Many inspiring tributes in Central American and US journals, late June-early July 2025. This loss intensified his friends' trauma to witness the new evils in the US

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

spectrogram, song of the loved bird, renders like an ink painting of a forested mountain landscape with a tilted quarter-moon meadow floating above peaks & vertical bands of rain, repeating along the sound strip, aural bird art. Save the birds. ebird.org/species/swathr

screen capture from Cornell Lab e-bird site, grey-tone spectrogram of the song of a thrush, Catharus ustulatus, the graph of the birdsong looks like an ink painting of a forested mountain landscape, with a tilted quarter-moon meadow floating above peaks and vertical bands of rain, repeating along the sound strip, aural bird art. Save the birds.

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

my sister in Minnesota knitted me one, I wore it to San Francisco no kings march. I'm scrolling months back in time looking for where you posted details from Bodleian Alexandre ms of birds, songs or cold morning mist rendered visible. Thanking you for posts vs genocide & ai & for art, beauty, skill

colour detail from medieval Bodleian ms 264 Romance of Alexandre: a bird on a branch, birdsong rendered in red ink as a delicate leaflike pattern above and below tip of beak, evoking notes and the brief trail of vapor seen when a bird sings in the cold morning air

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

she's gone now but she paid attention to nature documentaries

color photo of a room interior where a 'fawn'-colored Aby cat looks up at TV screen where a graceful sea bird with a black cap flies seeming to look down at the cat

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

San Francisco No Kings, March 2026. Everything was already terrible enough to impeach & remove and then this evil war. Many many signs carried in protest of ICE, war, corruption.

homemade sign in honor of the children killed in US/Isr bombing of Iran school, a beautiful child, an adult holding lost children's school backpacks, sign's lettering says 'Killed by Tr*mp Pahl*vi N*t*any*hu.' San Francisco 28 March 2026

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

borrowed Audubon photo, close to what I saw today, no camera in hand, just pruning tools: two male ruby-crowned kinglets whirling around each other singing-chattering, spinning through the small oaks I let grow behind the pear trees, both showing their bright red crests backlit by morning sunlight🧵

Color photo of male ruby-crowned kinglet with his usually-hidden red crest exposed. He is a very small songbird, on a bare grape vine with curled grapevine tendrils, wings caught in action with their characteristic flicking. Photo credit: Claudine Lamothe/Flickr CC (BY-NC 2.0) (from Audubon website)

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

"Rangers filled in historical gaps... [their notes] referenced that John Muir... used racist language in his writings about Native Americans... [&] called attention to Gifford Pinchot’s 1898 appointment as chief of... the forest service, noting his involvement w/ the American Eugenics Society..."

photos of sticky notes added to a sign by [now former U.S. park rangers] in Muir Woods National Monument, in California, seen Aug. 23, 2021. The sticky notes provided context such as redwood grove donor Kent's anti-Asian racism, U.S. forest service Pinchot's eugenics racism, U.S. Congress's 1958 Calif Rancheria Act that terminated federal recognition of Coast Miwok peoples. And that women worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps since 1933. Rather than permanent signage being refabricated [prison labor?], the current fed gov't since 2025 removes all signs in U.S. parks & historical sites that attempt enlightened context about history, climate science, human rights, real life & endangered life. Photo by Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

a little further discussion in the alt text. Articles about removing human history, human rights as well as climate science from didactic signs. The people will restore truth & can affix guerrilla art & truth signage ongoing in the parks & on the streets. See also www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Color photo of T admin-vandalized educational sign that mentioned climate crisis, Muir Woods National Monument, in N California: signs discussing climate change were removed by current fed admin order. A wooden sign with carved frame on ferny ground with redwood duff and wooden walkways that protect tree roots in remnant old-growth forest (over 90% of original redwood forests lost to massive logging in 19th [same period as attempted genocide of California indigenous people from gold rush on] & 20th centuries; destruction of temperate rainforests is ongoing, as are human rights abuses). Photo not credited in article but other captions in article credit Hannah Beier &/or Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

sad to lose an old friend, brilliant

memorial page for puppetmaster Larry Reed, founding director of Shadowlight Productions in San Francisco, with b/w photo of Larry in younger days dressed for wayang shadow performance with two Balinese shadow puppets

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

earliest wildflower here in north coastal California, 'milkmaids' aka toothwort, Cardamine californica (Brassicaceae), called milkmaids for blooming early Feb (or even earlier), my great aunt said named after Brigid's appearing in Bethlehem to help nurse holy child. Saw first milkmaids 2 wks ago 🧵

colour photo of patch of moss with a wildflower, 'milkmaid' [said to be named for St Brigid], aka toothwort, Cardamine californica (Brassicaceae), and a small carved & painted (orange & white) wooden fox wearing a brown wool knitted shawl, looking at the flower, which is pink in far northern coastal California (flower is taller with white blossoms nearer to San Francisco area). Photo also has scattered dry, fallen oak leaves & the first leaflets of emerging fawn lilies (Erythronium sp).

colour photo of a detail of my old pen & ink drawing with pastel & watercolour, showing a Brigid's cross, next to detail of the speckled breast of a northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) (Carpintero escapulario)

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

the piece of blue eggshell from a forest songbird broke and I lost most of the tiny fragments, sad about the dwindling of the birds and the blues of the world

photo of a transparent sleeve envelope (an empty tea packet) with very small fragments of the blue eggshell of the forest songbird the hermit thrush, with 3 skeins of blue embroidery thread on an old blue shirt, beside the flower-embroidered front of an old Palestinian thoub bought on the street in the early 1970s, Berkeley CA, in an earlier Nakba

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Joumana Medlej on bluesky @majnouna.com sees their fellows & sisters in an illuminated ms, w/ rendering of birdsong as botanical music notation. Can see these when birds chant on cold mornings. Want to draw some, the inky wispy outlines. Mourning loss of birds, defend their thickets & sanctuaries

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

nor this Mosquito Resistant Clothing Bug Suit Hunting Clothes Camo Netting Camouflage Netting Outdoor Mosquito Net Suits for Adult Bug Tamer Mosquito Suit Camo Suit for Men Hunting Anti Mosquito Proof Clothing Camouflage M

advert image of camo'd model with pack sack & bug icons with red slash-through (ant, zancudo, fly, bee), for Mosquito Resistant Clothing Bug Suit Hunting Clothes Camo Netting Camouflage Netting Outdoor Mosquito Net Suits for Adult Bug Tamer

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

my altered foto crop circle French hayfields design suggestion for Tour de France village art, all credit to Roubaix mural painter (& Pieter Breughel the Elder). If I could be in France, I'd wear a Liberté crown costume and watch the bicycles go by between my anguished fingers

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

will Tour de France heli camera miss mural? Merde alors "The 2025 Tour de France will not be heading over the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix, despite its Grand Départ taking place in Lille & the Nord Dept, it was revealed on Thurs" -Quick, amis, paint or project this image all along route! Hayfield art! 🧵

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

crop circle French hayfields design for Tour de France, credit to Roubaix mural painter (& Pieter Breughel the Elder)

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I mourn my old friend. In Struggle & Solidarity: The Enduring Legacy of Joaquín Domínguez Parada coha.org/in-struggle-... In honoring him, we renew our commitment to the world he struggled to bring forth—where no human being is illegal, & every sacred life holds the weight & wonder of a universe

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

SF, so moving to gather at Dolores Park (*mass graveyard of indigenous Californians in the detention center that was Mission Dolores, 1700s & 1800s) No Kings, 6.14.25. Born in SF, still lamenting loss of artists & poets in tech invasions, miss my old city, sanctuary city, loved coming back for this

photo of Dolores Street in San Francisco's Mission District filled with some of the thousands gathered at Dolores Park for start of 6.14.25 No Kings protest march. Determined, enlightened, and peaceful.

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

SF, so moving to assemble at Dolores Park (mass graveyard of indigenous Californians in the detention center that was Mission Dolores, 1700s & 1800s) No Kings, 6.14.25. Born in SF, still lamenting loss of artists & poets in tech invasions, miss my old city, sanctuary city, loved coming back for this

handlettered sign held by beautiful hands--all caps letters: 'SO FUCKED UP EVEN THE INTROVERTS ARE HERE'

San Francisco, no kings day voters assembling at Dolores Park (mass graveyard of indigenous Californians in the detention center that was Mission Dolores from the 1700s & 1800s), Dolores Street packed for blocks before the march started moving at noon. Photo shows protesters with signs assembling on the grass, thousands on the street in the background, Dolores Street palm trees, man up close in a Panama hat in lower right corner of photo

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

detail of crowd scene, San Francisco no kings march, thousands gathered on Dolores St, Mission District, at the start of the march--still arriving, not proceeding yet, profound intention, peaceful.

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

and then leaving San Francisco after the No Kings march on Saturday, crossed the GGBridge, saw this (the resistance will keep growing)

cars having come off the Golden Gate Bridge after the San Francisco No Kings march (6.14.25) approach the rainbow tunnel--one car has painted across the back window, 'F**K ICE!'

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

San Francisco 6.14.25, Dolores Park gathering thousands for the No Kings march, country so f***ed up even the introverts came out. I felt better about my old city again, hated how it changed after being overrun by tech, lost so many artists, but ever a sanctuary city. Glad I came back for this day.

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

social workers, labor organizers, the good human beings, tortured and disappeared by the fascists worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-an...

many small b/w ID photos of individuals disappeared (& murdered during clandestine detention) by their own far-right [wrongful] government during the Argentine dirty war, 1970s

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

another tableau, 1290s, Basilica di S. Francesco, Assisi. I've been talking to a dear friend from Argentina. She recalls when she was a student, 1970s, before she escaped w/ her life, how quickly things changed from a vibrant time of creativity & resistance, to when disappearances & state murder hit

Italian Renaissance fresco, 1290s, Basilica di S. Francesco, Assisi, Italia, the Arrest of Christ (holy man in center of a crowd of soldiers & others, Judas kisses his cheek (unknown painter/School of Giotto?)

news photo of violent group of dhs agents manhandling & disrespecting Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif) when he tries to ask a question at press conference held by the unfit appointee currently heading DHS--uncannily reminiscent of a medieval or Renaissance tableau of the Arrest of Jesus, like photos of when the delivered Luigi to NY (photo by Etienne Laurent/AP

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

if we can afford, purchase used copies of essential books and share in little free libraries and leave in coffee shops especially if you have safe access to communities suffering book bans

small handmade creche with scrap of red paper with a bird and moss, with superimposed photo details from photos of a bookshelf, as if three stacks of books are inside a little free library

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

chart from Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet (McBay, Keith & Jensen). To restore our humanity and to re-create democracy & oust tyranny is also to save the planet deepgreenresistance.net/en/resistanc...

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

grief, rage for lost ancient trees & loss of native habitats. Here there is a new order for large timber harvests in national forests including old growth. I still mourn this canyon live* oak that was illegally felled to shed sun on an illegal cannabis grow, 12 years ago. It was full of birds. 🧵

Color photo of large canyon live oak in winter, dark complex trunk & branches, greyish-green leaves. Fir trees in background, frost-covered vegetation in foreground. (Called a 'live oak' because species is evergreen, not deciduous)

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

thank you for some beauty in bad times this side of an ocean

Photo with old book, ‘Nests and Eggs,’ with pale green illustrated cover with painting of a bird’s nest with eggs. To the sides, wooden trays with coast redwood seeds cones, mosses

Old book opened to frontispiece, ‘Nests and Eggs,’ by A.H. Blaikie, illustrated by J.A. Henderson. T. Nelson & Sons. Colour plate illustration with two paintings of bird’s nests with eggs, Missel Thrush and Song Thrush. A smooth black stone and a small reddish stone hold the pages open. To the side, a wooden tray with coast redwood seed cones and a small crêche made of a corrugated paper coffee jacket with Italian paper with a bird design and moss

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

indigenous fawn lilies, remnant patches from before settlers came, right here

photograph of a patch of wildflowers called fawn lilies, white nodding flowers with five pointed, curled petals, each with two mottled oval pointed leaves, the ground strewn with dry oak leaves, a few rounded stones

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

What is the hold up, time's up, need new gov't. Want to reclaim color red. (Blue is beautiful, but also like to wear red. Don't want to wear red while fascists steal it.) Liberate red! Will need some time to let the nightmare fade, then red can be the freed choice of simpatica/o humans again. 🧵

photo of detail of bodice of embroidered red huipil, traditional Guatemalan woman"s blouse--handwoven red cotton with black, blue, pink embroidered geometic design

A scrap of old Italian decorative paper with stylized Renaissance bird design, red background with white bird and leaf design

Red-framed broken reading glasses mended with Scotch tape and collaged lenses: one lens with red paper ticket from Paris museums, 1980s, printed with part of words 'Musées Nationaux' and 'Droit d'entrée, tarif réduit, 18f' and the other lens with taped-on French stamp, 1980s, dark olive 1 franc stamp with engraved bust of Marianne - la Liberté of Delacroix, wearing the Phrygian cap of the French Revolution... she represents liberté, égalité, fraternité. The altered spectacles are in an open, old glasses case lined with gold chocolate wrapper and torn red paper, resting on a larger piece of torn red paper. Part of a manila tag is visible, attached to the red glasses with a length of red embroidery thread.

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

oh I miss the osso buco I grew up with. Simply topped w/ lemon zest, parsley. Yours looks so good too. At an Italian restaurant in Petaluma, not on menu but I said "osso buco..." Waiter nodded & put pen to paper, stopped, & said "Osso buco, non c'è!" I don't even remember what I asked for instead 🧵

handwritten recipe in a stained notebook, for Osso buco, Italian dish made with beef shanks (marrow bones), herbs, wine, vegetables, lemon peel. There is also a photo in the photo, as a bookmark: two French pastries (kouign amann) on a plate, next to a second plate painted with a design of a fox playing a French horn and a girl dancing, also a dark-baked baguette

Second page of handwritten recipe in a stained notebook, for Osso buco, Italian dish made with beef shanks (marrow bones), herbs, wine, vegetables, lemon peel. The photo also show the next handwritten recipe in the notebook, for Cullen Skink, the Scottish smoked haddock chowder, and a stained recipe card with handwritten recipe for panforte di Siena. Also a bookmark that says "Acorns" and a portion of the bookmark-photograph described in other alt caption, with a plate painted with a fox playing a French horn and a girl dancing, they wear what might be seen as pre-Revolutionary garb

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Argentina, dirty war human rights abuses, los desaparecidos--students, grad students, professors, artists, journalists, social workers, labor unionists, disappeared by US-supported rightwing (wrongwing we need to rename them) govt. Same thing in Chile. Now US govt has begun again, on own soil again🧵

b/w photo of street protest by Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina and supportors, protesting the dirty war's human rights abuses, the women wear their white scarves, they carry large banners, "...los 30,000 desaparecidos"--students, graduate students, professors, artists, journalists, social workers, labor unionists, disappeared by US-supported rightwing (wrongwing we need to rename them) government. Same thing in Chile. Now the US govt has begun again, on own soil again

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sunday, stumbled upon historians & archeologists doing work I once dreamed of. Nun-related art note: a box I made a while back & another for my sister, memories & the report of the nun scribe w/ lapis lazuli stuck at her tooth

Small art installation as personal diary, a kind of portable altar, inspired by report of finding medieval nun with blue pigment in her teeth (NYT clipping in other image, text quoted here: NYT Science Times I.15.19 clipping, "…food, textiles…even insect wings. But when studying the tartar of a nun from medieval Germany, Dr. Radini saw particles of a… team of scholars concluded the particles were of ultramarine pigment, the finest and most expensive of blue colorings, made of lapis lazuli stone. The nun was most likely a painter and scribe of religious texts. The pigment most likely ended up on her teeth as she used her mouth to shape her paintbrush. …") Small old Florentine leather box, opened. Inside, old Italian starry paper & paper scrap with birds, old golden thread, the broken-off painted head of a Peruvian clay angel with a sad expression, a Guatemalan worry doll with necklace of small blue glass beads added, an old, small, wooden toy sheep from a crèche from Italy, very small abalone shell, small white clam shell, a carved mother of pearl Irish button, small ceramic hand amulet bead, more blue glass beads, a tiny bell, a square of hard-pan watercolor pigment of ultramarine blue. To the side, a piece cut from an art postcard with the wind-filled sails of the ship in the predella painting by Gentile da Fabriano of San Nicolo saving a storm-tossed ship, with two manila tags inscribed "We saw a sleeping saint in a crystal box when we were children traveling in Italy, above her a blue vault with golden stars painted like asterisks. They found the bones of a medieval nun with bits of blue, lapis lazuli, in her teeth" & "They said she was a scribe & an illuminator of manuscripts. I made a crêche for the children stolen at the border, and leave them water every night, in the morning the water is gone. In the mountains in Guatemala I saw little girls in their trajes tending lambs in the mist. Keep them safe. An offering of blue paint."

Old leather box assembled a few years ago as a personal diary, shared now for the sake of saints, children, women, refugees human beings, birds: a Guatemalan worry doll w/halo & lapis lazuli bead, her embroidered features a rather stern or wry, fierce or pained expression. NYT Science Times I.15.19 clipping about medieval scribe nun with lapis lazuli in her teeth (text quoted in alt for other image, no room here). Scrap of blue-tinted charcoal-drawing paper stitched w/embroidery thread & w/handwriting: "When we spent the winter in Italy & France when I was five, somewhere in Italy we saw a church where inside there was a vaulted ceiling frescoed blue w/golden stars like asterisks & there was a young woman fast asleep in a crystal case. They told me she was very old, a miraculously preserved saint. Perhaps she too painted manuscripts w/powdered lapis lazuli in a convent scriptorium & rested her eyes in cloistered gardens, bits of blue in her ivory teeth. I made a crêche for the children stolen at the border, & leave them water." Other objects: small wood sheep from a crêche from Italy, small box made w/transparent shell w/scrap of blue paper w/Florentine bird, blue glass beads, scrap of paper w/ European goldfinch from an illuminated ms, colorful tin dragonfly pin, tree moss, old tube of blue watercolor paint w/gold chocolate wrapper; in lid of the box: postcard from Venice S Marco mosaic of the Creation w/God, angels, the heavens w/golden stars like *s; tin angel from Mexico, Italian starry paper & gold chocolate-wrapper moon; very small image from postcard from Church of S Clemente, Rome, Sta Caterina standing before grim men (not in the detail, it is only her) w/her hands in the beautiful gesture of brilliant discourse. To the side, a piece cut from an art postcard w/ light-filled window w/skull on the sill (Dürer's engraving of St Jerome in his study); small photo of blue sky w/ silhouettes of oak trees, photo of osprey nest in forest at Tamal-húye, Pt Reyes

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In California endangered butterfly species' habitat encroached upon by development a bit S of San Francisco. US Fish & Wildlife agency's Habitat Conservation Plans let developers destroy, w/ area set aside elsewhere. It tends to fail. Article from 2010. 🧵 baynature.org/article/deve...

A tiny blue butterfly on a blue wildflower, blurry grasses in background: the endemic, endangered Mission blue butterfly (Icaricia icariodes missionensis). photo: Jessica Weinberg McClosky/Parks Conservancy

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

newly dug tomb for old magical cat w/ sprigs of manzanita in bloom in February; flower-embroidered thoub from Palestine bought on Telegraph Ave, Berkeley early 1970s; remnant patches of native toothwort (with new hatch of 100s of ladybugs); native fawn lilies—blooming now

Red rocks, white stones, abalone shells, sprigs of flowering manzanita & huckleberry greens from the garden, over new grave for a very loved cat

Embroidered flowers on old Palestinian thoub, traditional dress—pink, blue & green embroidery on blue cloth. Detail of front.

California native wildflower “toothwort” aka “milkmaids”—pink-flowered Cardamine californica, with new hatch of 100s of ladybugs on stems & twigs of hazel bush in background

California native wildflower, fawn lilies (white petals, pale yellow center, nodding aspect) amid native grasses and wild iris leaves

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Bald eagle in San Bernardino National Forest in nest full of snow, protecting days-old eaglets. Snow all around. Snow on feathers, head down, eyes closed, patient and strong, resisting hard times. Persist. Save the forests. Save the birds. Live cam. www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eagles/

Bald eagle in S Bernardino National Forest in nest full of snow, protecting days-old eaglets hidden under parent bird. Snow all around. Snow on feathers, head down, eyes closed, patient and strong, resisting hard times

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Hermit Thrush @hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

native toothwort (milkmaids) (Cardamine californica) blooming since February, St Brigid's flower. My photo; my sister knit fox's shawl. Satellite map © Esri, i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community. Save USDA/USFS/USGS/NOAA/NMFS et al.

color photo of native wildflower (California), toothwort, milkmaids, (Cardamine californica) in a bed of moss, with small carved wooden fox painted orange and white, wearing a handknit brown wool shawl, looking at the pink toothwort flower. My photo.

Esri satellite map including California outlined with range of native flowering plant Cardamine californica marked. © Esri, i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community

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