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marissa

@mbirdface.bsky.social

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bikes & birds, mostly. I also make art. forgive me but sometimes I live-skeet dallas stars games.

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marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

annual post

Photo of a dirt road absolutely covered in fallen yellow aspen leaves. Aspen forest is beside and beyond the road.

Photo of the ground, mostly, with yellow aspen leaves. My right leg and part of my mountain bike are in the photo too.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

last one

Photo of a manhole cover featuring some Berlin landmarks

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

me and who

A painting from 1817 called Two Men By the Sea. It’s an oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich. It’s a moody painting of the sun setting over the sea, two men and the shoreline silhouetted in the mid & foreground.

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marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Photo of a manhole with kind of a fancy coat of arms. There’s another lion, I think.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

more lions

Another manhole cover. This one has a lion and, like, a castle tower.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

pretty good

Manhole cover featuring some building silhouettes

Drain cover featuring a coat of arms involving a lion and some stripes

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marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another manhole photo, this one with a coat of arms that is half lion, half bird thing

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marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a series, maybe

Photo of my feet next to a manhole that features a castle in a coat of arms situation

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

went and stood in some water

Photo of a calm stream with a red rock wall to the left and riparian trees to the right

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

don’t forget the aspens!

Photo of a red heeler walking on a trail through bracken and aspens and some pines

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

we’re walkin

Photo of a red heeler walking on a trail through a ponderosa pine forest

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨 baby junco 🚨

Photo of my hand holding a young fledgling junco on my leg

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Great owls

Screencap of satellite imagery and a location on Google Maps labeled “Great owls.” It looks woodsy and riparian.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I do like Portland

Photo of a utility pole with some nice bird art that says to abolish ICE. also there’s some embroidered poetry.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

looked at some roses

Photo of a bunch of red and yellow roses with trees and more roses in the distance

Photo of magenta-y roses

Photo of a perfect peach rose

Photo of some roses with yellow undersides

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

went to the ocean, saw some puffins

Photo of a cloudy Oregon coast with forest and beach and rocks

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

walked up an incredibly steep never-ending hill

Photo of sun in dense trees

Photo of sunlight in dark forest

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marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

had a week of it. first, played on some trails in Bellingham on a $10k bike

Photo of a nice piney forest with a dirt trail

Photo of early-ish successional growth with flowers and young pines

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

high quality dog

Photo of my hand squidging a fluffy black and tan dog’s face

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

again???

Photo of my hand holding enormous hail

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

realized I never shared photos of my edible children. we are at peak cherry right now, I think.

Photo of a bowl full of sungolds and one pink princess

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

playing with mussels for a couple days this week

Photo of the shiny interior of a mussel

Photo of an enormous washboard mussel

Photo of a table covered in mussels of different species

Photo of a brown river with historic oil derricks overhead

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

8 miles to go

Photo of me holding a little dippin dots ice cream pouch (cookie dough flavor)

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

45mi in

Photo of a table with Twix, Cheetos, and a can of coke

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

first unplanned metric century of the season, here is how to fuel

Photo of me holding a chocolate glazed donut with sprinkles

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

had a 2-snake walk, grabbed the littlest one

Photo of my fist. A tiny baby garter snake is poking out from between my fingers.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

snoozin

Photo of a bug (bee?) chillin in the flower of a penstemon

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

morning

Photo of early morning light streaming between ponderosa pines

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

rude

Photo of my hand full of green cherry tomatoes whose lives were ended too soon by hail

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

don’t you dare hurt my baby toms

A photo of in my hand holding giant chunks of hail

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

floating

Photo of legs kicked up on a pink kayak in the middle of a rocky reservoir surrounded by pines. The sky is cloud and gray.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

friend

Photo of my hand holding a little brown horned lizard. There’s a lichen-covered rock and bike tire in the background.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

the more impressive ones are essentially ash but somehow traveled and landed without crumbling

Photo of my hand holding a leaf in ash form

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marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

a perfectly crisped oak leaf carried several miles through the air

Photo of a blackened and burnt oak leaf being held

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

tankers are refilling at an excellent birdwatching spot 👍👍

Screenshot of a helibucket hovering over pools of water at the Sedona Wetlands Preserve

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

west is best babyyyy

Screencap of a fuckton of fires on Watch Duty

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marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Monarda is going wild all over the place

Photo of a purple beebalm flower in some other herbaceous green stuff, a field and puffy clouds in the background

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

a very chill cliff/cave swallow colony

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

big boy

Photo of an absolutely enormous speckly toad in someone’s hands

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

!!!!

Photo of a teeny tiny tomato forming on a plant

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

there are some perks to work trips to Phoenix

Photo of a hotel pool. My legs are there in the foreground looking admirable and athletic.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

big fan of whoever in my neighborhood compulsively pulls up invasives along the trails

Photo of pulled-up salsify strewn across a trail

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

accomplished a thing last weekend, still feeling pretty proud

A photo of me in a raincoat lifting my loaded bike in front of a fountain at Point State Park in Pittsburgh

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

a good afternoon/evening

Photo of a gray/white dog head resting on my foot

Photo of a pint of ice cream on a bike rack

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

bike-ride-to-beer weather

Photo of beer on a table at a patio. There is a giant skeleton in the background.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

most handsome man

Photo of a tiny male Anna’s hummingbird on a pine twig. He has a very fancy gorget and forehead that is iridescent pink-orange.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

spring ephemerals are going strong

Dwarf hesperochiron - a small round-leaved low-growing plant with white flowers

A patch of larkspurs amid ponderosa pines

Mountain golden bean, a legume with cute Baptisia-like yellow flowers

Close-up of a larkspur (not sure of the species, maybe upland?)

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

dogsittin

Photo of my legs with a little gray & white dog head peeking through and up. A red heeler’s head is visible in the upper corner, watching.

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

oops snuck out of work

Yet another photo of my bike leaned against a stone wall at a canyon overlook

marissa @mbirdface.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

this is the best tea I’ve ever had in my life??

Photo of my hand holding a tin of strawberry hazelnut pu erh tea