wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” - John Muir 041
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens), harvesting pollen from a pink prairie rose flower 📷 June 26, 2026 #bumblebee #bombusimpatiens #blueskyartshow #macro 0121
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Discreet robin nest, brood 2, June, 2026 072
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Summer 2026 was officially switched ON today! #comed #switchonsummer #chicago 020
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Snowberry clearwing, blue phlox, prairie trillium and a garter snake all in the newly cleared Red Gate Woods in the Palos Park Forest Preserve on Sunday ❤️❤️❤️ 110
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My absolute favorite time of year in Chicago has officially begun! 🤍⭐️🤍 (we visited 63rd Street Beach on Saturday, 4/11, looking for piping plovers but only saw lots of fishermen) 130
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026@bitchhoggle.bsky.social got another car for you! 100
Reposted by @wildfiretupelo.bsky.socialTim Kocher @timkocher.bsky.social · 09/03/2026During our visit to the Pullman National Historical Park we got a delicious coffee and pastry at the Pullman Club Coffee House. It’s inside a beautiful mansion from the period, and I found one of my book covers on the shelf there! Always incredible to see my work in the wild 141
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Visited Pullman yesterday. Was blown away. From their website: “The park tells the story of America's first planned model industrial community, the sleeping car magnate who created it, and the workers who lived there. The park is significant for its influence on railroad transportation, … 121
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Tithonia flower, September 2025 #blueskyartshow #round 050
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing you all tremendous happiness and prosperity in the #YearOfTheFireHorse #LunarNewYear #yearofthehorse @villageofep.bsky.social #evergreenparkIL #evergreenparkurbanbarn 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 15/02/2026It’s never too late for an ominous bird valentine 💝 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Wood slabs available for study at The Morton Arboretum’s Herbarium #blueskyartshow #wood 1132
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Happy Galentine’s Day to all my fellow land mermaids!! 💙💜🩷 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026💙💙💙 #yokoono exhibit at the #mca 💙💙💙 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Always a joy to put together a #charleyharper puzzle. This one is called Secret Sanctuary 🩵🧩💙 130
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026A belated Happy 10th Anniversary to the #birdwhisperer project 🩷 #gyrfalcon 🩷 🩷 #lovebirds 🩷 1142
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026A message for today and ALWAYS! #abolishdhs-ice 030
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Really, really enjoyed putting together the exquisite “Emergence” by Erin E. Hunter puzzle. From the box: “The plants depicted are larval food sources for the 20 moth species flying about …”. It was such a treat to assemble!! 🥰🧩💕 030
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 28/12/20252025’s Arboretum themed ornament: Nimbly the blue dasher dragonfly sculpture from the Vivid Creatures exhibition currently at The Morton Arboretum 🩵💜🩷 020
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025This morning’s beautiful sunrise 🧡🩷💜 140
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Good morning from (checks notes) Batch 17! 🤯 #shortbread #americastestkitchen 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025❗️💯❗️ (illustration by the extremely talented @timkocher.bsky.social 😊) 110
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Loved seeing Vivid Creatures all lit up for Illumination: Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum at last night’s preview 💜🩵🩷 📷 @timkocher.bsky.social 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 07/11/202530 seconds on the conifer path today at The Morton Arboretum 💚🌲💚 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Another magnificent Halloween on the lovely southside of Chicago 🧡🎃🧡 110
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025It’s so beautiful outside right now 🎃👻🍁 030
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Almost forgot to post these pics! It also snowed in Chicago on Halloween in 2019! ❄️🎃❄️ 110
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Trick or Treat(ers)!!!! Highlights from Halloween, 2019 (can’t believe all of these cute kids are 6 years older now) 👻👻👻 110
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Only one week to go until Halloween! Here’s an oldie but a goodie … our dog Lenny 🌈 stopping kids in their tracks during the Beye School Halloween Parade in Oak Park IL on October 31, 2017 🧡🧡🧡 020
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Remembering that one time our dog, Lenny, hung out with Bill Murray at a Cubs game … 😉 000
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Our heralds of winter have arrived! Two, maybe three, dark eyed juncos spotted in our yard today 🥰🥰🥰 000
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025A beautiful day for the #chicagomarathon 120
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025“The bottom line is all butterflies are moths, and there's no such thing as butterflies.” - Entomologist Akito Kawahara, Florida Museum of Natural History from Gardening for Moths: a regional guide by Jim McCormac and Chelsea Gottfried 210
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Sharing my IG video from back in July 2023 of rescued, captive reared and released Sea Rocket, Wild Indigo and Prickly Pear, and our most precious Imani (Monty and Rose’s boy) at Montrose Beach!! Sea Rocket and Imani went on to successfully raised three chicks in 2025 ! @chicagopiping.bsky.social 140
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025And there goes all the clean water in the birdbath this morning! 😂 #starlings 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Halt! This is the realm of death! (aka our house ☠️👻☺️) 010
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025First week of fall at The Morton Arboretum … 141
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social @wildfiretupelo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025#blueskyartshow #angle Eleanor Daley Boathouse, Park 571, Chicago. “We wanted the building’s form to reflect the movement of rowing and draw people here to learn and experience rowing and the valuable teamwork it instills. … 1111
