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A dainty sulfur on salvia. These are such skittish little butterflies it is rare I get a good portrait.

She’s not wrong.

Today in my garden I observed six different genus of bees, and photographed three: Lasioglossum, Halictid, and Heriades. (Not pictured are a Mason bee, a leaf-cutter bee, and the non-native honeybee)

Today’s art: Prickly Poppy and American Bumblebee.

The botanical gardens in Oklahoma City are just amazing.

Adding in the world-building and backstory slowly, instead of drowning the reader at the beginning. madgeniusclub.com/2025/07/26/lor…

I live about an hour from the World's Largest Bowie Knife.

When I wake up from the nightmares, I try to remind myself there is no going back. Only forward.

Weeping willow (today’s art in watercolor and ink)

Goats! I don’t miss keeping them, but there was never a dull moment.

Today we fed koi in the Japanese Garden.

Josiah was already strapping on his helmet with grim enthusiasm. "Are you kidding? I was born to have conversations with sentient mold through parasitic cranial Wi-Fi. Let's do this thing!" - from "Everything Was Fine until the Cheese" by Malory. Check it out in Mad Science!

Koi feeding frenzy!