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great blue herons are massive birds but very shy… this guy lives on the farm and sees me literally every day doing the same set of chores but always excuses himself when I come by anyway.

dewberry snacks for me, bone crumbs from the owl

soup and salad both demand bread and butta so I made a fresh loaf too. for 2026 I challenged myself to bake all of the bread we eat at home and I’m still going strong on that! my in-laws just gifted me this little oval cast iron bread oven for my birthday so I was happy to try it out today. it will definitely be my go-to in the future, I love the shape of the loaf and way the crust turns out.

questing beasts

funny to see my dad’s shots (here) compared to my own. he’s been a professional photographer for most of my life; wizard tricks with darkroom chemicals were a big part of my childhood. I’ve noticed lately that his editing is much darker and cooler than my own and he strongly prefers landscape over portrait framing; I think my lower contrast/warm/vertical can probably be attributed to social media display logistics that he didn’t grow up with. that said our subject matter is very similar, we even snapped a honeybee on the same squash flower at different times in the same day, and you get here the other side of the cucumber trellis haha.

it was a hot hot day in july…

grasshopper in the reeds