FINALLY

But what about the silent majority who prefer to experience wildflowers the way General Motors intended – by whizzing past them in a fast, comfortable automobile? How are nature-loving-from-a-distance drivers supposed to learn the names and habits of the wildflowers as they speed blissfully past them at 65 (85?) miles per hour?

i’m dying but it’s so real and you can learn all about this hilarity here. via laura olin’s newsletter.

in MY champagne room

Jill McDonough, “I Imagine the Butches’ Stripper Bar”

(via laura olin)

more/less

my unfinished 2020 more/less list, inspired by this.

outside the gas station

rainbow

Nikolai Astrup (Norwegian, 1880-1928), Rainbow. Colour woodcut with hand-painting, 60.5 x 40.8 cm. Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway.

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school has started so clearly it’s back to blogging

Dark-eyed Junco (birb). Photo: Michele Black/Great Backyard Bird Count

just a few things on me mind:

• learning about birbs
• back to having impeachment fever
• 100% jazzed by this
• took a quiz about the democratic presidential candidates and aligned most with — yang?!
• went to houston for david beebe’s wedding, DELIGHT
• had school all day sunday and learned about this yoga for kids storytime and i think i’m going to try and get certified? scared, daunted, excited, scared
• already completely exhausted being in school and working

this ad is like an actual horror movie

i’ve thought about this since i first saw it three years ago

it’s like a quilt

the best description of praire home companion, via the ny times:

such revisitations constitute a life

scrolling through old photos and found this from the argonauts: