For a minute, I thought this was the “Beginning of the End!”
Nah, it was just a larger differential grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis).
Giant Grasshopper!!!
Illustration of a Finch from “A Monograph of the Weaver-Birds, Ploceidae, and Arboreal and Terrestrial finches, Fringillidae,” 1888
The artist’s signature reads “F.W.F.”
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On Memorial Day, we remember the fallen.
And we are grateful to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Photo credit: Tom McClintock, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Allison’s Haiku
A portraiture of
heterochromia are
your rococo eyes.
Photo credit: Socrasal, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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“Portrait of Daughter Mary Stuck With a Wreath of Daisies,” Franz von Stuck, circa 1910
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“To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived …”
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Cover to “Batman” #1, Jorge Jiménez, 2025
DC Comics.
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Poster for “Alien: Earth” Season 1 (2025)
FX, Hulu.
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