Dahlia

Earthling News

A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people including 20 children, destroying entire tracts of homes and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. — Reuters

Pocket boat

I’ve never really wanted a boat, but I would like to have this little cutie.
Mystic Seaport, Connecticut

Skimming the Spray

Niagara Falls

~ Earthling News ~

Europe bans bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides: When will America take action? – Natural News.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to protect bees from neonicotinoid pesticides, according to a lawsuit against the agency, filed by beekeepers and environmental groups. – Global Research

Lotus

Lotus

Earth news from Democracy Now:

The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 400 parts per million. …The environmentalist group 350.org takes its name after the 350 parts per million threshold that scientists say is the maximum atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide for a safe planet.

Mmmmm, Croissant

Twenty steps from the park. It appears that he has no plans to share his good fortune.

Lunchtime Reward

My reward during today’s lunchtime walk

Orange Tabbies Rock!

Ginger is the 2nd orange tabby to have blessed my happy home, and she is another former stray. She’s smart, affectionate, unperturbable, and definitely not Neurotic Like Some Other Cats in this house whom you have already met.

Anhinga

Anhinga drying its wings
Tortuguero, Costa Rica