🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

As the year comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to share some of the illustrations I've had the privilege of creating for the amazing team at @Framasoft .
This year is especially significant, as they're celebrating a remarkable 20 years of promoting free and open-source software, digital freedom, and community-driven initiatives (you probably already knows some of them, like Peertube).

💜 Help them reach their 2025 budget: https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

Festive Swamp Wednesday! 🎉🎄

I'm super happy with this: this xmas day marks a full year of a couple 100 sqm of our woodland being submerged!

Our little anaerobic wetland is an area that -until it was planted with spruce in the 1950s- for many years was some type of peat bog nestled in the sandy expanse of jutland. I hope it's capable of restoring itself without too much help from us.

#woodland #nature #christmas

Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) on Dahlia in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on October 25, 2024

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2024Oct30_birds_and_cats/2024oct25_butterfly_IMG_2182c.html

#butterfly #fritillary #Euptoieta #pollinators #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #Oklahoma #photography

My whole life, I've lived in New England: the land of blizzards and ice storms. When there's a storm on the forecast, we prepare. Stock up on bottled water and nonperishables, refill prescriptions that are running low, charge the flashlights and electronic devices, have a stack of blankets on hand, make sure there's fuel in the car and (if you're lucky) generator, restack the indoor wood pile. 1/3

#USpolitics #USpol