Ryan M

@distortions.net

235 Followers 217 Following

Birder. Northern California Native plant gardener. Fujifilm. GIS professional. Geologist. AvGeek. Views are my own. I regularly delete my posts. See them at https://distortions.net

Eight brown, speckled brown Asian pears are on a countertop with a few fingers in the frame for scale. They’re each maybe smaller than a tennis ball.
A hand is holding the leaves of a green plant growing in soil with small rocks scattered around. Leaves are bright green, pointed, & lobed.
A small, greyish-blue bird perches in early morning sun among dried out elderberry leaves and bare branches against a pale sky. The pink corners of their mouths, quite indicative of juvenile birds, is quite visible.
Two palm length, green avocados rest in an open hand against a blurred outdoor background. One has a yellowed stem.
This is one of our resident scrub jays grabbing a peanut #CaliforniaScrubJay #Yarden
Inside a garage, a large, white sectional garage door is partially open, revealing a bright light shining through the gap at the bottom. The gap has a PVC frame covered with shade cloth, allowing airflow but keeping cats out.
A black and grey hooded crow bird perches atop a wooden post with a red sign in a grassy field. There’s orange and white candystripe tape serving as a “rail” to connect the post with other posts. The purpose to to keep people out of a grassy area where, as the sign says, Skylarks breed April through July.
A person is holding up a dirty, rectangular cabin air filter. There small brown beetles here and there in the bottom of the pleats.
A hand is holding a ripe red to orange nectarine while three other peaches are on a tiled surface.
A thick layer of heavy dust, human skin, hair, and godknows what else thickly covers refrigerant coils at the bottom of a fridge. Beautiful noise-laced flower floor linoelum, the likes you’ve never seen, graces your eyes.
Two bright yellow sunflowers with some wilted leaves are growing in a garden area with milkweed to their left and a pear tree to the right and elderberry in the background.
A hand is holding a ripe tomato with a large round hole, likely caused by a bird pecking at it looking for a meal.
Sharp seisograph and frequency charts as recorded by RaspberryShake seismometer RE49D 42 km away from the epicenter. The quake was 13km deep. There’s a map showing the respective locations.
A small blue and gray scrubjay is perched on the rusty roof of a white metal shed, with a green tree of heaven in the background under a clear blue morning sky.
A blurry dense green vegetation fills the background while small, unidentifable dragonflies swarm in the foreground
Tall tree with sparse green leaves reach toward a bright, overcast sky. A large Bald Eagle nest is resting over a large branch that forks into two.
A hand reaches out to hold a dark purple, curved eggplant growing on a broad-leaf purplish-green eggplant.
An orange and white striped Condor A321-2 airplane flies through a bright, cloudy sky.
A M5.6 seismic event with a magnitude of 5.6 occurred near the coast of Northern California, between Willits and Ukiah, showing seismic waveform and frequency data recorded at station RE49D 99 km away.
The exterior of the Zuse Computer Museum features large glass windows and a prominent sign of the same name above the entrance. It’s an overcast day.
A map of the San Francisco peninsula and bay with shaded relief and hydrology features. Overlaid are navigation waypoints such as KRLOS and SNTNA. There are also airway lines such as V150.
A garden with multiple tomato plants with clusters of ripe and unripe tomatoes surrounded by gravel and a drip line under. A green tomato is nearly on the ground atop a sad thyme plant
Vibrant red trumpet-shaped Fuchsia flowers bloom on a narrow leafed plant against a backdrop of a dense coyote bush.
A small blue oak stands in a landscaped gravelly area with a nearby white car parked on the street. In the foreground, a buckwheat shines in the morning sun. Light green sage speckle the landscaped area.
Two lush tomato plants are supported by blue conical wire cage, supported by a t-post, and is growing under bright sunlight, with many green tomatoes visible among the leaves.