Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)

@vicky.science

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The friend you send bug pictures to. Also accepting dead-thing-on-beach pictures, dog pictures, and stories about your cats.

Photo of a black bear standing in a cluster of bright green shoulder-height dandelions along the side of a gravel road. The bear has one long dandelion stem in its mouth, with its poofy head out. Long ears perked quizzically, it is looking directly at the camera with more dandelion seeds decorating the top of its head
Metal sign post with a yellow and white sign attached. Text in black on white reads “reduce speed” while black icons on the yellow part of the sign show a bicycle, a person walking a dog on a leash, a tiny man and a large man chasing a ball, and a moose.
Photo of a plate of upside-down pan fried dumplings, arranged in two circles. They’re golden brown and glisten with a slight sheen of oil
Photo of neat rows of uncooked pleated potsticker dumplings, resting in a worn and stained baking tray on a dusting of flour
Photo of a toy octopus in plush gray material with two black eyes and a smiley face wearing a yellow hat, still on a set of double-pointed knitting needles and attached to a ball of yarn. The hat has a sort of knob shape protruding from the top that will be a silly duck head when a beak and eyes are added
Photo of a gray and brown beetle on a coast live oak leaf
Photo of the dorsal side of a knitted whale shark toy in light and dark blue, held up against a tree background
Rows of printed black icons on plain beige fabric. There are insects (bee, butterfly, dragonfly, ladybug), an acorn, and several Studio Ghibli-style soot sprites
Photo of a green striped baby bib and a white onesie bodysuit for an infant, on a wooden table. The bib has a single ceiling fan motif stamped in black ink on the middle of the front. The onesie has a nearly all-over repeating print of the same fan stamp in black ink
Photo of a woman with dark hair and big glasses smiling. She’s wearing a light gray linen vest open over an orange top. On the corner of the vest collar is a tiny black bee stamp
Stacks of racks of cooling pies in a yellow-tinted room
Photo of a knitting project on a spiral-bound notebook. The knitting is on circular needles, size 7, and consists of a trapezoid-ish shape of dark and light aqua blues in alternating spots and stripes. The notebook lists the project as “Whale shark knitting pattern fixes” in blue ink
Photo of a hand holding up a card that features a painting of a keenly focused black bird, probably a crow (?) against a moody brown background. Light on the bird’s feathers carves out each individual plume
Photo of a hand holding a brown paper-wrapped package tied with a piece of rough twine. The package has a business card taped to it, partially obscured by the twine but it features a painting of a wolf. In the background a window and a blue curtain in front of a blue sky
Photo of a children’s book, Raffi’s Baby Beluga to be specific, illustrated by Ashley Wolff in a bright maybe gouache style. The image shows ice, an Atlantic puffin, a leaping beluga whale, and a group of five black, white, and gray dolphins with rounded faces
Photo of a hand-carved circular stamp in wine-colored ink that reads “from the library of Beatrice brownman” and features a bumblebee
Honey colored mushrooms from below, droplets of water lighting the grasses under the big gilled umbrellas
Photo taken from very low to the ground angled up into the overlapping gilled caps of honey-warm tan colored mushrooms sprouting out of green clovers against a gray sky
Photo of the back and side of a month-old baby’s peach-fuzzy head and tiny ear resting on a light gray shirt that features a color print of a cartoon gray tabby cat reclined on a blue couch while a tabby kitten sleeps curled up on its stomach
Photo in black and white of two tiny baby feet in finely knitted socks folded over at the cuff. The baby feet are on a sweatpants-clad lap and in the background at the end of the sweatpants-clad legs are matching knitted socks on an adult’s feet
Photo of the same gray mushrooms but as seen from underneath, where their delicate gills are obvious. Behind them in the background a signpost echoes their shape and coloration, reading “prevent erosion, stay on trail”
Video of two mushrooms, purplish gray, slender and a little bit gummy looking with wide umbrella-like caps that are starting to fray at the edges. A finger comes into frame and bonks each cap, causing them to wobble back and forth in a pleasing jiggle
A plastic wrapped turkey in the foreground with a label reading TURKEY, RUBY’s KITCHEN, in an industrial kitchen background with several people working at stainless steel sinks
Video of people in casual clothes and aprons dancing while packaging meals in compostable containers that get sealed with plastic film, and packed into boxes
Photo of too-thin conifer trees, with branches emerging like green peach-fuzz from their tall trunks. In the far distance, tiny people are walking toward the base of one of the trees
Photo of an enormously tall majestic coast redwood tree soaring into a forest of similarly tall trees
Photo of a yellow slug inching down a tree trunk with a smiling person in the background
Photo of the underside of a creamy white fluted castle of a mushroom on a log framed by green leaves
A pale skinned hand holds four tiny salamanders, slender, cocoa-brown, and moist. Each is no more than two or three inches in length. Their gummy limbs are tiny even in comparison to their little bodies
Photo of fingers holding a strip of lace lichen, pale pale green and net-like in shape with holes all the way through so you can see a path and leaf litter behind them
Lichens growing on a twig. Some are ribbon-shaped and green, and the focal cluster are vibrantly orange, with sunburst shapes or eyelashes coming off of their round forms
Lichens in the shape of minuscule goblets, with a fine pebbled texture and vibrant spring green color
Photo of a village of tiny beige-capped mushrooms on thread-thin stems and lime-green mosses
Photo of three people standing behind three carved pumpkins that they are mimicking/matching in their costumes, faces and posture. The first is Tina Belcher from Bob’s burgers, with black rimmed glasses. The second is Louise Belcher with a pink bunny-eared hat. The third is Gene Belcher in a yellow shirt
Screenshot of a map of North America labeled “Bald Eagle range map by ABC” that shows bald eagle ranges for breeding, wintering, and residency. There’s a distinctive hole or gap exactly mirroring the borders of the U.S. state of Nevada
Photo of a yellow banana slug with black spots splashed over the main part of its body on a moist hard dirt trail
Photo of a green praying mantis perched in a leather oak shrub, with a light skinned hand behind it to help separate the green insect from the busy background
Video of a slowly turning blue feather that catches the light and flashes more blue at certain angles compared to others, when the feather seems almost gray instead
Photo of a common madia (Madia elegans), a California wildflower with yellow three-lobed petals and a wine-red center. The petals jut out at slightly irregular angles
Photo of a hand holding a bunch of small but mighty homegrown carrots, bright orange with a dusting of dirt and stringy roots hanging off, floofs of feathery green leaves emerging from the top
screenshot of a photo of an old, old book open to two facing pages. across both pages, a drawing of a monstrous squid or something like a squid with tentacles splayed, what looks like a spiral mouth, and stark staring eyes. Illegible text surrounds the drawing, but it seems to be labeled "een poelomp"
Photo of a watercolor and ink artwork in a rough-textured page of a journal. Text at the top reads “predation on predators” and text blurbs throughout along with drawings describe an interaction between a fly, a leafhopper assassin bug, and a black phoebe which ends up eating the assassin bug.
Against a turbulent cloudy sky, the silhouette of a great horned owl with plumicorns poking up, partially bent forward and tail extended. It is standing on a telephone wire suspended above the black mass of leaves on a backlit Japanese maple tree
Photo of a card with a vintage scientific illustration art style showing several ocean animals including an eagle ray, an octopus, a jellyfish, a pufferfish, and a seahorse. They’re all labeled with species names at the bottom of the card (some just have genus, or family) and the top of the card reads “Aquatic creatures” and “cetaceans”
Photo of a compostable tray filled with one meal of white rice, big juicy meatballs, and a sauce with carrots and tomatoes. Cilantro over the top adds a pop of vivid green
Photo of a pencil sketch, slightly smudged, depicting a squirrel dangling from its hind feet to reach its face and front paws down into a clump of leaves. Its bushy tail curls up over its body
Photo of a light-skinned hand holding a red cherry tomato with its green top still on, and a red tomato protrusion like a horn popping out of the top left side of the tomato
photo of a 4-5 foot rattlesnake, with broad head and geometric markings in diamonds and spots down its back, emerging from dry grasses and tarweeds onto a path, with one sinuous bend to its neck and body
Photo of a woman smiling in the fuzzy background while a banana slug glistens in the foreground
Photo of two bright orange California poppies against dried grasses and a blue sky, with some tall conifers in the background
dryer ball number 5, close up
Just a smudge of white highlighting the black round nose, a hint of a coy smile, and two shocking white eyes that bore into your soul. All made from felted wool
Only a scraggly white goatee remains to highlight the too-large smiling mouth of this dryer ball, but the white eyes are still piercing as they gaze out to the left of the camera
Most of the white wool has rubbed away, so the black eye markings and white eyes stare out a little spookily. You can still see the nose and smiley mouth though
Same dryer ball type, more pilled around the outside and one eye is starting to fade
Photo of a felted wool dryer ball with a dark gray background, white face, black eye markings and white eyes with a black pupil. The nose and smiley mouth are easy to see
video of a yellow-white-black caterpillar on a slender plant stem, gripping the stem with its back legs. as the camera approaches its head in a close-up, an orange y-shaped protrusion flips out from near the head of the caterpillar's body, looking like a snake tongue or a pair of angry eyebrows or something.
photo of two kittens grooming an adult cat, cuddling up to her face as she squeezes her eyes closed
black and white kitten sitting on a wooden platform, looking to the left. light catches in her multi-colored eyes and highlights her enormous ears
orange kitten looks past the camera, tail and ears perked up in concentration. he's in a cream-colored knitted tube sweater