Pied-billed Grebe backlit by the late afternoon sun.

In the brackish wetlands on Santa Rosa Island, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida.

How about a pelican backlit by the setting sun?

“I never claimed to be Jewish. I said I was `Jew-ish.'”
-- Republican Congressman elect George Santos, on whether or not he lied about his heritage.
I got nothing here, man. Nothing.

Good morning from the Florida Panhandle

May you enjoy your day as much as this beagle enjoys his Christmas present.

I'm fixing holiday dinner for about 30 people, so expect nothing else from me the rest of the day.

See you all tomorrow.

I told you, he thinks he's an engineer.

He's crashing rockets. That's exactly what he's doing.

Try to land a rocket. Giant ball of fire. You figure out what happened. Adjust the engineering. Try again. Repeat until you succeed or run out of money.

Only he's doing it with people.

Which is why engineers should not be allowed to wander around the universe without a keeper.

New Book!

Holiday Leftovers, from B Cubed Press.

amazon.com/dp/1949476359

A collection of humor, strange tales, and the occasional rabid Christmas elf.

And yes, you'll find something from me in there.

It's cold out there today, Folks. Be careful.

Pied-billed. Not pie.

I'm hungry, I guess.

Ambition

Pie-billed grebe with a bream. Not sure who's trying to eat who.

Santa Rosa Island, Gulf Islands National Seashore, today.

Man, the Cosplay Mossy Oak Militia sure are mad when a guy wearing the ragged fatigues of an actual war instead of some elitist Brooks Brothers Wallstreet uniform and who is actually defending his country from a ruthless oppressive dictator shows up.

We're big manly alpha males who have big bushy SEAL man beards and we drive big manly trucks and we carry our manly guns everywhere in case we have to defend freedom from oppressive woke government in the frozen food aisle at Walmart

Also, those shoes don't go with that outfit.

Today's Raptor: A Red-tailed Hawk

Hump Day Pep Talk:

Remember, no matter how shitty your week is, Alex Jones is having a MUCH worse week. Like seriously much worse. Like a BILLION times worse.

LOL

"Democrats vote to help Trump keep his promise to the American People."

Osprey fishing near Santa Rosa Island, Gulf Islands National Seashore.

This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then ... explode.

Will not comply

Okay. Okay. All right. Settle down. I'll do it.

I'll run Twitter.

BREAKING: Elon Musk announces, in accordance with the popular voice, he will be appointing a Trump NFT Trading Card (perhaps Trump the Astronaut or Trump the Chippendales Stripper) as the new Twitter CEO.