Marty’s photo of the day #3225: I’ve never been very good at predicting when an opossum will jump onto my back. Opossums happen!
Opossums happen
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Year: 2020
A good winter for the animals
Marty’s photo of the day #3224: Where I live in Montana, the animals enjoyed a good winter. Deb and I have been regularly seeing a moose on our evening walks, along with lots of deer. Also, every morning on my bike ride I see between twenty and thirty deer, and this morning I saw another […]
A mess of boas
Marty’s photo of the day #3223: I took this photo roughly ten years ago. Do you know how difficult it is to hold a mess of baby rainbow boas in one hand, a camera in the other, focus, and do it all while not getting bit? This was one of Eve’s last litters before we […]
Donald Trump Kills Puppies!
DONALD TRUMP KILLS PUPPIES! Now that Trump has ordered that his name be printed on the COVID-19 stimulus checks, those checks will be delayed to millions of people who need them now. This is the big news of the day. No one is surprised by Trump’s narcissistic move and, of course, his administration will lie […]
Conehead katydid
Marty’s photo of the day #3222: This is conehead katydid, photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
The difference between liberal thinking and conservative thinking
Here’s a perfect example of what is so fucking wrong with conservative Republicans: Millions of them are terrified that some poor person will get some government benefit that they don’t deserve. Such talk is standard on Fox News. Yet Judy Kudlow, the wife of Donald Trump’s top economic advisor Larry Kudlow, very publicly applied for […]
Venice at night
Elephant wells
Marty’s photo of the day #3220: Elephants in a dried-up riverbed in Zimbabwe. The best water was just under the sand, so elephants would dig their own private wells.
Why Trump really wants to kill the U.S. Postal Service
For years Republicans have failed to support the U.S. Postal Service, but it always felt like a game of chicken, where the GOP would eventually back down and give the Postal Service what it needed. If the Postal Service shut down, thousands of businesses that bill their clients through the mail would go out of […]
Cardón cactus
Marty’s photo of the day #3219: This is a cardón cactus, photographed on the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.
Going for a swim
Marty’s photo of the day #3218: “Mom! Mom! We really don’t like this.” (Bison, photographed in Yellowstone National Park)
Zebra longwing butterfly
Marty’s photo of the day #3217: I photographed this zebra longwing butterfly in the Everglades. A slightly different version of this photo appears in my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico.
Follow me!
Marty’s photo of the day #3216: “Okay, everyone. Follow me!” (Gentoo penguin chicks, photographed just off the coast of Antarctica.)
Orangutan happiness
Marty’s photo of the day #3215: I had some camera problems when I was in Borneo, so this photo has a lot of digital noise. Nevertheless, this shot makes me smile. I call it “Orangutan Happiness.”
The silver lining to the Wisconsin GOP’s murderous election
If you’ve been following what is happening in Wisconsin, you know that the Wisconsin GOP, backed by the Republican-controlled U.S. Supreme Court, prevented the delay of today’s state election. The reason the Republicans want the election today is because a conservative judge on the ballot needs a low voter turnout to get elected. So Republicans […]
Martyman’s National Beer Day announcement
Martyman asked me to remind you that today is National Beer Day. . . . As if today is different from any other day for him.
It’s safer to kiss the python*
Marty’s photo of the day #3214: This is me, several years ago, kissing an eleven-foot-long African rock python I caught in Zimbabwe. Last year, if people had to choose between kissing someone who recently returned from a large evangelical church service or kissing an eleven-foot-long python, the vast majority would choose to kiss the evangelical. […]
Social distancing in the Arctic
Marty’s photo of the day #3213: Deb and I know social distancing! This photo of us was taken several years ago, when we were in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The sun never set the entire time we were there, so this picture could have just as easily been taken at 2:00 p.m. as 2:00 […]
Cattleya orchid
This isn’t social distancing!
Marty’s photo of the day #3211: I’m outraged! Don’t these people have any respect for social distancing? Oh, wait. . . . I took this photo in 2008, when Barack Obama came to the University of Montana to give a campaign speech. Proceed!