It feels like this #June has lasted forever and a microsecond at the same time - it's been challenging, and fun, and sad, and healing and tasty!

And now, on to July!

#MonthlyRecap #Recap #June25 #Wisesnail

The first calendula.

#BloomScrolling #calendula #June25 #OrangeFlowers #flowers #florespondence #FlowersOfMastodon #PollinatorPlants

I didn't see the tree swallows swooping into the bird house, maybe the little ones fledged. The brown bats were darting around collecting bugs and an occasional nighthawk too. Earlier I saw a hunter assassin bug beyond my feet that started burrowing in the dirt. Trenching a path repeatedly to create a hole for some purpose then left. The sky colored up and the breezy day was over.

#sunset #June25 #today #clouds #sky #SwarmOfBugs #panorama

June 25

This day in history:

• 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
• 2024 – Thousands of people storm Kenya's Parliament Buildings protesting the passing of the government's 2024/25 Finance Bill.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
• 1948 – The United States Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act to allow World War II refugees to immigrate to the United States above quota restrictions.

Births:

• 1964 – John McCrea, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1874 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (died 1944)
• 1923 – Sam Francis, American soldier and painter (died 1994)

Deaths:

• 1394 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess (born 1347)
• 2024 – Sika Anoa‘i, American Samoan professional wrestler (born 1945)
• 1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (born 1858)

Holidays:

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975.
• World Vitiligo Day
• Independence Day (Croatia)

Random Article of the day:

Red-breasted chat

I picked less than 2 liters of black caps this morning which is more than I thought there would be.

#gardening #berries #BlackCaps #RubusOccidentalis #BlackRaspberry #orchard #harvest #garden #June25 #today

DC WEEKLY! ⚡
DC Comics available on June 25, 2025 🦸‍♀️🦸

Read: https://comixnow.com/2025/06/19/dc-weekly-dc-comics-available-on-june-25-2025/

#DCComics #DCWeekly #June25

June 25

This day in history:

• 1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
• 1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
• 1940 – World War II: The French armistice with Nazi Germany comes into effect.

Births:

• 1935 – Don Demeter, American professional baseball player (d. 2021)
• 1943 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer and actress

Deaths:

• 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American singer-songwriter, co-founded Capitol Records (b. 1909)
• 1912 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-British painter (b. 1836)
• 2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)

Holidays:

• Statehood Day (Slovenia)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975.
• Independence Day (Croatia)

Random Article of the day:

Will Smith filmography

Song of the Day June 25 2024

In remembrance of Tamir Rice, on what would have been his 22nd Birthday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tamir_Rice

MSNBC - Chris Hayes recaps Tamir Rice Video

https://youtu.be/JSXQvShpwRY?si=9z637kdFISPSLUFX

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #June25 #TamrRice #Racism #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #Police #PoliceBrutality #MurderedByPolice #Lies #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Cleveland #2010s

Song of the Day June 25 2024

In remembrance of Tamir Rice, on what would have been his 22nd Birthday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tamir_Rice

MSNBC - Chris Hayes recaps Tamir Rice Video

https://youtu.be/JSXQvShpwRY?si=9z637kdFISPSLUFX

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #June25 #TamrRice #Racism #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #Police #PoliceBrutality #MurderedByPolice #Lies #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Cleveland #2010s

Vote out Lauren Boebert on June 25, 2024! She currently has a 30-point lead?!? WTF, Colorado?!?

#ByeByeBoebert #LaurenBoebert #Colorado #GoneGirl #June25

Song of the Day June 25 2023

In honor of the birth of Erica Gimpel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Gimpel

Erica Gimpel - "Fame"

https://youtu.be/kO5RNG2bA9k

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #June25 #EricaGimpel #Fame #FameTV #DebbieAllen #AlbertHague #GeneAnthonyRay #LeeCurreri #ValerieLandsburg #CarolMayoJenkins #LoriSinger #TVPerformance #Music #MusicVideo #HighSchool #PerformingArts #1980s

Today's my birthday! So, I've been thinking, I have just over 300 followers, and assuming none of them were born on February 29th on a leap year, there's around an 83% chance one of my followers was also born on June 25th. If so, let me know :blobcat: #birthday #june25

Institute of General Semantics - Science, Sanity, and the Semantic Environment II: An Online Symposium
#generalsemantics #june25
https://instituteofgeneralsemantics.wildapricot.org/event-4856191

#Remembering Eric Arthur Blair, popularly known by his pen name George Orwell on his birth anniversary #June25
#Novelist #essayist #journalist #literarycritic #GeorgeOrwell