Tim Shaw

@wdncnu

Experience design / CX, / UX / Service Design. Data visualization. Traditional & wooden boats and boating. Environment & earth science. Incessant, unapologetic punster. ALX VA. He/His. Trying to be a light to drive out darkness.

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Tim Shaw@wdncnu· 9d

I got the stones down in the bottom of the rain gardens just in time for a workout.

A backyard garden with two rain gardens with pond stone in the bottom of them. Both have well spilled over their banks into wider parts of the garden.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· 10d

Today's D-bag of the Day Award goes to:

Black Volkswagen parked in the slashed off area between two handicapped parking spots. Not that it matters, but it has no handicapped designation.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· 14d

I swear, DC Rain Hole...

Weather radar image showing storms going north and south of the Washington, DC area

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· 15d

BREAKING: Rabbit sploots in local man's garden

Rabbit lying on its belly on mulch by the edge of a lawn

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· 18d

Status

View of a coastal scene with outdoor bar umbrellas framing the scene

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· 18d

The rum punch from Central Casting™ has checked in

Plastic cup filled with a cinnamon-colored liquid with a cherry and an orange slice

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· 20d

Great Sippewissett Marsh, Batman!

Landscape picture of a salt marsh. A tidal river runs in the foreground, marsh with tidal ponds in the middle, and a row of trees beyond. A duck and four ducklings swim towards the camera in the river. One snowy egret extends its neck in the marsh while another takes flight on the left side.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· 23d

Tarde de Hidratacíon

Three humpback whales surface. The two on the outside are adults and are exhaling from their blowholes. The one in the middle is a calf.

A humpback whale shows its fluke as it dives

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jul 10

I am pretty sure I was #99 on the wait list when I signed up after seeing the movie. My number finally came up!

Library copy of "Project Hail Mary" with a saved slip held against it

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jul 3

ALX gardener peeps: any idea what this is that has decided to start trying to spread in my new garden?

Long, medium green, flat leaves of a plant emerging from the ground

White stalks connected to splayed, wiry root system with a couple small-tuberish things on two roots

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jul 3

I don't like the new outline design of the MyRadar widget on my phone. Too much red and pink. Needs more green and yellow.

Circular weather widget for a phone. The outer ring is a color-coded temperature scale for the day. The current temperature reads 94F and the scale runs from a dark orange through deep red to pink in the afternoon and back to reds. Predicted high of 102F.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jul 2

Safe streets for @bigfootrotica.bsky.social!!!

Bumper sticker with mythical creatures on it that says "I brake for cryptids"

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jul 1

Alright, fine, @beckyhammer.bsky.social - you grab this one too? If you're gonna make me look elsewhere in my top five...

Still of Daniel Day Lewis and Madeline Stowe's characters hugging behind a waterfall in "Last of the Mohicans".

The caption reads "Pausa de Hidratación" mimicking a TV graphic.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jul 1

I haven't really been following this one, so I hope I am doing it right, but I hadn't seen this and it made me angry that it was left out. And no, I couldn't be bothered to do it better.

Scene of Andy Dufresne in the rain after escaping in "The Shawshank Redemption." The meme caption reads "Pausa de Hidratación."

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 24

Fledging 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

22yo young man waves from the passenger seat of a Prius pulling out into a street. A gorgeous middle-aged woman waves from the driver's seat.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 22

Father's Day afternoon at the lovely Fountainhead Park with the whole family plus son's SO. Finally got water under the boat's keel for the season. Delightful. @justindotnet.bsky.social thanks for the accessible launch area (precedes you, I know). Staff were great. Wonderful operation.

Two women in a wooden outrigger canoe. One is on the bow seat paddling, and the other is in a custom-made l, extra support center seat.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 21

Most herons here stand in placid water, peacefully angling for dinner. Then there are these guys, working Great Falls. Badasses. @everyheron.bsky.social

A great blue heron stands on a rock and the main flow of Great Falls of the Potomac.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 15

I would like to have a few choice words with Mr. Bradford about his f*****g pears. 😡

Large branch of a Bradford pear tree fallen across my new garden

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 10

Actual footage of me during my 9:30 meeting tomorrow.

Monkey asleep on a branch, with all limbs draped over it in the most asleep kinda way

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 10

Laying it on a bit thick, eh Costa Rica?

Plane wing during take-off with a double rainbow below and green mountains in the background.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 10

Also, guides know how to best align your phone with their spotting scopes, so you get stuff like this guy:

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 7

We are at a flapping InterBus rest stop and we just about got hit by scarlet flocking macaws having some sort of dispute! INCREDIBLY RARE BIRDS ARE HANGING OUT IN MANGO TREES ABOUT A RESTAURANT PARKING LOT!!! WTAF?!?!?!

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 7

Since @tomvanantwerp.com has made it clear that back yard chickens have limited possibilities, can I propose park chickens, @josephfray.bsky.social?

Rooster and hen beside a local soccer pitch in Costa Rica

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 6

Hotel owner: ... We have three dogs and a pig... Me: {You had me at the three dogs, but if you are really trying to make me feel good about my choice ...}

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 5

Bat signal for @volcanojw.bsky.social: got any thoughts on this rock here on headland on northern Nicoya Peninsula in CR? Specifically the white streaks in the otherwise black and grey host rock (is it diorite or some such?).

Dark rock with white streaks through it, and one bigger patch of white at the top

Shows the rock in context, the beginning of a headland meeting the Pacific Ocean in northwest Costa Rica

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 5

Birds are dinosaurs, Exhibit A. Two velociraptors showed up for breakfast.

Grey-headed chachalaka feeding on fresh meat, er, banana

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 5

Speaking of adorable animals, I present this mother broad-billed motmot, with a cricket in her beak, who was either very tame or not inclined to be deterred from getting said cricket to her baby, likely in a nest just across the trail from where all these humans were standing looking at her

Female broad-billed motmot, with a white cricket in her beak.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 5

I absolutely CAN NOT with tonight's restaurant doggo.

Medium-sized dog, white with brown patches on either side of the head, rests about on my leg while hitting me with the most insane puppy-dog eyes ever.

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 4

You wanna javelina? 'cause I gotalina. Large or small?

Tim Shaw@wdncnu· Jun 2

Parrot friends came back - crimson-fronted parakeets, apparently. Mui adorbs.