Thailand has identified 210 individual tigers living across 26 protected areas, according to the latest nationwide camera trap survey. 🐅 The Western Forest Complex remains the country's main tiger habitat. Closer to us in Pranburi they estimate 3 each in Kaeng Krachan and Kuiburi forest complexes.

Another incredibly useful app that Google is killing off. ⚠️ Google Earth Pro stand alone program for Windows won't be available for download soon & will be phased out. I disagree that the mobile & online versions are the same as they are vastly inferior. 🌏 This is why we can't have nice things. 😞

The skyline just after dawn, looking west towards the Tenasserim Mountains and the Burmese border. 📍 Wang Pong, Pranburi District, Thailand

Models wearing hats designed by Philip Treacy. London (1999) 🎩

At our local temple for Asahala Bucha Day. Tomorrow is the start of Buddhist lent (Khao Pansa) so we'll be walking in procession around the temple three times after the monks are through chanting this evening. ☸️ 📍 Wat Khao Tao, Thailand

In ancient Greece, after Alexander went to what is now India and saw them for the first time, they became a popular figure in Hellenistic Art, often depicted as pulling the Greek goddess Hera's chariot. 🦚

One was walking around when I was out there this morning raking and it was standing right about where our bedroom shall be. As a teenager I worked at the Little Rock Zoo and became quite familiar with their loud call. You can often find their long feathers on bushes and on the ground nearby. 🦚

At our land we have quite the local population of peacocks which are all in the fields and nearby forested ridgeline. They were introduced into a (now disused) royal residence of Queen Sirikit over a half a century ago and have become naturalized in the area and thrive. 🦚 📍 Pranburi, Thailand

Poster created by Edgar Ainsworth for the Empire Marketing Board in 1931 to promote Malaysian canned pineapples. 🍍

"THE BLUE GOD" by Léon Bakst Costume design for Reynaldo Hahn's ballet Le Dieu Bleu (1912)

My home state of Arkansas made the top of the list for food insecurity, violent crime, and lack of protection against discrimination. Is it any surprise why I left shortly after high school? The state has never given a shit about any of these problems, especially now under Huckabee-Sanders. 💩

No time to talk. Places to go, people to see! 🐛💨

Shall never cease to be amazed at orchids. My advice is to amass enough species in your garden such that something is always in bloom, regardless of the time of year. Today's beauty, for example: The Deer Antlered Phalaenopsis Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi (var. deep red) Thai: เขากวางอ่อน 🌱 ☆ 🌿☆ 🪴☆ 🌴

The only person fit for the job would be Rebecca. @wonkette.bsky.social Wonkette forever! 💪

Thanks. It will hopefully soon be our forever home. Here's a shot of it before they harvested the pineapples, and we took possession earlier this year. A lifetime dream. Lots of work ahead!

As an American who has spent more of my life outside the United States than in it, the trajectory of my country the past 10 years has been wildly alarming. I agree with everything this man says. An honest assessment, not at all hyperbole. A dark hour indeed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yay beach! Glanced at the map, and immediately had the urge to paddle around Halfmoon Flat and Big Ram Island too! 🛶

Found a leaf beetle of some kind, likely Parheminodes pulcher, in the garden this morning. It had passed onto the next life but left its impressively shiny body behind for us to enjoy. Hard to capture the deep blue metallic lustre with a phone camera. 🪲 📍 Khao Tao, Thailand

Finally, after nearly 2 years of attemps, I have managed to harvest (hopefully) viable seeds from my black bat flower plant. 95% of the blooms don't get pollinated and those few that do need to mature for over 6 months on the plant in order to fully develop. 🙏 Tacca chantrieri เนระพูสีไทย 🪴🌴🌱🌿

With the start of the monsoons over the past month this small & understated orchid is just coming into bloom. 💚 🤍 💚 🤍 💚 🤍 💚 Vanda vietnamica กุหลาบเวียดนาม (Vietnam Rose) 🌱 • 🪴 • 🌴 • 🌿 📍 Khao Tao, Thailand

The Thai name is: กะเรกะร่อนปากเป็ด Here's some close up of the flowers, which are on a long inflorescence about a meter long.

Cymbidium finlaysonianum var. flava, a rare yellow variant of a native Southeast Asian species. This is the last of a series of blooms over the past 2 months or so. One of my favorite orchids. 🪴 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌴

London billboards speak for all of us, honestly. Carry on. 🇬🇧

I love living somewhere in the world where these beauties are from. I have no Aerides species currently but just ordered two plants ($3 total, including shipping). They appear to be a hybrid cross of Vandachostylis Thai Noi and Aerides houlletiana and supposed to have fragrant blooms. Thanks, Nick!

Phad Thai Khai Khem (ผัดไทยไข่เค็ม) Phad Thai with Salted Egg @ Pad Thai Narok Taek (ร้านผัดไท นรกแตก), just east of Wong Wiang Yai 📍 Bangkok, Thailand 🍜

After the rain... 💦 Monsoon season is the best time of year. 🌧 🌿 ☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌵 ☆ 🌴 📍 Khao Tao, Thailand

I 💚 strange & unusual species. Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior) Pitcher plant (Nepenthes sp.) Carrion plant (Stapelia unicornis) 🌿 ☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌵 ☆ 🌴 📍 Khao Tao, Thailand

What I CANNOT control: *the general state of the world* 🌏 What I CAN control: My nails. 💅 Buzzing into June like...🐝🌼

A beautiful example of women led local resilience across the networks of small Lao villages that suffered the brunt of America's brutal secret bombing campaign generations ago. 🇱🇦