little plants

My bleeding hearts are growing. My ox tongues are growing. My bluebells are growing (I keep hoping they'll one year do well). 

I'm attending an online presentation on creative photography. He said the role of the photographer is to make what is not visible, visible. Be a seer. 

Ukraine has been online thanks to Starlink, but Elon is mercurial and not to be trusted so they've focused on getting their regular internet infrastructure back up. They've laid or repaired 3,200 km of fiber optic cable and built or rebuilt 1,500 cell towers since the 2022 invasion. Ukraine's mobile communications is about 77% of it pre-war capacity. As Russia repeatedly attacked the electricity infrastructure, Ukraine turned to better batteries to power the cell towers. The Canadian government funded 172 batteries from Poland weighing 6.5 tons. The organization that bought them is crowdfunding for a second shipment. The internet means freedom from only Russian propaganda and connection with families and friends. 

Russia has lost more than 70 aircraft according to the top US Air Force commander in Europe. There is now a virtual stalemate in the skies. 

You remember the claim that anti-government activists in Belarus blew up a Russian surveillance aircraft? And then the claim that they didn't? Belarus says it is detaining more than 20 people who didn't blow up the aircraft. 

Generally there are videos to prove the claims and the latest video shows a Ukrainian drone flying right into the open hatch of a Russian tank.