Grace Simms

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IT Librarian - legal tech advocate, law & tech prof
💕 Rick Astley, Twilight, Duran2, V Mars, Jurassic Park!
Bird photographer/avid birder http://gracelsimms.com

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Brown-headed Cowbird - Hazel Green, AL 🪶

Grasshopper Sparrow - Hazel Green, AL 🪶

A camouflaged Black-throated Blue Warbler - Huntsville, AL 🪶

Eastern Screech-Owl - Huntsville, AL 🪶

Summer Tanager - Huntsville, AL 🪶

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks - Huntsville, AL 🪶

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Amid the cacophony of pelting rain, exploding fuse boxes and cracking tree limbs, another sound followed Tropical Storm Beryl across the Houston area on Monday: the mating call of the male Gulf Coast toad.

Tropical Storm Beryl Spawned a Symphony of Spawning Toadswww.nytimes.com As the storm crossed Houston on Monday morning, the call of the toads echoed from every flooded street corner.

Blackpoll Warbler - Huntsville, AL 🪶

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.