a hand holding three silica gel packets, two labeled with “do not eat” and one blank

every once in a while, they send an edible one

whaaaaattt discord why

I don’t like when a recipe says “use your hands to…” because I’m not going to do that.

A top-down, full frame of pale pink asters with yellow centers on a sunny day in various states of blooming and withering.

Went to Auckland Botanic Gardens last weekend and the weather was lovely for it (opposite of this weekend it seems) but also super sunny and not good for photos. It did spark some ideas for my own garden though! I like the African and rock gardens best.

Why do washing machines use different minutes than everyone else?

Fully pink leaf on a philodendron ‘pink princess’ with some other out of focus houseplants in the background

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Duolingo language learning streak graphic announcing my 1875-day streak accompanied by Duo the owl in flames with glowing eyes.

I feel like I’ve been especially busy lately, but at the same time haven’t done anything noteworthy.

Albatross Chick Alert! 😍

The world's oldest known banded wild #bird, a Laysan Albatross affectionately known as Wisdom, is officially parent to another chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge!

@friendsofmidway.bsky.social

Full frame of leafy white sage plant, Salvia apiana

I’ve got a fair amount of purple sage but I’m also enjoying this white sage
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Two white bell shaped flowers on a long reddish stem. The background is out of focus.

My Leucojum autumnale bulbs popped right up while I was out of town! So cute!
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Drawing of two turkeys with green feathers facing each other. Their fleshy faces fade from lavender to pink to bright red and their snoods are drooping. The turkey on the left looks a bit displeased while the turkey on the right is judgmental.

“Green Turkeys No. 1 and 2”, mixed media, 2016.

A top-down view of the blue green leaves of Pimelia prostrata “Anatoki Blue” with a tiny cluster of four white four petaled flowers and some additional flower buds.

Daphne has the cutest, teeniest flowers coming in 🥺

I’ve noticed recently my current phone doesn’t do very well with close ups, which is a bit disappointing at times.
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being a gardener who is afraid of bugs is such a stupid combination of personality traits to have why am i like this

The compound leaves of a small Polemonium “purple rain” mingling with the tiny leaves of Acaena inermis purpurea, Acaena antarctica, flowering spreading thyme, and opportunistic wood sorrel, next to some grey stones with sunlight dappling across the image.

There are a few patches of the garden which are so charmingly overgrown and perfect… why can’t it all look like this?
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Hey!

Five mostly-assembled “whirlwind” patchwork blocks in pinks and blues hanging on a grey gridded design wall. Pink bunting hangs above and two block printed felt turkeys are supervising from the righthand side.

Quilt update: I’ve completed four more blocks in the past week, but “completed” isn’t really the right word as they are each in six pieces…. I could sew the halves together, but I wanted to get a feel for the project before tackling matching all those points!
#quiltsky #wip

A purple passionfruit cut in half revealing its yellow, seedy interior on a tiny white plastic cutting board next to a rustic artisanal hand-forged knife with wooden handle and a coppery teaspoon. There is a stainless steel saucepan full of passionfruit pulp in the background with its glass lid. Everything is sitting on what looks like really nice end-grain countertop but is actually a veneer IKEA kitchen island.

Today, I am cooking the annual P fruity soup 💛

Fancy handmade knife by @reconfine.com

Forgot to mention, I may have preordered some Leucojum to mix in… 😊

Close-up of a white crocus-like rain lily with yellow stamen between a wooden raised bed and grey paver border next to some pebbles. A silvery wormwood frond is growing over the top. iPhone plant identification is confused by this leaf/flower combo and thinks this is a California poppy 😆

I planted a significant quantity of rain lily (Zephyranthes candida) bulbs in July-ish(?) to try to fill this gap, but they haven’t done much until I noticed this cutie peeping out from under the wormwood.
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Thank you!

In-progress “whirlwind” quilt block made up of 4 slightly flattened scrappy pink hexagon shapes containing white Xs on a solid chartreuse background. The block is laid out on a grey cutting mat and surrounded by freezer paper templates, a rotary cutter, scissors, and a seam ripper.

I’m not normally a repeating block kind of guy, but lately I’ve been wanting a project I can chip away at without much thinking (and to use up some scraps).
These blocks interlock with their neighbors so some organization to keep the associated pieces together will be required…
#quilting ✂️

Did some foundation paper piecing for the first time in a long time and it took me a second to remember what to do…. then I realised the seams pressed to one side isn’t going to work for me, so I immediately unpicked it 🙃I’m using individual freezer paper templates instead! #quilting

Metaflora Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Plant!

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🍁 Plant #482 🍁
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 8

flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora

Light magenta wild bergamot flower next to an unopened bud and foliage of the same plant. In the background is the out of focus darker foliage and purple flower clusters of heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens).

Started wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) this year and it’s doing well, though the larger bumblebees seem a little confused what to do with this flower shape. Yummy pizza flavored leaves for us humans!
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Woman in pink glasses wearing a purple short sleeve collared dress with buttons up the front and a mid-thigh length circle skirt. She is also wearing terra cotta colored textured tights and mustard yellow cowboy boots. She is posed with one leg bent and straight arms next to a medium size potted monstera in front of a white door and bookshelf.

This was one of my favorite handmade dresses when I finished sewing it back in 2023. Unfortunately, I have even more biceps now, so I need to rework the sleeve cuffs.

It’s the Colette Penny in a secondhand woolly fabric.

Thanks for sharing this feature! I want to include alt text but I’m also forgetful and I wouldn’t have thought to look for such a setting 🙂

A small round dahlia flower, not completely open, with velvety dark burgundy petals.

This blossom on ‘Ryan C’ seems to have realized this is a goth garden… is there a special name for an anomalous flower that looks different than the rest on the same plant?

The face of a girl with pink hair and empty green eyes on a pink background. Her index fingers are pressed together at her chin with her hands forming a vague inverted heart. She is wearing only a magnolia flower head dress and hair ribbons, and has red mushrooms growing from her shoulders. Hovering mudpuppies look on from either side.

‘JP Mudpuppy’, digital drawing, 2021.

This was an exercise in knowing when to stop. There are certainly a lot of areas that could’ve been more fleshed out here, but then it may have never been finished…

A quilt featuring the face of an improv pieced pink pig in profile with a scrappy partial lone star design in yellow, black, and grey print fabrics. The quilt is being held up in front of an overgrown stone wall.

“Wish You Were Here”, cotton fabric, 2016.

A single bright pink dahlia with pointed “semi cactus” petals backlit by a sunbeam in front of several out-of-focus buds. There is a lovely clear blue morning sky over the unfinished wooden fence in the background.

The last of the dahlias to start blooming, despite being in what I thought was the superior garden position 🤔 ‘Glenbank Joy’
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