Plants seem to have personalities. I have a couple gorgeous rogue tulips at the base of a Japanese maple (maybe part of a bulb was in backfill soil when we planted it). Grape hyacinths are slowing moving around the yard. A few other tulips date back to first owner of our house (‘70’s). Magic.
Gorgeous shot!
Trial and error really are the best teachers, for so many things!
I can see a connection between quilting and gardening too—taking bits and pieces, sometimes salvaging them, to make a new whole, often over a long time,
Map of US state actions related to COVID-19 vaccine infrastructure from April to December 2025. States are shaded to indicate action types: no action, strengthened, weakened, or both. The map includes notations like "text@0", "text@1", "text@2(1S/1W)", "text@3(2S/1W)", "text@4", and "text@5".
US state-level policy responses to shifting federal guidance varied widely in 2025, with most states acting to preserve #COVID19 vaccination access through standing orders, insurance coverage, or clinician authority.
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The worst cancers with respect to lethality get the least federal funding support
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Not all of us did!
And not people I know with long Covid!
Male with colors of blue, light blue, white, and tan. Oh, and black around the eyes.
Lazuli Bunting!
This was the other morning over at the Paton Center for Buntings
Turn off your porch lights! There be birds up there! 🕊️🐦⬛🦩🪿 Here’s more you can do to help wild birds: www.birds.cornell.edu/home/seven-s... #birds @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
“I live in a world — a pharma world — where half the people think I’m dead, and the other half wish I was.”
Hear the story of a patent lawyer who had a hand in giving pharmaceutical companies monopolies on their most lucrative drugs and his fixes to get more generics on the market 🎧 ⤵️
Don’t tell you made these
Nice collection
🌱🪴 So many beautiful wildflowers, like a treasure hunt, finding them
🌱🪴 Beautiful tree!
Spiky purple flower with many petals, yellow-ish center and long spiky green leaves.
Thank you! I spotted one of these at a reserve here, and websites said it was a weed. interesting flowers. azinvasiveplants.arizona.edu/sites/azinva...
🌱🪴 Cool! When will you be presenting a webinar to the rest of the group? 😁
Wish I’d learned some of this, long ago
Congrats! Wishing you many happy years together!
Y’know, those places where you give talks, libraries, will loan books to you for free that you can return later. 😅
Full disclosure: I started reading 3 e-books this week, requested 2 more and will return the junky hard copy I just checked out, but plan to buy hard copies of 2 of the e-books.
Your painting is turning out very well!
Beautiful pic of serviceberries especially—they look a lot like Star magnolias when in bloom
The taste and scent of home! One important ingredient like familiar bread can make the whole meal taste better. 🍞
A Great Blue Heron takes flight. It's wings are concave as it is lifting into flight.
I saw a nice Great Blue Heron yesterday. I kept clicking as he departed and got a shot where the wings are perfectly concave. Fun, fun click to get!
#birds #GreatBlueHeron
Cheap plane tickets to Canada?
Got a better employment offer in Canada?
Escaping the loons in the U.S.?
Agree, looks like an Oregon junco. I believe most of them migrate up north, except for my year round ding-a-lings who are again trying to nest.
He looks a lot like a black lamb
Bread and circuses
Gorgeous!
However, the indefatigable Junk-O’s have progressed to sitting in the nest, ferrying worms and mouthfuls of moths to each other, up there under the porch roof. May be time to set up the emergency lounge chair/slide beneath pretty soon, in case a baby bird ejects. 🤓
I thought you were referring to the exodus from Congress…
🤨 Winter seems to be sticking like gum on a shoe….
