Medawisla in Maine

Rainbow swiss chard harvested & laying in the sunshine

Eat the rainbow! Swiss chard going into new soup recipe... #medawislagrows Soon #medawislatastes Recipe link: adventuresincooking.com/broccoli-cha...

Bright pink of yarrow pops against driveway on right and brown oak leaves left

Got some late blooms of yarrow here, yeh natives!

Rainbow swiss chard in a box

Shadow of a person on lawn at 1500 EST 45d N

2025 Frost supermoon rising

Rainbow swiss chard in a box

Frost supermoon means (almost) last harvest of rainbow swiss chard and long shadows 🌈🌱🌞

Beautiful! Big fan of the golden beetle here! 🤩

Multiple colors of ingredients cover penne pasta prior to a sprinkling of parm cheese

Green and purple kaleidoscope of chopped African blue basil on a wooden cutting board

Bright yellow-orange bell pepper slices sit ina metal bowl beside other mise en place ingredients

The last red tomatoes chucked up in a metal bowl beside other mise en place ingredients

Last-of-the-season pasta #medawislatastes Who else is still eating garden-fresh veggies in New England?

Ladybugs are so much fun! 🐞💜🐾

Highbush cranberry burns red on the left, as the serviceberry on the right reveals its orange, in front of the yellow-green elderberry dropping more and more leaves everyday

Where'd the season go? Oh right, summer drought followed by fall food processing... peak foliage ended but the shrubbery stands out! #medawislagrows

Pattern against a bright blue background featuring flat illustration of Juncos and yellow fall Ginkgo leaves

Juncos and ginkgos! 🐦 🍂

A blue, fuzzy, tiny aphid rests on a purple cuff, hand in background to show temporary wings for the purpose of mating flights

Blue fuzzbutts return in flight! www.nordmi.com/post/meet-bl...

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

Two halves of biscuits rest at top of bowl full of baked beans

Finally! Traditional Maine baked beans (no ketchup) with nontraditional jalapeño cheddar biscuits 🌶 #medawislatastes

Progression...but then, a set back canning peppers: 1 broken jar = 1hr longer night...ooops! #medawislatastes or tries to...

A green wall of cast iron and map of Maine; smokey, because some is in use! 🤣

Fears... everytime i go to hang one up...

Yellow (or ochre) eyed, white beans, soaking in reflective water, in a metal bowl

If ya know ya know...come back tomorrow for what #medawislatastes 😁

Last bluesky post of a #JaneGoodall organization before passing today...heart with future (and current) people but within the wilderness of Earth 🐞💜🌍

Barred owl 🦉

Fresh-egg pasta.looks like lemon-yellow underneath a creamy Alfredo and opal purple basil and white shredded parmesan

Grilled zucchini latkes topped with a tomato bruschetta/tabbouleh and leftover, homemade dill dressing, with a side of charred shishitos (at 9 o'clock)

Especially when zucchini season is still strong?...so: Alfredo one night and latkes the next... #medawislagrows #medawislatastes

Fuchsia colored Symphyotrichum flowers with bright, deep orange centers, against a green background

Light purple Symphyotrichum with golden centers, against green background

Bright white Symphyotrichum with yellow centers, against green background speckled with more white asters

Trio of Symphyotrichum sp. All the Asters! Happy September frome Maine! #medawislasights

Photo by Julio Mulero of a White-throated Swift in flight with a large bulge below its beak. Text on the image says: Hope your weekend is as full of fun as this White-throated Swift's mouth is full of insects! Bonus Unsolicited Bird Fact: When White-throated swifts are collecting insects to bring back to their nestlings, they glue them together with their saliva to form a "bolus" (that's science speak for blob.) They hold the bolus in their mouth, not their crop, so there's often a visible bulge.

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Alfredo zucchini here tonight 😁💜🐻

Excited to share that TNC has reached an agreement for the purchase of four dams on the Kennebec River – a critical step in a long journey to reconnect more than 800 miles of rivers and streams: https://nature.ly/46n2dxV

#KennebecRiverRestoration

Processing season! What do you all cook for quick meals because feet hurt from all the work of standing by pots all day?? #medawislatastes

You would know! 😁 Please keep us posted if you'd like us to return the bounty you shared with us last year... 🌱💜🍻

I’ve redrawn the September page from my new book as a coloring sheet! Here's a to the hi-resolution download.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jada-...
Happy coloring!

#forestrevealed #coloring #colouring #adultcoloring #coloringtherapy #communitycoloring #coloringbook #coloringpage

Purple onions are a new fav! With green tops from recent watering, they lay bulb forward on the dirt in the sun to cure

A bumble bee does her thing on a fuchsia new england aster

Purple onions (red bull variety) lay with green tops on garden mounds

Brasella alba "rubra" spinach climbs bamboo poles shooting out green leaves; gray fence and green hedge in background; green posts and wire fence in foreground

Around the homestead: harvested onions to cure in the week of no rain that continues the 2025 drought; bumbles smother blooming asters; the new spinach vine surprised with delight! #medawislagrows #medawislasights

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters. We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.

Blossoms. Rivers. Moss.

Nature is disappearing from our language and our lives. @grist.org

BirdNote Helps You Get to Know Your Neighborhood | BirdNote Spreading knowledge about birds to connect people with their ecosystems

BirdNote adds another dimension to how you understand the place you live — by understanding the birds. Our hope is that by spreading knowledge about birds, BirdNote is helping you become more connected to your local ecosystems.

birdnote.org/podcasts/bir...

Rolled homemade pizza dough with homemade Alfredo for sauce on top.of a homemade pizza peel awaits pizza toppings

Same thin pizza after baking with dark chicken-of-the-woods strips and green, cooked spinach leaves among other peppers, etc.

Now, this.is.flat.crust! #medawislatastes chicken-of-the-woods bartered for #homegrown ingredients like Basella alba rubra spinach & red onion that made this amazing #pizza

Monarch feeds on a red zinnia in #Maine

Yellow green shishito peppers charred from the grill glisten with oil & salt before being devoured

Several multi-colored sunflowers line a flower patch, with rudbeckia & zinnia in the meix; beeblm and asters in the background

Subtle signs of summer surrendering to autumn... #medawislasights #medawislatastes #medawislagrows

Totally, trade mark those: strawberry Bismarck cupcakes! 🤩