Blooms & Greens

Kind of remind me of rocket with their peppery leaves. I prefer rocket but love the flowers!

Thanks!

Thanks! I have not tried pickling the seeds. Would like to try that one of these days.

These ones “trapped” aphids. They’re sacrificial plants, one hopes the aphids would eat these and leave the other plants alone.

Different colored cherry tomatoes with greenery around them; rounded leaves in a vine with yellow and orange flowers.

🌱 Most of the toms are gone now. I still have nasturtium stragglers; they did really well this year as trap plants in the vege plots. I can’t do without them and marigolds in the garden.

I stopped by to say hi to the sandhill cranes today. I wonder what they were talking about! 🪶

Oh my! They are chatty. Glad you got to say hi!

I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope you can see somebody soon and have a quick recovery. I know what you mean about rural hospitals. Typical ER wait time where I am is about 6hours. I understand you’re attended quicker if you get there by ambulance.🥺

Wow!

A fresh arrival of brilliant red Amanita mushrooms arrived along the lakeshore.

A new family moved in over night! 📷🍄 ….

I’m curious what’s the brag line of any current employee - I’m well qualified, I passed the open book test?

Congratulations and best wishes! 🌻🌷🌺

A wide variety of sizes and colors of heirloom tomatoes from orange to red to yellow to very dark purple and deep green. Maybe some deep purple opal basil leaves, calendula flowers in light pink and yellow, zinnia flowers in hot pink and orange

Lucia grew veggies in front of her house for 35 years. EVERYONE knew her. I cried with neighbors, and went away with everyone’s names - Lucia was still growing community even as she left us. 💚 Grow in your front yard, your parking strip. Grow community. It’s needed more than ever.
Be a seed 🌱(3/3)

Photo of a wooden boardwalk leading forward far into the distance, surrounded on either side by tall reeds under a blue sky with cotton clouds.

Following the path, autumn is bursting out all over. 🍂

A basket with black tomato fruits shown. A variety of small yellow red orange flowers (Mexican zinnias) spread across the basket.

🌱 These are the last of the Midnight Roma. Delightfully black and unique in the garden.

A mass of white & pink daisy flowers with yellow centres

Erigeron karvinskianus has gone forth & multiplied for many years now - it flowers for months on end, adding a bit of cheer on gloomy days #GardensHour 🌱

Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling. Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.

NYT made an astounding discovery: the rich have money, the poor don't.

“People in South Shore have felt starved for the attention of government, of anyone in power, for decades,” he said. “It seems like an especially cruel irony that, when such attention finally comes, it takes the form of hostile theater — making a spectacle out of beating up on poor people.”

A tabby cat wearing a crown

No Kings #Caturday ❤️

Thank you!

Flowers in shades of white, pink and magenta arranged closed up in a grid.

Happy #SixOnSaturday. Enjoy the persistent cosmos still flowering in the garden.

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎

www.opb.org/article/2025...

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Three burrowing owls standing together, two are looking at the camera, one is looking up in the air.

Good morning! 🪶

I’m so sorry Jen. 💐

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

Thank you💐

An arrangement of various pumpkins of different colors and sizes.the two carved pumpkins are decorative ones we have carted around forever

🌱 Im not ready for fall but the pumpkins are ready! The small ones were grown in the garden.

Red/pink flowers with yellow center arranged around a mound of different colored tomatoes

🌱 This will be one of the last few hauls from the garden. Mornings are getting chilly. Something for the memory bank till next season.