Eli's Native Plants

Walking in Assabet River National Wildlife refuge is a treat in any seaon. I always see birds. I didn't hear the Redwinged Blackbirds announce their return, I was lucky enough to watch some chatty Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) get a nightcap.
#ecoregion59 #wildlife #bluebirds #wetlands #nature #winter

The edges are Red Maple and Grey Birch with White Pines. Often there's more shrub than this, but the water gets deep quickly here.

Woolgrass (Scirpus cyperinus) is a staple monocot, but there's more Cattail (genus Typha) by far nowadays.

Marshy meadows connect to oxbow lakes. Beavers compound the complexity. This seems like newer wetland to me; somewhere drought-tolerant White Pine (Pinus strobus) were suddenly out standing in the marsh, then soon dead.

Bluebirds getting a drink at sunset, from one of the few open-water areas left in this wetland.

Would you walk on a MA swamp? I do, with snowshoes. Here's a little part of Assabet National Wildlife Refuge.

Tom Turkey Posse, leading the return to the trail, after my arrival scared the Rafter up into the woods.

Tom himself, getting a peck at the freshest, sunniest grass, showing his colors.

The Rafter (flock of Turkeys) in the woods behind, and emerging along the snow-free trail, examining and pecking at the edges.

A Turkey trail Tuesday to you. May you see something bright and beautiful, like these Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in a snowy trail at sunset. Or, rather, a snow-surrounded, snow-free trail. One that was good for scratching and pecking in the grasses on the snowy edge.

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If we want to fight back, to get the word out, we have to do it or fund it.

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Leaders: The problem is complex and multi-layered The problem: Lobbyists Politicians Voters

If it's so fucking difficult to uphold the Constitution, just resign.

If you're willing to speak out publicly against upholding the Constitution, EG. By stating that it's "to hard" to have a judicial warrant before breaking into someone's home, you're a traitor to your oath.

I'm not boycotting them all yet. I will be. It takes some work, changing your phone provider, your email provider, streaming services. It takes time.

The work of resisting fascism.
This isn't too much. Laying down and letting ICE walk on our Constitution and abuse our neighbors is too much.

What you would have done in Germany in the late 30s is what you're doing here today.

If you're taking bigger actions, did you miss the little ones that have a profound impact when we do them en masse? #BOYCOTT!
#boycottICE #boycottAmazon #boycottATT #boycottGoogle

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So far what we've seen is the opposite. A wave of support for progressive policy bringing in independents. Keeping the Left moving to Center is the play of the billionaire-run dem Think Tanks, not the actual best move for bringing I'm voters. This is a class war, and the traitors are PAC-controlled.

The plan is to advertise harder. $100 million in AIPAC funding and hundreds of millions in corporate PAC funding should do the trick, right? 20X increased.

We need to show up to primaries. Then we need to vote for whoever we think is least likely to betray their constituents. A class war, remember.

Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) cyme: an inflorescence that blooms from the center (terminal flower) out, otherwise like an umbel (umbrella-shaped inflorescence at the end of a stem). Flowers have 5 little white petals and 5 stamens with little yellow round balls of pollen on top

Side and bottom views of Elderberry inflorescences. They begin with a flat top like an umbel, then the cyme blooms from the center, curling back at the edges.

Elderberry Sawfly larva on Sambucas canadensis. Sawflies are welcome guests here. They nibble the foliage, and are found by finches as they work their way up the plants. I have yet to see them do any significant damage. They're just trying to live their lives, and cycling some of those plant sugars and proteins up into the food chain.

Elderberry, 9-12' tall in a habitat behind a path crowded by Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).

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Multiple types of Human prints, stretching into the distance on a frozen pond, with white pines bordering the edges above Grey Birches, Red Maples, Cattails...

Cross country ski tracks in the hardened snow shell on the pond. White Pines in the distance.

A snowshoe trail and my shadow stretching away across the snowy pond toward White Pines on the shore

Lowering sun over the lake

#Assabet National Wildlife Refuge: I like to step off the trail when the snow is deep. With a floating step that never pierces the snowpack, no plants are harmed. Plus, walk on H2O!

I took hundreds of pictures of White Pines (Pinus strobus)!
#winter #adventures #nativePlants #wetland #ecoregion59

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Here's a good list of progressive grassroots funded candidates to support for primaries.
I've had it with Jackals like Jared Golden who vote to betray their constituents for their PAC campaign donors or when their card is called by Jeffries. Jared card is always on top of the deck. #TipOfTheICEberg

Great message, and a beautiful Keffiyeh

Let's get representatives who will not betray the will of the people: hopefully these. I will gladly update the list based on feedback about funding sources.

Talarico is not incl due to a casino deal with Texas Sands PAC (controlled a by MAGA billionaire): I'll support him but he missed this cut.

Yeah, get out #MAGAMarie!

After voting to allow ICE to strip search children without their parents present? After voting to increase ICE funding? After voting to disenfranchise millions of voters through the #SAVEAct?

Worst of the #Traitorous7, tip top of the #tipOfTheICEberg, foe of democracy.

Beautiful. Love of the freedom our country has promised us our whole lives is going to continue uniting us.

This is how a good human being responds to evils committed by their government.

She knows she's hated after repeatedly betraying us.

Voted yes to ICE strip-searching kids without their parents present
Voted yes to increase ICE funding
Voted yes to the SAVE act #HR22

Let's get candidates that won't betray us. Let's all show up for primaries.
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Thanks perfect response! Let's get serious about promoting the graduate politicians who will vote to represent the will of their constituents instead of betraying them

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Thanks! I'll keep spreading it around and end encouraging people to look for the grassroots-funded progressives in their local primaries.

Jared the Jackal Golden is one of the sellouts from AIPAC who betrays his constituents often.

He's one of the #Traitorous7 who voted to increase #ICE funding. He voted to disenfranchise millions of voters through the #SaveAct, and undermine the midterms.

GTFO you traitor, we don't want you here.

These #grassroots #progressive #candidates / #reps are going up against hundreds of millions of dollars of #PAC money. Let's get serious about the primaries, and supporting them.

I made this list because I started looking them up here, and to my dismay many had <200 followers. Let's change that.

She can't. They aren't legally allowed to reveal what the DOJ has redacted. She would be arrested by the corrupt FBI. Perhaps that is part of the reason they are being tracked: they can be charged if what they find is leaked. I think another reason is so Epstein cabal members can cover their asses.

We need to be checking @trackaipac.com and we all need to get out to primaries and clean House!

Here's a list of grassroots progressives who give me hope. They are going up against $100 million in AIPAC funding, and 100s more from Corp. PACs for their opponents. Please help support them.