Sea Salt Blooms

A mason jar full of of pink and purple tulips and purple lilacs rest on a wooden lazy Susan on a blue table with a wooden window in the background.

We are due more snow tmrrw & it’s probably not even winter’s last hurrah. I’m self soothing remembering these leftover tulip & lilac blooms I brought in for us. We grow a lot of flowers for others & sometimes I forget to bring them in for us too but I’m trying to be better! #bloomscroll #flowerfarm

this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg

A handful of orange tulips in front of metal raised beds on a sunny day with trees in the background.

Finally hitting 50 Fahrenheit this weekend but still weeks away from these blooms which just feels unfair 😂 Maine is worth it though! #bloomscroll #flowerfarm #tulips #spring #midcoastmaine

What if we all just said no to this relentless changing of the clocks? I. Am. Not. A. Fan.

TENNESSEAN: “A recent study by ITEP estimated the # of undocumented immigrants working in the U.S. is between 7-8 million with an estimated payroll of nearly $280 billion. This represents almost 5% of the total U.S. workforce.” www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Close up photo of pink, pastel, peach, and lilac zinnias. Sone are fully double, sone are singles.

Close up photo of some of my Floret zinnias last season. One of my goals this year is to take more (& much better) photos. I love this one though? I remember I was so hot that day these zinnias & I were SO happy to get back in to my cool flower studio! #bloomscroll #flowerfarm #zinnias #gardening

a banner which reads Trans Rights Are Human Rights surrounded by stars and yellow roses

Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!

Ahhhhh! I get that 100%. I’m firing all of her dahlias. I should have picked that up from the grown from cutting but I have the flu and brain fog so I didn’t 🫠 I had a bunch last year sadly. Not as many as some tho!

Bloomquist Alan?

Sending love to you. We can honor and appreciate some of our past traditions while knowing the world can be a better place due to its diversity, science, compassion, empathy and love for all the people & creatures under the sun.

#homecooking #gardening #farmsky #homesteading 🍽️ 🌱

@altfws.altgov.info if any of the fish and wildlife service, people contact you pass this on.

Photo of a bucket of celosia flowers in shades of red, coral, and yellow. Some apricot lemonade cosmos are also tucked in the bucket.

Last year was my first year growing a lot of celosia (successfully) and I really fell in love with its feathery fun spiky shape. Along with strawflower I want to grow SO much of it this year! #bloomscroll #flowerfarm #gardening #celosia

Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.

Sam Alito gave cities more leeway to dump raw sewage into our water supply by deploying a sleight of hand so clumsy that it would fail to impress a kindergarten class.

This isn't statutory interpretation. It's a gut renovation of the Clean Water Act on behalf of polluters. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Honestly pretty funny that Republicans spent four years warning that the Democratic president was a senile, checked-out vegetable who’d handed control of the government over to unelected extremists

And to you! I can’t get king cake locally I just order it from NOLA or make it myself. So I’m envious! My kids LOVE to try to find the baby!

Photo of a cup of soft serve ice cream with a spoon in it and Mardi Gras colors of purple, green, and gold sprinkles. Photo taken in a car.

I lived in New Orleans for a long time and marveled how we could have such a rich insane holiday when everywhere else it was just Tues. Now I live everywhere else and I’m still amazed. Anyhow, here’s some King Cake ice cream and happy Mardi Gras everyone!

Trump’s heist in broad daylight [FREE TO READ] Having previously declared bitcoin to be a ‘scam’, the US president now wants to add it to the Fed’s balance sheet

"The most striking aspect to Trump's crypto reserve and the scrapping of anti-money laundering rules, which together amount to a global charter for criminals, is that he's making no effort to dress them up. This pig has no lipstick." My column. on.ft.com/43kiBOu

Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Vermont understood the assignment.
Take notes, America.

In the foreground are tall purple open center dahlias turned to face the golden sunset in the background.

And a sunset photo from my other garden. I put some seedling dahlias there last year because I put them like everywhere I could 😂. Sunset is always so lovely in this spot. But the seedlings didn’t get enough sun I think! #bloomscroll #gardening #flowerfarm #dahlias #sunset

Photo of dahlia Hollyhill Starburst. A laciniated (spiky petals) pink and white dahlia just above a wooden raised bed side. It’s surrounded by greenery.

Five mins of scrolling was more than I could take this morning before I had to go back to flowers. This is Hollyhill Starburst, a dahlia I bought on a whim last year and ended up loving so much. So did my littles! I should grow more maybe! #bloomscroll #dahlias #gardening #flowerfarm #midcoastmaine

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How Zelensky's lack of a suit may have fuelled Oval Office spat The Ukrainian president's military-style attire came up before he was upbraided by President Trump and JD Vance.

I don't say this lightly, but the BBC are really not up to this moment.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.

“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"

Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

We have had heat pumps for a few years now. Zero regrets. We were due to get solar this summer but now… 🤯

That is epic! I 💕 them!