Grace Plants

I keep forgetting to post here. Been busy in the garden weeding, building tuteurs and trellises, and playing plant tetris

🌱🌿#pnwgardening

Yellow flag with a penguin saying “Don’t tread on me”

Hello? Is this thing still on?

Three photos of spring plants in a collage: galanthus white snowdrops, purple crocus, tulips around a steel container with dogwood twigs

Decided to totally rewrite my workshop that I am giving this week.

#gardenspeaker #gardenworkshop #gardenphotography

Here is a nice Hellebore photographed against a blurry backdrop that I made by deliberately changing the focus on a shoot and passing through a gaussian blur post process. #F8andBeThere

All my other pics of the #NWFGS are on my insta account but this was too cute not to share here #gardenphotographer

Coffee Boosts Beneficial Gut Bacterium Researchers found a strong connection between coffee and the gut microbiome

Large epidemiologic studies have consistently shown an association between coffee and improved health outcomes. This may be one of the reasons: favorable changes to the gut microbiome 🏢🏢

www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...

A link between yogurt intake and reduce risk of colon cancer, from cohort of over 130,00 participants, with inverse relationship to Bifidobacterium in gut microbiome
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... open-access

Google for example, am trying to untangle their clutches. Keeping mail but ditching other stuff!

Three small Macarons on a white plate with a orange paper background and an orange napkin. Choice of same colors allows the play of light and shadows to be the story

Been a busy week where I taught two smartphone photo classes.

I want to update my main class to add different images, not just gardening. Probably more food and architecture.

And I want to develop my Flatlay class.

Any other class ideas?

#floralflatlay
#foodphotography #gardenphotography 🌱

Different varieties smell better

Exactly though in my case it’s deep in a crate somewhere which I will find as soon as I buy a new one

Yeah I'm kinda stuck on that step too. I found the hooks but lost the chains already.

closeup view of spidery red petals of hamamelis Diane witch-hazel

Here is a nice witch-hazel. 'Diane' smells like soap.

🌱 #gardensky #bloomscrolling #pnwgardening
#hamamelis #focusstack #photography #macro
#macrophotography #winterplants #winterscent

Log cabin in the woods with smoke from chimney

No new pope today but at least we’re staying warm.

Armchair Oncology Some people earn their degrees from Dr. Google

Where I share my musings about the #gut #microbiome and armchair #oncology ( here's some word salad: #colorectal #cancer #CRC #colontown #fiber #fibre)

open.substack.com/pub/gracehen...

I disagree - potatoes, brown rice, lentils, chickpeas, peanut butters, seaweed, oatmeal, mushrooms ... all pretty reasonably priced sources of fiber. Admittedly a bit boring without fresh apples or kale; hard to find in food pantries. I'm totally speaking from privilege so let me know if I'm wrong.

Hellebore ‘cinnamon snow’ in a nursery setting with winter sunlight

Scheming about using #Hellebores as “just” a groundcover

🌱 #gardensky #bloomscrolling #pnwgardening

creamy brown frosty rose bud in winter with a blurred green background

Playing around with ChatGPT by uploading some target images and asking it how to create that look and feel in lightroom, then following the 'recipe'. Lots to learn.

🧵 👋 I'm a political scientist who wrote a book about the recent collapse of two democracies (Egypt & Tunisia).

Given the anxieties of today, let me present a 🧵 with thoughts & resources for:

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DEMOCRACY COLLAPSES:

I sure would like it for an army of people to deep clean my house and stock it with my favorite food while I’m out.

Two questions, can they come every month instead of 4 years, and is there enough room for all of my favorite cheeses?

Article in the Seattle Times Pacific Magazine about The Inspired Landscape, with my hand holding the page open flat.

In which I seem more important than I really am:

www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

full palm leaf closeup

Here's the unsliced version.

Right? So trippy

A single image of a palm leaf split into three slices

Here is a nice #palm #triptych, carefully shaving off 5 pixels of each slice so the lines would line up. #gardenphotographer #detailsMatter #AmazonSpheres

My lucky “speaking to #garden clubs” socks have beets and carrots on them.

#gardenspeaker #gardenphotography #introvert #selfcare

Seattle Taiko Drummers at Bainbridge Mochi Tsuki Festival

Book held open to a spread of a garden container with a yucca and pansies being watered.

First time I got a photo actually printed in a book! One down, 1000 to go! #desertGardening #droughtTolerantPlants #drygardens #azplantlady

Here is my free article all about emulsifiers; my poor gut: open.substack.com/pub/gracehen...

Persimmon on teal blue paper with a corner of orange paper showing.

Here is a nice #persimmon for Friday Fruit Phone Photography Flatlay day. I also just made that up. But I am going to give a webinar about it.

#flatlay #phonephotography #floralflatlay #minimalism #gardenspeaker

I do this frequently. Ever notice that "Cancel" and "Dismiss" both do exactly the same on FB ... and that neither works Eff-All?