Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝

A zoomed out photo of the rattlesnake sitting in the shade of a travertine stone ledge.

(zoomed out so you can see I was a couple meters away)

A pinkish tan snake with dark dorsal blotches and a long rattle lies coiled up in similarly colored sand. It also has black and white stripes on its tail right above the rattle. The eye is very elegant, with a vertical slit like Sauron's.

I just love rattlesnakes, they are the embodiment of chill. Especially these ones in Grand Canyon that probably see a lot of hikers every day. 🐍

You live in Idaho and consequentially spend three weeks each spring covered in Ponderosa sperm. No need to balk now.

How beautiful, is that harlequin Streptocarpus? I love it.

A glossy green bee forages on the anthers of a fishhook pincushion cactus. The flower has long, pinkish purple petals. The cactus has a covering of tan spines above which are raised black hooks.

Imagine if architects designed restaurants for people that looked like what plants grow for bees. 💅

#虫 #nativeplants

I have been the same weird the whole time; your expectations are your own problem.

The real treasure was the plants we killed along the way.

I don't know, it's what the nursery sent so I assume it's functional. Hopefully antimicrobial? I've only ever killed them so don't ask me.

I have tons of Spanish moss, actually.

Are these all your ferrets, photographs, and art? Because I love your vibe and want to follow and support your profile, but the internet is full of stolen and misappropriated content pirates, so...?

Just requested the purchase from my library. My kids are going to love this. Thank you, Tennessee rednecks, for being the Streisand Effect that this book needed. #booksky

Humorous how Bluesky has cropped the pine out of both photos like an ex-husband.

A little block of cedar wood with some live Spanish moss hiding a few small leafless ghost orchids.

I guess I'm ready to be hurt again - ghost orchids are back in the greenhouse cabinet. Please don't die. 🤞🌱

The little girl on the school bus sitting next to a young Forrest Gump quizzically asks him a question.

You are such an irredeemable nerd, I love everything about this post.

Also - mute is my default, and after watch a few seconds of your silent, head-bobbing speech in this video before clicking on it, I was nearly convinced that you were going to be doing karaoke, hahaha

I've never heard of anyone growing strawberries from seed, this is amazing.

Air plants are easy to kill, I've done it several times.

A couple white cabinets with shelves covered in orchids and a few stray places from other families.

Some of them are. Moth orchid hybrids and Dendrobium orchids don't need much light or humidity in winter. But the Catts and Vandaceous orchids are getting blasted with light in an IKEA greenhouse cabinet, while the species Phals, Oncidiums, and Epidendrums are in darker cabinet corners.

You did a great job, to the point that this scared me a little bit because I saw the photo next to your hand before I read the caption, haha.

Haha...neither. The sun is a very rare visitor in the Inland Northwest between Thanksgiving and Easter, and I can't afford to heat a greenhouse (we are amid the warmest winter ever and it still hasn't gotten above freezing since the 18th). I use a crapload of LED shop and grow lights in the winter.

Wow! Is that first one Rhynchostylis gigantea? It's lovely. You should put descriptive ALT text on your lovely photos so that we can see what they are (and to also help vision impaired people).

This time of year, they are cowering inside in absolute terror at the instant death looming just outside the windows.

There's a little bit of forced perspective here as I'm actually holding the stems below the flowers, but yes - they look bigger because they open flat, unlike the tubular flowers of Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti.

Take it easy, cactus, don't want to overwork yourself, haha.

Two large red, daisy-like cactus flowers held in my fingers. They have 12-15 long pointed petals each, with a cluster of anthers and a big white stigma protruding out.

Congratulations, everyone, you made it to EASTER CACTUS SEASON! A bit early, but...it's Easter in like...the southern hemisphere, right? Anyway: please enjoy the best holiday cactus (Thanksgiving cacti can please see themselves out). 🪴🌱

I have a pretty chaotic sense of humor so I found the whole thing deeply entertaining.

A photo of a cliff face in Grand Canyon that has four or five muddy waterfalls hundreds of feet tall pouring off them.

Cap'n Canyon: OOPS, ALL WATERFALLS edition

One time when we were rafting it started hailing & pummeling everyone & we were all like "WTF, yo" & we sought shelter underneath a ledge at the edge of the river but then that ledge turned into a flash flood & there were rocks falling down so we were like AAAAHHHH and had leave. #hydrology

Me standing under a Paco pad in the middle of the river during a rainstorm.

I'm the normal one, they're not even bipedal!

I haven't either. It takes a sterile lab & special equipment because orchid seeds don't have any endosperm, so you have to inoculate a nutritious media (e.g., agar) or have symbiotic fungi for the seedling to grow. But you can buy flasks of tiny seedlings to grow larger, which is what I did.