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Diagram of 3 flowers: On the right side is a flower with both male & female parts (an ovary in the center with 5 anthers on long stems surrounding it). In the center is a female flower with only an ovary. On the right is a flower with only the male anthers. Text says, "When male and female flowers are borne on separate plants, that specis is dioecious."

Dioecious: When plants produce male or female flowers, but not both. This ensures cross pollination. There are quite a few familiar species that are dioecious such as hollies, maples, most grapes, persimmons, date palms, red cedars, & more. Read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2024/09/grap...

October 2025 #eBirdStats showing 10 checklists & 22 species

October 2025 #eBirdStats

Photograph of a flowering Yucca plant in a Florida habitat

The latest Paul Rebmann Nature Photography newsletter is about Florida Yucca plants www.wildflphoto.com/nl/nl202510....

Just some of the crowd at It’s About Dam Time kickoff at Azalea Brewery in Palatka tonight #FreeTheOcklawaha

What a stupid idea, FL wanted to do this also

Life is Good
Finished my coarse of radiation treatments today, thought I’d celebrate with dinner out at a nearby beach bar, enjoying the beautiful weather under a full moon, live music and a shot of Fuck Cancer Penelope bourbon

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Photo of 2 fertile fern fronds loaded with spores. The frond on the left is vertical and the spores borne on leaf-like structures are a rusty tan. The top of the frond on the right is curved over. The spores on this frond are still green. Blue sky and out-of-focus greenery is in the background.

Cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum) is native to eastern US & Canada. Here in Florida, it sends up its cinnamon-colored fertile (spore-producing) fronds twice a year: spring & fall. In most of its range these fronds are produced only in the spring. In winter here, we have only fertile fronds.

‘Huge sticker shock’: Floridians get first look at Obamacare price hikes “I am not going to be able to afford my insurance,” one shopper says of the premium increase he faces.

#Florida residents face sticker shock as Congress lets Obamacare prices go up. More Floridians are signed up for Obamacare than people from any other state. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/02/h... via @orlandosentinel.com

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

today in DC i saw National Guard troops picking up litter and standing around aimlessly 🫡

The mass coordination effort to make Charlie Kirk a saint was always going to fall apart immediately but shoving his freak widow into the limelight where she has somehow been 100x more weird than anyone could have imagined is actively backfiring in the funniest possible way.

On my way to the visibility event on the Granada Bridge in Ormond Sat afternoon

No likely to make or drink this, but reading about it had me LOL (really, the neighbors probably think I’m possessed)

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Later Is Now: The Speed of the Sixth Extinction A deep-time look at how a six-million-year experiment called humanity became the engine of Earth’s final extinction event.

The Sixth Mass Extinction began long before us…..and will end with us.
The timeline never stopped. The Future is Now.
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Every native plant is a little act of climate resilience.
Irish growers are quietly restoring biodiversity one seed tray at a time — and we can support them.
Choosing native means choosing balance. 🌱

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#Biodiversity #WildlifeGardening #Gardeningwell

Screenshot from study linked in our first reply.

📒 NEW STUDY: “Permanent Daylight Saving Time hinders the stability of circadian rhythms, posing public health risks, especially for adolescents and evening chronotypes.” 👉 Permanent Standard Time is needed instead!

Trump did more destruction to the White House than the British in 1814!

I really should not have laughed so much while reading this, but I couldn’t help it

Permanent Standard Time! I’m all for it! AKA Real Time (as opposed to Fake Time)

Besides those Ravens, we met some Quail over in the cholla patch. This male in the foreground is perched on a cholla 'skeleton' in profile, and I like the Mojave Desert backgound in bokeh.

“There is something about the desert.… There is something there which the mountains, no matter how grand and beautiful, lack; which the sea, no matter how shining and vast and old, does not have.”
~Edward Abbey

🕉️ ...is it #TopKnotTuesday? 🌿

#Birding 🪶
#BirdLovers
#EastCoastKin
#Photography

Every manicured lawn is an act of war on nature.

We call it tidy. Nature calls it ecocide.

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#WildlifeGardening #GardeningWell #Ireland

Join us on 11/1 from 4:30-Dusk for a visibility event. We will meet at the corner of Granada and Beach St. Wear black, funeral attire and COMFORTABLE SHOES. We will be marching on the sidewalks across the Granada Bridge in Ormond. Please see examples for signs in video below @chasingoz.bsky.social

No Kings day Oct 18 Ormond Beach FL

Tallahassee - A large crowd of protesters holds signs and American flags at the Florida Capitol. Signs include messages like NO KINGS! and TRUMP WANTS TO BE A DICTATOR! People stand closely together, some wearing hats and sunglasses.

A large crowd of protesters hold signs with messages like No Kings and No Tyrants, No Plutocracy outside Daytona Beach City Hall on a sunny day, with American flags and diverse participants visible.

A crowd of protesters stands on a sidewalk holding signs, including one prominently reading “Soon it’s gonna rain... on TRUMP’s Parade.” Street signs and traffic signals are visible in the background.

A diverse crowd holds colorful protest signs at a “No Kings” rally outside Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville. Signs read messages like “EGO Parade,” “Tear the Fascists Down,” and “You’re Pro-Life Until the Baby is Born.”.

A few "No Kings"
protest images from areas mostly from both large & small cities & towns around Central & North Florida (plus Palm Bch & West Palm Bch).

Tallahassee, Daytona Beach, Cocoa Beach (remember the sheriff who made headlines for threats to shoot? That's Brevard County), & Jacksonville:
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Wow, wish I could have been there