AE Hoogestraat

Rare Fen Orchid brought back from brink of extinction Cambridge University Botanic Garden and partners have been working to successfully reintroduce the species.

Did you see this article this week? 🙂

a butterfly with orange and black wings, sitting on a flower with tiny white flower clusters and green leaves, against a blue sky

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Mine is wishing they get eaten by bears. I mean, it ~could~ happen, but not very likely...

green leaves layered on a branch and dotted with rows of round red berries

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I think I'd find a way to make all school lunches free. It wouldn't save the world but it might feed someone who can.

a small light purple puff hidden in the green grass

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Those are amazing!

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a white rose in full bloom. it has a yellow center and green leaves.

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a crepe myrtle with hot pink blossoms hidden in a green wooded area.

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Welcome!
Besides that one, there was the one at my local funeral home, the shelburnemuseum.org had more than one - including a sled version (I think), and then this place that does reproductions www.nuclassiccoach.com , and a few other museums that I would have to go look up in my photos. 🙂

a black historical funeral buggy.

The museum label for the funeral buggy.

I just saw one very similar this weekend on display at www.museumofappalachia.org

❄️❄️ We have our first snowflakes of the season!! ❄️❄️

erm, what are those ladybugs doing on in the corner there? 😉

small purple flowers hidden in the brown rocks and vines. They have thin petals and yellow centers.

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You know, I don't mind my food touching, but I always get weirded out when my pills touch ... 🤔

a view out of my kitchen window of a wooded area with leaves in transition from green to yellow, orange, and red.

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a butterfly with yellow, black, and blue wings, sitting on a flower with very small white flower puffs, hidden in the green grass. I must have followed it for half a mile trying to get a good photo.

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Today at the store, I small talked about wash cloths. It was very lame, but also friendly (hello person, I acknowledge you) and tame (not about any of the current chaos).

a pansy with a red center and yellow edge, and green leaves, in a brown pot

two pansies with a yellow center and purple edges, with green leaves, in a white pot

pansies 🌱

I mean, obvs I would need my own Arts center. And since I never have time to do my own art, ~someone's~ got to fill it up for me to have anything to show off to all of my (free) guests....

A small Dekay snake just hanging out on my front steps to ask if there was anything in the mail for him. He is mostly brown with a slightly darker midline and diamond hatching on his neck.

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We have crows everywhere here. Not quite the same but always neat to watch.

I'm here to help and encourage!! 😀

a red rose bud with curled edges. It'll be below freezing next week so I need to remember to cover them.

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quilling?

(There is a Viking ship in ND, if you have fomo 😉)

🤞 Ardeth has at least a cameo

There is a toddler dancing on the sidewalk in front of my house and singing "sunshine, sunshine, sunshine".

And yeah, after a week of rain, I get that happy about it, too, kiddo.

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