Read Receipts

Love a good Sunday.

📚 The River is Waiting - Wally Lamb
#booksky

A few quiet days on the St. Lawrence River.

In the Garden
August 4, 2025

Tiger Bee Fly
Bumblebee on Latana
Autumn Joy Sedum Flowering
Praying Mantis

Just finished “James” by Percival Everett. Solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Some books should be read not only because they are “good” but because they are important. This is 100% one of those books.

Last read: “King of Ashes” - S.A. Crosby. Crosby is basically an auto buy for me.

Hot pink and white Tickseed flower.

Pinky orange rose bloom with green leaves

Purple hydrangeas in a garden.

Small delicate white rose tinged with pink

What’s blooming this Saturday.

Saw my first Japanese Beetles of the year yesterday, unfortunately.

First bloom on my new baby rose bush. Flavorette Pear’d.

Reading How to Murder Your Life and bird nerding out with the Merlin app and a glass of wine.

#booksky

In the garden 6/28/25

#bloomscrolling
#gardensky
#gardening

#Gardening

Not sure our bunny friends know about the heat wave. Better munch as much clover as they can before the yard is scorching.

Hope you have time today to do what you love.

Hammock views. If we ever lose this oak tree it’ll take a little piece of my soul. I like to believe it was here before the house (1953) when this suburb was all farmland and forest. 🌱

Heat wave is on the way and water is out in the garden for visiting creatures. I’ll be in the hammock under the great oak tree. 🌱

#gardensky

You do not need to rise like the pine. You can curl, thorny and sweet, like the blackberry—and still be sacred. Nature needs them both. 🖤🌿

#witchsky

Green seaweed makes a design like curling ribbons that extend down a beach.

“But the sea which no one tends
is also a garden”

-William Carlos Williams

#JuneSea #Seaweed
#eastcoastkin #ocean #seascape
#scape

a view from the edge of a lake with branches curving down and around the whole photo.

"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."

-Victor Hugo

Her books are fantastic!

VERY excited for this book mail.

* What Kind of Paradise -
Janelle Brown

* Wild Dark Shore -
Charlotte McConaghy

* River is Waiting -
Wally Lamb

Currently reading the new Riley Sager, With a Vengeance. What should I read next?

#booksky #botm #bookmail

#gardensky #bloomscrolling

Slowly but surely the blooms are coming. It’s been an unreasonably wet and chilly spring here and I’ve been patiently waiting.

🌱

#booksky

Sunday Morning

📚 Parents Weekend
Alex Finlay

A close up of Philadelphia Fleabane. Delicate purple and white flowers with bright yellow centers.

My problem is I have a soft spot for a lot of “weeds” so I’ll always just be a messy and chaotic gardener.

#gardensky #gardening

Puffs of clouds reflect on a calm body of water surrounded by green trees.

I guess I have to go to work tomorrow. Back to reading in the city. I think I prefer Warblers over a lot of Lawyers…

#naturesky #phonephotography #adirondacks #photographysky

A book is all I need today. 📚☕️🕯️

We saw a loon courtship dance last night. Such magic in the synchronicity. Nature is the purest definition of awesome. This is so good for the soul.

A meme stating that people who read have been shown to live 20% longer on average than those who don’t.

#BookSky