LJ

NAAPE 2025. Mundelein, IL.

Did that yesterday. But can confirm: today is good,too.

For your #bloomscrolling

October garden won't quit just yet.

October garden. Life may be shit, but the garden delivers.

I choose being. I don't really dig BTBAM all that much. My friends protest, but my taste is my taste, I guess.

Among my worst pathologies: I haven't been able to get the song out of my head since I mentioned it.

"Wishing he would tap my phone just to hear the breath of the man, the myth, the monotoooooone!"

Silent Witness is incredible. Crazy intense. Do watch.

12 minutes to this month's Last Drive-In double feature! Whiskey poured! Ready for some Joe Bob and Darcy in my life!

Are you familiar with Bree Sharp's x-files themed song about David Duchovny?

Some non-horrors.

I do not doubt you. It has been a long time and I was pretty little last time I saw either of these.

Ha! The two are just so different in mood, tone, and...intended audience? The Natural is very moody and feels like the kind of thing you have to call a "film," whereas Hoosiers is, like, fun and the kind of thing you call a "feel-good movie." I just don't think of them as similar at all!

Dude. Not same! Not comparable! What are you even out here doing right now??

New butterfly clocked me in the shoulder today on the way into the rarely opened lettuce beds. Good-looking cat.

Just the late summer garden.

I say watch "Welcome to Leith" before handing them the W on this one.

Today's triumph: I got the hummingbird moth!!!

My little Rosy Maple Moth here. Natures's adorable, fuzzy, pink lemonade sherbet creature.

Garden pretty well out of hand now. Thoughts and prayers welcome as I dig my way out from under these innumerable cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, green beans, and so on. Well, thoughts welcome anyway.

I live among the butterflies now.

Teeny tiny flowers and more swallowtail butterflies.

A yellow tiger swallowtail butterfly perched on a pink zinnia.

Yellow tiger swallowtail butterfly on a yellow giant cactus zinnia bloom.

Followed around the garden today by this lovely friend.

Em dash 4 lyfe

Child of the corn.

Around the house.

Felt like an imperative of some sort to make some booms happen tonight in spite of the horrors, so we did.

My front yard right now.

Garden getting going in earnest now.

Bee on sage flower.