Poodle planter McGregor, MN

Took a walk today; excellent reds in this Mahonia

Salvia ‘Golden Delicious’ backed by Mahonia gracilipes - somewhat of a surprise but welcome color echo

Pool of Ginko Sunshine

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Flipped this egg like a real chef —

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Randomly saw a vlog of a young woman moving from Los Angeles to a basement apartment in Seattle - in Summer of course. She has no idea what she is getting into sun-wise come January.

Yes. One of the most powerful drivers of elite political discourse right now is wishful thinking: We don't want what's happening to be happening, so we make up a story in which it in less bad and more fixable than it is. All very understandable but it is false and not helping!

Ballard icon

Very Albert Speer vibes.

That’s NICE (seen in Ballard, Seattle)

Cis bi here and I actually did a queer homage to this a hot minute ago. There is no lgb without tq+; we gain equality together for all queers or we have not gained it at all for any of us.

Brooch Season

Completed the Fall plant shift - cooler temps ahead. Rearranged the watering cans too

iPhone music glitch- but actually yes

Check out this super tall Trachycarpus - Ballard, Seattle

Truly wild how many houses in Seattle are variations of grey and navy with white trim.

Final two Rose ‘Neil Diamond’, cut and brought inside

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

As we used to say in the olden days, “Same”.

They are lying about our cities. They are lying about our immigrant neighbors. They are lying about our trans siblings.

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

this would fix me

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Not just that they're comedians but two wealthy white guys being told they can't say what they want has to be the biggest of red flags

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

the way the right keeps obsessively trying to blame this shooting on trans people is deeply sick and incredibly dangerous, and powerful people and institutions turning a blind eye to it are complicit just leave them alone

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Intense and serious gardening, often with very loud music in my ears

Dahlia ‘Black Beauty’, my garden

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Hedera colchica ‘Sulphur Heart’, my garden

Palate cleanser

i'm not entirely convinced that the people begging for gun reform and pleading for less gun violence are the ones who made this country like this

This week’s free find: large (and heavy) concrete fountain with frog sculpture. Pump does not work but that is fixable. (Did I mention it is heavy)

Needs more articulation and siding profiles! /s

Plymouth Housing (Seattle local low income housing developer) announced a project one block away and sadly my neighbors are apoplectic

Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.

Concrete ‘Dinosaur Bones’ sculpture of played on as a child

Hanging out with naked ladies, as I do all time

Japanese Anemone next to Rose ‘Ringo All-Star’, looking strikingly similar to

Hot take: suburbs are one of the worst things to happen to America and were one of the major contributors on our road to fascism.

A selection of Dahlia from the garden

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.