Toronto on the verge of leading this series is giving me a much needed mood boost. Thank you @bluejays.com !

Feels like every time Treinen enters the game, something bad is about to happen for the #Dodgers…. #WorldSeries #MLB

Captain Kirk! #BlueJays #WorldSeries

Is there an alternative to Amazon’s Ring camera, that ISN’T cooperating with police and I.C.E.? We like to check in on our dogs while at work but I definitely do not want ICE snooping in on our home. #privacy

Still waiting for @democrats.org to wake up and realize this isn’t 2008 anymore, that capitalism has utterly failed the working class and the poor. If you look at their social media posts, it’s still “we’re fighting for more affordable healthcare” rather than “healthcare is a human right"

Walking around Forest Hill Park yesterday, I came across a genus completely new to me: Beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana), a parasitic plant that subsists and grows on the roots of American beech. Completely lacking in chlorophyll, it produces small brown stems and white/purple flowers #RVA #plants

Went for a walk this morning at one of our many great local parks, on this crisp autumn day. A few highlights

Mission #1: churn out as fast as possible ecologically rich landscapes that restore biodiversity and beauty to the places people live and work. Replace turf with diverse, native plant communities is essential to reversing the biodiversity crisis and building a more resilient future! #nativeplants

Friendly PSA to “leave the leaves” this fall to help wildlife through the winter. #pollinators 🍂🍁

Go #BlueJays! #WorldSeries

Sad, difficult choice today: Termites discovered. Choice: let the house be eaten, or do foundation treatments that will eradicate termites but poison our organic orchard & make the fruit unsafe to eat. Can one successfully transplant 4 y.o. fruit trees? 😧 🌳🌳🌳

Native Grasses: Pink Muhly (Muhlenbergia capillaris) as the sun sets #Muhlenbergiacapillaris

The election for Virginia governor/Lt. governor/Attorney General is coming up week after next and I truly don’t know how I’m going to handle the anxiety. I miss the days when it didn’t feel like survival depended on the outcome of elections.

Better luck next year, #Mariners :( So close! Now, let’s shut down the Dodgers!

Springer has to win AL MVP at this point, right? Dude is GOAT. #ALCS #BlueJays

#Mariners strike first!

#GBBO Meringue week!

Really hoping the Mariners can pull it together tomorrow night but even if not, at least it was a nail-biter of a series that came down to the wire, unlike the Dodgers’ blowout of the Brewers. #ALCS #MLB

Finally, #Mariners stringing some hits together!

Ok how is Logan Gilbert still in this game??

Logan Gilbert looking more like LogJam Gilbert, hoping he can get out of this and fast… #Mariners #ALCS

I’ve never been into sodas at all (except if there were no other beverage choices at some event), but at the recommendation of a co-worker, I did try a Japanese Pepsi flavored with Osmanthus blooms (found at World Market) and I was actually taken aback by how good it tasted!

Spooky season in the garden! 🎃

One of my favorite native wildflowers I saw at the festival was Rhexia virginica, or meadow beauty. Lovely pink flowers spring and summer, then the leaves and stems turn burgundy and red in the fall! #wildflowers #NativePlants #PlantNative

Spent the morning wandering around our annual native plant festival just east of Richmond, VA and somehow it was even more fantastic than I had imagined! Equal parts native plant vendors and conservation/environmental justice groups! And the place was packed, great turnout! ❤️

Golden hues of autumn 🍂

Were #Mariners fans actually booing Springer?? Get a grip.

Welp. I’d say #BlueJays have this thing wrapped up if the #Mariners don’t wake up and quickly. #ALCS

Lmao Caleb Durbin doing the only lifting for the #Brewers so far offensively. #NLCS

Saturday, October 18th, is the No Kings October Mobilization, another opportunity to stand up for democratic principles! #NoKings www.cnyhumanists.org/events/2025/...

Please, PLEASE take protecting your hearing seriously. #Tinnitus is no joke. I’ve been too careless at concerts. Ear plugs!

#rhus typhina - #sumac 🍁🍂🌱

Bothers me that more often than not it’s a foregone conclusion that the Dodgers will cruise through the postseason to the World Series. On the other hand, I feel like Dave Roberts gets too cute with bullpen decisions and that comes back to bite them in the hind quarters. #NLDS #Brewers #Dodgers #MLB

Come on #Brewers let’s get something going! #NLCS

Ahahaha! Hahahaha! 😆

Stopping for gas on my way home from work, saw a small crowd of #NoKings protestors at the corner with lots of creative and witty anti-Trump signs. Brave thing to do in the deep red county I live in. At any rate, it boosted my spirits and made me feel a little less alone.

Good evening from Shab-on-im-i-kan-i-sibi (Ojibwe- River Place of Gooseberries), Gooseberry Falls on Gooseberry River MN, which empties into Lake Superior Waterfalls 🧵 Upper Falls The Great Northern Adventure #LandYacht #Trip10 Day 18

Kind of pulling for the #Mariners in this #ACLS but hats off to Gausman for being one of the good guys.

#Autumn #color popping @ Mount #Rainier #nationalpark #photography #landscapes #hiking

Let’s go #Brewers! #NLDS #MLB

Do #birds a favor this #Halloween and encourage friends and family not to put up the fake spider webs as birds can get trapped in it. Plenty of more innocuous ways to decorate

I have no horse in this #DetroitTigers #Mariners series, it would be refreshing to see either one in the World Series. I don’t think either one will get past Toronto though, they have a crazy amount of momentum going. #ALDS

What an awful way to lose a division series game. Poor Kerkering, that throw to home was several miles wide of the plate 💀 #Phillies #NLDS

October Glory is an apt name for these maples, showing off their red splendor at the nursery! #trees

Lots of monarchs out and about at the nursery today ❤️

A few months ago I joined a local group that’s part of a national network of climate activists called Climate Changemakers; we meet every other Tuesday for an “hour of action” at which we write/call our elected officials (or sometimes electoral “get out the vote” action)

Finally cool enough in SoCal SanGabrielValley to cook with the oven. Trying Samin Nosrat’s buttermilk chicken recipe. This little butternut squash (harvested from the communal garden I volunteer in) had an expressive moment in the midst of food prep. It’s now cubed and ready to go in oven. 🌱

Welp, we’ll try again tomorrow. So close! #Phillies

It ain’t over til it's over! Go #Phillies! #RingTheBell #MLB #NLDS

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians. Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates? energyandpolicy.org/california-l...