More ficus benjamina. These are all cuttings off of the "main" tree I got years ago. The one in the little pot is a new start and has no refinement yet, and the trees in the little forest are pretty new as well. I have too many of these because I struggle to discard cuttings.

I was cleaning the garage the other day and even though it has been years since she's been gone, one of her feathers must have been in there somehow. The breeze caught one of her blue feathers as I cleaned and it blew up and stuck to my arm, and I cried. I miss her so much

This little twin trunk ficus benjamina was initially shoved into the same pot as the prior tree. I discovered it was two separate plants when I did the first repot in 2020, so I gave it its own house. Unfortunately the pot arrived from the potter broken in the mail, but I repaired it.

My journey started with this ficus benjamina, gifted to me as a houseplant ~ten years ago. I grew it as such, but then in 2020 it was struggling; root bound, so I looked up how to repot and prune it. My house is small, I wanted it to stay small, and realized I could try bonsai... (photo current)

For Halloween, what if you took a yucca gigantea houseplant and tortured it a bit even more scary: this fibrous creature has broken two ceramic pots with its rooty exuberance, so it is banished to plastic pots forevermore

Here's a little pink pixie bouganvillia single and a forest. They didn't grow strongly this year so they're scruffy for now, and mostly post-blooming. The single plant (with & without moss) is the source for the cuttings stuck into the "forest". I enjoy how they look like tiny catalpa trees <3

what if rosemary: but, small due to my climate, I have to overwinter them indoors, which they dislike immensely, but we both manage to survive till spring... and the bonus is fresh rosemary potatoes any time I want The little cascade rosemary ended up being one of my surprise favorites.

Took photos of a few of my plants while moving them inside for winter, so I shall inflict them upon thee First up are the dwarf pomegranates because they're so funny. Two of them are cuttings I took from the one in the pale green pot; the smallest in the blue pot is 3 inches tall, for scale.

my perfect old lady in the post-bloom asters

Huh I need a few art supplies. I haven't bought any panels or tubes of paint in about three years, how bad can the prices even be, 20 minutes later: wheezing, fanning self, passing out while foaming at the mouth,

no surprise to me but, I got a high score on my tick panel blood test titers, woo!! My antibodies are having an absolute rave in there with disease reactions! *slaps the roof of my body* this bad boy can fit so many spirochetes in it

In desperation, I wrote directly to bsky to ask if my main account could be removed or taken off of whatever algo is recommending me to newly made accounts, and they said it's not possible to remove me or to opt out, so I guess that's a real thing that is happening as I suspected. cool

graphical glitches are very funny to me, so the other day when one of my friends' raptors pulled this meat tube out of a dead npc critter and it visually glitched to become extremely (abnormally) long and jiggly, I had to document it

just thinking about that one time when I got auto-banned from youtube because I was streaming video of my actual baby chickens and how once I got unbanned, I got dcma takedowns on all my videos of my actual chickens roaming my yard with nothing but chicken and nature sounds (my appeals were denied)

spent all day yesterday at a huge cancer-specific hospital with my mom, who has cancer and was getting surgery for said cancer, and every moment was baffling and completely soul destroying. she is doing ...okay(??)... but like. healthcare in this country is frequently exceptionally stupid

okay this tiny hummingbird hanging out in my tiny makrut lime (pre)bonsai is TOO MUCH

feeling every painful lymph node in one's body is no way to be, but here is a skipper butterfly with rainbow glitter

bumbles from last month, I look forward to when I can get out with them again

been getting my entire existence completely fucked by a fresh dose of lyme spirochetes. I haven't been this sick in 25 years, holy shit. got a tick bite the 22nd, symptoms showed last week and I got on doxy right away but I'm so wrecked, my body is a mistake. truly feels like dying at times

hell yeah time to become a blueberry elemental

my sweet girls, they greet me for hugs every morning and clean one another's faces like this after eating. hard to believe they're 7 already

anyway here are my fields of plants that I'm not mean to

repotted this yesterday, which was a pain in the ass because I have to wire the rock into the pot & my hands hate that, but it should be pretty awesome to look at in a few years when the roots get more established and it grows out. This was a cutting from a houseplant ficus I struck two years ago.

my "confusing trees into being small" hobby continues. Under all that moss is a big rock. I'm excited to gradually reveal all the roots. this is year 2 from seed, give it like 15 years

One of our local catbirds, eating an orange. I put oranges out for the orioles, who stop by for a few bites each spring, and then the catbirds and red-bellied woodpeckers enjoy them for the next month or two.

in local shitforbrains news, my nextdoor neighbor seems to have cut down the trees in his part of our connected woodlot, rented a bobcat, and dug up all the forest loam soil to compact and use as fill to extend his driveway just honking about it so I don't explode. cause I really feel like splodin

Using food to show where I grew up

dang it really does take many months to get an appointment for routine annual medical screenings now huh

anyway here's a wonderful eastern bluebird making his own glitter water sparklies, which is very cool

void honking: in a dark place. yesterday was bad. mom's cancer is back. all my baby chickens came DOA despite being in transit less than 12 hours, & the huge expense of trying to get them here safely as possible. endless pain and sleepless nights. it's just a lot, I feel so low. I just keep crying

a very small stretching boy, as an apology for whiny posting

trying not to whine too often on the internet but damn this combo of endless level 5+ pain for months, in addition to lack of sleep due to said pain, sure is somethin no pain management from drs. wish OTC pain meds helped but lucky me, they only hurt my stomach I exist, but barely, it feels like

Update on my scruffy blind old man cockatiel. He'd never been handled before except in negative ways (his prior owner said when he flew off his cage she used a glove to grab him). But he's so good, and with slow and careful positive training he now asks to come out and is very good at stepping up!

I continue to be bad at this game and become dino-murdered often, but it's very very pretty and I get to hang out with dino friends and be goofy. so who is winning here, despite having no gamer skill? it's me.

I haven't been able to sleep for more than 15 minutes at a time in the past two weeks and my soul is starting to delaminate

I'm horrible at this game and die a lot because arthritis fingers, but it's very pretty and I love this big squishy green raptor

oozing through a vat of endless non-Newtonian pain, hoping I can plop out of the other side eventually "what does that even mean" I'm dying*, squirtle *ow

Polemonium reptans, which has the common name of Jacob's Ladder. I love them so much. The flowers seem to be very important for emerging queen bumblebees in my yard. The bees are so much bigger than the flower, they nearly droop to the ground when they land on them.

my bad bones body got me feelin real down lately

having a miserable time with round 2 of adhesive capsulitis; the pain makes sleeping next to impossible. Last night was especially bad. But I woke up this morning, and incredibly! every migrant bird seems to be back overnight, and that was really cool and nice. Counted 41 species. I love you, birds

gasp! a tiny snake

maybe this is only funny for me specifically, but it IS very funny to me

I think my main account is being served as a "suggested follow" to new accounts all of a sudden, because I've had a mass of followers over the weekend and they are mostly bots, scam brands, and politics outrage accounts and I HATE IT. I desperately wish to opt out of this

some good rocks

just me and my prehistoric friends having a completely normal time

when you are a raptor and your terrifying stabby giraffe friend carries you into the sunset

The face of someone who grew one (1) spur and started crowing this morning at 7 years old

this game has extremely niche and specific bait for me, personally

I was raptor jesus several times in the past, but sometimes I allow my partner to take part too, to ascend into heaven

Our new guy (the lutino) was confirmed totally blind by the vet, and likely older than we were told. His tests came back good and we let our cockatiel meet him. Lots of confusion since he can't see the body language of my boy but they are very polite so far and happy to meet (they are just visiting)