I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

After weeks of planning, gathering, and waiting, winter sowing is finally underway Let the cold stratification begin #nativeplants #wintersowing #canadiangardening

🌱We got to the 50s today, no wind, a bright sunny day without a cloud in sight, a calm day contradicting the state of our parallel reality. The volunteer sweet peas are growing like there’s no tomorrow. Aren’t you worried of a February blizzard? I quietly asked. I finally relocated them today.

Christmas Run over the Rialto Bridge, Venice, a few years ago. No AI, no burst mode, just film, timing, and a Leica M6. Christmas chaos, the good kind. #venice #leica #m6 #christmas #filmisnotdead

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

Perennial cornflower 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #BlueTue #TuesdayBlue

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

Beautiful morning for a bike ride.

Walking is our oldest ritual of becoming human. Kita-Aoyama, Tokyo

SecDef throws a 34 year multi awarded admiral under the bus and hopes no one, no rank and file and officers noticed. This must be the warrior ethos he was talking so much about. When is he going to announced that he will need to spend more time with his families?

From the military’s Stars and Stripes read by about 7m active soldiers &retirees: “the Pentagon’s own manual on the laws of armed conflict also specifically cites striking survivors … “Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual says.

🌱 The cosmos was still flowering in early November. A gorgeous presence in the fall garden when most things are done. The Xzenia variety seems particularly floriferous.

🌱 Now, I have a problem. A good kind of problem. What would make a nice border next to my lavender patch? I could plant kale and chard … Or a mix tall gladiolus/dwarf kale. Or sweet williams. Or wallflowers… Something bright and compact because behind it is a row of hydrangeas and evergreen trees.

🌱 I need a scream room in the upside bonkers world. Ugh! Anyway, here are some blanket flowers; still in bloom in late November. I’ll have to plant more of this for next year.🤞

The SecState explanation of the essence & origin of the 28 pt plan presented to Ukraine BY THE US is a strong indicator of the lack of competence of those representing our nation in these efforts. Russia does these things. It’s well known. Smart negotiators know not to let them happen.

🌱I’ve dug up my purple chives. Most will be composted coz they’re not healthy anymore but some younger ones about 25 clumps are replanted as a new border. I’m also relocating some black eyed susans, gallarda, and foxgloves to a new plot. Glad the weather has been mild so far.

Latest pitcher on my Nepenthes x Dyeriana. ~40 cm tall. Just an inspired bit of plant breeding by George Tivey. Description was first published in 1900, so he presumably made the cross sometime in the early/mid 1890s. Nepenthes (northiana x maxima) x (rafflesiana x veitchii) 🌴 🌱

Today’s flower 🌱 #1255 Nodding pincushion

🌱 This was my mix cosmos patch this summer. Mostly pink. I think my fave remains Xzenia and apricot lemonade.

Kansas’ Marion County paid $3M for forgetting the First Amendment. After their illegal raid on the Marion County Record in 2023, local cops got their First Amendment lesson the expensive way. Police elsewhere should take note.

Yay! My order of bulbs just arrived. Some daffodils but I'm most excited about the great camas bulbs! Got a bunch of them and I'm planning on planting them in clumps between some of our fruit trees. Great camas (Camassia leichtlinii) is a native flower here in western WA. The bulbs are edible too! 🌱

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

My gorgeous maple tree showing off a little in the fall sunlight. I love this tree so much. 🌱

Good afternoon from Bumble Rumble 🌱 #FlowerReport from VA, #Bloomscrolling #dahlia

#HappyCaturday The munchkin looks concerned, using her Susan Collins severely concerned look.

🌱 Goodbye, goodbye sweet tomatoes! I missed you already! It’s been windy and rainy again but we have some sunny days ahead.

🌱 #SixOnSaturday. We got rain and strong winds again today. I think we’re going to have a dry Monday, then more rain for a week!!! Enjoy the flowers from this summer.

🌱 One of my last tomato flower “cake” this year.

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Sandhill cranes 🌿📷 #birdphotography #nature #birds #cranes

Moon and Stars Watermelon🌘🌙✨First year trellising like this, looks super cool, especially the starry leaves on this varietal. 🌱 We also did some pumpkins on the same fence and they turned out really cool too. Had they gotten too heavy we would’ve made a hammock sling to the espalier cables.

🌱 The artichoke is losing its “hair.” You can see one of the seeds getting ready to fly away on an adventure.

🌱 Happy Friday! Just about all but a few of the columnar apples have been harvested. One variety ripens later than the rest. All are about five ft tall this year.

NEW: HGTV debuts 'Gardening with the Guard' series

🌱 Most of the toms are gone now. I still have nasturtium stragglers; they did really well this year as trap plants in the vege plots. I can’t do without them and marigolds in the garden.

I stopped by to say hi to the sandhill cranes today. I wonder what they were talking about! 🪶

I’m curious what’s the brag line of any current employee - I’m well qualified, I passed the open book test?

Lucia grew veggies in front of her house for 35 years. EVERYONE knew her. I cried with neighbors, and went away with everyone’s names - Lucia was still growing community even as she left us. 💚 Grow in your front yard, your parking strip. Grow community. It’s needed more than ever. Be a seed 🌱(3/3)

Following the path, autumn is bursting out all over. 🍂

🌱 These are the last of the Midnight Roma. Delightfully black and unique in the garden.

Erigeron karvinskianus has gone forth & multiplied for many years now - it flowers for months on end, adding a bit of cheer on gloomy days #GardensHour 🌱

NYT made an astounding discovery: the rich have money, the poor don't.

“People in South Shore have felt starved for the attention of government, of anyone in power, for decades,” he said. “It seems like an especially cruel irony that, when such attention finally comes, it takes the form of hostile theater — making a spectacle out of beating up on poor people.”

No Kings #Caturday ❤️

Happy #SixOnSaturday. Enjoy the persistent cosmos still flowering in the garden.

Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎 www.opb.org/article/2025...

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