#flowerreport mediterranean edition

Flowers help. #flowerreport

Pink flower friday #flowerreport

More side-by-sides from my recent trip back to the Lake District - a watercolor study by my grandmother of a flower we used to call eggs-and-bacon (bird's foot trefoil) along with one from the meadow #flowerreport #naturewriting

Chicory and a cabbage white butterfly. Not uncommon anywhere, but a startling reminder of beauty and life when seen in the grungiest part of NYC. #flowerreport #naturewriting

The foxgloves in this rewilded corner of the Lake District are growing much more profusely than I remember (maybe it's just this year?) They're lining every path and wall, and poking up through the bracken as far as the eye can see. Also surprised to find a white one! #flowerreport #naturewriting

Making hay while the sun shines (and the moon). 24 hours in the life of a Shropshire field #naturewriting

The buddleia still works #flowerreport #naturewriting

Up in this rewilded corner of the Lake District we're still just a little bit too early forthe harebells to beout. I found only one - but amazingly did find some old watercolor studies that must have been done ~40 years ago by my grandmother. #flowerreport #naturewriting

Home, visiting the cool green wet north of England. Dad has been rewilding this 100-acre corner of the Lake District for 30 years. Found some old purple friends by the side of the track - red clover, everywhere, plus self-heal, flowering thyme and common spotted orchid #flowerreport #naturewriting

#flowerreport market edition

It's so wet out here that my dog is now twice her usual weight. The flowers are happier than we are. #flowerreport

The wild ones are the best ones #flowerreport

This gets quote-sung in my house more than you would think.

peonies be out here just rioting #flowerreport

Downtown NYC is at PEAK TULIP this is not a drill #flowerreport

just remembered i have to do two chores after work

The beetles .. oh wait. Maybe it needs to be beetrootles

#flowerreport II blue skies edition. Spring still springing despite <gestures around> everything

#flowerreport spring is starting to spring in the Hudson valley

Massive, vocal, and very artistic crowd in NYC #teslatakedown

pretty incredible to publish this official executive order days before the largest deadly air crash in nearly 20 years occurs

I recently reposted a former congressional staffer who said that when an issue got 20-30 calls it would get representatives freaked out and ready to do something. It takes less than you’d think, because so few people actually take that kind of action

This is an utterly wonderful film––16 minutes of quiet magic. King of the Fells: a homage to Joss Naylor, the Lake District shepherd who broke record after record for fell-running, fuelled by Guinness & apples, powered by his seemingly untireable legs & spirit. www.theguardian.com/sport/video/...

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

do you have to bring your own or is there a vending machine?

Everything hurts so here are some wild flowers from an English summer. Even though it is neither summer, nor England, right now. #flowerreport

God I hope he wrecks them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

If you see this post something orange

Music is incredibly powerful. Because of a song, you can never start a story about a scary incident with "first I was afraid."

I’m not difficult, I’m selectively delightful

how to seal a leaky bucket

This Edinburgh Botanics light show installation is designed to illustrate mycelium networks. It’s almost as impressive in daylight as when lit up!

HOUSE UPDATE Republicans: 220 seats Democrats: 214 seats TBD: 1 seat (CA13, Dems lead) Could be a 220-215 majority, which shrinks to 217-215 early 2025 when you subtract Gaetz, Stefanik, Waltz. The GOP gerrymander in North Carolina (flipped 3 Dem seats) saved their majority.

Most of these beauties I can't identify - except you, foxglove. Still blooming in late November?? go home you're drunk #flowerreport

Sky's lit

It wasn't really a morning walk by the time the rain stopped and I could get away from my corporate overlords, but it was perfect

Always the death cab, never the cutie

I'm aging like a fine wine, horizontally in the dark

why do they keep taking this mf off mute?

Oh, she is on FIRE about how denying women the right to control their bodies is IMMORAL. Excellent, excellent, excellent response.

You would never know she's an unrepentant criminal mastermind

So cold here today that we could trespass with impunity on the golf course for our morning walk .. not a good ole golfer boy in sight to spoil the view (me) or the rabbit-chasing (dog)