Found another Black Swallowtail Caterpillar 🐛 on the Bronze Fennel. #pollinatorgarden #hostplants #butterflies

Just when you think they couldn’t be bigger assholes and racists.

McNally - the fucking gall.

If you’re familiar with Justin, you know how far he’s been pushed by the #jimcrow #tngop and their enforcement troopers over the years. He always responds with great restraint. Not today. Good on ya, Justin.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

The mood on the ground in Tennessee today.

Happy 9th anniversary to damn near the best thing on the internet.

My heart breaks for these folks. And… I’m pissed. I’ve been watching this #tnklangop talk down to, silence, and reprimand black voices in the legislature. Their smug satisfaction with themselves is enraging. #jimcrow

Smug racist assholes. #jimcrow #tnklangop

Nope. Not good. Not only are they going to eliminate a majority black district, they are going to eliminate the requirement to notify voters of the changes. The people suck. #tnklangop

The is is what the #tnklangop always does. They silence the voice of the minority and any opposition.

Well, damn.

They might stop if the #tnklangop would quit lying.

Hint - the only data they used was split up the majority black population.

Man. It is bat-shit crazy the way they went after this man.

I just don’t have words. I’m so disgusted by the blatant power grabs and nonsense by the #tnklangop

This man is a f’ing idiot. The stupid is strong.

Fucking Knox County #tn republicans elected the most unqualified wingnut to run for County Mayor. Lawd help us.

I so wish I was there. Give ‘em hell!

Hundreds of people outside the Tennessee Capitol to protest a special legislative session aimed at redrawing congressional maps 12 weeks before the election. Photos by @cstephenson.bsky.social.

Bloomers. Yarrow, Carolina Lupine, Salvia, Snapdragons. #bloomscrolling

“I just now realized how corrupt this state is… they’re also cowards.” Tennesseans at the legislature for the first time just watched the shambolic Lamberth-presided *rules* committee — as Republicans move to strip representation from majority Black MEMPHIS🎪

Karlyn!

Damn skippy. Ole Rick has done a bang-up job with the portal. #vols

This state. It hates poor folks. The #tngop dud this nonsense.

They’re not pretty yet. But when you got more plants than you have garden beds prepared…..you make do with whatcha got.

New to my garden, garden pest. Lace Bugs. The little nasties are everywhere on the sunflowers, asters, goldenrod and greyheaded coneflower. Luckily, they are easy to squish. #gardens #pollinatorgarden

If you haven’t listened to his “Honey From A Winter’s Stone”….give it a listen. It’s so damn good.

No such thing as too much #ladyvols basketball and softball coverage. Click pic for latest column at Knox TN Today.

Woohoo! We’ve got a roster. Thanks to Ryan for posting on Bluesky!

So much, Chamaecrista fasciculata, aka Partridge Pea! I love this happy, little plant. The bees love it. This will a noisy corner of the garden soon with all the bees 🐝 a’buzzing. #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

More backyard garden pics. #backyardgarden #nativeplants #veggiegarden #pollinatorgarden

Native plants blooming. Penstemon digitalis, Iris Fulva (copper Iris, native to West Tennessee). #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #pollinatorgarden

Heinous.

Got this sweet lil bike recently for riding to work. I work so close to home, it seemed silly to drive everyday. I’m traveling mostly side streets, which added a mile to the trip. 3.1 miles each way. I’m loving it.

And prosecute the mf’ers!

Long shot of one section of the backyard garden. #gardening #veggiegarden #pollinatorgarden

Thermopsis villosa, aka Carolina Lupine, begins blooming in the garden. #bloomscrolling #nativegarden #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden

What a game by Karlyn. 11 strikeouts.

January 6 has entered the chat.🙄

The crows use my bird water dishes to soften up food. Sometimes that food is dead critters. Checking the gifts from the crows is the first thing I do when I get home. I’ve found frogs, rats, biscuits, bread, fast-food chicken- you name it. #corvids #birds

I think that’s a Miner Bee on the raspberry. #gardening #bees #pollinatorgarden

Amazing to me that people keep screaming about security failures in a situation where security did not fail. Bad things didn't even happen to bad people, so you can stop pretending to be worried about that. Stop whining for a bigger, badder police state.

Bees!🐝 #gardens #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bees #pollinatorgarden

First Black Swallowtail Caterpillar 🐛 of the season. #pollinatorgarden #caterpillar

For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

Desiree Pea bloom and the first pea pod.#gardening

Amtrak optimistically expected 75,000 passengers along the Mardi Gras Express line in the first year. We are 7 months in and they are about to reach 100,000. Build. More. Passenger. Rail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA5w...

Welp. Critters. That used to be an borage seedling there. There was 6 of them. Zero, now. Good thing I can grow more. 😁 Off to the Dollar Tree for more wire mesh baskets to cover tender babies. #garden