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@akil.bsky.social
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lover of dirt.
staff software engineer, studio potter, and native plant caretaker.
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🙃 @akil.bsky.social · Apr 10
a blooming tidy tips wildflower with a crudely drawn smiley face
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a few from the afternoon pottery session.
a stoneware vessel fresh off the potters wheel. a stoneware vessel fresh off the potters wheel. a stoneware vessel fresh off the potters wheel. a stoneware vessel fresh off the potters wheel.
May 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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we’ve been patiently waiting and watching these bananas slowly grow and ripen. 🌱
a grip of bananas cut from the stalk.
May 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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ovals with feet. #pottery
some freshly thrown stoneware rings rings have been turned into oval pots. Ovals with various number and sized feet
May 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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quite the garlic harvest this year. 🌱
a few dozen freshly harvested bulbs of garlic.
May 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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ahh our monster of a matilija poppy is beginning to bloom. 🌱

#californianativeplants
romneya coulteri blooming with showy white and yellow flowers.
May 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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some gloomy day magic in the #californianativeplants garden. 🌱
Golden yarrow in bloom. a yard full of california native wildflowers. a miniature lupine is in bloom in front of elegant clarkias. a jungle of clarkias california buckwheat on a gloomy day
May 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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a daily visitor to the purple sage. 🌱

#californianativeplants
May 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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april showers type shit. 🌱

#californianativeplants
a bright orange sticky monkey flower blossom woolly blue curls in the rain. purple sage flowers in the rain the last of the arroyo lupine blooming.
April 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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a few days of graypril before may-gray officially starts up. 🌱

#californianativeplants
an overcast day in the california native plant garden. many green to gray green shrubs of the coastal sage scrub are beginning to bloom.
April 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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gilia tricolor 🌱

#californianativeplants
many blooming bird’s eye gilia on a sunny day
April 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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wasn’t sure if this calochortus catalinae was going to bloom. 🌱

#californianativeplants
a catalina mariposa lily blooming in the california native garden. a catalina mariposa lily blooming.
April 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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a couple fresh garden 🌱 pots drying. i’m calling these gardener’s teapots

#pottery
a stoneware watering pot with a squiggly spout drying a oval shaped stoneware watering can drying
April 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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some planters out of the kiln.

#pottery
a dozen stoneware planters in various sizes and glazes sitting in a garden.
April 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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kill your lawn! 🌱

#californianativeplants
a slice of my front yard. It looks amazing with many coastal sage scrub California native plants growing
April 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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an unexpected rain this morning. 🌱
#californianativeplants
a native carpenter bee resting on an arroyo lupine wildflower baby blue eyes wildflower purple innocence wildflower woolly blue curls begins to bloom
March 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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a mini spring meadow in the front yard. 🌱

#californianativeplants
California poppies, tidy tips, blue eyed grass, and arroyo lupine blooming. a dry creek bed overrun with wildflowers beginning to bloom.
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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a few start of spring moments from the #californianativeplant garden 🌱
the blue/purple/white flowers of an arroyo lupine in bloom. gilia tricolor begins to bloom California native sages, wildflowers, grasses, and goldfields rubbing elbows in the garden. everything is green and lush from the recent rains.
March 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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dudleya edulis looking happy in the garden.
#californianativeplants
a very green fingertips dudleya
March 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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nap time pottery studio sessions
a freshly thrown round stoneware pot sitting on a pottery wheel.
March 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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feel kinda bad that these pots are gonna get put in the ground in the garden 🌱 the plants deserve some nice ceramics also tho.
a large stoneware olla pot. freshly thrown still on the potters wheel. a large stoneware olla pot drying on a worktable. a large stoneware olla pot drying on a worktable.
March 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Now that we’ve finally seen a little rain the garden begins to wake. #californianativeplants 🌱
a single bright orange California poppy blossom. blue eyed grass blooming in a California native plant garden. a Cleveland sage grows behind it. California native plants springing to life in the garden. Bush sunflower, blue eyed grass, white sage, and a coast live oak putting out new green growth. A sea of wildflower seedlings are growing all around.
March 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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some ol nerd stuff
a duckypad pro macro keypad
February 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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a little pottery video.
September 14, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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this video really has me missing the vibe that is brooklyn.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qage...
the homies mixing R&B and burning grilled cheese
YouTube video by Lucas Washburn
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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😒 I gotta take a mold making class. Cause I can’t stand working with plaster.
a messy pottery studio. there are plaster forms drying all over.
January 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM