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Beech leaves, crisp and tan
chatter in December gales
tattered underfoot
and washed down creek
I don't know where

Proud member of GA Plant Conservation Alliance #nativeplants
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We now have input a list for the Northeast and Mid Atlantic Native plant nurseries. Here is an update: beechhollowfarms.com...
100% Native Plant Nursery List
A list of passion-driven, local businesses across the United States that sell 100% native species. All nurseries have been verified to follow best practices.
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The backend of #Caturday
Reading about paradise while the spouse snores, and the cat supervises.
January 4, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats
December 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
YouTube video by Elton John - Topic
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December 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This is the documentary that CBS did not want to show about CECOT: rumble.com/v73c0bk-this...
rumble.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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When I was dissertating, there was a bag checker at Widener Library who used to give me encouraging notes from time to time, and I just found a few tucked in the back of a book. I was grateful for them then, and I am just as much today, when they offered an unlooked-for boost. Thanks, Linda! 🙏🏻🗃️
December 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
#caturday #catsky #catpics curling up with Mr Sleepy at the end to a day of hikes in a beech oak forest.
December 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
#nativeplants
The detail and symmetry of seeds is astounding. May I present for your consideration the triangular geometry of the beech nut:
December 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Just in case you think that chuckling at strange names is a modern, and frivolous waste of time, Joseph Belknap, minister and founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society was doing it in the 1780s 🗃️
December 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#nativeplants . Last workday at Beech Hollow farm before winter break, 2025.

Picture by Lindsay Opie
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The lovely bones of the southeastern winter. I can’t get enough! #nativeplants
December 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
#catpics #catsofbluesky it is officially #caturday.
Here’s to all the little four-legged Edward Scissorhands with impossibly soft fur and glittering green eyes:
December 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#catpics #catsofbluesky it is officially #caturday.
Here’s to all the little four-legged Edward Scissorhands with impossibly soft fur and glittering green eyes:
December 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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A fungus photo a day: A little family of waxcaps/hygrocybes I found yesterday. Scroll down for other views of them. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Late fall in the Southeastern Piedmont Forest. The structure, the bones of the land slowly become apparent as plants and leaves senesce, and slowly become dormant.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
#caturday #catpics #catsofbluesky
To misquote Little Feat:
There’s a floof-cat
On the sofa
I hear him purr
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
November 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A National Guardsman stands up to Trump
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I 1902 (Galerie Neue Meister)
October 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A repost. It’s long, and Bluesky was wonky when I posted it. If you scroll down and get a prompt to “read one more reply,” just click and you’ll see the next set of posts.

If you care about LA, or Altadena, or the fires, or disaster history, or where we’re all headed, I hope you’ll take a look.
The Eaton/Altadena Fire, nine months later: a personal and historical thread:

Nine months after it was devastated by fire, I went back to my old neighborhood. I once lived immediately south of the mouth of Eaton Canyon, where the Altadena fire ignited on the evening of January 7th 2025.
October 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Always a help at 1 am. Warm, soft, cuddly, and giving me goo-goo eyes. Love the goo-goo eyes; unconditional kitty love is the best.

#Catsofbluesky #catsky #catpics
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis

Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource

I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.

Long 🧵😊
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #gardening
Despite our horrific drought, this lovely shade loving Wavy leaf Aster, Symphyotrichum undulatum, is blooming valiantly in our open woodlands this fall.
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM