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Blue Bottle Gardens
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Two women: A chemist, a gardener, and a small farm in Missouri. 🏳️‍🌈 ⚗️ 🦆 🥬

#womeninstem #gardening #missouri #homestead #ducks #lesbiansky #lgbtfarmers
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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · Jan 17
We are:
Dr. Mandy Blackburn, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Central Missouri, handy-woman, engineer at heart.
Pamela Morris, artist, gardener, music nerd, Moni3 on Reddit and Wikipedia.
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June 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Inspired by nature is the prompt for #mARTch today. Cumberland Island National Seashore offered this and of course I painted it. 11 x 14 in oils.

#cumberlandisland #nationalparks #georgia #wildhorses #horses #painting #oilpainting #artonbluesky #artsky
A dirt road running through thick woods, three horses standing in the center.
March 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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My domination of the national egg market has begun. With this egg I shall CRUSH MY ENEMIES! Or have it for breakfast tomorrow whichever comes first. 🦆

#eggs #duckeggs #marketmanipulation #crushingenemies #breakfast
A single duck egg on a floor of straw in a structure made of pallets.
March 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Jewel is the prompt for #mARTch today. Here's the finest #jewelry in all the land heaped on this queen. 9 x 12 in. Oils.

#fashion #tiara #painting #artonbluesky #artsky #oilpainting
A girl about 3 years old wearing multiple bracelets, necklaces, and a tiara, fiddling with an earring on her ear.
March 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Based downtown Kansas City mural.

#kansascity #missouri #strongwomen #based
Outside mural reading STRONG WOMEN LIFT EACH OTHER UP
March 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Shades of green for #mARTch today. This is the view from the parking lot of Saltwater Cowboys, a restaurant outside St. Augustine, FL. 11 x 14 in. Oils.

#staugustine #florida #intracoastalwaterway #saltmarsh #oilpainting #painting
A flat salt marsh with a part of cracker style house showing behind a tree.
March 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Once again, ducks are the answer to a stupid news cycle that never ends. Go stare at some. Throw peas for peace. 🦆🦆🦆
March 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Phat Bollard with the #songoftheday. An endearing tribute to the good taste of the ultra wealthy. Catchy as hell. Alternative folk, 2015.

#phatbollard #patbollard #folkmusic #millionaires #billionaires
Phat Bollard Millionaires Animated Music Video
YouTube video by Chris Haldenby
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March 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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This is how the #chemistry department rolls on the top floor of the W. C. Morris building. Chemistry wasn't placed there for safety reasons per usual but to lord over the much larger #biology department.

#universityofcentralmissouri #ucm #gomules #womeninstem #professors #academicsky
Interior hallway in a large building. Windows along the wall have painted letters in them written backwards to allow them to be read from the presence outside "UP AND ATOM" Interior hallway in a large building. Windows along the wall have painted letters in them written backwards to allow them to be read from the presence outside "UCM CHEM!" A white board with a jumble of math equations, cartoons, and memes written on it.
March 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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First day of #Martch is #selfportrait. This is me trying to illustrate #hyperfocus, one of the ways my neurodivergence manifests itself. As exhilarating as it is exhausting. 11 x 14 in. Oils.

#oilpainting #painting #neurodivergent #artonbluesky #artsky
A self portrait. Me, with a sparking electric cord connected to the side of my head.
March 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Took advantage of the warm weather to clear out last year's weeds and stalks. Turn around and there's a crew of supervisors. Unnecessary in my opinion. 🌱🦆

#gardening #zone6 #ducks #duckpics #hugelkultur #permaculture
Four ducks on a garden mound with dead weeds everywhere.
February 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Sharing this #drawing I did a few years ago to see if I could render smoke and fog with #markers. 5 x 7 in.

#trains #steamengine #engine #artshare #artonbluesky #artsky
A steam train chugging through a mountain pass.
February 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Magenta for the #Februarty prompt today. Here's my one artwork with #magenta in it. #Markers 5 x 7 in.

#lilypad #powellgardens
A flower protruding from water in front of a lily pad.
February 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Beams of Heaven as the #songoftheday treated with incredible skill by this #amateur church #choir at Beth Eden Baptist Church in #Chicago. Released 1974. One of my favorite recordings.

#gospelmusic #wootenchoralensemble #charlestindley
Beams of Heaven
YouTube video by Wooten Choral Ensemble - Topic
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February 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Just my weekly friendly reminder that #writing #Wikipedia articles can be a positive way to help defend facts. I wrote both of these and about 50 others. Ask me anything about getting started.

#libraries #sayamensomebody #raycharles #blackhistorymonth #blacksky
February 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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#Februarty and #artyear. Here's the reading room at the Katy Depot in #Sedalia, MO. 12 x 16 in. oils.

#katydepot #libraries #readingroom #oilpainting #painting
The interior of a sunny room with a table and 4 chairs, bookshelves full of books and a large map on the wall.
February 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Daily #drawing #markers and #microns 5 x 7 in. Would you rather go in, exit, or remain outside eating a sandwich?

#doors #doorway #arch #sandwiches
Ornately carved wooden double doors under a stone arch covered in vines.
February 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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#Bonobo and #letherette with the #songoftheday. Very groovy downtempo #remix of #theavalanches that I find hypnotic. Lyrics make no sense I don't care. Enjoy.

#listentothis #musicsky
Bonobo - All In Forms (Letherette Remix)
YouTube video by Ｖ ♪ ｂｅｓ
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February 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#Februarty is pointing out all the things I don't do in art. The prompt today is socks. I have zero artworks with socks in them. But here's this. Reference shot taken in #antiques shop near Clinton, MO. 11 x 14 in. Oils.

#painting #artonbluesky #oilpainting #artsky #kettle #vintage #missouri
A shelf of vintage tin cans of various items, behind a polished copper tea kettle.
February 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Daily #drawing #markers and #microns 5 x 7 in.

Earth to earth. 💀

#truck #pickuptruck #abandoned #abandonedporn #artonbluesky #artsky
A rusted broken truck from the 1940s in a large field with an old barn in the distance, on a sunny day.
February 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Waiting for Smith with the #songoftheday. Another one I've played more than a hundred times. I'm not into super #positive hippy trippy happy music unless it's incredibly good then I definitely am. #Indie #folk, released 2024.

#waitingforsmith #listentothis #indiemusic
Waiting for Smith - White Light Of Love [Official Music Video] Part 2
YouTube video by Waiting For Smith
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February 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Rough... again? as a prompt for #Februarty? I painted this
#tobacco #barn and remember taking great pains to make sure the boards looked rough and weathered. 9 x 12 in oils. Reference shot taken in #Amherst MA.

#oilpainting #painting #artonbluesky #artyear
The double doors of an old weathered tobacco barn open wide with fresh tobacco leaves hanging from the roof drying.
February 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Duck o'clock. 🦆
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Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Quacking.
February 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Daily #drawing #markers and #microns 5 x 7 in. Birds aren't real. Nor trees or physical structures.

#artonbluesky #turret #birdsarentreal #birds #autumn #fallcolors
A stone church turret with attached vestibule, autumn trees and a flock of birds flying above.
February 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#Farmland divided into plots all divided by a river, for #Februarty today. 5 x 7 in, #markers. A visual representation of a flyover state.

#missouri #farmland #aerialview #flyoverstate
Aerial view of large areas of farmland divided into plots with a river flowing through the middle.
February 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM