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Medawisla in Maine
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🐞 Jacq Mac 🐦‍⬛ Birding 🌶 foodie with (never enough) penpals ✉️ and a (too-large but certified wildlife) garden 🌱 stargazing ⭐️ north of 45 degrees 🌲 where the moose roam and 🎶 loons call
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Real reindeer aren’t just holiday magic, they’re Arctic survival experts. From color-changing eyes to epic migrations, these animals redefine what it means to be resilient. 🦌❄️
Real Reindeer Are More Amazing Than You Ever Imagined
Glowing noses, or hooves that go click-click-click? Real reindeer are actually even more spectacular than their fictional counterparts.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
stepheniemac.bsky.social
Decided on Johnny Rocket as the name of this beauty. (See prior post about naming sandwiches.) Based this on the etymology of arugula and since we added an apple, ode to Johnny Appleseed. Side of JoJos. #medawislatastes #medawislalaughs
Golden browned potato wedges rest on blue plate in front of panini charred sandwich halves, exposing layers of arugula cheese & roasted red pepper.
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Do you name your sandwiches? The question is, what to name this panini? (Order TBD but) a cheese spread (goat & cream cheese) with capers, 1/2 a fire roasted red pepper, pile of baby arugula, hummus (swiss chard), sliced honey crisp apple, (tempeh) bacon, and purple onion, on potato bread?
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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2025-2026 indoor grow is in full swing, just in time for Solstice month 🌱⭐️🌲 #medawislagrows
Opal basil sprouts through wet soil in 72-count (small) cells Basils, vining spinach and thyme fill out their 72-count seeding cells Cinnamon basil unfurls over Thai basil behind and opal basil in front, all awaiting transplant Up-potted basils join a cactus under grow lights, carnivorous plants to right help keep fungus gnats down
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Winter in Maine! No, not Tweety Bird having a bad day...This is what happens when bad squashes are left in the garden that gets snowblown in winter #medawislalaughs #medawislagrows
A yellow-orange glob of winter squash pops from snowy, grassy ground, freshly tromped by boots Yellow-orange guts of a winter squash smear across snowy ground with brown, dead vegetation around
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Happy Chompsgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Eat the rainbow! Swiss chard going into new soup recipe... #medawislagrows Soon #medawislatastes Recipe link: adventuresincooking.com/broccoli-cha...
Rainbow swiss chard harvested & laying in the sunshine
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Frost supermoon means (almost) last harvest of rainbow swiss chard and long shadows 🌈🌱🌞
Rainbow swiss chard in a box Shadow of a person on lawn at 1500 EST 45d N 2025 Frost supermoon rising Rainbow swiss chard in a box
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Last-of-the-season pasta #medawislatastes Who else is still eating garden-fresh veggies in New England?
Multiple colors of ingredients cover penne pasta prior to a sprinkling of parm cheese Green and purple kaleidoscope of chopped African blue basil on a wooden cutting board Bright yellow-orange bell pepper slices sit ina metal bowl beside other mise en place ingredients The last red tomatoes chucked up in a metal bowl beside other mise en place ingredients
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Where'd the season go? Oh right, summer drought followed by fall food processing... peak foliage ended but the shrubbery stands out! #medawislagrows
Highbush cranberry burns red on the left, as the serviceberry on the right reveals its orange, in front of the yellow-green elderberry dropping more and more leaves everyday
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Juncos and ginkgos! 🐦 🍂
Pattern against a bright blue background featuring flat illustration of Juncos and yellow fall Ginkgo leaves
October 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Blue fuzzbutts return in flight! www.nordmi.com/post/meet-bl...
A blue, fuzzy, tiny aphid rests on a purple cuff, hand in background to show temporary wings for the purpose of mating flights
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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If ya know ya know...come back tomorrow for what #medawislatastes 😁
Yellow (or ochre) eyed, white beans, soaking in reflective water, in a metal bowl
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Last bluesky post of a #JaneGoodall organization before passing today...heart with future (and current) people but within the wilderness of Earth 🐞💜🌍
janegoodallcan.bsky.social Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · Sep 30
Today marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

We are holding in our heart the children who never came home from residential schools, and the families whose lives have been forever changed. We honour residential school survivors, who had their names, languages, and cultures torn away.
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Trio of Symphyotrichum sp. All the Asters! Happy September frome Maine! #medawislasights
Fuchsia colored Symphyotrichum flowers with bright, deep orange centers, against a green background Light purple Symphyotrichum with golden centers, against green background Bright white Symphyotrichum with yellow centers, against green background speckled with more white asters
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Photo by Julio Mulero of a White-throated Swift in flight with a large bulge below its beak. Text on the image says: Hope your weekend is as full of fun as this White-throated Swift's mouth is full of insects! Bonus Unsolicited Bird Fact: When White-throated swifts are collecting insects to bring back to their nestlings, they glue them together with their saliva to form a "bolus" (that's science speak for blob.) They hold the bolus in their mouth, not their crop, so there's often a visible bulge.
September 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Excited to share that TNC has reached an agreement for the purchase of four dams on the Kennebec River – a critical step in a long journey to reconnect more than 800 miles of rivers and streams: https://nature.ly/46n2dxV

#KennebecRiverRestoration
September 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Processing season! What do you all cook for quick meals because feet hurt from all the work of standing by pots all day?? #medawislatastes
September 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I’ve redrawn the September page from my new book as a coloring sheet! Here's a to the hi-resolution download.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jada-...
Happy coloring!

#forestrevealed #coloring #colouring #adultcoloring #coloringtherapy #communitycoloring #coloringbook #coloringpage
September 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Around the homestead: harvested onions to cure in the week of no rain that continues the 2025 drought; bumbles smother blooming asters; the new spinach vine surprised with delight! #medawislagrows #medawislasights
Purple onions are a new fav! With green tops from recent watering, they lay bulb forward on the dirt in the sun to cure A bumble bee does her thing on a fuchsia new england aster Purple onions (red bull variety) lay with green tops on garden mounds Brasella alba "rubra" spinach climbs bamboo poles shooting out green leaves; gray fence and green hedge in background; green posts and wire fence in foreground
September 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Blossoms. Rivers. Moss.

Nature is disappearing from our language and our lives. @grist.org
The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.
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September 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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BirdNote adds another dimension to how you understand the place you live — by understanding the birds. Our hope is that by spreading knowledge about birds, BirdNote is helping you become more connected to your local ecosystems.

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BirdNote Helps You Get to Know Your Neighborhood | BirdNote
Spreading knowledge about birds to connect people with their ecosystems
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September 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Now, this.is.flat.crust! #medawislatastes chicken-of-the-woods bartered for #homegrown ingredients like Basella alba rubra spinach & red onion that made this amazing #pizza
Rolled homemade pizza dough with homemade Alfredo for sauce on top.of a homemade pizza peel awaits pizza toppings Same thin pizza after baking with dark chicken-of-the-woods strips and green, cooked spinach leaves among other peppers, etc.
September 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Subtle signs of summer surrendering to autumn... #medawislasights #medawislatastes #medawislagrows
Monarch feeds on a red zinnia in #Maine Yellow green shishito peppers charred from the grill glisten with oil & salt before being devoured Several multi-colored sunflowers line a flower patch, with rudbeckia & zinnia in the meix; beeblm and asters in the background
September 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM