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AO Smith
@aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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Statistician using #rstats, gardening in zone 8b in PNW, USA, bloomscrolling all year round, cats

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aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
My parents had a print of Walter Crane's "Neptune's Horses" painting hanging throughout my childhood. It is what I think of whenever I get to watch big waves cresting and breaking like I did this week out on the coast.

I don't really know anything about Walter […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
The ocean waves breaking against a rocky shore under a cloudy sky with sun breaking through. The furthest waves are just cresting and breaking, looking like the horses in the Crane photo. Closer in is all mixed foam with smaller waved re-breaking. The rocks are dark, a mix of brown and black that makes up the shoreline near Yachats, OR, USA
January 14, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
With an open mind
I check an email from CRAN
Surprise awaits me

#rstats #haiku
In the movie "Goodfellas", Tommy enters a room expecting something good to happen
January 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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edsullivan.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles) starting to bloom in Portland’s Fulton Park.
#portland #oregon #florespondence #gardening
A Pinkish Red Flower Is Open In Front Of A Closed Bud, On A Grey Branch, Amongst A Thicket Of Barren Grey Branches. Weak Sunlight Is Illuminating The Scene And Highlighting The Yellow Stamens In The Center Of The Flower.
January 14, 2026 at 12:01 AM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Easy hike out to the "Giant spruce of Cape Perpetua" today, estimated to be 550+ years old with a 40 ft trunk circumference. The seedling originally grew on a nurse tree, so has a tunnel under the roots. A great tree.

Dog + human for some scale (although […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
A portrait style photo with a short-haired human with a brown jacket and a white dog standing in front of a tunnel at the base of a large, mossy trunk of an old growth Sitka spruce. The trunk then extends up towards the sky, too tall to see the top even though it broke off in the 1960s. Some type of fern is halfway up the visible trunk on the left, just as the moss is thinning. A small Sitka spruce crown fell and is leaning across the trunk from the left, needle-less. The whole photo us mostly browns and greens as the tree was fully in shade in a canyon bottom. The photo is taken from low down, looking up.
January 13, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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alexisbushnell.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy
I am grieving hard for my inability to go get lost in forests since I became disabled.

What, if any, indoor trees are available for me to grow at home?

I already have a room filled with spider plants, 2 avocado plants (one trying to die), a Monstera, a snake plant, and a dracaena marginta.
I […]
Original post on toot.wales
toot.wales
January 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
For #thicktrunktuesday, Sitka spruce trees up at the Cape Perpetua scenic area "whispering spruce" trail.

Bonus second photo due to camouflaged Canada jay presence (aka gray jay, camp robbers) perched along the spruce trunk as they came in to beg hikets for […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
A single Sitka spruce tree trunk with gray and white bark. Two fairly large gray and white birds with black caps are perched on 2 thin branches on the front of the tree, looking at the photographer. They are hard to see. The photo is backlit with some usfs building in the sun in the background where the tree trunk is in shade but was taken due to the jays A backlit forest of Sitka spruce tree trunks, looking up and out. The photo is close in enough that the tree tops are not visible, just trunks and branches. The sun is shining through the trees
January 13, 2026 at 8:51 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Sunset last night in Yachats, OR, USA. Tide was coming in, with good spouting activity on the rocks
#oregoncoast #oregon
A round orange sun just about to go below the horizon over foamy ocean waves. The foreground is dark balsatic rocks that make up the shoreline at Yacats. Waves are rolling in, with a small spout coming up in the right. The sky is a mix of thick and thin clouds, reflecting orange with grays mixed in
January 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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drferrous.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Next month (February 2026) we celebrate the one year anniversary of @RepairCafeFFX! (WOW, a year??!!) How should we celebrate? #repaircafe @kidskylark
January 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
I have a fairly mature weeping cedar near the driveway that I've struggled to keep in good shape. In late summer I saw someone who pruned the "weeping" pieces much shorter than I had ever tried so I thought I'd see how it turned out. I like it! A neat silhouette.

#gardening #pnw #trees
A weeping cedar with many unusually shaped branches is backlit by low winter sun. The trailing pieces, covered with blueish needles, are all cut well above the ground. Another small ornamental conifer with 2 parallel trunks stands next to it. A narrow strip of bright green grass runs in front of the trees and behind is more trees, shrubs, and plantings of an ornamental garden area dormant for the winter. 2 white plastic buckets near the grass take away from the scene a bit. The sky is mixed clouds with a little blue
January 11, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy
First of the enormous cactus flowers is out. They always come in the second week of January. Didn't get any last year, because the poor thing suffered in a move the previous year, but I repotted a couple of months ago and it's much happier. I keep […]

[Original post on microbe.vital.org.nz]
A very large and beautiful cactus flower
January 11, 2026 at 9:16 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
My parents once followed through on a threat to have my brother and me get out and walk home if we didn't stop fighting. Albeit at the end of our (very long) rural driveway. We walked home, holding hands and crying but definitely not fighting
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
January tends to be Meyer lemon season at my house, overlapping with my husband's birthday. Most years I make some sort of triple lemon cupcakes, but this year I felt like going back to the basics with lemon pie.

I used 4 (small) whole lemons in the pie so only […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
A whole pie in a pie pan, fresh out of the oven sitting on a metal rack on a dark orange countertop. 2 small lemons sit just in front of the pie. The pie has crust over the top of the filling with 4 slits in it (one slit every quarter of pie). The crust is mottled brown and the edges are tall, much taller than the pie, and crimped. A classic double crust pie
January 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
#silentsunday
A peaceful scene of trees and winter sunshine looking downslope in a grove of Oregon white oaks. A short conifer stands below the canopy in the left center, much shorter than all the surrounding trees. The sun shines low in the sky through the upper center of the picture, a winter sun coming from the south through bare oak canopies. The ground is brown and leaf covered down slope and then becomes green in the distance as it begins to slope up again across a small stream
January 11, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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drferrous.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
An updated #introduction for 2025:

I’m a mom, #cat whisperer, #maker, avid #reader, #gamer, and #dice goblin. I’m a #chemistry #Professor and #education #researcher. I love #traveling, #cooking, #photography, and #3dprinting. Ich spreche und lese etwas Deutsch. I use #mac and #linux machines […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
March 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy
Rain Barrels w/rebate in Calleguas MWD (Ventura County/Conejo Valley/Thousand Oaks). $35/barrel rebate, barrels look to be around $85.

https://www.calleguas.com/your-water/water-use-efficiency/

#gardening
Rain Barrel Sale Sat Feb 7th Calleguas MWD THousand Oaks
January 10, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
Welcome, everyone joining the #forkiverse!

The #fediverse is like any social media in that the "algorithm" gets better the more you "train" it. And by "algorithm" I mean cool people & hashtags you can follow (yes, you can follow hashtags, it's awesome!), and by "train" it I mean boost any post […]
Original post on indieweb.social
indieweb.social
January 10, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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jimsphotos.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy
One of many local Red Kites taking some time out in the trees at the front of our house

#nature #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #uk #birdscrolling
a large bird of prey perched on a branch in a tree
January 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
"I am not amused by your cat socks" -Popsy

#caturday #catsofmastodon #cats
A striped torbie cat sits on a pale wood floor, stone faced, looking at the camera. A pair of feet clad in purple socks printed with the cats head on them are directly in front of the cat, pointing in from the bottom of the frame. The background is the bottom of a wide, inset bookshelf filled with books stacked in various ways
January 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
We did finally have a freeze on Dec 31 here in zone 8b, the latest I can remember. A hollyhock bud unexpectedly still survived that freeze. Slightly shabby but still a little pop of pink now

#bloomscrolling #gardening #flowers
A close up of a bright pink hollyhock flower with a white center against a background of close-in shrubs and distant trees. The sun is shining and blue sky is visible in the far background
January 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Earlier this week I glanced out the upstairs window to espy this rainbow over town. So I paused to take a photo through the glass.
#fensterfreitag #pnw #rainbow
A landscape of bare trees mixed with tall conifers with a dark gray, cloudy sky above. A rainbow arcd down from the left into the center of the photo, over a distant house. The rainbow has a pale reflection above it, just barely visible. Photo taken from a second story window looking east
January 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Here’s the finished planter—a custom engagement gift for plant lovers beginning their lives together. The dark pink background is Alabama clay, and now you can see how the green Ontario clay looks on the leaves after firing. The other colors come from glazes […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
A potted orchid plant with large green leaves in an intricately designed clay pot featuring a monstera leaf motif. The pot sits on a wooden chair, and a saucer, its interior glazed glossy aqua, sits underneath.
January 8, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
A rare snippet of my decorating process. Here I’m filling in the monstera pattern on this planter with terra sigillata (a watery, refined clay slip) made with clay from Ontario. This is much different than painting—it’s basically glaze application. The […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
January 7, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I went in to a local wool shop on 11th December. I hadn't expected them to have anything in stock but maybe they'd have pointers and be able to order it in. But they had this gorgeous wool, so I bought some.

Then I had to learn to crochet. @shezza_t sent me […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Me and @shezza_t, happy and smiling out in the cold snow. I'm wearing my bright new mobius cowl.
January 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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antoinnesterk.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy
Robin Redbreast

#birds #mosstodon #nature #photography
A European Robin perched on a snow-covered branch during winter. It features the characteristic orange-red face and breast, a brown back, and a pale underbelly. The tree limbs are heavily coated in thick, white snow. Underneath the snow, some of the branches show patches of green moss, providing a nice textural contrast. The background is a dense, intricate web of frozen branches. Many of them are encased in glaze ice (clear ice from freezing rain), which gives the scene a crystalline, shimmering quality. The color palette is dominated by whites, soft greys, and muted browns, which makes the robin’s orange breast pop as the primary point of color.
January 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM