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Annie Ross
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library worker, hiker, lapsed folklorist, paleta hoarder, same handle on that bird app #FlowerReport 🌱
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Between storms #FlowerReport 🌱
Bauhinia galpinii (red bauhinia / orchid tree) orangish flowers Celosia argentea (plumed cockscomb or silver cock's comb) with magenta/ whitish spiky flowers Salvia farinacea (mealycup sage / mealy sage) of violet spiky multi-blossoms Pink hibiscus
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Mission Bay rain-washed vistas
Lots of green shrubs with blue sky and puffy white clouds Palm trees and clouds reflected in water
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Between rain spells
Large eucalyptus tree in back, large Euphorbia abyssinica (candelabra spurge) on left side, Euphorbia tirucalli (fire stick or Indian tree spurge) on right
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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So Cal #FlowerReport yellows
Senna didymobotrya, known by the common names African senna, popcorn senna, candelabra tree Senna auriculata / mature tea tree —clusters of yellow flowers Sunflowers and blue blue sky Yellow daylily gracing the sidewalk
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Fundraiser today for ongoing care of Tommie Camarillo, longtime chairwoman of the Chicano Park Steering Committee
Fundraiser for the health/wellbeing care of Tommie Camarillo, longtime chairwoman of the Chicano Park Steering Committee 12-4pm today, Nov 8th, at the Chicano Public Museum & Cultural Center
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Leggy hiking buddy blending in with shadow #tarantula #mtrp #CaliforniaBlackTarantula
California black Tarantula camouflaged in plant shadows
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Friday #FlowerReport 🌱
Magnolia grandiflora (southern magnolia) white blossoms with a bee in center and on lower left petal Senna — clusters of flower with five oval yellowish petals Double purple iris Stickpea / Calliandra haematocephala (red powder puff) wispy red ‘powderpuff’ or fairy duster.
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Foggy warm morning at Mission Bay Park
3 paddlers navigate bay in thick fog
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Friday #FlowerReport 🌱
Salvia leucantha (Mexican bush sage) with water droplets and grey rocks Pinkish/white bougainvillea Yellow hibiscus
October 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Job opening: Executive Director, Chicano Park Museum & Cultural Center, San Diego, CA

chicanoparkmuseum.org/jobs/
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Opening blessing by Danza Mexi'cayotl, celebration of the Chicano Park Museum & Cultural Center’s 3rd anniversary
Chichimeca danzantes with colorful vestuarios & plumage, drummer in center of danza circulo
October 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Friday #FlowerReport 🌱 purples
Plectranthus zuluensis (Zulu spurflower) —many purple tubular flowers with some green leaves Purple fuzzy stalks of Salvia leucantha (Mexican bush sage) Lycianthes rantonnetii purple roundish flowers with small yellow center, surrounded by many green leaves
October 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Alfredo Castañeda ‘The Absence’ 1977

Exploring absence not as loss, but as revelation-an unfolding of meaning in what remains

Alfredo Castañeda: Beyond Surrealism on view at San Diego Museum of Art through March 1, 2026

www.sdmart.org/exhibition/a...
Painting with person on left and multiple white square paper(?) with faint circle in each. Multiple sheets receding into background, smaller and smaller until almost blend with sky
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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The Power of Remembering & Affirming Resistance: 10 Años de Corazón, 3 Años de Hogar

Celebrate the Chicano Park Museum & Cultural Center’s 3rd anniversary on Sat, Oct 11, 3-7pm, 1960 National Ave, San Diego 92113

RSVP (free) www.evite.com/event/0054AP...
October 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Sailing spider
Ballooning spider midair with only one gossamer thread visible
October 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Friday #FlowerReport 🌱 Pacific Northwest edition
Fuchsia leaves and flowers in light purple and magenta petals Symphyotrichum / aster white petals with yellow center and water droplets in petals Purple yarrow flowers Geranium sylvaticum, the wood cranesbill or woodland geranium in purple with white center and stripes
September 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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#FlowerReport 🌱 midcity San Diego
Polka dot begonia (Begonia maculata) Cluster of white flowers with yellow centers surrounded by green leaves with white dots Passion flower (Passiflora) Showy purple flower with light green center and two buds at different stages Mandevilla or rock trumpet red flowers spilling over fence Ixora coccinea (jungle geranium, flame of the woods) with clustered scarlet/orange flowers On the right, a grasshopper inspecting blooms
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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9th Annual Chicano Skate Park Celebration, tomorrow Sept 20, 12-4pm, free, open to all
Giveaways, raffles, art, food,

9.ª Celebración Anual del Chicano
Skate Park, mañana, el 20 de septiembre de 12-4pm en el Chicano Skate Park, gratis para toda la comunidad
Regalos, rifas, arte, comida
September 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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#FlowerReport 🌱 Orchids
Venus slipper (Paphiopedilum) with deep red colored ‘bucket’ and white, green, magenta strips Hay-scented orchid (Dendrochilum glumaceum) Two long strings of small white flowers Queen Victoria's dendrobium (Dendrobium victoriae-reginae) cluster of violet leaves with white center Venus slipper in light yellow and pink with long spidery appendages
September 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Have cat, will travel
Person with cat around neck and holding pet carrier crossing the street
September 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Town mayor of years past & mayor of today.
Both reflect the mood of the village #caturday
Two cats sprawled on sidewalk in Montsoreau
September 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Egress options
View from inside cavern facing the car. Car can only exit through caves White front door, top half windows, surrounded by grape vines Tuffeau (tufa) steep steps with rope railing leading out of troglo
September 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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More rain, more rainbows
#paysdeloire
Vibrant rainbow ending in trees along the bank of the Loire river
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Full arc rainbow #montsoreau
Rainbow over village extending length of the frame 🌈
September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Bateau de fruits de mer #marchemontsoreau
Styrofoam boat filled with an assortment of seafood from the Sunday market in Montsoreau
August 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM