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Lady Autism ✨ CindyM🍁 (she/they)
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🪶Multiply NeuroDivergent Autist, Dys*rupting 🌱 📷 Degreed 📃MA Intersectionalist. I💚LunaDog ☮️ and🏞️. Disabled w MeCFS cPTSD. https://tinyurl.com/Cindy-m-today
✨Autism is like 👁️ Eyecolour✨
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🌱 flushing Quail 🦚 LunaDog
basil 🌺 more basil
coreopsis from the discount bin
black and white Android 22 photo of a small poodle mix dog, extending a pointer paw in the direction of the sound of her neighbor dog friend nikki, on the other side of that half wall, adjacent to a highly sculpted, flowering bush, a Texas sage, a driveway with gravel on either side and a street side paved sidewalk. a small strip of sun remains upon the center of this yard before shade takes over at this point in the year, zone 9 b in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. pictured at front is raised bed with various elements including desert rose in a pot. also, Thai purple basil, Mexican purple petunias, a poolside elephant plant barrel Cactus and Temple plant / plumeria, plus some cactus/succulents. a coreopsis showed up in the basil pot and the basil is quite happy about it! purple basil on the right not purple basil on the left single yellow flower of a coreopsis at front and some shell elements from lifetime adventures basil plants are such a fun sensory sensation; I hand trimmed a bit off this and put them inside in a pretty glass by the window basil plants in an oversized pot with seashell elements and a single yellow orange coreopsis sunflower in front of an inground pool in front of a 1970s era ranch home in Phoenix
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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🌱 LunaDog and I
Nov 12.
Tradition is ☕-brekkie/👵supplements for me, then outside. East-exposed frontyard now almost fully shaded; we can sneak around a bit and flush quails without the HOA being on our ladybits.
I hope! we've been turned in once for being off-lead. I didn't do it. All HOAs Ableist🪧
a small fuzzy multi-shaded gray poodle mix of 14 lb stands untethered upon A paved sidewalk and a paved Street next to her Stone gravel property, in foothills of Phoenix in Arizona to look down the street which she is, there are quail that she has just flushed from her property, and the dog stands victorious. slightly undignified pose coming from a small grade poodle mix of 14 lb a female despite the fact that she is lifting her leg on this highly manicured green leafed upon A gravel ground adjacent to a paved sidewalk and Road in zone 9B of the dogs neighborhood in Phoenix in November 2025. the very first filter on the Android gallery setting I can never remember its name. but it has been altered in pastels ish IDK it's my dog walking down the sidewalk Luna is finished or at least appears to be because actually she veers off after this photograph, small fuzzy poodle mix dog turns angled off the sidewalk towards her driveway as if she is about to run up the driveway. black and white Android 22
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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oh darn I meant to delete this
honest to goodness what I am doing is checking out this lipstick color which is dolce Vita but also trying to look like the Demi Moore smile girl just a bemused non-smile that doesn't crinkle your face that much headshot of Cindy with freshly washed shoulder length gray hair a Caucasian woman in her mid-60s.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Am practicing the Demi Moore *smile*
I am not in any way trying to look like DM, but a age 60+ woman w long hair smiling, as if her face is porcelain, a very carefully-constructed smile.✨
Demi's an X🧼SoapOpera Queen/ Preg on cover of Vogue! films w Cruise, divorce fr BruceW.
SmilingPractice
Autist
selfie of Cindy with freshly washed hair as it is rather fuzzy looking and serumed up face, full head of gray hair but still can't get a selfie smile figured, so I am practicing imitating Demi Moore's frequent go to expression, which includes some very white polished front teeth, which I don't have.
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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🌱 Aloe Blue Elf Hybrid Succulent w dozens of pups; only just discovered this🕵️‍♀️
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Small bluegreen Aloe, growing in Zone9B in Phoenix suburbs, Sonoran Desert, November afternoon sun reflected upon them.
While tidying 🧹yard dried debris, found that this plant is very productive!
AloeBloom!🌺
The plant in the image is a type of aloe, most likely a hybrid like Aloe 'Blue Elf'. Appearance: This type of aloe is known for its compact, mounding growth habit, with thick, pointed leaves that are typically blue-grey but can take on reddish or coppery hues when exposed to intense sun, drought, or cold weather. The plant in the image exhibits this compact form and the characteristic reddish-brown tips on its leaves. Growth: Like other aloes, it is a succulent that thrives in bright light and is known to produce offsets or "pups" from the base, which is visible in the image. Google Temple plants with one with a singular pinkish white Bloom near its center, Buddha and profuse purple blooms upon a Mexican petunia plant in a small raised bed area adjacent to the pool where palm trees were once growing. I'm practicing portraits; this owl is very well behaved holding still. ceramic owl beneath the honey Mesquite tree amongst natural debris of a mostly fallow garden in zone9b of the Sonoran Desert the very first flower or bloom upon a potted aloe plant in my backyard this season zone9B, Sonoran Desert. this is the first time in my life growing aloe plants outside. it's a few years in now. from the internet over time I collected this information about aloe:Aloe vera, commonly called medicinal aloe, is a stoloniferous, stemless, tropical perennial that grows upright with stiff rosettes of succulent leaves. Common name is in reference to the folk medicine history of this plant which goes back to the pre-Christian era. Lance-shaped green leaves (to 18” long) are spotted white and armed with whitish marginal teeth. Leaves mature to gray-green. Plants may grow to as much as 3’ tall. Flowering occurs only on mature plants, typically in summer. On container plants, flowering will only occur on plants grown in optimum conditions (e.g., sunny windows or sunny outdoor locations). Yellow flowers in racemes bloom atop erect stalks rising to as much as 3’ tall. Medicinal aloe is noted for the healing and cosmetic properties attributed to its sap. The sap is added to a large number of commercial cosmetics, particularly lotions and creams. Sap is noted for its ability to moisten dry skin. Sap from a broken leaf may be applied directly to burns on the skin for relief. Sap should not be eaten, but has been used in the past for treating peptic ulcers. The sap also reportedly has strong laxative properties. Medicinal aloe is also commonly called burn plant or burn aloe. Synonymous with and formerly known as Aloe barbadensis.
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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🌱 🪶 I have decided that not having an edit function is entirely okay with me 😭
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Columbidae, a type of Dove, perched at the top of
entirely dead ficus 💀🪾 tree at the corner of adjoining yards in zone9B Phoenix Black and White Android22
November25
Bird Looking At Me

Immigrant Bird didnt invade
Columbidae, a type of Dove, perched at the top of entirely dead ficus 💀🪾 tree at the corner of adjoining yards in zone9B Phoenix Black and White Android22 November25 Bird Looking At Me Immigrant Bird didnt invade Columbidae, a type of Dove, perched at the top of entirely dead ficus 💀🪾 tree at the corner of adjoining yards in zone9B Phoenix Black and White Android22 November25 Bird Looking At Me Immigrant Bird didnt invade Columbidae, a type of Dove, perched at the top of entirely dead ficus 💀🪾 tree at the corner of adjoining yards in zone9B Phoenix Black and White Android22 November25 Bird Looking At Me Immigrant Bird didnt invade Columbidae, a type of Dove, perched at the top of entirely dead ficus 💀🪾 tree at the corner of adjoining yards in zone9B Phoenix Black and White Android22 November25 Bird Looking At Me Immigrant Bird didnt invade
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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🪶 Invasive
is a shitty word for this cute little bird (see
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Large 🕊️ Columbidae w/ sweet face, against cloud-free med-blu mid-Nov. Phoenix Sky, turns its head slightly to observe the photographer.
Bird in Tree Looking at Me
Cannot help but feel empathy towards this 1970's American Immigrant.
Eurasian collared-doves are larger than mourning doves and have a distinctive black "collar" on the back of their neck. They are native to Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, but were introduced to the Bahamas in the 1970s and have since spread throughout most of North America. The species is considered an invasive species in some areas, as its rapidly spreading population can compete with native species. Eurasian collared-doves typically feed on the ground, consuming seeds, grains, and some berries. aware of the photographer's presence this large dove which began appearing on this continent in the 1970s grooms itself as it stands under a cloudless November morning sky the bird is nondescript in its coloring with the exception of a partial dark-colored band on its neck. large Columbidae in a filtered Android 22 photograph grooms itself and looks to be in a position of being twisted with One Wing slightly extended above it as it perches at the top of a mature dead ficus tree in zone 9B in November in Phoenix large Columbidae against cloudless Blue Sky in a completely dead-end leafless ficus tree in zone 9B where that tree does not belong, November 2025
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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🌱 FlowerPower
BloomScrolling
Black and White
Android22
November Zone9B
LunaDog
Portrait Mode
Moringa Blossoms
Temple☘️ Frangipani Plumeria
Native 🍠 Potato Vine spreads with Shadows and Light, LunaDog, lizard🦎 hunting with her dad, on another perfect day, except for the bitey 🦟🦟🐜bugs.😱
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light and Shadow, black and white filter using an Android 22 looking down a slight incline towards a dead ficus tree and past a human standing next to it Giant sweet potato vine as well as a small fuzzy poodle mix dog with her face hidden, but a little tail poking up. zone 9B, Sonoran Desert gorgeous blossoms in rounded shapes variegated petals clustered together like popcorn hang from a yard in a zone 9 b in the Sonoran Desert outside of Phoenix. moringa. Luna dog , a small gray fuzzy poodle mix dog,at the edge of a giant breading canvas of lime sweet green potato 🍠 vines, in the backyard responds to the call of her owner to look for the lizards in the vines. black and white Android 22 using the portrait setting and the black and white filter , Android 22,three flowers with delicate sponge like petals of a variegated hue, in the reflected gentle light of light afternoon zone 9B Sonoran Desert, with oversized teardrop shaped leaves emerging all around them
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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🌱 Even by my own people and sometimes, especially by my own peeps(have very few left, many have passed on).
When I speak of my own people I'm speaking of fellow Autists
We are riddled w Disability amongst us, but we are so different Gender differences, Socio-economic,
Diff stages of sorting Trauma
Two doves at Magic hour perching in a fully dead ficus tree against a slightly altered, cloudless, Blue Sky and zone9b of the Sonoran Desert. the dove closest to the photographer with the partial collar on a light colored neck, is a ringnecked dove, the dove fully turned away with a short squarish tail and pointed wings, is a mourning dove. Two doves at Magic hour perching in a fully dead ficus tree against a slightly altered, cloudless, Blue Sky and zone9b of the Sonoran Desert. the dove closest to the photographer with the partial collar on a light colored neck, is a ringnecked dove, the dove fully turned away with a short squarish tail and pointed wings, is a mourning dove. more Android 22 portrait mode practice using a now final count of three pinkish White sponge- feeling, five petaled, star-shaped blooms of Frangipani, or a temple plant or a plumeria, if you wish. a singular Bloom and a singular Bud of red upon a plumeria or a plumeria plant in zone 9B of the Sonoran Desert
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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🌱 Take my word for it: Being afflicted w HyperEmpathy is an Emotional Disability.
It was not till I 🕵️‍♀️🆔'd my Autism at 60, that I began to successfully cope w/ this Socio-Emotional Disability, labeled as Spiky SocialSkills.
For one, it makes you feel vulnerable, a target to World at Large, exhausted.
practicing taking photographs using the portrait mode on the Android 22 this is a tall spiny cylindrical cactus called a Brazilian jamacaru, with two cylindrical protrusions of a red orange color which are fruit. cloudless blue sky at Magic hour in the Sonoran Desert zone 9B as viewed from a suburban backyard with palm trees and other ornamental greenery. the focal point is a dead Ficus in the distance at center photo:Two doves at Magic hour perching in a fully dead ficus tree against a slightly altered, cloudless, Blue Sky and zone9b of the Sonoran Desert. the dove closest to the photographer with the partial collar on a light colored neck, is a ringnecked dove, the dove fully turned away with a short squarish tail and pointed wings, is a mourning dove. Two doves at Magic hour perching in a fully dead ficus tree against a slightly altered, cloudless, Blue Sky and zone9b of the Sonoran Desert. the dove closest to the photographer with the partial collar on a light colored neck, is a ringnecked dove, the dove fully turned away with a short squarish tail and pointed wings, is a mourning dove. Two doves at Magic hour perching in a fully dead ficus tree against a slightly altered, cloudless, Blue Sky and zone9b of the Sonoran Desert. the dove closest to the photographer with the partial collar on a light colored neck, is a ringnecked dove, the dove fully turned away with a short squarish tail and pointed wings, is a mourning dove.
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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🌱
BlackandWhite
LunaDog
ShadowsandLight
Android22
Portrait
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*I think Calif will lead the way in holding industry more responsible whenever that actually happens? for paying the 🌊 bill over me? I hope. no more wasting water on pesticide-plagued green lawns. cannot afford to waste water🪾🏜️
black and white Android22 filter Brazilian jamacaru cactus with protruding bulbous fruit ripening. LunaDog, her posture tells you that she is wanting something as the small fuzzy multicolored gray poodle with dark eyes look strictly at the camera in a black and white Android 22 snap as she lays on a blanket adjacent to her person black and white Android 22 shot of the house across the street probably going to sell for upwards of 600k I like the light coming up in the November morning. the shadows of the foliage on the street Luna dog and her hind end slightly illuminated by the early morning life is she flushes quail that are hiding inside a highly manicured Bush growing adjacent to another highly manicured bush growing next to the Brazilian jamacaru cactus. everything is upon a gravel floor.
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🌱
FlowerPower
Portrait
Zone9B
BloomScroll

Getting to know the entire Calif Central area fr Sacramento all the way down to Fresno*gently talking to spouse about petrol and prices in Calif, where at least there is some sanity in pricing* things what they cost vs idiocrity *price fixing*gas and 💦.
another attempt at capturing a cluster of salmon colored flowers upon the Oleander Bush growing around the house. prominent in this photo is half of the Bush having been dried out below the flowers ,with bits of sunlight dog departed looking a golden brown. waited all summer for this tiny flower to emerge it is of color is red on the edges white and golden towards the interior and it's growing at the end of a short brown stubby stem up on and oversized teardrop shaped leafy plant called a temple plant, plumeria or a frangipani. another angle of a tall spiny cylindrical cactus called a Brazilian jamacaru, with rounded orangish colored ripe fruit upon it other fruit going from green to a color, cloudless Blue Sky Ranch House and moringa tree with creamy balloons are behind it
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🌱 Zone9B
LunaDog
So 🌄 Park most southern Incorporated part of Phx, next🚪 neighbour is Rez
🏜️ s unique; glad to have gotten to know it over 10 years, due to economic factors pushing us west,
but water politics of AZ is whack. Similar to US petrol, 💦 industry makes no sense w/ No plans for future🔮.
a plant called either a Frangipani a plumeria or sometimes a temple plant because it is used in ceremonies honoring the dead.🪾 three pinkish and white variegated bungee textured blooms with five rounded petals merge from a cluster of oversized teardrop shaped leaves with a singular bud of red still open. a much maligned plant if you believe what you read online here is and Oleander shrub with flowers of a quote unquote salmon color angled towards the morning light. behind this bush is calliandra Californica with red feathers-like flowers barely visible, and behind that the blurry orange colors of a home Depot truck doing a delivery to the house getting flipped across the street. me practicing taking photographs on the portrait mode, not shown, this is a tall cylindrical spinae Cactus with red orange and purple colored fist size protrusions where there used to be oversized creamy colored flowers against a cloudless medium blue sky with other parts of the cactus visible Luna practicing posing in black and white on portrait mode Luna is a small fuzzy gray poodle mix dog she is looking directly at the camera which is something she only started to do when she turns seven in February of this year.
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🌱 Sorry not sorry! its Godzilla Day ✨
I'd never had a movie action hero until Ripley, but giant props to that guy or, gal?
U got to keep em Pollinated
White Oleanders w Western honey bees having breakfast inside the golden area of cream colour ❇️s on evergreen bush, dividing properties in Zone9B AZ.
in attempting to do a macro shot of these delicate white blooms upon A nearis Oleander evergreen flowering bush I discovered that pollinators were having breakfast see above a photo of bees, eating. The insect in the image is a bee, likely a Western honey bee (Apis mellifera). The image shows a bee with a striped abdomen foraging on a white oleander flower. Bees are insects known for their role as pollinators, collecting nectar and pollen from flowers to feed their colonies. Western honey bees are one of the most common and widespread species of bee, found on every continent except Antarctica. The insect in the image is a bee, likely a Western honey bee (Apis mellifera). The image shows a bee with a striped abdomen foraging on a white oleander flower. Bees are insects known for their role as pollinators, collecting nectar and pollen from flowers to feed their colonies. Western honey bees are one of the most common and widespread species of bee, found on every continent except Antarctica. an unopened reddish colored bloom upon a plant called a temple plant Frangipani or plumeria, with gentle light hitting teardrop shaped oversized leaves.
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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🦉 While I was waiting outside w car windows down to pick up my dog from the groomer in the Chandler Tempe area of Ahwatukee?
Very prominent sound of Anna's Hummingbird, American Robin and no surprise, Great Tailed Grackle, who will insist that you pay attention.
Anna's do the same but they are tiny!
Luna got her hair cut this weekend well I was waiting outside in a nearly empty parking lot of the groomers I took a capture of hearing the sounds of an Anna's Hummingbird a great tail crackle and an American robin using a bird identification app as shown in this photograph a blown out image of a Gamble's quail that I've startled and who has taken refuge on the other side of the head on a neighboring wall. behind the quail which is a gray colored bird with markings and a prominent so-called top not feather on its forehead and a normal size smallish pecking beak, is South Mountain Park / the towers as well as a nondescript ranch home building a blown out image of a Gamble's quail that I've startled and who has taken refuge on the other side of the head on a neighboring wall. behind the quail which is a gray colored bird with markings and a prominent so-called top not feather on its forehead and a normal size smallish pecking beak, is South Mountain Park / the towers as well as a nondescript ranch home building less blown out version of a blown out image of a Gamble's quail that I've startled and who has taken refuge on the other side of the head on a neighboring wall. behind the quail which is a gray colored bird with markings and a prominent so-called top not feather on its forehead and a normal size smallish pecking beak, is South Mountain Park / the towers as well as a nondescript ranch home building
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Racism is the reason why things are shite🇺🇸,
if i had to sum it up in one word
all the other isms flow from this deeply seated irrational hate of the Other
if you remove racism, if you take away ALL deeply-seated irrational hate of The Other
it still wouldn't be paradise
But it would be more sane.
Northern mockingbird in a dead Ficus tree against a cloudless medium Blue Sky in zone 9B in Phoenix on November 1st a shaft of November 1st Morning light catches the newly grown passive Flora adulis or passion flower vine leaves growing on a metal grid beneath a honey Mesquite tree which has part of a trunk area exposed at right it is multi huge shades of brown with a rough looking texture. the canopy of the variegated leaves of the Mesquite tree are in the background. a shot of the patio adjacent to the pool on Halloween night showing the distorted solar light features as streaks of light across the frame. a plant, the Frangipani /Temple plant is illuminated by a small solar globe in the foreground. I am pretty happy with this group of the undead AKA plastic poseable skeletons as well as a couple of Jack O'Lantern headed skeletons which I assembled and could assemble anywhere anytime very easily. here they are shown outside at the corner decorating a very large century succulent plant in a pot as well as a couple of them sitting on an air fern white pot at front a piece of Driftwood is on the ground at the foreground black and white shot Android phone
November 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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🌱 November 1st
Zone9B
1976 ranch 🏠 neighbourhood
🏠 across the street Want to guess the next selling price?; it just went for the first time in nearly 50 years for almost 400k; now it's getting cleaned up and I'm guessing, at least 600k? 🧾
LunaDog exploring the front yard; no quail today
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hind end of a small poodle dog as she explores the perimeter of a Texas sage flowering bush, groomed in the shape of a birthday cake by the landscapers. on the right of the dog and the flowering bush is a large spiny columnar Cactus with bulbous fruit growing upon it. a black and white photo of a neighborhood Ranch House, in the Morning light, which used to have an entire yard full of blow up Halloween decorations each year, before it recently sold for just under 400k (?). Surprisingly, other neighborhood people still living here didn't decorate, either. I run hot and cold. I was ready to give out candy, but there were no people seeking it. Luna dog strolling about freely in the early morning hours in this suburb in Phoenix. she's just stepped up onto the driveway, behind her she is just sniffed the commonly called Eve's pin cactus aus t r o c y l i n d r o p u n t i a.
November 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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🌱 🦉Meanwhile
a prominent bird from Family - Blackbirds - Icteridae
Species - Common Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula, calls from a neighbouring mature palm tree frond, whilst I am snapping shots
Zone9B
Nov1st2025
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*everywhere I go in the SoMountainPark area is the sound of Anna's hummingbirds!✨
plumeria or Frangipani ,pinkish petaled, sponge like blooms upon large teardrop shaped leaves many fruits! shaped like kiwis and pink protrusions from a tall spiny cylindrical cactus under a cloudless Blue zone9B Phoenix area Sky November 1st. Barbados cherry tree on the left Calliandra Californica shrub, on the right, a blue gray poodle dog mix in the middle, as well as a great deal of gravel on the ground of the front area of a 1976 ranch home. in the back is a lemon tree on the left and moringa tree branches protruding on the right.
November 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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🌱 🪶Mimus Polyglottos
in a dead ficus tree🪾 adjacent to my yard, not acting aggressive, just lurking
The Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) is a mockingbird commonly found in NoAmerica, of the family Mimidae.
Trying to find a mnemonic to help me.
a Mime is a mimic
Polyglot is So many!
Zone9B
a bird of cream and gray distinct markings especially those upon its wings in northern mockingbird has returned to zone 9B in the Phoenix area of Arizona and has been disturbed by the photographer's presence and thus is now perching in a fully dead but your ficus tree against cloudless morning sky. photograph altered slightly to increase definition. Android 22 a Barbados 🍒 /Barbados cherry/Malpighia emarginata DC. tree with a red rounded piece of fruit.The Barbados cherry, also known as acerola, is a small, red, tart-to-sweet fruit that is exceptionally high in vitamin C. It is a tropical fruit that can be eaten fresh or processed into juices, jams, and jellies. The fruit is highly perishable and best refrigerated or frozen after picking. in the front yard off leash on a paved roadway next to a cactus called ostro cylindero pontilla and I'm not fixing the spelling a u s t r o c y l i n d r o p u n t i a, my dog a small fuzzy gray poodle mix stands looking about the neighborhood I like how the light is filtering through a neighbor's tree in a tiny home that just sold on the market as is and now is in the process of being flipped, it looks very clean and pretty and I am guessing it'll go for no less then 500k Plus. it originally sold for $50,000. in 1976.
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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LunaDog
FreshHair
Ever since record rainfall earlier, we've had increasing flying 💬, birds bees🐝🛸🪰 insects, bugs bugging everybody, esp. Luna.
Today was 🐩Salon💈 day; it took 3 hrs; now my dog looks stoned🪨. She's exhausted fr her ~special hide-soothing oil treatment🍵
AllergyDog
DiaDeLosMuertes💀
🦸‍♀️🧵
my dog with her eyelids barely open as she reacts to the photographer. Luna is a 14 lb fuzzy gray poodle mix dog she's a pawn a cushioned service adjacent to a 1970s era tiled ranch home windowsill with various seasonal objects behind her resting in the windowsill where she has rearranged them🎃. in this neck of the woods which is zone 9B in the southwestern United States it is quite likely to see celebrations of dia de los muertos. celebrate the Dead Luna barely has her eyes open. Luna is a fuzzy dog who is on her side partially with her head resting on a front leg and paw her freshly groomed four leg on her right side is extended fully and shows off A very pretty haircut.. black and white rendering of a corner of a 1976 ranch home garage with a prominent century plant in a ombre shaded pot, dia de los muertos decorations comma /skeletons hang from the sharp serrated edges of the leaves of the century plant. also in the photograph is petrified wood at the base of two pots the second plant is a recovering air fern it has some new sprouts and a couple of posed plastic skeleton decorations in the background is a palm tree as well as blooms upon side yard oleanders in zone 9B of the Sonoran Desert Arizona black and white Android 22 shot of a single trumpet shaped flower as reflected in the night light of a cracked glass solar globe upon A rusting metal stand upon a porcelain bowl
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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🌱 Just tried to buy indoor, rubber hanging Skeleton decor, online, I don't think they make them of rubber/inexpensively anymore
Really don't like resin/ plastic
Which means I'm wandering into metal/glass territory, not great for hanging 🩻 LOL
Perfect time of year tho, almost everywhere🪄
SkySoPretty
birbs a pair on the street LED lamp against Bright Morning light in zone9b, in the shadow of Phoenix's South Mountain Park many pollinators in this picture including hummingbirds insects and bees at left is a hybrid citrus tree, with the weight of the fruit causing the limbs to nearly touch the ground. at center right is a moringa tree which is coming into bloom with popcorn looking clusters of creamy flowers. in the foreground at right are delicate purple on a Texas sage and at left bottom is a century plant which is a blue green color and has long sword looking serrated, components. a magnificent moringa tree with clusters of popcorn-shaped blooms which are beloved by all pollinators a glow in the early morning light against a variegated blue and puffy white clouded zone 9B sky. Definitely some birds and bees in this picture, as well as a mixed cloudy and blue zone9B sky, in the shadow of South Mountain Park. notice the lovely segmented leafy structures upon A moringa tree contrasting with the golden creamy colored handfuls quote unquote of popcorn-shaped blooms, beloved by pollinators.
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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🌱 idol thots while gardening
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I need to adjust the Buddha garden feature so it is more facing East picture of me in the middle of garden work with me not shown in the foreground is a plastic bucket with what is colloquially called a temple tree because it is so often used when people die as an ornament. that's what I read. it is almost 100% shade at 3:00 in the afternoon even here in zone 9B so my ongoing daily efforts to eke out the most Sun for the plants will soon be completely defeated LOL. I am having the best time of my life the weather is perfect see the beautiful reflections in that blue water and the beautiful Blue Sky it is all good! raised bed at an awkward end area of the house now filled with large teardrop sheet leaves of canna plant /Indian shot plant; the purple spiderwort is mostly obscured and towards the center.
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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🌱 FlowerPower
💜 Spiderwort 🕷️ 🐗
SciName's
Tradescantia Pallida, a species of Spiderwort native to Mex Gulf Coast, *a perennial herbaceous species w/a trailing habit* Cultivar T. pallida 'Purpurea', aka 💜 or purple 👑 is widely grown as a indoor or outdoor container plant or ground cover
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known as Purple Heart, Purple Queen, or Purple Spiderwort. tiny vibrant three petal pink Bloom upon a brawling long leaf deep purple plant. Tradescantia pallida is a species of spiderwort native to the Gulf Coast region of eastern Mexico. It is a perennial herbaceous species with a trailing habit. The cultivar T. pallida 'Purpurea', commonly called purple heart or purple queen, is widely grown as a houseplant, outdoor container plant, or a garden groundcover. The species has been proven useful in indicating and removing air and soil pollutants and has also been used in food technology.
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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🧑‍🤝‍🧑Online told me, noting a backyard pic, that I have trolls; that is not true, I have garden gnomes, a random decoration choice✨🎃.
* There are 2 strong gardening opinions in this household.
I try to stay passive but dang, it was not me who purchased💲💲 19 Plumeria, AKA ⛩️Plants💀
or the gnomes
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a picture of a raised garden bed probably put in in the 1970s underneath the ranch home porch and directly behind fireplace inside. a ceramic white jack-o'-lantern sits upon the center as well as some greenery popping up around with a grandma and grandpa gnome couple sitting happily with flowers in the corner. The gnome couple is not ceramic and the elements would destroy them in the yard. The plants are an air fern on the left and two different kinds of calla lilies, not truly lilies, one in a pot and one in the soil. shells collected by family members or found elsewhere and given in a heart-shaped Stone, sitting under water on the pool steps. Android 22 filtered LunaDog October 25 2025 was sleeping peacefully amits the monstera leaves next to her princess perch but my voice awoke her and now she stirs. small gray fuzzy poodle mix dog, photographed upon a light colored carpet emits large green monstera leaves as she rests, face-forward towards the photographer but looking down.
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🌱 Learning current🔭Science Nomenclature:
*TecoMaria Capensis* is native to SoAfrica but seems to love Zone9B.
Dropping its common name bc it is Not A Honeysuckle, it is of Bignoniaceae Family.
Fast-growing🌲Shrub producing bright 🍊 or red flowers, attracting pollinators, incl this Cape Honey Bee.🍯🐝
one week until the big night🎃 Android 22 photograph which has been filtered to increase the vibrance of the orange trumpet shaped flowers, upon which a cape honey bee has landed. a cape honey bee in flight adjacent to a cluster of trumpet shaped orange flowers upon a bush called TecoMaria capensis, in no way related to honeysuckle instead of the bignoniacea family. the bee has gone fully inside this open vibrant orange trumpet shaped Bloom which is pictured against a cloudless blue sky with some palm trees in the distance. bignoniaceae blooming bush zone9B
October 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM