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He/him. Spoonie. Why couldn’t we be bonobos.

Protect trans kids.

Trans rights are human rights.

Cohost pempod (pempod.com) podcast about life with ME and long covid.
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I’m pretty sure this is a gray tree frog. Two of them were hanging out yesterday evening under the front light waiting for flies and things. #photography #wildlife #frogs
Gray tree frog (?) close up.
September 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Some photos of grasses and critters on mint.

#photos #bees #mint #wasps #bloomscrolling #summerBlooms
A small patch of tall grasses in cool light. Bumblebee on mint Yellow jacket on mint Blue wing wasp on mint
September 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Four ways of looking at a bellflower.

#summerBlooms #flowers #bloomscrolling #hyperLocalPhotography #pwME
Bellflower stalk in bloom center stage surrounded by blurred out greens. Bellflowers from center to right of image with light behind (above) and blurred greens in background. Closeup bellflower blooms with blurred greens and bellflowers in background. Single bellflower stalk rising from right of center to center surrounded by blurred out green and at the top left gray and white.
July 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Stuff growing. #localAwe #hyperLocalPhotography #summerBlooms #flowers #bloomscrolling
Bellflower close up with green background with some white bokeh balls. Dogwood tree in flower. Lots of clover leaves growing around a rock. Some day lily greens in background. Bellflower stalks with dark green blurred out background.
July 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Here he is throwing around wood dust.
A photo of the woodpecker throwing around wood dust. Fairly close up. A bit blurry.
May 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Pileated through a fence. In a neighbor’s yard having a great time splashing around in wood dust.

#birds #woodpeckers #localWildlife #hyperLocalPhotography
Pileated woodpecker at the foot of a tree stump. Grass (and a dandelion puff) in the foreground as well as the soft outline of a metal fence.
May 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Pileated woodpecker, half (or so) moon, grackle, bunny.

I think this is only the second time I’ve seen a pileated. He didn’t seem to care at all that I was not too far away taking photos.

#hyperLocalPhotography #localAwe #neighborhoodCharacters #backyardBirds #birds #wildlife #localWildlife #pwME
Pileated woodpecker fella enjoying a tree stump in a neighbor’s yard. In this photo he’s looking up (or maybe swallowing a critter.) In general he seemed to be enjoying splashing around in the sawdust. Half moon (half-ish?) at dusk. Handsome grackle in the grass. Bunny (cottontail?) in the grass nibbling on some greens?
May 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Bleeding hearts and dandelion fluff. #photography #localAwe #hyperLocalPhotography #pwME #ChronicLife #springBlooms
Dandelions to seed and a bit of grass. Bleeding hearts blurred out brown and green background. A stem of bleeding hearts with blurred out white-ish background. Dandelions to seed.
May 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Some butterfly photos from a few years back. #butterfliesAndBlooms #butterflies #photography #wildlife #localCharacters
Upside down fritillary on butterfly bush spike. Silver spotted skipper butterfly on iron butterfly plant. Fritillary wings spread perched atop purple butterfly bush spike. Swallowtail on tiger lily with green blurred out background.
May 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Spring things.

Considering using #hyperLocalPhotography hashtag and trying to start it as a hashtag for people who are homebound or similar. Any thoughts? #photography #chronicLife #pwME #nature #clouds #spring #springBlooms #bloomScrolling
Skies before storm, half tree top on left side of photo and moody clouds on right. Dandelion gone to seed in a blurred out patch of grass and dandelions. Bleeding hearts all in a row, leaves and blurred out wood in background. Azalea like pink flowers (a hybrid between azaleas and rhododendrons I think) with some more blurred flowers and blurred white in background.
May 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Tiny finch on a maple branch.

I used to use the hashtag #homeBoundPhotography and started it as a thing for #pwME and other folks to use who might not be able to access “subject matter” outside of the hyper local. Now I’m thinking on potential hashtags to use instead.

#photography #birds #nature
Photo of part of a maple tree with very small finch standing on a branch. The tree is just starting to leaf and gray skies in background (this was right before a storm.)
May 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Grackle through a window.

#photography #birds #grackles #neighborhoodCharacters
Grackle stands on maple branch head facing towards the right side of frame.
May 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Bee gathering in a dandelion. #photography #nature #bees
May 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Dandelions, blue jay, stormy skies.

#spring #photography #skies #birds
Dandelions in their seed fluff with grass and dandelions in flower in foreground and background. Bluejay in yard taken through window. Lots of greens In foreground and background and the patch the jay is standing in is soil. A maple branch starting to leaf with stormy skies in the background. Storm clouds and tree tops.
May 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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(Every once in a while I check to see if he’s stopped being awful and yesterday was one of those days.)
April 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Blue bird who got bread somewhere then hung out in a maple tree showing it off, and dusk moon behind leafless treetop.

#photography #birds #corvids #neighborhoodBirds #localCharacters #moon
Bluejay holds bread in their beak stands on flowering maple tree branch with more of the tree in the frame. Evening leafless tree top with moon blurred out in background. Bluejay holds bread in their beak stands on flowering maple tree branch with more of the tree in the frame. Nearly full moon behind blurred tree branches.
April 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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1) lilac just starting to grow 2) dried hydrangea again 3) a waking gaggle of little pale yellow crocuses 4) little iris dried stalks and empty seed pods

#photography #earlySpring #winterTurnsTowardSpring #SpringFlowers #nature
April 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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1) dried hydrangea with blurred out background 2) vulture in the sky wings spread 3) robin on the grass, background evergreens 4) flowering maple in the mist

#photography #nature #trees #neighborhoodBirds
April 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Just a dapper Robin on a fence post singing love songs.

#birds #backyardBirds #photography #nature #neighborhoodCharacters
April 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Close up on the hyacinth.
Blue hyacinth buds not yet open. Grass and dry leaves in the blurred out background.
April 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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A few early spring flowers.

Siberian squill, little yellow daffodils, blue hyacinth not yet in full bloom.

#photography #flowers #springFlowers #nature #spring
April 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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A pup named Miles Davis.

#dogs #photography #pipsOfBsky
A labradoodle or standard poodle? Sitting outdoors, his person’s hand and chain leash in the photo off to the right. Pup is orange ish with white spots on nose and chest and paws.
April 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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In a very nerdy way I just found the goth-est flower. Nature is wild and makes terrifying things. (I’ve always respected flowers, they are ferocious, but this is next level.)

Her name, Tacca chantrieri.
April 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Not a great photo but anyone know what kind of hawk this is? Coopers hawk has a striped tail but I don’t think this is a Coopers? Just seen in western MA.

#birds #raptors #birdsOfMassachusetts
March 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Moon photos from recently (this week or last. Time is a bit fuzzy around the edges.)
February 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM