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Taralei Griffin
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Writer/Photographer/Fairy Herbmother

Cannabis educator & advocate, tree hugger, & Endo Warrior 🌳🎗️
No one should be in jail for a plant! 💚🌬️

🎓 Saint Louis University Cannabis Science alumna, Class of 2021

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Can’t get over these stunning irises that my boyfriend grew. 😍💜
#bloomscrolling #naturephotography #iris #gardening #beauty #art #perennial
A patch of blooming irises - these have a lavender colored lower layer of frilly edged petals, while the central petals are a pale yellow, almost cream colored. Lush, long green leaves and grass leading to a dark wooden fence can be seen in the background. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in Godfrey, Illinois, May 2025.
May 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Mother's Day is always a difficult one for me... but this year, my 6 year old aloe plant, Lil Kraken, is growing its first ever pup. 💚
I might never be a human mother… but I’m still worthy, loving, & always growing. 🪴
#stunday #aloevera #plantmom #houseplants #greenthumb #hystersister #endowarrior
A photo of a small aloe vera pup growing near the base of a mature plant. The pup has two small plump green leaves emerging from the soil. This photo was taken by Taralei Griffin. A woman with dark hair and green rectangular glasses smiles widely while taking a selfie. A large potted aloe vera plant is held in her left arm, the orange pit pressed against her chest. The plant is significantly larger than her torso, with its long leaves with jagged edges curling outward and upward, even out of the photo frame. This selfie was taken by Taralei Griffin in May 2025. A young woman with curly, dyed green hair under a St. Louis Cardinal’s baseball cap with large round floral glasses stands in front of a window with a small grey potted plant in her hand. The plant is an aloe vera with 6 leaves, one much longer than the rest, curved and hanging heavily out of the pot, so long you can’t see the end. This selfie was taken by Taralei Griffin in 2019.
May 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Love the colorful curved #lines on turkey tail mushrooms… #BlueSkyArtShow

#photography #NaturePhotography #ShroomSpotting #TurkeyTails #mushrooms #CircleOfLife #art
A large patch of turkey tail mushrooms sprouting on a rotting log. The visible bit of the log is dark grey with smaller green patches of moss because it’s wet from a recent rain. The larger turkey tail mushrooms are curved, almost ruffled at the edges, and striped with variegated green colors. There are some smaller mushrooms sprouting above them with darker brown, tan, and green stripes. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin at Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky in May 2025.
May 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Spotted this single wildflower blooming in a ray of evening light coming through the trees at our campsite last weekend. 🌼☀️

#photography #naturephotography #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #camping #landbetweenthelakes #sunshine #spotlight #beauty
A single wildflower grows tall with grass and trees blurry in the background. The green stem has several oblong leaves, and the top splits into five thinner stems, holding up small blooms with thin, white petals asurrounding a bumpy-looking yellow center. A ray of sunlight coming through the trees falls perfectly onto the wildflower, looking like it is in a spotlight. There are other curved light flares visible, including a small rainbow in the upper left corner. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in Grand Rivers, Kentucky in May 2025. A close up of the blooms of a wildflower in sunlight - there are four blooms visible, crowding each other on the end of a green stem. They have thin white petals surrounding yellow bumpy-appearing centers. Green grass and dead leaves are out of focus underneath the blooms. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in Grand Rivers, Kentucky in May 2025.
May 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Need to share this gorgeous #green view from my 2023 hike through the Lake District for #BlueSkyArtShow 💚⛰️

#photography #hiking #travel #lakedistrict #landscape #beauty #nature
A green mountain scene underneath heavy grey clouds. The photographer was standing partway up a mountain, looking back at another three rolling mountains. They are all shades of green, getting darker in color the further away due to distance and fog, the furthest a dark blue green silhouette. A dry rocky streamed snakes between them all. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in the Lake District, UK, in July 2023.
May 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #green 💚

#naturephotography #pnw #trees #foreshadowing
A pine tree seedling with a knobbly thin trunk with slim green needle like branches fills the foreground. A single tiny pinecone hangs about halfway up the baby tree. Beyond the shady area that the baby tree is in, the blurred outline of a large fully grown tree glows a light green color in the sun, framing the baby tree, foreshadowing what it will look like when it’s fully grown. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in Port Orchard, Washington, in June of 2024.
May 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Happy #420! 💚💋 I’m celebrating by launching my new publication today - starting with a piece about St. Louis rapper @lyghtstrife.bsky.social 🔥🎶

Read, share, & subscribe here: https://fairyherbmother.substack.com/p/lyght_strife-origins

#writersofbluesky #indieart #indiemusic #hiphop #rap #stlouis
A black man with short purple hair wearing a yellow jersey is speaking into a microphone, silhouetted against stage lights casting an orange and white glow on everything. In the upper left hand corner in green font accented with hemp leaves, it reads “Fairy Herbmother Presents” and in the middle of the image, in purple typewriter font it reads “Lyght_Strife”. Green text in the bottom corner says “read more at fairyherbmother.substack.com” This photo & it’s editing was done by Taralei Griffin.
April 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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My yard is a carpet of wild violets right now and it makes me so happy. 💜💚

#stunday #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #commonblueviolet #naturephotography #forthebees
A photo of a portion of the photographer’s backyard. Bright green grass and heart shaped leaves are growing low to the ground, nearly hidden by hundreds of small, vivid purple blooms with four or five round petals: the common blue violet, or wild violets. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in Godfrey, Illinois in April 2025.
April 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#RoseWednesday 🌹

#bloomscrolling #photography #naturephotography #roses #scotland #beauty #spring
A large pink rose blossom in full bloom and a small orange bud just beginning to open rest on the end of a thorny branch, leaning against a black iron fence post. Green leaves and thorny branches extend below these blooms and across the other fence posts. Beyond the fence, you can see a blooming pink rose bush next to a stone walkway, just out of focus. This photograph was taken in Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland by Taralei Griffin in July 2023.
April 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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#bloomscrolling is always preferable to doomscrolling. 🌼✨

#photography #naturephotography #spring #wildflowers #wildviolets #light #art
A small yellow flower with a fuzzy center is blooming at the front of the image, with three vivid purple wild violets in a semi circle around it. Green leaves and more violets can be seen in the background. The light is dappled from tree branches filtering the sunlight. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in Godfrey, Illinois in April 2025.
April 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Been a while since I’ve shared a shot of Whiskey with y’all…
Cheers 🥃🐾

#dogsky #photography #aussiedoodle #whiskey #spring
A photo of a black and tan dog with curly fur. He is looking past the photographer, and his pink tongue is just sticking out of his mouth. He is wearing a green collar and a blue bow tie with a colorful floral pattern. The black bone shaped tag hanging from reads “Whiskey”. He is sitting in a grassy yard dotted with the purple blooms of wild violets, blurry in the background. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in April 2025.
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Today’s #HalfAndHalf #SelfPortraitSunday theme made me dig through my archives for this one from 2019. 💐

#photography #bloomscrolling #strongwomen #mothernature #art
A photograph of a woman from her shoulders up. The background is filled with a wooden fence, behind which you can see distance power lines and towers. The grey sky has been edited to looks like it is made from crumpled paper. The woman has long curly hair that is dark brown until just below her shoulders, where the ends are dyed a mossy green. She is wearing a yellow and black striped button up shirt, open to a black tank top. Held in front of her is a bouquet of three flowers, one a warm, yellow sunflower, the other two light purple bell shaped blooms. The stems have a couple of long, limp leaves. The blooms mostly obscure the woman’s face, and you can only see part of her large, round glasses and dark eyes looking directly at the camera above the blooms, and just the corner of her mouth curled up peeking from behind them. This self portrait was created by Taralei Griffin in October 2019.
April 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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i thought
letting go
would send me spiraling
crashing
shattering
into pieces

i forgot
that to soar
i needed to fall, screaming
burning
scattering
ashes as I rise

#BlueSkyArtShow #silhouette
#poetry #photography #art #phoenix #glow
A woman stands on a wooden deck at sunset, facing the left side of the image in silhouette. She has her head thrown back, her long dark hair arcing towards the sky, caught mid flip. She is wearing a long skirt, and has her visible arm bent at the elbow, hand on her hip. The sun is right at the edge of the deck railing in the background, causing light flares, including a large green one on her skirt. The sun looks as if it could be emerging from her chest, blowing her and her hair back with its power. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin of friend Cheyenne Quick in 2020.
April 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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No cheating: your last saved celeb pic is your therapist.

So it’s just… me? 😅😶‍🌫️✌️
A photo of Frodo and Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings where Gandalf is smoking a long stemmed pipe. Superimposed on the photo is a screenshot of a tweet by “MPREGMAFIA” that reads, “‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘Haha,’ said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the eighteenth time in the past hour. ‘Hahaha. Fuck.’”
April 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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“In Distress”
#BlueSkyArtShow #silhouette

#photography #RiverLife #resilience #art #3E #sos #resist
A large U.S. flag flying at half staff is silhouetted against the sky as the sun sets over the Mississippi River. The flag’s field of blue is obscured by shadow, which also makes the stripes barely visible. The sky is a hazy grey with streaks of clouds, with an orange glow along the horizon, reflected in the water of the river. A single bird silhouette can be seen flying towards the flag from the upper right of the image. This photo was taken by Taralei Griffin in Grafton, Illinois.
April 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Emerging from hibernation for #BlueSkyArtShow with this #silhouette of a cardinal singing to me from the head of a statue.

#photography #birds #mothernature #art
Silhouetted against a cloudy, grey sky is the statue of a woman facing the lens. Details on the statue are hidden by shadow. She has both arms bent, her right hand raised with her thumb and pointer finger touching, and her left hand holding a bowl. A vine with small leaves is draped over her arms. On the statue’s head is a male cardinal, some of his bright red color popping even though he is also being silhouetted by the muted light. This photo was taken by Taralei Griffin at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois in June 2021.
April 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This #SelfPortrait from 2018 really captures the mood lately.
Happy 34th orbit of the sun to me.

#photography #bw #birthdays #wereallmadhere #getloud
A black and white portrait of a woman kneeling in the middle of a stretch of striped zebra print carpet. The woman’s legs are obscured by a black tulle skirt spread around her in a circle. She is wearing a white tank top, leaning forward with her right hand flat on the ground supporting her, while her left arm is bent at the elbow with her hand clutching her hair at her temple. More of her long, dark, tangled hair falls over her right shoulder, the ends brushing the ground. She is wearing large round glasses, and her face is twisted into a scream, her eyes squeezed shut and her mouth open wide. This is a self portrait taken by Taralei Griffin in December of 2018.
March 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Happy Sunday #stunday featuring this crop from my favorite photo I took in Scotland.

#photography #travelphotography #scotland #isleofmull #bloomscrolling #foxglove
A blooming foxglove fills the center of the photo, a thick green stem studded with small green leaves and several magenta bell shaped blossoms hanging heavy with glistening dew drops. In the background, you can see yellow algae floating at the edge of a body of water reflecting the cloudy sky, stretching to a couple of rolling mountains shrouded in fog on the horizon. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin on the Isle of Mull in Scotland in July 2023.
March 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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One last #BlueSkyArtShow #windows post before Saturday ends… 🪟🌿

#photography #artinnature #contrast
A wooden wall opens to a perfectly square window made of a lighter wood frame than the rest of the wall. In front of the wall, tall green grass grows, a couple of stalks seeming to peek through the window. Through the window, a cracked concrete wall can be seen behind low growing pothos plants with large, dark green, heart shaped leaves. This photograph was taken at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois by Taralei Griffin in 2021.
March 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Another piece for the #windows #BlueSkyArtShow taken during a hike at Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Missouri this past summer.

#photography #hiking #castleruins #architecture #stillstanding
An old stone wall with a vertical rectangle window right in the center fills the image. The stones are tan uneven rectangles, except for the ones below the window, which are blackened with soot from an old fire. Through the window, you can see the remains of another wall of the building. It has six windows in it, and is peaked at the top, beyond which you can see a sky grey with clouds. The roof on this building is long gone. The top two windows are small and arched at the top, with only more grey sky visible through them, while the bottom four are larger rectangles, each framing leafy green branches of trees. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin at Ha Ha Tonka State Park in 2024.
March 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hope will glow
grow
with even the slimmest
ray of light
🌼💛

Today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Windows - made me think of this shot I took during the first week of COVID lockdowns, 5 years ago this month.

#photography #stilllife #orchids #bloomscrolling #poetry #hope #glow
A photograph of a window at night. Everything is black, except the outline of the window frame, which glows yellow from an outdoor light. There are shades drawn back to the left side, through which you can see stripes of the dark window, the light causing the shade strips to glow slightly, too. The window frame on the right side has no shades covering it, and in front of the black window, on the windowsill sits a small potted orchid. It’s cluster of blooms glow yellow in the light from outside, and you can see two oblong green leaves to each side of the stem, right where it meets the soil in the small cup like pot. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in Hartford, Illinois in March 2020.
March 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Just found out #RoseWednesday is a thing. #bloomscrolling ftw! 🌹
I saw this beauty at the Golden Gate Park Rose Garden in 2023.

#photography #travelphotography #sanfrancisco #goldengatepark #roses #flowers #art
In front of a clear, bold blue sky is a single large rose blossom, its many soft petals a peachy orange color, seeming to stretch high above the photographer. Below it are a few branches studded with thin thorns, round green leaves, and three small unopened rose buds, with almost white petals clustered into a cone shape, held by a few green leaves where it meets the stem. This photography was taken at the Golden Gate Park Rose Garden in San Francisco, California, in September 2023. The photographer is Taralei Griffin.
March 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Just cleansing my feed & my mind for the evening with this gorgeous Scottish landscape…

#photography #landscape #travelphotography #scotland #isleofmull #gardenview #crimsonbottlebrush #bloomscrolling #peace #sweetdreams
A crimson bottlebrush plant fills the left side of the foreground, with long evergreen branches covered with slender green leaves, tipped with round, bright red bushy blooms that pull the branches slightly down, giving it a soft, curved appearance. To the right, slightly behind the tips of some of the bottlebrush branches, is a blurred, greenish white bush. Beyond these garden plants, you can see bright green land stretching to a patch of blue water, beyond which you can see two gently rolling mountains on the horizon, mottled green and dark blue by shadows cast by the clouds. The sky is a bright blue, with fluffy white clouds passing above the mountains. This photograph was taken from a garden with a beautiful view on the Isle of Mull in Scotland in July 2023 by Taralei Griffin.
March 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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#bloomscrolling > doomscrolling
so here’s this photo from a visit to Minnehaha Falls about 5 years ago. 🌼💚

#photography #naturephotography #wildflowers #echinacea #bees #travelphotography #minnesota
A photograph of some blooming echinacea. Six blooms are fully visible, clustered together, each with green and orange centers that look like puffballs, surrounded by many delicate, oblong pink petals. The topmost bloom in the left hand corner has a fat, yellow and black striped bumblebee sitting on the puffball center, its thin, sheer wings slightly flared to each side. Large green teardrop shaped leaves fill the background, and you can see parts of three other pink blooms peeking through the thick leaves. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota in August 2020.
March 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Love the way the sunlight plays with these rhododendron blossoms in this shot from a visit to the PNW last year.

#stunday #bloomscroll #photography #naturephotography #hiking #rhododendron #flowers #sunshine #spring #art
A close up photograph of a cluster of 6 rhododendron blooms. Their raspberry pink petals form a trumpet shape opening to reveal dark polka dots speckled around long, thin stamens. The background is a green blur, out of focus trees and shadows. The blooms are in a ray of light filtering through other unseen leaves above, causing interesting shadows, streaks of light appearing to beam out from the petals, and a round yellow bubble-like light flare in the top right corner. This photograph was taken by Taralei Griffin in Port Orchard, Washington in April 2024.
March 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM