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Grace Plants
@graceplants.bsky.social
🌿📷 Scientist Garden Photographer also on IG http://instagram.com/grace_plants. Love my gut microbiome and compost. 🇬🇧GMG/PGPA 🇺🇸GCI
I keep forgetting to post here. Been busy in the garden weeding, building tuteurs and trellises, and playing plant tetris

🌱🌿#pnwgardening
April 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Hello? Is this thing still on?
April 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Decided to totally rewrite my workshop that I am giving this week.

#gardenspeaker #gardenworkshop #gardenphotography
March 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Here is a nice Hellebore photographed against a blurry backdrop that I made by deliberately changing the focus on a shoot and passing through a gaussian blur post process. #F8andBeThere
March 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
All my other pics of the #NWFGS are on my insta account but this was too cute not to share here #gardenphotographer
February 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reposted by Grace Plants
Large epidemiologic studies have consistently shown an association between coffee and improved health outcomes. This may be one of the reasons: favorable changes to the gut microbiome 🏢🏢

www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...
Coffee Boosts Beneficial Gut Bacterium
Researchers found a strong connection between coffee and the gut microbiome
www.scientificamerican.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Reposted by Grace Plants
A link between yogurt intake and reduce risk of colon cancer, from cohort of over 130,00 participants, with inverse relationship to Bifidobacterium in gut microbiome
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... open-access
February 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Been a busy week where I taught two smartphone photo classes.

I want to update my main class to add different images, not just gardening. Probably more food and architecture.

And I want to develop my Flatlay class.

Any other class ideas?

#floralflatlay
#foodphotography #gardenphotography 🌱
February 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
January 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
No new pope today but at least we’re staying warm.
January 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Where I share my musings about the #gut #microbiome and armchair #oncology ( here's some word salad: #colorectal #cancer #CRC #colontown #fiber #fibre)

open.substack.com/pub/gracehen...
Armchair Oncology
Some people earn their degrees from Dr. Google
open.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Scheming about using #Hellebores as “just” a groundcover

🌱 #gardensky #bloomscrolling #pnwgardening
January 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Playing around with ChatGPT by uploading some target images and asking it how to create that look and feel in lightroom, then following the 'recipe'. Lots to learn.
January 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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🧵 👋 I'm a political scientist who wrote a book about the recent collapse of two democracies (Egypt & Tunisia).

Given the anxieties of today, let me present a 🧵 with thoughts & resources for:

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DEMOCRACY COLLAPSES:
January 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I sure would like it for an army of people to deep clean my house and stock it with my favorite food while I’m out.

Two questions, can they come every month instead of 4 years, and is there enough room for all of my favorite cheeses?
January 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In which I seem more important than I really am:

www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...
January 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Here is a nice #palm #triptych, carefully shaving off 5 pixels of each slice so the lines would line up. #gardenphotographer #detailsMatter #AmazonSpheres
January 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
My lucky “speaking to #garden clubs” socks have beets and carrots on them.

#gardenspeaker #gardenphotography #introvert #selfcare
January 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Seattle Taiko Drummers at Bainbridge Mochi Tsuki Festival
January 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
First time I got a photo actually printed in a book! One down, 1000 to go! #desertGardening #droughtTolerantPlants #drygardens #azplantlady
January 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Here is my free article all about emulsifiers; my poor gut: open.substack.com/pub/gracehen...
January 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Here is a nice #persimmon for Friday Fruit Phone Photography Flatlay day. I also just made that up. But I am going to give a webinar about it.

#flatlay #phonephotography #floralflatlay #minimalism #gardenspeaker
December 13, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Here is a nice #geastrum for #fancyFungi day (I just made that up). And a large brown mushroom that I have no idea what it is. Pacific Northwest, just outside my backdoor. #earthStarMushroom
December 10, 2024 at 8:28 PM
I think there needs to be a #screamingToddler #brokenDishwasher version of the great @britishbakeoff.bsky.social; just sayin’
December 3, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Decided to enter a photo contest at the last minute (bragging rights only); this image didn't make my personal cut but it has a cool spiderweb on it.
November 30, 2024 at 10:46 PM