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Brigette
@itsbrigettewalters.bsky.social
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Introvert. Reader of books. Birder with a bird phobia but somehow it works. Pug mom. Sometimes freelance editor. Running on optimism. Here to learn. I live in the woods of western North Carolina.
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Favorite multi-genre book I've read this year so far: The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton. I've enjoyed everything I've read of his. #BookSky 💙📚
A hand holding a book titled The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton, which features a cover illustration of a boat sitting in the water facing a hilly island with a lighthouse.
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Check out this hawk's wing / scaly hedgehog. A new-to-me mushroom, and there are two of them! Double happiness. 🍄🍄 #FungiFriends
Two Hawk's wing/scale hedgehog mushrooms next to each other in the grass, with oval caps that have multiple rings of what look like dark-tipped shingles or scales.
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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We adopted this red beauty as a tiny volunteer sapling growing in gravel at a relative's house in Cincinnati. We named it after her and sent a photo every year for several years so she could watch it grow with us. Nelva has since passed away, but Nelva's Tree lives on to make us smile. 🍁
A brightly colored red maple tree standing in a yard next to a wrought iron bench with evergreen shrubs and a fall colored hillside in the background.
November 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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My annual October reads to get me in a "spooky season" mood:

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

#booksky 💙📚
Six spooky books for October, showing their covers: Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon; The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson; Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury; and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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My forsythia blooms profusely like it should in the springtime, but also blooms every fall season for some reason, which looks fabulous with the fall colors.
Yellow forsythia flowers bloom here and there on stems that are full of leaves changing color in the fall season. Rare for this spring-flowering shrub, but I hope it never stops doing this.
October 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Time for the US Open! Chibi the pug is ready to watch some good matches. 🎾 #USOpen #tennis #MyPugLovesTennis
A black pug with his back to the camera lounges on a couch in a large living room watching the US Open tennis first round on a projection TV.
August 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Cardinal Flower is starting to bloom! Here's the first one I photographed this year. It's loud but in a good way, like a quiet firecracker. A visual *BAM* in the woods. #PisgahNationalForest
A bright, bold cardinal flower plant blooms in the woods with several sets of striking red three-lobed flowers on a single stem contrasting with the green foliage of the forest.
August 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Chibi as you may recall is a big tennis fan. He's enjoying the Cincinnati Open. 🎾 #MyPugLovesTennis #CincinnatiOpen #dogsofbluesky
A black pug facing away from the camera is lounging on a large sofa watching split screen tennis matches on a projection TV in a living room.
August 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Moss and friends, from my walk yesterday, before more rain rolled in. #WalkInTheWoods #moss
An orange mushroom sprouting up in a bed of thick feathery moss Moss and lichen grow together on a piece of wood that has fallen from a tree onto rocks A bright green fern with three outstretched fronds is surrounded by lush, green moss and wild strawberry leaves
August 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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OK I may have audibly shrieked with joy at seeing orange spotted jewelweed and yellow jewelweed growing together on a local trail. Usually it is one or the other around these parts. Maybe Helene moved them together? #PisgahNationalForest #Jewelweed
Yellow and Orange Spotted Jewelweed with their orchid-like blooms growing together on leafy stems in large groups Yellow Jewelweed with its orchid-like blooms growing on leafy stems in large groups An Orange Spotted Jewelweed bloom with its orchid-like petals growing on a leafy stems with more in the background.
August 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A bunch of the wild elderberry along the boardwalk were lost in Helene or need time to regrow but the ones by the sculptures that I planted are happy amd doing well.
A cluster of elderberries grows on a leafy branch that is part of a garden path leading through large abstract sculptures that resemble trees.
August 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Here is one cluster from the same bushes (this one has been enjoyed by the birds). I think I may have picked them too soon. I am an elderberry novice so still learning.
A cluster of elderberries
August 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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My elderberry bushes are finally making berries, wheeee! I just picked my first ever bunch (half for me, and half left on the bush for my forest friends). Now what do I do? I'm thinking #elderberry tea? I think I can do that.
A bunch of joy-bringing small round reddish-purple elderberries in clusters on stems, after being picked
August 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Happy mossy Monday. These tree roots in my yard are to me like the tree is sitting with wide crossed legs, or arms, to protect the moss. #moss
A cluster of dense feathery moss is nestled between two large, delicate but strong-looking, old and weathered tree roots.
August 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This a great weekly post by @bigbeardedbookseller.com for getting book recs. I just started book 114 of the year, Written in the Waters by Tara Roberts, who follows maritime archeologists and scuba divers as they document the wrecks of ships that were part of the Middle Passage. #BookSky 📚💙
The cover of Written in the Waters by Tara Roberts that shows an artistic rendition of a woman scuba diver swimming through an ocean with waves of blue and gold.
August 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Last month my book club explored Underland by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. Loved learning about what's happening under our feet, such as the Wood Wide Web. This book had vibrancy and was 5 stars for me by page 37... even if it made me a teensy bit claustrophobic. No spelunking for me! #BookSky 📚💙
The multicolored cover of the book Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane.
August 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Four days of rain. You know what that means... mushrooms! 🍄 Today's discovery was a tiny waxcap mushroom peeking out from the soil. #FungiFriends #PisgahNationalForest
A wee tiny waxcap mushroom with a shiny, bright red, domed top pushes up through wet soil and leaf matter.
August 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Posting a photo of the sun shining in my yard to cheer myself up because it has rained for two days straight and I am so over it.
The sun shines down brilliantly through the leaves and branches of several trees, illuminating them in a way that brings awe and joy.
August 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Saw native lilies on my walk. Calling these Turks Cap vs. Carolina due to the skinny leaves, and green "star" at the base of the petals (sorry no pic), and these dudes were over 7 feet tall, just bent over in the rain. #TurksCapLily #PisgahNationalForest #WalkInTheWoods #BloomScrolling
Two orange lily blossoms in the forest, with red dotted petals that curve back toward the stem creating a circular bloom.
July 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Chibi the pug getting his tennis fix. #Wimbledon #MyPugLovesTennis
A black pug faces away from the camera as he watches two tennis players on a large projection TV in an expansive living room.
July 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Discovered a duplicate piece early on in my puzzle and thought with dread, "Oh nooooo, does this mean there is a piece missing?" Sigh. Yep.
A duplicate edge puzzle piece lies adjacent to the identical piece in the section of puzzle already put together. A portion of a puzzle that has been assembled with a hole where missing piece should be. So frustrating. Part of a finished puzzle of large, varying shaped and colorful, intricate, and complicated glass sculptures with a duplicate puzzle piece lying on one edge and a separate area that shows a missing piece.
July 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Head clearing hike.

#summer #WalkInTheWoods ##PisgahNationalForest #WalkingMeditation
Looking down a path through the woods with a foliage covered right bank that slopes upward and a left bank lined by trees and a large blooming shrub that slopes downward.
June 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Daylilies! 🌸 I have more than 35 varieties in my gardens and these are the first ones blooming. So many more have buds so I can already tell it's going to be a colorful rest of June.

#daylily #BloomScrolling #SummerBlooms
A deep red daylily with yellow center blooms boldly A peach daylily with a light yellow center surrounded by its long green leaves blooms upwards towards the sky A pair of mauve pink daylilies with bright pink rings at the base above a yellow center bloom in a garden. A bright yellow daylily with thick petals blooms directly toward the camera, surrounded by its long green leaves while a daylily bud peeks out from behind it
June 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Continuing my journey through food-focused memoirs, this was a great read about Chef Kwame Onwuachi's drive and what and who inspired him early in his life and career. Would I read a future follow-up by a no-longer-young Chef Onwuachi? Yes, yes I would. #BookSky 💙📚
The cover of the book Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi, who is pictured wearing glasses and standing in a professional chef's uniform while looking into the distance.
June 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Bee balm's bloomin'!

#monarda #beebalm #BloomScroll #latespringblooms #gardenpics
Bright and bold pink blooms of bee balm, which have crowns of long thin petals bursting out of the centers and long, full leaves covering the stems
June 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM