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Jason
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Post things I find in my garden, in nature & in my head. 🏳️‍🌈
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Katie Wilson wins! She'll be the next mayor of Seattle, Washington.
Cartoon of Katie Wilson looking pensively into the sky. Behind her is an orange horizon with bluish tinted mountains and the city skyline including the Space Needle. "Kate Wilson Wins" appears in the upper center. A dandelion below Katie, blows its seeds towards the logo.
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Schumer's leadership gives Trump another win.
Cartoon of Chuck Schumer leaning on a long gavel and bowing to Trump (seated on a throne, with large gold hands as armrests, and wearing a crown) in order to have a MAGA hat placed on his head with a long pole.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Clyde exploring.
#caturday
White and black cat looking with wide eyes and ears up over to the right. He walks amongst long narrow branches of a kiwi bush. Yellow maple leaves and a small garden trestle rest below.
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Usually.
Deer, in the woods, looking with both eyes at photographer.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Deer giving me side-eye.
Picture of a white tailed deer, turning its neck toward the picture taker and looking disapprovingly with a side-eye. The rump of another deer appears in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Autumn Mode 2025
A man in a brown cap, blue and green plaid, and pink shirt slightly smiling and looking to the right. Bright red leaves from a Japanese Maple tree are behind and to the side of him.
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Zohran Mamdani wins! He'll be the next mayor of New York City.
My cartoon of Zohran Mamdani laying on his side (relaxed with one hand touching his cheek and the other draped over a raised knee) upon the words, written in his logo style, "Mamdani Wins". Mamdani in blue and "Wins" in red. On top of those words and off to Mamdani's side is the word Zohran split in half with "Zoh" resting on top of "Ran" in yellow. The cartoon is reflected in water.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Pineapple Sage showing off blooms in November.
Closeup of red tubular flowers on a dark stalk. Behind is blurred images of green and yellow leaves in a garden.
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I thought a strip of paper on the floor was a misplaced fortune from a fortune cookie and picked it up. Turned out it was from the paper shredder, but it still offers good advice. "Keep your existing."
Strip of white paper with an orange dot and the words,"Keep your existing" on a wooden surface.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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After chasing every single squirrel away, Clyde is refining his pouncing skills. #caturday #november
White and black cat in a green harness beginning to pounce. Forelegs curled up in the air and hind legs still planted on an old green cellar door covered in lichen. Oak leaves cover a hose still not placed away for the season.
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Happy Halloween! Have a fun and safe night!
#31daysofHalloween
Cartoon drawn over closeup of man in green shirt with a wooden fence behind him. The cartoon is of a green skinned ghoul with a hanging pink tongue, purple fungi for sideburns, two giant yellow-striped slugs eating a brain, a bulging eye, an eye-socket sprouting two shrooms, and revealing patches of skull.
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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White Point Moth on a leaf.
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Closeup: Profile of a brown moth with a small white spot on the back of a wing. Its body if fuzzy appearing. The moth is on top of a big brown curled leaf. Moss and lichen are in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Jelly fungi engulfing a branch.
#31daysofHalloween
Brown gelatinous fungi, with many folds and a sheen, latched onto a downed branch among leaves.
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Little Jack-o'-lantern I carved out of my lone garden pumpkin. #31daysofHalloween
Grid of four pictures. 1) Little pumpkin hanging from a vine on a green wire fense with white asters and a wooden fence in the background. 2) Same pumpkin carved and made into a jack-o'-lantern with a screaming mouth featuring two bottom teeth and one top tooth. It has round, wide eyes and sits on a stone surrounded by leaves. It glows from its interior candle at night. 3.) Close-up of same lit jack-o'-lantern at night. 4.) Close-up of same lit jack-o'-lantern at daytime.
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Broken deer skull.
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Closeup of deer skull, with the nasal region and upper jaw missing and neck resting on dirt.
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Old Wethersfield has a scarecrow competition every October. Here's one of the standouts. This good boy is named Walter.
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Surrounding by orange mums and sitting on a big green cushion is a scarecrow dog (about five feet tall or more) made out of different color straw. A dog tag proclaims him as Walter. He has brown eyes painted on white gourds and a yellow nose made from a gourd.
October 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Autumn Cattails.
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Yellow brown cattails in the front. Middle ground consisting of red leaved trees followed by yellow and green leaved trees and gray clouds above left.
October 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Going for a walk with Clyde.
#caturday
Black and white cat/kitten in a green harness attentive in a yard with plants in the background.
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Guardian of the Forest.
#31daysofHalloween
Angled upward shot of upheaved soil with tree roots hanging. Above the mass of roots is a tangle of wood that resembles a skull faced creature with long spider-like limbs. Yellow-leaved trees are in the background.
October 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Pet Sematary vibes.
#31daysofHalloween
On a beach of shells and pebbles there are rings within rings made of rocks for some and driftwood for others ending with a pile of rocks in the center. A salt marsh lies in the background.
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Painted rock: Chandelure haunting a house.
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Painted rock of the pokemon Chandelure floating in a house. Behind is a stained glass window mostly covered by a tattered white curtain. In the foreground his a wooden bannister shaped like an Ekans. Turquoise and purple are dominate colors.
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Dead Black-eyed Susans.
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Closeup of two gray in color Black-eyed Susan heads with hairy sepals that resemble spikes.
October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Painted rock featuring Gengar, the pokemon, underneath a cobble stone bridge. #31daysofHalloween
Painted rock depicting Gengar, the pokemon under a cobblestone bridge. Gengar has its vibrant pink tongue out near a flowing river. In front of the painted rock are fallen yellowish-brown leaves.
October 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Coyote skull.
#31daysofHalloween
Yellowing white coyote skull on a mossy stump. A tall grassy stem is in front of the skull, maple tree seeds encircling it, and a yew bush with red berries behind.
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Dog Vomit Slime Mold.
#31daysofHalloween
Tan colored lump of Dog Vomit Slime Mold on rotten stump.
October 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM