Jason
LightNews LightNews
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Jason
@jasonstuart.bsky.social
120 followers 220 following 230 posts
Teaching at SRU. Into book arts, drums, the White Ferns, light urban permaculture, fountain pens. I delete posts and reposts, in case you care how full someone's feed is.
Posts Replies Media Videos
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Phlox (jeana I think) finally spared by the deer long enough to bloom #bloomscrolling
Purple blooms of the phlox plant
August 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Senna bloomed for the first time so I'm happy about that
A wild senna plant with yellow blooms atop long branches of flat green even pinnate leaves arranged in opposition
August 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Also the Rudbeckia laciniata is up, tall and thuggish as usual #bloomscrolling #nativeplants
A bee sits on the yellow bloom of a green-eyed rudbeckia.
August 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Pepperbush (Clethra) in bloom. My absolute favorite - bees love it, it smells amazing, it looks great, grows like a weed, suckers freely and easy to propagate. Clay, shade, sun, doesn't care. #bloomscrolling #nativeplants
The pink and white spires of a pepper bush bloom in front of a privacy fence, about six feet tall. A house is in the background. Red cardinal flowers bloom in front of a pepper bush
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
I don't understand the viral pictures of hummingbirds just chilling in a pool with ten other hummingbirds. Two birds just try to murder each other every day over this cardinal flower. *and we have other cardinal flowers*
Bright red spires of cardinal flower stand between a tall bluestem grass and the pink, fluffy flowers of a joe pye weed. A paw paw tree stands nearby, in a yard.
August 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Cardinal flower, echinacea, phlox, some bloomed-out astilbe, pennisetum in the back
A bright red cardinal flower stands in front of astilbe, coneflower, and phlox
July 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
A nice spotted joe pye weed sitting with the pawpaw and a big bluestem #bloomscrolling

My baby joe is just starting up too
Tiny pink and white blooms on a joe pye weed, standing like tiny umbrellas over a four foot tall plant. A joe pye weed in bloom, with pinkish white flowers, stands between a pawpaw tree and a tall bluestem grass.
July 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
This one milkweed has like four caterpillars on it #nativeplants
A caterpillar with white, yellow, and black stripes crawls up the stem of a milkweed.
July 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Silphium update: 1) my god it's huge 2) cup plant (perfoliatum) and whorled rosinweed in front) and then 3) a close up of the aster-like flowers. That miscanthus in the back is one of the many volunteers from our neighbor's yard, I got too much to do to worry about it #bloomscrolling #nativeplants
A cup plant grows to nearly ten feet tall in front of a privacy fence. Two Silphium grow in front of a fence. The cup plant has yellow aster like blooms at the top. The whorled rosinweed is not yet in bloom. Yellow blooms on top of a cup plant, whose toothed leaves meet at the stem to form a small cup filled with water.
July 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Hibiscus blooming (left_ baptisia in front, with a sheathed choke cherry holding out against the deer who want to eat it; right: a fig companion that honestly I've misplaced) #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #gardening
A hibiscus flowers in front of a fence. The hibiscus has white plate sized blooms fringed by pink. A baptisia grows in front. A white plate-sized hibiscus bloom with a dark red center alone in a hibiscus plant.
July 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Mountain mint, panic grass, and button bush in the front yard. We're 1/3 through the meadowing project #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
White flowers of mountain mint bloom in front of panic grass and, in the background, buttonbush
July 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Gayfeather starting in the front #bloomscrolling #nativeplants
Pink spires of gayfeather flowers bloom over spiky leaves at the edge of a town.
July 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Allium cernuum (an onion, lol) starting to bloom.
Pink blooms of an onion, pointing downwards, near a brick path with a ceramic blue fish.
July 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Zebra swallowtail butterflies only returned to Pittsburgh last year after 70-some years. Here's one on our pawpaws today #butterflies #nativeplants #trees
A zebra swallowtail butterfly about to land on a pawpaw leaf. A zebra swallowtail butterfly laying eggs on a pawpaw leaf.
July 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Crocosmia started. Sorry about the orange stick, they're leaning #bloomscrolling
Red blooms of crocosmia supported by an ugly orange stick.
July 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Some monarda starting to bloom #bloomscrolling
Pink monarda bloom with what appears to be a skipper butterfly. A group of pink and magenta monarda blooms in a garden.
July 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Back to the button bush #bloomscrolling #bees and a swallowtail #butterfly
A black swallowtail butterfly feeds from the white blooms of a button bush. A bumblebee and a honeybee feed from the white bloom of a buttonbush. Three buds wait to bloom in the background.
July 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
#bloomscrolling some button bush, "magical moonlight" (dwarf version, my ass) on left and regular ol' cephalanthus on right. Every single insect loves this plant
The white spiky blooms of button bush in a suburban landscape Button bush with white blooms
July 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Also, this *really* pissed me off, as I'm about to go to SHARP, and I can't think of a kinder more solicitous group of people than book history people. Does this sound like "Coffee with a Codex" to you? Does this resemble Daniel Bellingradt pointing out emojis in an old-timey book?
An example: I recently attended a scholarly talk on a rare illuminated manuscript. The speaker was as eminent as they come, but the talk was not easy to follow. Frustrated, I opened ChatGPT and started asking it questions about the subject. In the course of that disappointing lecture, I had a rich exchange with the system. I learned what was and wasn't known about the document, who had done the foundational research, and how scholars had interpreted its iconography and transmission. Was the information perfect? Surely not, but neither is what we get from people. Was it better than the talk I was hearing? By a wide margin.
June 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Reading the D. Graham Burnett article and I can't really believe how pompous it is for just being another variation on "here's how I use Jing in class" conference talks (which are fine, btw, no hate). This part though was a really nice, subtle propaganda:
She's an exceptionally bright student. I'd taught her before, and I knew her to be quick and diligent. So what, exactly, did she mean? She wasn't sure, really. It had to do with the fact that the machine... wasn't a person. And that meant she didn't feel responsible for it in any way. And that, she said, felt ... profoundly liberating. We sat in silence. She had said what she meant, and I was slowly seeing into her insight. Like more young women than young men, she paid close attention to those around her—their moods, needs, unspoken cues. I have a daughter who's configured similarly, and that has helped me to see beyond my own reflexive tendency to privilege analytic abstraction over human situations. Transcript of text over. In the screenshot, the words "I have a daughter who's configured similarly" are circled in red, calling attention to the use of "configured similarly."
June 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
platycodon / balloon flower
Purple blooms of a balloon flower.
June 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
rush
Round green native rush in a landscape.
June 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Heliopsis and St. John's Wort - behind them but not tall yet is my filipendula rubra, which, people, you do not even know how psyched I am. Behind is cutleaf rudbeckia and other stuff I'll show when it blooms. #bloomscrolling #zone6b
Yellow blooms of a heliopsis sunflower bloom next to the smaller yellow blooms of St. John's wort.
June 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Silphium getting tall this year #nativeplants #zone6b
A huge cup plant - whose leaves form a cup at the stem to trap water - grows taller than a privacy fence in the background
June 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
jasonstuart.bsky.social
Some #bloomscrolling - butterfly weed in front of a non-blooming hibiscus #nativeplants #zone6b
The vibrant orange blooms of milkweed flowers in front of a non-blooming but tall hibiscus.
June 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM