Julie Butcher 🌴
LightNews LightNews
banner
juliebutcher.bsky.social
Julie Butcher 🌴
@juliebutcher.bsky.social
3.4K followers 4.1K following 2.2K posts
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
~ Hunter S. Thompson


My local reporting: https://muckrack.com/julie-butcher
My writings & such: https://butchershop-nobonesaboutit.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin pie!”
~ Margaret Junkin Preston

Feeling very thankful 🥧 and just a little festive ~ wishing you'all a tiny slice of something sweet!!
Grandchild shown from the back, reclining against a group of pumpkins; small pond, reeds, rocks showing
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
🎶 "Everybody's very happy
'cause the sun is shining all the time
Looks like another perfect day
I love L.A.!
(We love it!)" 🎵
~ Randy Newman, I Love L.A.

🌱 Happy #RoseWednesday to you and yours!
Cluster of white roses, black and leafy background
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"'Green fingers' are a fact and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart."
~ Russell Page

" . . . a verdant heart . . . "

A joyous #TinyFlowerTuesday to all who celebrate 🌱
#Bloomscrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport
tiny pink flower, green stems and leaves and the trunk of a tree in the background
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.”
~ Mac Griswold

🌱 #MagentaMonday🩷 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💜 #Zone10a
Two magenta-colored petunias, one fully open, one trying to open; bright green leaves and such in the background
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things."
~ Clive Anderson

Me too!

🌱 #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow ☀️ #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport
yellow daisy-like flower with prominent brown center
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.”
~ Bill Dana

#Caturday? Doesn't that imply that there are other days?

Happy pets to all the #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛
Gray cat staring, green grassy background
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Ah! A kind wish for all the gardeners of BlueSky 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport
Reddish Dahlia bloom covered with raindrops, greenery in the backdrop
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“Purple is my soul color; it’s a melody for the heart and mind.”
~ Prince

Me too 💜 💜 💜

Hoping you get to spend a little time in your garden on this #PrettyPurpleThursday 🌱

#Bloomscrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💛 #Zone10a
Purple (blue?) bachelor button plants among light green stems and leaves, in the garden, in the sun
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
~ Katharine Lee Bates

Joy and beauty to ya all! 🌱 #RoseWednesday

#BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🌹 #Gardening 🪷 #Zone10a
Miniature orange rose and buds in the forefront, pink roses in the background along with green leaves and stems
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."
~ Honoré de Balzac

🌱 Brrrr, it's cold out there (for us!) on this #TinyFlowerTuesday, but these smol paperwhites are blooming like it's April and they're daffodils!
Cluster of white paperwhite flowers, green spiky leaves and brown in the background
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“Weather means more when you have a garden. There is nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is sinking in around your green beans.”
~ Marcelene Cox

Much magnificence to ya'all on this cold & rainy #MagentaMonday
💜🌱🩷
Magenta petunia bloom, drooping under raindrops, brown and green of the garden in the background
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers."
~ Pablo Neruda

Oddly comforting.

🌱 Happy day of #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a ☀️
group of yellow roses, photographed from under them, green stems and leaves, grayish sky
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
Thomas Stearns, in all his Morning Gloryness, bedecked for the proper celebration of #Caturday along with all of you'se, the coolest #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛ ~ before the big rains.
Big black cat sitting in the grass, just behind a garden light, growing with purple Morning Glory flowers and leaves, eyes open just a slit
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"No Rain, No Flowers."
~ The Black Keys

On this wet #FlowersOnFriday 🌱 I honor the rain. I cherish the rain! I try not to drive in the rain ('cause we forget that we know how to drive.)
small light pink miniature rose bloom, hints of yellow, covered in raindrops
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“The world needs more purple – more creativity, passion, and a sense of wonder.”
~ Pablo Picasso

🌱 Wishing you all the purple on this slightly dreary (for us) #PrettyPurpleThursday 💜

🪷 #BloomScrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport 🌼 #Gardening #Zone10a
Two bright shiny purple Morning Glory blooms, on a trellis along with various green leaves
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"Love and a red rose can't be hid."
~ Thomas Holcroft

🌱 How 'bout a big fat red rose?

#RoseWednesday ❤️ #BloomScrolling 🌹 #Gardening #FlowerReport
Big red rose bloom in the garden
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
Leaning in to hear the news.
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
~ Walt Whitman

🌱 Wishing all a fabulous #TinyFlowerTuesday
Tiny peach-colored miniature rose bloom, another in the background along with garden green
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
~ George Carlin

🌱 Milkweed's growing all over our garden, and I'm a bit concerned about its timing.

#YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow 💛 #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport
Yellow-orange milkweed flowers and blooms, green leaves in the background
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

Right? Happy #Caturday to y'all #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛
Gray cat staring off (as they do), lying comfortably on a red chair
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
I get all verklempt every time I drop off one of these puppies. It's fun to feed people.

Need a lasagna?

Want to make a lasagna for a family that needs one? Once a week? Once a month? Once?

The folks at lasagnalove.org make it as easy a could be!

#LasagnaLove 🧀🧀🧀 @lasagnalove.bsky.social
Lasagna, looking hot and cheesy, dotted with a flourish of basil
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
“There are flowers that bloom only for the moon and how beautiful it is knowing good things can grow from darkness."
~ Jinan Safko

🌱 The Moonflowers are having a moment in my little garden 💮 #FlowersOnFriday 🤍 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport
Big white Moonflower bloom, green leafy background
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"A garden of purple is always in bloom."
~ Author unknown

It's a bit cold in the garden (for us) but the roses are still blooming! Some, joyously purple!

🌱 #PrettyPurpleThursday 🪻 #BloomScrolling 🌹 #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a 💜
purple rose bloom, green leafy background
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
juliebutcher.bsky.social
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
~ Emma Goldman

🌱 A very very happy #RoseWednesday especially to all who voted yesterday!

#FlowerReport 🌻 #BloomScrolling 💮 #Gardening 🪷 #Zone10a
Orange, slightly yellow-striped rose, green leaves
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM