Karen Smith. 🌿🌈🐈
@karen-smith.bsky.social
Tree Dr, soils tragic, gum nut. PhD. Urban greening, sewing & writing. Rescue cat Banksy. #chronicpain #gardens #trees #disability #sciart Melbourne Australia
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Karen Smith. 🌿🌈🐈
@karen-smith.bsky.social
· Oct 29
We do take the cake for preposterous hobbies @liapas.bsky.social
Hand quilting this Frida Kahlo quilt, each square has 2m of stitching. Have done 6/18 squares.
Hand quilting this Frida Kahlo quilt, each square has 2m of stitching. Have done 6/18 squares.
Had a skin cancer basal cell carcimoma removed from my nose. Capable surgeon. Very happy.
December 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Had a skin cancer basal cell carcimoma removed from my nose. Capable surgeon. Very happy.
Very happy for Maisie. At 88 she finally has a birth certificate 🌈
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
'I'm somebody now': After 88 years Maisie finally has a birth certificate
Maisie Harkin was born on country in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert. It has taken 88 years for her birth to be officially recognised.
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Very happy for Maisie. At 88 she finally has a birth certificate 🌈
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
I'm happy, not feeling sad
I've got sunshine, in a bag.
Fatboy Slim
I've got sunshine, in a bag.
Fatboy Slim
Kentucky agate bracelet I made tonight. Love that banding running through this one! #bluewizardrocks #lapidary #jewelry #bracelet
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I'm happy, not feeling sad
I've got sunshine, in a bag.
Fatboy Slim
I've got sunshine, in a bag.
Fatboy Slim
She knits in her sleep.
Well, these were in a huge zipped bag and I didn’t even know they were there
More to follow when I can take pics
Feeling shocked 😱
🧶 #knit #knitsky #secretblanketstash
More to follow when I can take pics
Feeling shocked 😱
🧶 #knit #knitsky #secretblanketstash
December 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
She knits in her sleep.
It's just fabulous
So excited waiting for my #Mirabilis to #Flower
Wow such a wonderful mixture of colours on 1 small plant. Plus has survived Big #BribieStorm +others including 3 lots of hail but not much damage
Wow such a wonderful mixture of colours on 1 small plant. Plus has survived Big #BribieStorm +others including 3 lots of hail but not much damage
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It's just fabulous
Sure is.
@liapas
@liapas
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Sure is.
@liapas
@liapas
Old favs transformed!
Finally got around to cleaning my boots after sinking waist deep into a Skunk Cabbage Bog in June (thanks again for saving me @timakimoff.bsky.social)
It was...an event 😂
Motivated me to buy leather conditioner from Zamberlan after 12 yrs. 👀 they look almost new!
Now for the 13 yr old boots...
It was...an event 😂
Motivated me to buy leather conditioner from Zamberlan after 12 yrs. 👀 they look almost new!
Now for the 13 yr old boots...
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Old favs transformed!
What a wonderful exchange & appreciation of love between you
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
What a wonderful exchange & appreciation of love between you
Children just gotta play!
Shirley Baker, UK photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester in the 1960s #WomensArt
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Children just gotta play!
Plan ahead with help from the one and only Dr Furlan
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Plan ahead with help from the one and only Dr Furlan
Little paddocks of time, carefully cultivated.
30th November, daily stitching marking the passage of time
#intuitivedailystitching #textileart #embroidery #stitchjournal
#intuitivedailystitching #textileart #embroidery #stitchjournal
November 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Little paddocks of time, carefully cultivated.
Magnificent
The finished product. I love it! The Noura Cardigan by Zanete Knits 🧶
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Magnificent
Are the parrots in your area generalists or specialists?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Who's thriving? Who's barely surviving? A guide to Australia's native parrots
Australia is the land of the parrot — few places in the world have such a dazzling array of colourful and clever members of the psittacine family.
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Are the parrots in your area generalists or specialists?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Always dropping unexpectedly
So many I could submit 😆
I was trying to take the background Crimson Parrot, just as another photobombed it.
Bird Photography Fail Championships #TBPFC
I was trying to take the background Crimson Parrot, just as another photobombed it.
Bird Photography Fail Championships #TBPFC
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Always dropping unexpectedly
What a fat and healthy roo he is, eating all that Arnhem Land grasss
One of the oldest proven rock paintings on the continent. #SundayPixPictures #SundayPix #ArnhemLand0882
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
What a fat and healthy roo he is, eating all that Arnhem Land grasss
Such a wonderful Australia tree
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Such a wonderful Australia tree
So saddened by the fires in Hong Kong. The people there are so creative, tough and resilient. But this will test them. 🌈💪🌈
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
So saddened by the fires in Hong Kong. The people there are so creative, tough and resilient. But this will test them. 🌈💪🌈
Everything the medieval world knew about birds & sex. (Quite a lot actually)
@medmilmedicine.bsky.social
theconversation.com/bird-sex-fas...
@medmilmedicine.bsky.social
theconversation.com/bird-sex-fas...
Bird sex fascinated medieval thinkers as much as people today
Modern researchers know about the cuckoo’s cross-species brood parasitism – but one Roman emperor observed this more than 700 years ago.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Everything the medieval world knew about birds & sex. (Quite a lot actually)
@medmilmedicine.bsky.social
theconversation.com/bird-sex-fas...
@medmilmedicine.bsky.social
theconversation.com/bird-sex-fas...
Canoes shared on a lake up to 7000 years ago.
Wow.
Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Canoes shared on a lake up to 7000 years ago.
'This is Australia'
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
'This is Australia'
Poor baby.
"What sort of monster makes casinos pay tax and bans them from money laundering?" chaser.com.au/business/bil...
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Poor baby.
Very interesting. A capable Australian designer here
Nice to see costume design in film highlighted: Michael Wilkinson talks about his work with 'Andor' TV series. Sounds amazing, can't wait to see it - and 'Death by Lightening'.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Designing Andor's costumes required building an entire world
Michael Wilkinson won an Emmy for his intricate costumes in the celebrated Star Wars series Andor. Now, he is recreating 1880s America for Death By Lightning.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Very interesting. A capable Australian designer here
Turning toward the sun
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Turning toward the sun