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Lara Berkley
@laraber.bsky.social
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landscape architect focused on conservation and restoration. i like nature, books, art, + music. 🌞🌾🪲
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needed this. ✌️
#peace
sunset over a glassy calm Albemarle sound with a campfire in the foreground.
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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#goodmorning from our amazing campsite…🌞
chilly sunrise (facing West over the Albemarle) through bald cypress, sandy beach with tannic water
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#HALLOWEEN 🎃 sighting of the rare, uhhhh, spine-headed #squid ??! 🐙
white plastic…squid-style thing with 4 arms and a spine-n-ribs forehead/body resting in pine straw
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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best lil kitty-lady. 🩶
happy #nationalcatday!!
grey and white shorthair tuxedo lady in full loaf (but only her head and neck are visible here) on back of green chair. she is making sure the dog STAYS DOWN THERE WHERE HE BELONGS.
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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🌞🐝🌼 #goodmorning
sleepyhead #bumblebee…💛
face view of sweet fuzzy common eastern bumblebee (black face, yellow thorax) snoozing/waking up on goldenrod
October 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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what species is this @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Halloween decoration crawling in pinestraw that appears to be some kind of squid/skull hybrid - it has a…SPINE?? for a head.
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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#phantogram and #loseclipses hope you had fun in rainy #ILM!!! You sounded amazing! 💜💜
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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💚 apologies for the lunch interruption, Carolina #mantis
very well camouflaged pale green and tan Carolina Mantis rips into (an orange black and white) Gulf Fritterary 😜 The mantis is upside down on a narrowleaf sunflower and giving big stink-eye. close up of mantis and gulf fritillary
October 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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bye bye #Austin!!
giant contemplative wood troll at Pease Park LIVE A GREAT STORY graffiti poster on bridge column over creek Bouldin Creek Cafe caffeine dealer neon sign - a frog reclines with a mug of coffee ubiquitous shiny n LOUD grackle on a fence
September 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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last day of #Levitation2025…
wow #Destroyer 🤩
September 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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…and Brian Jonestown Massacre!
September 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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and La Femme, TV on the Radio, capped off with fun #DrugDealer at #Mohawk! #Levitation2025
Drug Dealer harmonizing…a few other awesome band members not shown.
September 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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and #Raveonettes..,,
September 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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#Levitation2025 is off to an awesome start…💜
Wednesday | Model/Actriz | Blonde Redhead | Swervedriver | Black Angels dj set… aaaaaa!!!
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festival wristband - purple and black side view of Swervedriver letting it rip!
September 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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🤎 sweet lil #AVL squeaker. 🥰
culvert #groundhog.
an anxious chunky rodent with a beautiful brown/silvery coat peers out from a metal and brick culvert. its ear looks shockingly human.
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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MORE CROUTON
black shepherd mix with white crumb-spackled chin requests more croutons by staring intensely with giant amber saucer eyes. he is so excited that he has become motionless. his ears are crimpled back, and the top of his head looks like a clenched fist.
August 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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👀 at this beautiful frilly #fungi! 🍄‍🟫
Pale pinkish tan fungus in pine straw that looks like a wad of antique crepe-crinoline.
August 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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green #heron focus! 🪶
when all you’ve got is a retention pond… makeshift #habitat
green heron (rusty brown striped bird with yellow eyes and huge beak, greenish back, pale green legs) with hunting intensity grips a small tree in a retention pond and a backed-out view of the mowed edge “pond” - not visible are the surrounding baseball fields.
July 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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a teeny sampling of some awesome LA #streetart!
an orange sign with black lettering saying @the trump fascist regime MUST GO NOW! the sign is elegantly framed by vegetation. a large colorful “NO ICE” “NO KINGS” collage mural against a brick wall some excellent wheat-pasting of a utility pole - signs describing various anti-ice events. next to the pole is a utility box painted yellow with ravens or crows behind a palm tree a white spray-painted stencil “Induced Community Extinction” on a low wall with jail-like bars above
July 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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sharing is caring. 🐢 🫐
big beautiful box #turtle Marty enjoys some #blueberries.
shiny metal bowl with just-picked blueberries, blurry blueberry plants in background. bright yellow-orange patterned box turtle looking towards camera in anticipation of blueberry to accompany mushroom meal. box turtle has giant blueberry in mouth, preferring to eat without an audience, although came back for 4 more….
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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busy box #turtle.
both of us had stuff to do, places to go.
a delightfully yellow and brown patterned box turtle pushes through wetland grasses towards the viewer with its yellow-nubbined feet. its visible pale yellow/orange eye has a purposeful aspect.
May 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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chinquapin buzzzzz
castanea pumila
#nativeplants
#bee
#pollination
May 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🪶 a bit of #bird #nest recycling…filmed through a dirty window.
May 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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greetings, fellow traveler. 🐢
#dog says polite hello to a very chill box #turtle
large black mutt frizzed with humidity gently sniffs a rain-glossed eastern box turtle on a wet sidewalk. the beautifully patterned turtle is facing the camera and making eye contact with the dog. we continued in our opposite journeys after the hello.
May 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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you’re way too fast, lil” jumping #spider! 🤩 🕷️
May 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM