Layla ᎴᎳ
@laylajohnston.bsky.social
ᏥᏣᎳᎩ. Cherokee Nation citizen. Cherokee language learner. Reader and writer. Western Massachusetts. Native plant enthusiast. Climate crisis is now. 🪶💧🌽🍓
Spent the day at one of my favorite contemporary museums, MassMOCA. We had cups of Golden Root Tea at the cultural apothecary counter while we contemplated our buried dreams. Interactive exhibit by Alison Pebworth.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Spent the day at one of my favorite contemporary museums, MassMOCA. We had cups of Golden Root Tea at the cultural apothecary counter while we contemplated our buried dreams. Interactive exhibit by Alison Pebworth.
First summer male red-winged blackbird ᏦᏩᏍᎦ tsowasga looking for breakfast in our cutleaf coneflower ᏐᏣᎾ sochana stems. #nativeplants #leavetheleaves #savethestems
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
First summer male red-winged blackbird ᏦᏩᏍᎦ tsowasga looking for breakfast in our cutleaf coneflower ᏐᏣᎾ sochana stems. #nativeplants #leavetheleaves #savethestems
Admiring the perfection of this tiny goldfinch nest found in our yard. If you plant native you will also find such delights in your yard, satisfaction guaranteed. Add native plants wherever you can to help our bugs and birds survive these trying times.
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Admiring the perfection of this tiny goldfinch nest found in our yard. If you plant native you will also find such delights in your yard, satisfaction guaranteed. Add native plants wherever you can to help our bugs and birds survive these trying times.
The deadly amanita mushroom cap is fully open. #mushroom #fungifriends
October 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The deadly amanita mushroom cap is fully open. #mushroom #fungifriends
Mooshroom update: the cap is almost fully open! A type of amanita mushroom, I think. #mushrooms #fungifriends #fungifriday
October 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Mooshroom update: the cap is almost fully open! A type of amanita mushroom, I think. #mushrooms #fungifriends #fungifriday
The mushroom is some sort of amanita and it’s slowly opening. The cap is wider at the base than it was yesterday. #fungifriends #mushrooms
October 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The mushroom is some sort of amanita and it’s slowly opening. The cap is wider at the base than it was yesterday. #fungifriends #mushrooms
Not a native plant but a very cool mushroom! #fungifriends #mushroom
October 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Not a native plant but a very cool mushroom! #fungifriends #mushroom
I’d read it! I just picked up The End of the World as We Know It.
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’d read it! I just picked up The End of the World as We Know It.
I am pleased to report that we now have 4 types of asters volunteering in our yard! New England, frost, blue wood, and this calico aster I discovered in the back yesterday. It’s a late season pollinator paradise out there. #nativeplants
October 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I am pleased to report that we now have 4 types of asters volunteering in our yard! New England, frost, blue wood, and this calico aster I discovered in the back yesterday. It’s a late season pollinator paradise out there. #nativeplants
Volunteer blue wood aster in the center of my volunteer heath aster. #nativeplants #gardensky
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Volunteer blue wood aster in the center of my volunteer heath aster. #nativeplants #gardensky
Wait you were at a Kalyn Fay shoot? Love her! ᎣᏍᏓ!
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Wait you were at a Kalyn Fay shoot? Love her! ᎣᏍᏓ!
The leaves on Virginia creeper turn the most vivid and gorgeous red at this time of year. #nativeplants
October 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The leaves on Virginia creeper turn the most vivid and gorgeous red at this time of year. #nativeplants
Bearwalker by Don Chretien is the most fitting cover for this anthology of scary shorts by indigenous authors. Looking forward to reading the Waubgeshig Rice story. #booksky
September 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Bearwalker by Don Chretien is the most fitting cover for this anthology of scary shorts by indigenous authors. Looking forward to reading the Waubgeshig Rice story. #booksky
An explosion of asters blooming for #flowerfriday #nativeplants
September 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
An explosion of asters blooming for #flowerfriday #nativeplants
Common milkweed dispersing the seeds of the next generation while a milkweed bug clings to the side of a ripe and drying pod. Fall is here. #nativeplants
September 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Common milkweed dispersing the seeds of the next generation while a milkweed bug clings to the side of a ripe and drying pod. Fall is here. #nativeplants
The delicate flowers on white snakeroot in bloom just in time for #flowerfriday #nativeplants
September 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The delicate flowers on white snakeroot in bloom just in time for #flowerfriday #nativeplants
Here’s more on the banner and our photo in NYT
September 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Here’s more on the banner and our photo in NYT
2 years ago today I marched with this banner in NYC with fellow Indigenous water protectors and land defenders to demand a stop to burning fossil fuels. We are still fighting the line 5 pipeline installation under the Great Lakes #landback #stopline5 #climatecrisis
September 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
2 years ago today I marched with this banner in NYC with fellow Indigenous water protectors and land defenders to demand a stop to burning fossil fuels. We are still fighting the line 5 pipeline installation under the Great Lakes #landback #stopline5 #climatecrisis
White snakeroot, ageratina altissima, formerly a Eupatorium family member, is in bloom as of today. The blooms closely resemble common boneset. #nativeplants
September 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
White snakeroot, ageratina altissima, formerly a Eupatorium family member, is in bloom as of today. The blooms closely resemble common boneset. #nativeplants
Eastern bumblebee visiting our New England aster #nativeplants #bees
September 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Eastern bumblebee visiting our New England aster #nativeplants #bees
Who needs non-native mums when you can have the vividly vibrating purples of New England asters? #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #autumn
September 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Who needs non-native mums when you can have the vividly vibrating purples of New England asters? #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #autumn
Two-spotted scoliid wasp enjoying rudbeckia hirta #nativeplants
September 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Two-spotted scoliid wasp enjoying rudbeckia hirta #nativeplants
Sleeping bumblebees in our sunchokes, ᏄᎾ ᎢᎦᏔᏁᎯ nuna igatanehi in ᏣᎳᎩ tsalagi Cherokee #nativeplants
September 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Sleeping bumblebees in our sunchokes, ᏄᎾ ᎢᎦᏔᏁᎯ nuna igatanehi in ᏣᎳᎩ tsalagi Cherokee #nativeplants
A grey hairstreak butterfly visits our grass-leaved goldenrod, euthamia graminifolia. We will need to remove this aggressively spreading volunteer plant at the end of the season, but, in the meantime, it is covered in pollinators. #nativeplants
September 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A grey hairstreak butterfly visits our grass-leaved goldenrod, euthamia graminifolia. We will need to remove this aggressively spreading volunteer plant at the end of the season, but, in the meantime, it is covered in pollinators. #nativeplants