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Mabelmary
@mabelmary.bsky.social
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Married, retired teacher & gardener living in Berlin, Germany. (she, her)
Learning about bees and butterflies. Pollinators are essential for our survival. Dare to let your grass grow.
Photos that I post are taken with my iPhone.
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Frosty red rose in my garden this morning.
Red rose petals covered with white frost is attached to frosty green stem and leaves.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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My garden continues to surprise me with colors. White chrysanthemums contrast with fallen Red Japanese maple leaves.
Three white flowered chrysanthemum plants with green stems and leaves are surrounded by fallen red Japanese maple leaves. In the upper right corner is the tree trunk and a grayish stone.
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
mabelmary.bsky.social
This is so scary and already happening in the USA.
gtconway.bsky.social George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Oct 3
Signs of psychosis. No biggie
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
View of English Bay, Vancouver, BC, Canada
View of English Bay in Vancouver, BC. On the right is a rocky shore separates a walkway and a stand of trees and the bay. People are walking on the trail. In the background are blue colored mountains below a sky with white and blue clouds.
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
If the escalator stops, put on a smile and start walking.
kojamf.bsky.social KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Sep 28
👋🙂☕
Live your life in such a
way that if the escalator
stops, you don't assume
it's because people hate
you.
September 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
Mute swans
#swans #waterfowl #nature
#LakeTegel #TegelerSee
#Berlin #Reinickendorf
Two white mute swans float on lake water.
September 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Red Rose with two rosebuds from my Garden for #ColorADay #RedWed #RedRoseWednesday #Flowers
In the photo, there is a blooming red rose and two rosebuds that are still protected by green sepals. One rosebud is above the rose. On the right side is another rosebud on a long green stem. The rose is surrounded by green leaves that are blurry.
September 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
Oh how I loved watching this honeybee buzzing around the Sedum ‘Autumn Joy.’
#MacroMonday
#Honeybees #pollinators
#Bloomscrolling
A honeybee gathers pollen from the tiny pink and white flowers on a Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ bloom.
September 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
Getting ready to pick our plentiful purple plums (Prunus domestica).
A cluster of eight purple plums are hanging on a thin woody branch surrounded by green leaves. The sun peeks through the leaves on the top left with blue sky on the right side.
August 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
Gee, has this president even visited any of the museums?
All the Smithsonian Museums are full of wonderful discoveries and innovations. It has long been a place of learning where one can view and be amazed by so many artifacts from the past, present and with exhibits about the future.
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Aug 20
Trump is now claiming that museums are the last segment of wokeness in America. There’s a lot we could say about how completely absurd and unhinged that is, but honestly, his own words say more than we ever could. Here’s what he posted:
August 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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A black carpenter bee with shiny wings lands on the yellow center of a pink cosmos flower.
#PinkMon
#MacroMonday
#Pollinators
A black carpenter bee with shiny wings lands on the yellow center of a pink cosmos flower.
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
Mad Magazine knew
back in 1992.
jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · Aug 8
You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!
August 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
To watch:
Disney’s The Lion King
blackazizanansi.blacksky.app Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · Aug 2
So i guess this is what it felt like when Scar took over and turned everything into Shadowland.
August 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
Excellent educational video about this shallow water ecosystem. This eelgrass meadow covers 8,000 acres in the Padilla Bay Estuary in Washington, USA.
kojamf.bsky.social KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Jul 31
Madison McKay
Scientist
August 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
mabelmary.bsky.social
I discovered this lovely Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) resting on my terrace this morning.
#butterflies
#nature
A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) is resting on a brown stone paver. The butterfly has a brown body. Its wings are orange and black with white spots near the wingtips.
July 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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A bee fact and a sounds of nature working video. Thank you Bee Guy!
#bees
#birds
thebeeguy.bsky.social The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · Jul 28
#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 167

Often the first flowers available to #bees bloom beneath tree canopies - in one state in the US the ‘peak estimated flowering date’ of flowers foraged upon by #bumblebees is 81 days earlier in forests than in open habitat.
#nature
#biodiversity
July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
Thank you! Two things for my reflection today: Wisdom from Agatha Christie and the painting entitled Summer by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky in 1911.
arealmofwonder.bsky.social Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · Jul 25
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
~ Agatha Christie

Summer (1911)
🎨 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
July 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
The first purple morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) looking very velvety in my garden this morning.
A morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) with purple and crimson ruffled petals and a pink to white throat peeks through two slats of a wooden fence. Three green heart-shaped leaves on stems can be seen above the flower.
July 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
mabelmary.bsky.social
Oh, what a lovely flower. I love the color, too.
July 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I love my cheery clump of Blue Balloon Flowers (Platycodon grandiflorus).
#bluemonday
#blueflowers
In the center of the photo is a clump of Balloon Flowers (Platycodon grandiflorus). Each green stem has green leaves at the bottom and includes blue, bell-shaped flowers with white centers plus many unopened buds that look like small silver balloons.
July 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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I was excited to finally get this photo of a very energetic Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) on my Annabelle Hydrangea this morning.
#insectsThursday
The Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) is orange with black spots. It sits on a large, creamy-white Annabelle Hydrangea flower. At the bottom of the photo are green leaves and a little bit of the orange clay pot.
July 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Tart cherries after the rain.
Three red cherries - each attached to a thin, green stem to a tree limb. A raindrop clings to the bottom of the middle cherry and the cherry on the right. Three cherry leaves are on the right.
July 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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European Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io)
European Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io) with rust-colored wings and four colorful eyespots on its wingtips sits on a pink cosmos flower which is surrounded by green feathery leaves.
July 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM