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Books. Plants. Pottery.
Did I mention books?
Did I mention books?
The force is strong in the #gladiolus patch this year. Ten more stems promise future loveliness! 🌱 #bloomscrolling
July 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The force is strong in the #gladiolus patch this year. Ten more stems promise future loveliness! 🌱 #bloomscrolling
Baby visitor on my dahlia today. Hi, little one! #gardenlife #gardensky 🌱
July 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Baby visitor on my dahlia today. Hi, little one! #gardenlife #gardensky 🌱
One of the back cover quotes compares this to Jude the Obscure, set in Sri Lanka. That's an apt description: suffering piled on sadness. I'd never read Leonard Woolf before, only Virginia. He has a more conventional style; still a compelling read. 📚💙 #booksky
Leonard Woolf
A Village in the Jungle
Leonard Woolf
A Village in the Jungle
June 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
One of the back cover quotes compares this to Jude the Obscure, set in Sri Lanka. That's an apt description: suffering piled on sadness. I'd never read Leonard Woolf before, only Virginia. He has a more conventional style; still a compelling read. 📚💙 #booksky
Leonard Woolf
A Village in the Jungle
Leonard Woolf
A Village in the Jungle
Current reads: a fascinating pair, one exploring the essential role of #fungi in sustaining life and the other exploring how #plants communicate with each other. That's the story so far, at least. 😀 #booksky 📚💙 #sciencewriting
Entangled Life
Melvin Sheldrake
The Light Eaters
Zoe Schlanger
Entangled Life
Melvin Sheldrake
The Light Eaters
Zoe Schlanger
June 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Current reads: a fascinating pair, one exploring the essential role of #fungi in sustaining life and the other exploring how #plants communicate with each other. That's the story so far, at least. 😀 #booksky 📚💙 #sciencewriting
Entangled Life
Melvin Sheldrake
The Light Eaters
Zoe Schlanger
Entangled Life
Melvin Sheldrake
The Light Eaters
Zoe Schlanger
Summer reading: one of my favorite crime writers, who I discovered on a visit to Iceland (I usually pick up a local mystery when I travel); have read most of the Det. Erlendur series. New (to me) series set partly during WW2
Arnaldur Indridason
The Shadow District
#booksky #mystery #iceland 📚💙
Arnaldur Indridason
The Shadow District
#booksky #mystery #iceland 📚💙
June 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Tomatoes are starting to plump up! #seedsaversexchange Ukranian Purples #gardensky #gardening #tomato 🌱
June 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Tomatoes are starting to plump up! #seedsaversexchange Ukranian Purples #gardensky #gardening #tomato 🌱
24 seconds of zen: bees on native starry rosin. #bloomscrolling #pollinators #bees #nativeplants #gardensky 🌱
June 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
24 seconds of zen: bees on native starry rosin. #bloomscrolling #pollinators #bees #nativeplants #gardensky 🌱
Summer reading: catching up on Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales, ed. Gordon Jarvie, with traditional tales and some related literary tales (including by Arthur Conan Doyle) #fairytales #folklore #summerreading #booksky 💙📚
June 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Summer reading: catching up on Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales, ed. Gordon Jarvie, with traditional tales and some related literary tales (including by Arthur Conan Doyle) #fairytales #folklore #summerreading #booksky 💙📚
June 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Summer reading: building my repertoire of contemporary fairy tales. Barbara Comyns, The Juniper Tree, based on the macabre Grimm tale. #fairytales #summerreading #booksky 💙📚
June 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Summer reading: building my repertoire of contemporary fairy tales. Barbara Comyns, The Juniper Tree, based on the macabre Grimm tale. #fairytales #summerreading #booksky 💙📚
Summer reading: a pair of novels by Caryl Phillips. A sad, lyrical novel based on the life of Jean Rhys and a multifocal family narrative with echoes of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
A View of the Empire at Sunset
The Lost Child
#carylphillips
#booksky
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A View of the Empire at Sunset
The Lost Child
#carylphillips
#booksky
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June 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Summer reading: a pair of novels by Caryl Phillips. A sad, lyrical novel based on the life of Jean Rhys and a multifocal family narrative with echoes of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
A View of the Empire at Sunset
The Lost Child
#carylphillips
#booksky
📚💙
A View of the Empire at Sunset
The Lost Child
#carylphillips
#booksky
📚💙
June 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Summer reading; from the modernists-I-missed pile.
Vita Sackville-West
All Passion Spent
#booksky #summerreading
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Vita Sackville-West
All Passion Spent
#booksky #summerreading
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June 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Summer reading; from the modernists-I-missed pile.
Vita Sackville-West
All Passion Spent
#booksky #summerreading
💙📚
Vita Sackville-West
All Passion Spent
#booksky #summerreading
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Summer reading:
Alleghenia: A Central Appalachian Folklore Anthology
Michael O. Snyder
#booksky
#summerreading
#bittersoutherner
Alleghenia: A Central Appalachian Folklore Anthology
Michael O. Snyder
#booksky
#summerreading
#bittersoutherner
June 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Summer reading:
Alleghenia: A Central Appalachian Folklore Anthology
Michael O. Snyder
#booksky
#summerreading
#bittersoutherner
Alleghenia: A Central Appalachian Folklore Anthology
Michael O. Snyder
#booksky
#summerreading
#bittersoutherner
May 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Crinum lily; transplanted and divided earlier this year and in post-rain bloom. #summer #summergarden #lilies #gardensky #bloomscrolling
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May 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Crinum lily; transplanted and divided earlier this year and in post-rain bloom. #summer #summergarden #lilies #gardensky #bloomscrolling
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Summer reading: expanding my folklore repertoire.
Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapsak
The Slavic Myths
#booksky #fairytales #folklore 💙📚
Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapsak
The Slavic Myths
#booksky #fairytales #folklore 💙📚
May 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Summer reading: expanding my folklore repertoire.
Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapsak
The Slavic Myths
#booksky #fairytales #folklore 💙📚
Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapsak
The Slavic Myths
#booksky #fairytales #folklore 💙📚
Fascinating. The analytical mind of a hawk. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack
A zoologist observed a Cooper’s hawk using a crosswalk signal as a cue to ambush its prey.
www.theatlantic.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fascinating. The analytical mind of a hawk. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Last year, we had a single cherry on this tree. Maybe next year, we'll get 3? #summergarden #fruittrees #summer #gardensky #gardening 🌱 🍒
May 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Last year, we had a single cherry on this tree. Maybe next year, we'll get 3? #summergarden #fruittrees #summer #gardensky #gardening 🌱 🍒
Fluffy, pink hydrangea, from a cutting. Fluffy blue parent plant. Same garden, maybe 20 feet from each other. I know soil ph influences bloom color, but I'm flummoxed as to how the soil could be so different on different sides of the same garden. #hydrangea #summergarden #bloomscrolling #gardensky 🌱
May 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Fluffy, pink hydrangea, from a cutting. Fluffy blue parent plant. Same garden, maybe 20 feet from each other. I know soil ph influences bloom color, but I'm flummoxed as to how the soil could be so different on different sides of the same garden. #hydrangea #summergarden #bloomscrolling #gardensky 🌱
May 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Glorious butterfly weed; already attracting swallowtails and fritillaries. #bloomscrolling #milkweed #gardensky #gardening #summergarden #summer 🌱
May 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Glorious butterfly weed; already attracting swallowtails and fritillaries. #bloomscrolling #milkweed #gardensky #gardening #summergarden #summer 🌱
May 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I divided my red hot pokers last year; rewarded with multiples. #summergarden #summerbulbs #bloomscrolling #gardensky #summer 🌱
May 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I divided my red hot pokers last year; rewarded with multiples. #summergarden #summerbulbs #bloomscrolling #gardensky #summer 🌱