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Madeleine
@maudiemanding.bsky.social
Old hippie lefty disguised as museum consultant. True history addict, Dzogchen Buddhist, dog lover, foodie.
My rain lilies are blooming! We are just entering the rainy season and they got enough rain to decide to blossom. They will not do it for city water or anything else. So delicate and charming! A bright spot in a gloomy world!
May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This was a pot of purple dahlias. Now I’m battling iguanas with a spray of garlic and cayenne pepper run through the blender and then sieved. Of course it poured with rain the day after I sprayed but I’ll keep at it. They eat all my flowers and poop everywhere @gardennicola.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Beware the attack bunnies!
April 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
At the West Palm demo!
April 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
December 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM
After hurricane Milton: The beauty in these storms has to catch you unawares.

This is “Petals on wet wet, black bough” homage to Ezra Pound, a hard poet to dismiss. Anyway, it’s tiny leaves on a wet black trash can. Not the same but also gone by tomorrow. It would make great wallpaper.
October 13, 2024 at 11:07 PM
October 1 and my bromeliad is in bloom. Note the purple tips. Gorgeous! We are so lucky here that H. Helene passed us.
October 1, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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August 30, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Easter breakfast with artichokes as eggs and dog as bunny. It’s a new tradition!
March 31, 2024 at 4:45 PM
My decorative pineapple! I didn’t even know we had one in our garden. I love bromeliads so I must have planted it without realizing its potential! We have some little one that look more like red thistles but this is about 5inches tall on its stem!
March 29, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Having a lie-in. It’s Sunday.
February 4, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Boasting now: coffee overlooking the Intracoastal in Miami.
January 24, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Avoiding the political prognosticators this morning by having my coffee outside and using the Cornell Labs bird ID. A northern mockingbird is sharing time with me.
January 14, 2024 at 2:50 PM
January 6, 2024 at 1:22 PM
I found this seed pod in a sculpture garden in West Palm, Florida. It has dried out since I found it. It was more like a smallish yellow Brazil nut but now it’s popped open. I’m going to plant the seeds. Anyone know what I’ll be growing?
January 5, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Christmas shrine near my house. I’m not sure who started it but people keep adding things!
December 23, 2023 at 2:38 PM
The festive Christmas peacock we all know and love? Or a Buddhist symbol making the “Happy Holidays“ multicultural? Hard to say. Looks great anyway!
December 16, 2023 at 6:23 PM
Zazu loves Christmas cookies!
December 15, 2023 at 9:17 PM