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Janet
@outtheother.bsky.social
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Tennessee naturalist, moss gardener, and occasional DJ. Information is my love language. She/her.
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This is by far the best trail review I have ever seen on @alltrails.bsky.social 🍄
Screenshot of a review on AllTrails, by Xander Trusheim on August 24, 2025. Xander rates the trail 5/5 stars, and the review says: Mushrooms be poppin
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Bog tax
Photo of a wooden walkway in a high elevation bog off of the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are low bushy shrubs on either side of the walkway, in the greens and browns of very late summer. The sky is cloudy but you can see a bit of blue peeking through over the rounded crest of a ridge in the distance.
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I have a huge version of this Anderson Design Group poster in my living room and I didn't realize until just now how much I do, in fact, want to step into it and go on a theme park ride
An Anderson Design Group poster design called "Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Firefly Magic." It depicts a nighttime view of a beautiful mountain stream, with rounded boulders in deep blues and greens dotted with the lights of many fireflies.
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I don’t know any of the people who are showing up on my instagram these days but I like this lady’s energy
A strip of three screenshots from an Instagram reel (by @taryndelaniesmith), with a woman lounging in the sun in Prada sunglasses. In the first panel she is looking off in the distance saying “your innermost self isn’t a princess” In the second she is looking directly at you over the top of her sunglasses saying “is it” And in the final panel she is looking away again saying “it’s a gargoyle”
September 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Okay let's go it's my birthday month and I miss DJing so I'm gonna post some tunes. Probably gonna take me ages to decide, because I want them all to be EXCELLENT
Music Ask 1. A song you like with a color in the title 2. A song you like with a number in the title 3. A song that reminds you of summertime 4. A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about 5. A song that needs to be played LOUD 6. A song that makes you want to dance 7. A song to drive to 8. A song about drugs or alcohol 9. A song that makes you happy 10. A song that makes you sad 11. A song that you never get tired of 12. A song from your preteen years 13. One of your favorite 80's songs 14. A song that you would love played at your wedding 15. A song that is a cover by another artist 16. One of your favorite classical songs 17. A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke 18. A song from the year that you were born 19. A song that makes you think about life 20. A song that has many meanings to you 21. A favorite song with a person's name in the title 22. A song that moves you forward 23. A song that you think everybody should listen to 24. A song by a band you wish were still together 25. A song by an artist no longer living 26. A song that makes you want to fall in love 27. A song that breaks your heart 28. A song by an artist with a voice that you love 29. A song that you remember from your childhood 30. A song that reminds you of yourself
September 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The road through the back half of Cataloochee Valley in GSMNP just completely washed away during Helene, but you can still hike back there and it was gorgeous today
A photo of Cataloochee Valley in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, showing two dirt tracks heading into a meadow, with mountains visible in the background and the top of an old barn.
August 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The road through the back half of Cataloochee Valley in GSMNP just completely washed away during Helene, but you can still hike back there and it was gorgeous today
A photo of Cataloochee Valley in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, showing two dirt tracks heading into a meadow, with mountains visible in the background and the top of an old barn.
August 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Can’t you just feel your blood pressure dropping
Beautiful view from the smoky mountains, with a green tree-covered ridge line and a hazier blue mountain in the distance. The sky is blue and there is a fluffy white cloud casting well-defined shadows on the ridge. In the foreground there are green textural layers of treetops and rhododendron leaves.
August 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Really underestimated what a massive engineering project they’re undertaking on the stretch of 40 from TN to NC where the road was undercut during Helene. Looks like the strategy is reinforcing the whole thing with these huge steel boxes?
Row of giant steel boxes lined up along the highway on the other side of a concrete barrier Giant steel boxes with large machinery for scale
August 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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A close up of a Woodland spider-lily from this weekend since Bluesky wasn’t kind to that video.
A close up of a Woodland spider-lily in the forest. The white flower is spidery and almost glowing against the backdrop of brown leaf litter and bright green leaves.
August 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Stumbled upon one of these blooming on a trail at Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park this past weekend and it was SO magical.
August 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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So now we're digging tunnels to the convention center too? Is it just me or is this giving mike wazowski energy
August 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Got a good video of the twenty one baby turkeys visiting my yard - really should call them teen turkeys since they’re getting so big
August 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Really want to go back and spend more time exploring there - we just drove out to check it out cause it was too hot/humid to hike this weekend, but it’s like a 3 hour drive from Nashville in the northwest part of the state. Tennessee really is just so incredibly beautiful.
A photo of a lone bald cypress tree emerging from the calm water of Reelfoot Lake.
July 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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It’s an incredible and kind of otherworldly ecosystem because it’s fairly close to the Mississippi River and everything around you as you approach is flat farmland. The lake is hugely important to migrating birds that use the Mississippi River flyway every year.
Bald cypress trees emerging from the water at the edge of the lake, with tall wetland grasses in the foreground.
July 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The trees are still there - many reduced to stumps hidden below the surface of the water (bald cypress is very resistant to water rot). And along the walkway behind the visitor’s center, there are trees that predate the earthquake, so they’re older than the lake.
The tall column of an absolutely massive bald cypress tree trunk, emerging from lush green vegetation on the swampy periphery of Reelfoot Lake. The tree is one of the largest in the area, estimated at more than 300-400 years old.
July 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Visited Reelfoot Lake this weekend for the first time - it’s Tennessee’s largest natural lake. It was formed in 1811-1812 when a series of 2000+ earthquakes caused a section of old growth (mostly bald cypress) forest to sink 10 feet and flood.
A photograph of Reelfoot Lake, showing bald cypress trees emerging from the calm water of a gorgeous lake reflecting the blue sky.
July 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Turns out the secret to me sticking with a productivity/to-do/self-care app for four months was to find one where getting shit done and taking care of myself means I get to dress a little bird in cute outfits and decorate his house and send him on adventures.

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A screenshot from the Finch Self-Care Pet app, showing my little cartoon bird finishing his 120th adventure. He’s wearing brown pants with suspenders, a white shirt, an orange scarf tied around his neck, a brown hat with a yellow feather, and orange ducky boots. He holds an orange bubble wand and a small pig with a pumpkin hat stands next to him, and the backdrop shows he’s adventuring in the Galápagos Islands.
July 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This restaurant review I just found is exceptional. You know you’re in for a treat when it starts out: “I did not like the food. On a fundamental level.”
Screenshot of a two star Google review that says: I did not like the food. On a fundamental level. Visually there is no unique unity in the parts put into the dish, they were just “placed” not thought of, not placed deliberately, and delicately. Where is the picture? Where is the visual evidence of care? Where is the step in which I could JUST look upon my food craving it still? Then there is the confused taste. There is no reason to have these flavors together. And I do not have to name specific items because it was all items.The food is dull, the food is truly, shockingly abysmal. I understand you are a business nothing more. But what I cannot understand is how your Chefs have seemingly lost their love and relationship with the kitchen and the creation they have been put in charge of. So much so that it Is apparent in their work.
July 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Got a little instax mini printer to mess around with and tonight I printed one photo Jonathan took and some other stuff from my phone and didn’t realize three of the images together create a perfect triptych.
A photograph of three Instax Mini photographs set side by side on a marble table. On the left is a photo I took in the Smoky Mountains, with a bold blue sky, bright green leafy tree-covered mountain ridge, and a few cotton candy clouds. On the right is a photo Jonathan took in the Smoky Mountains, with a bright green treeline in the foreground, moody blue mountains in the background, and a cloudy sky with layered veils of blue. In the center is a photo collage, with a bright blue sky and some wispy white clouds, and a bright green mound of fuzzy textured moss, with an orange tabby cat superimposed, looking like he’s asleep on his side, nestled into the moss. The way the photos are lined up, there seems to be one curving horizon of green against blue that continues through all three images.
July 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Should probably add a photo to this thread - this is what poison ivy looks like! Leaves of three, let ‘em be. I also highly recommend using the free Seek app to ID it (or confirm the ID) if you see something that looks like it but you aren’t sure.
Photograph of poison ivy from poison ivy Wikipedia page. Depicts the bright green leaves, clustered in a group of three.
July 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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FYI, elms are not one of the ten trees, but I did find this book because it has a picture of magnificently huge sycamore tree (platanus occidentalis, they called it a buttonwood here).

Look at this absolute unit.
Old photograph depicting an absolute unit of an American Sycamore tree, here called “The Big Buttonwood, Sunderland.” A man stands next to the truck of the tree which is easily as wide as he is tall.
July 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Tree zine update - think I’m gonna call it:

TEN TENNESSEE TREES
to love and learn to identify

And my first bit of cover design inspiration is this marvelous cover lettering from a book I found in the internet archive from 1890.
Lettering from the cover of the 1890 book TYPICAL ELMS AND OTHER TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS. The background is chalkboard dark green and the lettering is gold and artistically magical, with lots of flourishes and a spiral on the bottom of the “s” in “trees.”
July 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I love how beautifully he captures how sidewalks are a promise of connection - and what that means about neighborhoods that lack sidewalks, too. This is exactly why folks in Belle Meade were so vehemently opposed to the sidewalk proposal they shot down last week.
Screenshot of an excerpt of Mike Monteiro’s Good News newsletter from June 26, 2025: Sidewalks are a promise. A promise of connection. If there’s a sidewalk, there’s gonna be things that sidewalk connects to, be it a dog park, or a café, or a record store, or a barbershop. A sidewalk implies that we, the city, welcome you to walk through our city, and go to the places connected by that sidewalk, and that in those places you will meet other people, and even if all those other people are strangers, and you don’t say a word to those other people, you will—if for a brief moment—experience the connection of people in the same space at the same time sharing a type of connection. And as slight as that connection may be, it is important. The lack of a sidewalk is a threat. The lack of a sidewalk implies that no one in the neighborhood needs the sidewalk to get between things. Therefore anyone walking through the neighborhood doesn’t belong. You are doing it wrong. You are not following the rules. You are not one of us. You don’t belong here. In places without sidewalks, people get in their car, drive out to another place, do their business, and retreat back into their home.
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Repost with a favorite book from childhood
The cover of Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
April 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM