RootLeafStories ~ TK Sellman
@rootleafstories.bsky.social
I block DMs from strangers; here for peace and community. Exploring the intersections between creativity, gardening, rewilding, ecology, spirituality, and cooking. [US Ag Zone 8b]. When you nourish the earth, you nourish the body, mind, and soul
#3Things for MON: Day of Jasmine & Moonflower
1. Impatience with narrow minded folks not telling the whole truth: denial has a price
2. A lot of reading and yard stuff on my to do list today
3. Late season haul: poblanos, green beans, baby eggplants, jalapeños and Hatch chiles
1. Impatience with narrow minded folks not telling the whole truth: denial has a price
2. A lot of reading and yard stuff on my to do list today
3. Late season haul: poblanos, green beans, baby eggplants, jalapeños and Hatch chiles
October 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
#3Things for MON: Day of Jasmine & Moonflower
1. Impatience with narrow minded folks not telling the whole truth: denial has a price
2. A lot of reading and yard stuff on my to do list today
3. Late season haul: poblanos, green beans, baby eggplants, jalapeños and Hatch chiles
1. Impatience with narrow minded folks not telling the whole truth: denial has a price
2. A lot of reading and yard stuff on my to do list today
3. Late season haul: poblanos, green beans, baby eggplants, jalapeños and Hatch chiles
Readers, please put your money where your mouth is.
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Readers, please put your money where your mouth is.
#3Things for SUN: Day of Lemon & Sunflower
1. Rainwashed skies this morning
2. Doing a little yard work then lounging in a onesie and watching movies
3. Amazing fluorite specimen (big as a dinner plate!) at SoulFood Coffeehouse
1. Rainwashed skies this morning
2. Doing a little yard work then lounging in a onesie and watching movies
3. Amazing fluorite specimen (big as a dinner plate!) at SoulFood Coffeehouse
October 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#3Things for SUN: Day of Lemon & Sunflower
1. Rainwashed skies this morning
2. Doing a little yard work then lounging in a onesie and watching movies
3. Amazing fluorite specimen (big as a dinner plate!) at SoulFood Coffeehouse
1. Rainwashed skies this morning
2. Doing a little yard work then lounging in a onesie and watching movies
3. Amazing fluorite specimen (big as a dinner plate!) at SoulFood Coffeehouse
#3Things for SAT: Day of Garlic & Mugwort
1. One more day outside before the big rain… #gardeninglife
2. The birds were really chatty during the install of the greenhouse frame yesterday, wish I knew what they were saying
3. Spooky Season is full tilt from here on out! Last night’s revue was lit!
1. One more day outside before the big rain… #gardeninglife
2. The birds were really chatty during the install of the greenhouse frame yesterday, wish I knew what they were saying
3. Spooky Season is full tilt from here on out! Last night’s revue was lit!
October 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#3Things for SAT: Day of Garlic & Mugwort
1. One more day outside before the big rain… #gardeninglife
2. The birds were really chatty during the install of the greenhouse frame yesterday, wish I knew what they were saying
3. Spooky Season is full tilt from here on out! Last night’s revue was lit!
1. One more day outside before the big rain… #gardeninglife
2. The birds were really chatty during the install of the greenhouse frame yesterday, wish I knew what they were saying
3. Spooky Season is full tilt from here on out! Last night’s revue was lit!
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. So sore: 20th of yard work logged this week!
2. Going to a Halloween burlesque tonight dressed in my light/dark sun/moon good/evil concept onesie
3. These OSO roses are so pretty but in this late afternoon light? 🤌
1. So sore: 20th of yard work logged this week!
2. Going to a Halloween burlesque tonight dressed in my light/dark sun/moon good/evil concept onesie
3. These OSO roses are so pretty but in this late afternoon light? 🤌
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. So sore: 20th of yard work logged this week!
2. Going to a Halloween burlesque tonight dressed in my light/dark sun/moon good/evil concept onesie
3. These OSO roses are so pretty but in this late afternoon light? 🤌
1. So sore: 20th of yard work logged this week!
2. Going to a Halloween burlesque tonight dressed in my light/dark sun/moon good/evil concept onesie
3. These OSO roses are so pretty but in this late afternoon light? 🤌
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. Sore from sustained yard chores all week but grateful
2. Going to a Halloween burlesque tonight!
3. Love this color on one of my OSO rose bushes
1. Sore from sustained yard chores all week but grateful
2. Going to a Halloween burlesque tonight!
3. Love this color on one of my OSO rose bushes
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. Sore from sustained yard chores all week but grateful
2. Going to a Halloween burlesque tonight!
3. Love this color on one of my OSO rose bushes
1. Sore from sustained yard chores all week but grateful
2. Going to a Halloween burlesque tonight!
3. Love this color on one of my OSO rose bushes
#3Things for THURS: Day of Wheat & Sage
1. Good yard chore progress yesterday while listening to high strangeness pods for hours 🛸👽
2. Dreams had me ferrying over to 🇨🇦 … a dream scenario which is always symbolic to me of some kind of death or end 👀
3. Ran into a small patch of scarlet elf caps
1. Good yard chore progress yesterday while listening to high strangeness pods for hours 🛸👽
2. Dreams had me ferrying over to 🇨🇦 … a dream scenario which is always symbolic to me of some kind of death or end 👀
3. Ran into a small patch of scarlet elf caps
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#3Things for THURS: Day of Wheat & Sage
1. Good yard chore progress yesterday while listening to high strangeness pods for hours 🛸👽
2. Dreams had me ferrying over to 🇨🇦 … a dream scenario which is always symbolic to me of some kind of death or end 👀
3. Ran into a small patch of scarlet elf caps
1. Good yard chore progress yesterday while listening to high strangeness pods for hours 🛸👽
2. Dreams had me ferrying over to 🇨🇦 … a dream scenario which is always symbolic to me of some kind of death or end 👀
3. Ran into a small patch of scarlet elf caps
#3Things for WED: Day of Fern & Lavender
1. Another perfect yardwork day, cool but sunny!
2. I actually caught a spider making a cobweb in my house. I’ve never in 60 years seen it happen live, only dusted the webs away after the fact.
3. Some very spooky inky caps hiding in the leaves.
1. Another perfect yardwork day, cool but sunny!
2. I actually caught a spider making a cobweb in my house. I’ve never in 60 years seen it happen live, only dusted the webs away after the fact.
3. Some very spooky inky caps hiding in the leaves.
October 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#3Things for WED: Day of Fern & Lavender
1. Another perfect yardwork day, cool but sunny!
2. I actually caught a spider making a cobweb in my house. I’ve never in 60 years seen it happen live, only dusted the webs away after the fact.
3. Some very spooky inky caps hiding in the leaves.
1. Another perfect yardwork day, cool but sunny!
2. I actually caught a spider making a cobweb in my house. I’ve never in 60 years seen it happen live, only dusted the webs away after the fact.
3. Some very spooky inky caps hiding in the leaves.
#3Things for TUES: Day of Thistle & Ginger
1. Reading “The Extra” right now… pretty unsettling!
2. More yard work today but it’s promising to be a bright sunny day in the high 50s… perfect gardening weather!
3. Not sure what this mushroom is, found it under some sprawling clematis vines
1. Reading “The Extra” right now… pretty unsettling!
2. More yard work today but it’s promising to be a bright sunny day in the high 50s… perfect gardening weather!
3. Not sure what this mushroom is, found it under some sprawling clematis vines
October 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#3Things for TUES: Day of Thistle & Ginger
1. Reading “The Extra” right now… pretty unsettling!
2. More yard work today but it’s promising to be a bright sunny day in the high 50s… perfect gardening weather!
3. Not sure what this mushroom is, found it under some sprawling clematis vines
1. Reading “The Extra” right now… pretty unsettling!
2. More yard work today but it’s promising to be a bright sunny day in the high 50s… perfect gardening weather!
3. Not sure what this mushroom is, found it under some sprawling clematis vines
#3Things for MON: Day of Jasmine & Moonflower
1. Fall chores in the yard begin today: all hail the podcasts and audiobooks that will keep me company!
2. Overdue but I’ll also get the Halloween decorations out 🎃 👻 💀 🐦⬛
3. Today calls for herbal tea
1. Fall chores in the yard begin today: all hail the podcasts and audiobooks that will keep me company!
2. Overdue but I’ll also get the Halloween decorations out 🎃 👻 💀 🐦⬛
3. Today calls for herbal tea
October 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#3Things for MON: Day of Jasmine & Moonflower
1. Fall chores in the yard begin today: all hail the podcasts and audiobooks that will keep me company!
2. Overdue but I’ll also get the Halloween decorations out 🎃 👻 💀 🐦⬛
3. Today calls for herbal tea
1. Fall chores in the yard begin today: all hail the podcasts and audiobooks that will keep me company!
2. Overdue but I’ll also get the Halloween decorations out 🎃 👻 💀 🐦⬛
3. Today calls for herbal tea
#3Things for SUN: Day of Lemon & Sunflower
1. Can’t eat all the homegrown cherry 🍅 I brought on my trip, so the Airbnb folks get to enjoy this plate of 🌞 instead
2. I broke my bifocals (for driving/reading). Good thing I ordered new Zenni’s just last week (on impulse)
3. From my hike yesterday!
1. Can’t eat all the homegrown cherry 🍅 I brought on my trip, so the Airbnb folks get to enjoy this plate of 🌞 instead
2. I broke my bifocals (for driving/reading). Good thing I ordered new Zenni’s just last week (on impulse)
3. From my hike yesterday!
October 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#3Things for SUN: Day of Lemon & Sunflower
1. Can’t eat all the homegrown cherry 🍅 I brought on my trip, so the Airbnb folks get to enjoy this plate of 🌞 instead
2. I broke my bifocals (for driving/reading). Good thing I ordered new Zenni’s just last week (on impulse)
3. From my hike yesterday!
1. Can’t eat all the homegrown cherry 🍅 I brought on my trip, so the Airbnb folks get to enjoy this plate of 🌞 instead
2. I broke my bifocals (for driving/reading). Good thing I ordered new Zenni’s just last week (on impulse)
3. From my hike yesterday!
#3Things for SAT: Day of Garlic & Mugwort
1. Going to hike in the rain today. The trees make the best umbrella in the PNW
2. Bookstore reading tonight among horror fans, should be fun!
3. Two magic portals!
1. Going to hike in the rain today. The trees make the best umbrella in the PNW
2. Bookstore reading tonight among horror fans, should be fun!
3. Two magic portals!
October 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#3Things for SAT: Day of Garlic & Mugwort
1. Going to hike in the rain today. The trees make the best umbrella in the PNW
2. Bookstore reading tonight among horror fans, should be fun!
3. Two magic portals!
1. Going to hike in the rain today. The trees make the best umbrella in the PNW
2. Bookstore reading tonight among horror fans, should be fun!
3. Two magic portals!
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. Energy is not great today. I may end up watching movies instead of being productive. Maybe that’s what I need.
2. I wish reading didn’t make me so sleepy.
3. Made this tabbouleh last night… perfect food for hermits.
1. Energy is not great today. I may end up watching movies instead of being productive. Maybe that’s what I need.
2. I wish reading didn’t make me so sleepy.
3. Made this tabbouleh last night… perfect food for hermits.
October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. Energy is not great today. I may end up watching movies instead of being productive. Maybe that’s what I need.
2. I wish reading didn’t make me so sleepy.
3. Made this tabbouleh last night… perfect food for hermits.
1. Energy is not great today. I may end up watching movies instead of being productive. Maybe that’s what I need.
2. I wish reading didn’t make me so sleepy.
3. Made this tabbouleh last night… perfect food for hermits.
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. Energy is not great today. I may end up watching movies instead of being productive. Maybe that’s what I need.
2. I wish reading didn’t make me so sleepy.
3. Made this tabbouleh last night… perfect food for hermits.
1. Energy is not great today. I may end up watching movies instead of being productive. Maybe that’s what I need.
2. I wish reading didn’t make me so sleepy.
3. Made this tabbouleh last night… perfect food for hermits.
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. Energy is not great today. I may end up watching movies instead of being productive. Maybe that’s what I need.
2. I wish reading didn’t make me so sleepy.
3. Made this tabbouleh last night… perfect food for hermits.
1. Energy is not great today. I may end up watching movies instead of being productive. Maybe that’s what I need.
2. I wish reading didn’t make me so sleepy.
3. Made this tabbouleh last night… perfect food for hermits.
#3Things for THURS: Day of Wheat & Sage
1. Nice cleansing rain last night, totally unexpected
2. Leaning into tarot for writers today as soon as I finish my workshop homework
3. Last night’s moon/cloud compositions were too cool for my phone cam so I played around with a watercolor app
1. Nice cleansing rain last night, totally unexpected
2. Leaning into tarot for writers today as soon as I finish my workshop homework
3. Last night’s moon/cloud compositions were too cool for my phone cam so I played around with a watercolor app
October 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#3Things for THURS: Day of Wheat & Sage
1. Nice cleansing rain last night, totally unexpected
2. Leaning into tarot for writers today as soon as I finish my workshop homework
3. Last night’s moon/cloud compositions were too cool for my phone cam so I played around with a watercolor app
1. Nice cleansing rain last night, totally unexpected
2. Leaning into tarot for writers today as soon as I finish my workshop homework
3. Last night’s moon/cloud compositions were too cool for my phone cam so I played around with a watercolor app
#3Things for WED: Day of Fern & Lavender
1. Too early to rise but that moon is artificial dawn over here
2. Readings tonight, tomorrow and Saturday this week. Already I’m tired.
3. Fall hiking is the best!
1. Too early to rise but that moon is artificial dawn over here
2. Readings tonight, tomorrow and Saturday this week. Already I’m tired.
3. Fall hiking is the best!
October 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#3Things for WED: Day of Fern & Lavender
1. Too early to rise but that moon is artificial dawn over here
2. Readings tonight, tomorrow and Saturday this week. Already I’m tired.
3. Fall hiking is the best!
1. Too early to rise but that moon is artificial dawn over here
2. Readings tonight, tomorrow and Saturday this week. Already I’m tired.
3. Fall hiking is the best!
#3Things for TUES: Day of Thistle & Ginger
1. Cool bedroom + bed with heated cover = the best sleep ever!
2. Making grain-free granola today!
3. Incredibly, this shroom is known colloquially as Bluetooth Fungus
1. Cool bedroom + bed with heated cover = the best sleep ever!
2. Making grain-free granola today!
3. Incredibly, this shroom is known colloquially as Bluetooth Fungus
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#3Things for TUES: Day of Thistle & Ginger
1. Cool bedroom + bed with heated cover = the best sleep ever!
2. Making grain-free granola today!
3. Incredibly, this shroom is known colloquially as Bluetooth Fungus
1. Cool bedroom + bed with heated cover = the best sleep ever!
2. Making grain-free granola today!
3. Incredibly, this shroom is known colloquially as Bluetooth Fungus
#3Things for M🌕N: Day of Jasmine & Moonflower
1. Supermoon tonight!!!!
2. Going for an early hike today because it’s cool and sunny and I need to look for mushrooms!
3. Birthday flowers from my daughter
1. Supermoon tonight!!!!
2. Going for an early hike today because it’s cool and sunny and I need to look for mushrooms!
3. Birthday flowers from my daughter
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#3Things for M🌕N: Day of Jasmine & Moonflower
1. Supermoon tonight!!!!
2. Going for an early hike today because it’s cool and sunny and I need to look for mushrooms!
3. Birthday flowers from my daughter
1. Supermoon tonight!!!!
2. Going for an early hike today because it’s cool and sunny and I need to look for mushrooms!
3. Birthday flowers from my daughter
#3Things for SUN: Day of Lemon & Sunflower
1. PNW weather today: Aces!!
2. We redefined our holidays by disinviting the relatives who “valued” Charlie Kirk today, making ours an official hater-free household in 2025🏳️🌈 Living in integrity = family values 💜🏡🧑🧑🧒🧒
3. Fall is Writing Season!
1. PNW weather today: Aces!!
2. We redefined our holidays by disinviting the relatives who “valued” Charlie Kirk today, making ours an official hater-free household in 2025🏳️🌈 Living in integrity = family values 💜🏡🧑🧑🧒🧒
3. Fall is Writing Season!
October 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#3Things for SUN: Day of Lemon & Sunflower
1. PNW weather today: Aces!!
2. We redefined our holidays by disinviting the relatives who “valued” Charlie Kirk today, making ours an official hater-free household in 2025🏳️🌈 Living in integrity = family values 💜🏡🧑🧑🧒🧒
3. Fall is Writing Season!
1. PNW weather today: Aces!!
2. We redefined our holidays by disinviting the relatives who “valued” Charlie Kirk today, making ours an official hater-free household in 2025🏳️🌈 Living in integrity = family values 💜🏡🧑🧑🧒🧒
3. Fall is Writing Season!
#3Things for SAT: Day of Garlic & Mugwort
1. Celebrating the end of my second 🪐 return with my daughter who has just emerged from her first 🪐 return
2. I love waking up to fog in October #Fogtober
3. Where I live, the woodland fae on the trails are all about the lovingkindness
1. Celebrating the end of my second 🪐 return with my daughter who has just emerged from her first 🪐 return
2. I love waking up to fog in October #Fogtober
3. Where I live, the woodland fae on the trails are all about the lovingkindness
October 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. My Spooky Season Book Tour starts today!
2. Sheesh, I like having an active dream life and all, but sometimes I really just want some deep uninterrupted sleep.
3. Thanks to the 🌧️ the fun guys are baaaack. I present… Inky caps!
1. My Spooky Season Book Tour starts today!
2. Sheesh, I like having an active dream life and all, but sometimes I really just want some deep uninterrupted sleep.
3. Thanks to the 🌧️ the fun guys are baaaack. I present… Inky caps!
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#3Things for FRI: Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. My Spooky Season Book Tour starts today!
2. Sheesh, I like having an active dream life and all, but sometimes I really just want some deep uninterrupted sleep.
3. Thanks to the 🌧️ the fun guys are baaaack. I present… Inky caps!
1. My Spooky Season Book Tour starts today!
2. Sheesh, I like having an active dream life and all, but sometimes I really just want some deep uninterrupted sleep.
3. Thanks to the 🌧️ the fun guys are baaaack. I present… Inky caps!
Yeah I saw your itsy bitsy moves in my shower. Prolly not the best place for an art installation tho.
October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Yeah I saw your itsy bitsy moves in my shower. Prolly not the best place for an art installation tho.
#3Things for THURS: Day of Wheat & Sage
1. Hawk singing out my bedroom window this morning
2. And just like that 🫰the yard is green again
3. I see this sign out in the boonies by my house and am healed by it every time.
1. Hawk singing out my bedroom window this morning
2. And just like that 🫰the yard is green again
3. I see this sign out in the boonies by my house and am healed by it every time.
October 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#3Things for THURS: Day of Wheat & Sage
1. Hawk singing out my bedroom window this morning
2. And just like that 🫰the yard is green again
3. I see this sign out in the boonies by my house and am healed by it every time.
1. Hawk singing out my bedroom window this morning
2. And just like that 🫰the yard is green again
3. I see this sign out in the boonies by my house and am healed by it every time.
#3Things for WED: Day of Fern & Lavender
1. Awoken by some rad spoken word on my Spotify
2. My reading of late has been 🤯 (in a good way)
3. Can’t stop thinking about this trail… with all the new rain, there must be fungi galore now
1. Awoken by some rad spoken word on my Spotify
2. My reading of late has been 🤯 (in a good way)
3. Can’t stop thinking about this trail… with all the new rain, there must be fungi galore now
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#3Things for WED: Day of Fern & Lavender
1. Awoken by some rad spoken word on my Spotify
2. My reading of late has been 🤯 (in a good way)
3. Can’t stop thinking about this trail… with all the new rain, there must be fungi galore now
1. Awoken by some rad spoken word on my Spotify
2. My reading of late has been 🤯 (in a good way)
3. Can’t stop thinking about this trail… with all the new rain, there must be fungi galore now
Got my 🍅 plants wrapped up in their robes just in times for the big rain to hit. This is today’s harvest (3rd? 4th this season?) and the vines are still covered with greenies
(not shown: kitchen window greenies which will be red by the weekend)
(not shown: kitchen window greenies which will be red by the weekend)
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Got my 🍅 plants wrapped up in their robes just in times for the big rain to hit. This is today’s harvest (3rd? 4th this season?) and the vines are still covered with greenies
(not shown: kitchen window greenies which will be red by the weekend)
(not shown: kitchen window greenies which will be red by the weekend)