Gardener, artist, elder goth, Halloween enthusiast, dog mum. Here initally for current events/politics, but loving the gardening community! 🌷 Zone 7 Virginia ❤️
Of all the crummy weeds that hitch a ride with potted nursery plants, I think I got a good one! Ipomoea lacunosa, the whitestar, white morning-glory, or pitted morning-glory. A native morning glory, yay! ❤️ Host plant for a moth called Emmelina monodactyla (the T-moth or morning-glory plume moth) 🌱
August 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Of all the crummy weeds that hitch a ride with potted nursery plants, I think I got a good one! Ipomoea lacunosa, the whitestar, white morning-glory, or pitted morning-glory. A native morning glory, yay! ❤️ Host plant for a moth called Emmelina monodactyla (the T-moth or morning-glory plume moth) 🌱
Trees are mostly removed and garage is now tarped, somewhat unconvincingly to my eyes. Everything is wobbly and yesterday more roof debris fell in. I dread what will happen next time it storms.
June 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trees are mostly removed and garage is now tarped, somewhat unconvincingly to my eyes. Everything is wobbly and yesterday more roof debris fell in. I dread what will happen next time it storms.
For my friends who aren't on FB, yesterday I shared what last Thursday's violent storm did to our house. 2 trees blew down & smashed our garage, obliterated a ton of plants & crushed the hood of our Ford Transit. Insurance processes are in motion, we are lucky it wasn't worse but lawd what a mess.
June 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
For my friends who aren't on FB, yesterday I shared what last Thursday's violent storm did to our house. 2 trees blew down & smashed our garage, obliterated a ton of plants & crushed the hood of our Ford Transit. Insurance processes are in motion, we are lucky it wasn't worse but lawd what a mess.
Hey Bluesky gardeners! A fallen tree in yesterday's violent storms obliterated many of my plants and landscaping. 😢 If I prune all the broken swamp milkweed plants where the stems were snapped in half, will they regrow this season? 🌱🦋🐛
June 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hey Bluesky gardeners! A fallen tree in yesterday's violent storms obliterated many of my plants and landscaping. 😢 If I prune all the broken swamp milkweed plants where the stems were snapped in half, will they regrow this season? 🌱🦋🐛
I actually did not buy this in 1989, I got it in Richmond in '95- there was a tiny used music store near VCU, & it had a box of cassingles for 25 cents each. I bought a bunch! My memory is bad but I'm sure of this bcuz the cardboard sleeve is not trashed from living in my high school backpack.
May 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I actually did not buy this in 1989, I got it in Richmond in '95- there was a tiny used music store near VCU, & it had a box of cassingles for 25 cents each. I bought a bunch! My memory is bad but I'm sure of this bcuz the cardboard sleeve is not trashed from living in my high school backpack.
Walk with me down Cassingle memory lane. ❤️ 🎶 The year is 1989, and Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" from the film "Ghostbusters II" would sit at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 3 whole weeks... and become a global hit. 👻 Fun fact: Babyface is on keyboards & backup vocals.
May 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Walk with me down Cassingle memory lane. ❤️ 🎶 The year is 1989, and Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" from the film "Ghostbusters II" would sit at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 3 whole weeks... and become a global hit. 👻 Fun fact: Babyface is on keyboards & backup vocals.
Just had my first box turtle sighting of the season! 🐢 Yay! It was a pretty small female in a hard to photograph place, under prickly bushes (ouch⭐️). I did my best to get a photo so I could see the markings. It is the same female I photographed last July. 🥰 #boxturtle#northernvirginia
May 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Just had my first box turtle sighting of the season! 🐢 Yay! It was a pretty small female in a hard to photograph place, under prickly bushes (ouch⭐️). I did my best to get a photo so I could see the markings. It is the same female I photographed last July. 🥰 #boxturtle#northernvirginia
"At a party one Sat night, singer Daniel Ash saw a beautiful woman w long brown hair on the other side of a dark, shadowy room. He didn't go talk to her because he was married, but he was infatuated for the rest of the weekend. "It was like I'd known her in a different lifetime or something."
May 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"At a party one Sat night, singer Daniel Ash saw a beautiful woman w long brown hair on the other side of a dark, shadowy room. He didn't go talk to her because he was married, but he was infatuated for the rest of the weekend. "It was like I'd known her in a different lifetime or something."
Today's pleasant cassingle memory is Love and Rockets "So Alive" from 1989. I guess this was the first song I stumbled into on the radio that was in the goth zone. 🦇💜 I enjoyed the Wikipedia story about the song and paraphrased it here. #cassingle#LoveandRockets
May 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today's pleasant cassingle memory is Love and Rockets "So Alive" from 1989. I guess this was the first song I stumbled into on the radio that was in the goth zone. 🦇💜 I enjoyed the Wikipedia story about the song and paraphrased it here. #cassingle#LoveandRockets
Timeline cleanse: my little fleabane patch. 😊 The patch grows larger every year, and lives in a struggling part of the lawn under a huge old maple tree.
May 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Timeline cleanse: my little fleabane patch. 😊 The patch grows larger every year, and lives in a struggling part of the lawn under a huge old maple tree.
Apparently the group was assembled by two members of C&C Music Factory. It's fun for me to look back at the songs I liked on the radio and compare them to genres I gravitated towards when the world of music opened up much wider to me... in college and beyond. 💜
May 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Apparently the group was assembled by two members of C&C Music Factory. It's fun for me to look back at the songs I liked on the radio and compare them to genres I gravitated towards when the world of music opened up much wider to me... in college and beyond. 💜