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nancywisser

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mostly harmless, pennsylvania, plants and birds 🌿🌼

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Moss, lichen and ice on bark. From a fallen black locust tree in the woods yesterday.

A section of rough slightly reddish rough bark of a tree. It is mossy green over some areas with variously sized patches of sea green or maybe pastel teal lichen, placed as nature sometimes manages to do, surprisingly artistically. In the deepest valley in the bark is what looks almost like a small river of ice, almost white but with a bluish tinge. You could almost base a fashion line on what this bit of nature did naturally.
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Artwork by Sabrina Yang.

Silhouette of a cat looking out a window at a town plaza covered with snow. There’s a string of warm white lights around the window and other warm glowing lights around the plaza in buildings and on decorations. A small group of people, small silhouettes, are walking in the snow. It looks like a wonderful peaceful holiday evening.
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Bridget wishes you a happy and a happy ! She and I couldn't be at tonight but we did what we could.

A cute cat with big eyes looking at the person holding the camera. She is on a desk along with some Stonehenge models, some pamphlets about Stonehenge, a Stonehenge jigsaw puzzle Stonehenge make-it-yourself kit, and behind those a printed diagram of how the stones of Stonehenge are laid out. There's also a photograph of Silbury Hill in snow.
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Looking through thin fog and my favorite sakura cherry tree toward the big oak tree on the hill.

In the foreground the place on a tree where the branches spread. The bark is dark and rough with dappled of light in a few spots and some patches of gray-green lichen. In the flat place where the branches meet there are a few fallen yellow orange leaves. Looking toward the ends of the dark branches you see many of those same yellow-.orange leaves against a pastel blue sky. Below them is a green hill, made to look lighter by a thin fog and at or near the top of the hill is a tall full tree that although it is surely russet up close, appears orange because of the fog. To me that contrast of textures, the dark and light, and the vibrant colors made a visually arresting image.
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Any day I’m going to look out and see a junco.

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Nashville warbler eating seeds from my Joe Pye weed. It was after sunset so the picture is grainy but I feel lucky to have seen it!

A small bird with a gray head and a bright white eye ring, yellow breast and olive green back a little darker on the wings. It is perched in a light lavender/magenta Joe Pye weed inflorescence and is eying the camera in an annoyed way. Poor thing probably just flew hundreds of miles and people won't leave it alone!
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Actually must be eating insects in the Joe Pye weed inflorescence, not seeds. They’re insectivores.

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Small single shelf greenhouse with 3 paphiopedilum henryanums and good old dendrobium Purple Splash. Miniature bulldog paphs in bud are on the left, back and front.

A small shelf greenhouse with clear plastic instead of glass and grow lights at the top. Inside are two slipper orchids in bloom, one with two blooms. They have deep pink slippers and spotted top petals. To their left is a taller orchid , a dendrobium with small flowers, white splashed with a bright pinkish purple. There are two other healthy looking small orchid plants with no visible blooms.
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I don't think I'd mind everything else as much if it weren't for the drought. Taking a walk is as bad as reading the news.

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Apparently you can make me watch and share a 12 minute product advert if you hire Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement for it and let them loose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

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@Gargron For a moment I thought it was going to be them talking about orchid growing and I was so excited. 😆

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I really like the word "liminal" but I'm never sure when I can use it because I'm afraid people will take it as meaning generically "spooky". It means something specific. An in-between space. A space you're not meant to linger in. A place you're supposed to pass through, probably without thinking about it, which means if you ever stop in that place and let yourself be aware of it it has this particular feel. You know. "Spooky".

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@mcc I do see it get misused a lot and have even been corrected once when I was using it the way you describe it.

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I wish there were more songs about plants and birds

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I could watch Slow Horses every day forever. Far and away the best show we've watched recently.
If I see a picture of one of the characters I feel delight.

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A bright blue October morning and I would love to be out walking or hiking. But these weights aren't going to lift themselves I guess.

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Yay! was so important to me for years and I still listen to some of those songs. I suppose I would be expected to be embarrassed to say this but it made a real positive difference to my life. (You just have to get through the first 26 episodes haha, but you'll find yourself going back to rewatch those eventually)
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/01/liked-kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-try-steven-universe-another-animated-musical-delight

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Saw my first white-throated sparrow of the season out back so that milestone is passed

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Going through things upstairs I found a looseleaf cookbook made by a central PA church in 1948 and it's kind of wild.

All handwritten and then somehow copied, drawings in pen and ink (the one for southern cornbread wildly politically incorrect), even ads hand done with phone numbers like 42-B. Recipes range from pretty strange to ones we would make today.

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Best I could get of Bridget for . She’s watching the bird feeder. Her coat pattern is beautiful from above.

The front half of an orange, tan and black classic swirly tabby from above. The back markings sometimes called wings on classic tabbies are a mottled orange on Bridget. Otherwise her markings are asymmetrical. In this picture you can barely see the white stripe down her nose and her white whiskers. She’s standing half on a carpet with off-white and dark teal blue Moroccan-style patterning and half on a brick colored floor. Light is lighting up some markings on her ears. She looks alert.
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The second prototype has arrived. They should be ready before December this year. I hope you're looking forward!

A small, carrot colored Mastodon stuffed toy enters the frame first, before being joined by its blue sibling.

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@Gargron ooo, I like the blue! And they look great together.

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My beautiful boy.

A black cat (Jiji) with his big bottom facing the viewer, sprawled across the back of a chair.
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Television test pattern color bars done as a pride flag, by @cctl.me (Cable Contributes To Life) on BlueSky.

What appears to be a television test pattern with long vertical colored bars at the top and shorter bars toward the bottom but in all of the colors of various pride flags. Done in a very eye-pleasing way
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Happy new year, Mastodon!

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@Gargron Happy new year to you two! And most importantly, of course, the cat!

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Honestly, if you’re in the US, please vote. Don’t let a fascist take control. Don’t think that it can’t possibly happen there. This might be your last chance to vote. Don’t waste it. Sitting it out won’t help your cause but it will definitely endanger a lot of lives. That’s my take on it.

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@Gargron Voted for Harris/Walz!

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A tree sparrow in a hedge. In Korea, tree sparrows can be found in pretty much exactly the spaces where you'd see house sparrows here in Europe.

A male sparrow in a hedge.
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@doersino What is the difference between them?

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@doersino Thank you. Those cute little brown caps tho. Wish we had them here!