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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 6h

As it wanes the beauty is magnified 📷🌱 …

A fading pale orange and yellow Dahlia holds steady as Fall deepens.

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 6h

Go, Jean! 💪🏼

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 10h

Me too

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 10h

Still dark here so we'll see but my soil here at home is pretty good and takes in the water. Am a bit worried for the burn zones. Hope they don't experience mud slides.

My saved seeds tend to do alright. Not sure what I'm doing that makes it so.

Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 10h

🤗 We've been garden buddies a long time, haven't we

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 10h

Saving any seeds from this year's garden?

Can you believe it's actually raining here! Listening to it now. It's been so long since we've had rain. 🌧

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Loki Highlock @lokihighlock.bsky.social · 11h

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 11h

How lovely 💚

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NPR @npr.org · 13h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 1d

Memories of summer.
#DailyBotanicalBeauty #photography #flowers

A collage of nine bright summer garden flowers and butterflies. Top row: gatekeeper butterfly on purple oregano, white cosmos, blue agapanthus. Middle row: pink sweet pea with bee, pale pink dahlia, white yarrow. Bottom row: pink carnations, peacock butterfly on lavender, pink strawflower.

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 12h

I’m joining the #TinyFlowerTuesday hashtag this week with a strawflower that took all summer long to reach this point🤣🤣🔎🙌

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GYO #PortlandFrogs #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 11h

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 20h

"Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year."

-Mary Russell Mitford

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Miya115 @miya1156.bsky.social · 1d

All I can hear is the sound of the waves..

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Republicans have been saying some genuinely ridiculous and dangerous things about #NoKings.

@eggerdc.bsky.social breaks it down in Morning Shots.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 27d

🌿THE 7 FLOWERS OF AUTUMN🥣

Mirroring the '7 Herbs of Spring' (七草の節句), consumed for good health and luck in January, come the '7 Flowers of Autumn', known as 'Aki-no-Nanakusa' (秋の七草/秋の七種).

These plants are mostly a feast for the eyes and not the belly.
#Japan #Kyoto #秋の七草

Sweets inspired by Japanese bellflowers.

A selection of dried sweets for teatime... red dragonflies and bush clover symbolise the coming of autumn. The last is in the shape of a 'Genji Window' (itself inspired by Murasaki Shikibu's visit to Ishiyama-dera).

An unusual sweet that symbolises the blustery weather that typically arrives with autumn. A grass is depicted almost flat, as if it has been pushed down by the wind.

Another sweet inspired by Japanese bellflowers. The flower is branded onto the delicately purple gyuhi (a softer version of mochi) which surrounds a white bean paste interior.

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 1d

So pretty, Ilena.

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 1d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

www.nytimes.com

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl portrait. She looks really pissed and a raindrop is about to hit her head. There are tiny water droplets on his head.

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, that's a beauty. My compliments to the baker and birthday greetings to your kiddo.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Welp she really outdid herself for our 8yo's bday 🍽️🎂

Probably should have gone with a less sweet frosting but oh well, our blood sugar will eventually go back down

7-layer rainbow cake, frosted with white buttercream frosting and topped with rainbow sprinkles

Cross-section view of a 7-layer rainbow cake with white frosting

Two young girls behind a giant rainbow cake, one of them holding up a slice taken front very slim sliver seen in the cake

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 1d

The best part of the Fedco description: "Ray learned seed saving from his Uncle Harold who grew a tomato vine from a seed he picked out of his teeth while on the plane back from a different trip to Italy."👀🤣

Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 1d

😆 No. Just good fun.