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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jul 10

The force is strong in the #gladiolus patch this year. Ten more stems promise future loveliness! 🌱 #bloomscrolling

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jul 6

Baby visitor on my dahlia today. Hi, little one! #gardenlife #gardensky 🌱

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 29

One of the back cover quotes compares this to Jude the Obscure, set in Sri Lanka. That's an apt description: suffering piled on sadness. I'd never read Leonard Woolf before, only Virginia. He has a more conventional style; still a compelling read. 📚💙 #booksky

Leonard Woolf
A Village in the Jungle

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 26

Current reads: a fascinating pair, one exploring the essential role of #fungi in sustaining life and the other exploring how #plants communicate with each other. That's the story so far, at least. 😀 #booksky 📚💙 #sciencewriting

Entangled Life
Melvin Sheldrake

The Light Eaters
Zoe Schlanger

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 25

Summer reading: one of my favorite crime writers, who I discovered on a visit to Iceland (I usually pick up a local mystery when I travel); have read most of the Det. Erlendur series. New (to me) series set partly during WW2

Arnaldur Indridason
The Shadow District

#booksky #mystery #iceland 📚💙

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 24

Tomatoes are starting to plump up! #seedsaversexchange Ukranian Purples #gardensky #gardening #tomato 🌱

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 22

24 seconds of zen: bees on native starry rosin. #bloomscrolling #pollinators #bees #nativeplants #gardensky 🌱

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 22

Summer reading: catching up on Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales, ed. Gordon Jarvie, with traditional tales and some related literary tales (including by Arthur Conan Doyle) #fairytales #folklore #summerreading #booksky 💙📚

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 19

First tiger lilies of the season! #bloomscrolling #gardensky #tigerlily 🌱

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 17

Summer reading: building my repertoire of contemporary fairy tales. Barbara Comyns, The Juniper Tree, based on the macabre Grimm tale. #fairytales #summerreading #booksky 💙📚

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 17

Summer reading: a pair of novels by Caryl Phillips. A sad, lyrical novel based on the life of Jean Rhys and a multifocal family narrative with echoes of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

A View of the Empire at Sunset
The Lost Child
#carylphillips
#booksky
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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 13

Ketchup and mustard. Probably my favorite #rose. #bloomscrolling #gardensky

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 3

Summer reading; from the modernists-I-missed pile.

Vita Sackville-West
All Passion Spent

#booksky #summerreading
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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · Jun 1

Summer reading:

Alleghenia: A Central Appalachian Folklore Anthology
Michael O. Snyder

#booksky
#summerreading
#bittersoutherner

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 31

I'm a little bit south of you, and they swarm ours! Spiky orange and black caterpillars. They can strip a plant, but passionflower is resilient. :)

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 31

And great for butterflies! Especially gulf fritillaries.

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 31

Betsy Ross in full bloom! #daylily #summergarden #summer #gardensky #bloomscrolling 🌱

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 31

I planted some a few years ago; still surprised (happily) where they pop up.

maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 29

Crinum lily; transplanted and divided earlier this year and in post-rain bloom. #summer #summergarden #lilies #gardensky #bloomscrolling
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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 25

Summer reading: expanding my folklore repertoire.

Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapsak
The Slavic Myths

#booksky #fairytales #folklore 💙📚

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 25

Fascinating. The analytical mind of a hawk. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack

A zoologist observed a Cooper’s hawk using a crosswalk signal as a cue to ambush its prey.

www.theatlantic.com

maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 25

Last year, we had a single cherry on this tree. Maybe next year, we'll get 3? #summergarden #fruittrees #summer #gardensky #gardening 🌱 🍒

maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 24

Fluffy, pink hydrangea, from a cutting. Fluffy blue parent plant. Same garden, maybe 20 feet from each other. I know soil ph influences bloom color, but I'm flummoxed as to how the soil could be so different on different sides of the same garden. #hydrangea #summergarden #bloomscrolling #gardensky 🌱

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 23

Potential energy

#gardenia #bloomscrolling #summer #summergarden #gardensky

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maridoyle.bsky.social @maridoyle.bsky.social · May 22

Glorious butterfly weed; already attracting swallowtails and fritillaries. #bloomscrolling #milkweed #gardensky #gardening #summergarden #summer 🌱

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