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amstorey.bsky.social
Ana
@amstorey.bsky.social
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Lawyer running a nonprofit law firm. Gardening in Zone 10a, So Cal. Flora and fauna make my heart sing.🌱 No political affiliation.
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From my morning walk in a So Cal burb.
A collage of six images. Clockwise from top left: a line of Mexican Fan palm trees stretching up to the dawn sky, close up of cork oak bark, a tall maple glowing gold against a blue sky, cactus paddles and red fruits, close up of pine bark, and a variegated agave.
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The smoked turkey was delicious and I will enjoy the leftovers, but I am very much looking forward to the stock I'm about to make. 😋🍜🍽
Looking into a large stainless steel stock pit containing bones and bits from a smoked turkey and water.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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My t-shirt and lip stain order arrived from @reana.bsky.social I love the wax logo on the lip stain case. Nice touch.
A small rectangular sliding lid lip stain container with a red wax seal on the black lid. Sits on an off-white t-shirt printed with the Black Rabbit Farm Apothecary logo.
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🌱 Pleased with the Thanksgiving table centerpieces. Leftover mini pumpkins from Halloween filled with foraged branches and weeds.

Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating today! I hope you and your loved ones have the day you desire. Very grateful for the kind, creative, and thoughtful folks here.
Table set for Thanksgiving meal. Three white mini pumpkins filled with branches and weeds foraged during the morning walk. Close up of a white mini pumpkin filled with foraged flowering eucalyptus, other random shrub stems, and flowering weed stems. Pumpkin on a brown tablecloth.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🌱 Well, would you look at that! I actually have roses to share for #RoseWednesday 'Koko Loko' grateful for the recent rains we had.
A small rose bush against a blue-green stucco wall. Taupey-pink rose buds beginning to open.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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This is a real time photo of Kelly waiting for his tomatoes to knock it off. 😉
A plastic skeleton set up in a front veg garden waving at passersby.
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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🌱 @joyf.bsky.social have you seen the new zinnia from Johnny's? 'Linen' is in the same family as 'Ballerina.' Might need to make a purchase.
From the Johnny's Seeds online catalog, an image of a person wearing a light blue shirt and jeans holding out in front of them a big bunch of large pale yellow and creamy-pink zinnias.
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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🌱 Wanted to add a new variety of collards so headed over to Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. 'Green Glaze' is an heirloom variety that is supposed to be good for my area. Then saw that Jewels of Opar is an edible green. I had tried growing it for the flowers without success so giving it another try.
Two seed packets from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Left is Green Glaze collards and right is Jewels of Opar.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I don't think I've had a yellow one, but I have grown a red.

The fruit of the Peruvian apple cactus looks similar and is also edible, but I leave them for the birds.
Side view of a large Peruvian apple cactus with three red fruits protruding from the cactus branches.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🌱 I started on Sunday the process to turn the Hachiya persimmons my neighbor gave to me into hoshigaki. I have five total on the rack.

🤞🏼 I get one or two that make it.
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Three Hachiya persimmons hanging from twine attached to their stems. Yellow wall in background.
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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🌱 I think I forgot to share that my Selenicereus grandiflorus produced a fruit. Mildly sweet and refreshing, like dragon fruit. Those spines are something, though. 😬
A collage of two images. Top is the very spiky fruit of a Selenicereus grandiflorus cactus on the vine. Bottom is the fruit cut in half on a blue and white Liberty Blue bread plate. The fruit's flesh is white with little black seeds.
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🌱 My pansy and viola seed order arrived from Three Brothers Blooms. Look at the adorable pup in the thank you card! 😍 Very pretty seed packets. Can't wait to grow these.
A "Thank you for your support!" postcard from Three Brothers Blooms in Camano Island, Washington. Contains a photo of an adorable black or dark grey and white pittie sitting a blue and white tile floor in front of an open door leading outdoors. One black pansy mix and one Chianti viola mix seed packet off to the right side.
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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"Back off, lady! I don't need your help. Do you know who my parents are!"
A defensive young red-shouldered hawk in the middle of suburban street, unable to fly away. A dark blue car and retaining wall in background.
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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🌱 My neighbor just delivered a bag of hachiya persimmons from his yard. 🤗 He kindly leaves the stems attached for me so that I can dry them for hoshigaki. Can't decide whether the two ripe ones will become persimmon bread or persimmon and walnut ice cream. 😋
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Eight persimmons in various stages of ripeness with stems and leaves still attached on an oak table.
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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🌱 Making wreath forms from the material I'm cutting back during long overdue garden clean up. I like making my own forms from material that would otherwise go into the compost pile. They are thin but hold up well.
A collage of two images. Left is an overhead view of a dozen six foot long freshly cut lemon verbena stems on a concrete driveway. Right is an overhead of two wreath frames. The left is a rough oval of lemon verbena. The right is a round of wisteria vines.
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🌱 A small but good harvest. I found the eggplants while doing some garden clean up. Also, very happy to find I managed to save three pomegranates from the squirrels. I wrap them in brown lunch bags when the fruit begins to form and then 🤞🏼 and wait. 🐿
Three long thin dark purple eggplants next to three pinkish-red pomegranates in a wood cutting board.
October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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🌱 My garden flowers are winding down, but I managed to make myself a little posy.
A small flower arrangement in a glass brick vase on a wood cutting board. Arrangement contains small yellow zinnias, purple violas, flowering Thai basil, yellow marigolds, and deep red cosmos.
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Oh, my. Well done! 👏🏼

Behold my massive harvest! 😬😂
A medium-light skinned hand holding open palm 5 yellow and green Fish peppers and one longer red Jimmy Nardello pepper.
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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🌱 Potting up day for this crew. Interesting how spotty the germination was, even within the same seed packets (snapdragons). The Vintage Brown and Lavender Blue stock are a bust. 🙁
Overhead image of a 24-cell seed tray two-thirds filled with seedlings of various flower varieties. A wood cutting board in background.
October 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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@joyf.bsky.social 🌱 Look what arrived! 🤗 Looking forward to getting these in the soil and Barbie pink blooms in spring.
A brown paper packet with a white label. The words The Farmhouse flower farm Anemone Barbie is printed in black on the label. A post card depicting a variety of tulips. A tri-fold fall bulb growing guide with the The Farmhouse Flower Farm logo at the top with a picture of tulips at the bottom. Oak table in background.
October 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Sorry for the low quality. I took this photo through my kitchen window. This friend would sit on my driveway gate each early morning before flying off.
Side view of a Cooper's hawk sitting on a wooden gate, partially obscured by a cactus branch. Angel trumpet in background.
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Descansen bien.
A Baja California beach just after sunset with a fan palm in the foreground. Purple, lavender, orange, and gold.
October 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Hey, all. 👋🏼 Sharing images from my evening walk.
A collage of four images at low tide on a Baja California beach, clockwise from top left: a brown pelican standing on wet sand; the next three images are of a tide pool showing rocks, mussels, anemones, barnacles, and seaweed/grasses.
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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A few of the wonderful things I saw today on my morning walk.
A collage of four images. Clockwise from top left: side view of a Snowy Egret (I think) standing at the edge of the surf looming out to sea; a Long-billed Curlew standing on a beach with a rocky cliff in background; a house on a cliff above a beach, blue sky, white clouds, and rays of light from the rising sun above; a cluster small barnacles and muscles clinging to seaweed washed up on a beach rock outcropping.
October 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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👋🏼 Good morning from Baja 🇲🇽
A low puffy cloud lit up pink and gold by the rising sun over waves crashing on a Mexican beach. Blue sky and more clouds in background.
October 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM