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Samantha biobabbler
@biobabbler.bsky.social
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Unbridled enthusiast of that nature thing, card-carrying conservation biologist, photography phan & word nerd. Have swiffer, will fend off mountain lion. she/her
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Morro Rock sunset.😍
sunset at a beach with dark pink clouds, Morro Rock is black against the sky, and the water is reflecting the blue sky and pink clouds. There are shorebirds foraging at the edge of the waves.
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Was shown this amazing fungus at my neighbor's place (on an oak). 😍

INaturalist couldn't decide which fungus it was, so I won't guess.☺️ Regardless, I LOVE it.🥰
beige fungus on an oak limb. It clings tightly to the bark, and has a maze-like network of mushroom "gills." The background is more trees against a blue sky.
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The roosters were looking soooo good, today, at my mechanic's shop. 🤩

I mentioned it to our mechanic, and he said it's 'cause they finally stopped fighting.😍🥰🥰
Five roosters in a parking lot, with various gorgeous long feathers of gold, orange, rusty red, blonde, darkest shining green, etc., and bright red combs.
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Beautiful bark, lichen and all.
😍
brown tree bark with pale blue lichen and a few spring green round leaves.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Ginger approved of the all-paper (biodegradable) packaging in this box.😻🥳
An orange tabby sleeps on the top of an opened box (shipped items and padding still intact) in the sunshine on a blonde wooden floor.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Juuuust making organic white rice flour, this morning, as one does.
('Cause whole rice costs half as much as rice flour.)
😁😙🌾

This is my first attempt!!🥳

#MakeYourOwnGroceries
#sustainability #GlutenFree
#IPreferTheTermFiscallyPrudent
photo of a vitamix blender on a faux wooden kitchen counter, surrounded by a metal bowl with white powder in it, a clear glass measuring cup, a silver metal half cup scoop, a wooden spoon, and an opened bag of Mahatma organic white rice.
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Poignant little crab leg.
🦀
A partial crab leg (off white, yellow, orange and red) on dark grey sand, with a strand of eel grass, and an olive green, shiny stone in the upper left corner.
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Urban art peekaboo, Seattle, WA.
A building has a huge mural of an otter's face. In the background is the Puget Sound, and gulls are flying about on a grey day.
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Found some cool frames of the sound & sky at Fort Casey Historical State Park, WA.
The Puget Sound & sky (white, grey & blue) & an island on the horizon are framed by the openings in the searchlight bunker that the photographer is standing within.
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Amazing lighting at Deception Pass State Park, Washington state.
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
A cloudy day with a strip of gold, sunny horizon all reflected in a very still lake. The distant horizon is backlit evergreen trees.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Fabulous farmers market fungi.
💛🧡🤎🧡💛
🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫
Clusters of golden mushrooms with white specs of their caps, growing densely.
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I think she's glad we're home, and Mr. Fireplace is back in business.
😁😻🔥
an orange tabby sits on a folded bath towel, leaning against a kitty tunnel, in front of a cheery fire in a dark blue slate covered wood stove.
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Farmers market glory.
A very large stack of neatly arranged radishes (white, pink, purple, red, indigo), all with the slender white root tip facing the observer. It is a very beautiful display.
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Baking goals:
A large bin of freshly baked croissants: The ones on the left have a crimson red (raspberry) spiral, the ones on the right a chocolate brown (hazelnut) spiral. They are amazing.
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Maybe not the BEST design for an acrophobic. There are no supporting columns under that staircase.😅

Our friend (an acrophobic gentleman) stayed on terra forma, whilst I ascended.

eeep and woo-hoo!!🤩

#architecture
An outdoor concrete staircase looks magically suspended in the air as it rises steeply and narrowly to another floor (which also shows no ground support in the photo). The background is a rising hillside of closely cropped green grass. Black metal railings line the walkways.
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Just learned abt the northern lights in Mariposa county (& elsewhere) so checked a Yosemite web cam (Yosemite Falls)...

yosemite.org/webcams/yose...

PINK!!
yosemite falls live cam at night showing a pink sky from the northern lights.
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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I love fall!!
giant golden maple leaf held (by an olive-green-gloved-hand) horizontally above the holder's feet in golden light.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Found a patch of earthstars in a new location by our house-I'm so psyched!!🤩

🌎⭐️🍄‍🟫
In a bed of tan and fawn-colored live oak leaves and acorn caps is an espresso-brown, star shaped fungus whose interior is revealed as a pale spherical sac containing brown spores.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Saw these beauties, HAD to buy them.

Once again, I am wowed by how gorgeous vegetables can be!😍
Scarlet red radishes with long thin white roots and green leaves are glowing with health and beauty. Held in someone's left hand over a grey metal sink.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Went into my years-abandoned garden to clear out the old weeds, and lo! Autumn crocus survives!!
😍🤩🥳
💜❤️💜
A lavender, 5-petaled, short & bare-stemmed crocus is blooming, showing its long, scarlet filaments. It is amid brown dirt and green grass, in the sunshine.
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Cougar video from a neighbor (1 street over) from 5 a.m. today.
😍🤩🦁
November 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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A peaceful day at the wildlife refuge. Volume up for happy bird sounds.😊
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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When you are driving in the San Joaquin Valley.

😊🚜

Its eight tires are taller than my car!
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Inky caps (Coprinus sp.), new friends discovered on our property, recently.😍

🖤🩶🤍🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🤍🩶🖤
Looking down upon black and silver capped, white-stemmed mushrooms, which have a small pale hat, to which soil adheres. The background is low growing green annual plants.
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Wow, super cool!!!

Reminds me of cuckoo spots!

(From Sibley's app.)
screen capture of a sibley's birding app, the yellow-billed cuckoo page, showing large white spots on the underside of the bird's long tail.
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM