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🌾 Rene 🌾 •ᴗ•
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Rene / Kay ; 💜 BTS Army. 🪴 Plants. 🖋 Fountain Pens. 🌳 Woodcarving. 💸 A hundred hobbies.
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🌾 Rene 🌾 •ᴗ• @renerow.bsky.social · Oct 17
For anyone curious about me, this is my current big plant project.

It's an 18x18x24 ExoTerra tropical terrarium (vivarium) for my ferns and micro-orchids, started in November 2022.
renerow.bsky.social
Visited my brother today and spent an hour in a rocking chair crocheting. I am in my grandma era.
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Might be my best pic yet of a bloom from my Trisetella strumosa mini orchid. You can see the tongue in this one if you look close.

#orchids
#orchid
And yellow and red/pink bloom from a Trisetella strumosa mini orchid, against a mossy backdrop.
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I can’t think of many rural terms I like more than “witches’ knickers” - to describe old black bin bags caught in fences, hedgerows and trees.
Some underwear once belonging to a witch but now caught forever in the straggly foliage of a dying tree, after the tree, in its last gasp of mischief, reached out and pulled the underwear off the witch while she was in mid-flight on her way to the Devonshire Witches Conference (Good Witch Division).
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
renerow.bsky.social
How much would it cost to have someone do my laundry for me. 'cause this shit sucks.
December 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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mosssafari.bsky.social
Urban moss cushions.
Sodden in persistent rain.
💚🔬 #iseemoss
Close-up of vibrant green moss with brown-orange sporophytes growing on a moist vertical surface, possibly a tree trunk or wall, with a blurred background showing a paved road, a moving vehicle, and forested surroundings
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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dustymcdusterson.bsky.social
A few shots from yesterday's too-late-in-the-afternoon forest adventure.

Curse you daylight savings time!

#WinterSolstice can't get here soon enough!

Thankfully I brought some new lights to continue experimenting with DSLR manual focus adjustments & using focus stacking software.
#FungiFriends
A couple of mycena popping up form the moss covered decaying root structure of a fallen tree as a fern frond rests exposing its spore sites. A couple of fungi and lots of moss and lichen proliferate on the side of this living Douglas fir trunk about a foot above the ground. A lone tiny fungi grows from the dead limb of a fallen tree that straddles one of the streams I frequent. The underside of a fern frond rests on the limb. There was still a little natural light at this point as you can still see the background, but the cloud cover built up and it started raining just prior to this picture with ever super gloomy conditions.
December 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
renerow.bsky.social
I really want to like eating onions because they're in everything, but I just dont like anything about them. I dont like the texture, I dont like the flavor, I dont like how cooked onions look. 💀
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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aerialembroidery.bsky.social
'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view of a geometric formal garden. It has rows of trees, stone paths and beds of pink, purple and green plants.
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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iambrandondiehl.bsky.social
There should be an app like Tinder but instead of selfies, people post photos of cool rocks they found, and you swipe left or right based solely on those.
June 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
renerow.bsky.social
I bought a Kangaroo Paw fern. 👉👈
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Our mycologists were taken by surprise this week when a visiting researcher found a curious pink truffle-like fungus under eucalyptus trees in the gardens.
The fruiting bodies of Hydnangium carneum or the flesh-pink truffle are found just protruding from the soil’s surface. The lattice like internal structure is full of beautiful spiny spores. The fruiting bodies of Hydnangium carneum or the flesh-pink truffle are found just protruding from the soil’s surface. The lattice like internal structure is full of beautiful spiny spores.
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
renerow.bsky.social
The problem with seeding my large tropical terrarium with as many spore kits as possible, is that that I have no idea what anything is when it comes up.

Though it does look cool af and it's fun to see what ends up growing where.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Any fern people know what type of little fern(?) this is that keeps sprouting up in my tropical terrarium? It's started showing up as volunteers.

#fern
#ferns
Small delicate fern nestled between leaves of a micro orchid and moss, on a branch. Small delicate fern nestled between moss, a mini orchid, and a Peperomia species, on a branch.
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Okay, okay. THAT is a flower spike on my Pleurothallis grobyi orchid. First time it's gonna flower for me in the several years I've had it.

I must have finally gotten the light, air flow, and fertilizing just right for it. Hnn.

Anyway. I'm VERY excited.
A teeny flower spike on a Pleurothallis grobyi mini orchid, in front of a blurry background of the back wall of a large terrarium.
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Someone has a rare fountain pen I collect up for sale, but it's damaged. :(
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Polytrichum moss spore capsules. Newfoundland, Canada.
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking
Close up photo of spore capsules. The capsules are green, on orange stems, and with orange caps.
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Illustrations of snow crystals as "actually observed and sketched with the aid of the microscope”, from the 1863 book Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature — https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-of-snowflakes-1863/
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
renerow.bsky.social
Idk why I never thought that actually you're allowed to wear a winter scarf indoors. It just feels like something you take off once you get inside. But it's keeping me so warm right now. 💀
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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mountainheartvt.bsky.social
Another warp off the loom – this pattern is "twill complication" from Davison's "green book." I really love point twills! This is my antique Scandinavian loom from Minnesota. I call this loom "Shorty," because it is unusually small for its age and type.

#weaving #fibersky 🧶
A tumble of freshly-woven reddish cloth draped over an old wooden handloom. A close-up view of the pattern in the cloth. It is a dark blue cotton warp with red-orange cotton filling forming repeating diamond shapes of different sizes. A detail of the loom: on the lay shell (usually called the beater) a knot in the wood makes a shape like a small heart. The loom was found in Minnesota, is Scandinavian (Sweden or Norway?) in its design, and probably dates from the peak immigration era in the upper Midwest of the USA, about 1870. Most of the loom is made of pine, with just a few pieces of oak for strength where it's needed; in the swords of the lay and the brake lever.
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Okay, slight change of plans. We're attempting to darn one of my favorite socks that's getting threadbare.

I also carved the darning egg with a handle and it's working so well.
Needle with golden yellow thread is threaded through a yellow sock turned inside out. It's wrapped over a darning egg and the thread is weaved through the sock.
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
renerow.bsky.social
Okay. Here's the plan.

Gonna take a nap until 7pm. Then I'm gonna get up and refill two (2) jugs with reverse-osmosis water to refill the tank on the misting system for my large terrarium before it runs out again. After that we shall crochet for an hour-ish and then bed! Before 3am! 🫡
December 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
renerow.bsky.social
I just remembered you can make 'yarn' out of scraps of old clothing and bedsheets.

Imma make a rag rug.

Not sure if I want to do a braided one or a crocheted one. Hmm.
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
renerow.bsky.social
Doing another lap blanket with a moss stitch this time. Which looks really nice, but is a yarn eater.

I'm loving this color though. It's Peaches & Crème in Oasis. But I need like, six more balls of it to get the blanket size I want. Lmao.

#crochet
A cotton tan yarn with specks of black, olive green, and rust orange crocheted in a moss stitch. There's only around ten rows completed. A purple crochet hook sticks out of the top of the yarn. It's all resting on a wood table.
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
August 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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findmeinthecreek.bsky.social
I made this arrangement for the Thanksgiving table and wanted to share it before I change it for Christmas. #rocktumbling #rockpolishing
A wooden rectangular tray filled with polished stones. They are arranged in a gradient that fades from reds and browns to yellows and shades of peach.
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM