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Vitanuova
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⚕️🧪Physician scientist, amateur gardener🌱, soprano🧑‍🎤cat lady 🐈, mother of excellent children, Episcopalian, native Floridian, 🦑scuba diver, 🇺🇸🌎reality-based community member.
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My Binx was always such a help🪽🐈‍⬛💕
A black cat occupies a box lid among green tissue paper and red and gold wrapping paper.
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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🌱Delphinium seed I bought in the Villandry gift shop in May has given me flowers in November. Hoping it will come back in spring! Lots of other, smaller seedlings that I should plant out and hope for the best over winter.
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Anchoring at Peter Island🦑
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Just a blissful week sailing in the BVI. Bathing in clear water, wind, waves, bright sun, and sudden brief showers. Using my sea legs. Visiting many of my fish friends and inspecting the condition of the coral gardens.🌱🦑🐡
A sailboat on a calm teal-blue bay in the tropics. The sky is blue with an advancing front of rain clouds. The morning sun is refracted into a rainbow connecting the clouds and the boat.
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Another inexplicable move from which absolutely nobody will benefit! Public health policies based on the study of disease spread are principally why our lifespans have doubled in the last century. Handwashing & clean water are miracles of public health, pushing back killers like cholera and TB.
A photo I took of a display in St John’s Hospital Museum in Bruges, Belgium. The poster shows a plot of lifespan duration over the centuries since 1100 a.d. It is a bit imaginative but it does make the point that for most of recorded history people survived an average of 35 years until the late 19th century when hygiene, vaccines and - later - antibiotics raised that to 80+ years.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Wishing everyone the loveliest and coziest possible place to curl up with a great book and a beer!
A catamaran docked in a Caribbean harbor at sunset. The brightly lit cabin is open to the back and a man can be seen reclining behind a varnished table, reading a book. Dock lights illuminate the blue-green water below, adding to the coziness of the scene, against a backdrop of fading twilight and a bit of gold on the horizon.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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🌱It will freeze next week so I’m probably seeing the last of the flowers now. For #magentaMonday I offer a nearly-magenta pelargonium, some Crystal Palace lobelia grown from Dutch seeds started this spring, a drift of asters, and a last hurrah of the season from the beauteous Louise Clements rose.
A deep crimson/magenta pelargonium in a pot outside, with healthy dark green leaves. Thus was a cutting from another plant that has taken root and prospered. Doesn’t always happen that way! A trail of lobelia on the side of a plant stand, accompanied by snapdragons that aren’t flowering right now but look otherwise good. A section of a large pinkish-purple aster if full flower. I need to be careful about planting these “native plants” because they have huge growth advantages and take over when given a chance! A gorgeous rose bush in afternoon sun, with five bright golden orange blossoms.
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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#sixonsaturday 🌱🎃🧡 Anniversary weekend with all the harvest rainbow colors: asters, dahlias, roses on repeat bloom, gourds, long shadows and turning leaves. Long live Patrick O’Connell and his dreamlike restaurant in Washington, Virginia!
From top left, clockwise: a drift of light purple asters; a group of vases on a wooden dining table filled with dahlias, roses and asters; a huge attractive arrangement of pumpkins and gourds outside the Inn at Little Washington; a pair of Adirondack chairs looking west across toward the Blue Ridge mountains; a maple tree changing from yellow to red; and a large display of dahlias, hydrangeas and pumpkins in shades of gold and purple in the front entryway of the Inn.
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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DC is drifting gradually through fall. It’s a long beautiful season here!
A tree transitions from green through yellow to red while its green neighbors look on. Beautiful dark green shrub turns crimson, starting at the tips The top of this tree is turning yellow-gold ahead of its still-green lower branches A row of trees along Foxhall Road, arrayed like a rainbow
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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From London just now: @neonyucca.bsky.social ‘s #jackolanterns
A gruesome pair of carved pumpkins on a doorstep, lit by candles within and without by a creepy orange string of lights.
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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We is packing mom’s underwater camera equipment #caturday 🦑🐠
A ginger cat with half-shut eyes is curled up in a suitcase with some bubble wrap and indistinctly-seen photography equipment. The suitcase is sitting on a bed with a gold-tone coverlet that complements the cat’s eyes and fur. He (Morris) gazes contentedly at the photographer.
October 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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A doorway in Basel #adoorableThursday
A slate blue door with light grey frame opening on a cobblestone street. Two rain gutters run down to the left. Atop the doorway is a frieze depicting two men dressed in sheep costumes, holding a shield.
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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A visit to the Jamestown settlement re-creation
Demonstration of surgical tools from the early 1600s. The re-enactor is sitting at a table with a green baize-lined box containing various instruments for dealing with tooth extraction, musket ball removal, fecal disimpaction, trephination etc. A full-size recreation of the Godspeed sailing ship that brought the first colonists to Jamestown. The boat is docking in a calm backwater with dense tree growth on the shore beyond. A cannon on wheels sits in front of a pair of half-timbered houses with thatched roofs reminiscent of villages in rural England. A re-enactor demonstrates various kinds of baked goods being made in a stone oven.
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Beautiful day yesterday in Colonial Williamsburg-great venue for the annual meeting of the American Clinical and Climatological Association🧪. A fascinating slate of talks in store!
A re-enactor demonstrates a spinning wheel for wool. Colonial law forbade the importation of sheep for wool, only for food. So this was a felonious activity at the time. Under a cloudless blue sky, a buggy is drawn by a brace of chestnut horses with matching white blazes, along the Duke of Gloucestershire street. The Bruton Church, a brick colonial structure with a pretty white steeple dating from 1716, with a low brick wall enclosing the church and surrounding yard. A plaque on the church wall commemorating the first representative assembly to be held in America, which occurred in the church at Jamestown about 5 miles from here on July 30, 1619.
October 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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🌱Blowsy October in my shockingly overgrown garden garden. Dahlias and roses competing for physical supremacy. Volunteer tomatoes and great lobelias growing as if tomorrow never comes. A single aster from a 1-quart pot spreads over 4 square meters. And these beautiful blossoms:
A “Mystery Day” dahlia opens on a cloudy day amidst a crowd of stalks and support posts. She is a dark crimson “dinnerplate”with white-tipped petals. A cluster of blue-purple heliotrope flowers against their deep green rugose foliage, moist with rain. The dauntless “Eustacia Vye” rose showing off a beautifully quartered multiply double blossom that is light pink on the edges, grading to a center of warm peachy-pink. Against the open flower is a large bud about to open. A vigorous orange puffball dahlia crowds up against and gets support from the previously mentioned Eustacia Vye rose. The background is a row of several types of arborvitae barely restrained by a fence. Who knew, in the middle of summer, that fall would be this exuberant?
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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🌱beautiful dahlias and roses in front of a lovely icon representing the church of St John on Patmos, where I took this photo. Maybe locally grown, or brought by pilgrims- Patmos has sufficient water and loads of sun.
In a stone niche, a mosaic of two saints holding up a church comprising a three-arched colonnade and a dome with a small cross on top. The style is classic Greek Orthodox. The bright colors and gold background are complemented by a pair of vases containing colorful flowers.
October 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🌱🌳Trees in a hot dry climate #Greece #Crete #Volos #Makrinitsa
Old plane tree along a stone walkway. Small café tables lining the upper street are covered with red and white striped cloth. An ancient olive tree with a thick, pockmarked trunk growing out of stony dry ground. A figure stands in the shade of the tree. Branches of a lime tree with small nubbly green fruit A roughly 40 foot tall cypress tree is seen against a bright blue cloudless sky and dry hills. A figure in the foreground is seated on marble blocks forming part of a ruined wall, along an open courtyard.
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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One day about 2100 years ago, this bustling, multicultural, multilingual and religiously diverse trading town of 30K souls was destroyed by Mithridates VI, who hated Rome. Two thirds of the population were slaughtered and the buildings leveled. Everything of value was subsequently plundered. #Delos
October 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Istanbul is a city that more than tolerates 🐱 cats
A man in a yellow rain jacket looks down at a calico cat standing under a tree in the Hippodrome. A tabby sits on white marble steps outside the Hagia Sophia mosque & museum A pretty little red tabby cat with white nose and paws sits in a planter outside a department store A very nice tuxedo cat sitting under an Exit sign
October 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🌱For #MagentaMonday, I present to you dahlias and impatiens in the gardens at Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul. A great place to reflect on the fall of empires and dynasties.
A clump of bright magenta blooms on a low hedge of dahlias. Another cluster of dahlias, these featuring large bright orange blooms with yellow-tipped petals. Single huge dahlia, lavender with some white streaks, on a low stalk in the palace garden. The daylight is subdued by a passing rain cloud. A view across a broad pond with a central marble sculpture of nesting swans that could be a fountain but isn’t presently. The pond is edged by impatiens in magenta and crimson, and its mirror-like surface reflects a bright blue sky and overhanging trees.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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we have almost reached peak Dahlia- giving away to neighbors now! Love the amazing #River’sCherryBomb and #lilacTime
A large vase of decorative dahlias, flanked by two smaller ones, in an entranceway with a mirror behind. Flowers are various shades of yellow, orange, red, pink, purple and lavender. Six vases of assorted dahlias on a wooden dining table with a cute tabby cat looking on from the rear.
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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September 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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New Statue of Epstein and Trump on the Mall www.aljazeera.com#flips-638003...
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🌱Dahlias have such an amazing range of colors and sizes. Many are surprises when they finally bloom- this gorgeous one for example. I will have to label my tubers better this year when I dig them up. #orangeSun
A large vivid red-orange dahlia bloom with fine yellow edging in nicely structured petals. The day is partly cloudy so the flower really stands out against the dullish greenery behind.
September 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Two stages of a sun roll #caturday #orangecats
A ginger tabby boy, mid-roll, paws curled, gazing up with half-closed eyes. He is rolling in bright sunshine on a blue-green tile floor. Same orange cat, same floor, roll complete, his legs extended comfortably and forepaws still curled.
September 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM