Birdie

I looked it up 😀 apparently it is!

🌱 Camelias are still poppin'.

Is it fragrant?

Gurrrl, last week it was flippin' cold. All we got though was cold, wind, and frozen chicken watering cans. You guys got hammered though!

🌱 Sweet little crocus. Delicate lavender blossoms whispering, "Spring will be here soon".

Thanks. I thought as much, but wasn't certain.

I have a dumb question...are "allotments" community gardens? Are folks allotted garden plots in a community setting?

It looks like a pepper 😀

🌱 I couldn't get any of my local suppliers to sell me half a tank of propane for my greenhouse, and I can't do 100 gallons this week so I'm bringing some of my babies inside. 2 more trips outta do it. Wish I could bring them all in.

ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

Evil brown spiney seed balls from the liquidamber tree, joining formation by my car door, hoping I forget they're there when I return.

4 bazillion more pods, yet to launch.

🌱 What once was the sling shot ammo of my youth, is now the bane of my geriatric existance. These spiney, ankle turning, hip breakers taunt me. I imagine them giggling as they join formations designed to put me down
Laugh today you wretched little spheres, for tomorrow you become leaf blower fodder!

Hey friend! We passed the solstice and the days are getting longer...seed catalogs are arriving...little hints outside telling me it's not long now

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Little blue fairies ❤️

I miss ice plant ❤️

This regular person agrees 100%....or wretched pesticides that kill EVERYTHING.

A wee bit late, but here it is, just the same. My G-baby in her turkey hat from her Birdie.

Just migrated porch plants to greenhouse and stopped to admire my Encore Azalea...in November...with lots of blossoms yet to open. She was rescued from neglect and I never thought she'd make it. Nature never ceases to amaze. 🌱

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Hey Fred! May I D.M. you with a horticulture question? A little stumped.

My Beauties are Berrying ❤️
Calicarpa Americana aka American Beauty Berry...my favorite shrub.

By the way, there was another school shooting in CO yesterday too. Children were shot at...while they were at school...while they were reading, or flirting, or taking a test...

America's reality.

we have allowed hateful spewage to become the norm. And his murder is a consequence of normalizing and glorifying it, for clicks and giggles.

I can condemn what he stood for AND his murder at the same time. It's not celebrating his murder by denouncing his hateful rhetoric. Some will say, "Now is not the time" to discuss his hateful diatribes. To this I say, bull shit. It is exactly the time because

That being said, the murder of Charlie Kirk is disgusting and makes me weep for our country.
Yes, Kirk was a horrible human and said horrible things. But he didn't deserve this.

I recall what our president said to the world when Rep. Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog were murdered in their home. He said condolences were a waste of time. That's just a fact. Not a hoax. Not a media fabrication. He said it. Worse, he meant it.

I've been scrolling and reading comments from influencers on both sides. Democrats are condemning political violence across the board. A bit different on the other side 😞.

of America's reality...in response to the school shooting in TN. He had the right to say it. He had the right to express his hateful Christian Nationalist ideals too. I just chose to remove his purview from my own view.

I used to follow Charlie Kirk on Twitter. Mainly to just keep my fingers on the rhetoric pulse. He parrotted the 47 administration and usually turned up the heat. I quit following him when he said gun deaths in exchange for 2nd Amendment preservation were just part...

He wasn't lying.