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Leslie Joy Mills

@ljoymills.bsky.social

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Caregiver, former IP paralegal, world traveler, avid reader, real news junkie, journalist, animal lover, photographer, genealogist, master gardener, supporter of all arts, fan of great architecture and movies. Could not live without music and books.

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Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 4d

Timeline cleanse… botanicals from the art gallery of NSW Sydney Australia. Eucalyptus and more blooms 🌱

Multi colored orange, dark maroon, red, offsite and bright pink and coral tufts of eucalyptus blooms look like fringe around each seed pod, and bouquets of clustered like colors in a dark green bowl on a white wood or marble table

A large beveled glass vase packed with darker green and silver leaves of eucalyptus, giant eucalyptus blooms in tight clusters of pink with yellow centers as nectaries, pollen parts, a tower of leaves with dark green/silver two sides

A beautiful lithograph of ruffled-looking eucalyptus blooms that go from coral to yellow to dark orange in a vase?

Tupelo’s, calendula, irises, Lillie’s belles, and peacock plume feathers swirl all around a vase filling the entire frame in a bouquet sitting in a dark green vessel on a creamy table cloth

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Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 3d

More Botanicals from the art gallery of NSW Sydney. # 2 is no doubt a spring cabbage harvest. 🌱

Golden apples and a single pear lit with might on an almost black table and background. The gold accented black frame reflects all colors within the painting.

A spring cabbage harvest pairing, a windswept scene shows trees in the background leaning, two women in the foreground in long skirts and aprons harvesting or working the field. Ocean and puffy cumulus nimbus in the background.

“Scent” depicted in a painting of five senses with a child offering flowers to the nose, and “taste,” with a baby suckling the breast of the same woman looking upward to the child with the flowers

Golden light and Martin shadow over farm rows with bright green row stripes between, snowy mountains in the background and both bare and full tees.

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Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 2d

Climate-warmed S. California means Fall is a 2nd Summer. (*exception: El Niño years). December = Fall, so no rest for insects until January/February. 🦋 Plant late blooming: 60% August-January.
30% Spring-blooming natives.
10% leaf-littered soil.
Butterflies/insects need late season flower food. 🌱

A grid of flowers that bloom in S. California, late summer thru December/January

Asters
Calendula
Cosmos
Chrysanthemum
Goldenrod
Helenium Autumnale
Milkweed
Rudbeckia
Zinnia

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Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · Jul 3

If you care about the climate 🌱pollinator survival, human life, democracy, ORGANIZE. while you still CAN - before posting gets you stripped of citizenship & sent to a prison camp. This is a dictatorship. Do not believe elections will be fair or free. Signup to volunteer @generalstrikeus.bsky.social

Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · Jun 18

Americans don’t seem to “get” that this is a dictatorship - which usually end after decades of fight and suffering, the dissolution of the middle class, and a worthless dollar. While you still can, organize. This is my 1st dictatorship too, i don’t want regrets like every other fascist country.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11h

Current mood....

An Egyptian shabti (a figurine who acted as servant for a deceased to perform the manual labour in the afterlife), on display at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

A display of ancient Egyptian shabti figurines, small human-shaped burial statues made of different materials and colors, including brown, beige, and turquoise blue. The figures are arranged in rows, with carved facial features and crossed arms, some inscribed with hieroglyphs.
In the center a whimsical shabti figurine, made of light brown material with black painted hieroglyphs on its body. The figure has a rounded head, large dark eyes, and an unevenly painted large mouth, giving it a quirky and slightly unusual appearance.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 3h

WOW!

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 8h

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 3h

What a beauty! It looks so real. Thanks for posting it!

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Bill Carlson @billecarlson.bsky.social · 3h

I carved this Barn Owl from basswood, detailed with pyrography, and painted with acrylics.

#woodcarving
#birds
#carvers

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Adam Little @adamlittle.bsky.social · 3h

Distant heron on the Thames at #Richmond today #Birds #Herons @everyheron.bsky.social

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 3h

This woodpecker has been visiting the apple-crabs- It flies in with a great cackling noise, settles on the tree to peck at apples for a while, then flies off to season its meal with its regular fare-insects.
links to follow
#birds #nature #Alberta #Canada #CountryLiving #autumn 🌱🌿📷 #GoOutsideForMe

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Pelzerb @pelzerb.bsky.social · 4h

#BlueSkyArtShow
#GoldenHour #Glow
#iPhone #Photography
#GreenSat #OrangeSun
#October #BloomScrolling
📷 10/25 #EastCoastKin 🌱

A vibrant orange cosmos flower in sharp focus against a blurred green background, with a fuzzy bumblebee perched on its center disk florets. The flower’s delicate petals radiate outward, illuminated by warm morning light. Additional orange cosmos blooms appear softly out of focus in the background.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 3h

Your posts always make me smile!

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Joanna🎃 @rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social · 4h

Hope you get to hang out with your besties this weekend ☺️

Tips/support is always appreciated via Ko-fi 🌱 ko-fi.com/rainbowofcrazy

#rainbowofcrazyvegart #art

dark green squash, tomatoes, baby boo pumpkins, and one green bean, arranged to look like the painting Me and My Parrots, by Frida Kahlo

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Karre @carrykarre.bsky.social · 4h

The hummingbirds have come for the winter. There's a bunch of them, but they aren't used to me yet. This is super zoomed and cropped so it's not a great shot, but hey, it's a hummingbird. #birds🌿🌴🌱

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 3h

And I'm a Midwesterner wondering where fall is! We've had 80-90s for months and while it's cooler at night, it's still quite warm during the day. I'm still watering my garden and outdoor pots because we've had hardly any rain in months. Are we even going to have a winter?

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 3h

such an amazing day on the #allotment 🌱. Sunny, calm and warm. T-shirt weather (we're Northerners).

Our allotment. Plot 33 to the left and plot 34 to the right

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 3h

Where are all these millionaires and billionaires? Why don't THEY use some of their wealth to help USAID and other organizations feed and help those in need around the world? If I were one of those gezillionaires, I would definitely be there helping.

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RNS @rns.org · 3h

The USAID cuts, which World Vision CEO Edgar Sandoval characterized as “meaningful but limited,” haven’t diverted the organization from its goal to lift 300 million people out of extreme poverty by 2030.
religionnews.com/2025/09/15/w...

World Vision relied on USAID for one-third of funding. Now, it adapts to cuts.

NEW YORK (RNS) — 'Whatever the issue is, when people of goodwill and people of faith understand the needs around the world, they have always stepped up,' said Edgar Sandoval, CEO of World Vision, in…

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Teeshasmom @teeshasmom2.bsky.social · 3h

You’re welcome my 💙 friend

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for posting my name and for the Pam Bondi posting!

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone should know that illegal immigrants are not eligible for healthcare in this country. That the GQPs have been feeding this tiresome talking point to the public is a big fat lie.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 4h

President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown fight because they want to give free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

That's not true. Here are the facts.

Fact Check: No, the Shutdown Isn't About Immigrant Health Care

President Donald Trump and other Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown over giving free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 3h

No wonder I'm poor (and not British!).

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 4h

A typical British worker would need to save all of their earning for 52 years to become wealthy, new research has found.

Typical Brit must save entire lifetime's worth of earnings to become wealthy

www.bigissue.com

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