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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · 1d

After the fog cleared up it was a beautiful sunny day. We had some great views of the Chehalem Valley from Bald Peak.

ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · 22d

It's the season where our magnolias are starting to open their seed pods and release their glossy red seeds. However our magnolia trees are still producing new flowers. 🌱 #FlowerReport

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · 23d

I think the air inside might be drier than it would prefer. The fronds don't last as long as they do outside, turning brown much sooner. Usually by spring there aren't many left. But they quickly come back after it gets moved outside again in the spring.

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · 23d

I think the variety is Mr. Sandman.

ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · 23d

It's a Cyathea Australis.

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · 23d

Our Australian tree fern is looking good this year. Unfortunately it will soon be time to bring it indoors, where it doesn't seem to do as well. 🌱

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · 23d

We planted some new dahlias this spring. I was beginning to think this one wasn't even going to bloom, but now in mid-October, it is blooming for the first time. 🌱 #FlowerReport

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Aug 25

A few pictures from our trip to Crater Lake National Park yesterday. It's so hard to believe this is the first time we've been there since we moved to Oregon. We plan to go back soon.

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Aug 25

We spent Friday in Bend, including a visit to the Old Mill District along the Deschutes River.

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Aug 10

We visited the Dahlia festival at Swan Island Dahlias today. There is such a huge variety of Dahlias there and now I'm getting some ideas about more varieties I'd like to try in our yard. 🌱#FlowerReport

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Aug 7

Every year,this is the last of our Oriental lilies to bloom. This one we brought from Idaho when we moved to Oregon several years ago. 🌱 #FlowerReport

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 25

It's par for the course with Jon Stewart these days. He needs to go back into retirement.

ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 23

Here's a rare view of a hummingbird at rest, in between trips to the kniphofia and crocosmia flowers in our backyard.

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 22

Since it was a cloudy gray day, here are some oriental lilies to brighten it. 🌱#FlowerReport

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · Jul 10

unironically speaking, it's that quite a few of them no longer understand how their own industries work

Urban Land Rent🚰 @handle.invalid · Jul 9

I am going to be so fascinated to read the post-mortem about how a revolt lead by tech billionaires lead to a gutting of both scientific research, university education and immigrant labor, all key prerequisites to the very existence of their industries.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jul 8

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thanks!

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hydrangeas add a splash of blue to our yard. #FlowerReport 🌱

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thanks!

ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 6

Our backyard is looking very green right now. 🌱

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 2

I've read the novel but haven't seen the film version. No one did bleak dystopian fiction quite like J.G. Ballard.

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jul 1

I've had a few volunteers come up from seed, but when I've tried to plant seeds I haven't had any luck.

ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jun 30

Some different colors of Kniphofia on display in our garden right now. 🌱 #FlowerReport

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jun 25

We have been meaning to go there sometime but haven't been there yet.

ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jun 25

After 17 years, we had to say goodbye to our cat, Shadow, yesterday. As sad as I am, at least I have so many memories of him, from the time I first brought him home from California to his last time laying in the sun yesterday.

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ES 🏳️‍🌈 @erichquick.bsky.social · Jun 18

That one has long been one of my favorites.

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