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@karmso.bsky.social
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passionate gardener, defender of democracy…I strive daily to pay attention, and to brew a perfect cup of tea🌿
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kms @karmso.bsky.social · May 12
What could be more perfect for #BlueSkyMonday than the magnificent bluebells at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden…🌱

#BloomScrolling #gardens #flowers #FlowerPhotography #EastCoastKin #brooklyn
I look forward all year to this… seemingly endless glens of bluebells flowers at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Surrounded by lush green foliage of the mature trees, I linger, contemplating the beauty and peacefulness.
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…sunday still life…

#FlowerPhotography #EastCoastKin #Stunday #flowers #shadows #gardens #graditude 🌱
morning light…flowers in a vase, casting shadows on a cream colored wall..the flowers, branches and berries are tones of vermilion, rusty brown, burnt orange, persimmon..
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile. -William Cullent Bryant

#MyJoyfulPlace #flowers #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #gardening #autumn #graditude #FlowerPhotography 🌱
flowers on the thanks-giving table..roses in layers and layers of pumpkin and deep coral-orange colored petals, button-shaped chrysanthemum flowers in tones of rusty-reds with saffron centers… and alstroemeria, funnel-shaped blossom in hues of soft, buttery yellow and burgundy-wine.
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Encountering plants unknown to me while traveling is a such delight.
Here, on a recent trip to Japan, Apple-of-Peru, also known as the shoofly plant. The pods are as lovely as the flowers. 🌱
#BlueSkyMonday #flowers
#EastCoastKin #bloomscrolling
#japan #FlowerPhotography
Growing in a curbside pot in Tokyo, pale blue-violet flowers of Apple-of-Peru. It also produces buff-colored seed pods and bright green foliage. In the lower right are bright cherry-red flowers of a begonia plant.
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🌱 Good morning, brought to you by luminous Morning glories inTokyo…still in full bloom in November!

#flowers #BloomScrolling #UrbanGardening #gardening #FlowerPower #Japan #blue
#FlowerPhotography
Sky-blue morning glory flowers, with delicate white centers. Surrounded by lime-green foliage and flowerbuds, the vines will continue blooming through November. In densely packed Tokyo, very few homes have any back or front yard garden space. But wandering through streets, one finds pots lining the narrow curbs, growing everything from herbs, perennials, shrubs, trees and here, in November, a magnificent morning glory vine growing from a small terracotta planter box.
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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To see a thing
One must see it
In the light

物の見えたるひかり
Mono no mietaru hikari
— Matsuo Basho

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #LandscapePhotography #oceans
#EastCoastKin #haiku 🌱
Shortly after sunrise on a winter morning along the Atlantic Ocean shore…swirls of white clouds in a pale blue sky. The sunlight illuminates the c calm ocean surface…reflecting a silvery opalescence.
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Another rose I saw in bloom on a recent trip to Japan. The variety name is ‘Peace’…developed by French horticulturist Francis Meilland, in the years 1935 to 1939.
See alt text for more of its history.
#roses #flowers #BloomScrolling #gardening #Japan #Peace
#FlowerPhotography
A rose variety, ‘Peace’. Lushly layered petals in tones of butter-cream, with a pale pink blush. It was developed by French horticulturist Francis Meilland, in the years 1935 to 1939. When Meilland foresaw the German invasion of France, he sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and the United States to protect the new rose. It is said that it was sent to the US on the last plane available before the German invasion, where it was safely propagated by the Conard Pyle Co. during the war.
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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an enchanting November surprise…finding a rose garden in Osaka, Japan in full bloom! 🌱

#flowers #roses #Bloomscrolling #FlowerPhotography #Japan #Osaka
A luscious rose with layered petals in shades watermelon-pink surrounded by dark-green foliage. The variety name is ‘Kaorkazari’
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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brianklaas.bsky.social
The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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#NYC #NoKings
No Silence! We were loud, peaceful, proud, strong, joyous…with hope for our country…🇺🇸 🌱 🙌🏼
riseandresist.bsky.social Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · Oct 18
NO KINGS NYC!
10.18.25
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF US STAND TOGETHER, PROTESTING FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE, RACIAL JUSTICE, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, GENDER EQUALITY, FAIR WAGES, CLEAN AIR + WATER, AND MORE!

🎵 Freedom NO KINGS, by Ole No Kings

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October 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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#A_NewHope ✊
October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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wordwatcher.bsky.social
A beautiful morning…
October 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. -Albert Camus
🍂
#MyJoyfulPlace #foliage #autumn #BloomScrolling #gardening
#LandscapePhotography 🌱
layers of plant foliage in shades tangerine, warm reds, olive and vibrant greens
October 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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#brooklyn #ParkSlope #NewYorkNoKings
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Find your local event at nokings.org/#map.

Bring your family and friends. Stand up with everyone you love, for the country you hold dear.
gtconway.bsky.social George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Oct 13
Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
karmso.bsky.social
rainy, windy, watery #BlueSkyMomday
…dreaming of the springtime sweet peas…🌱

#MyJoyfulPlace #flowers #BloomScrolling #gardening #blue
#FlowerPhotography #dream
a single sweet pea blossom, in shades of amethyst-purple and navy blue…behind is a slender green stem with a deep midnight-blue flower bud
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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They took until *October* to bloom…but now the ethereal flowers of Morning Glory ‘Pearly Gates’ are delighting me on chilly autumn morns. 🌱

#MyJoyfulPlace #flowers #BloomScrolling #UrbanGardening #gardening #FlowerPower #seeds
#FlowerPhotography
Three flowers on a Morning Glory ‘Pearly Gate’ vine…the pure white blossoms are round saucer shaped, and have a tiny golden yellow-center. On the left are some lime-green flower buds, and behind is a brick wall.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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shabana.bsky.social
The land of the brave
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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#BlueskyMonday
#PayingAttention #wandering
#KurtVonnegut #gardens 🌱
Author Kurt Vonnegut, wearing cream colored trousers and white shoes, sits in front of a turquoise painted door. Mounted on the door is a garden gnome atop a red heart. On either side of him are hydrangea shrubs with large globular shaped flowers in shades of sky blue and violet. Emerald green grass frames the bottom of the photo, and a quote reads…”Life is a garden, not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate. Wondering, where we go matters less than what we notice.”
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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nilc.org
You may not realize it, but every meal is a connection to a farmworker.

The people who feed the country should not be living in poverty, unable to put food on their own tables, or afraid to go to work because of the threat of family separation & deportation.

Listen to their stories: bit.ly/486cyQf
Behind Every Meal: The Farmworkers Who Feed America
Over the summer of 2024, in collaboration with United Farm Workers, we sat down with several farmworkers, volunteers, and organizers to hear their stories.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it”

It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.
September 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
karmso.bsky.social
#stunday at the Conservatory Garden in Central Park 🌱

#flowers #BloomScrolling #CentralPark #UrbanGardening
#FlowerPhotography #FlowerReport
Three zinnia flowers in shades of saturated raspberry rosy pink, surrounded by green foliage. The Conservatory garden in New York City. Layers green foliage of trees and shrubs, flowers in shades of scarlet, pink, and lavender. The garden is an urban oasis in the northern area of Central Park and Fifth Avenue.
September 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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gretaknits.bsky.social
Peace be with you 🌱
on the eve of the Autumnal Equinox
An autumnal arrangement of flowers. Orange alstromeria, burgundy chrysanthemums and a rusty orange flower with a yellow center against the green of the woodland in the background.
September 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest:

Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes

ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No
September 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
karmso.bsky.social
The process of seeds into flowers and then flowers into seeds is always wondrous to me…🌱

#MyJoyfulPlace #flowers #BloomScrolling #UrbanGardening #gardening #seeds
#FlowerPhotography #FlowerReport

Here, the flowers and lacquered-purple seed pods of Hyacinth Bean Vine 🌱
Seed pods of Hyacinth Bean vine. They are purple-grape in color and look like lacquer. Purple hyacinth bean flowers on a slender, deep burgundy stem, surrounded by bright green foliage.
September 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
A peacock butterfly, the first I've managed to get a pic of this year, sunning itself on an echinacea in my garden yesterday 🌱🦋📷

#Bloomscrolling #ColourADay #RedWed #EastCoastKin #WildWebsWednesday #BugSky #nature #UKWildlife
A butterfly, rust red with iridescent eye spots on its wings
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM