Kim Ibarguen LaPolla
@kmlapolla.bsky.social
Artist, Gardener, Director of Hudson River Valley Art Workshops
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Light in the Forest
40"x40"
Art Quilt
40"x40"
Art Quilt
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Light in the Forest
40"x40"
Art Quilt
40"x40"
Art Quilt
First decent snow of the season. I love to wander the gardens to see how the snow has decorated the plants. This makes me think of a porcupine
#gardens
#gardens
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
First decent snow of the season. I love to wander the gardens to see how the snow has decorated the plants. This makes me think of a porcupine
#gardens
#gardens
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Word of the Day: MUMPSIMUS – someone who obstinately sticks to their old ideas in spite of evidence that they are wrong.
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Word of the Day: MUMPSIMUS – someone who obstinately sticks to their old ideas in spite of evidence that they are wrong.
French brioche - un-assembled
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
French brioche - un-assembled
Garden color. The last of the snapdragons, this one pretending to be from another plant.
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Garden color. The last of the snapdragons, this one pretending to be from another plant.
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“Untethered to the facts” is putting it nicely…
NEW: Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon.
"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.
Overnight, at Law Dork:
"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.
Overnight, at Law Dork:
Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon
"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.
www.lawdork.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
“Untethered to the facts” is putting it nicely…
Just a bright spot for the day.
September 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Just a bright spot for the day.
Please support your rural small businesses, especially in these trying times. We needed one of the spray arms replaced in our commercial dishwasher and the "travel" fee just for the nearest service provider to get to us is over $500, that doesn't include parts and labor. #smallbusinesslife
August 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Please support your rural small businesses, especially in these trying times. We needed one of the spray arms replaced in our commercial dishwasher and the "travel" fee just for the nearest service provider to get to us is over $500, that doesn't include parts and labor. #smallbusinesslife
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HUGELY Important.
While Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land:
Lee, Daines Up Public Land Sell Off To 258 Million Acres
The Senate's budget reconciliation package includes provision to sell off 40 percent of all public land
wessiler.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
HUGELY Important.
"I hope you're doing ok. If you're feeling lost, take an art class.
The opossum is done! Even while studying #art in undergrad, oil painting seemed intimidating Now, 20+ years later I have the courage and curiosity to do it. I’ve learned so much about trusting the process and myself.
I hope you’re doing ok. If you’re feeling lost, take an art class.
#newpainter
I hope you’re doing ok. If you’re feeling lost, take an art class.
#newpainter
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"I hope you're doing ok. If you're feeling lost, take an art class.
My latest inn garden update to our blog as just been posted: www.greenvillearms.com/inn-blog/hows-it-growing-may-22-2025 Dahlias, vegetable seedlings, gooseberries, and more
How's It Growing: May 22, 2025 An Inn Garden Report — Greenville Arms 1889 Inn
No, we did not get any snow this week, but it certainly felt like the weather was headed in that direction. This was going to be the week that we moved all of the dahlia plants out into the garden. In...
www.greenvillearms.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My latest inn garden update to our blog as just been posted: www.greenvillearms.com/inn-blog/hows-it-growing-may-22-2025 Dahlias, vegetable seedlings, gooseberries, and more
Another art world casualty - received notice that MacPherson's Art Supply, a wholesale company relied on by small art supply stores, including our own, has suddenly shutdown. Anyone know of another US based company. MacPherson's was the largest.
#artists #artsupplies #indieartsupplyshops
#artists #artsupplies #indieartsupplyshops
May 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Another art world casualty - received notice that MacPherson's Art Supply, a wholesale company relied on by small art supply stores, including our own, has suddenly shutdown. Anyone know of another US based company. MacPherson's was the largest.
#artists #artsupplies #indieartsupplyshops
#artists #artsupplies #indieartsupplyshops
A new garden update blog post is now available: www.greenvillearms.com/inn-blog/hows-it-growing-may-8-2025. This is at our inn in upstate NY. #gardening
How's It Growing: May 8, 2025 — Greenville Arms 1889 Inn
Oh, let it be a night of lyric rain And singing breezes, when my bell is tolled. I have so loved the rain that I would hold Last in my ears its friendly, dim refrain... ~Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)...
www.greenvillearms.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A new garden update blog post is now available: www.greenvillearms.com/inn-blog/hows-it-growing-may-8-2025. This is at our inn in upstate NY. #gardening
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This paragraph is the crux of everything relating to niche hobby industries and why every single hobby that relates to physical objects (specialized electronics, scale models, model railroads, gunpla, stitching, sewing) is either going to be heavily impacted or, more often than not, vanish entirely:
April 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This paragraph is the crux of everything relating to niche hobby industries and why every single hobby that relates to physical objects (specialized electronics, scale models, model railroads, gunpla, stitching, sewing) is either going to be heavily impacted or, more often than not, vanish entirely:
Must add my obligatory daffodil pic. These are some early bloomers in the cottage house border at our inn, Greenville Arms 1889 Inn, in NY
#gardens
#gardens
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Must add my obligatory daffodil pic. These are some early bloomers in the cottage house border at our inn, Greenville Arms 1889 Inn, in NY
#gardens
#gardens
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Reposted by Kim Ibarguen LaPolla
Life and fascism are happening at the same time...
Order your garden seeds and keep a record of Nazi and fascist players in the government. Play with the grandkids and write a letter to the editor. Make supper and make a phone call to your Representative.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/juxtaposit...
Order your garden seeds and keep a record of Nazi and fascist players in the government. Play with the grandkids and write a letter to the editor. Make supper and make a phone call to your Representative.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/juxtaposit...
Juxtapositions
Life and fascism are happening at the same time.
jesspiper.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Life and fascism are happening at the same time...
Order your garden seeds and keep a record of Nazi and fascist players in the government. Play with the grandkids and write a letter to the editor. Make supper and make a phone call to your Representative.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/juxtaposit...
Order your garden seeds and keep a record of Nazi and fascist players in the government. Play with the grandkids and write a letter to the editor. Make supper and make a phone call to your Representative.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/juxtaposit...
My art in our art supplies shop. These are two recently finished stitched paintings.
February 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My art in our art supplies shop. These are two recently finished stitched paintings.
“Uncertain Path”
20” x 20”
Stitched painting
20” x 20”
Stitched painting
January 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“Uncertain Path”
20” x 20”
Stitched painting
20” x 20”
Stitched painting
Someone mentioned dahlias this morning and that got me browsing my pics from last year. Can’t wait for our cutting garden to be bursting with color once again
January 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Someone mentioned dahlias this morning and that got me browsing my pics from last year. Can’t wait for our cutting garden to be bursting with color once again
I'm enjoying all the new fiber arts follows! But just a suggestion, a description of your interests in your bio or a couple of introductory posts would be helpful. When all I see is name and nothing else I'm hesitant to follow back, so I usually don't until I learn a little more about you.
January 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I'm enjoying all the new fiber arts follows! But just a suggestion, a description of your interests in your bio or a couple of introductory posts would be helpful. When all I see is name and nothing else I'm hesitant to follow back, so I usually don't until I learn a little more about you.
Is it over yet?
January 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Is it over yet?