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Mike G
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No DMs unless I know you. Zone 7, TN valley area. Old gray guy, retired mapmaker, engraver, botanical garden worker, designer builder.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🌱🐕 Pepe with promising sign of #Helleborus foetidus 'Ms. Jeckyls scented' flowering this winter. In its 3rd year, I hope it will make seeds.
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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British horticulturist, garden designer, and writer Gertrude Jekyll was born #OnThisDay in 1843. She bought this pair of men's leather boots when she was in her 40s and continued to wear them (after many repairs) until her death in 1932. Guildford Museum collection. #fashionhistory
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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#Dogs #Jack #Russell #Rat #Terrier #Mix - Jack and Pepe from 2019
December 22, 2024 at 11:45 PM
🐕 #Thanksgiving 2015. Niece Michiko with her little black Ozzie the pug and my late Peppermint the terrier.
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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DARVO
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🌱🍴Tomorrow's fare. #Thanksgiving 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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New @pnas.org
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
🌱 these #Galanthus reginae-olgae came from Hilliers nursery, UK in the 1970s. Things were so so easy to import in those days.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
🌱 a day for Witch hazel hamameliad hunting.
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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You're colors
that spread
over my soul,
you're words
that often come
on my opening lips,
without you
i'm colourless,
silent,
dead,
as stagnant air 🍃

🌾 🌇

(Poetry & Photography by Kirpal)
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🌱 yellow fall colors of #Parrotia persica with a view of the flaky bark.
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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👀 Nothing special, just Odesa residents gathered on the beach to watch air defense shoot down Russian Shaheds
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🌱 #Camellia 'Yuletide'
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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🌱 #Salvia officinalis 'Dwarf' - a strong growing, small leaved cooking sage.
June 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM