October Glory is an apt name for these maples, showing off their red splendor at the nursery! #trees

Lots of monarchs out and about at the nursery today ❤️

Mind you, my county supervisors are all MAGA people, and I’ve never had a personal response from any representative or senator I’ve contacted, so this was a welcome surprise!

Tonight, we pushed city council members (and for those of us in the surrounding counties, our local supervisors) to create an energy efficiency program to help people better afford their energy bills. My supervisor emailed me back w/in 30 minutes and offered to meet up for breakfast to talk about it

A few months ago I joined a local group that’s part of a national network of climate activists called Climate Changemakers; we meet every other Tuesday for an “hour of action” at which we write/call our elected officials (or sometimes electoral “get out the vote” action)

Finally cool enough in SoCal SanGabrielValley to cook with the oven. Trying Samin Nosrat’s buttermilk chicken recipe.

This little butternut squash (harvested from the communal garden I volunteer in) had an expressive moment in the midst of food prep. It’s now cubed and ready to go in oven.
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Welp, we’ll try again tomorrow. So close! #Phillies

It ain’t over til it's over! Go #Phillies! #RingTheBell #MLB #NLDS

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians.

Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates?
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Persian Ironwood #Bonsai

#Connections
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@inaturalist.bsky.social taking money from Google to implement AI in your app isn’t going to be worth the volunteers quitting protest. Which in turn is really bad for plant ID and research in general. Still time to reverse course!

Common milkweed (Aesclepias syriacus) I assume? My mom planted some of that years ago and she found new shoots coming up all the way at the other end of her yard! Swamp milkweed (A. incarnata) in my experience has been much better behaved, growing in a clump instead of spreading by rhizomes

Oh, didn’t realize Blue Mistflower spreads quickly. Good to know!

Curious if anyone has any natives plants that they aren’t real keen on. If so, let me know what they are.

I’m not a huge fan of Virginia creeper vine. Grows extremely quickly and takes over everything in sight in no time. I’m constantly pulling it up out of my azaleas and other plants

Caught my lilies lit up by the sunset and had to take a photo.
#sunset #naturephotography #bloomscroll #gardensky #notAI 🌱

Feeling the sudden urge to get cracking on my bucket list…. #Iran #News

Me lately:

What a beautiful analogy, and a timely one as I was just lamenting the sorry state of the world right now. Hummingbirds are such a treat to enjoy when they’re around!

We’ve had a busted sprinkler for a hot minute, and haven’t yet gotten it repaired.

This morning it gave me a reminder that there can still be joy even when things are broken. 🪶

(I believe this is an Anna’s Hummingbird)

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Mookie Betts, Rafael Devers and Chris Sale have netted Vaughn Grissom, Alex Verdugo, Connor Wong, Jeter Downs, Jordan Hicks, and Kyle Harrison. Those trades would have the Red Sox kicked out of a fantasy league.

No. Nothing in his stats suggests that.