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Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

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🐞 Jacq Mac 🐦‍⬛ Birding 🌶 foodie with (never enough) penpals ✉️ and a (too-large but certified wildlife) garden 🌱 stargazing ⭐️ north of 45 degrees 🌲 where the moose roam and 🎶 loons call

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 17h

Where'd the season go? Oh right, summer drought followed by fall food processing... peak foliage ended but the shrubbery stands out! #medawislagrows

Highbush cranberry burns red on the left, as the serviceberry on the right reveals its orange, in front of the yellow-green elderberry dropping more and more leaves everyday

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 3d

Juncos and ginkgos! 🐦 🍂

Pattern against a bright blue background featuring flat illustration of Juncos and yellow fall Ginkgo leaves

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 6d

Blue fuzzbutts return in flight! www.nordmi.com/post/meet-bl...

A blue, fuzzy, tiny aphid rests on a purple cuff, hand in background to show temporary wings for the purpose of mating flights

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 10d

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 19d

Finally! Traditional Maine baked beans (no ketchup) with nontraditional jalapeño cheddar biscuits 🌶 #medawislatastes

Two halves of biscuits rest at top of bowl full of baked beans

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 20d

Progression...but then, a set back canning peppers: 1 broken jar = 1hr longer night...ooops! #medawislatastes or tries to...

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 20d

Fears... everytime i go to hang one up...

A green wall of cast iron and map of Maine; smokey, because some is in use! 🤣

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 21d

If ya know ya know...come back tomorrow for what #medawislatastes 😁

Yellow (or ochre) eyed, white beans, soaking in reflective water, in a metal bowl

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 23d

Last bluesky post of a #JaneGoodall organization before passing today...heart with future (and current) people but within the wilderness of Earth 🐞💜🌍

Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 25d

Today marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

We are holding in our heart the children who never came home from residential schools, and the families whose lives have been forever changed. We honour residential school survivors, who had their names, languages, and cultures torn away.

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 25d

Barred owl 🦉

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 27d

Especially when zucchini season is still strong?...so: Alfredo one night and latkes the next... #medawislagrows #medawislatastes

Fresh-egg pasta.looks like lemon-yellow underneath a creamy Alfredo and opal purple basil and white shredded parmesan

Grilled zucchini latkes topped with a tomato bruschetta/tabbouleh and leftover, homemade dill dressing, with a side of charred shishitos (at 9 o'clock)

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 27d

Trio of Symphyotrichum sp. All the Asters! Happy September frome Maine! #medawislasights

Fuchsia colored Symphyotrichum flowers with bright, deep orange centers, against a green background

Light purple Symphyotrichum with golden centers, against green background

Bright white Symphyotrichum with yellow centers, against green background speckled with more white asters

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 28d

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Photo by Julio Mulero of a White-throated Swift in flight with a large bulge below its beak. Text on the image says: Hope your weekend is as full of fun as this White-throated Swift's mouth is full of insects! Bonus Unsolicited Bird Fact: When White-throated swifts are collecting insects to bring back to their nestlings, they glue them together with their saliva to form a "bolus" (that's science speak for blob.) They hold the bolus in their mouth, not their crop, so there's often a visible bulge.

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 28d

Alfredo zucchini here tonight 😁💜🐻

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 28d

Excited to share that TNC has reached an agreement for the purchase of four dams on the Kennebec River – a critical step in a long journey to reconnect more than 800 miles of rivers and streams: https://nature.ly/46n2dxV

#KennebecRiverRestoration

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 29d

Processing season! What do you all cook for quick meals because feet hurt from all the work of standing by pots all day?? #medawislatastes

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · 29d

You would know! 😁 Please keep us posted if you'd like us to return the bounty you shared with us last year... 🌱💜🍻

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Jada Fitch Illustration @jadafitch.bsky.social · Sep 17

I’ve redrawn the September page from my new book as a coloring sheet! Here's a to the hi-resolution download.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jada-...
Happy coloring!

#forestrevealed #coloring #colouring #adultcoloring #coloringtherapy #communitycoloring #coloringbook #coloringpage

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · Sep 11

Around the homestead: harvested onions to cure in the week of no rain that continues the 2025 drought; bumbles smother blooming asters; the new spinach vine surprised with delight! #medawislagrows #medawislasights

Purple onions are a new fav! With green tops from recent watering, they lay bulb forward on the dirt in the sun to cure

A bumble bee does her thing on a fuchsia new england aster

Purple onions (red bull variety) lay with green tops on garden mounds

Brasella alba "rubra" spinach climbs bamboo poles shooting out green leaves; gray fence and green hedge in background; green posts and wire fence in foreground

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · Sep 10

Blossoms. Rivers. Moss.

Nature is disappearing from our language and our lives. @grist.org

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.

We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.

grist.org

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BirdNote @birdnote.bsky.social · Sep 9

BirdNote adds another dimension to how you understand the place you live — by understanding the birds. Our hope is that by spreading knowledge about birds, BirdNote is helping you become more connected to your local ecosystems.

birdnote.org/podcasts/bir...

BirdNote Helps You Get to Know Your Neighborhood | BirdNote

Spreading knowledge about birds to connect people with their ecosystems

birdnote.org

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Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now, this.is.flat.crust! #medawislatastes chicken-of-the-woods bartered for #homegrown ingredients like Basella alba rubra spinach & red onion that made this amazing #pizza

Rolled homemade pizza dough with homemade Alfredo for sauce on top.of a homemade pizza peel awaits pizza toppings

Same thin pizza after baking with dark chicken-of-the-woods strips and green, cooked spinach leaves among other peppers, etc.

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · Sep 6

Subtle signs of summer surrendering to autumn... #medawislasights #medawislatastes #medawislagrows

Yellow green shishito peppers charred from the grill glisten with oil & salt before being devoured

Several multi-colored sunflowers line a flower patch, with rudbeckia & zinnia in the meix; beeblm and asters in the background

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · Sep 4

Totally, trade mark those: strawberry Bismarck cupcakes! 🤩

Medawisla in Maine @stepheniemac.bsky.social · Sep 4

September in #Maine ...best garlic year ever! #medawislagrows a front yard of garlic without photographic evidence 😜🌱💜

A woman's hand holds a 7-clove bulb of garlic for scale above a crate full of cured garlic bulbs

Two crates of garlic bulbs from sorting cured bulbs

A truck bed full of garlic freshly harvested; two milk crates of garlic sit in wheel barrel on right