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Aunty Bear
@auntybear.bsky.social
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In my Queer Aunty era. 🏳️‍🌈⚖️📚🌿 She/her
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Hello from the ladybugs atop Green Mountain.
Pinkish rock with about three dozen ladybugs on top. Many more ladybugs not pictured. Close up of a wood post with a green and white trail sign on the side and several ladybugs on top. There are pine trees in the background and mountains in the distance.
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Not on board with having breakfast one hour later tomorrow
Close up of cat’s face looking miffed. Will be demanding food at the usual time no matter what the clock says.
November 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Rabbitbrush is blooming and the bees are here for it.
Shrub, known as rabbitbrush, with silver-green leaves and mustard yellow flowers. Prairie grass and cottonwood trees in the background. Bee sits on a rabbitbrush blossom with bright orange pollen pellets on its legs. Unfortunately my phone camera focused on the blossom, not the bee.
September 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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“A ghost in the pantry” (mystery corn pudding, anyone?)
Nancy Drew cookbook circa 1973
September 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Timeline cleanse. Our wildflowers have mostly peaked but you can still find some tucked along mountain streams.
Shaded mountain stream in the foreground surrounded by thick clumps of wildflowers and pine trees. In the background, there is a sunny mountainside with slightly hazy blue sky overhead.
September 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Denver — sweet pups, good people, and a kick-ass marching band

#50501
Smiling dog wears a sign saying “keep families together” Sign saying “this is what democracy looks like,” while multicolored arrows point out at other marchers. The arrows incorporate colors from the progressive pride flag. Colorful sign with a monarch butterfly reads, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
September 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Arctic gentian (Colorado)
Purple and white trumpet flowers. The grass beneath them is a mix of green, brown, yellow, and red.
August 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Sunflowers are going strong along the Front Range bike paths right now.
Close-up of a sunflower with other blurred flowers behind it. The sky has light clouds.
August 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Late summer wildflowers for a timeline cleanse.
Close up of a white and green wildflower commonly known as paintbrush. Waterfall splashes down a steep mountain. The waterfall is surrounded by thick clumps of wildflowers, with pine trees lining the edges of the photo. The sky is clear and blue.
August 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I think this was spotted saxifrage. I wish I’d gotten a close-up up of the dots on the petals.
Small white flowers grow out of a moss-like base on a mountainside. The stems of the flowers are red and there are tiny pink dots on each petal.
August 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I have a soft spot for katydids
Is that a leaf? No, it’s a katydid on a chain link fence
July 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Sky pilot flowers on a rocky mountain ridge
Clusters of small purple cone flowers, known as sky pilot, sit on rocky ridge. The leaves look like spiky green succulents.
July 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Globeflower, Colorado
Cluster of three small white flowers with red, green, and yellow stamen sit nestled between two logs
July 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Everything is terrible but here are some shooting star flowers
Tiny purple, yellow, and white flowers, known as shooting star flowers, grow in a narrow crevice between two rocks
July 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Happy Pride — from Denver
Pride float features a rainbow butterfly dragon and several outstanding drag queens. Magical. Sign reads “See you in court and on the dance floor.” While the photo quality is terrible, the sign is excellent.
June 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Here are some lupine from a morning walk.
Purple and white spire of blossoms with a cluster of six-fingered leaves at the base. Other lupine flowers can be seen on a shady hillside in the background. Tiny bit of blue sky at the top.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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20 minutes between “Trump prefers diplomatic option” and “Trump announces air strikes”
CNN updates: 21 minutes ago: Trump prefers diplomatic option; 1 minute ago: Trump announces air strikes
June 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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No kings, but some very good pups — Denver

#NoKings #DogsAgainstDoge
Dachshund wears sign saying “I bite Nazis” Berner pup wears sandwich board saying “I am dog tired of this” Large peaceful crowd makes its way down Colfax Avenue downtown, with the mountains in the distance
June 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Denver
Billboard reads: “Rocky Mountain National Park: Now With Reduced Staff, Made Possible by DOGE”
June 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Looking up a grassy hillside on a rainy day. In the foreground, purple and yellow wildflowers cluster around a pink rock with orange, yellow, and green lichen.
May 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Good weekend for wildflowers.
Yellow and pink flower, which looks similar to a snapdragon but is actually toadflax, sits in prarie grass with a large red rock in the background.
May 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Sign by the parent of a transgender kid in CO this spring
Sign on pink poster board reads, “fight like a mother for trans rights.”
May 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Western Wallflower & friends
Close-up of a mustard flower, known as the Western Wallflower, with dense clusters of four-petal blossoms. An ant sits in the center of the flower, and another small insect nestles in a cluster of blossoms on the left.
May 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Yellow wild pea (I think)

#bloomscroll
Yellow wildflowers in a meadow below the flatirons in Boulder
May 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Apple blossom
Apple blossom, Boulder foothills
May 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM