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Hillary Nelson
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Got a cold garden and a warm kitchen.
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Happy New Year!
The sun goes down with golden lit hydrangeas in the foreground and a tree, granite path, posts, a road, stone wall and field in the distance. Beautiful clouds and an orange band around the setting sun.
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Marlon has overcome a rough start in life. Sweetest boi ever. #pitbulls 🐶
A photo of a mostly white pitbull with a black spot over his left eye. One ear sticks up, the other flops - he looks directly at the camera in a very regal pose that belies his goofy, happy personality. His left leg is missing and he has lots of pink patches of skin exposed. He was abused as a puppy and very badly burned. He is lying on brown leather cushions with black and white pillows behind him. The guy who hurt him is in jail, and now he lives very happily in NH sometimes and NYC most of the time.
October 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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My daughter found some matsutakes on our back pond 😁. The best fragrance - cinnamon and horseradish. 🍄‍🟫
3 matsutake mushrooms on a blue placemat.
October 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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And the sun sets on a most excellent No Kings Day.
A sunset across a road with a stone walk in the foreground and pink hydrangeas glowing orange in the late light.
October 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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My sign in Concord, NH
A sign that reads “Republicans took a perfectly good Democracy and replaced it with a sh*tty police state with a terrible economy. And Dems are the terrorists?
October 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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For No Kings in Concord, NH.
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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My sign for No Kings.
A sign for the No Kings rally that says Republicans took a perfectly good democracy and turned it into a sh*tty police state with a terrible economy! And Dems are the terrorists?
October 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Marlon and Tuuli, pitbulls, looking like the masks of Greek comedy and tragedy.
Marlon the 3 legged white pitbull with a black spot around his eye sits on a wooden floor with messec up rugs on it smiling a big goofy grin, while Tuuli, a smaller gray pitbull with white markings sits on the bottom shelf of a metal rolling table behind him looking very glum indeed.
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Melania seems genuinely off her rocker. The hat is not only rude, it’s bizarre. She can’t possibly be able to see any direction but down. And you can’t see her face or eyes. Wtf is she thinking? And where are the protocol people who should be saying absolutely not? Embarrassing.
A photo of Trump, King Charles, Queen Camilla, and Melania Trump. They are looking down at a model on a table in a room that seems to be part of a palace with ornate art, rugs and sconces. The men wear suits and ties. Camilla is in a royal blue dress and pearls and is pointing at the model. Melania looks completely out of place. She is dressed in a somber black suit, her hands limp at her sides. The most bizarre part of her getup is her wide-brimmed purple hat which completely obscures her face. If you did not know that was Melania, you would be unable to identify her because absolutely nothing shows from the shoulders up except the hat.
September 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Picking zinnias for this week’s farmers market. #bloomscrolling
A bucket of freshly cut zinnias in shades of orange, apricot, coral, and yellow.
September 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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So many peaches this year! Thank you, universe, for one good thing in these crazy days.
9 jars of peach jam just off the boil. The glass canning jars are full of dark, kinda caramelized peach jam (no pectin, so has to get to 220 to set). They are on a red striped white dish towel. In the background is a faucet, bowl of peaches, shelves full of cookbooks, a table and chair, and bunches of drying flowers hanging from pegrail.
September 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Bernie Sanders at the Workers Over Billionaires rally in Concord, NH today. Great to listen to speeches about the value of labor and workers’ rights from many speakers. Heard there were 4,000 people there! It was great.
A photo of Bernie Sanders smiling, about to begin his speech at a Labor Day rally. In the background are people holding signs, one of which reads: The Horrors Persist but So Do We!
September 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A T-shirt that has a pic of rfk jr that says Fire Junior. Save Lives. “You can tell just by looking at him that the brain worm ate his mitochondria.”* * Everyone in America.
August 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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We the people are having to step in to protect the country from these lunatics. Here’s the T-shirt I just made for a Labor Day rally. It’s time to get loud.
A T-shirt with a black and white photo of rfk junior. It says: Fire Junior. Save lives. “You can tell just by looking at him that the brain worm ate his mitochondria.”* *Everyone in America
August 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I made a T-shirt for the Bernie rally in Concord tomorrow. #workersoverbillionaires #freethejab #firejunior #saveourshots
A white T-shirt with a black and white photo of rfk jr on it that reads: Fire Junior. Save lives. “You can tell just by looking at him that the brain worm ate his mitochondria.”* * Everyone in America.
August 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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What a day in the garden. Perfect weather, peak celosia (foreground) and helenium (back row). #bloomscrolling #gardens 🌱
Brilliant fuschia feathery celosia in the front. Behind, a blur of green and gold (yellow helenium). Beyond, a brown barn with an el and a chimney and a white trimmed window. Patches of blue sky and puffy white clouds above.
August 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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It’s raining and there are dozens of bumblebees sheltering under the parasol flowers of this big clump of Joe Pye weed. #bloomscroll #garden 🌱 #bees
A slightly damp bumblebee shelters beneath a pink-white fluffy Joe Pye Weed flower on a dark pink stem.
August 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I used to hate zinnias. With age, wisdom. Zinnias are now my favs. Also, celosia. Look at the crazy energy going on in the back row of this bouquet! Medusaesque, even. #bloomscrolling, #gardens, 🌱
A juicy bouquet of pink, orange, yellow, coral flowers, mostly zinnias with some feathery yellow celosia in the back. A gathering from the peak of a NH garden in late summer.
August 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Globe thistle and echinacea
#bloomscrolling
Light pink/purple daisy rays of echinacea with spiky orange centers and spiky gray globes of Miss Wilmot globe thistle in a sea of green leaves.
August 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Picking flowers for tomorrow’s farmer’s market.
A bucket of pink flowers - zinnias, asters, and yarrow.
August 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Hello from New Hampshire!
A pink zinnia with yellow stamens being tasted by a fuzzy yellow and black bumble bee against a background of green leaves.
August 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I am loving this book! A thriller with a sense of humor and heart. Featuring bad guy Christian Nationalists and an ex-journalist granddad on a mission to save his family. Yup, a metaphor for our moment.
The cover of Jess Walter’s book “So Far Gone”
August 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Bumble bees love zinnias. This one was just lounging on a soft pink sofa. #bloomscrolling #bees
Close up of a fuzzy yellow and black very large bumble bee having a rest on a bubble gum pink zinnia with yellow pollen-covered stamens.
August 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#gardening 🌱Harvesting dill seed in the greenhouse. Now if the cukes would just catch up for serious pickling.
A close up photo of dill seed heads. They look like fireworks. Well, subdued, brown fireworks. But cool looking. In the background, blurry purple sweet peas, a green bucket, wall, windows and support struts of my unheated greenhouse.
July 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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How juicy are these zinnias? Queenie mix, Agave, Oklahoma salmon. #bloomscrolling
Zinnias in shades of lime green, coral, orange and purple.
July 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM