Sarah H Apricot
@earlapricot.bsky.social
Biking, walking, gardening, exploring, staying curious, and raising 3 cats in Minneapolis with my partner. 🌱🚲🌊🌸😻🐾❄️🪻💻🌃🚎
It's monarchs-on-the-meadow-blazing-stars season already?
August 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
It's monarchs-on-the-meadow-blazing-stars season already?
I am so far really happy with the Roy Diblik and Piet Oudolf inspired garden I planted last year. I've been doing small edits, but this has largely been effort free this season so far. #bloomscrolling #plantcombinations
June 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I am so far really happy with the Roy Diblik and Piet Oudolf inspired garden I planted last year. I've been doing small edits, but this has largely been effort free this season so far. #bloomscrolling #plantcombinations
It's bleeding heart o'clock. My dad planted one of these by his front door while he was successfully recovering from major heart surgery, so now I have one by my front door to memorialize him. #bloomscrolling
April 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's bleeding heart o'clock. My dad planted one of these by his front door while he was successfully recovering from major heart surgery, so now I have one by my front door to memorialize him. #bloomscrolling
An improbable cat stack.
Marceline has managed to ensconce herself in extreme proximity to Thursday Next. This is a miracle of a full year of couples counseling. These two were once sworn enemies. (There was blood.)
Marceline has managed to ensconce herself in extreme proximity to Thursday Next. This is a miracle of a full year of couples counseling. These two were once sworn enemies. (There was blood.)
March 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
An improbable cat stack.
Marceline has managed to ensconce herself in extreme proximity to Thursday Next. This is a miracle of a full year of couples counseling. These two were once sworn enemies. (There was blood.)
Marceline has managed to ensconce herself in extreme proximity to Thursday Next. This is a miracle of a full year of couples counseling. These two were once sworn enemies. (There was blood.)
It has come to my attention that not enough people are following @jacobsimonsays.bsky.social 's daily wins. Even in this current environment of uncountable things going wrong, some things are also going right. He's on my don't-dare-miss list here. He posts these in video format on other platforms.
Here's what's going right:
🦜 28 critically endangered orange-bellied parrots were released into the Tasmanian wild, narrowly avoiding extinction (ABC)
🧑⚖️ Puerto Rico’s accountability lawsuit is moving forward vs. the worst polluters for coordinated deception (Cleantechnica)
🦜 28 critically endangered orange-bellied parrots were released into the Tasmanian wild, narrowly avoiding extinction (ABC)
🧑⚖️ Puerto Rico’s accountability lawsuit is moving forward vs. the worst polluters for coordinated deception (Cleantechnica)
March 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It has come to my attention that not enough people are following @jacobsimonsays.bsky.social 's daily wins. Even in this current environment of uncountable things going wrong, some things are also going right. He's on my don't-dare-miss list here. He posts these in video format on other platforms.
My plan to regrade the yard so that water will naturally pool near the birch trees we planted is working out swimmingly so far. This is just from snow melt. However I'm regretting planting Carex pensylvanica along the bottom of the regrade. I think they're probably drowning. #plantcommunities
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My plan to regrade the yard so that water will naturally pool near the birch trees we planted is working out swimmingly so far. This is just from snow melt. However I'm regretting planting Carex pensylvanica along the bottom of the regrade. I think they're probably drowning. #plantcommunities
Really looking forward to seeing what this plant community does this year. It's heavily inspired by Roy Diblik's designs.
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
March 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Really looking forward to seeing what this plant community does this year. It's heavily inspired by Roy Diblik's designs.
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
Whenever I read that a tree is an understory tree or a "woodland edge" tree, I picture this #cornuskousa ensconced in its massive blue spruce tree neighbor.
Spotted on a walk in a residential neighborhood of Seattle some years ago.
#bloomscrolling #plantcommunities
Spotted on a walk in a residential neighborhood of Seattle some years ago.
#bloomscrolling #plantcommunities
February 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Whenever I read that a tree is an understory tree or a "woodland edge" tree, I picture this #cornuskousa ensconced in its massive blue spruce tree neighbor.
Spotted on a walk in a residential neighborhood of Seattle some years ago.
#bloomscrolling #plantcommunities
Spotted on a walk in a residential neighborhood of Seattle some years ago.
#bloomscrolling #plantcommunities
A whack of invasives never looked so good.
Spotted in Seattle, where those creeping Campanulas are not yet listed as noxious.
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
Spotted in Seattle, where those creeping Campanulas are not yet listed as noxious.
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
February 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A whack of invasives never looked so good.
Spotted in Seattle, where those creeping Campanulas are not yet listed as noxious.
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
Spotted in Seattle, where those creeping Campanulas are not yet listed as noxious.
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
#rudbeckiahirta and #rockymountaincolumbine don't always bloom together, but when they do...
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
February 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#rudbeckiahirta and #rockymountaincolumbine don't always bloom together, but when they do...
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
@ariellaelm.bsky.social posts 3 Wins and Dems Doing the Work threads daily. She's also available on Substack. Despair is tempting but ultimately extremely counterproductive. She is helping us to keep hope alive and stay in the fight. I recommend putting her on your priority reading lists.
DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 18
Today is going to be a little bit different. I’m going to tell you about three actions that you probably haven’t heard of that, together, suggest a broad shift in how Democrats are operating.
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Today is going to be a little bit different. I’m going to tell you about three actions that you probably haven’t heard of that, together, suggest a broad shift in how Democrats are operating.
🧵
February 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
@ariellaelm.bsky.social posts 3 Wins and Dems Doing the Work threads daily. She's also available on Substack. Despair is tempting but ultimately extremely counterproductive. She is helping us to keep hope alive and stay in the fight. I recommend putting her on your priority reading lists.
Pictured here is an experimental bed I planted up shortly after moving back to Minneapolis, just to see what plants do here. I had heard that asters and goldenrods mingle well together, and so I threw some into the mix. They did not disappoint.
#bloomscrolling #plantcombinations
#bloomscrolling #plantcombinations
February 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Pictured here is an experimental bed I planted up shortly after moving back to Minneapolis, just to see what plants do here. I had heard that asters and goldenrods mingle well together, and so I threw some into the mix. They did not disappoint.
#bloomscrolling #plantcombinations
#bloomscrolling #plantcombinations
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Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
I hereby proclamize that here'n after, Mpls neighborhoods will be known as SoBro or NoBro, depending on how they relate to our great street of Broadway. I will be forwarding this to Google to be sure our maps accurately reflect this change. And to protect the homefront, I will be annexing Pryes.
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
February 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I hereby proclamize that here'n after, Mpls neighborhoods will be known as SoBro or NoBro, depending on how they relate to our great street of Broadway. I will be forwarding this to Google to be sure our maps accurately reflect this change. And to protect the homefront, I will be annexing Pryes.
100% agreed. The best way to get to the shanties is by lake.
February 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
100% agreed. The best way to get to the shanties is by lake.
I wouldn't have guessed it would have been such a straight line from joining Bluesky to blending in IRL with a lot of fun and inspiring locals, sharing generous helpings of catharsis, but here we are. Thanks @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social for 🪵🪓
February 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I wouldn't have guessed it would have been such a straight line from joining Bluesky to blending in IRL with a lot of fun and inspiring locals, sharing generous helpings of catharsis, but here we are. Thanks @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social for 🪵🪓
I highly recommend following Jacob Simon for your stupid mental health. He's not here yet, it seems, but he's on YouTube and Substack. He posts good news daily, and he periodically also posts roundups like this one.
The best stories from January 2025…
YouTube video by Jacobsimonsays
youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I highly recommend following Jacob Simon for your stupid mental health. He's not here yet, it seems, but he's on YouTube and Substack. He posts good news daily, and he periodically also posts roundups like this one.
Some week-old somewhat-relieving news that I had missed: One of our billionaires, together with some other unspecified "US climate funders", will fill the international climate funding gap created by US withdrawal from the Paris accord.
Michael Bloomberg steps in to help fund UN climate body after Trump withdrawal
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy arm said on Thursday it will provide funding to help cover the U.S. contribution to the U.N. climate body's budget, filling a gap left by President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Some week-old somewhat-relieving news that I had missed: One of our billionaires, together with some other unspecified "US climate funders", will fill the international climate funding gap created by US withdrawal from the Paris accord.
Another #plantcombination I saw in Seattle once, in mid April. Looks to be a lot of scilla with the odd yellow tulip and weedy fern thriving beneath a gnarly old Japanese Maple tree. Scilla is invasive in MN, but I'm giving blue-eyed grass a go in my own garden for this kind of look. #bloomscrolling
January 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Another #plantcombination I saw in Seattle once, in mid April. Looks to be a lot of scilla with the odd yellow tulip and weedy fern thriving beneath a gnarly old Japanese Maple tree. Scilla is invasive in MN, but I'm giving blue-eyed grass a go in my own garden for this kind of look. #bloomscrolling
Just a #plantcombination I saw in Seattle once in mid June: a sprawling golden Spirea bush surprisingly elevated by a shock of nigella damascena just doing whatever it wants right there in front of it.
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Just a #plantcombination I saw in Seattle once in mid June: a sprawling golden Spirea bush surprisingly elevated by a shock of nigella damascena just doing whatever it wants right there in front of it.
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Wedge LIVE! interviewed Doron, Monica, & Peter wrt to Tuesday's SD60 special election. From these 3 interviews, I'm seeing Peter stand out on several issues, but he got my heart by volunteering unprompted the issue of the state owning roads in Mpls neighborhoods and running them like highways...
Peter Wagenius - candidate for MN Senate, district 60
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January 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Wedge LIVE! interviewed Doron, Monica, & Peter wrt to Tuesday's SD60 special election. From these 3 interviews, I'm seeing Peter stand out on several issues, but he got my heart by volunteering unprompted the issue of the state owning roads in Mpls neighborhoods and running them like highways...
A view of two bike paths from a bike path. #heartminneapolis
January 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A view of two bike paths from a bike path. #heartminneapolis
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i sat down with social media’s own @nortonmpls.bsky.social on "a lovely day" in Minneapolis to learn about how he came to defend the city with such passion. He says it's up to us to push back at negative portrayals of the city. www.startribune.com/lovely-day-m...
Lovely day: Minneapolis man looks to change narrative around Minneapolis with cheerful tweets, photos
Mike Norton, one of social media’s most prolific defenders of Minneapolis, says it’s up to the people who live here to push back at negative portrayals of the city.
www.startribune.com
November 11, 2024 at 6:26 PM
i sat down with social media’s own @nortonmpls.bsky.social on "a lovely day" in Minneapolis to learn about how he came to defend the city with such passion. He says it's up to us to push back at negative portrayals of the city. www.startribune.com/lovely-day-m...