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Julie Butcher 🌴
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"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
~ Hunter S. Thompson


My local reporting: https://muckrack.com/julie-butcher
My writings & such: https://butchershop-nobonesaboutit.com
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Hairy Potter is magnificent! And quite athletic!

Thomas Stearns ponders hunting, decides instead to contemplate shapes. Round is a shape, he decides.

#FatCats #RotundCats ⚫
large fluffy black cat, no feet visible
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
~ Colette

A joyful #Caturday to all the #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛ and the delightful people who love and serve them!
Gray cat (Willie) staring straight ahead; black cat (Thomas Stearns) lying behind him (they were "playing")
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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“Ah, good conversation -- there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
~ Edith Wharton 💜 🌱
Two purple striped with pink white centers Morning Glory blooms, gray wall, garden netting and some green leaves in the background
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in."
~ Leonard Cohen

🌱 Good morning, kind gardeners.
Group of white paperwhites, dark green spiky leaves and garden in the background
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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'Tis a wondrous shoppe of bookes!
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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“We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."
~ Dale Carnegie

🌱 Happy happy #RoseWednesday all you lovely gardeners!

#BloomScrolling 🪷 #FlowerReport 🌻 #Gardening 🌹 #Zone10a
Group of miniature yellow roses in front, larger lavender-colored rose bloom in background; green leaves and stems in background
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
~ John Steinbeck

🌱 Guess I'm not the only one loving on the #TinyFlowerTuesday 💜

#Monarch 🪷 #Butterfly 🦋 #FlowerReport 🌻 #Bloomscrolling
Monarch butterfly enjoying a butterfly bush blooming tiny purple flowers
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Pippin is adorable! Looks a bit like our Willie, who also enjoys a good box.
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.”
~ Buddha

🌱 Oooh, it's a cold #MagentaMonday (for us!) but the sun will soon warm my little garden a bit.

#FlowerReport 🩷 #Bloomscrolling 💜 #Gardening 🪷 #Zone10a
pink (magenta?) rose bloom, fence, leaves, and stems in the background
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“Flowers grow out of dark moments.”
~ Corita Kent

🌱 Sending joy and love and a pretty yellow flower to you'all on this #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow

#BloomScrolling ☀️ #FlowerReport 🌻 #Poppies
Yellow-orange poppy bloom, green leafy background
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
~ Terry Pratchett

Happy happy #Caturday to all who celebrate 🐈‍⬛ from a relaxed T.S. lounging here in our little yard ~
Big black cat lounging on grass in small garden filled with grass, pots, plants, various garden decorations
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
~ Jane Austen

🥬 Verdure! Enjoy it all, kind gardeners of BlueSky 💚

🌱 #Bloomscrolling 🌼 #FlowersOnFriday ☀️ #FlowerReport
flowers in garden container, white and purple blooms, green leaves, small garden flamingo visible
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin pie!”
~ Margaret Junkin Preston

Feeling very thankful 🥧 and just a little festive ~ wishing you'all a tiny slice of something sweet!!
Grandchild shown from the back, reclining against a group of pumpkins; small pond, reeds, rocks showing
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🎶 "Everybody's very happy
'cause the sun is shining all the time
Looks like another perfect day
I love L.A.!
(We love it!)" 🎵
~ Randy Newman, I Love L.A.

🌱 Happy #RoseWednesday to you and yours!
Cluster of white roses, black and leafy background
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"'Green fingers' are a fact and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart."
~ Russell Page

" . . . a verdant heart . . . "

A joyous #TinyFlowerTuesday to all who celebrate 🌱
#Bloomscrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport
tiny pink flower, green stems and leaves and the trunk of a tree in the background
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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“Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.”
~ Mac Griswold

🌱 #MagentaMonday🩷 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💜 #Zone10a
Two magenta-colored petunias, one fully open, one trying to open; bright green leaves and such in the background
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things."
~ Clive Anderson

Me too!

🌱 #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow ☀️ #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport
yellow daisy-like flower with prominent brown center
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.”
~ Bill Dana

#Caturday? Doesn't that imply that there are other days?

Happy pets to all the #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛
Gray cat staring, green grassy background
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Ah! A kind wish for all the gardeners of BlueSky 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport
Reddish Dahlia bloom covered with raindrops, greenery in the backdrop
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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“Purple is my soul color; it’s a melody for the heart and mind.”
~ Prince

Me too 💜 💜 💜

Hoping you get to spend a little time in your garden on this #PrettyPurpleThursday 🌱

#Bloomscrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💛 #Zone10a
Purple (blue?) bachelor button plants among light green stems and leaves, in the garden, in the sun
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
~ Katharine Lee Bates

Joy and beauty to ya all! 🌱 #RoseWednesday

#BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🌹 #Gardening 🪷 #Zone10a
Miniature orange rose and buds in the forefront, pink roses in the background along with green leaves and stems
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."
~ Honoré de Balzac

🌱 Brrrr, it's cold out there (for us!) on this #TinyFlowerTuesday, but these smol paperwhites are blooming like it's April and they're daffodils!
Cluster of white paperwhite flowers, green spiky leaves and brown in the background
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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“Weather means more when you have a garden. There is nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is sinking in around your green beans.”
~ Marcelene Cox

Much magnificence to ya'all on this cold & rainy #MagentaMonday
💜🌱🩷
Magenta petunia bloom, drooping under raindrops, brown and green of the garden in the background
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers."
~ Pablo Neruda

Oddly comforting.

🌱 Happy day of #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a ☀️
group of yellow roses, photographed from under them, green stems and leaves, grayish sky
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM