#caturday at home with a crappy cold and Sun Bear. She has acclimated from the streets to a Minnesota winter feline hygge life. This polar vortex is hard on the living creatures already outside and those that venture outdoors today. Numb hands are problematic. Stay safe.
#polarvortex #minneapolis

Last night I finished this assembled necklace for a sun-kissed beauty that swims near Wilmington, North Carolina. This is reused vermeil chain with Thai silver, chrysoprase calcedony, tiny abalone shell from Baja, mixed tourmaline, and Peruvian opal. A Bday gift for a mermaid.

#mermaids #treasure

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In my north Minneapolis home I have a surprise show from a cattleya species that also has a spicy jasmine-like scent. I’m looking forward to planting seeds for springtime gardens. I’m looking forward to the end of this icy season. I love snowfall any day, but ice be gone.
#horticulture

I’ve set up a GoFundMe to help this orange boy. He was a stray sheltering in our MN garage over Thanksgiving and has since moved onto our sofa. Check it out it you like orange cats! #orangecats #GoldenValleyAnimalHumaneSociety
#MissionAnimalHospital
#NorthMinneapolis

gofund.me/a92489957

Day 2 for Pre-K science experiment for a 4 year old, A mix of mongo and pintos were soaked in water, drained, and put into 3 groups with the same light and humidity for each.
1. Heat sheet
2. Control group. No change.
3. recorder and harmonica sounds
#pre-k #horticultureforkids #introtoscience

These are pics taken with an iPhone 15 max pro between 9 and 9:30 in North Minneapolis. The sky is mostly lit up towards the east at the moment, and I’m skipping my bike ride to hang with the alley cats and opossums, glass of red wine in one hand and my phone overhead for once.
#auroraborealis

Sound check at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St.Paul, Minnesota. V and I hung out in the sunken garden, just the two of us, for quite some time. The Summer Flower Show features tropicals like bromeliads, elephant ears, bananas and cannas. We felt like we were back in the bush for a moment.

Some of us have known each other for 16 years, some for 30, and some for our entire lives. We have all the love, the laughter, the snakes for dancing, and the wild raspberry tarts. Damn, I miss these friends. Nathan, Viggo, Justin, Megan, and Jana, N Minneapolis

# Stouties # I’mnotcryingyouare

Today is Sunday, and that means I’m lounging, posting garden pics, and fishing for compliments🌺
All shots taken with an iPhone 10 using the portrait mode.
The plants in these pics are Martagon lily “Sunny Morning”, Clematis “Durandii”, and hosts lily “Komodo Dragon”
# horticulture # plantnerd

We are in the garden again. This picture is taken with an Apple IPhone 10 with the portrait function. “Boom Chocolata” cranesbill or hardy geranium is the subject. #plantnerd #horticulture #botany

There are faces being shown in the garden, continued. Picture taken with an Apple IPhone 10. Peruvian Daffodil (Hymenocallis narcissiflora), mulberry nail color and vinyl siding in the color Winter Blue. #plantnerd #horticulture

There are faces being shown in the garden this week. Picture was taken with an Apple IPhone 10. Botanical name: Clematis “Bernadine” (PP27, 332 ‘Evipo361’) #clematis #horticulture #plantnerd

First post on Blue Sky🌺 It’s this time of year again, when my wee dendrobium Aggregatum throws out an inflorescence, like a plate of scrambled eggs.