Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Trio of Symphyotrichum sp. All the Asters! Happy September frome Maine! #medawislasights

Fuchsia colored Symphyotrichum flowers with bright, deep orange centers, against a green background

Light purple Symphyotrichum with golden centers, against green background

Bright white Symphyotrichum with yellow centers, against green background speckled with more white asters

September 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM Everybody can reply

3 likes

3

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Around the homestead: harvested onions to cure in the week of no rain that continues the 2025 drought; bumbles smother blooming asters; the new spinach vine surprised with delight! #medawislagrows #medawislasights

Purple onions are a new fav! With green tops from recent watering, they lay bulb forward on the dirt in the sun to cure

A bumble bee does her thing on a fuchsia new england aster

Purple onions (red bull variety) lay with green tops on garden mounds

Brasella alba "rubra" spinach climbs bamboo poles shooting out green leaves; gray fence and green hedge in background; green posts and wire fence in foreground

September 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM Everybody can reply

6 likes

1 6

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Subtle signs of summer surrendering to autumn... #medawislasights #medawislatastes #medawislagrows

Yellow green shishito peppers charred from the grill glisten with oil & salt before being devoured

Several multi-colored sunflowers line a flower patch, with rudbeckia & zinnia in the meix; beeblm and asters in the background

September 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM Everybody can reply

3 likes

3

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

This white admiral butterfly has seen better days...resting on gold beet leaf #medawislasights #medawislagrows

A white-striped black butterfly sits on a field of green leaves in a garden

The white & black winds of a butterfly splay open on top of green leaves in a garden

August 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM Everybody can reply

4 likes

4

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Cicada nymph exoskeleton 😎 #medawislasights

A gold, brown cicada shell remains clung to a gray felt bag

Green basil leaves drip from watering above a gold, brown cicada shell still clinging to a gray felt growbag

August 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM Everybody can reply

2 likes

2

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Northern cardinal, Maine

Red bird perched on post for rain gage, drought 2025 #medawislasights

August 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM Everybody can reply

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Beautiful flowers, fighting drought #medawislasights

Red cardinal flowers pop next to purple blooming globe thistles in front of a background of green foliage

August 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM Everybody can reply

6 likes

6

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Birthday blooms! Butterflies & bee butts 😁💜🤣 #medawislasights

Silver spot butterfly laps up necter from a purple beebalm flower

Bumblebees maneuver a purple blossoming blazing star flower

July 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM Everybody can reply

6 likes

6

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Feeling the penpal love near my birthday! (Letter from sister missing do you personal info, but it matched blazing star that started to bloom! #penpals #medawislasights

Red owl wax seal with blue green feather on teal cards lays on top of envelope addressed with teal script, on a table that's back lit

A jumping spider (quickly) approaches on a cushion (look right)

Blazing star flowers start to bloom fuchsia purple against green grass (and squash) background

July 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM Everybody can reply

2 likes

2 2

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Recent blooms, fruits and newest yard forager, cedar waxwing! #medawislasights

America's daisy, fleabane, attracts the most tiny, interesting pollinators, like one on the far right flower that's white with a yellow center; background is green from meadow plants

A cedar waxwing, center, forages for ripe serviceberries in the green shrub; two larger elderberries on either side, and an orange zinnia dominates for the color pop on the lower right

The 5-pointed-star look of the milkweed flower powers mauve pink, back dropped by green leaves

July 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM Everybody can reply

3 likes

3

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Song sparrows #medawislasights #birds

3 speckled eggs nested in brown, dry grass in the center of coiled up metal fencing

2 song sparrow nestlings smother each other, in a nest built inside coiled fencing, as they wait for parents to return with food, no doubt

June 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM Everybody can reply

6 likes

1 6

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Small things! #medawislasights swallowtail caterpillars on fennel; an ants' aphid farm on elderberry; a (garden?) spider on aster; a columbine flower on fingers 🦋🌱🐜

A black caterpillar with white strip and orange spots muches up a fennel frond

How many ants do you see? Farming black aphids on green growth of a woody shrub

Yellow spider rests on a green leaf; purple geranium blooms in the background

A pink and yellow columbine flower held up by four extended fingers; green growth in the background

June 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM Everybody can reply

6 likes

1 6

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Happy Father's Day to "The Conductor" song sparrow! #medawislasights #birds

Metal coils of a fence rolled up shelters a brown nest that cradles three speckled song sparrow eggs

June 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM Everybody can reply

4 likes

4

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Here, too! 😁 #birds #medawislasights

A yellow Wilson's Warbler peeks out from shrubs

May 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM Everybody can reply

2 likes

1 2

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Surprise sunny day! Birding and gardening 🤘🐦‍⬛🌱😎 #medawislasights #medawislagrows #Maine

A blue sky full of wispy clouds and two bald eagles

Blueberry flowers on a highbush that is all leafed-out, in the shrubbery

May 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM Everybody can reply

4 likes

1 4

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

The week's borbs! #birdwatching #maine #medawislasights

Junco! Perches, white belly forward, black head looking up with pink bill catching sunlight

Dark-eyed junco forages on ground with dead leaves all around

The original gangster angry bird! Northern Cardinal perches in a shrub, in the poring rain.

A white-throated sparrow rests on the ground that is starting the green

April 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM Everybody can reply

5 likes

1 5

Medawisla in Maine

@stepheniemac.bsky.social

Hiking in #Maine seeing tiny (not) pinecones from hemlock and alders; scat from moose, coyotes and snowshoe hares; the prettiest reindeer lichen and British soldiers; felt the drumming of two rough grouse and startled at least one other; forest bathed through a pine tree car wash #medawislasights