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• Post #4338375

  Trump regime loses again re mail in ballots https://www.savethepostoffice.com/court-rejects-government-request-to-lift-injunction-halting-trumps-election-executive-order-and-usps-rule/

• Post #4256102

  A couple of houses on this block put up a yearly sidewalk border display of zinnias mixed in with other flowers on 20th Ave. All kinds of bees love it! #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #OurNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #DogWalks

• Post #4179944

  One reason I don't get going on a casual hike with earbuds in and talking to someone on the phone #TouchGrass https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/listening-to-birdsong-in-a-forest-lowered-a-persons-stress-during-experiment/

• Post #4163015

  "Children, everybody, here's what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment."--Maxine Hong Kingston #WhatNext #Ecology #Restoration https://www.owlinamerica.com/july-26-2026/?ref=owl-in-america-newsletter

• Post #4145385

  Diagnosing heart attacks in women can be tricky. And heart disease kills more women than all forms of cancer combined. Women and doctors need to be more proactive #WomensHealth #HeartDisease https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/jul/27/women-heart-attack-symptoms-testing

• Post #4096666

  A bumblebee photobombed the photo opp, but flew off after just a brief touchdown. There were lots of bumblebees in the squash, and the honeybees were all over the arugula flowers. #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #OurNeighborhood #PicardoFarmPPatch #SquashBlossom #BloomScrolling

• Post #4041251

  Some thpughts on invasive and noninvasive insects and whether you should "control" them. "If a species is reducing the resilience of a site we’re managing, we have an obligation to mitigate that." #Ecology #NaturalHistory #Conservation https://prairieecologist.com/2026/07/23/those-bugs-are-eating-my-flowers-what-do-i-do/

• Post #4015156

  I could smell the lilies from a block away #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #OurNeighborhood #Lilies #SidewalkFlowers

• Post #3961722

  Solar on farms: an ecological +++ #solarPower #FarmsAndSolar https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/jul/20/colorado-farming-solar-panels-in-pictures?CMP=share_btn_url

• Post #3961638

  A photo before the squirrels get them! Sadler's oak (Quercus sadleriana) #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #Oaks #Acorns

• Post #3957130

  A trip to the P-Patch :Seattle Parks adds an anti-ICE sign, and suddenly I have vegetable life #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer ##PicardoFarmPPatch #Greenery

• Post #3911969

  Pallas cats https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/17/friday-night-soother-367/

• Post #3900824

  Hoarding syndrome I think it's a form of OCD, right? #FridayFunnies #Funnies4Friday

• Post #3875940

  A simple yellow rose #Photography #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #SeattleWashington #Roses #OurNeighborhood

• Post #3738690

  #FridayFunnies #Funnies4Friday

• Post #3673710

  Star jasmine perfuming the air. We still have privet, and the lilies are coming on. #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #OurNeighborhood #Jasmine

• Post #3638019

  If you interested in an AI bubble monitor, this is fairly easy to understand and is updated weekly https://cepr.net/publications/ai-bubble-monitor/

• Post #3629083

  Catalpa flowers like tree popcorn #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #OurNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Catalpas

• Post #3607416

  #SilentSunday #Photography

• Post #3587424

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• Post #3558879

  Crocosmias are getting ready to bloom, and the hummingbirds are already checking out the few open ones. I think the buds are fascinating. #Photography #SeattleWashington #BloomScrolling #Crocosmia #SeattleSummer #PicardoFarmPPatch ##OurNeighborhood

• Post #3474327

  A little red pelargonium #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #OurNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Pelargomium #Red

• Post #3432359

  #FridayFunnies

• Post #3427516

  The sun is over the yardarm. Time for a few #FridayFunnies

• Post #3322819

  This didn't make headlines, but a French village refused to host Hegseth for the D-Day celebrations #DDay #Hegseth #USDiplomacy https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/14/normandy-village-legrune-sur-mer-protest-d-day-pete-hegseth

• Post #2600497

  Two bees #Photography #SeattleWashington #NativeBees

• Post #2600496

  Bigleaf lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus) blooming amidst the creeping buttercups #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #BloomScrolling #SeattleParks #NativePlantsOfThePNW #NativePlants

• Post #2600495

  "And yet, again and again, the efforts that endure are not the most novel. They’re the ones that manage — sometimes deliberately, sometimes imperfectly — to carry older lessons forward: restraint, relationship, and place-based memory. The understanding that ecosystems are lived with, not simply managed." #Ecology #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Conservation #Restoration https://therevelator.org/reflections-what-endures-conservation/

• Post #2600494

  Chris Helzer's inimitable US prairie photos #Ecology #NaturalHistory #Conservation #Restoration #Sustainability #Biodiversity #USPrairie https://prairieecologist.com/2026/05/15/photos-of-the-week-may-15-2026/

• Post #2600493

  Snails that don't eat food and have iron shells! Threatened by deep sea mining "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5). #Biology #Conservation #Extinction #DeepSeaMining https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/celebrate-endangered-species-day-meet-the-scaly-foot-snail-the-most-metal-animal-in-the-world/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TIS_051526&utm_term=end...