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baby tripod fish (bathypterois grallator) | source

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#Animals #Plants #butterflies #swallowtail #host plants #butterfly gardens

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It's tulip time! Here's a dazzler from my garden.

#Mine #Plants #tulips #spring flowers #arty and awesome

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You hear about the octopus that became a pet for a nine-year-old boy in Oklahoma? The octopus, named Terrance, turned out to be a female who laid eggs, producing lots of adorable baby octopuses.

#Animals #terrence #octopus #pet octopus #weird and wonderful

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Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by EnnisFei (@ennisanna_fei)

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#Plants #nails #gardening #garden humor #garden humour #i can relate

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Have you ever fallen in love with a flower? My current crush is 'Tahiti Double' narcissus, which is new to my garden. It even smells nice.

#Mine #Plants #narcissus #tahiti double #spring flowers

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What's this? The pink grasshopper found by a ten-year-old girl in Arkansas. Bizarre and beautiful, yes?

#Animals #pink grasshopper #insects #pink #bizarre

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One of the funniest bird names ever, right?

Black-crested Tit-tyrant or Marañón Tit-tyrant (Anairetes nigrocristatus), family Tyrannidae, found in coastal Peru and northern Chile

photograph by Bartley's Photo Workshops (@bartleys_photo_workshops)

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🪶🪮curl-crested aracari🪮🪶

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"Spring is the time of plans and projects." - Leo Tolstoy ("Anna Karenina")

#Plants #Places #Tolstoy quote #spring quotes #springtime

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Isn't it great to see fruit trees in bloom? Here's my big old Asian pear tree.

#Mine #Plants #Asian pear #bloom #fruit trees #pnw gardening

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Did you know that some chicken breeds lay colored eggs? How delightful!

#Animals #colored eggs #chicken eggs #hens #easter eggs

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+ lymantrine moth

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Sparkling after the rains moved through

(c) gifs by riverwindphotography, July 2023

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"In an age of lies and illusions, the garden is one way to ground yourself in the realm of the processes of growth and the passage of time, the rules of physics, meteorology, hydrology, and biology, and the realms of the senses." -- Writer/activist Rebecca Solnit

#Plants #gardening quote #nature quote #grounded #rebecca solnit