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The Color Trends for 2025

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Top row left to right: mulberry, Sugar maple, witch hazel

Middle row: Freeman’s maple, Persian ironwood, Scarlet oak

Bottom row: Burr oak, Shagbark hickory, Crimson glory vine

Feel free to ask for the Latin names

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Colorful apartment

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Tajinaste rojo (Echium wildpretii) 

(via)

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Scandi studio / styling by Lindholm and photos by Boukari

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Pearl Lowe’s Vintage Boho English Beach House is For Sale

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Scandinavian apartment

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Scandinavian apartment with color accents

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Nordic apartment

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Scandinavian apartment with color accents

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Starting tree seeds for my daughter who lives in Haida Gwaii. These are all ones that tolerate wet soil.

From Sheffield’s seeds.

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Sorbus hupehensis 'Pink Pagoda'

A mountain ash bred by the University of British Columbia. 

It grows true from seed. 

http://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.com/2014/01/panning-for-seeds.html

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Greek figurine

British Museum

For some reason this little fellow made me smile

London, July 2022

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Etruscan satyr drinking cup 6th-4th C. BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"Diluting wine with water [was invented] by Staphylus son of Silenus."

-Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7. 199 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C 1st A.D.)

https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2020/04/etruscan-satyr-drinking-cup-6th-4th-c.html

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Sometimes I’ve seen hang gliders up here, but today it was dragonflies.

I guess they are doing the same thing, enjoying the same thermals...

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~ Statuette of Anubis. Period: Ptolemaic Period Date: 332-30 B.C. Place of origin: Egypt Medium: Plastered and painted wood.