#garryposting

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Xestoleptura crassipes on pearly everlasting

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how was it garry

bes. t sec sver

[ .. you’ve.. never had sex before???? ]

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last fall I stuck a bunch of garry oak acorns (quercus garryana; Oregon white oak if you're south of the border) in some pots and left them out over the winter. I was a little worried about them at first, but at least two of them have rooted, and I noticed this one is starting to sprout!

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Here's something I've been slowly picking away at for the last month or so: new handles for our fridge, because why not

process:

I cut the basic shape out of a 2x4 with a jigsaw, then planed and sanded them to clean them up

and I thiiink the scales were probably like 6-7 hours of hand carving total over the course of a few weeks since I couldn't sit and do it for too long at a time. I broke the shitty little carving tool from Mr. Michael I was using and went and got a much nicer one from a specialty shop partway through which surprise, did make a huge difference lol

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first time doing ceramics in probably 20 years and I made fishy :)

which made me get my ass in gear and finally finish putting up the gallery wall in my bedroom

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one of the dense-flowered lupine (l. densiflorus) seeds I planted is starting to sprout!!!

there are only 3 populations in BC, all of which are small areas on southern Vancouver Island. Aside from habitat loss and trampling, a major factor in their endangered status is a combination of the density of their seeds and the rocky coastal bluffs they inhabit, leading to many of the seeds they drop being washed into the ocean.

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Pacific bleeding heart under the hedge nettle

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metallic green sweat bee + douglas aster