To Stop Without a Farmhouse Near

[julesofnature]

The world is both burning & blooming. You get the bad news and the sunrise in the same day. You cry over the headlines, and then you laugh at a baby wearing a hat shaped like a bear. This is the dual citizenship of being alive. Rage and reverence. Grief and grace. You are allowed to feel both. You are allowed to scream, & still notice how good the soup is. You don’t have to choose. Let it all in. ~ Karen Salmansohn

[normalcei]

Not all dogs have jobs and I think they should get to wear little vests too

[offshoreoilrig]

You need to touch saltwater

[estudandoarte]

Waterlilies

Claude Monet, 1904

[every-lemon]

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men’s workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.

they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he’d printed.

I said “what” and he explained, helpfully, “it’s a William Carlos William themed workout.” I asked what inspired it and he said “I’ve been planning this for months.”

[every-lemon]

it was a smash hit.

a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.

he was home by 6:30am.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 21 September 2025

On Orkney the South African bulbs Nerine bowdenii (Bowden lily, Cornish lily, Cape flower, Guernsey lily) seem to thrive. This perennial has been described as “adding a splash of glamour to the autumn garden”, which with the umbels of bright pink flowers it surely does.

Jill Raggett

[weirdmarsupial]

Found a local fiber arts group to hang out with. By which I mean I'm weaving on my balcony surrounded by three big orb weavers' webs

[great-and-small]

[animentality]

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]

[rapidhighway]

getting big 45 minute vibes from this 15 minute recipe

[michaelnordeman]

Wood anemone/vitsippa. Värmland, Sweden (May 12, 2021).

[beggars-opera]

"touch grass" uh please get with the times, we are touching natural native plant gardens now, gently to not disturb the pollinators

[cavegirl66]

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[str4wbri]

i need to read more books that make me feel this way

[hangsawoman]

me in the spring sun

[becausebirds]

Eider ducks sound as though you’ve just told them a very interesting fact or juicy gossip.

[sirartwork]

reblog for noises