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Two Tarot cards stuck into the earth, old leaves and mulch surrounding them at the foot of bushes of Blazing Stars. There are no flowers down here, just beautiful green stems and leaves. On the left is Death, depicting a human skull with amaranth blooming from its eye sockets, a beetle taking a sip of water dripping from one of them. The skull sits atop soil, just below it, a saber tooth tiger skull, and below that, buried deep and emerging from the bottom of the card, the skull of a tyrannosaurus rex. On the right is Judgment. A massive flock of little brown bats bursts forth from a cave in the mountains at high noon, led by an enormous golden eagle.
a chipmunk stands on their hind legs behind some grasses a bit taller than they are. their cheeks are puffed and their paws are to their face as they stick some seeds inside their mouth.
The Hermit and the Page of Swords from the Smith-Waite Centennial deck are nestled amongst leaf litter in the top of a decaying log. The Hermit depicts an elderly man with a white beard, standing against a teal background and wearing a hooded cream-colored robe. He is holding a lantern with a six-pointed star inside. To his right is the Page of Swords, a young man standing atop a hill, blue sky filled with fluffy clouds behind him. The Page wears a pinkish tunic over a yellow shirt and leggings with red boots, and holds a sword up and off to the side, with his long chestnut hair whipping in the wind.
A tiny, cream-colored book lies open on the floor, propped open by a white apophylite crystal and leaning on a pale blue celestite. It is mostly out of focus, the edges of everything appearing slightly blue in the pale sunlight.
dark snow-covered trees, a white house with black shutters tucked behind them, beneath a pale blue-gray sky
3 goldfinches in their winter plumage eat seeds from a tree-shaped window feeder. Behind them in a snowy arborvitae sits another finch out of focus.
I bring a sort of X vibe to the Y meme with a man gazing off over the railing of a porch, labeled "my toddler brings a sort of rotten food vibe to the car that people don't really like"
Two goldfinches in their winter plumage, sitting on a tree-shaped window feeder, argue with a third who’s in midair having just jumped away from the feeder tray.
a photo from below, looking up at the belly of a peregrine falcon coasting across a cloudy sky. their belly and the undersides of their wings are cream, heavily barred with a deep brown, and their bright, thick yellow feet are clasped below them.
a closeup of the back of deep green pothos leaves as the sun shines through them, casting rainbows onto the green
mocking SpongeBob says “as a Scorpio,”
a black-and-white toy cat sits on a windowsill, gazing out onto a gloomy and rainy, but still quite lovely, day
a tiny toy cat wearing denim pants, a plaid shirt, orange scarf, and eensy suspenders lies on a wooden table next to a pile of five acorn caps
hilary duff in the lizzie maguire movie, smiling excitedly on stage as she sings this is what dreams are made of
a bank of fluffy pink flowers, light purple hyssops taller behind. in the distance is a maple tree shading a wooden treehouse. there are many bumblebees, though barely visible in the image.
my favorite tree, an enormous Sugar Maple, with a thick canopy filtering all the sunshine into deep green light
A lush marsh under a sky thick with pale gray clouds. The clouds are full of light, with no threat of rain. All the plants and grasses are green, save for pink joe pye weed and magenta loosestrife emerging in the foreground.
a view up the slope of my steep and green-filled garden, bright red bee balm popping out of the top, the sky bright blue full of strange whiskery clouds and lens flare.
A closeup of an eastern bumblebee drinking nectar from an amongst the spindly white petals of a dense blazing star, blurred juicy stonecrop leaves and anise hyssop plants in the background. the bright morning sun fuzzes rainbows in the top right.
amongst a sea of light green buds, a few pale pink tiny flowers begin to open
The carpenter bee hops off the hyssop, hovering in midair
An enormous carpenter bee looks up at me from atop a hyssop flower much smaller than she is
the light is dim in my garden. a closeup of bright red bee balms in front of a deepening sky, blurry primroses in the background, the sun has almost completely set
two small, fluffy bumblebees climb pale purple hyssop flowers, a tall full garden fading out of focus in the background.
a screenshot of my phone’s Lock Screen with a notification from Sky Guide that the Moon and Mars are in conjunction, and the best viewing time was at 8:42pm
a fluffy white Guinea Pig enters from the left to inspect Tarot cards arrayed on the wood floor
I zoom in to a brand new, multi-stage potty training seat sitting on the floor of my office.
a tiny green inchworm nibbles on the petals of a bright yellow coreopsis flower, nestled in a bed of thin green leaves
a bright yellow sprig of blooming St. John’s Wort sits in a glass, in front of a squat golden beeswax candle on a black ceramic stand
a little yellow hoverfly with blurred, buzzing wings and burgundy eyes sits on a tiny pale purple hyssop flower
the current full moon in capricorn is smack dab on my chart ruler saturn in capricorn
the quarter moon in the darkening pale blue sky above my neighbor’s old victorian house
a huge bush of 3-4 feet tall spiky green evening primroses emerges next to my patio wall, getting ready to flower
An enormous female lion with a lightly scarred face sits, relaxed in the grass, next to a small cub and one of his older brothers.
A small green fly perches in a sun spot atop a cream-colored zine lying in shadow in the grass, scattered about with pink peony petals. The zine is titled Death & the Coffin: Divining Endings through the lenses of Tarot, Lenormand, and Nature.
A deep magenta-red flower bud unfolds from green leaves tipped red
a tiny lavender-colored hyssop bud emerges from a circle of yellow-green pointed leaves
the sun set 20 minutes ago behind silhouettes of maple and oak trees, the sky fading from navy blue at the top to pink gold on the horizon.
on a patchy white window frame hidden behind the base of two potted plants is a little rainbow of light, crossed with shadows of bamboo
A small green fly perches in a sun spot atop a cream-colored zine lying in shadow in the grass, scattered about with pink peony petals. The zine is titled Death & the Coffin: Divining Endings through the lenses of Tarot, Lenormand, and Nature.
Standing in my foyer I zoom in on Gray Catbird sitting in a Mountain Laurel bush directly outside my front door, singing into my house.
Over a deep green image of moss dripping from slim trees, text reads "Introducing Eight of Pentacles Press."
a picture out my office window, framed by magenta and rosy pink rhododendrons on either side and a flowering dogwood at the top. the turkey mosies amongst my bird feeders.
A large female turkey gazes off, standing beneath my bird feeder between a hyssop bush and a catmint plant.
A small flock of 8ish Chimney Swifts swirl together between huge old maple trees silhouetted against a bright blue sky, studded with little white cloud puffs.
A Gray Catbird perches on a dead snag of wood, their head tilted to examine the wood for bugs. The Catbird’s body faces the camera, their tummy a paler gray than their wings and head. Their black beak is tipped to the left. A backlit bit of spiderweb reaches from the snag off the left of the image. Rhododendrons and dead grasses fade into blurry afternoon sun behind them.
Two Bluebirds sit atop their nest box on a pole in a meadow. The box is old, a lovely worn pale brown, with small lichens along the top. The female Bluebird sits at the back left of the box’s roof with her front facing the camera, her head a creamy brown fading into a dark orange and white tummy. The male perches on the right of the box, side-on, looking back at the camera over his shoulder with his head tilted sideways in curiosity. His wings and head are a deep jewel-toned blue, his tummy rust and cream.
the slope of my yard from the same above post, with no visible wall, entirely covered in mint
a shot of the flower bed at the start of this weekend, a hill of plain dirt behind a retaining wall, with a large segment of tall non-native grass at the top of the slope
a big ol’ pile of palm-sized and larger rocks lying in the sun on my patio, which I’ve dug up while preparing soil for flowers
a little segment of my garden planted in with most of the plants from my car! a few more in pots wait on the wall to be planted tomorrow
a pink yarrow variety labeled “saucy seduction”