Daniel Bachman

@danielbachman.bsky.social

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Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener Manahoac Territory Born at 353.15 ppm.

One of the music bulbs of garlic before we cleaned them up a little for storage
Food lion logo in Belgium as delhaize
Red sun setting between the two peaks of double top mountain from the Canadian wildfire smoke.
A small dish of green beans and a yellow cucumber with a side of filtered water after the hot smoky days we’ve had.
Me wearing a gvs respirator and a stirrup hoe ready to tear it up in the garden
Me in a field next to a few data centers being built in. Culpeper county filming a cloud of dust coming off a hillside in the smoke.
Smoke has turned the mountain skyline of the Shenandoah into a grey haze.
Corn ripening on the stalk with broad leaf pumpkin vines growing underneath.
My new Ralph Stanley at leveled at shirt
A red sun sets almost directly between the two peaks of double top mountain several miles to the west of us due to the intensifying Canadian wildfire smoke.
A head ready for harvest of the Cherokee purple lettuce.
A message from Virginia cardinal care. Important Medicaid renewal updates Starting in 2027, some adults with Medicaid will be required to renew their coverage 2 times a year. They may also need to show they are working, going to school or job training, or helping in the community to keep their health coverage. This means completing a certain number of hours each month. Some adults are exempt from these requirements, including: • Parents with young children • People with disabilities • People facing certain hardships
A bright red orb sinks beneath the shroud of the mountain.
A induction cooktop on our workbench out back with a plate with some fritters a couple peppers and a small tomato. A boom box and jug of oil sit nearby.
Some kind of zinnia we planted, it’s got a reddish center and bright yellow petals.
Very sweet little cat investigating the large sunflower we brought inside today.
Two big ass books by john Barth. One is a newer edition with some shiny cover, the other is old and faded.
Me holding a Zoom recorder up to my guitar while it washes in the surf along Hughlett Point Natural Area in Virginia's Northern Neck/Chesapeake Bay. You can see the dead pine tree stumps in the water. This area is losing land 2nd only to Louisiana in the US.
A wok full of tofu and beans, a bowl full of shaved cukes, a basket of shrimp chips, and a pot of rice 😮‍💨
Me standing next to a large cedar tree in a obscure local cemetery of enslaved people in Westmoreland county VA. There are over 100 people buried here, with stones laid in clean lines, one at the foot and one at the head.
Our cat Bevis on her little box thing next to her log scratcher she is looking cute tonight
Our cat Bevis getting down on the churu with th airplane ears and crossed eyes…
July page of the VDF calendar with the very large Earlysville white oak
Me sitting above our crate of Yukon gold potatoes with a cup of coffee.
The small cd player my grandma bought me when I was a kid with a dead moth on top some fungacie and fertilizer behind it and two white CDs of tree music on the bench.
A short row of lettuce covered by a shade cloth.
My thermos cat coffee and computer ina coffee table sitting in front of my nice stereo speakers
Our cat little baby Bevis smelling some big chard leaves in a green bucket
A red colander full of provider green beans above the plants and Peruvian zinnias.
A pile of green beans that weighs over 5 lb not sure though. They are the provider variety from Johnnys
A skillet of provider green beans and yellow squash and zucchini.
The large mound like rising near the colonial era plantation x
The old Laurel hill house shrouded by vines and fencing
A towel spread out with green onions, yellow squash, red potatoes ,!/ from wine and flashy lettuce
This is a unsettling group portait of people wearing what appear to be paper mache masks and costumes of varying kinds. They are ghostly looking, dead eyed, and its hard to tell what the fuck is actually going on here.
A a tip covered in yellow pollen about to be swabbed on a flower.
Our interior garden with rows of mulched beds and sunflowers.
About a third of a five gallon bucket filled with multi colored carrots.
A couple of the groundhogs I feed hanging out in the back of the field.
A 7 foot tall sunflower emerged overnight. A blue sky with clouds is behind it.
A freshly hoed bed of corn looking nice in its little hills. Potatoes and sunflowers and pumpkins birder the small planted.
A gold framed portrait of two women dancing by a fireplace while and of man and dog sleep nearby. Dec 1959z
A jar of green sichuan pepper corn oil hot and numbing!
Me holding my planting stick and a fistful of sweet potato slips.
A broadfork and crate sit next to a recently harvested garlic and potato beds.
A bowl of turnips in fish lime and tamarind sauce with green onions and peanuts
A tomato trellis tied with the famous Florida weave.
Our cat Bevis while I’m singing john Anderson’s country classics to her on a Friday morning.
A portrait of Essex Hemphill "Poet, Performance Artist & Activist" fort he District Vibes show in DC right now during Pride.