derek arnold

@derekarnold.bsky.social

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SPECIES Cucurbita pepo American Pumpkin ESTABLISHMENT MEANS Introduced to United States (Source List: United States Check List)
macro shot of Sedum morganianum, with flash
idk some small sunflower hybrid
a macro photo closeup of a purslane flower, same one as before but the colors look way better
closeup photo of the flowers and foliate of 'Mojave Fuchsia'
WARNING Transcontinental Cable Crossing Do Not Dig Anywhere In This Area etc Sign by AT&T in a conservation area in Northern Iowa, taken in the early spring, on an overcast day, with last year's dead grass vegetation in the background, and two stands of leafless trees on either side
Dirt in a box in a yard. I have a yucca
Big ass planter box full of fuckin dirt and gravel basically
A photo of a couple of eastern prickly pear cactus paddles in a pot and one has a bright yellow flower coming out of the top
the original macos finder logo. it's a face. it's friendly enough on its own
A photo of a phone booth outdoors by a tree, fence, and garage. The light on the phone booth is on
Two bits of sedum ternatum I stuck in some rocks somewhere
A photo of several newly potted Eastern Prickly Pear cactus paddles on a shelf in a window supported by an open c-clamp
Photo of a piece of lettuce on an open burger on the app inaturalist derekarnold 5/29/26 11:42 AM CDT Lettuce Lactuca sativa
Photo of some moss and plants on limestone
picture of a cat with a skooshed face
A photo of two Sedum Ternatum (woodland stonecrop) plants from the plant stand at a grocery store on a dirty car hood
a photo of a studio pottery mug. It is black with white dots in a cluster on the front. The handle is the head of a loon with a red eye, kinda drooping down
A photo of a former limestone quarry with the topsoil stripped to limestone
a screenshot from NatureServe Explorer showing Sedum Ternatum (Woodland Stonecrop) is possibly extirpated from the state of Iowa
A photo of some kind of sedum/stonecrop, a kind of evergreen looking one
"Conversation ISSPissTracker @ISSPissTracker Found a cool project on reddit. The tank fills in real time based on the ISS Piss tank capacity. "
A photo of Ty Pennington in a yellow suede jacket and hat on a tv screen
“Is this a hurdy gurdy” using the butterfly meme. Instead of a butterfly there’s a buffing wheel
Erin Burnett talking into a mic with a windscreen
A photo of a black cat next to a 1939 Kalamazoo KG-31 archtop in front of an antique North Wind chair
A poster for STS-134 that looks like a star trek poster. Mark Kelly is doing the evil guy head turned low and looking forward thing
A screenshot of a bedrock geology map of the US state of Iowa, which is clearly not an elevation map, but it does have a bunch of cool colors
screenshot of a reverb listing with a photo of an epiphone les paul's back with a built in stainless steel bottle opener near the bottom of the lower bout
NOICE!
a photo of Clint Basinger from Lazy Game Reviews, wearing something like an Aloha shirt and morpheus sunglasses
The guitar stays in tune essentially forever. Before I acquired the guitar from a friend of my father's, my father tuned the guitar for the friend. That guy moved the guitar all around the world for five years. When I went to buy the guitar, the owner said that my dad was the last guy to tune it--it was still in tune, although the strings were old, at that point.
Photo of a guitar with the neck removed and there’s a cat with its head stuck in the sound hole
a fake screenshot from speedrun.com purporting to show a speedrun for downloading, as fast as possible, the entire discography of a music project named Muslimgauze from a private tracker. The joke is that Bryn Jones (1961 - 1999) was incredibly prolific and it would be a large number of albums to download quickly
A photo of Sam Altman at a very important meeting
Photo of a guitar headstock with a black sticker with the word LORD in a blackletter gothic font, resting on top of the body of a MIJ hollow body guitar
Photo of Grover sta-tite nickel plated tuning machines, shiny
A photo of a woodchuck and a rabbit in a yard
photo of the rosewood fretboard for a 1937 Gibson L-50 (along with the guitar of course) next to a bunch of other junk on my workbench. I’ve started to use a sanding beam to level the fretboard and it’s revealed a ton of low spots from play wear in the locations usually associated with jazz chords
Ring-Mounted Finger Ukelele
A photo of the back of a Gibson L-50 with spool clamps attached around half of the perimeter, hanging on a guitar wall hanger. There are numerous patched wood pieces and glued up cracks
Photo of the back of a guitar being glued back together with spool clamps made of blue and black plastic. They’re constructed using a long bolt, a wingnut, two large cylinder shaped pieces of plastic, a large oversized nut that fits over the wingnut, and two TPU pads to protect the guitar from being damaged
Photo of the detached back of an acoustic guitar on top of a guitar backshaped piece of plywood on top of a sheet of plywood with a guitar back shaped hole. I’m gonna use it to keep the sides of the guitar it came off of in place while gluing
A photo of a cowbird fledgling on my front step
A photo of a small terracotta color clay brick/tile, which is stamped with “Denison Foundry”, “Mason City Brick and Tile Company”