DE Riley

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🇺🇸🇸🇪✝️📚👩‍💻Wife mom Nana ISTJ. Reader,writer,proofreader,ex-journalist. Ovarian cancer survivor 3C. BRCA2 mutant #WritingCommunity. #WFWA Working on 3rd book. Prov. 31:8. NO DMs unless we've chatted via posts.

The ox-eye daisy, with white petals and yellow centers.
Climbing nightshade with purple blossoms and yellow centers. This wildflower is TOXIC. Do not handle.
Early goldenrod, with small, yellow blossoms growing on long stems. The leaves are edible.
Sulfur cinquefoil, a wildflower with a dark yellow center and five pale yellow petals that are kind of heart shaped.
Chicory, with bluish-purple petals that are ragged at their edges.
The white campion, with white flowers growing out of a pod that contains the plant's seeds.
Red sandspurry, with teeny tiny flowers (¼-inch wide), have 5 petals, are a light pink to purple in color, and grow very close to the ground.
The wildflower prickly lettuce, with tinyyellow flowers.
A photo of the Virginia dwarf dandelion, which looks like a small version of the common dandelion. It is yellow with green leaves.
The tufted vetch, with pea-like purple flowers in clusters.
Betony, a wildflower with pinkish-purple flowers.
A heron walks on grass near a lake's cove.
A small turtle waiting in the greens for me to go away.
The bachelor's button is a cute wildflower with double blossoms that come in various colors, seen here in white and light pink.
Maiden pink, with small pink blossoms and narrow, green leaves.
Soapwort, with delicate pink flowers that grow in a cluster.
The narrow-leaf plantain. The top has clusters that spike and then has white stamens. The leaves, as the name states, are narrow.
Low baby's breath, with purple-pinkish tiny petals, five per blossom.
Canadian horseweed, with tiny white flowers/yellow centers, bristly stems, and narrow, hairy leaves
White bedstraw, featuring pointy leaf clusters and teeny tiny white flowers.
The birdsfoot trefoil grows close to the ground. It has pea-shaped blossoms and the leaves look like clover.
The prairie milkweed, with large green leaves and pale to deep pink or light purple blossoms that form in clusters.
Field sorrel, with teeny tiny blossoms and long, narrow leaves.
Three dunks standing on a boat launch at a small lake.
The selfheal, a wildflower that grows close to the ground. It's petals are purple.
Alps yarrow, with small pink and white blossoms with yellowish centers.
The pale knotweed, with teeny tiny seedlike blossoms in various shades of pink.
Eastern daisy fleabane is so called because, well, they look like tiny daisies. The white petals are much thinner, but the centers are the same bright yellow.
White sweet-clover, tiny white blossoms clustered on a leafy stalk.
Photo of the big leaf aster, which is bluish-purple with yellow centers. The flowers are tightly clustered.
A young white-tailed rabbit by a fence.
The blue shell of a robin’s egg.
An editorial cartoon by Pat Bagley, showing Trump holding people back from a lone book on the floor. Trump says, "Stay back, folks! No telling when one of those things might go off and give you ideas."
A dog with mostly black face with some white. His body is white with black spots. His name is Rocky and he’s the best boy in the world.
Purple and white wildflowers.
Purple and white wild flowers
The cover of "Blood Meridian," a novel by Cormac McCarthy. Red with letters and, in the background, a ghost image of a steer skull.
Two cats sitting on a chair.
Container not quite ⅔ full on opening.
Photo of Mr. Ziggy, a gray and white domestic short-haired cat.