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Concerned for the Earth and its Inhabitants. Hope to enjoy a thing or two along the way.

sunlight streams onto the path between spiky red Chihuly sculpture pieces in the green bamboo garden at Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee
a wonky-patterned quilt & shams comprised of rainbow colors adorn a spindle bed
vegetable garden at Monticello, Charlottesville, VA
Dewey Lake surrounded by tree covered hills. Beside the lake on a cloudy day, a picnic table sits on a small grassy area behind a guardrail in the foreground. Located near Prestonsburg, Kentucky. #travel
a frosty mug of beer sits atop a red and white checked picnic table cloth at a tree-strewn campsite overlooking a canal with green water, beneath a blue sky dotted with white clouds
wisteria blooming on a trellis in early spring of 2016. (unfortunately, the wisteria had to get cut way back when a new deck and trellis were in order.)
MSU's pollinator garden featuring a variety of plants with white, purple and yellow blooms, et al.
a cluster of Yellow Mountain Columbine blooming in our garden last May. Yellow centers & somewhat pale pink outer petals with tendrils. 💚🌱
house with sagging, decayed roof and dangling gutters strewn with vines and surrounded by overgrowth and seemingly abandoned vehicles in Eastern Kentucky #travel
white picket fence in the foreground, a front yard garden in early June with minimal lawn and plenty of leafy green plants, with a pop of blue delphiniums along with other flowers. #Asheville
a tiny Christmas tree decorated with mostly hand-crafted items, including little hand-carved nut-shell baskets tied with red ribbons. A hand-crafted folk art donkey & pig sit on the tabletop as well. On the wall behind these are a wall clock and a flatscreen TV. #Dad
cake entry depicting a round-bellied Santa going down a chimney, legs up in the air, Kentucky State Fair, 2014 (cake is within a glass display case)
a shirtless fisherman wearing shorts and a hat stands thigh-deep in the waters of the Gulf as two grey-haired ladies walk on the white sands beach behind him using their walking sticks #PerdidoKey #Florida #travel
beneath a blue sky with scattered puffy white clouds, three flat-bottomed barges and a tugboat may be seen near two large metal pilings on Lake Barkley, Grand Rivers, Kentucky #travel
a dogwood tree sits in front of a harvested cornfield before a purplish sky
the morning sun shines from behind the clouds in a "buttermilk sky"
a view of the green/black art deco style restored men's restroom in the National Historic Landmark: The Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, 2009. Green pedestal sinks, black chairs on the shoeshine stand, and black & green striped walls. #travel
a colorful patchwork of painted tiles leading to the entrance of a little shop with a red door. San Diego, 2011 #travel
classic police car evocative of Mayberry RFD, in Louisa, Kentucky, 2023 #travel #classiccar
a quirky home in Pensacola, Florida, with floor to ceiling windows on the lower lever. Inside the home is an art installation that includes a sculpture of a child clad in a hoodie & shorts, wearing pink rubber boots. 2024
blue skies over the garden at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Virginia, August, 2016 #travel
stone fence that incorporates stone steps, as seen at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 2024 #travel
a man wearing a knit cap walks past a big ole tree in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, 2011 #travel
a strip of orange sunset beneath a dark grey shelf cloud beneath blue skies
large sun-shaped glass sculpture comprised of bright yellow & red glass squiggles, Dale Chihuly art installation on the lawn in front of a red-roofed stone building at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee, 2010 #art #travel
Glick Peace Walk art installation - Mark Twain portrait etched on glass reflects nearby buildings, trees. Indianapolis, Indiana, 2017 #travel #streetart
Two grandparents holding hands with two kiddos between them during a tram ride at Lights under Louisville, Louisville Mega Cavern, Louisville, Kentucky, December, 2024. In this capture, the lights form a pink and green striped tunnel.
several spiky green aloe stalks on a black shelf above small orange and green squashes in the produce department at the grocery store
plants on the right side of a concrete staired walkway going uphill include silvery-green lamb's ear, chartreuse sedum & various grasses/bushes. A low wall is seen on the left, and a high, vine-covered wall at photo right. Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee, 2010
this cake entry at the 2014 Kentucky State Fair is decorated with zoo animals, including a panda, monkey, zebra, lion and elephant won a 3rd place ribbon
a small break in the clouds reveals a patch of blue sky shaped somewhat like Africa. This fairly empty highway was in Indiana, I think. A green semi-truck may be seen, as well as a 70mph speed limit sign. #travel
wooden chairs that incorporate unexpected elements. one has golf clubs instead of a wooden back, another has added horseshoes for embellishments & what I believe are croquet stakes for the back
colorful undies and other clothing on a clothesline beside a rental RV with signage "800-RV4RENT") somewhere near Charlottesville, VA #travel
pink clematis climbing a trellis beside a brick wall
a small Monarch Waystation with a little path running through several #pollinatorfriendly plants. In the forefront may be seen a bit of an orange & black metal Monarch Butterfly sculpture
a couple of pink blossoms of a Wild geranium / Cranesbill geranium https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=GEMA
a bumble bee visits the purple/blue blossoms of a salvia plant #bees
hatchling robins with gaping mouths in their nest on a windowsill with a wisteria in the yard nearby
a blue sky with streaks and puffs of white clouds over a country scene with fields and fields in the distance and a scruffy young tree in the foreground
pic taken looking out the window at a robin's nest with four blue eggs on the windowsill, with a wisteria in the yard below
a cloudy but blue sky over farmland with a white flowering dogwood tree before a birch tree at photo right, foreground
Infographic of Katharine Hayhoe's 3 steps to better climate conversations: Bond - Start with shared values; Connect - Show why climate matters; Inspire - Demonstrate working solutions (full text: https://www.sightline.org/2018/07/05/three-steps-to-better-climate-conversations/)
the sunken Natchez Trace with tall trees on either side, 2010 #travel
a blue sky with white clouds over the Elk and Bison Prairie, Golden Pond, Kentucky. A couple of bison wallows may be seen in the foreground. #travel
farmers working at night to prepare the fields for this growing season. lighted farm equipment (and a couple of trucks too, if I remember rightly) on the fields in the country with the sky somewhat illuminated in the background from a city in the distance.
an Eastern Redbud tree before a small man-made waterfall at Louisville Waterfront Park, Kentucky #video #nativeplants
a purple wisteria blossom visited by a native bee, wings spread
a garden bed with lots of chartreuse stonecrop with a small tree and various grasses, etc., behind. Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee
trees and a garden bed with a mix of yellow and purple/blue blossoming plants alongside a brick path
a highly decorative two-tier cake entry at the 2016 Kentucky State Fair depicting a blue "sea" with an octopus and seahorse, et al. The cake won a 2nd place ribbon in the competition.
flower garden in Springfield, Illinois, in which the beds contain assorted plants with multicolored blooms...orange, red, white, purple flowers, et al
varying sizes of yellow and orange spears of Chihuly glass punctuate the yellow blooms of maybe canna (?) plants and Silver Dust plants behind a swath of Purple Heart plants. Other flowers and ornamental grasses, etc., grace this garden bed at the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee, 2010 🌱
three yellow / orange and two mottled green large glass balls (maybe 36"?) are strewn on the raked rock garden at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee. Atop the hill behind the rock bed sits an even larger blue glass ball (maybe 5 feet?). #art
a bumble bee on a tattered flower with a golden center and dark pink & white flower petals. pic taken in October.
Doug Tallamy's list of woody plants and perennials -- "keystone plants," which "are especially supportive of a garden’s food web" https://mgnv.org/climate-change/making-wise-plant-choices-part-2-keystone-plants/ #garden #nativeplants