Stephanie Renee

@juststephanie.bsky.social

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neuroscience nerd living on borrowed serotonin. ask me about my dogs.

Proudly holding my young, unripe peach that’s still attached to its tree. The fruit is mostly uniformly round with fuzzy green skin and a blush-red center edge.
A small black mutt of a rescue dog (likely terrier and mini poodle mix), with salt + pepper hair around his eyes and muzzle, snoozing on his brand new area rug like the best doggo in the world.
A thistle growing in the shrubs of a honey mesquite bush. In the center of the thistle are at least 4 brown beetles having a party.
The world’s tiniest strawberry in the palm of my hand. It was bitter, just like my soul.
Desert cardinal, or Pyrrhuloxia, perched on a honey mesquite tree in front of a clear blue sky.
A selfie taken mid-shrug as I try to understand what in the world is going on. But like, it’s a smoke-free selfie.
Photo depicts an unidentified hawk in a backyard palm tree.
Photo depicts a young Jane Magnolia, planted outdoors, with pink flowers being watered with a water hose.
Photo depicts three blue anemone flowers in a raised garden bed with a drip irrigation system
Phot depicts a senior terrier mix with grey eyebrow and beard, denoting aging, looking directly into the camera.
Image depicts a yellow ranunculus flower in a with partial buds opening in a raised garden bed
Photo depicts a screen shot from an APNews news article explaining the El Paso, TX airspace has been closed overnight with no warning.
Modeling my first wearable sewing project: wide leg linen pants. Complete with pockets and pleats!
My large golden haired mix of a dog, Juniper, trying to eat my entire hand.
Me with a large eucalyptus tree in my car stretching from the trunk, into the front seat.
Large dog sitting in a lush backyard, looking contemplative as sunbeams stretch before her.
Car trunk stuffed with flat packing boxes
Selfie in front of an amazing southwest sunrise.
An okra plant with both a yellow bloomed flower and actual pods of okra.
Sky at dawn before the sun has fully risen.
A singular peach colored dahlia
Bouquet of various colored zinnia flowers
11 seconds of a hummingbird getting nectar from zinnia flowers in a desert-scaped garden.
Proudly displaying a ~5inch yellow, straight neck zucchini
Looking out into the garden from a hammock chair while reading The Deepest Lake by Andromeda Romano-LAX.
Small dog stopping to smell the zinnia in a flower garden.
Microsoft Word title page to the manuscript Eyes on the Prize: An Investigation of Empathy, Impulsivity, and Pasychopathic Traits in a Community Sample.
Yellow straight neck squash growing off of its stalk while surrounded by various male and female zucchini flowers.
Selfie in a sun hat floating in an inflatable tube in a lake.
Fully opened squash blossom growing in an in-ground garden.
Juniper, a large fawn colored dog, sitting in front of the flower garden looking up at the camera with pride.
My hand holding a package of Platinum Instant Sourdough yeast + culture with a tiled floor in the background.
Praying mantid chilling out on a coriander plant label after its potted plant home was watered.
Hemingway, my perfect shaggy-haired plant-dad of a dog sitting on a patch of Zinnia.
Pink and white dahlia flowers blooming in full sun.
Two potted dahlia flowers, two-toned in color. The first is mostly red with white basal portions of the petals with a pink center. The second flower is mostly white with pink tipped flowers and a yellow center.
In the foreground is a bouquet of dahlia, marigold, scabiosa, dianthus and lavender in an empty pasta sauce jar, with the garden they were plucked from in the background.
Solitary fly sleeping next to the pollen of a fully bloomed Cosmo flower.
Small amateur floral arrangement with a bright dahlia in full bloom taking center stage surrounded by some lavendar, scabiosa, and other filler flowers.
Container of ladybugs, that are actually beetles and not bugs, ready to be refrigerated released this evening, definitely NOT to be forgotten and shuffled around like my emotional support ketchup bottle.
Hoberfly exiting a crevasse in a marigold flowet bud
In my garden, holding my very first strawberry in my grubby hands with chipped nail polish. It is still ripening on the vine so not ready to be picked yet.
A white moth showing off their agility skills by balancing on a wind-blown cosmo flower in a backyard desert garden.
An empty or petrified chrysalis or cocoon stuck to a passion vine. Partial wing imprints can be seen, as well as the tail end of a caterpillar, so it seems the insect was between metamorphosis stages.
Two blue passion flowers fully bloomed, which look very much like an alien species of plant.