LeeMacL 📎

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born and bred noo yawker so what about it? gregarious hermit. consume less, conserve more. repurpose, reuse, recycle. 🌱🪴 zone 4b Vermont was a country before joining as 14th state. 📎 resist! ☮️ Allez VGFC! TG22110 ♾️ in our 🫶🏼 MP

Vermont Green team celebrates with fans, coming to the supporter section to dance and be cheered, with another trophy! The kids get their shirts and gear signed and kick ball around on pitch. Another great night!
Clusters of small green tomatoes, green cage visible.
Mayor Mamdani giving speech in front of City Hall with the Knicks‘ trophies in foreground. Blue and orange Knicks banners hang from portico behind him and several Knicks sitting to the right side, including former players.
2 tiny green tomatoes hanging from branch.
Blue etrike with smaller seat than it came with (it was too big and had a backrest which was uncomfortable.) Has a wide rear carrier with gray zippered case.
Blue Velotric folding etrike. 750 watts, torque or cadence, 7 speed shimano, brake and turn signals, 20 mph top, hydraulic brakes, 3x20” Kenda tires, many great features. A sweet ride, very stable.
Blue etrike with rear basket with bag.
American Heritage dictionary definition of ignoramus. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool. In a former classification of mentally retarded people, idiot designated a person whose adult level of intelligence was equivalent to that of a three-year old or younger; this corresponded with an I.Q. level of approximately 25 or less. A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach
Buds filling out on tall shrub, left of edge of house with blue horizontal siding. Other house roofs in background.
Wide padded seat with slight lip in back to keep from sliding off and a ventilation space behind nose of seat where crotch rides. I have an etrike because I’m old. 😎
Side of grey building with horizontal siding, with doorway, small window above. Roofs covered with over inch of snow. Fluffy snowflakes visible. Tall bare shrub on right.
Burlington VT shows up at City Hall with families, pets, and homemade signs. More than the average of 2500 the msm is “reporting”.
Burlington VT City Hall Park filled with demonstrators, with families, kids, pets, and so many homemade signs. City Hall in background.
Crowd at City Hall Park with mostly homemade signs.
1-0 Vermont Green FC wins first game of season against pro level team! Fans at sold out game ecstatic! 🤩
Tiny rubber chicken on bathroom faucet.
Separate containers with sliced matchstick red onions, carrots, sweet peppers, shiitake mushrooms, zucchinis. Steak defrosting a bit then also slivered. Next: add marinades to shiitakes and beef slivers.
Black waterproof Cole-Haan boot, red sole seam, with ankle strap, snow and salt stains around sole.
Close up of green wrinkled hot pepper, stem arched in same way as the flowers hang, the original flower (dried up) still girdling the pepper about 1/2” from bottom, surrounded by large rich green leaves. Growing under lights.
Three jars of turkey stock, left to right, light to dark: strong, stronger, strongest, concentrate.
View from window of snow covered rooftops around dawn, sky with a few low clouds, palm plant fronds visible on left.
The 16 pound bird, beautifully browned skin, resting. Much butter was inserted under skin. Local farm bred bird, locally grown veggies. We didn’t know how big the bird was going to be (ordered smallest available!) so didn’t buy aluminum roasting pan, improvised with foil. It was moist and delicious!
Bright moonlit snow on houses and car. About 5” so far.
Some red and yellow leaves, a few green, remain on a large tree in front of the porch of a white house, which has a brown wood door with rectangular panels. There are a few plants in pots on the porch, and a hanging fern on the left.
Trees in school playground. Large tree on right in blaze of yellow and red. Smaller trees on left are yellow and orange. Lamppost on far right. Rainy day.
Tall maple tree, ablaze with red, orange, yellow leaves next to slightly shorter lamppost. To the right is a smaller tree, almost as colorful. Quiet street, corner of yellow house visible on far left. Overcast skies above. Wet sidewalk in foreground.
Bunches of green cherry tomatoes ripening under lights.
Vibrant red orange leaves on tree starting to lose leaves, tree on right just beginning to change. Overcast sky with light rain.
Black and white sign with repeated words “soft secession” in 4 rows with word soft in darkening shades of grey in each row. Same words, smaller, around edges.
Gathering of marchers from groups who walked from different parts of this city of 45k. This is City Hall Park, the steps of City Hall in rear, people of all ages and persuasions, gathered peacefully, with homemade protest signs and American flags, on an overcast and somewhat chilly day. I heard an estimate of 4000 which is close to 10% of population!
Skinny smaller tree in foreground has yellow leaves, larger tree right behind is a blaze of red, against an intense blue sky with fluffy scattered clouds, over a quiet street with two story houses on either side of street.
Closeup of left side of bright yellow sunflower with bee on dark center against blue sky peeking out from behind.
Sign with words “soft secession” in four rows each row “soft” goes from light to darker gray. Same words around all four edges.
Wispy clouds over last night’s Harvest Moon, over a few buildings, highway signs, returning from Montreal.
View of trees on a hillside in East Fairfield,Vermont, showing first blush of color: yellow, orange, a tiny bit of red.
Blue chicory flower “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell
Blue jay in my clear acrylic bird feeder, first I’ve ever seen! Feeder is attached with suction cups to outside glass of second floor casement window. Seen through screen because the birds sit on sill.
Fat squirrel in clear plastic bird feeder.
Two 12” pots with bhut jolokia pepper plants under grow lights.
Bowl of deep brown pho: bone broth, rice noodles, thin sliced ribeye, bean sprouts, Thai basil, lime juice, sriracha, hoisin, chili oil crisp, with soup spoon laid across top of white bowl.
Paw paw plants in pot. 7” tall, surrounded by wildflower sprouts.
View from above: Paper bag rolled down to expose some almost ripe Tumbler cherry tomatoes. Below is a wooden bowl with ripe cherry tomatoes.
Ground cherries in their papery beige skin, in a wooden bowl, two fingers holding a peeled one, yellow orange in color, ready to pop in my mouth!
Celebration on the field with team members and fans (before the mobs descended on the field!) under an arch which says USL League 2 final.
View outside, white vertical window frame visible on left. Green grey rooftop peaks with a triangle of yellow siding on left, lit by the morning sun. In center a chimney/metal vent pokes up into the clear blue watercolor sky with faint washes of wind blown white clouds.
Tumbler tomatoes, close to last harvest. Ripe cherry tomatoes in wood bowl, ripening ones in crumpled, rolled down brown paper bag.
Green Mountain Boys flag: green flag with blue square in upper left corner with 13 scattered white stars. Also current Vermont National Guard flag.
Fiddle leaf fig with 8” center stalk topped with a dab of white wax,three stems with several leaves each, two with new green, growing from just above soil level. In a white pot with orchid bark covering soil.
5’ Fiddle leaf fig in white pot with orchid bark covering soil, plant stand with begonias, small fern, gold dust croton. North light window.
Green to ripe Tumbler cherry tomatoes, 20 small to large (1 1/4”) in plastic bowl, some still attached to stem, on quilted background.
Wooden bowl with ripe cherry tomatoes and almost ripe ones.
Tumbler tomatoes, unripe clusters.
Holding red, ripe cherry tomato in front of tomato plant.
First blush of red on cherry tomato, next to one that’s still green. Tumbler (D) F1 hybrid grown indoors under lights.
Pear shaped apple , cut in 4. White interior, red skin.
Small red fruit, about 2” long, pear shaped with indented bottom.
Left is Italian basil, right is Thai basil, growing under my tomato plant under lights.
Three clusters of green cherry tomatoes grown under lights, which should ripen in the next week or two, I hope! Many buds becoming tomatoes on the 18” h x3’ w plant!
Steamy photo of a pot of ragù. Spare ribs, beef, pork belly, lard, onions, San Marzano tomatoes, tomato paste, and lots of wine!
Cherry tomato mplant with first green tomatoes under lights indoors. My first big indoor plant!