Lorraine Berry

@lorraineberry.bsky.social

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Writer and recovering book critic Former historian Grew up in the PNW Advocate for habitat restoration and pollinator gardens Petsitter and traveler

Wildfire tracker 37 Oregon fires currently burning 2,068,424 acres burning +78,344 acres additional since yesterday Year to date: 2,456,366 acres burned
Woman having a bad hair day but an amazing baseball day wearing Team Jimothy shirt at T-Mobile park
Chalk graffito on the bricks of an elegant campus building PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE CAN’T AFFORD TO LIVE HERE
Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed. Headline in New Yorker. Illustration depicts a battered yellow road sign with two arrows, the Palestinian flag, and a clenche white fist.
Map of the state of Oregon showing multiple active and recently contained wildfires.
Photo of shark. Caption from Seattle Times: “Shark-wrestling suspect charged with harassing species in Puget Sound”
Gomphocarpus with large green hairy balls
Map of Oregon state covered in symbols showing where wildfires have broken out.
smoke moon
road blacked out by smoke
Scarlet red dragonfly with large face and set of double wings sits atop a dried papaver somniferum
Bill Laimbeer and Larry Bird
A suitcase with writing materials in the middle of a collection of books, papers, files, sticky notes on a blackboard, disorganized bookshelves, a glove and a rolled-up mattress scattered on beige carpet.
Sea holly flowers being visited by 2 different kinds of bumble bees, carpenter bees, mining bees, wasps and sweat bees.
Thick purple flower needles emerge from artichoke. A honey bee clings to the needle while face down in pollen,
England’s Burn stands like a tree and blocks a ball with his head after Raul Jimenez bicycle kicks the ball
Dried petals and leaves of a plant whose seeds were about to drop so were placed in a bowl to finish drying. A month later, without a note to remind the gardener what she set aside, they are scattered on white paper with a handwriitten DA FUQ?’ A plant app revealed that it’s red valerian (Jupiter’s beard). It’s a Mediterranean plant that has naturalized in Oregon. Pollinator magnet
In a tumutuous term, Roberts took charge of an unruly Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts faced down the president, forged unlikely coalitions and achieved long-sought goals
In a tumultuous term, Roberts took charge of an unruly supreme court. Chief justice John Roberts faced down the president, forged unlikely coalitions and achieved long-sought goals
Pale white bells with shaded pink inside. Dark purple spots line entrance to the flower bells
Delicate, nearly translucent petals form a pipe on a translucent stem.
A dumptruck sized Greylag Goose giving the stink eye at the person who slowed down within his line of sight.
Layers of dead straw on dying grass.
Madea elegans, cornflowers, poppies. Yellows blues and pinks
Pink feather petals look like a tutu on a poppy
Close up of torbi cat sitting in the green coolness of a flower bed
Torbi cat sitting at the base of flower stalks that are providing shade.
13 white male players in blue-and-white striped kit
Bright red lacy and feather petals surround a purple center
Oregon checkermallow, a wildflower. It grows in clay soil and loves sitting in vernal ponds over the winter. 4-foot stalks rise from green leaves shaped like swords. Multiple deep pink flowers blooming on long stalks.
Trey Gowdy wearing red tie and an elongated egg-shaped face with unevenly set ears and his hair dyed white blonde and cut into a conehead hairdo,
Tall stem with multiple five-petaled deep purple flowers
Mixture of cornflowers, poppies and yet to bloom asters
Large black-tail deer visible through an overgrowth of grasses and flowers
delicate crinkled grayish-purple-pink petals around a poppy seed pod being visited by a honey bee
Papaver somniferum — Breadseed poppy—alternating petals of pale gray, pink, and red surround seed capsule.
A graph showing shaded areas of grass pollen from “low” “moderate” “high” and “very high.” It reads that today is “very high. 0-4 count is low, 5-19 is moderate, 20-199 high, and above 200 is very high. Eugene’s grass pollen count today is 1005.
View from Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. A ridge of black and blue-appearing mountains (Bailey Ridge) is the dramatic background to a foreground of Subalpine fir and other coniferous trees look like matchsticks below them.
Parchment watermark ivory paper with the address of the Flagship Inn printed Plus a 5x7 comment card
NYT hed: Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made up by A.I. Dek: Steven rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.
Apple Watch showing stats for workout. 4 hours, nine minutes. 745 active calories. 1,107 total calories.
Bright — as in HELLO, I’M ORANGE — bright California poppies surround a deep indigo penstemon —bell-shaped flowers on green stalks. Growing from 2 sides of stalk so that it appears to be feather plumes.
White oblong box with gray trim at bottom. You insert your hand inside, and then the modes can be set to firmness, temperature, and areas of fingers, palms, and wrist areas to be massaged. It seems to help.
California poppies growing below tall green stalks with long missile-shaped red clover flowers
Four petaled-flower. Blue with darker purple streaks emanating from a yellow stamen.
Pink columbine. Tall narrow stalk with 5 overlapping petals that are dark pink toward the center and lighten up to pale pink and green. At the center is a yellow hairy stamen.
Prince with his hand behind his ear in a listening pose and singing into a microphone.
Tall closed stalk of blossoms. Camas bloom from the bottom. On the bottom is a six-petaled star-shaped flower, 4-5 inches across. In the center of the petals is a yellow center with long yellow filaments. The color of the petals (which vary subtly by plant) is a dark lavender/blue streak inside a light indigo-ish color.
Complex purple flower. Green hairy stalk supports a flower with multiple purple blossoms. This one is closed, so there are tight purple bud clusters. A single bud jhas opened. It is a 5-petaled lilac-colored blossom with 6 anthers, each with a tiny ball on top. It looks like an alien deely-bopper
Brown and tan caterpillar.
Kenneth Callahan painting. What first appear rust, brown, and cream swirls adjust to figures cut against rock. Painting is called “Riders on the Mountain”
Transgender Black Pride flag. Outline of Black fist raised in power salute against a flag of blue, pink, and white stripes.
Canyon wall. In the near foreground lower center is dirt and trees sloping up into a sheer rock face with multiple layers of colored stone. That flattens out into a plateau, except in its center is another, more narrow ride of rock.
Daikon radish flower. Four-petaled pale pink petals look like a pinwheel. Long green stalk.
Proper gear. Cadbury Flake chocolate bars. 24 of them in a box. Purple and yellow wrapping with “Flake” written across them.