marc book

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Gardener, archeologist, book reader, veteran, Assistant to the Regional Manager at Antifa™, watching hockey on Hawaii.

Book cover of America, América by Greg Grandin. Orange background, white text, painted characters on upper third.
Kasturi Mango sprout in a pot. Two small stems with red new growth leafs.
Large orange and yellow sunflower flower. Other potted plants in background. Hand for scale.
Makaha Ridge. Many golf ball shaped radar stations on a narrow ridge.
Bright orange and yellow sunflower in a pot. Hand for scale. Other potted plants in the background.
Hand touching a leaf. Large unopened flower on top. Pineapple and Okinawa Spinach in the background.
A fig tree with dozens of figs on it
Medium sized avacodo fruit on tree
Two small durian trees in pots. Hand for scale.
Bookcover of The Generals by Thomas Ricks. 6 portraits of generals covered in the book.
Very good looking very green avacodo trees. Has grown in significantly in 3 months.
2 plantains racks (group of long skinny bananas, grown to cook instead of eating ripe). A large papaya tree in the background.
Bookcover of Invisble Rulers by Renee DiResta
Yellow gloved person touching a medium sized pineapple
Green baby mantis on a child's red dress.
Lots of green plants. Many red chili peppers on a plant. Finger Lime in middle of the frame is approx 2 years old. Guild surrounded by grass.
Bookcover for Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp. White background with image of a crystal ball with monuments buried in the sand.
Wheelbarrow full of cacao pods in shades of yellow, orange, and red. Different subtypes have different colored pods. Gloves for scale.
Bookcover of When the Clock Broke by John Ganz
Green leafs with small yellow flowers under a Grey sky
Green/yellow passionfruit. Green leafs. Hand for scale.
Bookcover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy. Statue of Lenin lines on the ground.
Tpost with bamboo strapped to it with a vannila vine climbing up it flowering. Black shade cloth overhead.
Small purple flower on thin long green garlic chives in a pot. Pigeon pea in pot as well. Garden greenhouse mess of buckets in the background.
Durian seeds sprouting in a pot. Weird little sprouts. Fruit tastes fowl.
Dozens of small avocados on a tree. Hand for scale.
Bookcover of Chernobyl by Plokhy. Background image of decomposing gas masks on the ground.
Fist sized green fruits on a Mountain Apple Tree
Half a rolina in my hand. White fruit, yellow skin, green background.
Spiky rolinia fruit on the tree. Tips of the spikes are yellow, the rest of the fruit is still green. Gloved hand for scale.
Book cover of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois
Softball sized green fruit in a black gloved hand. It'll be ready to harvest when it turns yellow.
Book cover The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. Cover image of a destroyed home with a blue sky
Dozen magenta cacao pods on a tree. Yellow and red coleus plants as ground cover.
Medium sized jackfruit, hanging on tree, orange gloved hand for scale.
Bookcover of The Russo-Ukrainian War by SerhiI Ploky. Soldier walking in foreground silhouetted against a fire in the background.
The plant Indigo (used to make purple dye) with small pink flowers. Small oval green leafs.
Large Mamey Sapote tree with many brown fruits. Ginger with white flowers at ground level. With a blue sky.
Macadamia Nut flowers on the tree. Looking upward. Tail of white flowers hanging
1/2in sized avocados on the tree in a gloved hand with tree in background
Medium sized jackfruit on a tree with a gloved hand for scale
Dozens of green coffee beans on a branch. Orange gloved hand for scale. Harvest when they turn red.
Sprouts coming out of the dirt inside plastic pots. Boat in background. Probably Ice Cream Bean seeds.
Papaya stalk (they're not really trees) on the left and a planting stalk in the middle with a new rack on it.
White/yellow puff flowers with small red flowers hanging from a tree with green waxy leafs. Glove in foreground for scale.
1 yellow bean pod on an ice cream bean tree. Vine growing up trunk. Shade cloth in background.
Why the US Navy Is Decommishing Its Minesweepers, Peter Suciu
Looking upward up the trunk of a young jackfruit tree during its first fruiting. Approx a dozen fruit on the tree. I picked off a few that were black with mold.
Vannila vine growing up a dead piece of bamboo next to a small cacao tree that is producing its first pod. Sissoo spinach ground cover
Book cover of The End of Anarchy by Jack Kelly. Upper third shows a scene of a large crowd welding batons and pistol overtaking a train.
Ground covered in pink flowers from a heavily flowering mountain apple tree. Foot for scale.
Seed cluster on a rare Native Hawaiian tree
Two mangosteen fruit. One whole and purple. The other is cracked open to show white fruit inside.
Bookcover of Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer. A rainbow cloud centered.
Small guild of plants centered on a small finger lime tree
Inside of a red flower looking upwards toward a blue sky
1 medium sized jackfruit on a tree with 6 other smaller jackfruit.
Approx 4ft tall cherry bush. Red almost ripe fruit and yellow unripe fruit in hand.
A dozen soursop fruit in a wheelbarrow