Pat Thompson

@pattho.bsky.social

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Friends School plant saler, co-op fan, gardener, Transition Town member, recovering grammar curmudgeon. She/her.

A cast iron bridge reflecting in a river below with rail road tracks on the left.
Many colors of marigolds, zinnias, moss rose, Celosia with various textures of green leaves.
"In urban neighborhoods, drive your car like you're driving an ice cream truck: 15-20 mph, and always looking out for kids." –Bill Lindeke (with photo of polka-dotted ice cream truck)
Cart with herbs
Newspaper headline: “Homan questions vetting of ICE agent. Border czar says the shooter in fatal Maine incident under review.”
Max Asher Miller: My great-GF was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.
Bright green succulent with many thin nubby arms, curving up from a cushion-like center. Small yellow flowers are sprinkled around its top near the center.
Many clusters of pink and white flowers. A large light yellow butterfly with prominent black markings feeds on flowers near the center.
Many white simple flowers with green centers, rounded green strap-like leaves.
Orange-on-orange speckled flower with six petals.
Top of the Eat section with photo of water feature, flowers, tables and headline Patio date picks.
Double zinnias in pinks and purple.
Purple daylily with a yellow-green throat.
Herb cart with basil, rosemary and more.
Many tousled lavender flowers.
Four paintings joined together make up Night Over Germany.
A blue Hydrangea serrata.
Three-petalled purple flowers with yellow stamens, lit by morning sunlight, green bee feeding on one flower.
People waving, standing in a cage-like bridge over a highway. Banner reads Impeach Convict Remove. Smaller signs say 25th Amendment, Keep Hope Alive, No War No Camps, Peace, ICE Out Now, Major Watson Fan Club, No Kings. One person flies a Minnesota state flag. Another wears a frog suit.
Star Tribune headline: Judge order E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M
Pioneer Press headline: Judge orders Carroll to be paid $5.8M in Trump case
Purple daylily with yellow-green throat and mid-ribs.
Lu’s Sandwich food truck.
Six bright yellow flowers with down-flexed petals and upright yellow stamens at center like crowns.
Yellow Calibrachoa with red mottling like splashed paint, sometimes almost the whole petal is red.
18 people standing inside a cage-like pedestrian bridge over a freeway. Long banner reads Land of the Free Home of the Brave. Smaller signs read No ICE No War No Kings, Keep Hope Alive, Peace, NOPE, No Kings, ICE Out Now. People wave small flags and wave their hands.
Panicles of many intensely orange flowers.
The Midway Pkwy intersection has lanes that are each almost two cars wide, and crosswalks of two stripes perpendicular to the street. The Como intersection has lanes narrowed to the width of a one car and the crosswalks are much wider, painted as multiple stripes parallel to the street. On the Midway Pkwy map, a red X shows where Barb was hit and where the vigil was held (north crosswalk, northwest corner).
Flat-faced pink-lavender flowers.
People standing inside a cage-like pedestrian bridge over a highway. Long banner reads Piggy's Legacy: Epic Fails. Many of them hold large pieces of blue paper. One person is dressed in an inflatable frog suit.
Gold daisies with dark brown cones.
Upright plants with narrow pointed green leaves and white flat-faced flowers pointing out from the stems. Pink backs.
Dark burnt red down-facing recurved lilies dangling from an upright stem, protruding orange stamens.
Black GMC pickup truck on a lifted suspension, extra large tires, double set of tires in the back so the tires extend out extra far. Overall, it is more than a lane wide and its hood is at least twice as tall as the roof of the parked sedan ahead of it.
Variety of flowers: fuzzy lavender buttons, big white petunias, white tubes with dark purple fluted ends.
Upright spikes of small purplish pink flowers with lighter pink petunias.
People waving, standing inside a cage-like narrow bridge over a freeway. A long banner reads GOP sold us out again! A second banner says One Year Still Here.
Large pot with pink begonias, line green foliage plant, silver begonia, Ivy, fuchsia and white impatiens.
Three goats, two mostly black and one black and white, standing on a deck, looking at the camera-holder.
Yellow daisies with ragged petal ends and yellow centers.
Cluster of white frilly flowers with open throats marked with yellow Splot and dark lines. Large green leaves.
A field of star-like flowers, most white but some periwinkle blue, with green centers and mist-like green foliage.
Lady’s slipper with dark pink lower pouch and white upper petals.
15 people standing inside a cage-like bridge over an interstate highway. Long banner reads Rejecting Kings since 1776. Smaller signs say Peace, Keep Hope Alive, ICE out now. One person wears a frog suit. There's a US flag and a Minnesota state flag. People wave.
Subhead: Moment of silence for Derek Chauvin. Text: The second and final day of the convention began with a delegate moving to, and the body agreeing to, hold a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.
Light yellow double flower, round almost like a ball, with the mist outer petals pulling away.
Five-petaled flat open flower. Pink petals with white toward the center of each one, and a small gold center of stamens. Bluish green serrated leaves.
Dark magenta double peony, very ruffly.
Display of cute handmade felt pins with fruit, insects, flowers and icons.
Bearded Iris with purple standards, violet falls, yellow beards, and white near the beards.
Winsome round-petaled simple lavender-pink flowers.
People waving, standing on a cage-like pedestrian bridge over a highway full of cars. Long banners read Dethrone Crooked Piggy. Smaller signs read Peace, Keep Hope Alive, Close the Camps - VOTE, No Kings.
A six-petaled flat-faced bright purple flower growing on a vine.
Star Tribune dot graph shows 13% of Minnesota-based asylum cases were granted in January/February 2024 (Biden’s last year in office) vs .2% in the same months of 2026.
Two front sections of the Star Tribune, Variety with a photo of an unshirted Javier Bardem with his arms outstretched, and Business with a photo of the Kris Lindahl billboard (white guy either arms outstretched) with another man standing in front of it with his arms outstretched.