Ruth

@teapotrabbit.bsky.social

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I'm tired all the time. Huge geek. Frequently talking about sewing, fountain pens, gardening, and tea. She/her

Photo of green trees and clear blue sky. There is a vaguely plane-shaped smudge in the sky.
The view inside a chicken coop, where a grey hen is extremely fluffed up and two chicks are sticking close to her while peering at the camera.
Two day-old chicks sitting on wood shavings. They are very small and fluffy. The chick on the left is darker brown-black on top. The chick on the right is lighter and more yellow.
Photo of a rocky hillside with a fenced in garden to the right and a wire-mesh enclosed chicken run to the left. There is a light brown bobcat visible in the garden, peering hopefully into the chicken run.
Portrait of a grey-brown chicken with impressive red wattles and comb peering around the corner of the coop door. She is in the process of laying an egg in the most obnoxious to reach corner of the coop.
A cool brown moth on dirty window. The moth is head-down. It is mostly dark brown and black, with wavy brown bits around the head and a striking white blobby patch on its wings. It looks like it is mimicking dead wood or leaves.
Photo of a 3D printer showing the print plate strewn with a mess of tangled filament bits. The print did not adhere to the print plate correctly and the printer made plastic spaghetti.
A bowl of soup on a multicolored place mat. The soup has green vegetables and a pile of brown meat in the middle. Golden brown crispy rice clusters surround the meat. The soup bowl has drippy sage green glaze around the edge and pale brown glaze in the middle.
Two big fat fence lizards, now sunbathing on a different bit of the deck. The are facing each other now.
The same deck and the same two big fat fence lizards. This time they are roughly perpendicular, with one resting its head on the other’s midsection. They are still pancaked.
Photo of a wooden deck. The two fence lizards from the previous photo are still hanging out, but in this wider shot you can see two more smaller lizards also sunbathing. The smaller ones are difficult to see.
Photo of two western fence lizards sunbathing on a wooden deck. They have made themselves as flat as possible, presumably to maximize sun absorption. They look a little like someone gently flattened them.
A tiny figure of a seated coyote with its head thrown back, howling. The figure was 3D printed in shimmery black filament and is held in the palm of a hand. It is very small.
A flower pot in a museum display case. The flower pot is maroon on the outside and blue on the inside, with a six-sided shape. It looks like something you would find in a vaguely Asian upscale garden center.
The view out over a valley. The sky is blue with thin clouds, and a full rainbow arcs across it. There is a partial second rainbow on the right.
Photo of an extremely enthusiastic clump of Douglas irises. Purple flowers grow in profusion.
A large yellow and black striped swallowtail butterfly on a lilac bush, its wings open wide.
A black swallowtail butterfly visiting lilac flowers. It has some yellowish spots along the edges of its wings and metallic teal patches on its hind wings.
Two ceramic bowls. The insides are glazed in a speckled whitish-tan glaze and there is sage green glaze along their rims. The bowl on the left has blue stripes dripping down from the rim and the bowl on the right has pinkish-brown stripes dripping down from the rim.
An old apple tree surrounded by pale forget me nots. It the background there are tall narrow fir trees.
A branch covered in clusters of apple blossoms with a HUGE black and yellow bumblebee in the cluster about halfway up the branch.
A spray of apple blossoms with a honeybee busy at work.
An old apple tree that fell over long ago. It is still growing, though rather more horizontally now. The dirt around it is churned up from using a tractor to drag out the vines that were choking the tree.
Photo of an old apple orchard, looking down the rows of old trees. Everything is green.
A giant acorn woodpecker puppet “flying” (being carried) over a crowd of protestors. There are Palestinian flags and American flags flying around it. Someone holds a sign reading “are we great yet? ‘cause I just feel embarrassed”
Awkward photo of the side of my hand, showing where it has been stained orange.
Bottom side of a thrown ceramic bowl partway through being trimmed. There is a hole all the way through the bowl.
This video could have been an audio recording - it is shot at night and mostly black. Frogs are yelling. At around 7 and 14 seconds you can hear a bird (I think) making a co-co-CO-co-co sort of call.
A hand holding a mason jar up to the light. The mason jar is full of reddish-brown liquid
A disgruntled western fence lizard being held in a hand. The lizard is brownish-grey, with blue-green scales speckled across its body. There are green plants in the background.
Photo of three freshly-thrown ceramic bowls lined up on a board on a table. There are two more lumps of clay on the table to the left of the bowls.
Photo of a lush clump of calla lilies. The deep green leaves support four fully open white blooms surrounding one partially-opened bloom. The leaves are dotted with rain water.
Photo of a single calla lily seen from the side, framed with the intention of highlighting the single drop of water hanging off the edge of the lily.
Photo of some daffodils in the morning sun. The flowers have light yellow petals, and the trumpet-like centers are edged in bright orange.
Photo of a ceramic bowl balanced on a fence rail outside. The bowl is speckled beige inside and greenish outside.
A red fox standing over part of an animal carcass, looking stressed. The fox is in the middle of an empty suburban street.
Photo of a pink California native wildflower called a shooting star. The flowers are buds are borne on a tall reddish stalk. The flower is bright pink, with the petals flaring back from a pointed black center.
A grainy photo of a brown and white spotted rabbit with its forepaws on a laptop keyboard, peering at the screen. The laptop displays a word document with an unintelligible line of characters across it.
Photo of the sky just after sunset. The photo is looking out across a valley. In the foreground, a few trees are silhouetted against the sky, and a city is dimly visible in the valley. In the distance, a low line of hills, and beyond that a line of clouds. The sky is pale, pale blue, the clouds scattered across is washing from gold to pink to grey.
Photo of a golden broad loaf in which the viewer is looking directly at the heel of the loaf, which is the shape of a cartoon cat head - roundish with triangular ears.
A hand holding a curled green live oak leaf with a pale translucent chrysalis husk still attached to it.
Two pale golden brown mushrooms among leaf little and small green plants.
Photo of a hand holding a golden brown fried dough round coated in sesame seeds. The dough thing has been partially eaten, and a greenish-black filling is visible. In the background there is a pan on a stove with more dough rounds.
A bowl of pasta in cream sauce with chunks of sautéed mushrooms in it. It is not very pretty, as it is mostly beige and brown, but it is delicious.
Photo of quite a lot of mushrooms arrayed on a rack.
Photo of four freshly-thrown clay bowls on a piece of plywood. The bowls are dark reddish-brown, and mostly the same size and shape except for the one on the far right, which is bigger. In the background there is a bunch of clutter and ceramic studio stuff.
Hand holding a costume crown with a golden band and holographic blue-white decoration on the front, from which protrudes a unicorn horn made of pinkish-white iridescent fabric decorated with beads strung on pink thread. In the background is a craft table buried in junk.
A hand holds a unicorn horn made out of iridescent white fabric. Pink thread wraps around the horn to give it a fluted shape. There are beads on the thread.
Photo of a cluttered mess of bags of beads spilling onto a craft mat.
An insect that looks very much like a honey bee except slightly off, visiting a half-open creamy white chrysanthemum flower.
An extremely handsome grey and white striped shorthair cat sits on a chair, its tail around its feet. It is looking away from the camera.
A pile of, small, creamy yellow-white chrysanthemum flowers tumbled together in an old wooden bowl.
A steady, thick stream of golden-brown apple juice pours out of the base of an apple press and into a bucket. The top of the bucket is covered in cheesecloth held on by old wooden clothespins. We are running a very high tech operation here.
Dutch baby in a cast iron pan: a lumpy, puffed mass of baked batter, studded with apple slices.
Photo of a pan full of apple slices, bathed in butter & sugar & cinnamon, being stirred by a wooden spoon.
A photo of a bunch of apples & two pears on a wooden counter. Left to right: 2 Queen Cox, one huge and one medium. They are orange-red striped apples. Then three smallish Liberty apples, which are deep purple-red. Two huge Freedom apples, pinkish-red striped. Three smallish Liberty Golden Delicious, which are greenish yellow with some russeting and pinkish bloom. Three large Baldwin apples, striped red with large green patches and some russeting. Finally, two yellow & brown Bartlett pears.