Kingfisher & Wombat

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Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her

Three posts from KB Spangler: 3 days ago: Today we threw a party for a baby and I’d like to remind parents you are heroes who do constant unending hero shit. We salute you and your efforts to keep babies babying along. Gonna sleep until Tuesday, good night. Today: WTF is a Jimothy
The Let People Enjoy Things meme
A Warrant for Awakening, certifying that the undersigned is permitted to awaken Ursula Vernon at this location. Got my known aliases, too.
Kevin, bald, bearded, and heavily tattooed, in a brightly colored wrap, proving that real men wear pink.
The Magic the Gathering card “Astarion the Decadent.”
A trio of resin objects in the trans flag colors, including a rose, a paw-print jewelry box, and a thing that I think is a light up base?
Three blooming cactus flowers, shading from pale yellow to pink. I am so happy.
A terracotta pot surrounded by an air cloud of small magenta flowers so intense they look like nature is getting away with something.
A closeup of an absurdly colored flower and a more sedately colored bee, who stands out like an undertaker at a drag show.
A magenta flower on a white spines snowball cactus in a small terra cotta pot. There are bees in it.
A spectacular yellow and pink flower from a cactus that was teasing me for weeks.
A cactus with interlacing bright white spines, in a square terracotta pot. The flower is a shade of magenta generally only seen when trying to adjust CMYK sliders.
More pink penstemon!
Highlighter yellow wheels on green leaves
An extreme closeup of a lavender flower with a white throat a superb magenta veins.
A prickly pear with big flat pads absolutely covered in new green pads.
Purple verbena and white fleabane smother the edge of the sidewalk in flowers.
The absurd little pink and white flowers in question.
The bush is lovely and covered in quarter-sized yellow flowers. The water barrel is blue and not nearly so lovely.
A yard with several flower beds, brick red paths, pale gravel edging, and a mountain in the background.
Three low plants with small green leaves and lovely blue-violet flowers. They’re beautiful. I got them from High Country Gardens. No, I don’t know what they’re called.
A slight too enlarged but ridiculously purple-pink flower. Another great native plant that will grow cheerfully along the ground and thread through other, more formal perennials.
A big silver mound between a couple other more green plants.
A blindingly pink and yellow gradient of a flower. If it could grow rhinestones, it would.
Big white bells with yellow tongues. You could fit your thumb in one, or any large bumblebees you had lying around the house.
A handsome purple-flowered plant on the edge of river rocks.
A fingertip-sized yellow flower with a burgandy center.
Hot pink trumpets against the glorious silver threads of dwarf chamisa.
A closeup of the little red-orange flower, which is absurdly saturated.
A tiny orange flower in a sea of purple-and-green succulent nubbins, in a cobalt blue pot.
The by-now familiar oval bed, filled with plants.
Multiple enormous red flower buds on a multi-headed cactus.
A massive pink flower atop a tiny little cactus which is completely overshadowed, like a very small woman in a fabulous hat.
A curve billed thrasher looking rather like an angry muppet
Clouded Yellow butterfly on catmint, with a little green-eyed digger bee off to one side
The first crumpled leaves of a bean plant emerging from the soil. MUAHAHA
A little pink flower on a little white cactus
A palm sized clump of little green nubbins with bright yellow flowers on thin stalks coming out of it.
An attractive knee-high silver clump, in fact.
Little pink flowers on green stems above a paver.
It’s some purple clumps and some white daisy clumps along the sidewalk. This feels like an award for not weeding.
A gorgeous clump of gorgeous purple flowers. I dunno, I’d like it more if I had to work for it.
A close-up of the flowers, along with a wasp that’s somewhere on the grain-of-rice scale.
A low green mat absolutely smothered in flowers the color of a yellow highlighter.
A green, fern-like mass covered in poppies so orange they make your teeth hurt.
A small white flower with a green center, emerging from the aforementioned shrub.
A neat little white ball cactus sporting what looks like a fuzzy erection.
A flowerbed in the middle of a brick red path, with a stucco wall behind it. At the moment, it’s all various shades of green.
A cluster of blue flowers above terra cotta pavers. What species of penstemon, you ask? P. lostthegoddamntagii.
White primrose flowers on pale gravel edging a sidewalk
A closeup of a brilliant orange little flowers among purply green succulent leaves, in a cobalt blue pot.
A train cam photo taken at 11:36 am, showing two chonky scaled quail at the watering hole in defiance of God and Audubon.
Several pink house finches in the middle of the damn desert. Towards the end, a small yellow bird with a mask like he’s about to rob a bank pops in for a drink.
Night vision camera on the tiny watering hole. The side of a coyote’s head appears briefly, studying the water, then he goes “Naaah,” and leaves.
A small potted cactus, Escobaria sneedii. Pale spines make it look white, there are little cactus snowballs around the base, and best of all, a pink flower on top.
A slightly raised bed with varying mounds of foliage in varying shades of green, set into dark terra cotta paths. There’s a brightly colored metal grasshopper, and a bed in the back, against the stucco wall, has purple iris and a metal anglerfish.
A lovely fleabane daisy, with a very small insect standing atop it. I don’t know what it is. I don’t know what it even begins to be.
A photo of a yellow bird with reddish streaks on the breast and the unmistakable Ditto-like eye of the warbler.
An oriole with a drab yellow-orange throat and face, standing at the edge of the pond.