josh 🐢

@tortoise.dad

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husband and dad interested in tortoises, disco, soil science, running, gardening and forums! redlands, ca ko6dla

A tabletop with Pokemon Monopoly set up for play. In the foreground is my completed Pokedex mat
Cover art for herbie Hancock's album Man-child. An orange and yellow martian looking landscape with some bubbles, a sliver of a moon, and a giant Buddha-esque bust
Purple columbines
A BLT made with homegrown siskiyou orange tomato on a blue plate
A gigantic DO NOT ENTER WRONG WAY sign behind a white sedan
Star Trek comic book #4 with a CGC rating of 9.6
Homemade Persian food on a table with many hands serving themselves. Zaresh polo, joojeh kabob, khoresh gheymeh, fesenjan, tahdig, polo, mast musir, and ghormeh sabzi
Hoka Clifton 10 in aqua blue and white
Three pound head of cabbage and three cherry tomatoes sit on the ugliest granite countertop
Pink and white flower. I think it's a columbine but idk which
One of those garden tower grow system thingies. This is a product promo photo and it is full of beautiful flowers and herbs
A little green wire basket held up in front of the tree that was harvested
Cover art for bola sete "ocean" A tropical beach with palm trees and an abnormally large seashell
A bag of dill pickle flavored pistachios
A pretty fuzzy pic of white and yellow columbine flowers
Red poppy blossoms overlaid with run data 439 ft ascent 9.00 mi distance 1:40'14 duration
Picture of a dirt trail through a thicket Across the bottom: 434 ft ascent, 1:11'17 duration, 6.25 mi distance
The only way to thug it out is to thug it through Cholo standing facing into a wormhole?
Cover art for Herbie Hancock's EMPYREAN ISLES. Blue splotches on black. Black and blue lines resembling branches of a plant. In the top right corner it says EMPYREAN ISLES HERBIE HANCOCK FREDDIE HUBBARD RON CARTER ANTHONY WILLIAMS
Photo of a steep residential road going downhill. There are rich peoples' houses on either side. in the distance, across the santa ana river valley, the base of the San Bernardino mountains is visible under a layer of darkening clouds
me running down a mountain trail with grass and a few golden flowers. there are a few dead trees nearby and lives ones in the distance
A hand holds a leopard tortoise hatchling completely tucked into his carapace aside from the very tip of his nose. The tortoise is approximately 3" long
A sunflower in bloom
A honeybee hive way up in an olive tree
A monarch caterpillar climbing up a dead stem with milkweed leaves in the background
The cutest California newt straight chillin in some cool clear water
Some very young early fresh grape buds growing on a vine that is climbing up a wire trellis on a wooden fence
Early morning photo of a trail in Oakmont Park in Redlands. The dirt trail leads forward through grass from the center and bends to the right. Rolling hills ascend on either side. Laid over the photo is the text "Suunto 49'32.7 duration, 4.09 mi distance, 515 ft ascent
a 3x3 grid of cover art from nine games . from LtoR top to bottom: simcity 2000, pokemon blue, super mario bros 3, the sims, simfarm, super mario 64, king's quest, command & conquer: red alert, and pilotwings
A top down view of approx 30 freshly picked carrots, dirt and all, sitting on a wooden table with a AA battery for scale.
A CA desert tortoise sits on concrete near a tray of water and a freshly pulled weed. A small child is sitting near him off frame
Tort Dad running in front of a beautiful bed of red orange yellow and white flowers
Photo of new growth on a white sage plant
Old tires and pieces of tires assembled to make a pot for a plant. They're painted a weird copper color and stacked up on display for sale.
A 2.5' tall baby pomegranate tree sits in a 5gal planting bag
A great egret sits on top of a house. Behind it in the distance are the neighborhoods of Yucaipa, CA
photo of a trail coming from the bottom left corner up to the middle. Steep slopes descend on the right. In the distance are mountains and hills of Yucaipa and beyond
screenshot of jason scott @textfiles checking in with someone who was pissed about crypto being a scam
A scrub jay stands on gray leaf litter with a few ivy runners poking through
Looking north-northwest across the intersection orange and Redlands Blvd. Protesters are on every corner holding signs, wearing traffic vests, making their presence known
Soft orange/apricot colored blossoms on a plant with fuzzy wrinkly leaves. It's a desert mallow native to southern California
A newly emerged butterfly with limp and soggy wings climbing inside a netted enclosure
Billboard for a weed dispensary that says "you smelt it, we dealt it"
Cover art for Berhana "HAN". Blue background. Person in white hard hat and lab coat with clipboard facing away. A meteorite streaks in front of them. Half a moon hangs overhead
cover art for eddie holman "i love you" eddie looking down and to the right. wearing a light striped collared shirt. short hair and a mustache. the background is yellow
My hand holding a perfectly ripe fuerte avocado with a whacko dog behind it on the ground
Black silhouette of a hummingbird on the tip of a branch. The clouds and sky behind him are a light pinkish purple
A plate full of shrimp spring rolls
Two large sulcata tortoises bask in the weak winter sunlight.
Trump and Hillary in a debate
Album cover art for Arthur Verocai self-titled Verocai sits on a tiny stool in front of a white building with green trim. There's a bunch of leaf litter on the ground
Two clay pots covered in ants
Cover art for omd architecture & morality Tan cover with a red horizontal line in the middle. A b&w photo of a staircase shadow or something. And the artist name and album title arranged around the photo
A bright orange butterfly with black circles along the bottom of its wings and white dots with black outlines on top. The background is a dormant white sage bush
Solomon Burke "don't give up on me" album cover art. It's sepia Solomon sitting down with headphones and sunglasses pointing at the camera
A photo of a curb and gutter overflowing at a driveway ramp. There are rocks stacked in the hellstrip to control erosion
Screenshot from Elite: Dangerous. A figure stands in front of an alien 'plant'. Behind is a blue spaceship. There's two suns, one is eclipsed by another planet. Everything is washed in an orange hue
Cover art for Pete Jolly album Seasons 1970 A white background. In the top left in small lowercase cursive it says "seasons pete jolly" there's a big round orange leaf taking up the rest of the space
An ice cold bottle of Jarritos Tamarindo on a yellow (old Subway Sandwiches?) table with a blurry Mexican takeout menu behind it on the wall.