Mary Shannon

@maryshannonthomas

Social Worker, Clinician, Advocate, & Fun Aunt. Rescue parent. 🐶🐱 Aggressively anti-fascist, pro-housing, & pro-diversity. F1 fan since J Villeneuve. Tar Heel born 🩵 Tar Heel bred. Self-selected Masshole. 🏳️‍🌈 Abolish ICE. Opinions are all mine.

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Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· 24d

I mean, it was exhausting. But I got my first blackberries of the year today (before the birds did) and I feel pretty good about it. I hope your day was as tasty!

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· 25d

My cat's latest trick is to frantically finish the food dispensed by the automatic feeder before I see him in the morning, then plaintively wail "MAMA I AM LE STARVING" for half an hour before his late morning portion drops. It's manipulation at its finest.

An orange cat sits on a
Brown cat tree in front of a pale green wall.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jul 15

Man you gotta love those adorable questions that little kids ask you, like "Why do frogs hop?" and "Why is the sky beige?"

A photo of a garden with some cone flowers, a cream-colored fence, some trees, and a sky that is nearly as beige as the fence.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jul 14

This guy in my yard had the right idea. When in doubt, sploot.

A Squirrel sploots on a white fence trying to get cool

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jul 14

My greatgrandmother & grandmother grew gardenias. When my parents moved, my mother transplanted some cuttings from those plants to their yard. As my parents are now moving, I've been trying to transplant. This guy had died back to stems... Then I got some leaves. Today I got a bloom. I cried. 🌱

A small but growing gardenia with small bright green leaves and a small gardenia blossom.

A small white gardenia blossom with a brown and yellow center.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jul 12

Feels like it's a little warm for a fuzzy jacket, but you gotta bee who you gotta bee. 🌱

Bumblebee with a fuzzy yellow thorax sits atop a coneflower with brownish orange Center and soft pink petals

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jul 10

It's about time. I keep asking for this at town meeting so I'm excited that we've made progress. 🤘😈🤘

Still of a round table of some sort of idiots on Fox News with the Chiron underneath that says "libraries turning into drug infested sex dens".

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jul 9

August Friedrich Schenck's aptly titled "Anguish". Saw this in Melbourne and actually cried standing there. It is so profoundly heart wrenching.

A portrait of a dead baby lamb with a bleating mother standing over it on a snowy hill while being circled by crows.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jul 4

Once a year, he gets the only part of the S'more he likes - the gooey toasted marshmallow. But then we have to wash.

An orange cat eats part of a toasted marshmallow off a stick

An orange cat finishes eating a toasted marshmallow off the pointed stick

An orange cat licks his paw to wipe his face after eating a marshmallow.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 24

My first month in Mass my friend showed me a video of Kelley Sq. The first time I drove through it I thought I was going to throw up - my hands were shaking. It was one of the most terrifying driving experiences I've ever had (and I've done a UK double rotary). That said - this shirt is AMAZING.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 21

Viviparous strawberry is trying so hard.

A photo of a homegrown strawberry with vivipary, seeds have started to sprout on the outside of the plant while it's still growing.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 20

Agreed. I'm lucky to have both the space and just enough time to let the black raspberries do their thing. To be fair, they take almost no maintenance and spread pretty quickly. I finally just gave up fighting them and made jam!

A picture of a black raspberry bush covered with ripening black raspberries

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 20

Grown in the backyard in a small raised bed. I won't get huge numbers at a time, and only for a few weeks a year. But they are amazing.

A picture of a reasonably sized homegrown strawberry in a person's hand. The strawberry itself is deep red with a bright green top

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 19

Share a movie soundtrack you love (that isn't 'The Crow' because, duh, we all love that one)

Cover for the original motion picture soundtrack for the movie Hackers featuring among others, a young Angelina Jolie, Johnny Lee Miller and Matthew Lillard.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 16

First daisy of the season, and some monarch snackos. #bloomscrolling

A white daisy in a sea of green daisy plants about to bloom.

A milkweed flower - a collection of many small white blooms.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 15

If you see this, post with something you saved because it was funny.

A screenshot from someone that says Someone once described the Facebook reactions in order as the stages of learning about Morrissey and that's really stuck with me, with the 6 FB reactions (like, love, laugh, shock, sad, angry) in a row.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 15

It's the most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the year** **Until the tomatoes ripen. And the strawberries. And raspberries. And blackberries.

A sugar snap pea, open to reveal 7 fresh green peas.

Mary Shannon@maryshannonthomas· Jun 13

Fantastic time at Stoneham Pride today. Community organizations were fantastic and the speakers were moving and thoughtful. I even got to help some girl scouts with their silver projects!