Angela

@adminanemone

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Cascadian hobbit and IR nerd (Russia, its neighbors🇬🇪🇺🇦, civil society). Democracy is a delicate thing. Mostly (re-)posts of neat things that help me feel tethered to the ground. Enjoyer of plants, invertebrates, mushrooms, birbs, etc. 8b.

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Angela@adminanemone· 8d

Glad to hear the Gross Trees in my neighborhood -- easily accessible via Gross Public Transportation, no less -- are finally getting some attention in the other Washington

A dad and baby surrounded by gross trees

A baby raccoon climbing a Gross Tree in my backyard

Angela@adminanemone· 20d

Our Seattle cats have decamped to our tiny upstairs where it's almost 90 degrees, even though we have a window unit downstairs that's keeping us humans below 80. They seem to enjoy melting upstairs more than in my lap, thank goodness.

Angela@adminanemone· Jun 21

"Он коснулся слизи."

An illustration from a book I found in my apartment in Tbilisi titled "Вот она - Америка!" (There she is - America!). The caption reads "He lost hope of finding a job."

Angela@adminanemone· Feb 24

Thank you so much for sharing this. The two Davids are gone but they left us much to get us through these horrors.

Tributes to David Lynch, North Bend, January 2025. One sign reads "Thank you for not elaborating".

Angela@adminanemone· Dec 25

Angela@adminanemone· Oct 27

First half was alarming enough, but it only gets worse from there!

While parents are asked to consent to these surveillance programs, the school’s handbook says that there is “no expectation of privacy” on campus. If parents want to restrict recordings of their children outside of the school, they have to manually opt out of the “anywhere” option—as Jessica Lopez learned midway through her older daughter’s second year at Alpha. The girl says she remembers sitting on her bed one night working on schoolwork when she received a notification that she’d been flagged for an anti-pattern. She says Alpha’s system sent a video of her in her pajamas, taken from the computer’s webcam, that showed her talking to her younger sister.

Angela@adminanemone· Oct 26

It's a mess, but it's a beautiful mess! This is autumn from our front yard, as harvest season wraps up in the Pacific Northwest. #gardening 🌱

A mostly white cat with gray ears balances on the edge of a raised garden bed, surrounded by plants that are starting to fall asleep. A massive grape trellis dominates the scene, but the prettiest color is displayed by the potted volunteer maple which is a vivid rusty red. The blue sky is streaked with high clouds.

Angela@adminanemone· Sep 15

My 82-year-old mom and her sister saw the Aurora for the first time in their entire lives tonight because of your tips, @vincentledvina.bsky.social ! This meant a LOT to them and to me. ❤️ Thank you. ❤️ And I'd never seen such an active aurora before! Photo taken from Point Betsie, MI.

Pillars of green light dance along the horizon below a glowing green haze tipped with pink, fading into a clear starry sky.

Angela@adminanemone· Aug 22

😍 Well that was fast! That upper-right photo gives me major Sifl and Olly vibes

Angela@adminanemone· Aug 12

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.

A wholesome street hockey action scene, taken in front of our nation's Treasury building

Angela@adminanemone· Aug 5

Warm, wild blueberries growing on what was for many years a working field, now returning to nature. Mount Young, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.

A close-up of a blueberry plant growing among grass and other weeds. Three ripe blueberries are in the center of three red-tinged sprigs of leaves.

Angela@adminanemone· Jul 20

One of my favorite moments on the whole show

Angela@adminanemone· Jul 14

Puddle approves! This was taken around the same time you posted.

A gray kitty that looks similar to the OP's post, slumbering upside-down

Angela@adminanemone· Jul 14

Always thought the jets were so cool

A video still from the TV sign-off National Anthem in the 80s. The American flag is superimposed over a soaring bald eagle.

Angela@adminanemone· Jul 12

Happy 10th birthdays to #fosterfailures Snowflake and Puddle on this momentous (and warm and sleepy) #Caturday! So grateful to have these little wild animals still gracing our home with their presence 🐾

Angela@adminanemone· Jul 8

This post is brought to you by the letter P: A peacock proudly poses on a planter of purple petunias. Huntington Castle & Gardens, Clonegall, Ireland. Lovely spot to stop for a tea on our drive from Wicklow to Kilkenny 🫖☘️ #birds

A male peacock proudly poses on a planter of purple petunias

Angela@adminanemone· Jul 6

Goodnight from Kilkenny :)

The sun's final rays tint the cloudy skies over a cow pasture in Clara, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland tonight

Angela@adminanemone· Jun 26

Yes! It's... aspirational but it's on my list too! I swear I nailed it once while working at my picnic table desk during the pandemic. You'll just have to believe me

Angela@adminanemone· Jun 24

Shopping bags! 🧡 Some of them really do look just like that. We tend to call them "pollen-pouches"

A bumblebee on a lupine with very prominent orange shopping bags / pollen-pouches on its legs

Angela@adminanemone· Jun 6

The poppies are here!!! 🎉 I forgot to water them for a second (they're potted) so who knows how many I'll actually get, but I'm thrilled anyway because LOOK. #flowerfeed 🌱

Papaver orientale 'Helen Elizabeth'. It's the most delicious salmon pink color ever and the middle is an almost-as-tasty deep purple.

Angela@adminanemone· Jun 6

Snowflake is resting up/becoming extra-long in order to exact maximal chaos upon our household this #CaturdayEve

A long, flat white cat gathering her energy for tomorrow's terror campaign

Angela@adminanemone· May 30

Well that was even more depressing than I expected

A note that bigots are targeting a children's pride event in Seattle

Angela@adminanemone· May 28

Shy chive bee 🐝 🌱 Beautiful warm day here in the Seattle area

A shy honey bee peeks around the side of a floofy chive blossom in the sun

Angela@adminanemone· May 28

It's my favorite rhodie's turn to show off! It always blooms last, so I get to look forward to it all spring 💓🌱

A big poofball of tropical-pink rhododendron blossoms

Angela@adminanemone· May 6

Zelensky's got a new competitor on his hands!

Angela@adminanemone· May 4

This is killing me

Angela@adminanemone· May 2

Sometimes I forget how incredibly irritating she was at the start of the show

Audrey Horne laughing sadistically as an innocent concierge tries to save her papers from a stream of hot coffee unleashed by Audrey Horne upon her desk

Angela@adminanemone· Apr 25

I want to say OF COURSE everyone has a favorite slug and show you mine -- but you've just shown me so many cool slugs that I might need to reassess!

A banana slug hanging out on a mossy log with a matching millipede buddy

Angela@adminanemone· Mar 30

Good to know. In that case here are some kitty-lumps on an electric blanket for you

Puddle the Cat blissfully sleeping on an electric blanket

Snowflake the Cat blissfully sleeping on an electric blanket

Angela@adminanemone· Mar 26

I've started getting more Canadian followers since noting my dual citizenship in my profile! Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy ❤️🇨🇦 In honor of that, here's me visiting relatives in Inverness, NS, and a 2014 memento of better times while visiting my Ottawan brother. Sigh. #ilovecanada #thanksdad