Judy D

@judyd

CT grown physics/technology professor (retired), grandma, gardener, knitter, procrastinator. No random DMs, it’s creepy. Optics education and outreach at www.pblprojects.org

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Judy D@judyd· 16d

View from the other direction🌱🌼

Behind a stone border is a pollinator garden mulched in part with shredded cedar and also with straw. In the front are purple wild geraniums and tall green sedum not yet in bloom. In the back is a metal faded yellow glider. There’s a blue closed sun umbrella to the left and a tall bright green leaved Asian pear tree to the right. this back garden has flowers of pink and yellow, and it’s all set against solid green of leafy trees.

Judy D@judyd· 16d

More or less freshly weeded view from my retirement glider. What the woodchuck and her children and friends didn’t eat: heliopsis, sedum, agastache, geranium maculatum, Joe Pye weed, and Nepeta. What they did eat: everything else but crab grass.🌼🌱

Long view of a mulched garden, in the front tall, skinny pear tree surrounded by a circular metal vole block. A set of four tiles follows one path that leads to a separate garden and a small greenhouse. One side of the path is shaded by the bent stems of huge heliopsis plants in bloom Scattered about in the straw mulch foreground are a dozen or so bushy perennials with small blooms.

Judy D@judyd· 20d

A wild bee balm appeared next to the vegetable garden along with lots of weeds whose names I’ve forgotten. Not sure why I left it this particular weedy sprout but it’s now gorgeous. Blooms for weeks and attracts more pollinators than the nursery varieties with cute names. And no critter nibbles.🌱

Huge perennial almost 5 feet tall and nearly as wide is propped against a garden fence topped with chicken wire. Light green pointed leaves are newly covered with spiky pink-lavender flowers.

Close-up of a few of the spiky pink – lavender flowers, one topped by a yellow orange and black great spangled fritillary butterfly

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Judy D@judyd· 22d

But I have a hummingbird moth that visits my wild bergamot!

Judy D@judyd· 25d

These people just looked old.

About 30 white haired people line the edge of the sidewalk carrying signs like: iHeart, Social Security, and deport Musk

Judy D@judyd· 26d

An ancient looking man in tattered clothes stands in front of a ship and speaks to a man in uniform. The title is, Trump to secure straight of Hormuz by posting old man who asks you three questions before you may pass.

Judy D@judyd· Jul 13

Mushrooms lining up over the roots of an ancient oak cut down five or six years ago.🌳🍄🍄‍🟫

Two lines of half dozen or so ivory mushrooms radiate from a point in the middle third of the photo. Some have wide flat tops, and others are smaller, some are brown and crinkly, the ones that sprouted up last year. They’re surrounded by dried white oak needles Several bushes and trees are visible in the distance, including a row of small white hydrangeas lining a paved driveway at the upper left.

Judy D@judyd· Jul 10

And the yard guy came by to help put a floppy barrier on the top of the fence, just in case the trapper guy didn’t get all of them. Three woodchucks, a raccoon, and a possum, but the woods are deep.🌱 My husband would be amazed at how many guys I need to hire to replace him.

The corner of a fenced garden with corn growing in the foreground. The fence is constructed of a wood frame wrapped with various wire fencing, including an unattached piece of “floppy” chicken wire at the top. The left edge of the garden is a mulched path lined with round red concrete stepping stones , the front edge is weeds and herbs.

Judy D@judyd· Jul 10

Chewed to the ground by three different woodchucks, and yet they still rise. I hope.🌱

From front to back in a vertical line, stiff dark stems are sprouting small green leaves on edamame plants. On either side is bare ground with a sprinkling of straw. Three purple stakes mark the edge of the row on the right and in the background are the edges of two raised beds.

Judy D@judyd· Jul 5

My husband caught a possum when trying to get a woodchuck, why I just hire a local pro. Here’s the woodchuck feasting on what used to be a nice row of edamame plants. I absolutely did intend to catch him. In fact this is the third one this week along with a raccoon. Not giving up my garden easily.🌱

In the foreground, a medium sized woodchuck is chewing on some green leaves. Three purple poles extend behind it marking where there used to be an entire row of similar plants. In the background are some corn stalks on the right, a fabric covered wire structure where there used to be cucumbers, eaten by a woodchuck, and in the center back a neon green hose is draped over a wooden half barrel.

Judy D@judyd· Jul 5

Chomping on a banana while waiting to join the rest of his family, or at least I hope it’s the entirety of his family, in the big woods. Can I replant the edamame seeds now? Please?🌱

A medium size woodchuck squats in a cage, surrounded by banana chunks and pieces of banana peel. It holds a small piece of banana in its hands. The cage rests on a cedar mulch path in front of a large viburnum bush.

Judy D@judyd· Jul 3

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social maybe they just could’ve walked a few blocks to your house and picked it up😆😆😆

Part of a USPS tracking statement showing that a package arrived at the Philadelphia distribution center July third at noon and expected delivery is by 9 PM on July 7. (Not shown – delivery is a few blocks from origin.)

Judy D@judyd· Jul 3

Maybe this guy can help?

Ground level view of a garden with insect netting over a fence on the left, some purple stakes guarding eaten bean plants at the center, a bright green hose and corn plants in the rear. On the right stands a large red shouldered hawk.

Judy D@judyd· Jul 3

Looks like little Chuckie had a sibling. Chuck and Mom have been relocated, plus a random raccoon caught in another trap, now to trap the sib. Of course, since this is the edge of the woods who knows how many more are waiting to feast on my green beans and edamame? 🌱

Judy D@judyd· Jul 3

sent by my daughter #RI

FB post from the Narragansett (RI) Police Department
As temperatures warm up, please remember to drink lots of water and stay indoors between 10 a.m. and November 1.

If you are planning on doing crime, please do it outside of our jurisdiction.

Judy D@judyd· Jun 26

From my brother

A man stands at a counter in his kitchen looking at a stack of papers. The text reads, not to brag or anything, but I just walked into another room and remembered why I went there.

Judy D@judyd· Jun 24

Yes handsome friend, I am trying to dispose of you. Trapper Ken is doubtful but I have hopes- especially since you didn't stop at green beans and edamame, but ate all the cucumbers and fennel and are now destroying peas. You should have stayed in the flower garden. 🌱

A large, dark brown woodchuck walks across a dried up dead field of grass and weeds, past a row of rectangular stones with small rocks (and more weeds) on the other side.

Judy D@judyd· Jun 22

Sign on a bathroom door at my daughter’s house.

All genders aloud (sic)! By: Evie
Above the note are two paper
doll-like-figures, male and female

Judy D@judyd· Jun 21

Generally, I coexist with the forest creatures in my yard. If they want to eat phlox and echinacea, I’ll plant something else. But this guy who has borrowed under the fence into my vegetable garden, knocking apart a raised bed in the process, is asking for trouble. 🌱

A deep tunnel a few inches across goes under some pieces of wood and dry soil scattered with straw

Judy D@judyd· Jun 14

Good morning #insect 🪰🐜🐞 Bluesky. Can anyone identify this guy? There are always half a dozen on my kitchen window in the morning. If they aren’t eating my house, I don’t care. (repost, forgot the alt)

An insect sits on the outside of a window frame. It’s about an inch long and maybe a quarter inch wide at
the end of its long, narrow, folded wings. Two barely visible antenna are as long as the insect itself. The camouflage like pattern on the wings is light and very dark brown or maybe black.

Judy D@judyd· Jun 14

I remember seeing a really great collection of correlation versus causation, but this was the chart I had in my physics lab.

A bar graph shows the years from 2006 to 2011 with bars in green. The vertical axis shows decreasing murders in the US, apparently correlated with Internet Explorer market share -the green bars, - both dropping over the years show shown

Judy D@judyd· Jun 7

The storm last night broke some stems so now I get to see them in my kitchen. #bloomscrolling

A green plastic flower pot on a speckled counter holds several large, dark pink peony flowers

Judy D@judyd· Jun 7

Did you see the barn with the voluntary robotic milking system? Way cleaner than when I used to take firstborn to the old cow barn. We were there so often they called her the barn mascot. But when you’re a grad student free entertainment is free entertainment.

A toddler in a yellow romper, white short sleeve flowered shirt and a white hat with a yellow ribbon is grabbing onto some rusty old pipes in a barn, trying to get a view of a calf. Photo is from the late 70s.

Judy D@judyd· Jun 2

A large group of people (and one white dog) surround Senator Chris Murphy, in front of a wooded background. The caption reads "Thanks to everyone who came out for this morning's Congress on Your Hike in Windham!"

Judy D@judyd· May 30

Maybe he found this in a second hand shop and decided to join in the fun.

An old book from the Pinwheel Craft series is called You Dan Make Seaside Treasures. The bright yellow cover shows several examples of items created with rocks and seashells, including a large and somewhat strange face held by a young boy.

Judy D@judyd· May 29

When I was a kid I thought there was something magical about mountain laurel, the #CT state flower-maybe because my brother said I'd go to jail if I picked it. 😂I had no idea it grew in people's yards, just on wooded hillsides. Now it fills the wooded parts of my small yard and it's still lovely 🌱🌸

Close up of a mountain laurel bush with shiny pointed green leaves and "bouquets" of small flowers, each a light pink cup with a dark pink circle at the center.

Judy D@judyd· May 24

This 5 br, 3/4 acre house in my neighborhood (bought at auction for flipping) is listed at 449k. Ten miles from UConn. Not looking forward to house shopping in RI

A large night white 1960s colonial with black shutters has an all season room on the left side and a two car garage on the right. It sits back from the road and is surrounded in back by woods.

Judy D@judyd· May 23

I divided the 2007 Hilo Airport orchid a dozen or so years ago and this is the first time they both bloomed at the same time. There’s a third smaller portion now in recovery from a year in an overheated classroom. 🌱💐 #orchid

Two sprawling orchid plants are in front of a large picture window. Each has a spike of large white flowers with a deep pink throat.

Judy D@judyd· May 19

Stand and deliver! #MontyPython