Lindsay Anne Black

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Malaisée-faire. I wish I could simply post about ecological gardening. I'm also Tippi Hedren Collider linanneblack.bsky.social I'm also Champagnehand on YouTube Ko-fi: 🇨🇦🇫🇷 she/elle 🇳🇴 henne

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Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· 1d

Did the moss tell you that?! Jeez, I'm doing my best.

A screenshot of a push notification from PBS Terra. It reads: "You're not paying enough attention to moss".

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· 12d

My overarching aesthetic is "Accidentally arrived at the French Embassy junket at the same moment as an international tragedy," and that has finally spilled outdoors.

A pavilion with antique windows as walls, creating a mini-greenhouse, and a sheltered place to sit. Outside of this structure is a glass patio table with a green umbrella, and both spaces include a lit chandelier. The addition of the chandeliers means this space is now called the [pronounce with italics] Conservatory. In the foreground is one of the narrow paths that leads to the sitting space. Visible plants include: Sweet Joe-pye weed, Canada Goldenrod, Mountain Mint, Black Raspberry, Aronia Berry, Common Milkweed, Garden Phlox, Spirea, Yellow Coneflower, Culver's Root, Great Blue Lobelia, False Sunflower, Virgin's Bower, Evening Primrose, Pearly Everlasting, Black-eyed Susan, Saskatoonberry, Kentucky Wisteria, Black Walnut, more. Inside, there is a side table with an embedded wine cooler because duh.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Jul 20

Trump added to the podium of the 1992 U.S. Women's Figure Skating Championships.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Jul 16

Yes, we offer takeout.

A chipmunk has climbed up into a tray feeder on a fence. The seeds and nuts are in piles on tiny bistro tables, but the tables have been scaled to squirrels and bluejays, so they are slightly too tall. The fence is surrounded by flowers and willow branches, and the sky in the background is orange-tinged haze. In this photo, the chipmunk is peering up at the seeds on the bistro table in the middle of the scene.

The same scene, except now the chipmunk is on the other side of the middle table, they are looking toward the camera, and their cheeks are stuffed.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Jul 9

Allez les bleus!

A middle-aged woman with long brown hair holding up a champagne coupe, and standing in front of the France-Morocco match which is being projected on the wall behind her, revealing Kylian Mbappé. The woman is wearing a French fan maillot, and large-framed tortoiseshell glasses that are unflatteringly amplifying her itchy eyes for the camera.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Jul 1

Friends, the squirrels have finally realised that the white strawberries are actually ripe, and they are working in shifts.

Two black-morph Eastern Grey Squirrels have been rummaging through a large patch of Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) and popping their heads up to eat every few seconds.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Jun 11

I bought myself a birthday present from the wonderful @umanitobapress.bsky.social

A hand (showing signs of gardening, don't judge me) holding a weighty book called: Confronting the Resurgent Right, with a foreward by Niigaan Sinclair and edited by Miriam Edelson. The cover image is a photograph of people in the street, holding banners, during the 2022 Community Solidarity March in Ottawa. The photo is by Alex Silas.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· May 6

The POV is looking down through the corn leaves (which are covered in corn pollen) toward some broccoli leaves (which are covered in corn pollen) and then beyond that some pumpkin leaves (which are covered in corn pollen) and also a zucchini plant (which are covered in corn pollen)

Zucchini leaves (which are covered in corn pollen)

Pumpkin vine (which is covered in corn pollen). Seriously, I thought it had a disease for a second, the pollen has settled in every single vein crevice.

Me transferring the pollen that is left in the plants from one to the other with a big poofy paint brush, like the awkward ape-bee that I am.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· May 5

The Marsh Marigold is showing undue optimism, considering I haven't refilled the pond yet.

Caltha palustris (Marsh Marigold) is at the centre of the image, and it is looking happy and glossy in the sun. It is a low-growing flowering plant that thrives in riverbanks, and it has bright yellow flowers in a cup shape, each with five petals. It is growing out of a ridge of river rock, and there is blue flag iris in frame behind it, poking it in the hopes it will ask where the water is.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Apr 26

(I don't have the tree kind yet. Here's some from the ground.)

Pulsatilla nuttalliana (Prairie Pasqueflower), Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower), and Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant) sprouts between two Flagstone stepping stones. The Prairie Pasqueflower is in bloom with bell-shaped purple flowers and bright yellow centers.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Apr 17

Here! Let's get this moving right along

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Apr 4

An American remake of an Ontario classic.

Apparently MS NOW received this photo looking down on Pam Bondi's official photo, still framed, upside down in a plastic office-style garbage bin. It is the only item in the bin.

Laura Stone's photo of the same style of garbage bin, taken immediately after one of Doug Ford's speeches. One of the bins contains the lectern sign from the event, which in white block letters on a blue background reads: "FOR THE PEOPLE."

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Mar 25

It's my housiversary today, which is a big deal when you are a homebound person like me. (Or a homebound cat, like Z.) The house was built in 1890, and while they only had so much info about it at the archives, I'll still bet this is the first time anyone has grown a 1m tall kale plant in here.

I can't really eat produce from stores because of my chemical injury, so I have forfeited a whole room of my house to grow what I can. This is a photo of the sunroom from the doorway, and at centre is a black hydroponic bucket with a 1m tall, two-year-old kale plant. Surrounding it is a wealth of other plants, ranging from lettuces and herbs to an experimental pumpkin. There are ripening cucumbers visible in the window, hanging patio lights above the plant lights, and a hammock (aka "the spare room") in the lower left. I'm going to spend some time in there this evening. The 1m kale makes a nice little palm tree.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Mar 3

HURRY!

A vintage black and white photo of a woman in a velvet evening dress and satin gloves up to her elbows. Her hair has volume but is a respectable end-of-the-night early sixties coiffure. There is a bottle of champagne on the table, an array of plastic grapes that indicate this was some kind of display, and she seems ready to take a sip out of an enormous champagne coupe as broad as her shoulders.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Mar 3

YAY!

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Mar 3

Having intermingled thoughts about the cumulative toll of constant pain, and the successes of high-control groups who have their fingers on the scales of our information ecology, while I stall out and drink gin in the hammock and watch the zucchini grow in real time.

A zucchini plant in a hydroponic tub. There is a wilting male flower (which bloomed yesterday) and a well-coifed female flower with a tiny zucchini underneath it which is already larger than this morning. There are two more blooms forming underneath. The foreground is large green leaves, and the background is a wire trellis over a grey-brick wall, a broccoli sprout, and an experimental pumpkin. Yes, this is indoors in the snow belt and I am a maniac.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Feb 25

"Excuse me, would it be possible to book your feeder for a genders reveal party?"

A black-morph Eastern Grey Squirrel, who appears to be pregnant, is sitting on a wooden fence. The background is snowy, and there is a tree trunk to the side. The squirrel has her head tipped slightly to the side, but she is looking at the camera.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Feb 6

Thank you to those who have helped today. Here's a freshly renamed squirrel, shown here wondering how they got roped into this.

A black-coated Eastern grey squirrel is standing in a tray feeder that is built to look like a tiny bistro. There are scale tables that are covered in seeds. The squirrel is eyeballing the centre table, even though they still have bits of seed from the first table stuck to their fur. The background is deep snow and dried seed heads, from which the seeds were eaten long ago. They remain standing, sort of like when a human restaurant has decor that hints at the types of dishes they serve.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Feb 5

Thank you so much, friend. And likewise.

An Eastern grey squirrel has walked up to a tray feeder that resembles a tiny bistro. There are seeds on the tiny table, but there is also snow on the floor. The squirrel's face is also completely dusted with snow, to the point that you can only just make out their expression of disdain.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Jan 13

When you arrive at the bistro too early, and they haven't even cleared the snow off the tables yet.

A Dark-eyed Junco standing on a snowy fence beside a large tray feeder that includes tiny wooden café tables. There are dried seed heads on the other side of the fence, but they are covered in snow. The junco is looking away from the feeder, as if waiting for their friends, or perhaps an excuse to bail on their plans.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Jan 1

Post et bilde fra kamerarullen din fra de siste tolv mnd som oppsummerer 2025

En 3 meter høy snøhaug skjuler baksiden av huset mitt. Trærne kan sees i bakgrunnen.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Dec 25

✨ Happy holidays from Susur Tree, Wildlife Bistro ✨

A mourning dove is standing on a small wooden platform in a snowy scene, where there is a tiny tree with a white bow on top, and a small silver gift box with a bow on top. The dove is staring at the gift box. The sun is shining.

Same scene, but the dove has opened the box with their beak, to reveal that they got peanuts and raisins for Christmas, and it's going to be a good day.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Dec 13

Zigfried Dander Stardust is more of a pool shark.

A brown and white shorthaired tabby cat stands on a burgundy velvet sofa, holding a tiny pool cue. He watches the balls move on the tiny pool table on the coffee table in front of him. He looks disappointed, because he scratched.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Dec 12

I don't love calendar holidays, and the cat and I are the only ones here, but I thought my little potted tree friend might like to dress up a little. The extra twinkles do a real service. I hope that each of you has sufficient extra twinkles on hand, and to your respective tastes. ✨

A 50cm lemon cypress tree is perched in the middle of a large bay window on a stool, and lit up brightly with a string of lights. You can't tell from here, but the lights are shaped like acorns. Behind the little lit tree are the three tall windows, each with open curtains and an electric taper candle at the bottom. Beyond them, outside, is the deep blue of early night, with comedic amounts of snow in a Kincade-style background scene. The lights of the tiny tree are reflected in the windows.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Dec 1

I'm not sure if this was someone shovelling out their front doorstep, or if a squirrel simply dropped their keys in the snow.

A winter scene: the primary focus is a raised garden bed capped deeply in snow. There are stems and leaves of dried plants sticking out the back, and in the foreground is a medium sized hole that has been dug out of the snow. It looks like a tunnel downward into the soil. There is also snow in the foreground.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Oct 5

I think I know who sent me this drink from across the garden.

A black-coated Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is standing at a tiny wooden bistro table that's covered in seeds. The tiny table is part of a tray feeder on a fence, and the squirrel has stopped eating to eyeball the camera. There are Echinacea purpurea behind them, and there are yellow flowers in very soft focus in the foreground, like a romantic dream sequence in a 1970s film.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Oct 3

It's a non-native plant, but a neighbour brought me a sunflower sprout back in July to thank me for allowing his kids to display a sign advertising their lemonade stand. This is what it has been doing, and it delights me every day.

At the centre of the image is a single plant with more than ten lemon-yellow blooms, which are facing in every direction. It is approximately six feet tall. It is framed by an archway covered with Virginia Creeper, which is turning red for autumn, and plants in the background such as Wild Black Currants, Jerusalem Artichokes, and New England Asters in the background. A 135-year-old cottage is in the background.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Oct 3

Plus, he looks like Steve Jobs.

A tabby and white short-haired cat fills the frame, looking off to the left with big green eyes. He has a heart-shaped nose, and he is inside a cloth carrier that velcros around his neck. It resembles a black turtleneck sweater. He is on the lap of a woman in a car seat who is wearing a charcoal-filter mask. Her hand is draped over him.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Sep 21

Oops, I read the news and I'm full of disappointment and anger! Whoopsies! Here's something more hopeful from my garden. I gave them some pointers on crossing the southern borders on their journey. Burner phone, &c.

A migratory Monarch butterfly nectaring on some Black-eyed Susans, behind some Little Blue Stem.

Lindsay Anne Black@linanneblack2· Sep 12

Brown flavour