#Naturalisticgardens are always a bit chaotic. This one (mine) certainly is. Agastaches, altheas, echinaceas, globe thistles, rudbeckias, dusty millers & scabiosas (among others) growing happily despite drought & extreme heat, all because chaotic gardens are resilient habitats. #Gardening #wildlife

Because I miss the cool and gray of autumn afternoons, here are five spooky #mg books that anyone -big and small- will enjoy... #BookSky #KidLit #ScaringIsCaring #MGHorror 💙📚

I do the same. And little by little the neighbors have become familiar with my ways 😅 My girls (right) loved it. The new boy in town is not a fan.

Althea officinalis growing in my #naturalisticgarden Also know as the marsh mallow, the root of this lovely plant was used by Egyptians and Romans to make marshmallows, by grounding it and mixing it with honey.

Thinking about that time I made a clip about five of my favorite sci-fi books... #BookSky #scificlassics #scifibooks 💙📚

A few of the magnificent blooms of this summer. No watering. A bit if a drought. Plants are doing well. #gardening #naturalisticgardens

The difference a year makes... Same place one fourteen months apart. All plants were grown from winter sowed seeds. #TheWildGardener #Gardening #NaturalisticGarden

Daydreaming. Soñando. Blue skies and a strong breeze. #ArtRepostJuly

I love the brightness of this croscomia blooms. Tiny but showy. #SummerGarden #SummerBlooms #Gardening

The colors of summer Beautiful annual Livingstone daisies in my garden #Gardening #Summer2026

Great #horror "You let me eat up all papa’s anger so it wouldn’t poison you. You didn’t mind that he ruined me as long as you were unspoiled & safe. If you ever loved me, it was because I was a soft thing you threw down into the bottom of a pit to break your fall.” ―Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn 💙📚

As always, #kidlit goes harder than it needs in this #YA historical mystery. “Living with uncertainty is like having a rock in your shoe. If you can’t remove the rock, you have to figure out how to walk despite it. There is simply no other choice.” ― Amy Timberlake, One Came Home 💙📚 #BookSky

Fluffy clouds. Love them 🥰

I can't say it better than Carl Sagan, so here are his words on the subject... Both quotes are from his book, Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.

This was a nice spring read, "Truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen." ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted #BookSky 💙📚 #Fantasy #Folklore

Seedlings and hail, a recipe for running... I was quick enough to bring them inside before the worst of it, but it would be nice if the weather finally understood it's time to get warmer, not colder. #gardening

First read it as a teen. Liked it better this time. "Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.” ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End #BookSky 💙📚

I'm reading some spooky #MG mystery and enjoying it deeply. #Kidlit even spooks harder than it needs 😉 "When you are hiding something, you get the feeling that every other secret is connected to your secret." ―John Bellairs, The House with a Clock in Its Walls #BookSky #MiddleGrade 📚💙📚

Winter-sown seedlings are almost ready to go in the ground. If only it would stop snowing! 🌨️ ❄️🌨️ I may need to repot a few of them so they have enough room to wait for warmer days. #gardening #spring2026 #wintersown

Once in a while, I like to peruse through this one... Lots of interesting things too find, refind, and find again. "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does." ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland #kidlit #classics #BookSky 📚💙📚

I love looking at this ⬇️ knowing that this ⬇️ is coming... #Spring time wonders! #gardening #spring2026

Dandelions, lawn daisies and other "weeds" are bees only source of food in early spring. We love these weeds and, to help our lovely solitary bees, we don't mow the lawn until other plants have bloomed. Bonus points, the garden gets some early color! #gardening #wildgarden #notaweed

Continuing with #YA that goes hard, this one oozes emotion... "Letting go feels like giving up. But if you don’t let go, you’ll drown. I know the feeling. And it sucks. But Life sucks sometimes." ― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight #KidLit #BookSky 📚💙📚

The colors of spring... What a joy! #spring2026 #gardening #springflowers #tulips #daffodils

#KidLit putting words to feelings in the best possible way "I feel guilty for it sometimes, for any sort of laughter or feeling of freedom on my part, because there is a war going on and we shouldn't be allowed to forget so easily." ― Nita Tyndall, Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken. #YA #BookSky 💙📚

Seriuosly, #kidlit goes so hard... "People try to create order. Discipline. Rules. It gives them peace. A sense of regulation. Of strength. It makes them feel in control. But life is chaos, reader. The sooner you learn this, the better." ― Cory Anderson, What Beauty There Is #BookSky #YA 📚💙📚

Apple blossoms are among my (and the bees) favorite blossoms... #spring2026 #gardening #springgarden

Delightfully dark, a good winter read. "I don’t need you,’ I say, ‘I want you. That should be enough. That should be better because it means I’ve made a choice." ― A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones #Horror #BookSky 📚💙📚

Spring is coming, you can feel it... 😀

It always impresses me how #kidlit manages to push harder than it needs, go deeper... to give us devastatingly beautiful books. “It's confusing-how your heart holds your love and your hurt in the same chamber.” ― Justin A. Reynolds, Early Departures #YA #Contemporary #BookSky 📚💙📚 🌎