Kristen

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Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jul 28

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey wrong answers only.

2 dogs and a cat peer over a rocky cliff, a still from the 1993 movie, "Homeward Bound"

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jun 29

Pigment-less swamp milkweed! 🌱

Bunches of small white blossoms among green foliage.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jun 29

Clematis looking nice

Partially bloomed purple clematis, a vining flower along a red brick wall.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jun 19

For good measure, here's the Roman carbonara that Stanley Tucci called the best in the world.

Plate of Spaghetti alla carbonara with a healthy sprinkling of pepper, grated cheese, and a few bits of crunchy guanciale on top.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· May 30

Thinking about all of the Great Lakes, their rivers, and tributaries.

View of a calm inland lake in Michigan. A grassy lawn and 3 or 4 sparsely-leaved deciduous trees in the foreground. In the background, a distant view of the other side of the lake. The sky is not quite clear, with high altitude thin clouds covering the sky during a bright late-may afternoon.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· May 15

Missing Up North badly this morning. Listening to loon sounds 🦆while I close my eyes and sip coffee.

A wet, Golden retriever with very light, beige-white fur, and a loose harness hanging off him. He Sits and looks attentively over a calm lake with different colors reflected from the sunset and clouds. The other side of the lake is visible with hilly terrain

Kristen@kkhugstrees· May 12

Blueberr blossoms make a lovely color palette.

White and pink blossoms and similarly sized dusty purple-green leaves. Red brown mulch is in the background

White and pink (shades vary from pale to hot pink) downward facing blossoms among large pointed green leaves with reddish purple edges.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· May 12

Lone emerging allium among the fox sedges, golden Alexander's, and Japanese maple 🌱

An emerging magenta allium blossom. Lower background are out of focus bright green sedges and golden Alexander's with small yellow flowers. An out-of-focus deep red-purple Japanese maple fills the upper background.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· May 8

In the 4 or so years I've subscribed to Shri's email list, he's barely sent stuff out. Now it's weekly since election stuff is ramping up. It's mostly rage bait, and now this very untimely message!

Screen shot of an email that has circled in red the date sent (May 8) and the first sentence of the email (¡Feliz Cinco de mayo!) To show that this was not sent on the actual date of Cinco de Mayo (May 5)

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Apr 27

Wood poppies poppin

Bright green large 5 lobed leaves around a central stem that sprouts into a bright yellow flower. There are 3 flowers.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Apr 5

La Mura di Lucca, shared by my padrigno lucchese 🥰

A tall stone wall fortifying a medieval ciry-state, Lucca. There are buildings and trees peeking out from inside the city walls amongst the perfectly blue sky and clean green outer lawn

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Feb 13

Green cartoon dinosaur is worried and yelling out, WHERE'S MY BINKIT? From the Sandra Boyton book, Dinosaur's Binkit.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Feb 11

Thinking about the human trafficking signs in the airport bathrooms while sitting here watching AG's smug face during house hearing. We all know HSI won't be calling you back bc they're either busy terrorizing immigrants and their communities, and DOJ boss is shilling for pedos/pedo-adjacent humans

Columnar sign that says on top: REPORT HUMAN TRAFFICKING. There are things to look out for when encountering trafficked people. The tip lines are listed. There are logos at the bottom of the Reagan Airpot, DHS, and DOT

Close up of a sign: report suspected human trafficking to the Homeland Securit Investigations Tip Line: 1-866-347-2423 or Metropolitan Washington Airports Police Department

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jan 4

Simo, white death.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Dec 26

Merry

A woman with glasses, visible from the eyes up, holds a martini glass on her head in front of a lit and decorated indoor Christmas tree.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Oct 7

Today, it's finally AUTUMN outside!

A troll toy in a pumpkin costume, and he has green hair. He's guarding the sacred salt mill along with orange and green gourds that armor access to his valuable stores.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Oct 2

Risky mid-summer transplant paid off...thriving smooth asters emerge just as all my other pollinators have finished blooming and a Monarch hatched (?) in my garden 💜🧡

Four light purple flowers and many more buds. They have many skinny petals and blueish green leaves. A bee is on one flower.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Sep 27

Rochester, NY is doing some great stuff to add green space and access to its water-rich spaces. Also, an amazing host this weekend for the Great Lakes Conference!

Genesee River flowing out into Lake Ontario at dusk. There are strings of lights strung over the waterfront walkway.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Sep 27

Apple orchards in the Cornwall Preserve. Williamson, New York.

In the foreground, a wooden fence and pine tree canopy. In the background, an apple orchard surrounded by trees, some with colors of the leaves changing. Overcast sky.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Sep 17

Correction: Emcard!

An image of a yellow University of Michigan ID card with an image of an African American woman with short hair. Her name is Natalie Emcard.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Sep 16

I regret to inform you!

A headline from the satirical newspaper, The Onion: "It only Tuesday". An image shows people waiting for a train.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Aug 13

Colazione di campioni 🤌🏻

White plate on a natural woven placemat with a fork on the right and glass of water on the top left. Plate features Italian bread slices stacked with fresh tomato, basil, and mozzarella, and a sprinkle of black pepper. There is no balsamic on this Caprese salad because the author despises it.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Aug 3

Just learned something new about the Lake Erie from a lakehouse coaster! #wearelakeerie @freshwaterfuture.bsky.social

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jul 29

Ok, time to finally post recent garden pics!

2 sleeping bumblebees at dawn, laying atop a bunch of small pink flowers, which is rose milkweed. They look like they could be holding hands.

A long thin black insect, a little over an inch long, with a blue neon spot on on end, and a neon green and black head and small torso on the other. The damselfly is holding on to the upright, bright green, thin stem of a nodding onion. There are many out of focus bright green stems and leaves in the background.

A mix of different wildflowers including pink rose milkweed, yellow black-eyed susan, purple echinacea, purple bee balm, and a grassy brown fox sedge poking through the flowers.

What I believe to be a nymph grasshopper. Its entire body, including eyes, is a speckled grey-brown. It is sitting on the leaf of a butterfly milkweed. Above the insect are small orange flowers.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jul 29

Took a night off from the garden in favor of TV and charcuterie in bed. Blisssss 🥰

Food and a cheese knife on a wooden cutting board. Food includes a bowl of blueberries, salami, crackers with goat cheese, walnuts, and 2 green olives

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jul 12

Likely hospital closings in rural Michigan. Good luck to Republican Congressmen Moolenaar (2 hospitals) and Walberg (1 hospital) on your re-elections!

Screenshot of an MLive (Michigan) article with the names of 3 rural hospitals likely to shut down after the GOP's federal Medicaid cuts.

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jul 9

First monarch butterfly spotted in my milkweed-centric garden!

An orange, black, and white Monarch butterfly sitting on pink flowers (rose milkweed)

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jul 2

This blue damselfly on my lavender 💙💜💚

Long thin blue insect with black stripes drinking nectar from purple lavender blooms

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jun 16

Heavy and frenetic bumblebee action at St. John's Wort this morning

Bumblebee with a large pollen ball on his body, getting more pollen from yellow flowers

Kristen@kkhugstrees· Jun 2

Look at this bee drinking amongst my lavender 💛💜🖤💛💜🖤