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@velveteendream
🇵🇭 Native Garden & Kitchen Witch/ Swoletariat🏋🏻/ Rock Climbing🧗🏻♀️/ 📸🎨🎸/ Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈/🤘🏽Metalhead in L'Etoile du Nord, Minnesota. She/Her. AI art is for unimaginative hacks. I said what I said. Photos & artwork are mine unless reposted.
This Northern Pearly Eye (?) got confused by our bright camping lanterns and hung out on our sourdough bread. Sorry buddy!
Got absolutely drenched before I could get any climbs in today but this crag hike had so many little Essex Skippers flitting about. So fucking lovely.
Got to paddle board and scramble up some rocks on Gichigami yesterday. It almost gives me vertigo to look into the clear depths at the huge rocks underneath and the dark blue drop offs. Waking up to the news that a warmonger died, so happy fuckin birthday to me!
Birthday pasty!!! 😁 41 turns around the sun and it's been fun!
Our campsite last night in upper peninsula, Michigan! So many stars and fireflies and good climbing. ☺️
Very #twincities Minnesota coded Nalgene bottle stickers. #rebelloon #minnesota
I think we have native ladybugs because 1.) We plant #nativeplants 2.) Partner & I leave the leaves/ sweep into garden beds 3.) We don't tidy up the garden until it's been consistently warm. This #ladybug is one of my favorites! #minnesota #coccinellidae #twincities #tenspottedspurleg #plantnative
Caught a lil firefly on my 2 mile run. I looked like an insane person running and jumping around, talking to myself in the park at dusk. 😂🤣
I've got a lot of milkweed & somehow it attracts native ladybugs. I found this one on a Wild Four O'Clock plant though. 2 years in a row I've had these little friends visit. 🥹 They're fast as fuck so it was hard to take a video. #plantnative #minnesota #coccinellidae #ladybug #twincities #stpaul
I hate when good flavors get discontinued! This one is so good, I ended up visiting their factory in Oregon to eat more ice cream. 🤣
This little Potter Wasp was stuck on my Royal Catchfly. I gently freed it and it eventually flew away. 🙏🏽 #sileneregia #solitarywasp
Biked down the Bee Line, a 2.25 mile #pollinator friendly corridor through Midway, Frogtown, & Como neighborhoods! 1st one's the Test Plot, 2nd's Pierce Butler Meadow all in bloom. The thriving meadow used to be a spot that truckers would throw their piss jugs in. #plantnative #minnesota #bike
I don't think I will ever get tired of seeing fireflies. It's something I never saw as a kid growing up in a tropical island. It will always be magical to me. #fireflies #fireflysummer
Can't wait to listen! I've grown about 110 species of native plants in my tiny yard & I see lots of different bugs. Feels like a blessing really. We get all sorts of birds even without setting up feeders. This year we got a lot of fireflies too. ☺️ My neighborhood is known for pollinator gardens.❤️
Some garden pals! I can't believe how crisp these photos turned out. My iPhone 12 takes decent closeups! White-Faced Meadowhawk & a Ten Spotted Spurleg Ladybug. Plant native and they will come! #invertebrates #ladybug #dragonfly #twincities #minnesota #plantnative #garden
If you need seeds to start your garden, I gotchu!!!!!! This native ladybug was out in my yard today along with 2 others. 🤣
My heart is full, my yard is teeming with life. I first saw these guys last year and was hoping they would come back. I found 3 in my yard so far! #tenspottedspurlef #brachiacanthadecempustulata
Singing Chet Baker - Everything Happens to Me to the little Longhorn Bee taking a mid-afternoon snooze in my garden. #plantnative #minnesota #blanketflower #singing #bloomscrolling #gardening #pollinators #savethebees #nativebees
