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The best thing about being sober is that you keep your word. Just like most alcoholics I used to lie to others and myself constantly. Anything to get the next drink. 🍺 🍷 🍹 When Giuseppe was dying last month I wanted to build a little memorial garden for him. His favorite

I made a pie and set it in the windowsill to cool just like they do in the cartoons

The better to see you with, my dear. These close-focus backyard optics I wrote about for Birds & Blooms magazine let you see the visitors drawn to your pollinator gardens. #nativeplants #binoculars #loupes birdsandblooms.com/stuff-we-love/…

Planting's the easy part. Maintaining gardens not so much. Enter the professional gardener. I wrote about them for The Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/home/2023/04/1…

My brother stripped the ivy from an old cherry tree this morning. Found this.

Katie Mack Enjoy the loons I saw this morning, instead of the loons on Tw. #gaviaimmer

It’s buzzing at my solitary bee plaza this afternoon! The red mason bee males are buzzing around waiting for the females to emerge…. 🐝🐝🐝

Good reminder to re-read “The Wind in the Willows.”

There are no Common Loons in the desert

Check out this fun image of kids playing in a fountain that accompanies this horrifying story of deadly heat. This is climate propaganda at its finest. Aren't dangerous heatwaves just the best? opb.org/article/2023/0…

After ~7 yr of work, it's finally out! We present a molecular phylogeny of butterflies sampling >90% of genera & >2000 spp. Butterflies emerged ~100 million yr ago in North America and first fed on legumes. Thanks to all 87 co-authors from 28 countries! rdcu.be/dcaVU

Not sure how I feel about this.

All across Iceland, you see reminders of how tight-knit the local community is. At this Reykjavík playground, instead of swinging on parallel tracks in individual worlds, kids swing into the center and then out again, like a laughing squeeze box of neighborhood joy.

Rode the rail trail in NJ where Garfield was transported. Saw this:

Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way is 1,500 miles of rugged west coast beauty. Tucked away are 2 examples of the organized splendor of Victorian walled gardens. I wrote about them. gardendestinations.com/gardens-along-…

For all you gardeners, here's my Washington Post article on why we should leave some dead wood in our gardens. #gardens #stumpery #gardening washingtonpost.com/home/2023/09/1…

Tis the season of bird irruptions. I interviewed Jeff Wells, vp for boreal conservation at the National Audubon Society, on this natural phenomenon. It turned into a nice primer on the topic. birdsandblooms.com/birding/birdin… #birding #NationalAudubonSociety #borealforest #conservation

I write the Probably Outside newsletter. It's filled with local, social, dirt-cheap ways to spend more time outside. The Mid-June Issue: More Outings Than You Can Shake a Stick At+Native Plant Events at Garden Centers+Themed Walks+’Undernight' Camping open.substack.com/pub/monicacard…

Looking to get outside in August? Look no further than your local farms. Read how farms are welcoming us to their landscapes in my latest Substack newsletter, Probably Outside. monicacardoza.substack.com/p/the-august-i…