#gardening #Bloomscrolling
How to grow fabulous organic cheerleading pom-poms:
1: Plant a leek.
2: Forget about it.
3: #gardening #Bloomscrolling
#gardening #Bloomscrolling Remote
Lydia Vvinters
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mastodon 4.7.3+procolix.mnlI'm an eclectic, #gardening green #pagan #witch who #writes , makes #art does a lot of #naturephotography and makes illustrations.
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Random bit of quirky cloud romance:
We were on opposite sides of the city, looked up, spotted the same cloud, and took a nearly identical photo to show each other when we got home. 💜☁️
#clouds #photography
Tis the season to scroll all the blooms!
It was a good day to get lost. 💚
Look at this gorgeous thing! I think it’s something like a shark vertebrae? Found on the Dutch coast (near Katwijk). Can anyone help identify this? Boosts very much appreciated, I’m so in love with this pretty little thing.
#marinebiology #naturalis #nature #macrophotography #fish
I love that visual space where water’s depth, surface, and reflection mix into this intangible, magical twilight zone.
It’s a not so #silentsunday here. After last night’s storm, the birds here are positively celebrating this morning.
You’ve been visited by the contemplative serenity crow. Close your eyes and you too will discover the joy of hopping about, making funny noises just to mess with people, and stealing socks off of clotheslines.
While I find the story of The Craft more entertaining, the way the magic is portrayed in Practical Magic is so much more charming and recognizable. For example, they actually call to Hekate for aid in one of the spells. In a weird way, it's basically a rather blunt request for something, which, in my experience, isn't the way she rolls. While The Craft invented a sort of meta god 2.0 in a fictional deity called Manon.
I know, I know, it's comparing fictional apples... but it's always interesting to see how magic portrayed. Often it's absolutely infuriating, like the persistent idea that you need to be some sort of special chosen one. Which is why I like the end of Practical Magic, where all the Mums come together to improvise a coven. Showing there is magic in everyone.
So I am re-implement the midnight margarita traditions. Who's with me?
#witch #fedicoven #movies
The world is… well… yeah… so, please delight at the sight of my little ladybug friend.
We had a bit of an aphid problem some years ago, so I planted some fennel to attract these buddies. Now they’re all over the place.
There was never a broom-closet strong enough to contain me, so I'm wearing my pointy hat with pride.
#witch
I think I managed to capture evidence that, as I have long suspected, the way to heaven is rather fabulously #lgbtq themed. 🌈
Blessed May Eve and/or start of Beltane! May the light time of the year bring you warmth and serenity. Let our spirits flourish with the flowers. 💚
#pagan #witch #butterfly #Bloomscrolling #nature #bugs
It pays to stalk the garden with a flashlight in the evening to check what nocturnal animals have moved in. Turns out my redesigned teeny tiny frog pond has its first inhabitant! A little male smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris). Not a frog, but I’m delighted the small scale habitat project is proving to be attractive. Isn’t he cute? I shall call him Burt.
#goodnight fedi friends.
There is finally a frog in the new frog-pond! I hope they get along with the tiny newt in there. I lured this buddy to the pond by playing the appropriate local happy frog calling sounds on my phone. Did not think that would work, but it clearly did.
Fennel flower buds have such nice, complex structures. It shows that one must invest in being snug before flowering. 💚😛
#Bloomscrolling #naturephotography #gardening
The intense taste and dark colour of black currant jam makes my little berry picking green witchy goth heart sing. 🖤
#gardening #cooking #food #witch
This flowering horse chestnut reminds me that you’ve got to flourish to go properly nutty in autumn. Shows you need to invest in your health to be your fabulously nutty self at full force.
#ScribesAndMakers #ketchup 21, What everyday object would you photograph as if it were art?
Loads of things, but specifically food. I'm an incredibly slow cook because I keep taking pictures of the organic structures of plants and mushrooms.
#ScribesAndMakers 14, What's something that's going well with your creativity this month?
Well, I'm less frantic about it? Usually, I crush my own spirit with excessive self-discipline, but I'm learning to pace myself. Which leaves space for health and gardening, which in turn combats my chronic depression, and makes my creativity much more energetic. Not more cheerful, since I am a rather dark romantic at heart, but more confident, assertive, bolder, and, well, a lot funnier.
#ScribesAndMakers 8, Victuals?
I'm a bit odd about food in fiction. I can't stand it when it's completely omitted, well, unless the characters are noncorporeal, I suppose. It is such an integral part of being human, socially, physically, and even spiritually.
And it irks me when food is disregarded in movies. You know the cliché, elaborate cooked breakfast, husband just takes a sip of coffee and rushes off. Or storming off in a restaurant...
It has me yelling "Eat the damn food!" at the TV.
#PennedPossibilities 985 — How long have you been writing or when did you start?
About five years ago. Growing up severely dyslexic left me convinced writing was something I shouldn't have the audacity to attempt.
For many in this #writingcommunity writing is a life-long passion but, I want to note that this is not a requirement. It can create a sense of never being able to "catch up" as you're starting, when the main thing you need is tenacity. So go for it!
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@alexisbushnell @time_for_kindness
All the back gardens connecting to mine, and joining in on my idea to make it all more critter friendly. We're making hedgehog corridors by making holes in the fences, and everyone is adding small ponds for the local frog population. The frogs had a rough winter, and a lot of them tried to survive in places they couldn't. So, we're helping them out.
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Lost an argument with a sweet potato.
Me: You’re food now.
Potato: No, I am plant.
Me: Well you were a pretty plant, but you’re food now.
Potato: No, I am plant.
Me: Okay, now you’re compost.
Potato: No, I am plant!
Fine!
#plants #gardening
Haven't done a #portfolioday thing in a while, so hi! I'm Lydia, I make traditional digital drawings and illustrations, primarily focussed on the surreal, philosophically inclined fantasy series I write. Though, I also post the occasional adorable doodle, sketch, or photograph and answer prompts about my writing. So, yeah... I'm an eclectic bit of creative chaos looking for other spirits hurling rainbow paint into the universe. 
#WordWeavers 13, Does your MC have a particular scent they love or hate due to their past?
There are some scents that hint back to elusive, missing memories of previous lives.
Oneiroi smells like burned cinnamon, so even before she meets him, Freya chucks cinnamon stick into fires. Scio smells like fresh cut grass, so she often plucks a blade of grass and rips it to pieces to smell that. And Freya's StarFlower perfume is like aphrodisiac catnip for Oneiroi and Scio.
#PennedPossibilities 984, Where does your MC feel the safest? Is there a particular person or object that helps them feel safe?
Freya's deepest fear is detachment to such a degree that her consciousness floats off. Which is why she feels safest and is at her most powerful, surrounded by loving people who keep her grounded. This is how her two lunatic husbands make her feel safe. Not by providing protection, but by ensuring she feels empowered and supported.
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space
I try to avoid going to chain stores, or shopping in the city here at all, but the smaller shops are vanishing fast.
Perhaps I'll try a shopping trip to Germany. Any city you would particularly recommend in this regard?
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@art_of_goulwenr
BERTHA came back from GRAZING, she’s very MOODY. She wants to HOWL with GRACE and PAMPER her leonine maid.
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@therivercrow@bardicperspiration.club it certainly felt like it. It brought me right back to my allotment garden. Which was odd, since I felt I was no where near it. Somehow I wandered in a huge infinity line.
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@therivercrow Cute indeed, but I just discovered they might also eat little frog tadpoles… I might need to rethink my frog repopulation plans. I’m thinking I can raise the tiny frogs in a tank and release them when they’re big enough not to be eaten.
@Emmacox@writing.exchange that’s so sweet! I like to think of them as my little cherry tree protection army. You can apparently also buy them for that purpose, but I didn’t like the idea of little ladybugs trapped in a box for days to get here. So, I’m glad the fennel worked out. Though, I must admit I liked the idea of opening the box in the garden, laughing maniacally, proclaiming “Fly! My pretties!”
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@misterdubs I highly recommend it. My main consideration was that it should be deep enough. I never planned on having a pond in my garden, as it’s a pretty small city garden, but some frogs claimed a disregarded salad bowl as their pond two years ago. Unfortunately that was far too shallow for them to hibernate in, and they froze to death this winter. So, I decided to create an 80cm deep pond with a small shallow bit and native plants for them.
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@leony Good point! It’s just a brief once a season type check to see who’s out there. It’s good to be aware of the critters around, mostly because I don’t want to disturb or harm them. It also showed that the hedgehogs are hanging out in and behind my old flowerpots, so I’ll leave those there.
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@misterdubs Mosquitos are an important food source and excellent pollinators, so while the frog pond does attract them, I’m okay with that. During summer, I refresh some water once a week to keep it manageable.
The pond is about 80cm deep and 45cm by 70cm. Where about 20cm of the 70cm is a more shallow part.
My creation didn’t take long to be populated (roughly 3 week), but that’s also because I created it for critters that were already there.
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@misterdubs Other than that, the frogs already showed me where they preferred it. I just had to dig and add some pond foil. I did fill it with rainwater instead of tap. Tap water can work but it takes a while. Oh, and I’ve made them some nice hiding spots around the pond using some old rocks and such.