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AB Chao @abchao.com · 13/08/2025

Today’s a great day to look at my tiny urn I bought in Cincinnati. Look at it!

A tiny black cast iron plant urn with a fern inside, Los Angeles, 2025.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 10/08/2025

Cincy in August is truly stunning. Hot and sweaty and stunning.

A mass of wildflowers in pinks and purples, Cincinnati, 2025.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 29/07/2025

Hello, friends and foes! It’s been a while!!! As penance, wouldst thou accept a pic of this curious fella, who stowed away on a geranium leaf and rode home with me from the plant store??? Look at him, he knows he’s a menace.

A small orange caterpillar chilling on a geranium leaf, Los Angeles, 2025.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 19/05/2025

Greetings from Taipei, where the mopeds are frequently adorable but still won’t fit in your suitcase

A tiny pink moped parked on the sidewalk, Taipei, 2025.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 29/04/2025

Icebergs exploding in Los Angeles!!You just really can’t go wrong with an Iceberg rose. They cannot be killed and trust me, I’ve tried. 🧊

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 19/04/2025

Here’s the screenshot

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 17/04/2025

I’ve finally perfected the casually tied velvet bow using the bitchiest, hardest to tie ribbon ever made: frayed velvet. Anyway the rest of y’all can go home, can’t tell me nothing, etc.

The perfect velvet bow in a deep blue-green, tied around a candle on a light fixture, against a tennis ball yellow fabric draped on the fixture.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 17/04/2025

I’m gonna hang this in my kitchen in LA, where the only shrimp poboys are in my dreams. 🍤

A red, blue, and yellow print that reads

FRIED OR GRILLED
SHRIMP POBOY
$9.99 WHOLE

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 10/04/2025

Only 314 days till Mardi Gras.

John Flemister’s mom’s pink bike in our back yard after Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 2025. Come get your bike John

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 07/04/2025

Hey look at this rose

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 03/04/2025

A theme is emerging 💛🪴

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 31/03/2025

I dragged the old 5D from storage last time I was in New Orleans, and it’s wild to see how much better the photos look without Apple’s TERRIBLE and MANDATORY automatic filters. I’m out of practice for sure and the ease of instant filters has degraded my eye, but so what? Onward to glory!

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 29/03/2025

Get in bitch it’s Easter candy season

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 29/03/2025

What started as a joke between me and Mad has turned into the best block print ever. Crawfish IS bugs, you know? And they’re so, so delicious. Second pic: the artiste herself. ❤️‍🔥🦞

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 27/03/2025

WHY AM I JUST NOW KNOWING ABOUT THE TENNIS, COVEN??!

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 27/03/2025

Look at this big ol’ girl. Her cranky cousin P. Veitchii arrives next week, it’s exciting times around here!!!

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 27/03/2025

I hope y’all like Mardi Gras. 📸: @elizasays.bsky.social

A lady in a pink wig takes a seat for a breather at Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 2025.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 27/03/2025

Reposting this one with the filter it both needs and deserves.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 27/03/2025

Wait a minute. This place is incredible. Old school filters? No algorithm? A pleasing interface? Dear @flashes.blue, thank you!!! I can’t believe this. Anyway, here is an oyster shell I bedazzled. There’s an indentation at the top that’s so perfect for a cig (or similar), I had to do it! ✨🩶🌿

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 27/03/2025

Hand-crafted Mardi Gras float flowers attached to a house. Flowers and photo: Shannon Atwater

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 04/03/2025

Happy Mardi Gras!!! It's been a good one.

A foolish woman in an all-pink costume, festooned with beads, twirling. New Orleans, MG '25.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 25/02/2025

You want thingamabobs? I got twenty.

Ribbons and trim on a table, New Orleans, MG ‘25

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 25/02/2025

My Mardi Gras crafting popup is open for business. BYOGG.

A living room full of costumes and supplies, New Orleans, MG ‘25

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 24/02/2025

First weekend in the books! It was rainy sunny cold beautiful joyful, the house full of people having one more slice of king cake, with surprise new friends and beloved old ones in the mix, and someone who was NOT carrying all them hula hoops to the car. Gonna do it all again starting tomorrow. 💜💛💚

A dance krewe in red and black marches in formation down Napoleon Ave, New Orleans, MG ‘25

Three women on the neutral ground take a group pic, New Orleans, MG ‘25

Just two guys in camping chairs on the neutral ground chatting between parades, New Orleans, MG ‘25

Abandoned hula hoops lean against some concrete steps, New Orleans, MG ‘25

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 21/02/2025

INT. WALMART - MARDI GRAS AISLE - EARLY MORNING. With parades starting in mere hours, our underdressed heroine hits paydirt when she spots the festive Mardi Gras-themed overalls at the end of the aisle. Are they hideous? Yes. Are they perfect? Also yes. 💜💛💚

An aisle in the Mardi Gras section of the Tchoupitoulas Walmart in New Orleans

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 08/01/2025

These look like hurricane skies and are just as eerie. Stay safe LA!

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 13/12/2024

Missing New Orleans at the holidays, but I took a bunch of pics last week to tide me over. This shop always decorates to the nines! Someone pls buy me the blue ginger jars. Thanks!!!

A daytime photo of Dunn and Sonnier, a shop in New Orleans. The exterior and front porch are decorated for the holidays with lots of greenery and red ribbons.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 08/12/2024

I just skidded back into town and the first thing I need yall to know is that Miss Fern has grown large in the time I was gone. Very large. What I’m saying is that this heifer has killed three of her babies.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 03/12/2024

Spectacular day in the Quarter. The sky was really that blue!!!

A daytime photo of the famous corner building on Royal St. in New Orleans with three stories of hanging ferns and iron scrollwork for days.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 26/11/2024

The fern on my Nola porch has become enormous, unruly, and frankly has an attitude. The view from below:

A large hanging fern on a porch, shot from underneath. You can see parts of the porch ceiling but the fern takes up most of the shot!

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 23/11/2024

Who did this? Y’all are so foolish 😂

A screenshot from IG account @neutralgroundnews featuring a desolate New Orleans street tagged “Scrim City,” which is part of a city inside joke that I tried to resist but could not. 🐕

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 23/11/2024

BREAKING: Staghorn pregnancies reach an all-time high in Beverly Grove, with a record FIFTH BABY discovered moments ago. Let’s go live to the scene!

A staghorn fern mounted on a wooden plaque with sphagnum moss; a red arrow points to a tiny staghorn pup growing deep in the moss.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 21/11/2024

My staghorn fern is pregnant with four babies, the little minx! The arrow is pointing to #3; I found another this morning! Advice welcome, these are my first pups. 🌱🥹

A close-up shot of two staghorn fern pups nestled in sphagnum moss, with a red arrow pointing to the smaller one.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 19/11/2024

This style evolution… it is perfect. PERFECT, do you hear me?!

Tennis star Coco Gauff poses for a full-length mirror selfie, wearing a deep green buttoned cardigan over a white button-down and dark tie, paired with of-the-moment barrel jeans in a medium wash. A world-class fit, in one woman’s opinion.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 18/11/2024

Today I washed my porch floor, as I do every Sunday, like the crazy old lady next door I’ve always wanted to be.

A daytime photo of a small second-story porch with a painted white floor, two French-bistro-style chairs, and several plants. The porch has a white railing that says “state prison” or “austerity chic” depending on who you ask.

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AB Chao @abchao.com · 13/11/2024

I feel like I’m swinging so much freer over here, this place doesn’t have the funk of 40,000 years ruining everything yet and it’s nice! Now look at this picture of my vintage treasures.

A vignette of a framed botanical print, an ivy plant, a burning candle in a green vessel atop two stacked books, two small candlesticks with yellow candles, and a bud vase with a rose in it.

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