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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This morning’s backyard sunrise, taken from the dock, while imbibing my first cup of java. #Sunrise #Wednesday #October #Coffee

Yellow and red sky sunrise reflecting on the water, the silhouette of a double deck and the shadow of trees in the foreground.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“I smell like a pumpkin spice latte”… Ok. I feel like this is going too far… #bloomscrolling #gardening #flowers #mums #fall #pumpkinspice

Orange-yellow mum labeling as “Pumpkin Spice” with tags that reads “I smell like a pumpkin spice latte”

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A Good #SundayYellow Morning to you, from the #IndianaDunes on the southernmost shore of #LakeMichigan. North winds today suggest a hint of Fall in the air. #BloomScrolling #Gardening

Some sunny yellow sunflower volunteers growing on the sandy beach.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today, I was attacked, and stung, by killer bees while trimming back some irises. Ok, they were yellow jackets, but still. Fell while running and screaming. On the flip side: a hummingbird landed on my cheek this morning so I guess it all evens out.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First-time loofa grower. Perhaps the coolest thing I’ve grown in a while… 🌱 #Loofa #Garden #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Flowers

A cucumber-like vegetable, long and thin, approximately 12” at this point.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A ground level storm and squirrel survivor sunflower for this #SundayYellow afternoon. #Sunflower #Gardening #Flowers #BloomScrolling

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Able to salvage a few blooms from the ground after devastating storms near the Lake destroyed the flower gardens. Not what I intended when I planted a “chaos garden”. #LakeMichigan #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Gardening #Sunflowers

Vase of several sunflowers on a fence post.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Captivated by this single white zinnia growing amidst a riot of color. The simplicity is striking. #Zinnias #Flowers #Gardening #BackYardGarden #BloomScrolling #LakeMichigan

Single white zinnia with a white center. Lovely.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This morning, myTai chi instructor presented each of us with a single jasmine bloom before we began, and I can’t think of a more lovely gesture.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Reading Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake while devouring a pound of Michigan cherries as I sit on the shore of Lake Michigan. Summertime synchronicity. 💙📚 #BookSky

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Prepare for an onslaught of sunflower pictures. Lots of rain, sunshine, and warm weather have produced a plethora of sunny faces this summer. #Sunflowers #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Summer

A vividly yellow, fully opened, sunflower.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“We’re all golden sunflowers inside.” Allen Ginsberg

First blooming sunflower of the summer, just beginning to open.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Really wishing I’d grown my own lettuce and cilantro this year. *Sigh*

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Wondering how everyone’s tomatoes are doing in the upper Midwest area. I have huge plants, but very few tomatoes. All heirlooms. #tomatoes #gardening #LakeMichigan #heirloom #greenzebra

Three lonely green zebra tomatoes on the vine, still moist from the rain.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Happy Friday, everyone. Go outside. Touch grass. Have a fruity drink. And check your tomato plants for those big green worms. #Gardening #Tomatoes #Friday #BloomScrolling

Some lovely ripened, red tomatoes hanging on the vine.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

David Sedaris John Irving Salman Rushdie Isabel Allende Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Today’s highlight: a low country boil with some regional additions on this sweltering summer day in the South.

Huge table of boiled crawfish, shrimp, potatoes, corn, hard boiled eggs, and “lord only knows” what else…

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Our gardens are not separate from the ecosystem, they are inexorably tied to it.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

An entire field of poppies and various larkspur planted with the bread wheat by a local mental health facility. #WildFlowerHour #Gardening

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

That Tony Awards opening is what we all needed. Can I get a witness! #tonys

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A Little Golden Book biography gifted to our families’ newest little sailor. Best to read while listening to his music. Salt shaker nearby. Fins up. 💙 📚 #JimmyBuffett #LittleGoldenBook #BookSky

A cover of a Little Golden Book featuring Jimmy Buffett sitting on a boat on the shore, holding his guitar, barefoot and smiling.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band The B-53’s

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Americans consume approximately 16.6 million pounds of tortilla chips on Cinco de Mayo, which is about 8,300 tons.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Cinco de Mayo falling on a Taco Tuesday (or is it the other way around?) calls for a little extra effort.

Salsa! A bowl of: surrounded by all the fixings. Jalapeño, cilantro, garlic, onion, tomatoes and lime.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A purple water hyacinths plucked from my backyard on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon. #WildFlowerHour #Nature #LakeLife #Sunday #BloomScrolling

A single purple water hyacinth held aloft along water’s edge. Blue sky with fluffy, white clouds in background.

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Kimberly @booksrlife.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

May Day, Beltane, and a Full Moon in Scorpio? Going to yoga and having a cocktail after. And maybe my “transformation and hidden truths” will be revealed…

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