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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"these issues are... tightly interconnected... part of a single Earth system... Hence, our analysis – [and] political responses – need to be systemic, not ad hoc, firefighting each symptom as it flares up. No other concept reflects this planet-wide transformation in its proper context of deep time."

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I like the optimism of thinking of the Anthropocene epoch rather than the Anthropocene event in geological history of a highly intellectual descendant of a cockroach. Yes, that will require coherent, systemic change.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In our Rubus episode, I said Purple Flowering Raspberry fruits were mealy and flavorless, and Thimbleberries were delicious. I think the PFR at my Grandma's house were just poor fruit producers. I just had some PFR berries that were just like Thimbleberries.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Genus Eurybia, like the larger Turtle Island aster genus, Symphyotrichum, is a new-to-Europeans world aster that has been split from genus Aster (formerly Aster divericatus). Eurybia consists of a handful of woodland species with white or pale rays, and smooth stems compared with hairier Symph. spp.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lovely photos, Kate. I love that they come with a rewinding story. Thank you for sharing.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is how we should be feeding ourselves and our wild relatives. Settler culture has little connection with wetlands, but species that thrive in human disturbance for millennia would appreciate more feet pounding the mud to release roots. We adopted this food on the settler frontiers, then forgot.

confluenceproject.org

Important Foods: Wapato - Confluence Project

Wapato are a wetland tuber which were a part of Native diet. Though consumption of wapato ceased after land cultivation by white farmers, wapato are being reintroduced to the Yakama diet. Notes on coo...

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Environmental justice is an issue that has been ignored by both parties. Republicans lie and deflect. Democrats are neo-liberals as well, offering social change but never challenging industry (campaign donor) profits obtained from unregulated pollution of lower-income neighborhoods e.g. in Memphis.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I want to see your Eucalyptus trees in their natural habitat (I've seen some in California, USA) someday. The whole separate marsupial experiment in evolution as well. But I'll agree from the rocky Oak/Pine forests of the Coastal Zone in Massachusetts.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Reading: A Place on the Glacial Till —how our ecosystems are still shaped by the events that shaped the rocks and soil. I love the descriptions of the ecosystems. It is beautiful to hear from a human who sees the life around them. I'll try my hand in alt text. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #ecosystems

A woodchip path through an open Pitch Pine/Oak forest near the coast: the base of Cape Cod, near Falmouth, MA.

Overstory: Pitch Pines dominate, but oaks are coming up to join them. The pines are broken by storms off the ocean, straight lower trunks and twisted regrowing tops. The oaks (Q. rubra, coccinea) are coming to fill it in, and shade out the understory.

Understory: Black Huckleberry (Gaylussaccia baccata) dominates, with Hillside Blueberry, lower, on dryer, raised areas, and Wild Raisins reaching above them from wet swales. Hayscented Fern is mixed in with other diversity, but the huckleberry is by far the most common.

Midstory: there are few tall shrubs, few small trees, little showing above 3' so that the huckleberries look unbroken in the distance, but here and there, Sassafras albidum writhes upward toward the overstory. As you notice their distinct leaf shapes (plural) you see that they are common in the understory as well.

This place is longing for a fire. The berries are profuse in a few open patches, where weather has broken a crown, but they will become more sparse as the oaks fill in. The Huckleberry and blueberries, Pitch Pine and rare raspberries would all bounce back vigorously after a burn cleared away oaks and the overstory. The abundance of this place would put the blueberry patches of coastal Maine to shame. No wonder Indigenous peoples practiced controlled burns.

Let's give it back to the Wampanoag, to the Nauset band in particular. Their people managed it much better for 12000 years. Or at least, let's learn from them and not let every diverse, productive pine barren become an oak forest.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wild Raisins, Viburnum nudum, have the tastiest berries of any Viburnum species I have tried, including Nannyberries. Wavy-edged, waxy, opposite leaves on this wet open understory shrub, and berries ranging in ripeness and color. plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/vibur... #nativeplants #ecoregion59

Dark purple to pale pine berries dangling in clusters near the end of the branches of a leggy Viburnum nudum

Viburnum nudum in the understory of a Pitch Pine/oak forest, with a dense understory of mostly Ericaceae: huckleberries, blueberries, Mountain Laural

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you buy potted cultivars of our native Hibiscus, Swanp Rosemallow (H. moscheutos) make sure they are not treated with pesticides or other chemicals. Butterflies and moths rely on this species as a host. Also you won't be able to make tea. Pic: before and after adding lemon juice to Hibiscus tea

Bright red hibiscus tea, with lemon juice and tan/pink tea without, in mason jars

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Speaking of materials science, and my PhD days, I just posted about Pitch Pines. I learned about them while in grad school, studying dynamics in Stokes regime, where swimming works like hammering a nail through wood (velocity ∝ force). The pitch drop experiment made it into my slides a few times.

smp.uq.edu.au

Pitch Drop experiment

We're home to the famous Pitch Drop experiment, which holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running laboratory experiment.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Pitch Pines (Pinus resinosa) at Crane Beach in MA. Leaves needle-like in bundles of 3 (2 for Red, 5 for White Pine), are thick and stiff like Red Pine. They are adapted to fire, and do well with sand, salt, and coastal disturbance. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #pines #beaches #coastalflats #ma

Looking up at gnarled bark and poorly abandoned (dead, braking, persistent) lower branches and into the crown of a 20+m tall Pitch Pine, with Roundleaf Greenbriar in and Red Maples behind. Blue sky and dark green canopy through pine branches on the mid left.

Coarse bark of a younger Pitch Pine before it becomes platey on the straight centered trunk section, with 2 older pines behind. The older pines are straight too, lower down, and gnarled, twisted shapes where they have been broken by weather and regrown high up in the trees. In harsher weather or after a fire, they are low twisted pines that look like the tops of the pines in back. They have evolved to regrow and resprout after damage and fire.

Coarse, flattened triplets of needles in dense brush-like form on the ends of branches with a cluster of last-years open cones on the thicker branches that go through the image horizontally

A little, spreading, upward-reaching Pitch Pine in a sandy open area. This one is bright green with healthy looking foliage, spotted with old cones, and undulating higher up where the trunk had broken and regrown. It is <10m tall.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A group of protestors have gathered in 105 degree weather in southwest Texas to stop the Trump administration from bulldozing and destroying Big Bend National Park. 💪

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Training, testing, seeing what they can get soldiers to do, getting more operatives that they have dirt on and control over by making then commit war crimes. Just guesses. But the reason is bound to be as sinister as the act; not wonton cruelty.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Crane Beach, in MA, has amazing nature trails, and a wealth of berries. American Plums (Prunus americana), Black Cherry (Prunus serotina), and Northern Bayberry line the parking lot. I hiked, picked (from the parking lot), and jumped in the cold ocean to cool off. #nativeplants #foraging #seedsaving

American Plums, ripe, surround the parking lot and boardwalk to the beach at Crane Beach. This is a close shot showing many ripe red plums and foliage of Prunus americana, taken with my feet on asphalt.

A dangling branch of a Black Cherry taken from the parking lot. Clusters of berries (1-1.3cm cherries) mostly black, with a few unripe red ones hang from a small twig with a few pale green leaves. Many clusters retain a bract (leaf attached to the cluster) indicating that this P. serotina and not P. virginiana (Chokecherry).

The trunk of the cherry tree stands over a dense clump of Northern Bayberry (Morella pensylvanica) in the out-of-focus background.

Glorious dense, waxy-leaved Northern Bayberry (Morella pensylvanica) under a Black Cherry, taken from the parking lot at Crane Beach

Three bowls containing Black Cherries, American Plums, and Northern Bayberries. This is enough of each species for me to harvest and distribute seeds. I didn't have to break the rules and step off the path to pick at all. I wouldn't have anyway, but I didn't even have to pick as I hiked. There was enough genetic diversity lining the parking lot.

Btw, Black Cherry and Northern Bayberry are common species throughout the area, but American Plum, marked as introduced to the MA coast by Native Plant Trust, are only by the parking lot, competing with the invasives found throughout the park (Alder Buckthorn, Sea Pea), and the ones only found near the parking lot (Beach Rose, many others).

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Have I mentioned that in a physicist, not a botanist? I got my PhD in soft matter physics at Brandeis University. Bulbul Chakraborty is there doing amazing work on grandular materials. I enjoyed talks and seminars in granular cascades and collapses. Sand is awesome. #granularmatter #physics

Granular collapsed and cascades demonstrated by sand ripples and rivulets and the tide retreats

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a beloved tree, and the loss of them from the southern majority of their range is heart-rending. Many don't know and don't see what is happening to our forests. Plant blind, shifting baseline, disconnected from the land. But many love this tree and still feel the loss. Great wiki page btw.

en.wikipedia.org

Tsuga canadensis - Wikipedia

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As a boy, I was told they were poison, but Socrates' Poison Hemlock is an herb (carrot-family). Hemlock tips are brighter and more citric than spruce tips. Hemlock cones make great mugolio. Indigenous peoples of the US treated colonists with scurvy with Hemlock or White Pine tea. #foraging #wildfood

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Growing up in the Finger Lakes, we had Eastern Hemlocks encircled in fencing to keep the deer (overpopulated) from browsing the foliage, because our husky wasn't enough to keep them at bay. Now their main threat is an invasive insect: the Woolly Hemlock Adelgid. Range pushed to the cold North.

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P.S. @workforpeace.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

!!!

Plantifa
noun.
A person who uses gardening, growing food, and restoring ecosystems as a quiet form of resistance against systems that prioritize profit over people and planet.
Rise up, root down!

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is Israel level evil: destroying crops to starve the people as an act of war.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Anyone have a good resource on skipper ID? I've always wanted to be able to tell them apart, but I have struggled to get started. #butterfly #skipper #bugs #bugsky #insectID

A little orange skipper on a goldenrod. Wings are held in classic skipper fashion, folded out at 45° and 90° from vertical and have darker borders, but are otherwise carrot orange.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Near Minneapolis? This could be a great way to meet some folks who are passionate about learning from and about nature. RDNA was designed to reject institutionalized dogma and coerced religion. Basic tenets: nature holds profound spiritual importance, and is a path to spiritual truth. #DruidSky

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I agree, though let's get ranked-choice. @represent.us I also think AOC is the best we are likely to get. If I could pick anyone, I'd go for further left than AOCs public statements have been. But I'd be sooooo happy to have her, and not a Newsom (corporatist) or a Pritzger (wealthy elite poser).

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

April 2026, she pledged at a DSA forum to oppose ALL military aid to Israel, including defensive systems, stating: “I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never.” This suggests that her earlier positions were tactical—balancing party loyalty and activist pressure.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

AOC has championed policies like Medicare for All, rent control, and Green New Deal investments. However, she works inside the Democratic Party—a bourgeois liberal institution—and often compromises to maintain influence. This makes her a reformist socialist, not a revolutionary one.

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Artist Yehan Wang #Art

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Beautiful pictures! Hibiscus moscheutos grows wild on the Charles and Assabet rivers, in MA. Most have white flowers with a red eye, but some are pink. They are the sole supporter of multiple butterflies and moths, and the Rosemallow Bee here, because we have very few mallows.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ever notice how, once you identify a new species, it jumps out at you again and again? I identified Catberry, Ilex mucronata, for the first time the weekend of 8/1, in Blue Hill, ME. This past weekend, I found it a second time, at my wife's family reunion in Southern NH.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Yeah, what a ridiculous thing to say in this day and age. E.g. in a country where the vast majority opposed the war in Iran and the genocide of Palestine, but out government shows no intention of stopping. The ACLU needs to check out Represent Us. represent.us/big-money-po...

represent.us

How Big Money Took Over Politics

The Key Moments That Drove a 410% Surge in Election Spending

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It seems we (white cishet men) need to learn to support movements where we aren't centered. We shouldn't be centered, we don't need our opinions heard. We should be on the outside of the crowds at events and protests, between the more vulnerable people and the forces of oppression (cops, ICE).

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I bring a little backpack with a little hand saw, or a bigger backpack and a pair of loppers when I visit woodlands full of Asiatic Bittersweet and Porcelain Berry. This is a Porcelain Berry clearing, and the vines of older plants in surrounding woodlands. Coasters? #ecoregion59 #invasiveplants

Porcelain Berry stump, looking like a small tristy tree trunk, with light outer wood, a dark ring, and a nut brown center. Twigs on the ground and other vines behind. The one on the R looks like a grape vine. The ones on the L are Bittersweet

Vine segment didn't fit in my little backpack.

Bittersweet vine 2" which wrapped tightly CCW around a tree. The vine is cut near the bottom

The edge of a meadow filled with Porcelain Berry. It is growing over all of the shrubs and the smaller trees at the forest edge. It is 60" up in a 90" oak set far back, top center

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Even in coastal Maine, #ecoregion57, where berries abound on the coastal plain, the best places to pick are powerline cuts. Black Huckleberries, highbush and lowbush blueberries, Wild Raisins, Chokecherry, Serviceberry... These species do best where cutting every few years mimics fire. #nativeplants

A powerline cut filled with shrubs, starting with Black Huckleberry and Lowbush Blueberries, blending into a continuum of shrubby growth under the power lines, bordered by mature White Pine

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Chokecherry? I like Turtle Island Bird Cherry better for Prunus virginiana. Native to a wide swath along the US/Canada border, you'll find them in a ditch or on a forest edge. This lover of disturbance is doing well in #CoastalME. #nativeplants #ecoregion57 practicalselfreliance.com/chokecherry/

Waxy, lanceolate, light green, finely toothed leaves of Prunus virginiana, and a hanging cluster of almost 30 berries: red to purple shiny little cherries.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Black Huckleberry lines the paths in much of the Hundred Acre Woods, in Brooklin, ME Gaylussaccia baccata, denizen of Northeastern oak woods and pine barrens, waiting for a fire. It thrives in powerline cuts, and where the coastal weather and poor soils limit competition. #nativeplants #ecoregion57

A wide, flat stone chip path lined with Black Huckleberry and White Pine

Dense shrub layer of Black Huckleberry before the trees start up

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thaura AI is almost there. They are run on all renewable energy. They also design their algorithms to favor the oppressed over the oppressor. A good AI to ask about US/Israeli imperialism, or brand ethics. As a programmer getting into agritech, I'm going to use AI. This is the best I've found.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Witch-hazel is in the Witch-hazel family. 27-30 small, often monotypic genera, obscure species, mostly Asian, though the namesake genus is mostly on N. American. Includes Fothergilla and an ornamental/endangered ironwood duo from Iran/China: genus Parrotia.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ants on Witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana).

Ants on a Witch-hazel twig overhead with spreading leaves catching sub and the silhouette of an ant on top. Two ants on a forming seed pod. Spreading green leaves with prominent veins

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sassafras: Understory heavy-hitter, magnolia family, a truly unique variety of leaf shapes, a neat trunk. A rich history. Also, a nice spice, the leaves, and a medicine that may also be a carcinogen in the roots. I suggest you make root beer some other way. #foraging #nativeplants

foodprint.org

Sassafras and Filé

Learn all about the foodprint of sassafras and filé, including their impact on the environment, as well as how to shop for them and eat them.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Where is the "cancel thanksgiving" thing coming from? I'm in favor of cancelling a holiday of settler mythology erasing the actual treatment of the First Nations of so-called New England (Turtle Island's Northeastern leg and shoulder). But I'll be at Indigenous Day of Morning this year.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They were all Honeybees. Generalists, not the more diversity of bees that have specialized to their own set of native l plants. But Bumblebees are the generalists I most often find in the woods. None here. I suppose this is effectively a once-per-year crop field for the Honeybees.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bumblebees and moths love Evening Primroses (genus Oenothera). Finches love the seeds, which persist into winter. It's a trap crop for Japanese Beetles, and we hear finches crunching them happily before the flowers emerge. It even has its own moth: the cotton-candy colored Evening Primrose Moth.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Edible, medicinal, grown as a root crop and flower in Europe (German Rampion), but underappreciated where it is native —almost the entirety of the Continental US. You'll more likely find it in the beauty products (listed as EPO) than the gardens of most households. It is an ecological powerhouse...

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They were all Honeybees. Generalists, not the more diversity of bees that have specialized to their own set of native plants. But Bumblebees are the generalists most often found in the woods. None here. Feast or famine, famine most of the year —lost ground for native biodiversity.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't agree with pointing at religion alone, and not the hierarchical culture it is tied to but... Indigenous cultural practices worldwide are much more tied to the land and sky. B&L they are far better stewards of biodiversity. There are heaps of studies showing this. A good direction forward:

sciencedirect.com

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Good morning from Harriman's Point, Brooklyn, ME.

Harriman's Point, with a little patch of green, accessible at low tide, out past a stretch of rocky, kelpy, muddy part-time ocean floor. Ocean and mostly clouded bright blue sky, and more land in the distance.

Still ocean inlet past a rocky shore, looking toward the Sun. Far side of the inlet is a coniferous forest.

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