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Jim

@jgoved.bsky.social
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Midwesterner. Proud Dad, lucky husband, retired teacher. [Woof] And Dog Dad. 5b/6a

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spider time... @mortonarboretum.bsky.social this morning
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#thicktrunktuesday
A large white oak tree spreads its branches against a clear blue sky.
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The Morton Arboretum @mortonarboretum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Don’t fly past this video! Let’s learn about one of nature’s greatest athletes. 🏅🪻
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Kay on the Prairie @kayontheprairie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The cutest little shadow 🐛 Monarch on Prairie Milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii) #monarch #nativeplants #caterpillar #gardening
A monarch caterpillar eats prairie milkweed in the setting sun, its shadow cast onto a milkweed leaf
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dracaena cinnabari, also known as the Socotra dragon tree or the dragon blood tree, is a species of dragon tree native to the island of Socotra, part of Yemen, in the Arabian Sea.
Dracaena cinnabari, also known as the Socotra dragon tree or the dragon blood tree, is a species of dragon tree native to the island of Socotra, part of Yemen, in the Arabian Sea.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Beautiful weather lately! #nativeplants #insects
A photo of bright yellow flowers of cup plant reaching up toward a blue sky. There is a monarch butterfly resting on the green foliage.
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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Public lands and waters must be protected - they belong to you and all future generations 🌊🌊
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Kay on the Prairie @kayontheprairie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A Ruby-Throated Hummimgbird visiting Cardinal Flower in my praire garden #nativeplants #birds #gardening
A small green hummingbird drinks nectar from a red cardinal flower plant
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 13/08/2026
Three, they say
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Milena @milenarejc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Beautiful Yew bonsai from the recent Prairie State Bonsai show @mortonarboretum.bsky.social #bonsai
A Yew tree as a bonsai. The outline is triangular, with a bright white dead limb running up the center, contrasting with the rich brown colored live portion of the tree.
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Maidenhair spleenwort. #FernFriday #FantasticFoliage #Ferns #PlantSky #Nature 🌿🌱
Many ferns growing out of the mortar of a red brick wall
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Took awhile, but she finally paused long enough for a portrait. 🌱🦋 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.
An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly resting on a long arching blade of iris foliage. The foliage is arching downward to the right and the butterfly is sitting, wings folded closed, in the middle of the frame, casting a shadow on the green iris leaf. There is grass in the lower left corner, wood chip mulch in the upper right.
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Milena @milenarejc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Nonya Bidniss @nonyabidniss.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#gardening
Bilbo from Lord of the Rings in the famous "After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?" scene, except he's holding a plastic cup that plants come in. Next picture shows he has amassed a collection of hundreds of those plastic cups, which might have a use someday.
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Erin Golsen @erininkentucky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Good morning! #Trees #Sunshine
Morning light illuminates a stretch of grass with golden light, framed by trees including a small willow tree, beneath a blue sky.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Japanese Zelkova Elm @mortonarboretum.bsky.social #thicktrunktuesday
A thick tree trunk, with exfoliating bark and a canopy of leaves, backlit by the morning sun.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A bee visiting the blooms of "Mouse Ears" hosta.🌱
A bee is poised to enter a small hosta flower. Trumpet-shaped white blooms streaked with lavender fill the upper right corner. The lower left part of the frame is all green foliage.
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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I hang on to my water molecules for an average of 99 years. Lake Superior is 191 years. Translation for humans = don’t put stuff in the Great Lakes (your freshwater supply) Clean water is life 🌊🌊
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Japanese Cutleaf Maple Bonsai, Chicago Botanic Garden. 🌳 #bonsai
A Japanese maple bonsai, 30 inches tall, with delicate, cutleaf-type, dark red leaves. It is in a pale yellow, round bonsai pot, with a frosted glass screen behind and a blue sky and white clouds above.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Mid June in Chicago ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Milena @milenarejc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"It was June, and the world smelled of roses." - Maud Hart Lovelace
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Clematis "Henryi." Huge, 7-8" blooms holding up well through recent storms.🌱
A large, white clematis bloom fills most of the frame, with green foliage in the background.
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Teneral damselfly on mare's-tail, reflected in the water of the pond it just emerged from 🌱 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater #bugsky #GardensHour
Reflection of an insect perched on a water plant
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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Transformation of a wild flower meadow April-June
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I'll take the data's word for it -- and I've never for a millisecond regretted becoming a father and raising my two kids -- but brother, nothin' made me feel dumber and more mentally messed up than being a dad. Eventually you get wisdom out of it, but it works like an 18-year brain-ectomy.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Mountain laurel in full bloom.🌱
A lush, green mountain laurel with showy clusters of pink and white flowers.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026
Yesterday, I attended a Brian Eno talk about the nature of creativity and art based on *What Art Does*, the short book he published with Bette Adriaanse last year: www.faber.co.uk/product/9780... 1/
An 18th century portrait of a grand lady ('Mrs Robinson'). She looks extremely put-upon. To either side of her is a tiny storyteller, declaming loudly into her ears.
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Kay on the Prairie @kayontheprairie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
No shortage of spring blooms on this beautiful prairie trail 😍😍😍 📍Mines of Spain State Park, Dubuque Iowa #hiking #iowa #nativeplants
Wild white Indigo Wild blue indigo Golden Alexander SO MUCH meadow anemone and cup plants
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#thicktrunktuesday
A close-up of a large, old oak tree in a grassy field. The trunk and thick limbs fill most of the frame. One huge branch in the background reaches down to the ground.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Mountain Laurel "Olympic Fire" getting ready. 🌱
A lush, green mountain laurel with clusters of cherry red flower buds. Celandine poppy foliage fills the bottom of the frame.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Great Waterleaf @mortonarboretum.bsky.social east woods this morning. 🌱#nativeplants 🌿
A forest floor covered with green foliage and pale blue-white flowers. The background has slender tree trunks and the green canopy of the trees.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Satsuki Azalea #bonsai at The Chicago Botanic Garden 🌳🌱
An azalea bonsai with pink blooms and a slightly bending, gnarled trunk. The branches extend outwards in a layered effect.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2026
america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.
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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Field geometry
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
miniature ents are bred in captivity and prized for their small size, but some say keeping them as pets is cruel
Tree branch placed upside down atop a tree stump and it looks like a many-legged person walking
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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 08/05/2026
Studio Gang-designed towers www.flickr.com/photos/james...
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BarbJoan @bjgt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The Aqua Tower
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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Oaks in mist along a footpath near Sheepstor, I hope to see them again soon. Taken April 2024, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #oaks
Green mossy oaks overhang a footpath in mist.
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." — Pamela Hansford Johnson
Sunset over the wetlands with reflections in the water amongst the grasses.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New leaves of Virginia Creeper on spruce. April 2024 @mortonarboretum.bsky.social 🌿🌳 #spring
Looking skyward among tall spruce trees, trunks bare as utility poles, treetops all converging at the top of the frame. One tree has fallen onto another, angled across the picture. There is a light green glow of new vine leaves climbing the slope of the fallen tree, in contrast with the gray sky and shadowy treetops.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
My blog post today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2026/04/know...
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Know your enemy: buckthorn
The blog of Neil Steinberg
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My column on page two of the Sun-Times today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2026/04/we-l...
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We love trees. So why isn't Arbor Day a bigger deal?
Chicago has millions of trees, and each one tells a story.
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Tiny oak leaves and catkins 🌳 @mortonarboretum.bsky.social
Tiny, pale-green oak leaves, backlit by the morning sun, sprouting from the tip of a branch, with beard-like catkins dangling below. There are blurred  branches of the tree in the background, against a clear blue sky.
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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Prairie trillium flowering, Maple Grove Forest Preserve this morning
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MarosBonsai @marosbonsai.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Prunus spinosa #bonsai with flowers #marosbonsai
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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A white oak surrounded by Spring Beauties. 🌱 #nativeplants #thicktrunktuesday
The base and trunk of a large white oak in a green lawn, with Spring Beauty wildflowers surrounding the flared base of the tree.
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