Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fall colors up on the Escarpment. 1. Looking down. 2. Witch hazel flowers. 3. Maple leaves. 4. The Escarpment. 0232
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Albany Rural Cemetery this morning with @craftyrowan.bsky.social 1. Angel. 2. Jack-o-lantern mushrooms. 3. Virginia creeper. 4. Overgrown cemetery. 1182
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hello #queerwriters! No foreboding, but we do have anxieties! #LGBTQWriteAThon 0120
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Summer breathes, surrendering sweetly into fall. 1. Paper wasp on goldenrod. 2. Stereum. 3. Oak. 4. Bumblebee on white snakeroot. 0234
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 15/09/20261. Jack-in-the-pulpit berries. 2. White snake root. 3. Turkeytail mushrooms and lichens. 4. White wood aster. 1246
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026TLR doesn’t have ignite, does have ignition. #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters 150
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Had a lovely (if unexpectedly buggy) morning in Massachusetts with @craftyrowan.bsky.social. 1. White turtlehead flowers. 2. Maidenhair fern. 3. Water in a rocky gorge. 4. The two of us. 1270
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Dinosaur footprints in the Triassic rift valleys of Massachusetts. 3252
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I swear the last two months have aged me five years. Way more gray than I used to have. 1160
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Ruins and woods with @craftyrowan.bsky.social and my teenager today. 1. Inside the ruins. 2. Eft of an eastern red newt. 3. Goldenrod and aster, signs of the season. 4. View from the ruins. 0255
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Finally went under the escarpment at John Boyd Thacher State Park with @craftyrowan.bsky.social. 1. One of the falls. 2. Red newt eft. 3. Jewelweed along the trail. 4. View from the escarpment. 2201
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Whoa, iPhone night mode kinda sucks now. Still, we saw some meteors and the Milky Way. 1150
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026There are always friends in the woods, even when you’ve been away too long. 1. Orange jewelweed. 2. Ghost pipe. 3. Squirrel. 4. Garter snake. 2211
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Me: Breakup grief sucks. Maybe a book will make me feel better. Book: Hey, wanna bawl your eyes out with a weirdly perceptive and relevant passage? (From THE DAY AND NIGHT BOOKS OF MARDOU FOX by Nisi Shawl.) 140
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My copy of the 2026 Rhysling Anthology, containing my long-form finalist poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings,” arrived today! 0243
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 27/07/20261. Escarpment. 2. Path in the forest. 3. Woodland sunflower. 4. Queen Anne’s lace. 1251
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A brief reprieve from the end of the world. A smokeless day outside. 1. Orange jewelweed. 2. Locust canopy. 3. Fern geometry. 4. Sketchy Boardwalk. 1163
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It was “only” a 250 ft climb from the road, but I summited Whiteface Mountain today with @craftyrowan.bsky.social and my teenager, which was big for us. 1. The view toward Lake Placid. 2. Greenland stitchwort, an alpine flower. 3. The view down the trail. 4. Weather station at the summit. 2232
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Cloudy day in Vermont. 1. Rolling fields. 2. Deer. 3. Tall meadow-rue. 4. Old buildings along the rail trail. 2212
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Squeezing in one last walk before it gets too hot to move. 1. St. John’s Wort. 2. Yarrow. 3. Common milkweed. 4. Teionontatátie / Mohawk River. 3212
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The one and only appearance of “magic” in TLR. #LGBTQWriteAThon 0121
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Went on a quiet pond-side ramble with @craftyrowan.bsky.social this morning. 1. Pond view. 2. Tiny mushroom. 3. Bigger mushroom. 4. Moss. 2305
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Newts and fungus in the woods with @craftyrowan.bsky.social today. 1. Eastern red newt eft. 2. Reishi mushrooms. 3. Possibly hoof mushrooms? 4. Yellow fly agaric. 2192
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Perfect June day up on the Escarpment. 1. Views. 2. Bearcorn. 3. Northern bush honeysuckle, one of our few native honeysuckles. 4. Gray dogwood. 1202
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 14/06/2026A quiet bonding moment between our two leads, Samuel and Russ, catching their breath after a tumultuous day in the Late Cretaceous. #LGBTQWriteAThon 0194
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026June morning in the north woods, on the edge of the Adirondacks. 1. Reflections in the pond. 2. @craftyrowan.bsky.social on the boardwalk. 3. Bunchberry flower. 4. Northern blue flag irises. 2252
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 02/06/2026My POTS was most unkind to me on my walk today, but it was lovely. 1. Beaver lodge at the edge of the pond. 2. Red columbine. 3. Hobomok skipper. 4. Canadian mayflower. 0200
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Climbed (most of) a fire tower in Ferncliff Forest today with @craftyrowan.bsky.social and my teenager. 1-2. Fire tower. 3. View across the Hudson. 4. Solomon’s plume. 1181
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026No accounts. No logins. No color screen. No day-one patch. No battle map. No road pass. We didn't realize how good we had it. 040
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026This goober doesn’t get affectionate with me, but from time to time I catch him just happening to sit in my vicinity. 1180
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Wildflowers in the Saratoga Sand Plains today. 1. Pink lady-slippers. 2. Canada mayflowers. 3. Northern starflower. 4. Sundial lupines. 1405
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Hot day up at the Escarpment. 1. Views. 2. Views, but from the top of a waterfall. 3. Red columbine. 4. Views, but with tree. 0210
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Finally lupine season in the pine bush. 1-2. Sundial lupines. 3. Canada mayflowers. 4. Felt cute. 3323
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Managed to get outside with @craftyrowan.bsky.social this morning. 1. View from the Escarpment. 2. Waterfall through the trees. 3. Foamflower. 4. Cascade. 1234
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Spring ephemeral wildflowers today. 1. Jack-in-the-pulpit. 2. Red trillium. 3. Large white trillium. 4. Marsh marigold. 25010
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Spring ephemeral season is almost done in southern Vermont, but still worth the trip with @craftyrowan.bsky.social. 1. Trillium and mossy roots. 2. Trillium. 3. Squirrel corn. 4. Green Mountains. 1191
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 30/04/20261. Large white trillium, which is so hard to find in this part of New York. 2. Jack-in-the-pulpit. 3. Ostrich ferns unfurling. 4. Dryad’s saddle mushroom. 4233
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 28/04/20261. Red columbine. 2. Dutchman’s breeches. 3. Sun through spring green. 4. Two-leaf miterwort. 3263
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Nice morning stroll with @craftyrowan.bsky.social. 1. Marsh marigolds. 2. Skunk cabbage along the trail. 3. Yellow trout-lily. 4. Red trillium. 1185
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Spring comes to the Helderberg Escarpment (John Boyd Thacher State Park). 1. Common serviceberry flowers. 2. Pinewood gingertail mushrooms. 3. Yellow trout-lily. 4. Red trillium. 1214
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Spring ephemerals today along the Erie Canal. 1. Red trillium. 2. Large-flowered bellwort. 3. Canadian wild ginger. 4. Early blue cohosh. 2265
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Scenes straight out of Fable III on my hike with @craftyrowan.bsky.social today. 1. Old, forgotten mausoleum in the woods. 2. A different old mausoleum in the woods, unfortunately vandalized. 3. Red trillium. 4. An old dam becomes a waterfall. 5537