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Monica Keane

@monicakeane.bsky.social

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Special collections librarian. I'm interested in literary history, gardening and baking cakes. Personal account.

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Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

How do people make any money selling anything with these AI horrors?

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My first time growing pink asters. They're so pretty! 🩷 🌱

Pink puffball flowers

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So lush though! Now is the time here when everything starts looking baked

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Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I love canning, but don't do it as much now that I have a 9-5 office job

Lots of marmalade jars

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Zinnias in a new vase 🌱

Pink and orange zinnias in a pink ceramic vase on a messy table

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Very fine day in West Cork

Sandy path to the beach

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Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

After five YEARS this western spicebush has finally flowered 🌱 #CaliforniaNativePlants

Red lotus-like flower with green leaves

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I'm so sorry. Hope you feel better

Dark pink and cream rose

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My favorite dramatic iris 🌱

Yellow and purple bearded iris

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Monkey flowers are great in containers #CaliforniaNativePlants #Bloomscrolling 🌱

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

First pink rose of the season 🌱 #bloomscrolling

Shell pink rose

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Three dianthus 🌱 #bloomscrolling

Peachy single dianthus

Hot pink single dianthus

Peach double dianthus

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Hot cross buns 😍

Golden brown buns on a baking sheet

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Roses liked the heat 🌱

Dozen apricot roses on the bush

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Sorry to report even worse where I live (as always)

Raos on sale for $7.99 from $9.99

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Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My husband's favorite coffee walnut cake for his birthday

Brown layer cake decorated with walnuts

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

It's been a very hard week, but I'm here in San Francisco in the sunshine and it's still beautiful

Woman in glasses with trumpet flowers in the background

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

🌱 forgot the sprout and the clematis

California clematis vine with white flowers

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It's going to be amazing next month

Orange monkey flower

Blue eyed grass

Hummingbird sage with pink flowers

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

School garden flower report #CaliforniaNativePlants

Pink clarkia

Pink flowering currant

Golden currant

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I had trouble sleeping, but caught the dawn

Daffodil under a tree with pink sky

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My 10 year old makes the funniest little sculptures

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Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Apple pie for the long weekend 🍏🍏🍏

Apple crumble pie on a rack

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We did the winter pruning

Bare pruned plum trees

Hard pruned roses

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

School garden day 🌱#CaliforniaNativePlants

Orange monkey flower

Pitcher sage flower

Purple ceanothus blossoms

Pink coral bells

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Similar energy to the air dry clay monster I found in my 10 year old's room

Pink monster with teeth

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Smells like Christmas

Mince tarts on a cooling rack

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Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The color on these roses in winter is so gorgeous

Deep peachy pink rose

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Busy day working in the school native garden 🪏 🌱 #CaliforniaNativePlants

Chaparral against chain link fence

Manzanitas & ceanotheus

Sages, coyote brush, toyon

Redwood understory

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

We live in an snl skit

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

And a pumpkin pie. I ended up making the puree from a fresh pumpkin my neighbor gave me because I didn't want to go to the store again. It was a ton of work.

Brown pumpkin pie on an old baking sheet

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Pear raspberry crumble pie ✅

Pie in a ceramic tart pan on foil

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

If you are putting your $200 rib roast in the crock pot, we need to talk about an intervention

Seasoned rib roast with rosemary and a sticker that says "great in a crock pot"

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The pablum of life, just what we all need

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I bought saffron crocuses this year 💜 🌱

Purple flower in a pot

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Poor little Ignacio, the 31st person to die of the cholera outbreak in 1850

Handwritten burial record

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Daffodils are long gone by April here. It's irises and roses by then. This was April 26th last year

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This was taken ✨ January 24th ✨ last year

Daffodil with succulents in the background

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Why would someone bind a book of maps like this!? If the whole book were 3 inches taller, the maps wouldn't need the tops folded *historic sigh*

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

And not bothered by bad spelling

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Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

He's actually using the cat base! My daughter will be so pleased

Orange cat in a decorated box with toys

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Zinnias 🌱

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Oops she put her head on backwards

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

School garden looked gorgeous for our first volunteer event of the year 🌱 #CaliforniaNativePlants

Raised beds with flowers

Swallowtail caterpillar on bronze fennel

Milkweed with monarch butterfly

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Left one to flower for the bees 🌱

Purple artichoke flower

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Thanks calorie tracker! Finally advice I can follow

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Not to brag, but the vet pointed to the poster on her wall at his checkup and said "he's this one: the ideal cat"

Orange cat on fence

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

CA rare books school is over, and it's been fantastic. Enjoy this grotesque from today's collation session

Renaissance grotesque with glasses, cigarette and suggestive fruits

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A very fancy manicule from this morning's incunabula session at CalRBS

Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Yesterday's plums 🌱

Huge bowl of Italian plums on a kitchen counter