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Nathan L Smith

@nlsmith.com

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Gardening, historic building maintenance, pet photos, infrastructure observability, JavaScript, graph theory, jokes. Fiscally anti-fascist, socially anti-fascist. Pacifist Gemini. South Amana, Iowa

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Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 29/09/2026

Berries 🌱

Smilax rotundifolia

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Evening primrose 🌱

Oenothera biennis

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 27/09/2026

Hairy boy 🦋🌱

White hairy caterpillar on a giant hyssop

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 27/09/2026

Lunch counter 🌱🦋

Butterfly on a black eyed susan. There is also another tiny bug

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 27/09/2026

Callery pear 🌱

Pyrus calleryana

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 27/09/2026

Gobble gobble 🦃

Wild turkey

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 24/09/2026

Nut-shrooms 🌱🍄

Chestnuts and mushrooms in the grass

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 24/09/2026

The chord

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 23/09/2026

But for special occasions you get to go to the pope table

Lazy susan pope table at buca di beppo

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Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 22/09/2026

“Thankful blessed and mashed potato obsessed”

A bowl for sale with this saying. From the Meskwakivantion apparently

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 22/09/2026

White oak 🌱

Querecus alba

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 22/09/2026

Tall bellflower 🌱

Campanulastrum americanum

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 20/09/2026

ATTENTION: There have been a series of pecan theft incidents in the area. Witnesses descibe suspects as 0.5-0.8ft tall, bright eyed, and bushy tailed. 🌱🐿️

Pecan husks

Pecan husks

Location of a picnic

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 17/09/2026

New England aster 🌱

Symphyotrichum novaeangliae

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 17/09/2026

What's the plural of Busey?

Jake Busey

Gary Busey

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 13/09/2026

My dogs are not on here and they are upset they don’t get sticks

Gus

Brownie

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 12/09/2026

Portal 🌱

My weedy ass garage

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 11/09/2026

Gm 🌱

Hairy aster

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 08/09/2026

I inherited this one

HOW TO BE AN ITALIAN BY LOU D’Angelo

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Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 08/09/2026

Inflorescence 🌱

Sorghastrum nutans under an amana lamp

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 07/09/2026

Lisianthis and phlox 🌱

Putple flowers

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 07/09/2026

Prairie in progress 🌱

Monarda and partridge pea

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 07/09/2026

Forest mushrooms 🌱🍄

Pleurotus citrinopileatus

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 05/09/2026

Jack in the pulpit 🌱

Arisaema triphyllum

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 05/09/2026

Solomon’s plume 🌱

Maianthemum racemosum

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 05/09/2026

Lilacs are back! Come have a snack! 🌱

Moth on a lilac flower

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 03/09/2026

I AM YOUR FATHER'S BROTHER'S NEPHEW'S COUSIN'S FORMER ROOMMATE.
WHAT DOES THAT MAKE US?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 01/09/2026

White snakeroot 🌱

Ageratina altissima

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 31/08/2026

Obedient plant 🌱

Physostegia virginiana

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 31/08/2026

Jerky doing, you know...

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 28/08/2026

Easter lily 🌱

Lilium longiflorum

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 27/08/2026

ASSVILLE, MO

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 27/08/2026

Goldenrod 🌱

Solidago in the sun with dog

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 26/08/2026

This compost tastes funny 🌱

Compost bin with cheery tomatoes

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 24/08/2026

Spotted bee balm 🌱

Monarda punctata

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 24/08/2026

Ironweed 🌱

Vernonia fasciculata

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 24/08/2026

Meadow 🌱

Colorful meadow

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 23/08/2026

Carolina horsenettle 🌱

Solanum carolinense

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 22/08/2026

Here be dragons 🌱

Amur honeysuckle in the process of becoming wasur honeysuckle

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 17/08/2026

Sunset

Orange and blue

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 12/08/2026

Cup plant: I’m a friendly plant who has a nice cup to hold water for feeding birds and insects. Iowa in August: How about if it’s boiling, punk? 🌱

Silphium perfoliatum

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 12/08/2026

Alien invasion! 🍄

Big mushrooms

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 10/08/2026

Mushrooms 🍄🌱

Family Agaricaceae

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 10/08/2026

Late morning monarch snack 🌱🦋

Danaus plexippus

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 10/08/2026

Trailing fuzzy-bean 🌱

Strophostyles helvola

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 10/08/2026

Silver wormwood 🌱

Artemisia ludoviciana

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 10/08/2026

Nipplewort 🌱

Lapsana communis

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 09/08/2026

I am attempting a mad science experiment. Thanks to the popularity of native pollinator gardening, if you know where to look you can find lead plants with free branches in the Von Maur parking lot. 🌱

Amorpha canescens power peas

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 09/08/2026

Aster 🌱

Purple flower

Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 08/08/2026

Spotted joe pye weed 🌱

Eutrochium maculatum