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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I thought I saw something kinda mothy in those critters. Nature is so full of stuff!

Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Big #pumpkins at my neighborhood grocery store tonight, but… Do you need a chainsaw to make #pumpkin pies with them? Can you run the shells down your disposal after using the good part? Isn't it a little early for #Halloween?

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Backyard flower that I haven't managed to kill in 13 years of black thumbery

Pinkish flower not yet fully open. Maybe a hollyhock? I'm no botanist!

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My neighbor and I talked for a long time in the empty street between our two houses. We talked about anything, everything, nothing. I remember only that we agreed on one thing: From then on, everything would be different.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I finally got some news, around 1:00, I went outside into a changed world. My house was in the Logan Airport flight path, but there were none of the usual loud flights, just other, less frequent planes, even louder: military jets flying up and down the coast to protect us from who knew what.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was working at home in Boston on the morning of 9/11, writing a magazine article. TV and radio off. Computer alerts turned off. Silence. I didn't know for hours we'd been attacked. I didn't know for days that two former colleagues were on that first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's a good day for a walk in Huskerland. Breezy and not too hot.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And a long-time contributing editor for The New Yorker. And author of other children's books.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just saw an old man at Walgreens wearing a T shirt from the Beatles 1965 US tour. Both the T shirt and the old man looked genuine.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m sorry for your loss, but I’m glad you got to share love as long as you did.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

After I read Charlotte's Web yesterday, I discovered that its author, E B White, is the same E B White who co-wrote The Elements of Style, a classic guide to good writing used as a reference by countless publications, including a magazine where I was the editor back in the 1980s.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've just read Charlotte's Web for the first time. It wasn't in my grade school library where I might have found it and I'm imagining the school librarian in my small Texas hometown in the 1950s: "A spider and a pig? Only a sicko would want to read something like that!"

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of the greatest disappointments of old age is that people think you're senile when you're really just hard of hearing.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of many sunflowers growing at the daycare center. Good for the toddlers who spend their days there. Good for pedestrians like me passing by.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sunlight and shadows. Day’s end.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Vacant house on my evening walk is looking a little lonely.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've joyfully eaten countless enchiladas ever since 1964. But only in Nebraska have I seen, heard of, or had the unfortunate displeasure of eating soggy enchiladas made with flour tortillas.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sorry, I can't embed a link to this article from the Apple News+ app. The article is in the latest issue of Wired, and it may be available from your local public library via the Libby app.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For someone like me, now 80, this article has special meaning, but it can also be inspiring to someone of any age who cares about quality of life and living. Stewart Brand Is Facing His Final Years in a Home That Embodies the Ethos of His Whole Earth Catalog - WIRED

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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 06/08/2026

Don’t know who wrote this — it was posted on Instagram by “Warpaint Journal” in April 2025 — but it’s making the rounds today and is pretty great. I dream of this too ❤️

Most people don't dream of being fancy-rich.
I dream of being rich enough to say, "Treat's on me," without thinking twice. Rich enough to have a home that feels like a hug, a fridge stocked like a five-year-old with adult money, and a tray of chocolates waiting for someone to grab. Rich enough to quietly help a friend before they even have to ask. To send a care package when someone's too tired to reach out. To buy all the pencils from a kid on the street so they can go home early. For me, the real money dream isn't about luxury - it's about having enough to give, enough to comfort, enough to turn ordinary moments into something extraordinary.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Already tried it. Great minds think alike!

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Female Bullock’s oriole (?) in my crabapple tree. #birds

Maybe someone can help ID? It’s a little east of Bullock’s territory, but doesn’t look like other orioles here in mid Nebraska. She was with a male, but I didn’t get a good look or a photo.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

And always growing close to water?

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I love the way you've shown how these trees have changed in five days. Beautiful time sequence.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Green, green, it's green they say

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Shrubbery vigorously encroaching on porch railing. But am I trimming it? Nah. I'd rather admire its lustrous green color.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Little house in the woods. Actually, it's here in town—Kearney, Nebraska—but with a lot of trees around.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My Apple Watch is congratulating me for turning in early last night and getting a good night's sleep. 😇 What my Apple Watch doesn't know is that I never went to bed. I just fell asleep in my recliner. 💤

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Local color. And, for you shutterbugs, RGB color. A fine spring day in either case.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The edge of what used to be prairie 150 or so years ago, but now is only the edge of Kearney, Nebraska. I wish I could have seen the prairie as a sea of grass stretching as far as the eye could see.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Good luck staying safe and staying unharmed. I'm even getting concerned about fires coming to Kearney.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My sympathies. My sister died of Alzheimer's, so I how difficult it can be.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A winter day in Nebraska. Every now and then the gods smile on us.

75° in February in Nebraska. (Translation: Get outside! Now!)

The trees are bare, but the sky is blue, the clouds are gauzy white, and the wind is soft and gentle.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I gave my smart TV a brain transplant today. Bypassed the Google TV firmware and replaced it with an Apple TV 4K streamer. Got rid of all the Google ads.

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. Sociology Cultural anthropology Literature of the Southwest Differential equations Control systems

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Prairie Gary @prairiegary.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

You're welcome. I hope things are better for you now.

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