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Ted Lardner

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Native plants, local histories, poetry, walking, writing, UMich athletics, rivers, birds, dogs, a given cat.

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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As we've just had the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, known in Hookland as the Corn Maiden Moon, it seems appropriate share some of the folklore of the Heading the Corn. #FolkloreSunday
Full moon closest to the autumn equinox – Heading the Corn Part of the cultus in St. Urith in the county, but clearly also part of much older harvest festival traditions, the heading of the corn is the name for the ritual of the first sheath of corn cut being bound and taken to the nearest church so that the spirit of the saint could live in it to the next harvest. The sheath is traditionally taken on a cart, crowded with reapers, often wearing masks made of sack, shouting: ‘Hooky! Hooky! while the cart is led by an extravagantly dressed couple referred to as the Lord and Lady of the Harvest. Before the procession gets to the church to deliver the sheath, they will be met at a crossroad by a figure personifying death who will let them pass only after the shedding of blood (usually done by the nicking of the hands of the Lord and Lady of the Harvest). When the sheath has been delivered and a thanksgiving mass given, a usually somewhat riotous harvest supper is then held.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mount Wuh. Estes Park, CO. July 31, 2023. Flattop Mountain and Gabletop Mountain make the high ridge in the left background.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My high school calculus teacher came to our event🥹 Thank you Mrs. McDonald!
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Asters and boneset and honey bees.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Black-throated Green Warbler. Sept 9, 2026.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Broncos won.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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For the Roses CASSANDRA WILSON - 2007
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Twilight wave-hush. Lake Superior.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Sunset on water. Huron Mountains in the distance.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Moline Airport. August 29.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good night, Bluesky! Niagara Falls lot up in pink in honor of Dolly Parton 📸 Niagara Falls State Park
Niagara falls in pink light
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mississippi River at Rock Island. August 27.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I see WHY you feel that way, but I think the reality is that the nation is currently being run by the dumbest fucking people on the planet.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Jesus Just Left Chicago (2006 Remaster)
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
That you have but slumbered here…
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Happy birthday David Crosby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKR3...
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The Lee Shore (1969 Vocal) [Outtake]
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why bang on about re-enchantment? #ReEnchantmentIsResistance
Re-enchantment as an assertion of wonder and the numinosity of our relationships with landscape. Re-enchantment as an assertion of our collective ability to both imagine and experience better worlds. As a refusal of despair, as a lensing of hope.

Re-enchantment as personal metamorphosis. The space in which we grow glowing red eyes to patrol our communities against this long night of authoritarian pisspuffiny. The space in which we develop iron-hard fur that make us immune to the curses reductionist racists, misogynists, homophobes and AI cultists throw at us. Re-enchantment as the permissive circle where we can voyage into ourselves and find the marvels and bravery we need to deal with this age of violent bruising.

Re-enchantment as resistance.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Surprisingly tall hollyhocks near the plaza in New Mexico.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happy birthday Ian Anderson! #JethroTull www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_0m...
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Life Is a Long Song (2001 Remaster)
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hibiscus blooming from a deadfall snag in the Ohio-Erie Canal. Bonus turtles and duckweed.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump now has the worst jobs record of any President since Hoover. 3/
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Steve Rattner: Over 5 million low-income Americans — including at least 1.5 million children — have lost access to food assistance due to Trump's SNAP cuts last year. Most of the hardest hit states are traditionally Republican, resulting in growing hunger crises in states like Arizona.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ohio Spiderwort.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
David Byrne, Who is the Sky? playing Harpa Concert Hall tomorrow in Reykjavik.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Isabelle Eberhardt (1877 – 1904): Swiss explorer, adventurer and author. #CelebratingWomen
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Late July begins the high bloom season in the prairie garden in the upper Midwest.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Desert rez vernacular art. Slide Trail trailhead. Taos, New Mexico.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hitting its stride in July 🙂
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
😄 Thrilled to share “Two Bottles of Wine” from the new issue of Trampoline! Please enjoy! www.trampolinepoetry.com
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Trampoline Poetry
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
got a chance to briefly holler about translated Korean poetry 💌 how lucky we are to have @maris.bsky.social with us in this fallen world
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Mississippi River at Rock Island. May 29, 2019.
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Around 1850 the county lines between Audubon & Cass Counties, Iowa were drawn & the only thing on hand to mark the separation was a cottonwood stick. Cottonwood grow well from cuttings. Part of the poplar family, they root aggressively when placed directly into moist soil
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dales Way Skipton-Grassington May 18, 2025.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It is a special day and even more special evening in Hookland. For today is St. John's Eve and this means feast fires and bone fires, St. John's wort and malkins. Of course it also means the Bone Horse will need roasted ale and cake. Art by @mariastrutz.bsky.social #StJohnsEve #Folklore
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Solstice.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Moline Airport.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
June is popping.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Mississippi River at Rock Island. May 21, 2026.
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Ted Lardner @tedlardner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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