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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 8h

I can’t take photos in my yard anymore without my assistant. Unfortunately she isn’t very helpful, but I don’t have the heart to fire her. #cats

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 8h

A nasty surprise for small pollinators that chose this poppy. #spiders #arachnids #macro #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know that feeling you get when you put all that effort into making your hair look nice and then it rains unexpectedly, well… #flowers #rain #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The plane entering a cloud looks a bit like a dandelion seed ball. #clouds #sky #airplanes #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Striped lynx spider lying in wait on my spirea, or maybe the spider’s since I just admire it, and water it, but don’t live on it. #spiders #arachnids #macro #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cream-colored California poppy. This one ha some slight color variation tha I don’t normally see in the cream ones. It had sone nice ruffles that were similar on each petal. Maybe because it is new? #flowers #poppies #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Aliens do exist, they come in the form of plants. Passionfruit flower. Rather than put up a trellis, I planted next to an acacia and let it climb the tree and use the dead lower branches as support. Had to take this photo from a ladder. #flowers #gardening #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One thing I love about Adelaide is that I can grow just about any fruit I want to eat. My pomegranate is starting to blossom now too! #flowers #SouthAustralia #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An apricot starts to form a week or two after blossoming. The white petals have fallen off, but the red sepals and stamens have dried. #fruit #flowers #trees #gardening #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Three-cornered leek. Another invasive that seems to be common along the river. #flowers #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our cherries have started blossoming in the past couple of days. The little speck in the center is a carper beetle. I hope it is a pollinator. #flowers #insects #trees #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Many Australian trees are very tall and some are straight, most are not. #trees #photographs

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Periwinkles have beautiful hexagons in their centers. They also look like fan blades. #flowers #photography #polygons

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pandemonium this morning, only time to snap one photo as I walked out the door. #flowers #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gathered a few of these from the roadside before the city has a chance to mow them down again. Put them in and we’ll see. #flowers #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Osteospermum. This one is a volunteer in my garden, but since I can’t seem to grow veggies in my yard to save my life, the flowers can stay. #gardens #flowers #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Everlasting sprout. You might have seen my photos of these a couple weeks ago. I found some seeds and planted them last weekend. They’re already growing! #gardening #seedlings

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In science, we often measure what we can’t see directly. Much like this shadow of a poppy, we observe indirectly and incompletely, but hopefully enough that we can create a reasonable model for the real world. #shadows #flowers #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sunshine, bees and fruit blossoms can mean only one thing. Lots of jam in four months time or Spring, but that would be two things. #flowers #trees #sun #bees #macro #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

While most of our California poppies are the common orange variety, we have some cream and yellow ones too. Enjoy! #flowers #poppies #abstract #macro #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good morning! You wouldn’t know it, but I had a cat on my shoulders while taking this. #sun #flowers #morning #photography

The sun peaking out from behind a nectarine blossom.

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A live and dead elkhorn fern. We inherited these with our house. They were in a rainforest the previous owners kept. We’re the driest state in Australia. We kept these alive as long as we could, it made it 10 years. #ferns #textures #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Taken while snowshoeing mmany years ago between Big and Little Cottonwood canyons east of Salt Lake City. #snow #mountains #winter #Utah #nature #landscape #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Strawflower that I’ve been growing in a pot on my porch. I was surprised, but it survived over winter. Happy it did, enjoy! #gardening #flowers #AustralianNatives #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It rained this morning, so I offer the obligatory wet flower image. #flowers #poppies #raindrops #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

While biking home from work, I stopped and set my foot down. When I did, I saw this tiny iris relative (Moraea steifolia). They’re less than 2 cm across. #irises #flowers #macro #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

While there weren’t a lot of bees around yesterday, there were a lot of hoverflies. Hoverflies ar possibly the second most important pollinators after bees. Both date to the early Cretaceous shortly after the evolution of flowering plants. #insects #flies #flowers #macro #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hopefully pollinating my nectarine. Though there weren’t many bees around yesterday on account of the rain. #flowers #trees #bees #photography

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Derrick @timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Early days for this flower since only the outer ring of the disk has blossomed. #flowers #macro #photography

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