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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Thirteen days ago was my 75th birthday. Today I woke and realized that this is my first day living in this material world not shared with Bob Weir. Yesterday was heavy. Of course he visited me in a dream.

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Bobby Weir and I have had an ongoing internal conversation since the American Beauty, Live Dead days. I expect that conversation to continue. Thought you would live forever, bud. Your music certainly will. Love for real not fade away. ❤️💀🌹

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Forgive the re-post, but I wanted to encourage anyone with an interest in my drawing to please enlarge/blow up the image to see the characters and petroglyphs (not to scale!) in the rock wall and vegetation 😉

The Red Rocks at the Pueblo of Jemez, Walatowa, in New Mexico

Detail showing images of petroglyphs and bison

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

For over fifty years we have used one of my drawings as a holiday greeting card. From last year, this is Red Rocks in Shades of Gray. Those familiar with New Mexico may recognize this scene from the beautiful Pueblo of Jemez, north of Albuquerque. Happy Holidays, good luck to all of us in 2026–

The Red Rocks at the Pueblo of Jemez in New Mexico- graphite drawing

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The Landlord paid a visit to our garden. Got very quiet around here!

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Like the man said, all you need is love ❤️ ☮️ #JohnLennon

Grandson drawing with John Lennon looking over

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Never forgotten… #JohnLennon (Came across this issue of RS in an old box of keepsakes)

Rolling Stone magazine cover of John & Yoko

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Cotton candy snow here in Albuquerque this morning, but the Goldies just go about their business as usual ☺️

Lesser Goldfinches on a niger thistle feeder on a snowy Albuquerque morning

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

You see, scrolling will bring us to the end of this… house, and there is a MONSTER at the end of this house! (A monster of a Sundrop tomato plant, that is! 😉)

A Sundrop tomato plant WAY overflowing its cage!

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My grandson and I made this multiple personality jack-o-lantern… And it’s recyclable as pie! 🥧 Boo!!

Jack o lantern made with pieces of black gorilla tape instead of carving

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Grateful Dead at the late, lamented Santa Fe Downs, New Mexico, 10/17/1982

Phil Lesh with the Grateful Dead at Santa Fe 10/15/1982

Tshirt from Grateful Dead fall tour 1982

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

“Asian Delight” eggplant blossom. Lots of new growth and blossoms in the garden, the plants dig this cool moist weather. Now comes the suspense of waiting for the first frost— average used to be around 10/20 here in Albuquerque, but has been receding with the changing climate.

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Went to see Paul McCartney and band in Albuquerque last night. What an experience! Here is a screenshot of my text response to a friend who was also there—

Rusty, Abe, Paul, and Brian on stage at the Isleta Amphitheater in Albuquerque, 10/7/2025

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Keeping it in the yard, good ol gazanias providing colorful mandala blooms in our fall rock garden

Yellow and white gazania flowers in Albuquerque garden

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Closer to home, the setting sun on northern sea oats pods

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Peeking through the aspens, near Telluride

A view through the golden aspen leaves in Colorado

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Old friend Lizard Head peak, on the road to Telluride CO, from 9/25/2025, and my graphite drawing from 2018

Photo of Lizard Head peak in Colorado, 9/25/2025

Lizard Head Peak, graphite drawing from 2018

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The beauty and majesty really does take one’s breath away

More colorful aspens and majestic mountains near Telluride

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Here’s some mountain color, near Telluride CO. Amazingly, the aspens were not at their peak yet!

Aspens turning gold in the high country near Telluride

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Late season sunflower and morning glory

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Before & after— 🎶 Comic book colors on a violin river 🎶 (From a set of fabric markers 😃) 💀🌹

United States of Dead tshirt, hand tinted with fabric markers

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

As usual, I *may* have planted too many tomatoes this year 🤓 All of the paste types are from one Burpee Gladiator plant!

A bunch of red, orange and pink tomatoes

Red paste type tomatoes, all from one Burpee Gladiator plant

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

One of our favorite garden guests sampling the 2035 vintage orange agastache

Female hummingbird feeding on orange agastache bloom

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I don’t have a great vantage point for sunsets at my home, but every so often there will be a big old cloud over the mountains that catches the fading rays and makes me sigh.

A cloud east of Albuquerque catches final rays at sunset

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

A female Lesser Goldfinch nibbling on some agastache in the garden today

Female Lesser Goldfinch nibbling on agastache

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

And can’t forget Los Pistoles 😳

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Also from our time capsule chest: a couple #theclash tshirts circa 1980. London Calling blew me away 🤯

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🎶 I had a run in Run around and run down Run around the corner Run smack into a… tire barrier!😉 #gratefuldead

Indy car with Grateful Dead paint job crashes into a tire barrier at Laguna Seca racetrack

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🎶 Los Colores…🎶 Persimmon, Genuwine & Brandy Boy tomatoes 😊

Persimmon, Genuwine & Brandy Boy tomatoes from our garden

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Time capsule: we went through a trunk in which we’ve stored keepsakes etc from all the years. Here is a Mr Natural tshirt from 1972– a friend ran a head shop & screened custom shirts. I got to recreate & customize the skull & roses for the back! 💀🌹 #gratefuldead

Front of customer Mr Natural tshirt from 1972

Rear of 1972 tshirt with customized Grateful Dead skull & roses

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Entrance to the Rancho De Chimayo Restaurante

Rancho De Chimayo Restaurante in northern New Mexico

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

There are many things referred to as being the “essence of New Mexico.” This is certainly one of them: enchiladas with Chimayo red chile sauce, at the Rancho De Chimayo Restaurante.

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Cholla cactus flowers, here in Albuquerque

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

My 3-1/2 year old grandson was so pleased with his watercolor “Orange Tree” that he decided to sign it with a ‘W,’ the initial of his first name 😍

“Orange Tree” watercolor by my 3-1/2 year old grandson

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Here is an early evening shot of palm trees on Sanibel, plus the contrail of an alien ship piloted by one of the clones of Joe Biden 🚀

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Speaking of the Gulf of Mexico… I do love the interplay of clouds and water

Clouds over the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida shore looking towards Fort Myers and points south

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We’ve been back from our Sanibel Island vacation for a week. Man, the jet lag really got to me this time… FL to NM. We only fly once a year or so these days. Anyway, here are some of the billions of shells on the Sanibel beach. Gulf of Mexico. ✔️

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Tracks in the sand at sunset, Sanibel Island

Sanibel Island tracks in the sand at dusk

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Just me and ol’ crow hangin out on the beach 🌞

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

…And after all that hard work gardening, vacation time on the beach! Very nice to once again dip my toes into the waters of the Gulf of MEXICO 😊

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Got tomatoes and peppers planted! The cages with row cover material are tomatoes that the sparrows were eating 🫤

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I’ve been doing final prep on the garden beds, and these chile pepper plants will be planted soon— hopefully! Glad I didn’t jump the gun, since we just had a late snowstorm! 🥶 They spent a day & 2 nights in the shed, so are happy to bask in the sun again.

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I made a couple 32”x 66” raised bed frames for my daughter— felt good to get back into springtime gardening projects. All the wood is from our old cedar fence ! ♥️😊

A garden bed frame made of repurposed fence wood

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Todd Gerstenberger @toddawg001.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

From @GratefulDead post remembering Ron, on Thrds 💀🌹

Screenshot of Grateful Dead post on threads

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