StudioCaroline

@StudioCaroline@mastodon.social

Let’s talk about arts, gardens, and life on Earth

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StudioCaroline, to drawing

Spring is here and trilliums are emerging! Here’s a charcoal sketch I made a few years ago of trilliums, fiddleheads and a few morels hiding out surreptitiously, as morels do : )

#drawing #art #trillium

shoq, to random
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2 days ago, I didn't know Stanley tools was making mugs that were all the rage. Now I see them everywhere. It's a pretty bizarre trend because they weigh about 400 lbs, empty

StudioCaroline,

@shoq not to mention the lead,
https://www.vox.com/culture/24059078/lead-stanley-water-bottles-why-safe

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, after the heavy question this morning, I think we need something silly, so three questions, answer all, one, or none:

What is the best, worst, and/or funniest pet name you've heard?

StudioCaroline,

@RickiTarr just after college I inherited a cat called Girly Sue

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Here's something I've been thinking about lately:

Does society need psychopathic behavior? Does it exist for a Social or Natural Evolutionary purpose?

I have edited the questions somewhat to emphasize behavior and not a person themselves.

StudioCaroline,

@RickiTarr there’s a school of thought that psychopathy isn’t a single neurotype but a spectrum of traits: disinhibition–impulsiveness, irresponsibility, difficulty regulating emotions & behavior, & mistrust of others; meanness–empathy deficits, contempt/reduced bonding with others, & predatory exploitativeness; & boldness–dominance, social assurance, emotional resilience, & adventurousness. Some of these traits are necessary for a functioning society.
More: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/ce-corner-psychopathy

StudioCaroline, to random

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror
up to where you are bravely working.

Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralysed.

Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings..

– Rumi
(translation by Coleman Barks w/John Moyne)

StudioCaroline, to random

My dad lives to fight another day. He’s more comfortable today. Thank you everyone for your prayers for him. Been looking at old pictures. He was, and is, a really good father.

A photo from the early 1990s of my father, Andrew, wearing a paper crown from a Christmas cracker and curled ribbon from present wrapping dangling from his ears, with a teenage boy, my brother, looking on with a bemused expression.
A family photo from the early 1980s showing a handsome young man, my father, Andrew, looking directly at the camera while crouching near two young children, my brother and me, carving pumpkins.
A photo from around 1990 showing a handsome man in his early 40s laughing while being embraced by a cute little girl–my sister (who looks so much like me at that age that we debated who it was while looking through these photos today)

StudioCaroline, to random

My dad is dying after a long dance with dementia. I’m here at his bedside as he struggles to breathe. We were never particularly religious, but he did ask for prayers when his illness began. If any of you out there in the fediverse would please send up a prayer that my father, Andrew, be free of suffering and anxiety, we would be so grateful.

StudioCaroline,

@thepoliticalcat thank you 💛

StudioCaroline,

@msquebanh 💛

StudioCaroline, to random
mariyadelano, (edited ) to fediverse
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Alright. Gonna write a piece on the impact of users on our culture in the

So let’s start with a poll. Boost please!

Are you neurodivergent?

(Self-diagnosis is valid, I know how freaking hard it can be to get the official one!)

@actuallyautistic

SECOND POLL WITH MORE TYPES OF NEURODIVERGENCE: https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/110753113559931102

StudioCaroline,

@mariyadelano @actuallyautistic oh I didn’t see your comment acknowledging other neurodivergencies and to leave in comments. Bipolar, ADHD, & OCD (dermatillomania)

StudioCaroline,

@mariyadelano oh also CPTSD. I’m very interested in the overlap between PTSD and other neurodivergencies

StudioCaroline, to Bloomscrolling

godetia, beebalm, sweet peas, solidago, mallow, perennial pea, lavender, campanula, snapdragons, mustard blossoms, tritelia, centaurea macrocephala, cornflower, and purpletop verbena from the garden, in a pickle jar

#bloomscrolling

StudioCaroline, to gardening

Wildflower update: Centaurea is making its move for bed domination, but Monarda and Coreopsis are standing their ground. Papaver, the old guard of spring, is beginning to stand aside

#gardening #bloomscrolling

Sardonicus, to random
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“Frog Magic of Tenjiku Tokubei”, by Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada), Japan, 1973

StudioCaroline,

@Sardonicus oh dear the alt text is heartbreaking

ryanhoulihan, to random
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It’s my birthday!!!

StudioCaroline,

@ryanhoulihan happy birthday! 🎊🎈🎂

StudioCaroline, to gardening

I was recently looking for this website with drawings of the root systems of >1800 plants (I’m interested in getting better plant guilds established in some areas of my perennial garden). Here it is:

https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search

#gardening #permaculture

RickiTarr, to random
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HAPPY ART SHOW SUNDAY!

Drop a picture, video, link or toot of something you've created, anything goes, let me see your passion.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Émile Zola

From me: A sketch of a pretty intense muscular bull, and a picture of an old hydroelectric station, I thought turned out pretty well.

A brick building (hydroelectric station) by turquoise water with milk thistle in the foreground

StudioCaroline,

@RickiTarr here’s this lol. When you turn it upside down the strange multi-faced background mass remains as right-side up as it was the other way around

The previous image flipped: a Black and white drawing with an upside down stylized human silhouette spread across a background of weird faces all smashed and pressed and joined together. The faces were drawn joined up with other upside down faces so the picture could be flipped upside down and still have a background of right-side-up faces

StudioCaroline, to random

I’ve been seed saving and keeping this lovely pale “blue” sweet pea going for seven or eight years now. It doesn’t get many blossoms per stem but the color is so heavenly and strong fragrance too that my neighbor swears smells like blueberries.

There’s also a particular peachy colored nasturtium that I seed-save and grow with it which I’ll post below; the colors really talk to each other

#bloomscrolling

StudioCaroline,

2/2 And here they are. Those colors are whispering sweet loving nothings to each other!

#bloomscrolling

StudioCaroline, to random

The lilies make this little corner of my jungly garden extra special

#bloomscrolling

StudioCaroline, to random

Lots of edible plants in my garden! In this salad: daylily buds, pineapple weed, columbine leaves, campanula, bloody dock, plantain, (broadleaf & goosetongue) French dandelion, skirret leaves, perennial kale, chard, parsley, fennel, oregano (Greek & Italian), thyme (wild, lemon & culinary), Korean celery, lemon balm, basil mint, lucerne, good king henry, chives (normal, Siberian & garlic) scallions, monkeyflower leaves & blooms, pansy, nasturtium, cornflower, basil, peas, sculpit, & more!

StudioCaroline, to random

Chonky bois

#bloomscrolling

StudioCaroline, to random

I think it’s time for me to switch servers. I want something that’s not in bed with meta, has stability and that won’t cut me off from a bunch of other servers bc I want to maintain connections to my mutuals as much as possible. (I am not tech savvy, I may not even properly know exactly what I’m talking about with the above parameters )
Any thoughts/advice y’all can share?

StudioCaroline,

@heyfluxay what ultimately brought you to rest at retro.pizza?

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