If you find yourself in the greater Seattle-Tacoma area this weekend and you're interested in cool plants, come to Blue Poppy Day at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden. Meconopsis 'lingholm', the Himalayan blue poppy, is renowned for its incredible color--and is famously difficult to grow. This place has just the right conditions, and they have thousands! They also have hundreds of species of rhodies in bloom. #gardening #bloomScrolling #PNW #seattle #Tacoma https://rhodygarden.org/events/blue-poppy-day-2024/
I caught the start of a #rodent nest in my #Toyota#Tacoma engine bay. They were using the insulation from the underside of the plastic engine cover and stuffing it between the intake runners and the top of the engine.
What are people using as rodent deterrents these days?
Problem is that we're/they're bound by our #Nonprofit#PublicSector status to avoid discussing #capitalism as a problem or naming the political party responsible for this state of affairs @pluralistic, please advise...
Made my semi-annual trip to the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden. It's pretty early in the season so there's not much going on outside, but the conservatory is always worth a look.
1/4 #gardening #houseplants #botany #greenhouse #rhododendron
Rhododendron Soecies Botanical Garden thread part 3. Lots of other cool plants in the greenhouse too. That Begonia looks deadly. The plant with the purple flowers is a Prumulina I think (there was no tag).
RSBG is in Federal Way, #Washington, between #Seattle and #Tacoma. Stop in if you can, it makes a great stop on a road trip. April and May are the best months to visit.
3/4 #PNW#gardening#houseplants#botany#greenhouse#rhododendron
Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden part 4. My haul. They have a plant store onsite. I have a membership, which allows me priority online ordering at a discount and it's so worth it. Buying memberships and plants helps fund the garden and its conservation work.
4/4 Http://rhodygarden.org
A black Toyota Tacoma
Has driven over a tree
Somewhere on the SR twenty
In the snow, it's stuck you see.
Due to foolishness or judgement lapse
It's high centered on the trunk
Need some guys with chainsaws now
Hopefully they're not drunk
Why are people driving in a storm
And using their truck to climb up trees?
I have no idea what they were thinking,
But some people just do whatever they please
In #Washington state, #JapaneseAmericans are joining #ImmigrantRights activists demanding the closure of an immigration detention center in #Tacoma run by private firm #GEOGroup. The Northwest Detention Center has been the site of several #HungerStrikes over the years due to #inhumane conditions. State inspectors were recently denied entry to the Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility. On Friday, groups blocked #Seattle’s federal building as part of their action.
#PublicTransit 🚋 advocates, #cyclists 🚲 & #Urbanists throughout #Washington state needed to provide online public comment for the WSDOT’s Highway System Plan, which will seek to promote walking & #cycling and reduce vehicle 🚙 miles traveled.
Please comment with links to your art site or your friends.
Look in the comments for links to small artists.
Lets work together and support small business and local artists.
This #Episcopalian thanks you! 💞🕊
I call what's being sold on TV 'The Winter Retail Frenzy' to distinguish it from the Feast of the Incarnation that follows #Advent
The feast lasts 12 days & finishes at #Epiphany
I feel sorry for folks who whip themselves into #capitalist tizzies & then get all postpartum on 12/26
But here in #Tacoma#PNW the holiday lights are a survival strategy for long dark. The more the Better! 🙆🏻♀️🌧☔🎑
Are there any orca-knowledgeable folks who can tell me what the jpod behavior at Quartermaster Harbor on Maury/Vashon yesterday could have been about? I’m really sorry I didn’t get to see this myself. #seattle#Tacoma
The Next Target for Protests Against #Israel: Ports
« Hundreds of protesters took action at ports in Oakland and #Tacoma to try and stop the Cape Orlando’s progress. Meanwhile, dockworkers in #Barcelona called for a cease-fire and announced they would not work on ships carrying weapons. » #unions
Currently at the Port of Tacoma… hundreds of people are out to block Cape Orlando, the US military vessel filled with military cargo to aid the genocide in Gaza.
Activists in canoes have now successfully blocked off a shipping container from getting to the ship
Activists are blocking the entrance of the Port of Tacoma where a U.S. ship believed to be carrying weapons to Israel is docked. Days ago it was blocked in Oakland.
After activists in #Oakland blocked a US #military ship that will deliver weapons to #Israel to (and making one of the ship's worker walk off), the ship has changed its route to #Tacoma, #WA.
If you live near or in Tacoma, then please head to the port on Sunday before 2:30 pm then please join the mobilization and help cut the supply chain of arms export to Israel.
[Text transcription: BLOCK THE BOAT. Urgent update: we have received information that the boat in Oakland is currently on its way to Tacoma. We are going to show up and block the boat!
Where: 1123 Port of Tacoma Rd. Tacoma, WA 98421.
When: Sunday, 11/5 (November 5th), 2:30 PM.
Parking is extremely limited near the area; please plan to arrive on time, carpool as much as possible and prepare for the possibility of having to walk some distance.” End transcript]
After shutting down a ship in #Oakland, activists in solidarity with #Palestine are calling for continued demonstrations in #Tacoma, #Washington to stop the shipment of weapons to Israel. #Gaza
"!!BREAKING!! Get ready to mobilize as soon as early next week!
A US military ship in Oakland will be docking in the Tacoma port next week to pick up and deliver weapons intended for the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza."
"Das Ziel dieser Gruppe von Arbeiter*innen im Hafen von Barcelona ist es, zum Schutz des Lebens der Bevölkerung in Kriegsgebieten beizutragen. 'Wir wollen nicht verantwortlich sein für das, was passiert, weder in aktuellen noch in zukünftigen Kriegen' , sagte der Gewerkschafter"
Dazu setzen die Hafenarbeiter*innen ein Protokoll um, das Schiffe mit Waffenlieferungen an Bord dazu zwingen soll, einen anderen Hafen als ihren anzusteuern. Sie hoffen, dass sich diese Praxis an immer mehr Häfen durchsetzen wird.
In #Belgien, #Tacoma und #Oakland weigern sich ebenfalls Hafenarbeiter*innen an Waffenlieferungen mitzuwirken und haben erklärt, diese blockieren zu wollen.
Dockworkers of the Organització d'Estibadors Portuaris de Barcelona (OEPB) refuse to process shipments for arms of war to #Israel at #Barcelona sea port.
Translation from the article:
"The aim of this group of workers* at the Port of Barcelona is to help protect the lives of civilians in war zones. 'We don't want to be responsible for what happens, neither in current wars nor in future wars', said the trade unionist"
To this end, the dockers are implementing a protocol to force ships with arms shipments on board to head for a sea port other than theirs in Barcelona. They hope that this practice will spread to more and more docks and harbours.
In #Belgium, #Tacoma and #Oakland, dockworkers are also refusing to participate in arms shipments and have declared their intention to block them.