Friday the 13th, and a pine tree topples. 2026
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Plant of the Day
Sunday 8 March 2026
A native to Japan, Pinus parviflora (Japanese white pine) is a broadly conical evergreen tree which becomes more spreading when old. It has fine, blue-green needles in groups of five. This large specimen was at Edinburgh Botanic Garden, Scotland.
Jill Raggett
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Potted up 8 seeds from what I believe is this Catalina Island Pine. Hope they grow! Would love some of these slender, tall wonders.
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I broke down yesterday. For a while now, maybe about a few years, I’ve been suffering with what I assume to be Depersonalization Derealization Disorder. Now I don’t have a diagnosis, but doing my own research that’s what I’ve come up with. I don’t know what finally set it off, but I remember when.
It was late at night and my family and I was watching Inside Out 2, I was laid across the bed. After the movie we had to work on laundry, as I stood up - everything felt like it shifted. I was watching myself move from behind my eyes. Since then it’s been like waves on a beach ebbing and flowing, somedays it’s worse and others not so bad. But nonetheless it has remained by my side since.
Back to yesterday, I went to fill the food bowl for my dog. We had two full bags that we kept in a storage tub on the front porch and when I opened it I found mold. We didn’t have any more dog food. So I was upset, overwhelmed, and blamed myself. I shut myself back up in my room, and hit myself. I couldn’t help but to cry.
I kept beating myself down further and further, it had been so long since I broke down. Spiraling seems to be one of the few things that I genuinely believe to be inherently good at. After that I just wanted to go on a walk.
I went on a walk today.
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A week ago, it was sunny and warm enough to traverse the snow in just a hoodie, and today it’s snowing again, and we might get a million feet.
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Shadow Pine, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming
© riverwindphotography, January 2026
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20260102 Toyota shrines 4 by Bong Grit
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さらに少し移動して本町の八幡神社。大きな門松が飾ってありました。
Photo taken at Honmachi Hachiman shrine, Toyota city, Aichi pref.
