Sydney Michalski
@sydneymichalski.bsky.social
nature-enthusiast, amazement-prone, sharing wonder https://sydneymichalski.substack.com https://rivenjoiner.com
Just added these new FDT designs to Nature Moments Gear where nature and activism go hand in hand 🌿 I was looking for a way to more fully express my absolute disapproval of the travesty currently oozing around the White House, and all his enablers. #FDT nature-moments-gear.printify.me
Susan Collins will use her Todd Blanche vote to campaign like she cares about what’s right 🙄 But she’s still just what she’s always been - bought and paid for. I hope Mainers know that and are done with her - but this is what I wrote to the Portland Press Herald: 1/ substack.com/@sydneymicha...
I’m not always impressed with the common names assigned to our wild flora and fauna. Sometimes I wonder if the namers are entirely qualified. But whoever named the Ebony Jewelwing got it just right! Read more about Maine’s Great Heath in the latest Nature Moments 🌿 open.substack.com/pub/sydneymi...
The carnivores are blooming 😳 Read more in the latest episode of Nature Moments: open.substack.com/pub/sydneymi... #Sundew #NaturePhotography
This Is Not My Story
The carnivores are blooming, and other tales from my kids’ adventure.
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The first rule of berry-picking is you must eat some berries while you are picking. The second rule of berry-picking is you must eat some berries while you are picking. Because how else will you be able to look someone dead in the eye and say with authority, “These berries are delicious!” 🫐💙🌿
#WildflowerHour #WetlandPlants Pickerelweed may not sound like much, but it’s quite the stunner! Echo Lake, Acadia National Park, Maine
Um, yes please! Shout out to La Laiterie, the brilliant new cafe in Jonesboro serving up French cuisine randomly in rural Downeast Maine ☕️🥐❤️
When you lose yourself in nature for a moment, nature teaches you something about itself - and also something about life! Blueberries in a cluster each ripen in their own time. Outward conditions appear the same - something inside is making a difference🌿 sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/each-in-it...
Each In Its Own Time
There is wisdom in the blueberries, and they will share it with you when you sit with them for a just few amazing moments...
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Good morning, sweet bee! This is actually the first time I’ve caught a bee sleeping on a blossom. It was there last night when I closed the garden gate, still there this morning, all dewy, when I opened it. And off on its busy way again once the sunshine warmed its wings 💛🖤 🐝💛🖤
The Ghost Pipes are peeking out from among the mosses once again! A lovely, fascinating, truly unique forest blossom that I look forward to every year :) Read more at Nature Moments🌿 open.substack.com/pub/sydneymi...
Republicans are struggling to find a campaign message right now given the current state of endless war, rising prices, Trumporrhea, corruption, and incessant pedo-protection. So they’re resurrecting the red scare. 1/ substack.com/@sydneymicha...
On Monday, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine. Reports say Guerrero was authorized to legally work in the US and not even ICE's target. @annayeo.bsky.social was on the ground Tuesday in Biddeford and spoke with locals—including one man who knew Guerrero.
Fill a birdbath during a heatwave. Plant flowers for bees and butterflies. Leave a small corner undisturbed for wildlife. Notice the small lives moving through your garden. These things don’t make headlines, but they matter.💚
#Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers This is Dogbane - a wild understory shrub with adorable flowers, which is a favorite food for the Milkweed Tussock Moth. Read more at: sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/who-are-yo...
This flower is as tall as I am!!! Meadow Rue starts out as a little mound of leaves. Then it sends up a flower stalk. That grows. And grows. And grows! Now it’s five feet tall, and has finally opened up into a fireworks display of white and gold. What a show-off 😂 #bloomscrolling #wildflowers
Thank you, so true. The gloom and doom is exhausting. Mainers are ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work. Anyone insisting Collins has already won needs to shut up and get out of the way. The rest of us are picking up brooms and starting the hard work of cleaning up this mess. Onward!
You don’t always know what you’re holding behind those floodgates until a couple of unrelated events and the kindness of strangers suddenly flings them wide open. 💔❤️ substack.com/@sydneymicha...
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This turned out to be an overwhelmingly emotional day. I knew I was a bit fragile, the whole Graham Platner discourse having triggered my sensitivities around our national culture of dismissing victim...
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Graham Platner just had another skeleton fall out of his closet. #BelieveVictims #BelieveWomen I visited his campaign website, and this is what I wrote: 🧵
#bloomscrolling The cranberries are blooming and I am once again amazed by the absolutely endearing beauty of all the stages of our food before it reaches the table 💚 For more amazing Nature Moments, find me on Substack :) sydneymichalski.substack.com
My favorite 🦋 is always the one right in front of me, and today it’s a White Admiral. They feed on juices from decaying fruit and flowers, so I rarely find them on a pretty background - but if you’re looking for something classy to elevate your compost pile, nature’s got a 🦋 for you!🤣 #Butterflies
The United States right now is the answer to the question “What if our government and our religion were both just profit?” and it’s a question we already knew the answer to but we asked it again anyway and here we are.
Oooooookay, these two are definitely family or else they would be scolding and chasing each other like lunatics instead of calmly scouring the gravel driveway for niblets while I sit quietly videoing them and forgetting - for just a moment - that the world is on fire 🤣🐿️ #NatureVideo #CuteSquirrels
Sent this LTE to my local paper, in deep red rural Maine where I hope maybe, just maybe, some people might finally start to wake up from the Republican long-con: If Republicans really intended to make America great again, and improve life for ordinary Americans, they would have done it by now. 1/
Look who I found! #CrabSpiders are so cool - they change color between white and yellow, and they are so feisty with those outstretched arms 🤣 Read more: substack.com/@sydneymicha... #BlueFlagIris #Wildflowers #Wildlife #NaturePhotography
The thing about a wildflower field is that it invites everyone to the party. I saw three different species of tiny butterfly in a five minute walk. Electric-blue damselflies played hide-and-seek in the grasses. Soooooo, I’m in no hurry to mow - because 🌸all this🌸 is happening! #WildflowerHour
#Stunday #SeaGlass always catches my eye. Just bits of litter from ages past, relentlessly tumbled by ocean waves - now, the simple beauty of one of life’s tiny treasures :) #BeachDay #SummerFun www.amazon.com/Sea-Glass-Portraits-simple-treasures-ebook/dp/B0CLL2T8WS?ref_=ast_author_mpb
#BlueSkyArtShow #Curve The gentle curve of a Stargazer lily in full bloom… #NaturePhotgraphy #Macro #Flowers Shop prints at: pixels.com/featured/1-l...
A sweet little #fawn is all tucked in to a grassy nook, nearly invisible, protected by stillness and camouflage while Mom is off grazing. That nose-twitch!😍 #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #CuteBabies
#TigerSwallowtail thoroughly enjoying a chive blossom *happy sigh* And this is why you plant chives! #Butterflies #NaturePhotography #NatureNewlsetter open.substack.com/pub/sydneymi...
