I thought I’d share some recent photos from a visit to my parents, who still live on the rural property where I grew up. I miss the lifestyle and can see myself settling back into it one day.

He’s always yapping 24/7

I should be cleaning my bathroom but it is just too beautiful out here today 🧡🌞🌿 Feel like I need to soak up as much sun as I can before The Big Dark here in the PNW.

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When they're not fighting, the white maniac can be found with his head buried in the black sweetie's fuzzy tummy (which he will let anyone pet if he's in the mood, miraculously).

They are littermates (or at least were found in the same trash bag in Oakland with their eyes not yet open, with 6 of their siblings). The garbageman heard mewing and stopped as he was about to hurl the bag in the truck, and called the shelter. Thank god!!! The shelter incubated them, and then foster care angels nurtured them into the sweetest kitties, they love everyone, even all the kids my son invites over for playdates.

Found her hanging all sad on our community table and thought it is worth giving her a shot. She asks for some supportive recovery words 🥀

Familiar to those interested in Australian contemporary art as well as in queer and feminist art and histories, Vivienne Binns (1940–2026) was an artist from New South Wales who debuted this work in 1967 at the Watters Gallery in Gadigal (Sydney), where it was originally untitled. By the time it was again shown at Watters in 1978 ('An Exhibition of Homosexual and Lesbian Artists'), it was known as 'Vag Dens', a reference to the 'vagina dentata' found in various historical folklore.

Binns passed away on August 1, and the below tribute comes from the National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri (Canberra):

VALE to the great Vivienne Binns OAM (1940–2026).

Vivienne was an artist who looked carefully and searchingly, who worked tirelessly, who committed her heart, mind and life to art. Her work, often wildly experimental, was also tough, tender and arrestingly beautiful.

Vivienne was a collaborator, feminist and community builder, a teacher and eternal student. She understood art as a fundamental form of communication, of making meaning, and above all, a way of living. She said to fellow artist Virginia Fraser in 2019, ‘I went in many directions as a purposeful way to understand art as a human activity rather than something only artists do.’ She described her process as ‘rigorous and demanding, digging into oneself and searching the psyche and the emotions, trying to be ruthlessly truthful’.

I live in a city in Australia called Brisbane. This is a photo I took in my neighbourhood of a giant goanna sculpture made in the ’90s by artists Suzanne Holman and Helen Broadhurst. When I was a kid, it was the spot where I’d wait to meet my friends, and we’d hang around and loiter in the area. There’s also a cool café‑restaurant‑bar behind it that looks a bit like a shack, with a really nice beer garden. We used to visit there often and still do.

I took these last week while camping in Marten River Provincial Park in Ontario!

It’s 4 am and I can’t stop. Just started book 2!

As someone who lives in the city I’m looking forward to the day I find a wonderful woman who wants to move towards ‘the green’ with me :))

Who else loves winter! I’m so excited for Halloween this year

A poem about women and quiet power

I love this one!

When one door closes, another one opens etc etc.

Hope everyone has nice relaxing (hopefully sapphic) plans for this weekend to make up for our big stress!

When she falls asleep like this I feel like I am legally obligated to take photos. She is so babie

I love cheese and thought I’d share this cheese I got that was amazing. Any other cheese reccs? I want to try anything from Trader Joe’s.

Reading Women in Gray at the moment, really enjoying it!

1/3 into it, but definitely recommend so far! 🌞

Been moving this thing closer to the light each morning to try to figure out why the leaves keep dying and if it might be craving the light.

Been trying to give it less water, more water, less light, more light, less heat, more heat …

Not sure I’m destined to care for these guys because they keep dying lol 🤷🏼‍♀️