#FoliageFriday

From yesterday.
#Columbine foliage is emerging.
#Iris heads are pushing up.

I;m thinkin about thos columbines

#growers #bloomscrolling #columbine #memes ( photo from seasons past of Aquilegia)

Vintage Botanical Prints – 22 in a series – Aquilegia glandulosa from The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany Volume 1 (1837))

Highlights from centuries of botanical prints

https://welchwrite.com/agn/2020/11/29/vintage-botanical-prints-22-in-a-series-aquilegia-glandulosa-from-the-floral-cabinet-and-magazine-of-exotic-botany-volume-1-1837/

Print available at
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/63757727

Columbine shooting survivor dies 26 years after being paralyzed in massacre https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/columbine-anne-marie-hochhalter-death #USschoolshootings #Columbine #Guncrime #Colorado #UScrime #USnews

Madison, Wisconsin School Shooter A Columbine Copycat[?] "bulk of shooter’s online footprint suggests a general obsession with #school #shooters and the “TCC,” or True Crime Community, a nickname used for the de facto international #Columbine fandom. This sort of content dominates her tumblr, which last posted in May of 2024. An alleged online friend of the shooter said that she “posted about school shooters all the time,” and “had school shooter leanings.” https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-madison-wisconsin-school-shooter #gunviolence

Today in Labor History November 21, 1921: The original Columbine Massacre occurred in Serine, Colorado. State police and company thugs used machine guns against the unarmed miners, slaughtering six striking IWW members, all of whom were unarmed. Dozens more were injured.

Mass shooting survivors turn to an unlikely place for justice – copyright law https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/18/mass-shooting-survivors-copyright-law #Parkland,Floridaschoolshooting #VirginiaTechshooting2007 #Nashvilleschoolshooting #VirginiaTVnewsshooting #USschoolshootings #USguncontrol #Columbine #Guncrime #USnews

Weyant!
#SchoolShootings #Guns #GunViolence #Murder #Columbine #VirginiaTech #SandyHook #Uvalde #RobbElementary #ParklandHigh #SantafeHigh #UmpquaCommunityCollege #Redlake #Nashville #OikosUniversity #NorthernIllinoisUniversity

Whatever the U.S. government has done or hasn't done since 1999, the end result, nothing has changed since Columbine.

Looking up

https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3260712416912081144

Columbine, a.k.a. Aquilegia spp. As beautiful as it is short lived.
#growers #columbine #bloomscrolling

No wind

https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3256201058166243508

Darn wind...

https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3253072321170114164

Here at 4,700 feet, our columbine is just blooming.

A neighbor’s columbines
#bloomscrolling #columbine

Ice Age Trail
Storrs Lake Segment
Rock County, Wisconsin (USA)
https://www.pretty-good-photographs.com/Landscapes/Ice-Age-National-Scenic-Trail-Landscapes/i-wpQDpSP/A
#Photograph #Flower #Wildflower #Columbine #IceAgeNationalScenicTrail #IceAgeTrail #RockCounty #Wisconsin #USA