MY YEARLY CRABAPPLE PSA 🍎 (Also thank you so much for the love, yall 🩷 I really appreciate your kindness and support during this rough time for my family ❤️🩹)
MAGNOLIA SNAP COOKIE SEASON IS UPON US FRIENDS! … a secret? I have ANOTHER magnolia cookie recipe I’m testing rn 🤫 but have a throwback to the OG! I’m already having such a grand ol time seeing posts from folks who have made them in the past few weeks! Saucer Magnolias (Magnolia x soulangeana) is a hybrid of Magnolia liliflora and Magnolia denudata, and is EXTREMELY common when it comes to horticulture usage! From a culinary standpoint, they’re gingery, floral, and a bit botanically bitter, which makes them so fun to cook with! (No one tell Saucer than Southern Magnolia has my favorite flavor of all the magnolia flowers I’ve tried thus far 😅 Saucer is solidly in 3rd place… but is first in beauty and first in meaning spring is truly here!) Measurements below if ya want em 🌸✨💖 My Thiccc Magnolia Syrup 1 cup water 1.5 cups sugar 4 cups of loosely packed, fragrant magnolia petals Magnolia Snap Cookies 3.25 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup vegan butter (like Earth Balance) 1.5 cups of brown sugar ¾ cups of My Thiccc Magnolia Syrup 1 tablespoon baking soda 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract (or Nocino if you have some lying around! I prefer it!) 2 teaspoons of cinnamon Sugar for rolling Optional: 1 tablespoon frozen grated magnolia petals (freeze the unopened flowers whole and grate as needed!) ALSO Optional: if you freshly made your syrup, save some of the sugary, jammy petals to roll into the center of the cookies!
Posting this from my sickbed as this very (seemingly ETERNAL) tuft of Allium vineale taunts me outside the window 🤣 hope yall don’t mind a lil earworm throwback 🧅 🧄
photo dümp brought to you by crying in the hospital parking garage™️! I am currently crying in the hospital parking garage 🙂
photo dümp brought to you by crying in the hospital parking garage™️! I am currently crying in the hospital parking garage 🙂
photo dümp brought to you by crying in the hospital parking garage™️! I am currently crying in the hospital parking garage 🙂
photo dümp brought to you by crying in the hospital parking garage™️! I am currently crying in the hospital parking garage 🙂
photo dümp brought to you by crying in the hospital parking garage™️! I am currently crying in the hospital parking garage 🙂
photo dümp brought to you by crying in the hospital parking garage™️! I am currently crying in the hospital parking garage 🙂
photo dümp brought to you by crying in the hospital parking garage™️! I am currently crying in the hospital parking garage 🙂
photo dümp brought to you by crying in the hospital parking garage™️! I am currently crying in the hospital parking garage 🙂
CRISPY CRUNCHY ACORN COOKIES! 🐿️
THANK YOU SO MUCH @natgeo !!! I’m beyond honored to be a #natgeo33 member. To be recognized by an institution that helped shape my love of nature, travel, and environmental stewardship… there aren’t enough words. Thank you @lolaogunnaike and @djeneba.aduayom for telling my story (and especially thank u to Djeneba for hiking in the 90° heat in a historic drought to capture those amazing pictures!!)
moments of joy I’ve been lucky enough to have just before and during tragedies. My mom lost her partner, John (who with my mom happily, lovingly, and enthusiastically showed up for me and my sister for everything. Plays, comedy shows, lectures, good days, less than good days…) Having someone disappear without warning was like a plane losing a window, pressure falling, oxygen escaping, everything cold and frantic. And I’m admittedly awful when it comes to talking about death, and still worry about if I’ve been showing up for my mom to the best of my ability… but if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s be there with the people I love, with a warm beverage, and a heart ready to help carry their pain. But I still feel so helpless watching someone who deserves the world experience such profound loss. 36 hours later after we lost John, my dad was rushed to the hospital. It was one of those moments where you can only throw your head back and laugh. and then cry. My dad, after hours of bedside chats and hand squeezing has thankfully stabilized. but he left the hospital with a cancer diagnosis that he didn’t have when he entered. It’s been a hard season. And yet there have been moments of holding joy, community, light, and togetherness during it all. It’s made me realize again and again and again and again how lucky I am to have a family, chosen and blood, that is ready to catch me softly when I fall. I’m thankful for my mom’s amazing friends, and her ability to bring great people together. I’m thankful for so many of you, for sweet little phone distractions and patience as I try to put the parts of my heart and mind back on the shelf from which they were tossed. There is so much grief in this life. But there is also so much love. They may even be two sides of the same coin 🩷 So here, have some of the lightness (and a couple real dissociative moments 😅) that got me through the darkness. Maybe it’ll bring a little glow to you, too.
moments of joy I’ve been lucky enough to have just before and during tragedies. My mom lost her partner, John (who with my mom happily, lovingly, and enthusiastically showed up for me and my sister for everything. Plays, comedy shows, lectures, good days, less than good days…) Having someone disappear without warning was like a plane losing a window, pressure falling, oxygen escaping, everything cold and frantic. And I’m admittedly awful when it comes to talking about death, and still worry about if I’ve been showing up for my mom to the best of my ability… but if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s be there with the people I love, with a warm beverage, and a heart ready to help carry their pain. But I still feel so helpless watching someone who deserves the world experience such profound loss. 36 hours later after we lost John, my dad was rushed to the hospital. It was one of those moments where you can only throw your head back and laugh. and then cry. My dad, after hours of bedside chats and hand squeezing has thankfully stabilized. but he left the hospital with a cancer diagnosis that he didn’t have when he entered. It’s been a hard season. And yet there have been moments of holding joy, community, light, and togetherness during it all. It’s made me realize again and again and again and again how lucky I am to have a family, chosen and blood, that is ready to catch me softly when I fall. I’m thankful for my mom’s amazing friends, and her ability to bring great people together. I’m thankful for so many of you, for sweet little phone distractions and patience as I try to put the parts of my heart and mind back on the shelf from which they were tossed. There is so much grief in this life. But there is also so much love. They may even be two sides of the same coin 🩷 So here, have some of the lightness (and a couple real dissociative moments 😅) that got me through the darkness. Maybe it’ll bring a little glow to you, too.
moments of joy I’ve been lucky enough to have just before and during tragedies. My mom lost her partner, John (who with my mom happily, lovingly, and enthusiastically showed up for me and my sister for everything. Plays, comedy shows, lectures, good days, less than good days…) Having someone disappear without warning was like a plane losing a window, pressure falling, oxygen escaping, everything cold and frantic. And I’m admittedly awful when it comes to talking about death, and still worry about if I’ve been showing up for my mom to the best of my ability… but if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s be there with the people I love, with a warm beverage, and a heart ready to help carry their pain. But I still feel so helpless watching someone who deserves the world experience such profound loss. 36 hours later after we lost John, my dad was rushed to the hospital. It was one of those moments where you can only throw your head back and laugh. and then cry. My dad, after hours of bedside chats and hand squeezing has thankfully stabilized. but he left the hospital with a cancer diagnosis that he didn’t have when he entered. It’s been a hard season. And yet there have been moments of holding joy, community, light, and togetherness during it all. It’s made me realize again and again and again and again how lucky I am to have a family, chosen and blood, that is ready to catch me softly when I fall. I’m thankful for my mom’s amazing friends, and her ability to bring great people together. I’m thankful for so many of you, for sweet little phone distractions and patience as I try to put the parts of my heart and mind back on the shelf from which they were tossed. There is so much grief in this life. But there is also so much love. They may even be two sides of the same coin 🩷 So here, have some of the lightness (and a couple real dissociative moments 😅) that got me through the darkness. Maybe it’ll bring a little glow to you, too.
moments of joy I’ve been lucky enough to have just before and during tragedies. My mom lost her partner, John (who with my mom happily, lovingly, and enthusiastically showed up for me and my sister for everything. Plays, comedy shows, lectures, good days, less than good days…) Having someone disappear without warning was like a plane losing a window, pressure falling, oxygen escaping, everything cold and frantic. And I’m admittedly awful when it comes to talking about death, and still worry about if I’ve been showing up for my mom to the best of my ability… but if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s be there with the people I love, with a warm beverage, and a heart ready to help carry their pain. But I still feel so helpless watching someone who deserves the world experience such profound loss. 36 hours later after we lost John, my dad was rushed to the hospital. It was one of those moments where you can only throw your head back and laugh. and then cry. My dad, after hours of bedside chats and hand squeezing has thankfully stabilized. but he left the hospital with a cancer diagnosis that he didn’t have when he entered. It’s been a hard season. And yet there have been moments of holding joy, community, light, and togetherness during it all. It’s made me realize again and again and again and again how lucky I am to have a family, chosen and blood, that is ready to catch me softly when I fall. I’m thankful for my mom’s amazing friends, and her ability to bring great people together. I’m thankful for so many of you, for sweet little phone distractions and patience as I try to put the parts of my heart and mind back on the shelf from which they were tossed. There is so much grief in this life. But there is also so much love. They may even be two sides of the same coin 🩷 So here, have some of the lightness (and a couple real dissociative moments 😅) that got me through the darkness. Maybe it’ll bring a little glow to you, too.
moments of joy I’ve been lucky enough to have just before and during tragedies. My mom lost her partner, John (who with my mom happily, lovingly, and enthusiastically showed up for me and my sister for everything. Plays, comedy shows, lectures, good days, less than good days…) Having someone disappear without warning was like a plane losing a window, pressure falling, oxygen escaping, everything cold and frantic. And I’m admittedly awful when it comes to talking about death, and still worry about if I’ve been showing up for my mom to the best of my ability… but if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s be there with the people I love, with a warm beverage, and a heart ready to help carry their pain. But I still feel so helpless watching someone who deserves the world experience such profound loss. 36 hours later after we lost John, my dad was rushed to the hospital. It was one of those moments where you can only throw your head back and laugh. and then cry. My dad, after hours of bedside chats and hand squeezing has thankfully stabilized. but he left the hospital with a cancer diagnosis that he didn’t have when he entered. It’s been a hard season. And yet there have been moments of holding joy, community, light, and togetherness during it all. It’s made me realize again and again and again and again how lucky I am to have a family, chosen and blood, that is ready to catch me softly when I fall. I’m thankful for my mom’s amazing friends, and her ability to bring great people together. I’m thankful for so many of you, for sweet little phone distractions and patience as I try to put the parts of my heart and mind back on the shelf from which they were tossed. There is so much grief in this life. But there is also so much love. They may even be two sides of the same coin 🩷 So here, have some of the lightness (and a couple real dissociative moments 😅) that got me through the darkness. Maybe it’ll bring a little glow to you, too.
moments of joy I’ve been lucky enough to have just before and during tragedies. My mom lost her partner, John (who with my mom happily, lovingly, and enthusiastically showed up for me and my sister for everything. Plays, comedy shows, lectures, good days, less than good days…) Having someone disappear without warning was like a plane losing a window, pressure falling, oxygen escaping, everything cold and frantic. And I’m admittedly awful when it comes to talking about death, and still worry about if I’ve been showing up for my mom to the best of my ability… but if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s be there with the people I love, with a warm beverage, and a heart ready to help carry their pain. But I still feel so helpless watching someone who deserves the world experience such profound loss. 36 hours later after we lost John, my dad was rushed to the hospital. It was one of those moments where you can only throw your head back and laugh. and then cry. My dad, after hours of bedside chats and hand squeezing has thankfully stabilized. but he left the hospital with a cancer diagnosis that he didn’t have when he entered. It’s been a hard season. And yet there have been moments of holding joy, community, light, and togetherness during it all. It’s made me realize again and again and again and again how lucky I am to have a family, chosen and blood, that is ready to catch me softly when I fall. I’m thankful for my mom’s amazing friends, and her ability to bring great people together. I’m thankful for so many of you, for sweet little phone distractions and patience as I try to put the parts of my heart and mind back on the shelf from which they were tossed. There is so much grief in this life. But there is also so much love. They may even be two sides of the same coin 🩷 So here, have some of the lightness (and a couple real dissociative moments 😅) that got me through the darkness. Maybe it’ll bring a little glow to you, too.
moments of joy I’ve been lucky enough to have just before and during tragedies. My mom lost her partner, John (who with my mom happily, lovingly, and enthusiastically showed up for me and my sister for everything. Plays, comedy shows, lectures, good days, less than good days…) Having someone disappear without warning was like a plane losing a window, pressure falling, oxygen escaping, everything cold and frantic. And I’m admittedly awful when it comes to talking about death, and still worry about if I’ve been showing up for my mom to the best of my ability… but if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s be there with the people I love, with a warm beverage, and a heart ready to help carry their pain. But I still feel so helpless watching someone who deserves the world experience such profound loss. 36 hours later after we lost John, my dad was rushed to the hospital. It was one of those moments where you can only throw your head back and laugh. and then cry. My dad, after hours of bedside chats and hand squeezing has thankfully stabilized. but he left the hospital with a cancer diagnosis that he didn’t have when he entered. It’s been a hard season. And yet there have been moments of holding joy, community, light, and togetherness during it all. It’s made me realize again and again and again and again how lucky I am to have a family, chosen and blood, that is ready to catch me softly when I fall. I’m thankful for my mom’s amazing friends, and her ability to bring great people together. I’m thankful for so many of you, for sweet little phone distractions and patience as I try to put the parts of my heart and mind back on the shelf from which they were tossed. There is so much grief in this life. But there is also so much love. They may even be two sides of the same coin 🩷 So here, have some of the lightness (and a couple real dissociative moments 😅) that got me through the darkness. Maybe it’ll bring a little glow to you, too.
Time to dry some forsythia for tea (and flower sprinkles!!) and top all my dishes with them for OPTIMAL SPRING ENJOYMENT 🌞
FORAGING AT THE STORE LETS GOOOOO
Nerd trivia AND plant trivia, all in one question! 🌱 #umactually #dropout #alexisnikole #plants
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