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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · Nov 17

sea change

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 5h

A visit to a garden centre closing down. A melancholic place; picked as barren as a whale carcass; flowers faded, with a photo of their spring pomp; trees waving their pale bare branches in the hope to please,

An empty polytunnel which was like being under ice, the autumn leaves skating overhead.

An empty, near derelict polytunnel, with a laminated sign on the outside promising:

All labelled &
priced plants
in this poly-tunnel
are for sale

A photo of the polytunnel roof. Plastic, mottled with dirt and dust, dull bright with milky sunshine. A single leaf, a rusty red, stamped on the outside of the plastic - looking like the fossilised footprint of a dinosaur.

The same, only now there’s a cluster of leaves, in the anti-matter emptiness of the dirty polytunnel plastic.

One leaf again, adrift in the soft dull white of the plastic roof. Its shape is only just defined, as if it’s a memory of an autumn leaf.

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 4h

thanks for this - so strangely lovely ..

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 7h

thank you ✨✨

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 17h

thank you!

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 20h

very kind - thank you

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 1d

🍂 the dry season

imaginary land & seascapes in autumn colours - found in small pieces of stone and wood

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 1d

✨✨✨ congratulations ✨✨✨

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 2d

💫💫😂💫💫x

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 3d

🌑 💫

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 3d

dear nicola, wishing you the warmest possible ❤️

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 3d

seascape in a stone wall

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Susanne Rell @susannerell.bsky.social · 4d

A rainy day in Vienna #photography #streetphotography #vienna #door #wien #fenster #spiegelungen #entrance #mirror #rain #rainyday

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 4d

it’s a beautiful little film
‘father and daughter’
easy to find on youtube

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 4d

Studio Ghibli fell in love with this film and gave its director a movie deal. Master animators like Yuri Norstein call it a favorite.

Its name is Father and Daughter, and we've explored its story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 5d

and many thanks to you helen! ✨

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 6d

so pleased - thank you adrianna! ✨

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 6d

💫 how the light gets in 💫

bright patches of coloured light on old stone and through stained glass

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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 7d

Seasonal Palette, wet with Autumn Rain ... today.

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 9d

thank you lil! hope all's good with you x

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 9d

💥
just now and then l find myself checking anthony’s lines because l can’t quite believe them 🤯

.. anagrammed lines - always amazed ..

Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 9d

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (Anagrammed Lines)

It came from outer space —
a comet of imp creatures;
a curse of meteor impact —
to permute a cosmic fear,
to cap our mesmeric fate...

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 11d

very pleased - thank you so much joanna ✨

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 11d

I'll keep you posted!!

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 11d

thank you!

@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 11d

▪️ an old poster is pulled down - and a new world awaits us ▪️

in the grey wall behind a broken poster - we could perhaps imagine a storm - or a sea view ..

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 14d

stage set for a fairy tale

at the edge of the sea - a mix of soft colours and darkness - a background for our imagination ...

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georgeszirtes.bsky.social @georgeszirtes.bsky.social · Apr 28

You turn off the light
and sense the room rearrange
itself around you

like a different space
where you yourself are different.
So simple to leave

a world. So simple
to stand still. Now you are here,
now gone. Turn it off

and walk, keep walking.

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