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Felicity amelia
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Artist, observer, explorer of anthropomorphized landscapes on horseback, collector of discarded shells, feathers, and wooden accoutrements, maker of happy breakfast plates. All art and photos my own unless reposted. Thanks for reposts 💌
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#WeekWforWindows #WindowsonWednesday #photo #architecture #urbantrails #renovationprojects #eastcoastkin
Window with 4 glass panels and neoclassical arch on top. The paint on the inner wooden frame is peeling badly, inner shade half drawn, some orange plastic mums are in the right corner inside, the room behind is dark.
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Now is the time of Yule and Monsters
A digital illustration in the form of a multi-color relief print. At center is Gryla, Iceland's Troll Witch who stalks the land around the yule snatching misbehaving children and turning them into stew. She has blue skin, a craggy hag face with horns, fangs, and pointed ears framed by long, white hair in two big braids. She's wearing a traditional-ish looking dress and pinafore type thing under a big overcoat. In one hand she's holding a gnarled walking stick, and the other, reaching out toward the viewer is on the back of her pet Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat. He's a huge, fluffy, black cat, getting ready to pounce with his mouth open and one massive paw swiping out. His job is to eat children who are found without new clothes before Christmas. The point of focus of these two monsters, is two terrified, screaming children wearing tattered winter clothing in the lower right of frame. The ground all around is covered in snow, and the background inside a rough-cut framing shape is a spooky forest under a night sky with crescent moon, stars, and swirls of howling wind. Part of the top of the frame widens out into a red banner reading 'Gryla & Jólakötturinn'. Now get out there and try not to get eaten.
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Portrait of my mother, done while she was undergoing chemotherapy. She is 72 today, still feisty. Can't wait to see her.
"Barbara" Oil on Linen
#art #oilpainting #traditionalmediums #artadventcalendar
#portrait #humansofbluesky #eastcoastkin
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#forestfriday #scape #eqsky #eascoastkin
Chestnut horse head and neck from rider perspective on a trail through mostly tall evergreen in late afternoon light.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving
"Grace" Charcoal on Fabriano
#art #drawing #Traditionalmediums #bird #pigeonsky
#portrait #humansofbluesky #eastcoastkin
Drawing of a girl looking down at a taxidermied pigeon she is holding, a shadowy, refuse strewn staircase in the background, her school shirt and the window white contrast.
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Love this so much. 💜
Meme: a quirky hand-drawn cat beneath the script "AHEM - please don't give billionaires more of your money this holiday season - buy something cool and handmade from some fun weirdo instead & help them eat. Shop small, y'all." Image credit: "Small businesses need your support more than ever 💗 By Sugarhouse Ceramic Co."
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art...
ok
"Study for Parliament" charcoal on paper 50x70cm
#birds #art #drawing #charcoal #traditionalmediums #magpies
#lesserparliament
Charcoal drawing of 2 magpies in flight, the top nearly perpendicular to the ground line, the bottom bird ascending at an angle towards the top bird. Background is just textured charcoal scumble.
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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#BirdoftheDay #StandingonThings
No, it doesn't hurt when a Harris Hawk lands on your head.
#birds #raptors #closeencounters #falconry
A Harris hawk is sat on a spectators head, seen from a rear 3/4 view, its wings outstretched for balance. In the distance is a railing, pampas grass, and the hills of a valley in autumn.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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#BirdoftheDay #Closeup
"Close up? Yeah, go ahead and get that now, while my mascara is still fresh..."
#birds #secretarybird #eyelashes #eastcoastkin
Close up of a secretary bird looking straight into the camera, crown feathers raised, head slightly tilted, each individual neck feather slightly puffed out.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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#BirdoftheDay
#LongBeak
This is the very rare laughing spoonbill.
#birds #spoonbill #animalhumor
A white phase roseate spoonbill sits awkwardly in the grass, head up, bill wide open, eye on the viewer. Taken at Vogelpark Detmold.
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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She is so good at helping me find snacks.
#horses #equestrian #urbantrails #autumn #fungi #mushroooms #foraging #november #eastcoastkin
Riders pov, bay mare looking back to check on an autumnal forest trail, the leaves are turning yellow, sky overcast. Decent size bay bolete mushroom in my palm. Behind is an ornamental orange tree and a sliver of carved pumpkin.
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#31DaysofHalloween
Day 30 #MadScientist
Making pigment from foraged fungi.
#Spooktober #fungi #mushroom #ink #artsandcrafts #urbantrails
Four jars containing liquid and chopped up fungus, left to right black, yellow, red, brown. In the background more jars and a ancient brass mortar sit on a windowsill. A variety of wild mushrooms including coral, boletes, oxtounge, false chanterelle, black bulgars, birch polypores. They are all different colors and shapes, spread out over a white cloth.
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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#31DaysofHalloween
Day 2 #Creepycrawly
"Oh, Hey, what's up?"
#Spooktober #Slug #invertebrates #urbantrails
A large slug twists its head toward the viewer, eyepod antennae glistening, body a rich mahogany, gliding over pavement.
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#31DaysofHalloween
Day 28 #trees
#Spooktober #forest #urbantrails #eastcoastkin #roots
At the base of a beech tree, roots emerge from the ground, arm and hand shaped, fingers strangling the trunk.
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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#WeekQforQuiet
#horses #autumn #forest #urbantrails #eastcoastkin
A bay mare in a sidepull looks back at the rider/ viewer. She is on a path in a forest in full autumn color.
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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#31DaysofHalloween
Day 27 #Monster
Probably just wants to play.
#Spooktober #dinosaur #sciart #urbantrails #paleopets #eastcoastkin
In the pedestrian zone of a European city, a velociraptor charges the viewer in full attack, jaws open, as people in the distance seem blissfully unaware. Photo taken during a dinosaur marketing month in the city of Paderborn, where life-size sculptures were placed throughout the streets to animate shoppers.
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Reposted by Felicity amelia
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This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 26 #Fire
#Spooktober #photo #bonfire #gasmask #eastcoastkin #orangesun
Two gasmasks are suspended on pitchfork poles in front of a large bonfire in twilight.
October 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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#31DaysofHalloween
Day 25 #Ghoul
"Eminence" - Oil on canvas
#Spooktober #oilpainting #bird #sciart #vulture #traditionalmediums #deatheater #eastcoastkin
Oil portrait of a Griffon vulture, head in 3/4 profile, his body is blending and disappearing into the tonally matching background.
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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#31DaysofHalloween
Day 24 #Frankenstein
The current mood on my corner chair.
#Spooktober #toys #antiques #zuhause #doll
On an antique green velour armchair sits a doll with a bakelite voltmeter in her lap, her face is painted as a sugar skull, her hair is shorn. To her right is a magnifying tool with two pincer arms. Behind her left is a large driftwood cross with a taxidermied pigeon strung to it, to the right is another piece of driftwood with pink lacing down the middle and a green mannequin hand emerging from the side.
October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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#31DaysofHalloween
Day 23 #Pumpkin
#Spooktober #urbantrails #eastcoastkin #Bath
A small carved pumpkin sits on a front wall. It has a simple rectangular mouth a circular eyes, and it is shriveling, which is what makes it creepy. There is a blue door and bay window on a sandstone brick townhouse behind it. Taken in Bath, Halloween 23.
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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#Birdoftheday theme today is #Raptor or #Gardenbird.
But it is also #Spooktober. Just look at his adorable face.
#birds #raptors #vultures #Berlebeck #eastcoastkin
Photo of a black vulture stood in lush lawn. He is stood alert, his neck feathers slightly roughed up.
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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#31DaysofHalloween
Day 22 #Bat
"S.C." - Charcoal on paper
#Spooktober #drawing #portrait #charcoal #traditionalmediums
#changeling #eastcoastkin
Drawing of a young girl with short plaited hair, wearing a white collared shirt, seen from behind. She is lit from her front, backlit to the viewer. Her ears are large pointed animal ears, deer like, the veins are clearly visible. Inspired by the model telling me she thought her ears were too big. They weren't.
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM