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Whimsy enthusiast | Paranormal enjoyer | Liminal haunter | History learner | Book reader | Caretaker to a cat, 2 dogs, & many plants | Agnostic |🦀| Ghost stories | Photos | RPGs | Crafting | Anti-Fascist | 🇺🇦 | 🇵🇸

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Ghost of Merriment Past 👻👑 @marchpaneglass.bsky.social · Jan 8
The rising urge to withdraw from society to haunt some French castle ruins for a decade or two (these particular ruins are in Lastours, part of the quartet of Cathar castles)

#photography #castle #ruins #Lastours #France #Cathar #castles #carcassonne
Cathar castles standing at Lastours, France, on a steep hillside with a narrow trek up to them through small copses of poplar trees
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johnriley2327.bsky.social
Taken this evening on the second pup adventure. Have two energetic dogs. Out in nature rain or shine every day.
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
“When I was small, not much bigger than a pollywog,” said Frog, “my father said to me, “Son, this is a cold, gray day but spring is just around the corner.”
Little Frog stands next to his father, a strapping bullfrog. From "The Corner" In *Frog and Toad All Year*
December 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
This Chestnut-capped Warbler was busy catching insects outside my kitchen this afternoon.

At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #nature
Small yellow-green bird with a chestnut cap and white eyebrow perched on a mossy branch against a soft green forest background.
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Water & Light' (Sieur de Monts, 2022) -- Gardens of Acadia, Acadia National Park, ME

Water & Light -- 2 of My Favorite Things!!

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a dim clearing around a small pond at Sieur de Monts (spring of the mountains), the perfectly still surface mirrors the tree trunks and branches into a dark, parallel dimension
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
Also, it's #ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 --

photo by, duh, me
Portrait-oriented photo of a number of narrow largely evergreen trees in one of the forests around Mt. Fløyen above Bergen, Norway -- the trees are lacquered in moss, the ground is gnarled with the capillary texture of arterial roots, and there is a slanted sideways beam of sort of eerie copper light shining through the whole thing, giving the whole forest a faerie tale mien. Which is about right, since that place is laden with trolls. It's trolltown up there, man. You gotta be careful or you'll end up kidnapped by one. And you'll fall in love with the troll. And you'll make sweet love to this forested beast and dwell with him in his cave and *gets a text message* oh no I'm being informed that was just a hairy Norwegian fella named Asbjørn, oh no, what am I going to tell my wife -- photo by me, Chuck Wendig
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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markgarlick.com
Morning! Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar!

Dinner time. A hungry Tyrannosaur chases down a fleeing Ornithomimus. The time is the end of the Cretaceous Period, and the end of the long realm of the dinosaurs is in sight.

Mostly hand-drawn in Photoshop, but the Rex head was a 3d render.

#SciArt #paleoart
Digital illustration. A Tyrannosaurus is seen running towards us, chasing a smaller dinosaur, an Ornithomimid. Pterosaurs can be seen in the sky. The sun is setting.
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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luontosatu.bsky.social
Valjukin valo on parempi kuin ei valoa ollenkaan.
#ThoughtForTheDay
Even a dim light is better than no light at all.
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12.12.25 Askainen #Finland #nature #photography
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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cosmic7rain.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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minovskyarticle.bsky.social
The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.
December 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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wunderkammertales.bsky.social
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

(Robert Frost)

🎨 Theodor Kittelsen

#wintersky
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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maireadd100.bsky.social
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Scape
#ForestFriday
#Winter
Snow decorates a copse of trees in a park, as a winter storm turns the sky behind them an unusual shade of grey.
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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tabithasnicethings.bsky.social
On the inside of my car windscreen this morning #iceformations #fractals #whytheinside?
Ice formation on glass
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
marchpaneglass.bsky.social
It's #ForestFriday! Thank goodness. This has been a tough week, and I'm looking forward to the weekend. Do you have any plans to get out in nature this weekend?

#rocks #moss #lichen #trees #woods #nature #photography #eastcoastkin #shenandoahvalley #mist #fog
A photo of a misty forest hillside, with large rocks covered in green lichen and many thin tree trunks disappearing into the fog in the background. The ground is covered with brown leaves, the sky is grey, and some of the tree trunks are also covered or dotted with bright green lichen.
December 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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ziibiing.com
you don’t have to do anything today to prove your worth.

just existing is enough.
December 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
marchpaneglass.bsky.social
Looking forward to the new Divinity Game...another Larian Studios game I will enjoy, think is beautiful, and inexplicably fail to finish
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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nasibov.me
Lacte de foi by René Magritte
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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patleon.bsky.social
#StreetArt & #Rihanna by #njo972 in #Paris 20th 2024
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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emilystjams.bsky.social
Christmas lore Christmas lore Christmas lore Christmas lore
hildur.bsky.social Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 1d
Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes.

All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
Illustration of Stekkjastaur by Brian Pilkington. He is wearing old timey clothes, has a red hat, and white hair and beard and is trying to mount an Icelandic sheep.
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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anniebrassey.bsky.social
"Mummers At Christmas In The Olden Time. - Drawn By E. M. Corbould." The Illustrated London News 22.12.1866. #FolkloreThursday #Christmas #Mummers #Art #History #1860s
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
marchpaneglass.bsky.social
Good morning, Bluesky. For #urbangaze, the view from the red line train at Silver Spring station, MD.

#metro #urban #architecture #station #classicmono #blackwhite #mono
An iron gate stands under a silver spring metro sign, behind which is a giant glass triangle roof and pylons from the roofline of the transit station visible from the red line of the metro. Behind that, 3 buildings that are part of silver springs skyline.
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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mariat1.bsky.social
©️Brassaï
Le chat
Paris, France
1945
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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meliorism-78.bsky.social
Tiny worlds…
A moody dark photo of a moss-covered small part of a tree with tiny mushrooms growing within the moss.
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Golden Moonglow lichen on quartz.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a cream coloured lichen growing flat on quartz rock.
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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toadfacts.bsky.social
Our friend the Thick-skinned Harlequin Frog is a critically endangered toad who lives at high altitudes in the Andes mountains of Ecuador and Peru! They are also known as Schmidt's Stubfoot Toad, named after Eduard Oscar Schmidt, who first described them as a species in 1857! (photo by Jasmin Odar)
A yellow-green toad with large black splotches! They are covered in lots of warty bumps!
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM