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Marvelous Marg
@marvelousmarg.bsky.social
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Retired gardener/ Collector/ Books/ Ephemera
Vintage resale/ 😺Cats/ 🌱Plants/ 🧘MBSR
SE Michigan
Derailed by Long Covid since 2020 😷
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Marvelous Marg @marvelousmarg.bsky.social · 25d
Excellent list if you're looking to help.
ziibiing.com ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25d
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.

please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
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Flower fields have been spreading around Anza-Borrego. After 38 days without precipitation and 80F+ weather, these plants will welcome the rain which we will hopefully get next week (Photos: Sicco Rood).
Flower fields have been spreading around Anza-Borrego. Purple verbena field under puffy skies. Raven amidst Purple verbena field and brown-eyed primroses. Purple verbena , dune primroses and brown-eyed primroses field under puffy skies. Purple verbena field with two dry looking prairy sunflowers
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪

This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition.

The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!
Laid out against a dark grey background are ten biscuits that resemble aged, chipped mudlarking finds. An oval biscuit in a rich, dark green looks like the seal of a glass bottle, and features a raised characterful face at its centre. Next to it is an unevenly shaped black biscuit with grey chips and the raised shape of a hare’s face, ears, and upper legs. There are two large biscuits with jagged edges, each decorated in blue and white to look like broken pieces of delftware plates. One features the shape of a small bird surrounded by swirling lines, the other has a series of concentric circles and curved shapes. A small biscuit with a multifaceted texture replicates a knapped flint arrowhead. Next to it are a tiny hammer-shaped biscuit in pewter with delicate cross markings, and a very small gold biscuit button etched with lines, circles, and a rough star shape. The smallest biscuit is made to look like a yellow glass cufflink with decorative circles in blue, white, and red. Another small biscuit has the appearance of an aged metal button edged with decorative white and turquoise dots. Finally, there is a small angular biscuit in a terracotta colour with raised lines roughly in the shape of two intwined figures.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Have a good Monday and a good week ahead! 😺

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February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Little Umbrellas (b.1929)
Dearborn, Wayne County Michigan.

📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro

#photography #architecture #oldbuildings #houses #tudor #winter #snow #lightroom #urban #urbangaze #sunset #dearborn #wayne #michigan
A brick Tudor style house with a witches hat gable and a sunset behind it
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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my new painting 🎨
acrylic on canvas 32x24”
February 9, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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Beautiful but frigid day here.
Senorita Squirrel had a curious visitor today. 🐿🖤🦌
A deer standing in my yard. There are several deer tracks in the snow and clear blue skies. A deer is looking at a little black squirrel eating nuts on my porch. A deer is looking at a little black squirrel eating nuts on my porch. The deer is next to the porch watching Senorita squirrel eating her lunch. A wooden fence is in the background.
February 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Rieger begonia from a few years ago. #SundayYellow
Closeup of a yellow begonia with peachy accents.
February 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting

It is morning, and again
I am the lucky person to be in it

Mary Oliver

🎨 Kaoru Yamada
February 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Let the games begin...
New comic for @commongoodmag.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Moi?!
Happy #Caturday!
My calico cat lying on a hairy orange couch. She looks surprised.
February 7, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Oh, look! She took another picture out the window! 😁
Have a good weekend!
Sunset over a backyard scene. Low, snow-covered rooftops, telephone pole with several wires, a spruce and wooden fence in a snowy yard.
February 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Brand new card drawing inspired by the latest controversy in Olympic ski jump…
Colored-pencil card drawing of an Olympic ski jumper soaring through the sky with visible hyaluronic acid enhancement
February 7, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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The lighting is fantastic. Also very reminiscent of old travel posters.
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Double the Swish
Brandy Saturley
2026
February 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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The softness of spring 🌿

Just a word that I've had a hard time keeping up this week. I've got terrible motion sickness from the enduring Long Covid.
Hope to be back on top of things before long. 💚
A single stem of lily of the valley.
February 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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#CapeCod #Illustration #Winter

RYO TAKEMASA
Japanese illustrator

The flat shapes of bold color create a minimal feel yet produce a nostalgic feeling.

Skating at dusk...
February 5, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Have a good one!✌️

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February 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Saw this wasp's nest while at a stop sign.
Snow-covered side street with bare trees and shrubs. A large wasp's nest dangles from an outer branch.
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Things are stirring! 🌿
Small spathiphyllum (peace lily) with two white buds emerging. Amaryllis bulb sprouting new leaves. It's in a window with a snowy scene outside.
February 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art.

As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?

This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
Two photos. The left shows me, in a red shirt with a white blouse under it, a daisy flower crown in my hair, a navy blue knee length skirt, and brown flat, holding a tray and drinking from a champagne flute. The right painting is a woman in a red shirt with white cuffs, a dark green ankle length skirt, a maid cap, brown shoes, holding a tray and drinking from a champagne flute.
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Getting artsy with the moon and icicles 😄
Dangling icicles framing the full moon rising above small houses and several trees.
February 2, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Stylin' 😎
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Feb. 1, 1926: “There is no place like home to William O'Donnell and wife of Detroit, Mich., so when they go a-traveling they take their home with them. In this house motor they have just reached Washington, and they are on their way to the sunny South.” (Washington Star)
February 1, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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This morning's critters. I'm looking forward to when I can get out and take pictures of something else, preferably with a new camera/ phone. No offense to my little friends!
This is how Senorita greets me every morning. Little black squirrel up on her haunches. Taken through glass and screen. A deer standing in a snowy yard looking very cold. A wooden fence is in the background. A deer sleeping under a spruce in my backyard. It's snowy and very cold.
February 1, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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The 1st of February, known as the Pagan festival of Imbolc and the Feast of St. Brigid, marks the beginning of Springtime. Imbolc is an ancient pre-Christian agricultural fire festival that was modified and assimilated into the Catholic church as a way to erase the pagan religion.
February 1, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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I found this business card several years ago. It's a favorite. I've wondered about this woman and her laundry enterprise.

Chicago's Rogers Park/ West Ridge Historical Soc. website shows that a Anna Beccavin lived on that street in 1919.

#Chicagohistory
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Antique business card of Mrs. A. Beccavin, Lace Curtain Laundry. It is dark ochre/ orange with an illustration of a window with curtains. It lists prices for her services starting at 30 cents for a plain pair.
February 1, 2026 at 3:26 AM