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Chatelaine
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Fiber crafts, SFF, lots of other stuff
Catless Mom for justice, peace and sanity
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As a little break from the horrors, how about a nice robin? Oh heck, it's that kind of day, I'll throw in some snowdrops, too!
Against a background of bare gray-brown branches and tree trunks, a (European) robin sits on a curving branch at the top left of the photo. Blooming snowdrops.
January 21, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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January evening.
Trees growing on a slope, picture taken from below. The branches are leafless, there's snow on the ground. The trees are silhouetted against a light blue early evening sky.
January 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Merry Christmas, Bluesky! And wishes for joy and hope for all.
A Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. Mary is sleeping, apparently deeply and peacefully, on a bed of straw to the left of the picture. To the right, Joseph is sitting on a stool, holding the baby, who's stretching and yawning. Jospeh looks absolutely delighted. Afraid I don't know who the artist is.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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🎶 Fast away the old year passes 🎶

Waning moon, shortly before dawn.
Trees and house roofs in dark silhouette against a lightening sky shortly before dawn. The waning moon is visible.
December 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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You just died.

The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
(Nibbled to death by ducks, apparently.)
A pond, showing the reflection of autumn trees and the late-afternoon sky. The water's surface is rippled by swimming ducks
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only
Whoopie Goldberg sitting at a computer screen. Scene from the movie "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Caption reads "It's a gas, gas gas."
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Happy Halloween!
"Death blowing bubbles," 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. Death is portrayed as a skeleton.
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Today is very gray (again), so here's a pic from a past October. 📷 my own
A branch, hanging downwards, with autumn leaves lit by the late afternoon sun. In the background are other trees with sparse leaves, that highlight the bright yellow and orange-brown leaves, which seem to glow from an internal source. Photo my own.
October 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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It is October. I live in the Northern hemisphere. And one of my rhododendrons has decided to start blooming. Mind you, it already bloomed this spring. None of the others are doing this. Very strange.
A rhododendron with a number of pink blossoms, surrounded by various other plants. Behind the rhododendron to the right is a garden shed.
October 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Meine Güte, wie einfallsarm diese "Oma-Hobby"-Schlagzeilen immer sind, besonders was Handarbeiten betrifft (betreffen?). Senior*innen werden so gut, WEIL sie so jung angefangen haben (meistens). Unten ein Bild von mir in 1986, im selbstgestrickten Pulli, die ich noch habe und trage. Harrumph 😉
Die Posterin im selbstgestrickten Pulli, aufgenommen in 1986. Das Bild ist leider überbelichtet.
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Yesterday afternoon I enjoyed the sunshine while picking, cleaning, and destemming grapes. Ended up with 4.9kg! After juicing, I had 3ltr of juice & about 1/2 cup of...pulp? Mash? Made a small spice cake with it, will bottle the juice this evening. 😋
A kitchen counter with gray granite work surface and black stove top. There are empty glass bottles on the left, a dark brown bundt cake on a flowered china plate in the middle, and a cooking pot with grape juice on the stove.
October 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Onward! to Sleeve Island. Hope I've got enough snacks....
An unfinished burgundy cardigan on a dress form. It is still lacking sleeves and buttons and needs to be blocked. In the background are bookcases and a mirror.
October 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Grape juice, fresh from the vine! 🍇
A liter bottle, about half full of fresh grape juice, medium pink in color.
September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I also love this Rockwell -- "Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve" (1947), used to illustrate the word "forswunk"=exhausted for A Word A Day wordsmith.org/words/forswu...
Norman Rockwell Painting, "Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve" from 1947. An obviously exhausted woman is slumped against a wall, rubbing her bare, sore feet together. There's a book on her lap, apparently stuffed full of orders and receipts, and she's surrounded by unsold toys, including a large yellow toy car big enough for a child to sit in. The toys aren't displayed neatly on shelves, rather heaped and scattered. A stuffed animal above her left shoulder seems like it's looking at her with a concerned expression. A sign above her head is partly detached and hangs crooked. It reads 'this store closes at 5:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve'. The woman's watch, pinned to her dress, reads 5:05.
August 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Summer plaid:
A grainfield which has been recently harvested, beneath a sunny summer sky. There are lines of light and dark brown showing the different directions the harvesters took at each pass, along with some light green lines -- newly planted next crop, I think. It all forms a sort of plaid pattern.
July 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A vase made of carnival glass, shown against a beige/offwhite rug, with the sun shining through. The changes in brightness are due to actual changes in light levels during the filming.
June 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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What those redcurrants became -- a bottle of unsweetened juice to be used for something or other in the future, with the remaining juice sweetened and made into jelly for my weekend Brötchen. Juice canning instructions as well as the bottle from the excellent www.glaeserundflaschen.de site.
On the left, a small bottle of unsweetened redcurrant juice. On the right, a half-full jar of redcurrant jelly (sweetened!)
June 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Harvest! ca. 500g redcurrants!
A green colander filled (!) with redcurrants. The colander is resting on a tree stump against the wooden walls of a garden shed.
June 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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"The power of sharing books"
A cartoon showing a woman in a chair reading a book to a child lying on the floor in front of her. Their shadows are shown thrown onto the wall next to them -- in the woman's shadow, the book in her hand looks like it's dissolving and floating toward the child's shadow, which is much larger and features castles, palm trees, Big Ben, a hot air balloon, and other figures depicting expanding imagination: the power of sharing books!
June 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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All right, then!

Post a random photo otherwise everything goes wrong in June
A very large garden gnome carrying a bucket of blue fish and sporting a disturbing smile stands behind a chain link fence. (I'm glad there's a fence.) There's a green rain barrel behind and to the left of the gnome, and lots of vegetation growing vigorously in early summer.
June 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Bye-bye, Mai!
Ade, May!
A Maypole topped with a ribbon-bedecked green wreath, against a blue sky with white clouds.
May 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Sheep may safely graze 🐑 :)
A grassy green field under a cloudless blue sky :) , with a fence post in the right foreground. Four sheep are grazing in the middle distance.
May 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The grape hyacinths are just lil guys, but THEY ARE ADAMANT THAT EVERYONE NOTICE THAT THEY ARE BLOOMING THEIR HEARTS OUT!!
A close-up photo of grape hyacinths in full bloom.
April 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Apple blossoms ("Jarle") and tulips make me 🥰
Pink apple blossoms on a young tree. The trunk is supported by two wooden posts to the left and right. Bottom left are two light pink tulips, fully open on a sunny afternoon.
April 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Willow trees have the best spring green leaves!
A tall weeping willow tree backlit by the afternoon sun. Its foliage is the color known as "spring green" in the Crayola crayon box.
April 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM