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Chris Lemoine
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German person living in Seattle. Writes, reads, makes prints, feeds the cats, cooks, goes grocery shopping, takes long walks, mostly in cities.
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They're rounding up #illegals, #migrants, #prophets, troublemakers, and other riff-raff on Capitol Hill in #Seattle. Have a fine weekend and be kind to a stranger. #Jesus #immigration #deportations #customs
A black-backgrounded poster on a black wall, about 3 feet wide and 5 feet high, shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer leading away a Jesus-like figure wearing a white robe, sandals, and a halo.
August 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"Follow me," the sky said. "I've got things to show you." We dropped our luggage and tried to keep up with her. She was too fast for us. We soon had to stop. She looked disappointed, but then she said, "Hold still and raise your arms. I will pick you up."
#sky #Sunday #SilentSunday #blue #clouds
Small fluffy clouds slowly move toward the northwest above Volunteer Park in Seattle
July 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Here is a new blog post where your correspondent encounters some of the best writing he's ever come across and meets a poor dog, in a lovely #Seattle park: storiestravelsvisions.com/2025/07/15/a...
#literature #writing #DieWand #TheWall #MarlenHaushofer #reading #MiraculousAwareness
An afternoon in the park with a luminous novel
In the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Salmon Bay Park extends to the equivalent of four small blocks of rolling landscape with tall evergreen and deciduous trees and grassy areas. It has a playgr…
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July 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Happy #Sunday. Take some time to stop and do nothing. No running, cleaning, cooking, shouting, meditating, just nothing. It's worth it, honestly. If it's too late for this Sunday, be sure to schedule #time soon for doing nothing at all on your calendar. #DoNothing #Recover #Rest #SilentSunday
A ring-shaped sign around the spout of a yellow fire hydrant at the edge of a grassy field says, "out of service".
July 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Noticed this in our Seattle neighborhood, no idea who's behind it. It won't do any harm and maybe annoy the neighbors, but as regards regime change, it won't accomplish anything, just maybe a little relief. It will be some time before "the madness stops".
#fascism #protest #democracy #fascismisdead
Black capital letters on white paper say: "Protest Trump's abuse. Bang pots, honk horns, beat drums, blow whistles. Starting July 5 6:00 p.m. for 5 minutes every night til the madness stops."
July 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Went to our 1st "classical" concert since February 2020. In Benaroya Hall in #Seattle, Ludovic #Morlot conducted pieces by #Ravel & premiered a beautiful new composition by Allison Loggins-Hall, "Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni for Solo Flute and Orchestra." #SSO #SeattleSymphony #classicalmusic #music
The stage of Benaroya Hall is full of musicians who just finished playing the Rhapsodie Espagnole by Ravel. Ludovic Morlot is standing near the second violins and gestures toward the percussionists, making sure they get their share of the enthusiastic audience's applause.
June 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Greetings from the #NoKings rally and demonstration in #Seattle today. A large, friendly, mostly youthful crowd turned out. Maybe one of the last occasions to make our voices heard before the lights go out in #America. I hope it made an impact. #savedemocracy #freedom #nohumanisillegal #endfascism
sign carried by someone during the No Kings march says, "don't make me repeat myself - [signed] history" a sign carried during the No Kings march shows a cartoonish likeness of the so-called president and reads, "does this ass make my country look small?" a large, young crowd listens to speakers during the rally at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle before the No Kings march today
June 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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This 'fork in the road' is still available on a pole near Madison & 19th Avenue in #Seattle. Make it yours! Isn't it time to set out in a new direction, create some new experiences, expand the horizon of who you are? Go for it!
#Saturday #travel #life #newbeginning #leavetown #startafresh #leavehome
A much used, stained-looking metal fork sticks in a wooden power pole with just a tiny part of its tips, hovering horizontally on a sunny day.
June 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Tiananmen.
June 4, 1989.
Remember.
Never forget.
Never resign.
Never give up.
June 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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For all you love birds, #real and #imaginary, #hominid and #aviary, here's a pretty postcard from First Avenue in Belltown, Seattle. Don't fall into any traps and enjoy a fresh week. #art #wallart #love #Seattle #Monday
A classic comic-style mural, about 20 meters wide and 6 meters high, shows a skull-faced individual and a blonde, lipstick-wearing woman, tears dripping from her closes eyes, embracing, maybe kissing. She says, "I won't care what they say... I know we belong together!"
June 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Planning a little traveling this summer? Here's a fine article about a certain low-cost airline you might want to be aware of and stay away from.

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#deportations #ICE #travel #airtravel #immigrants #immigration #CoalitiontoStopAvelo #AveloAirlines
This summer, don't fly deportation airlines
A small airline is helping ICE carry out cruel deportations.
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May 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Happy #Caturday! Here's a very rare and valuable double portrait of Michel (up) and Giovanni (down). The position on top of the piled-up old comforter tends to be hotly contested. #LifebetterwithCat #BlueskyCats
Tabby cat Michel, on top of a piled-up old brown comforter on a black-leather and metal-rod chair, looks at the camera with an expression of seriousness and concern. Tabby cat Giovanni, in front on the carpet, wants it to be known that he was fully accepting of his brother up there, but is about done.
May 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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The Lemoine Studios inmates are back in their usual habitat, but still grateful their #Brussels Airbnb came with Baboune, the owner's friendly #cat, who visited many times because the apartment was part of the territory for which he is responsible. Happy #Caturday! #lifebetterwithcat #BlueskyCats
Baboune is a very light-colored grey tabby cat with unusual markings starting at the corner of his eyes and running along the sides of his head. Here he is in our apartment watching things only cats can see.
May 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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A wild wall lit up in a fairly dark corridor by the Leopold Park near the European parliament in #Brussels, and minutes later that we saw a lovely passage to an inviting street to explore another time, not today. #walkingheals #urbanhiking #Bruxelles #Belgium #Belgique #travel #art #wallart
a four-story mural shows a jaguar, puma, flying parrot, and ecstatic plants in vivid, vibrant colors people quietly stand and stroll on a quiet, pedestrianized neighborhood street with restaurants, retail, and residences, where all buildings are townhouse-style and 3 or 4 stories tall
May 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Julio #Cortázar, favorite Argentine-French #writer, was born in #Ixelles, #Brussels. I appreciated finding this hommage with a good likeness of him on Rue Louis Lepoutre. #writing #Bruxelles #art #sculpture #Belgique #Belgium
sculpted head from iron in the likeness if Cortázar, ca. 1.5 times lifesize, on a grey stone plinth about 1.70 meters high, his name displayed in grey-metal letters
May 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Rain prompted a little snail to travel across the back terrace of our Brussels rental. Slow down and pay attention, the snail said. #Bruxelles #SilentSunday #Sunday
a dark brown snail with erect eye stalks, its shell a spiral of brown lines on a beige-yellow background
May 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Happy #Caturday. Here's a kitty in her window in the St. Gilles neighborhood of Brussels. #CatsofMastodon #lifebetterwithcat #Bruxelles #Belgique #Belgium #urbanhiking #walkingheals
a mostly white cat with unique, elegant grey accents on her nose, cheeks, and head, and a black and grey saddle, sits up in her window in front of white curtains
May 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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An excursion to splendid, but over-touristed #Anvers or #Antwerpen. #City is gorgeous, sparkly in a way #Brussels is not. Amazing what #colonialism, subjugating parts of a continent, robbing its diamonds & other treasures, was able to accomplish. #architecture #travel #Belgique #Belgium #urbanhiking
the totally over-the-top Anvers/Antwerpen main train station has splendid, exuberant, and very voluminous building elements from the 19th century piled over three levels of railways and infrastructures... ...on an older building, a life-size stone figure of a beautiful, maybe sad woman who holds a kind of metal tool or mechanical object a view of the river Scheidt flowing through downtown Anvers/Antwerpen, with windmills nearby in the background, splendid older buildings on the bank
May 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Three favorites among the many gorgeous houses we see in #Brussels. Grateful for all of them. They bring so much joy even to a hot, potentially dreadful walk. #Bruxelles #Belgique #Belgium #walkingheals #architecture #urbanhiking #beautifulcity #art
May 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Visited the Musée des Instruments de Musique in #Brussels. Beautiful location that needs some care & maintenance with a huge lot of fascinating, beautiful, surprising, rare, & odd musical instruments. #music #MIM #Bruxelles #Belgique #Belgium #museums #musicalinstruments #history #historyofmusic
from old Europe, a complicated string instrument with one set of strings that you play on and another that only resonates, also with a beautifully carved head of a male human with small devil horns a small clay whistle in form of a moth, bat, or mouse, from the times of the Aztec empire a koto-like instrument from Ruanda, beautifully ornamented with painted, flowery configurations
April 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Wandering around in Ixelles, we came to one of the best pieces of wall art ever seen by my eyes, at Chaussée d’Ixelles and Rue Maes. I like how it takes advantage of the shape of the building. Look at it on a large screen. #art #wallart #Bruxelles #Brussels #Belgium #Belgique #walkingheals #travel
A five-story mural depicts a ship, its prow falling on the corner formed by two walls. Tall trees and lush vegetation grow on the ship's deck. An anchor comes down toward the people who stand on the roof of their flooded or sinking houses. Will they be saved?
April 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Evening in the Châtelain district of Ixelles, the part of #Brussels where we're staying. People are enjoying what feels like a June day, sitting outside to socialize or eat and drink. Sunday night doesn't often feel this serene. #Bruxelles #Belgium #Belgique #travel #Sunday #walkingheals
April 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Found one fine wall in Brussels, but very little wall art. Tons of shitty graffiti, though. #art #wallart #Belgium #travel
four-story mural of a woman's face in profile, mostly in shades of blue, with a theme expressed as "I am not alone".
April 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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To feel at home in #Brussels, it helps if you like brick. They did marvels with that here. #Belgium #travel #urbanhiking #architecture
older brick apartments with balconies, divided by carless passages
April 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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One of my alltime favorite things in #Paris is this sculpture of smiling LaFontaine from 1983, near the little Ranelagh neighborhood in the northwest. I don't know the fables of his that feature the raven, coin, and fox, but love to see them. #art #travel #sculpture #walkingheals #France #fox #raven
April 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM