Flowering Quince
@coastal-quince.bsky.social
Bookish, treeish, peripatetic, frequently salt water adjacent.
Morning walk, the uninjured ankle is cranky about the world. The injured ankle is also cranky. I’m just grateful a break in the rain.
January 8, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Morning walk, the uninjured ankle is cranky about the world. The injured ankle is also cranky. I’m just grateful a break in the rain.
I have done the slightly unthinkable and joined a gym. To quote Chappell Roan, “my god, what have [I] done?”
But creaky, cranky ankle and sleet makes me want low impact exercise that isn’t walking outside. Maybe I’ll decide I like lifting? Maybe I’ll get caught up with my podcast queue?
But creaky, cranky ankle and sleet makes me want low impact exercise that isn’t walking outside. Maybe I’ll decide I like lifting? Maybe I’ll get caught up with my podcast queue?
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I have done the slightly unthinkable and joined a gym. To quote Chappell Roan, “my god, what have [I] done?”
But creaky, cranky ankle and sleet makes me want low impact exercise that isn’t walking outside. Maybe I’ll decide I like lifting? Maybe I’ll get caught up with my podcast queue?
But creaky, cranky ankle and sleet makes me want low impact exercise that isn’t walking outside. Maybe I’ll decide I like lifting? Maybe I’ll get caught up with my podcast queue?
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Remember. Remember!
You -- Congressmember!
The Jan 6th treasonous plot.
I know of no reason
That villainous treason
Should EVER be forgot. 😡
You -- Congressmember!
The Jan 6th treasonous plot.
I know of no reason
That villainous treason
Should EVER be forgot. 😡
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Remember. Remember!
You -- Congressmember!
The Jan 6th treasonous plot.
I know of no reason
That villainous treason
Should EVER be forgot. 😡
You -- Congressmember!
The Jan 6th treasonous plot.
I know of no reason
That villainous treason
Should EVER be forgot. 😡
NEW IMPERIAL RADCH
Just a reminder, my next novel, Radiant Star, is available for pre-order wherever fine books are, uh, pre-ordered!
January 5, 2026 at 7:08 AM
NEW IMPERIAL RADCH
Me too, Frog. Me too.
“I walked along the river until I came to another corner. I went around the corner to look for spring.”
January 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Me too, Frog. Me too.
I twisted my ankle while I was out for a walk, and am irritably wondering if I’m about to join a gym so I can work off all of my excess jittery energy and SAD (I’m a very jittery, intermittently weepy paradox) in a lower impact way than running in circles around the neighborhood.
January 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I twisted my ankle while I was out for a walk, and am irritably wondering if I’m about to join a gym so I can work off all of my excess jittery energy and SAD (I’m a very jittery, intermittently weepy paradox) in a lower impact way than running in circles around the neighborhood.
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Emergency kitten- Retro Jimmie
January 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Emergency kitten- Retro Jimmie
Running out the old year.
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Running out the old year.
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Something lovely for the weekend!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
December 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Something lovely for the weekend!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
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As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
I have a serious case of internalized Watership Down, so have a lagomorph.
December 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I have a serious case of internalized Watership Down, so have a lagomorph.
2.5 miles this morning. I’m very aware of the very necessary slack of the last two months. I’m glad I can once again run away from the noise of my busy brain and into the quiet meditative flow of one foot in front of the other.
December 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
2.5 miles this morning. I’m very aware of the very necessary slack of the last two months. I’m glad I can once again run away from the noise of my busy brain and into the quiet meditative flow of one foot in front of the other.
Pas de deux on a frosty morning… or my turn to make the coffee.
December 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Pas de deux on a frosty morning… or my turn to make the coffee.
Hear! Hear!
I’m just sayin’ do we really need to roll into a new year?
Maybe just take a beat. Hit pause. We can stay in Cheese season for a few months.
Maybe just take a beat. Hit pause. We can stay in Cheese season for a few months.
December 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hear! Hear!
Merry Christmas to those of us who celebrate. And for all of us peace on earth and goodwill (we may have to build it ourselves).
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Merry Christmas to those of us who celebrate. And for all of us peace on earth and goodwill (we may have to build it ourselves).
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“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
1.75 miles of real slog. None of the pictures I took pleased me, so instead behold the liquor store with the dinosaurs—a local landmark for Mr. Quince and me.
December 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
1.75 miles of real slog. None of the pictures I took pleased me, so instead behold the liquor store with the dinosaurs—a local landmark for Mr. Quince and me.
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Glædelig jul, people of bsky!
a black and white photo of a christmas tree made out of black cats with white eyes .
ALT: a black and white photo of a christmas tree made out of black cats with white eyes .
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Glædelig jul, people of bsky!
Which season? Uh… I’ll tell you when the stars are right.
hello skyline
it is time to post the song of the season
~it's beginning to look a lot like FISHMEN~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTH...
it is time to post the song of the season
~it's beginning to look a lot like FISHMEN~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTH...
Fishmen
YouTube video by haakor
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Which season? Uh… I’ll tell you when the stars are right.
A good if short run, my body is beginning to demonstrate that it sort of remembers how to move. On the walk home, I was belting out the Coventry Carol, and realized only after that someone was walking close behind me on the foot path. Yes, Herod verse included. It suits the times.
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A good if short run, my body is beginning to demonstrate that it sort of remembers how to move. On the walk home, I was belting out the Coventry Carol, and realized only after that someone was walking close behind me on the foot path. Yes, Herod verse included. It suits the times.
View from a nearly Solstice run.
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
View from a nearly Solstice run.
May anyone who voted for this never know a meal without saliva in the ingredients again.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
May anyone who voted for this never know a meal without saliva in the ingredients again.
@tkingfisher.com’s Snake-Eater is an absolute delight. The love of the landscape illuminates a horror tinged fantasy, and grounds the eccentric community that makes the heroine a home. The next post has a major structural spoiler, so proceed at your own risk.
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
@tkingfisher.com’s Snake-Eater is an absolute delight. The love of the landscape illuminates a horror tinged fantasy, and grounds the eccentric community that makes the heroine a home. The next post has a major structural spoiler, so proceed at your own risk.
1.75 miles. 40F and raining? Definitely running in shorts weather. Please admire this very persistent rose with me. (I was Britten-pilled at a young age and have the setting of “There Is No Rose of Such Virture” from Ceremony of Carols stuck in my head.)
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
1.75 miles. 40F and raining? Definitely running in shorts weather. Please admire this very persistent rose with me. (I was Britten-pilled at a young age and have the setting of “There Is No Rose of Such Virture” from Ceremony of Carols stuck in my head.)
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