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#couture
tuxedo cat, wearing gray napkin, walking with swagger through the house
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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today’s tiny painting is a present for my beloved boss

i had to break out the watercolors, cuz that’s her favorite, though i haven’t used them in a while

i gave myself an hour to work on this and just about made it. rebuking the siren song of perfectionism was the challenge

#painting #watercolor
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
crunchybanana.bsky.social
my credulity is strained but…
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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bluesky, i finished a wee painting

it is my first gouache

#painting #gouache #smallthings #legionofhonor
a very small landscape painting of a view outside the Legion of Honor, looking across the grounds at the San Francisco Bay and the Marin headlands
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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people are exuberant sometimes when you provide the space and the crayons

this wall was part of a local exhibit called the Art of Play

#wallwednesday #play #crayons #photography
a pink wall has been covered with large lettering and many crayon scribbles and mini illustrations
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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part branch, part muppet

#texturetuesday #parts #iseemoss #photography
a thin branch is titled towards the ground, covered in bright green shaggy moss.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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my sign today, in solidarity 💚
a white cardboard sign saying PORTLAND FROG AT HEART with a small picture of *the* Portland frog
October 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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the energy I wish to carry into my day ♥️
a close up screen shot of one of the dancers with his arms crossed and a grin of satisfaction on his face
August 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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a trip to the lake for a last burst of summer, before all the schooling starts back up

#autumn #kayaking #cairns #lakes #photography
August 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#texturetuesday #photography #summer
all kinds of shaggy green growth is reflected in the still surface of a local reservoir. a low lying branch is making a particularly satisfying diamond shape with its reflection.
August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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three different colored horses stand at a gate - they are labeled “the urge to delete all social media,” “the urge to only post deep stuff,” and “the urge to just shitpost”
August 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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other sights I was struck by:

1- a massive puffy wall quilt
2- an exceptionally lonely seeming guinea pig (hope he gets to go home soon)
3- an intriguing sculpture
4- a single apple tree branch planted with a single succulent

#countyfair #quilt #sculpture #photography #indoorplants
August 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I can’t fully put into words how much I love fair art! it’s my favorite part of the whole thing

here are my personal blue ribbons in the category of “wtf” and choosing only 4 was NOT easy

#countyfair #art #photography #wtf
August 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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unfortunately because of the ongoing bird flu, there are no 4H chickens being shown

so kids were invited to “Make Your Own Chicken” instead

these are just a few of them, they were great

#countyfair #chickens #sculpture #photography
August 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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the flower displays tend to exhibit a lot of consistency across years, so it’s often the sculptures and the backdrops that dig into thematic details the most

#countyfair #flowershows #dogsandcats #sculpture #photography
August 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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report from the county fair, 2025:

there’s always a mind-blowingly hokey theme (this year it’s “Hot Dogs & Cool Cats”), so my first stop is usually the Hall of Flowers to see what they collectively make of it

#countyfair #dogsandcats #flowershows
August 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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ugh, I hate that guy
A porcelain jester figure having a negative emotion
July 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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this one seemed like something melania might have worn once upon a time, she seems to go for those pinstripes
a model is wearing a deconstructed pinstripe suit (it looks like it has been peeled down below her waist, exposing her white bra and underwear, with a matching hat titled at a killer angle, and carrying a handbag that looks like a pinstripe suit jacket-clad torso
July 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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stills from Robert Wun’s recent couture show “Becoming” — right at that intersection of unsettlingly weird and arrestingly beautiful that is such an astonishing place to hang out

#couture #RobertWun #silhouettes #accessories #extralimbs
this image shows the runway, lit by a single circle of overhead spotlights, the rest of the space fading to black, the entry doorway on the far wall is brightly lit, there is a single figure at left wearing a white gown with red seemingly bloody handprints on it, the model has red dripping from her mouth a figure draped in a bright red suit ensemble with a matching hat titled at a killer angle carries a large handbag which appears to be a matching suit jacket-clad torso the model is wearing a sparkly beaded diaphanous purple gown and her headdress includes a set of additional arms that are holding a matching purple gauzy veil around her head and body a model is walking leftward, seen from a distance, wearing a shimmering feathery gown and a fluted white hat shaped something like a calla lily
July 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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yeah, this one is pretty bad
cat is cleaning her nethers such that she appears to be putting her head up her own ass
July 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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new main character has shown up on the altar in the woods

#maincharactersyndrome #photography #altars #dogs #volcanoes #dinosaurs #unjourunephoto
various plastic figurines with ornamentation are positioned in various ways atop a redwood stump that has for many years been the site of an ever-morphing altar
July 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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stuck in my cabana, baking up bananas in dough
loaf of just baked banana bread, looking golden and crispy on the top
July 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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my sense is that a proper #silentsunday photo needs no introduction

but I will say that the coast in the summer is a bit magical

#unjourunephoto #photography #thebeach #fog #wistfulness
a view of the beach from above on the bluff. the hillsides are covered with a variety of grasses, lichens and other plants, some of which are softly blooming. fog is coming over the hill to the north, obscuring the view
July 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I’ve been quiet quitting this holiday all day and it’s been awesome

so here’s a picture of a clump of cows with one bird

#cows #summerhills #photography #unjourunephoto #rejectionofpatriotism
a hill covered with golden grasses atop which, at a distance, is a clump of black and white cows, with one bird directly overhead
July 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
crunchybanana.bsky.social
there are sticks of chalk left in this alleyway in town so that you may add ornamentation whenever the mood strikes

#wallwednesday #photography #chalk #alleys #bricks #bornwithovariesday
the bricks of an alley wall are covered with various bits of chalk graffiti — words, phrases, and some drawings
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM