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Felicity amelia
@felicityamelia.bsky.social
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Artist, observer, explorer of anthropomorphized landscapes on horseback, collector of discarded shells, feathers, and wooden accoutrements, maker of happy breakfast plates. All art and photos my own unless reposted. Thanks for reposts 💌
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felicityamelia.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art...
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"Study for Parliament" charcoal on paper 50x70cm
#birds #art #drawing #charcoal #traditionalmediums #magpies
#lesserparliament
Charcoal drawing of 2 magpies in flight, the top nearly perpendicular to the ground line, the bottom bird ascending at an angle towards the top bird. Background is just textured charcoal scumble.
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#BirdoftheDay #StandingonThings
No, it doesn't hurt when a Harris Hawk lands on your head.
#birds #raptors #closeencounters #falconry
A Harris hawk is sat on a spectators head, seen from a rear 3/4 view, its wings outstretched for balance. In the distance is a railing, pampas grass, and the hills of a valley in autumn.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#BirdoftheDay #Closeup
"Close up? Yeah, go ahead and get that now, while my mascara is still fresh..."
#birds #secretarybird #eyelashes #eastcoastkin
Close up of a secretary bird looking straight into the camera, crown feathers raised, head slightly tilted, each individual neck feather slightly puffed out.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#BirdoftheDay
#LongBeak
This is the very rare laughing spoonbill.
#birds #spoonbill #animalhumor
A white phase roseate spoonbill sits awkwardly in the grass, head up, bill wide open, eye on the viewer. Taken at Vogelpark Detmold.
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
She is so good at helping me find snacks.
#horses #equestrian #urbantrails #autumn #fungi #mushroooms #foraging #november #eastcoastkin
Riders pov, bay mare looking back to check on an autumnal forest trail, the leaves are turning yellow, sky overcast. Decent size bay bolete mushroom in my palm. Behind is an ornamental orange tree and a sliver of carved pumpkin.
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 30 #MadScientist
Making pigment from foraged fungi.
#Spooktober #fungi #mushroom #ink #artsandcrafts #urbantrails
Four jars containing liquid and chopped up fungus, left to right black, yellow, red, brown. In the background more jars and a ancient brass mortar sit on a windowsill. A variety of wild mushrooms including coral, boletes, oxtounge, false chanterelle, black bulgars, birch polypores. They are all different colors and shapes, spread out over a white cloth.
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 2 #Creepycrawly
"Oh, Hey, what's up?"
#Spooktober #Slug #invertebrates #urbantrails
A large slug twists its head toward the viewer, eyepod antennae glistening, body a rich mahogany, gliding over pavement.
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 28 #trees
#Spooktober #forest #urbantrails #eastcoastkin #roots
At the base of a beech tree, roots emerge from the ground, arm and hand shaped, fingers strangling the trunk.
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#WeekQforQuiet
#horses #autumn #forest #urbantrails #eastcoastkin
A bay mare in a sidepull looks back at the rider/ viewer. She is on a path in a forest in full autumn color.
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 27 #Monster
Probably just wants to play.
#Spooktober #dinosaur #sciart #urbantrails #paleopets #eastcoastkin
In the pedestrian zone of a European city, a velociraptor charges the viewer in full attack, jaws open, as people in the distance seem blissfully unaware. Photo taken during a dinosaur marketing month in the city of Paderborn, where life-size sculptures were placed throughout the streets to animate shoppers.
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 26 #Fire
#Spooktober #photo #bonfire #gasmask #eastcoastkin #orangesun
Two gasmasks are suspended on pitchfork poles in front of a large bonfire in twilight.
October 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 25 #Ghoul
"Eminence" - Oil on canvas
#Spooktober #oilpainting #bird #sciart #vulture #traditionalmediums #deatheater #eastcoastkin
Oil portrait of a Griffon vulture, head in 3/4 profile, his body is blending and disappearing into the tonally matching background.
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 24 #Frankenstein
The current mood on my corner chair.
#Spooktober #toys #antiques #zuhause #doll
On an antique green velour armchair sits a doll with a bakelite voltmeter in her lap, her face is painted as a sugar skull, her hair is shorn. To her right is a magnifying tool with two pincer arms. Behind her left is a large driftwood cross with a taxidermied pigeon strung to it, to the right is another piece of driftwood with pink lacing down the middle and a green mannequin hand emerging from the side.
October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 23 #Pumpkin
#Spooktober #urbantrails #eastcoastkin #Bath
A small carved pumpkin sits on a front wall. It has a simple rectangular mouth a circular eyes, and it is shriveling, which is what makes it creepy. There is a blue door and bay window on a sandstone brick townhouse behind it. Taken in Bath, Halloween 23.
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#Birdoftheday theme today is #Raptor or #Gardenbird.
But it is also #Spooktober. Just look at his adorable face.
#birds #raptors #vultures #Berlebeck #eastcoastkin
Photo of a black vulture stood in lush lawn. He is stood alert, his neck feathers slightly roughed up.
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 22 #Bat
"S.C." - Charcoal on paper
#Spooktober #drawing #portrait #charcoal #traditionalmediums
#changeling #eastcoastkin
Drawing of a young girl with short plaited hair, wearing a white collared shirt, seen from behind. She is lit from her front, backlit to the viewer. Her ears are large pointed animal ears, deer like, the veins are clearly visible. Inspired by the model telling me she thought her ears were too big. They weren't.
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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pkmonaghan.bsky.social
Singing for Animals

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Singing for Animals compilation 🥹❤️‍🩹
YouTube video by Plumes
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October 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 21 #Werewolf
"E.W." - Charcoal on Paper
#Spooktober #drawing #portrait #charcoal #traditionalmedium #changelings #eastcoastkin
Drawing of a young girl in a white shirt and tie, from the shoulder up, she has turned from the right to face the viewer, her eyes have vertically slitted pupils.
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
Day 20 #Wizard
"The Sorcerer's Wife" - Charcoal, pastel, spray paint on paper
#Spooktober #Drawing #Traditionalmedium #eastcoastkin
Drawing of a middle aged couple, circa 1890. The woman is in Westphalian Tracht, with a floor length black dress, a large white bow at the nape, and a massive horizontal looping headpiece. The man is in a trenchcoat and has a walking stick, his face has disappeared into fluorescent green ether, only shadowy circles where his eyes would be.
October 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
My #seamonster is also my #colorful #birdoftheday. He followed us about for a half hour, incessantly begging and being annoyingly cute, and matching all the pumpkins.
#31DaysofHalloween #spooktober #birds #duck
A white duck with orange bill and feet on a dark paved path looks hopefully up at the camera. In the distance behind are some scattered pumpkins.
October 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Thinking about the resurgence of Nationalism and flag waving I am reminded of this poem by Ada Limón 'A New National Anthem'

‘my bones are your bones, and your bones are my bones’

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#LoveKnowsNoBorders
#PeopleNotFlags
October 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
I don't really have anything for day 18 #mummy. This old assemblage will have to do.
"Desperado" mixed media
#Spooktober #ephemera #assemblage #foundobjects #dolls
#beetle #vertebrae #invertebrate
An old medicine cabinet, door removed, houses different found objects. Upper left compartment has a mirror shattered by dead vines with oyster shells and a key on the bottom. Upper right has a stained mirror with a sat doll facing it, the doll is aged pale green, a continuation of the vines emerges from the dolls back and their are chess pieces next to it. Lower left is another doll, painted gold, suspended sideways facing the viewer, with a large stag beetle on its chest. Lower right contains two crossing atlas vertebrae of an ostrich.
October 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
felicityamelia.bsky.social
#31DaysofHalloween
day 17 #alien
This Leptoglossus occidentalis is an invasive species in Europe, and is doing a fine job of being creepy about it.
#Spooktober #sciart #photo #invertebrate #anthropocene #eastcoastkin
A western conifer seed bug sits on the dirty edge of a windshield. The sun is reflected in the glass above it. It is a nut brown with long antennae and hind legs, with black and yellow striped edging on its missile shaped body.
October 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM