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Observer, writer, grammar compulsive • travel • language • art • photography • politics • books • design • pottery • Animals, but cats above all others • Photos are mine unless otherwise attributed Everything louder than everything else—Meatloaf

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · Apr 21

NB
• I take photos with my smartphone and use software to edit/enhance
• I am not a fan of AI, especially in creative efforts
• I appreciate a good shit post, but will block haters
• This is not a political account, but I will engage on politics from
time to time; I try not to let it define me

Black and white photo of a crew hanging a large banner that says, The arts make everything more beautiful. There is a truck with a ladder, a man in a crane, and a woman standing by a police car watching.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 2h

Paris. Where even Starbucks looks like a Louis XIV fever dream.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #humansofbluesky #urbangaze
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulence

People sitting at computer stations, most of them drinking coffee, in an elegant room with high ceilings with ornately carved and gilded dark wood moldings framing elaborate classical paintings. The walls are pale blue with gold molding and hung with mirrors and artwork in gold frames. Crystal chandeliers hang between black and gold marble columns, and the whole space glows with reflected light.

Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 3h

Another adorable fiber sculpture from @lwartskisculpture.bsky.social to brighten up my feed.

Lynn Wartski Sculpture @lwartskisculpture.bsky.social · 3h

Delivery Mouse, that's the answer to yesterday's WIP question. Latest One-Of-A-kind #holiday #ornament mini-sculpture.

#art #sculpture #needlefelt #fiberart #artisan #craft #mouse #anthropomorphic #OOAK #EastCoastKin

Delivery Mouse (2025) One-of-a-kind needle felted anthropomorphic mouse mini-sculpture holiday ornament by Lynn Wartski, brown and white mouse with purple hat, mittens and scarf, and maroon boots holds two packages in hues of green.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 8h

Table for two, Giverny.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #YellowThu #UrbanGaze
#ThursdayChairs

A yellow table and chairs outside a restaurant in an old stone building. On the wall behind the table is a reproduction of a Monet picnic painting.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 8h

Edgar Poe private school, Paris

Seems an appropriate #AdoorableThursday selection for the #31DaysOfHalloween.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

The entrance to the Edgar Poe private school, with dark blue double doors in an arched opening of an old stone building in Paris.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 8h

Not sure if it's an official legend or not, but one can definitely feel Monet's ghost in the water garden at Giverny, especially on a misty morning.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #Myth&Legend
#31DaysOfHalloween

A mist-shrouded pond with water lilies surrounded by weeping willow trees.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

I know I almost did.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

Window at Odette's
(Not my camera—I took advantage of another photographer's coffee break.)

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #WindowWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday

Two cups of coffee on a round black table in front of an open window. On the outside of the window a flower box with pink flowers is partially visible. On the table are also a small black camera and a spiral bound journal.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

Sun. Feels. So. Good.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #CatsOfBluesky #hedgewatch #WhiskersWednesday #WordlessWednesday #SensoryArt #shadow

Black-and-white photo of a tabby cat lying in the sun wuth his head turned upside down. Most of his body is in shadow, with bright highlights on his belly, chest, chin, and whiskers. He is smiling.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday's indulgence: champagne at Le Train Bleu. Y'all don't even want to know what we paid for these.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulence

Two glasses of champagne on a white tablecloth.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

We absolutely are having a blast. Two weeks in and two weeks to go. Headed to Giverny today. So excited! Expect lots of water lilly photos.

Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. I continue to struggle with alt text.

Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

I do watch a lot of YouTube, especially when planning a trip. I'll look these up, thanks!

Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 2d

The shop is in one of Paris's covered passages that is known for artisan and craft shops. I love taking photos of artisan workspaces and the tools used to do the kind of hand work that is starting to disappear.

Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 2d

Seamstress shop, Paris.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #ToolsOfTheTradeTuesday

A work table in a seamstress shop with sewing machines, large spools of thread, and other sewing tools and materials. There are several black chairs positioned over foot pedals that operate the sewing machines. Above the table, four black work lamps are suspended.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 2d

Ghosts in the tiles.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #TilesOnTuesday #ClassicMono
#31DaysOfHalloween #SensoryArt #shadow #LightAndShadow

Black-and-white photo of a black-and-white checkerboard tile floor with random abstract shapes formed by reflected light.

Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 2d

Table for 2½

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Twosday #2sday #RedTuesday
#Paris #TableForTwosday

A round red café table with two black-and-white striped chairs and a short stool with a black-and-white check pattern.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 2d

Blue dog.
Canal St. Martin, Paris

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #TagTuesday #AnimalArtTuesday
#ColorADay #BlueTue #StreetArt #Paris

A street art mural depicting a blue dog-like animal three eyes and an open mouth full of sharp teeth, against an orange background resembling leaves or flames. The animal is suckling two crouching human figures. There is a black motorcycle parked in a stone-paved lot in front of the wall.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 2d

Ferrari, very red.
Hôtel Plaza Athénée, Paris

Fashion Week is bringing out the horses.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulence #RedTuesday #Ferrari #Paris #FastCars

A bright red Ferrari in front of a beautiful old hotel with black iron balconies and red awnings.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 3d

Not to make light of your obvious superior knowledge of all things British and Roman, but "a journey in search of Boudica" sounds like a fancy, ancient Roman way of saying, "crawling the pubs looking for loose women." A quick Google search, however, assures me it is a loftier subject.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know, but I can't unhear it now. These will forever be the disco chickens from this day forward.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 3d

I am temporarily residing in an unfamiliar time zone, and the math is beyond me, but I think I should wish you a happy belated birthday since it's already tomorrow here.

Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 3d

Blue bench in the rain, with leaves.

#photography #EastCoastKin #BlueMonday #MondayBlues
#MacroMonday #MinimalMonday

Close-up photo of green leaves with raindrops against the background of a dark blue bench.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 3d

Portrait of Madame Paul Guillaume, Marie Laurencin
Musée de l'Orangerie

#photography #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #PinkMon #ArtYear
#ImpressionistArt

Impressionist painting of a young woman in a pink sleeveless dress holding a flower in her raised left hand. She has a bouquet of flowers in her lap, and her right hand rests on the head of a gray dog at her side.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 3d

Chloe, Queen of Darkness.

#photography #EastCoastKin #PetPortraits #CatsOfBluesky
#Spooktober #BlackCat #31DaysOfHalloween #SensoryArt #shadow

Photo of the face of a black cat against a black background. Only a few details are visible—eyes, nose, one set of whiskers, and the vague outline of on ear.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 3d

Dôme des Invalides

Thank goodness I'm in Paris for #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulence! After sitting mostly by the sidelines last week, I am armed and ready with opulence galore!

#photography #EastCoastKin #BlueMonday #BlueSkyMonday #MondayBlues

The Dome of a French Baroque church against a bright blue cloudless sky.

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