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Lemmasmith
@k8bowers.bsky.social
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Archivist at Harvard, librarian, contributing editor (Dictionary of Archives Terminology), Oxford comma enthusiast, grumpable knowmudgeon
#archives #records #metadata #saawords #cataloging #bornDigital Mount Holyoke ‘86
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k8bowers.bsky.social
Does Keytar Bear count?
#onlyInBoston
Busker named Keytar Bear, because he plays a keytar while dressed in a bear costume, is depicted on a Boston street
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Post from a different era in your life
Librarian, circa 1998, sitting in front of a large CRT screen computer monitor. She is smiling at the camera.
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Sisters, sisters, never were there such devoted sisters #caturday
Calico and black cat sleeping amicably together
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Here are the mashed potatoes I made
A bowl of mashed potatoes garnished with parsley flakes
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
You've just died.

The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

(Apparently it’ll be a killer sunset.)
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse: my friends’ cat looks all innocent but is actually a vampire.
Calico cat looking directly at the camera. She looks relaxed and maybe curious, one paw forward as she lays on a red blanket. Calico cat her mouth open, incisors very prominent, one paw in the air as if reaching toward the camera.
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Kittens are chaos agents.
Paw prints in flour on a wooden cutting board.
November 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Monday’s moon
@mountauburncem.bsky.social
Moon glowing through clouds over Mount Auburn Cemetery
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Matzo brei. 😃
Because I have a bad sore throat. 😩
Yellow irregularly shaped food on a blue and white plate.
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
If you see this post a vampire who isn’t Dracula.
Red and black book cover for the novel "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Respect the tail!
October 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
The Medford, Massachusetts Halloween decoration game is *strong*!
Two scarecrows with pumpkin heads, one holding a lawn rake A skeleton outfitted to look like it’s sitting at a bus stop. It is holding a cane, wearing a hat, and has luggage including a birdcage. A human skeleton seated on a horse skeleton, wearing a pression style, military hat, and carrying a lance. A skeleton seated in a lawn chair, watching a television set surrounded by empty beer cans
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Managed to catch this photo in the 30 seconds that pepper was stunned after her wings went on. She got herself 80% out of them immediately, and was very upset when I tried to help remove them entirely.
Black cat wearing Halloween costume batwings
October 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Homeward-bound fishing boat at sunset, Wellfleet Harbor
#vacation
#CapeCod
Fishing boat in foreground, pier in mid ground, sunset in background
October 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Today was cloudy and rainy. Then sunset was crazy spectacular.
Sunset over a harbor. Colors are a confusion of magenta, orange, gold, and purple-gray.
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
A longer video of the hawk. This time hovering over trees and even harder to spot against the sky. Still amazing! Just a more customary POV, seeing the hawk from below.
October 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
This video depict the very-hard-to-spot hawk that looks like it is levitating. It was astonishing to see a hawk at eye-level hovering over the back yard. The video does *not* do the experience justice! The strong wind meant the hawk was stationary!
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
The humblest vacation souvenir
#vacation
#CapeCod
A pair of sandals on a wooden plank floor with small piles of sand around them
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Oh, just reading* a book and enjoying the view**

*outside, in October!!!!
**I never want to leave
#vacation
#CapeCod
#amReading
In the foreground is a book entitled, remarkably bright creatures, in the background is a view of Wellfleet Harbor
October 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
#sunset
#vacation
#CapeCod
A glass of wine reflects the setting sun
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
classic bees knees
#cocktail
#vacation
#CapeCod
Yellow cocktail in a coupe glass garnished with a lemon slice
October 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Calling this one the “Mola Rescue”
A bright yellow beverage garnished with a lemon wheel in a Nick-and-Nora glass. The background is a vibrant green lawn.
October 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Saw the dramatic rescue of a stranded ocean sunfish in Wellfleet Harbor today
Three people on a dock and one in the water wearing wet suits. In the water is a flotation device holding a 4- to 5-foot long ocean sunfish A person in a wetsuit on a dock and one in a wetsuit in the water steering a flotation device carrying an ocean sunfish around a docked boat Two people in wetsuits in the water maneuvering an ocean sunfish on a flotation device onto a “lilypad” to be towed by a motorboat A woman in a wetsuit on the lilypad with an ocean sunfish being towed by a motorboat.
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Sound on. Tuesday eveni sunset fishing.
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
k8bowers.bsky.social
Sadly, a dolphin has stranded and died on the beach below the house. Here’s a photo of a sunset with barely visible bunnies to make it less sad.
A sunset above a green lawn. There is a sign in the lower right foreground that reads “keep off the grass.” There are four rabbits (nearly invisible) with the word “bunny” and lines pointing to them.
October 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM