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liberalmother.bsky.social
Francie Meeting You Here
@liberalmother.bsky.social
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Connoisseur of childish humor. Refugee from hatred. Escaped to Portugal.
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Canadian sunset…above the clouds between Montreal and Detroit.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime #Scape #sunset #birdseyeview #travel #eastcoastkin #windowseat #AirCanada #iPhonephoto
Brilliant sunset with deep red sun just below a ribbon of bright blue sky, layered in cloud of yellow, red, violet, purple and dark blue, with silvery lakes shining through from below.
May 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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ESTAS ÓTIMA! YOU LOOK GREAT!
Oodles of doodles on the bathroom wall of the former 2D Restaurant in Lisbon, Portugal.

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekOForOodles
#Lisbon #Portugal #EastCoastKin #art #blackandwhite
White bathroom is decorated with hand drawn details, including wall tiles, a vanity cabinet above the sink, drawers on the baby changing table, a towel rack (complete with towels) under the electric hand dryer, a hanging lamp, and a shelf with a diffuser and box of tissues above the soap dispenser. On the fake mirror is written “ESTAS ÓTIMA!” “YOU LOOK GREAT!”
April 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Mural on the wall along the winding stairway of the Caracol da Graça in Lisbon.
#wallsonwednesday #EastCoastKin
#iPhonephoto #urbanphotography #Lisbon #Portugal #graffiti #mural #art
Colorful mural on the wall surrounding the winding Caracol stairway connecting the Jardim da Graça to Rua dos Lagares near the base of the Funicular da Graça in Lisbon. The mural incorporates a cartoon style woman’s face painted primarily in gold with large, narrow blue eyes, surrounded by other, simple faces in different colors with various expressions. Confetti-like geometric shapes are also entwined. The artist’s tag, Utopia, is seen on the right hand side.
April 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Azulejo landscape on the side of the Azambuja train station.

#TilesOnTuesday #art #iPhonephoto #trainstation #trainphoto
#EastCoastKin #urbanphotography #azulejos #Portugal
The station name “Azambuja” written in black block letters on a white background is outlined in blue and gold Art nouveau leaf pattern. Below it, a large landscape done in tile depicts workers harvesting wheat. The artwork is framed in ornate Art nouveau scrolling with a leaf and floral motif in blue and yellow. In the foreground on the left, a worker pitches wheat shafts with a pitchfork. To his left a woman ties off a bag of grain while another carries a bag away on her shoulder. In the background several workers load wheat into a steam threshing machine and others pile straw into stacks. In the distance a driver works a team of horses.
April 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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My Peter Max homage that I wore to the Concerto de Carnaval by the Lisboa Orquestra Metropolitana at Centro Cultural de Belém.

#SelfPortraitSunday #Carnival #Stunday #Lisbon #Portugal #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMulticoloured #culture #costume
Woman standing in a coffee shop throwing up peace signs with her hands, wearing a colorful psychedelic shirt with matching black and white pants, a hand-painted mask with large smiling lips clutching a carnation in her teeth, John Lennon style sunglasses, and a green wide brimmed hat.
March 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Catching up on my #AlphabetChallenge

Multicolored lady
You ain't like no rainbow I've ever seen
Multicolored lady
Angry red, passion blue
But mostly shades of green
- Gregg Allman

#WeekLforLyrics #WeekMforMulticoloured
#Lisbon #Portugal #EastCoastKin #mural #art #graffiti
Mural on the side of a five story apartment building on Rua da Graça in Lisbon. The mural of a dark-skinned woman’s face covers the entire side of the building. Her hair is made up of tropical birds, flowers, feathers and leaves, with a rabbit interwoven. Mushrooms frame the bottom, alongside water, waves and fish. Several hands grasp at her face. Around the side, a word balloon comes from one of the birds, providing the tag of the artist: OZE ARV.
March 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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The Ponte Pedonal Pedro e Inês (Pedro and Inês Bridge), a pedestrian bridge over the Mondego River in Coimbra, Portugal.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Sunlight
#iPhonephoto #photographersofbluesky
#Portugal
#thephotohour
#EastCoastKin
Two families with young children walk in opposite directions across the Ponte Pedonal Pedro e Inês (Pedro and Inês Bridge). The bridge’s deck is wood, flanked by colorful glass balustrades that bathe the walkway in hues of blue, pink, green, and yellow. On the left, two young girls enjoy walking through the kaleidoscopic colors. The bridge’s paths are offset, meeting at a plaza that is not in the middle - an imperfection symbolic of the fated separation of the future king of Portugal and his lover.
March 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Fonte Luminosa in Lisbon, Portugal.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKinetic
#iPhonevideo #slomo #Portugal #MyDailyWalk
March 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Given current events in the US, I’ve been thinking a lot about these courageous old men, who had been young, rising military officers in the 1970s. These men risked everything to overthrow a fascist regime and bring democracy to the people of Portugal. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes #resist
Two old men wearing berets perched on a vintage tank giving victory salutes as throngs of people gather at a parade in Lisbon marking the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution on April 25. A Portuguese flag waves in the foreground. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes An old man in a beret and sunglasses stands in an armored vehicle together with family members of his comrades during a parade in Lisbon marking the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution on April 25. He has his hand over his heart and clutches a bunch of red carnations while being overwhelmed with emotion as the throngs of people gathered cheer and sing their gratitude. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes Two men wearing berets sit atop an armored vehicle, giving victory salutes and grasping red carnations as they pass by the gates of the GNR Museum during a parade in Lisbon marking the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution on April 25. A banner hangs on the wall behind them commemorating the events of the revolution, it includes a photograph of two young army officers on a similar vehicle in 1974. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes
February 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Gold Fish.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #video #Dublin #Ireland #beer #Guinness #iPhoneVideo #fish #advertising #ad
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Gold fish advertising prop displayed in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, Ireland, used in the 1996 ad “Fish on a Bicycle”, playing on the feminist slogan “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Dublin
#Ireland #beer #Guinness #iPhonephoto #video
February 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Gold fish advertising prop displayed in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, Ireland, used in the 1996 ad “Fish on a Bicycle”, playing on the feminist slogan “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Dublin
#Ireland #beer #Guinness #iPhonephoto #video
February 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Golden hour on the Tagus River in Belém, Portugal.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGforGold
#photography #photographersofbluesky #Portugal
#Lisbon #sunset #iPhonephoto #fishing #river #water #sea
A fisherman and his gear are silhouetted against the golden light in the hour before sunset on the Tagus River in Belém, Portugal. Tall fishing rods are clamped upright, cutting a line against both the sparkling water and overcast sky, a small folding chair sits between the two rods. The sun burns through the clouds at top right, casting a golden reflection across the water. Towers and elevators of the marine terminal across the river in Caparica are silhouetted in the distance. In the far distance the river opens out to the Atlantic Ocean.
February 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Black Swan

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekFforFilm
#photography #photographersofbluesky #Portugal
#Lisbon #culture #history #iPhonephoto #palace #birdphotography #birds
A black swan glides across the “Knights Lake” reflecting pond in the baroque gardens of the Fronteira Palace, located at the top of the Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisbon. Behind the swan is a marble statuary fountain, and a decorative blue tiles wall covered with azulejo murals of knights on horseback. The palace was built around 1670 as a summer residence for the Portuguese royal family, but became the main residence after the central Lisbon palace was destroyed by the earthquake of 1755.
February 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Thank You for Smoking

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekFforFilm
#photography #photographersofbluesky #Portugal
#Lisbon #culture #history #iPhonephoto #streetphotography
#mural #streetart #Graffiti
Graffiti art in the Santa Apolónia neighborhood of Lisbon, depicting a skeleton relaxing with a cigarette and holding a noose while leaning out of a boarded up window where a dead houseplant hangs on the sill. This small piece, created by Mario Belem in 2017, celebrates the 150 years since the abolition of the death penalty in Portugal.
February 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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My Big Ass. #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekFforFilm
#photography #photographersofbluesky #Portugal
#Lisbon #culture #history #iPhonephoto
Marble statue of naked woman in the Jardim do Palácio de Queluz, in the outskirts of Lisbon. The white marble statue is seen from the rear. She is standing in front of a section of marble tree trunk, and is surrounded by lush green foliage and trees.
February 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Celebrating Lunar New Year through cultural displays and food at Jardim da Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques in Lisbon, Portugal.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekEforEvents #photography #photographersofbluesky #Portugal
#Lisbon #culture #diversity
#iPhonephoto
Photo of a young woman in an elaborate red and white Chinese costume poses while holding a bouquet of flowers on a cobblestone sidewalk in Lisbon. Photo of two Chinese lion characters performing a dance at the Lunar New Year festival in Lisbon. The lion costume in the foreground is primarily white with red accents, the one in the background is primarily two shades of blue. Photo of a young woman in traditional Chinese dress in sheer white fabric with embroidered red designs, with a headdress of red and yellow flowers. Close up photo of the head of a lion dancer. The costume’s head is covered with an elaborate red flame design, a silver collar, a thick white fur upper lip and eyebrows, huge black and red eyes, and a shaggy beard.
February 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Sign outside a pub in Kilkenny, Ireland.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekEforEvents #photography #photographersofbluesky #Ireland #Kilkenny #music
#IPhonephoto #streetphotography
Sign propped outside the door of a pub featuring a drawing of a man playing a penny whistle. Wording on the sign reads “TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC TONIGHT”.
February 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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...and so it begins
Well done to all the hispanic people who voted for Trump.
January 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Canto do Sol, by Camilla Watson, is mounted on a wall on Rua das Lagares, Lisbon. It mixes mosaic tiles of the present community with images from 100+ years ago. Today the community is threatened by over-tourism.

#TilesOnTuesday #urbanization #streetphotography #PeopleOverProfit #Portugal
Mosaic covered wall on a street in Mouraria, Lisbon. The patchwork of sepia colored tiles intersperses photos of current residents with those of more than 100 years ago. The tiles provide a glimpse into the ambiance, intimacy and warmth that filled these narrow streets only a few years ago.
January 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Fonte Luminosa in Alameda Park, Lisbon.
For now, I’m focusing on things that bring me joy. This is a snippet of the unnecessary beauty I encounter on my daily walks. #Lisbon #Portugal #fountain #sculpture #mermaids #travel #IPhonephotos #streetphotography
January 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Farolim da Barra do Douro
Lighthouse at the mouth of the Douro River. Foz do Rio Douro, Porto, Portugal.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDanger #photography #iPhonephoto #lighthouse #ocean #waves #Porto #Portugal #travel #naturephotography
Churning waves surround the base of the Farolim da Barra do Douro lighthouse. A breaking wave shoots high over the wall surrounding the lighthouse, at least 25 ft. over the heads of people standing along the jetty.
January 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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An association for adults with disabilities takes part in the Desfile Internacional da Máscara Ibérica (International Iberian Mask Parade).
#alphabetchallenge #weekCforCostume
#Lisbon #Portugal #inclusion
#streetphotography #IPhonephotos
#culture
Parade float featuring a gnome-like creature with tusks and long horns. An oversized figure of a cartoonish woman rides on its back. A young man with a disability smiles broadly at fellow parade participants wearing headdresses and masks. He is wearing a fringed blue smock with felt patches and has his owl mask propped on his forehead. A participant in a wheelchair wears a blue cape and matching horned mask. He is being pushed by another participant in a burlap costume with a purple mask decorated with buttons, a cardboard crown and other handmade items. Behind him is another participant in burlap, with a mask that features a rack of antlers. A participant in a wheelchair wears an elaborate costume featuring brightly colored cloth fashioned to look like a dragon with wings. His mask features an extremely long elephantine snout decorated with strips of bright red, yellow and orange cloth, and empty coffee pods. He is being pushed by a participant in a matching outfit, including a yellow tunic covered in coffee pods and a red mask fringed with sequins.
January 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I am vengeance. I am the night. I am BATMAN!

Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara, Lisbon, Portugal.
#Scape #Cityscape #EastCoastKin #mobilephotography #iPhonephoto #catsofbluesky #travel
Small black cat sitting on a wall overlooking a panoramic view of the eastern neighborhoods of Lisbon. The cat is silhouetted against a black, curved wrought iron enclosure with spear-shaped rails. The cat’s head is bent forward so that it appears to be surveying the scene below it.
January 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Beautiful people in the Desfile Internacional da Máscara Ibérica (International Iberian Mask Parade).
#alphabetchallenge #weekCforCostume
#Lisbon #Portugal #streetphotograhy #IPhonephotos #culture
Man and woman in elegant costumes featuring layers of gold and white material, with huge golden headdresses and golden masks. Man in elaborate costume, wearing intricately embroidered black tunic with gold and purple detailing. He wears a gold mask with matching detail, a headdress with horns and a purple and gold ornament above his face. His head is covered by a large cloak with heavy gold embroidery. A young man in colorful Spanish costume, including a white shirt with embroidered details, a red armband and a cummerbund. He wears a tall hat covered in bright flowers and colorful ribbons.
January 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Late afternoon sun pours through stained glass windows, painting the interior of the Mosteiro da Batalha with colorful light.
#WindowsOnWednesday
#Portugal #church #IPhonephotos #travel #stainedglass
Interior of Batalha Monastery with wooden pews in the foreground bathed in blue, purple and gold light from the stained glass windows. In the background are candelabras providing additional light, high white stone walls and curved arches leading up to the tall stained glass windows that cast color throughout the sanctuary in the late afternoon.
January 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM