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Lynne
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Feel. Do. And take care of yourself. Go for a walk and cleanse your soul.
#Kansas #prairie at Mount Mitchell
A brilliant blue winter Kansas sky shows two hikers and their dog in silhouette. The fore and midground is composed of golden prairie grasses stretching 4 ft tall.
January 4, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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#Backpacking in late December in #Kansas
So warm it is shirt-sleeve weather.
Scattered low-level clouds are reflected on a smooth, blue lake surface. The near shoreline consists of gray limestone blocks. The far shoreline is forested.
December 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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It is a warm and foggy Christmas in Kansas. Missing My Mom and Dad. I did get out for hikes yesterday and today. Comforted by Thumper Kitty. #JoinIn
A green and purple ground cover plant in a rosette shape is covered in white, needles of dew that glisten along the fine hairs on the leaves of the plant. A tiger tabby cuddles on a person’s legs across which is spread a soft, white blanket. The cat is looking at me with an expression that says “Hey, pay attention to me and rub my belly”. It is not a trap.
December 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A fall day at Echo Cliff #Kansas
Golden and orange leaves glimmer in the sunlight on top of a tan sandstone cliff. A stream cuts along the cliff and a gravel point bar clings to the inside of the meander. The sky is a Kansas fall blue. A clear view of the sandstone cliff shows lenses of sandstone that formed as channels. There is some finer grained gray shale near the base. A stream occurs at the base of the cliff.
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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A man holding a mug and wearing a dark blue shirt sits at a table in a park. His sign says “ The Twits is a funny, scary, silly, dark, and imaginative statement for our time. Change My Mind.”
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Pelicans taking a rest during their migration in Kansas. #pelicans
September 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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#SturgeonRiverSlough is a pocket of peacefulness
August 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Sunset on #LakeSuperior from the #Keweenaw
Sunset on a calm Lake Superior with a line of cumulus clouds in the distance. The outline of several trees are in the foreground.
August 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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I was approaching the line at the Aiken, South Carolina post office. The man at the end of the line turned toward me and we nodded hello. He was dashingly dressed in a turquoise coat and a purple scarf. The Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
bolt451.bsky.social Frey @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Really like my Kansas pharmacy.
A dark wood coffee table hosts a small planter with 4-6 plants and some magazines such as Bon Appetit. But the main thing is the paperback copy of “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder. That book is cream colored with red stripes near the binding.
May 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Last day on the #IceAgeTrail in #Wisconsin for this trip. Skunk Cabbage ready to bloom on the Waupaca River Segment and a lovely bench on the Bohn Lake Segment.
A red skunk cabbage pushes up through the fragments of wood along the trail. The lovely clear water of the river shows off the rocky and sandy stream bed. The floodplain is lined with deciduous trees not yet leafed out and a few conifers. A gray, weatherbeaten wooden bench says “ Sit for a spell. Listen. Watch. Daydream. Just breathe.” A wonderfully peaceful walk around Bohn Lake with conifers flanking a spur trail to the quiet, calm lake on a cloudy day.
April 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Spring on the Mecan River Segment of the #IceAgeTrail
Clear water of the river shows the sand sediment load as the river meanders through its floodplain flanked by trees. A deep red and greenish-yellow skunk cabbage pokes its pointed tip through last years fallen leaves.
April 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Another fine day on the #IceAgeTrail . This listening hike went through the Skunk and Foster Lakes Natural Area.
Skunk Lake is calm as seen through the pine trees with a clear blue sky. A tree with yellow rectangular blazes marking the trail stands in a ridge above a spring-fed lake that still has some winter ice covering part of the surface. A few hikers move through the trees along the ridge top.
April 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Hiking the New Hope to Iola segment of the #IceAgeTrail on a comfortably cool day. Lots of kettle lakes in this section.
A yellow rectangle on a tree marks the route of the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin. There is a small, still kettle lake in the background and there is some ice at the far end.
April 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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This would be a great day for @darthbluesky.bsky.social to show up and ask “ Did I miss anything?”
March 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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#OzarkTrail
A freshly sawn log that was across the trail has a T cut into it by the sawyer. A backpacker with a ridiculously large, but comfortable, sleeping pad hikes along the cleared trail. A bloodroot with white petals and yellow stamens blooms a few inches above the ground surface still covered with last year’s brown leaves. Its own green leaf is still furled around the stem.
March 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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First Bloodroot of spring. #Kansas #Wildflowers
March 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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May we find the courage that Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr exhibited in 1968 to protect those who are vulnerable.
garius.bsky.social John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Jul 30
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. 1/28
a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.
March 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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The federal government has not reimbursed K-State for hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses related to its work on global food security. Cuts also affect hundreds of students abroad who were recruited to advance agriculture in their countries.
Via Kansas News Service:
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Hundreds of students abroad are caught up in USAID cuts to K-State food security programs
The federal government has not reimbursed K-State for hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses related to its work on global food security. The cuts also affect hundreds of students abroad who were...
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March 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A walk in the woods reveals iron concretions, quartzite boulders in a stream, an animal track, and patterns in tree bark. #Kansas
A broken iron conception shows red, orange, purple, and yellow colors representing different states of oxidation. There are globular and tubular shapes of iron oxide in the conception. A small creek runs through pink boulders of quartzite that were originally deposited by a continental ice sheet about 500,000 years ago. The banks of the creek are grassy and bare, deciduous trees flank the creek bank. A track of a small mammal in dark mud looks like a handprint. The rough texture of tree bark is long resembles rectangular fibers. The bark has an almost orange like color beneath the initial gray color.
March 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Snow Geese at Perry Lake, Kansas
February 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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White supremacist regime fires black general, appoints underqualified white replacement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
CQ Brown: Trump fires top US general in Pentagon shake-up
The new Pentagon chief had accused CQ Brown of a "woke" focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programmes.
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February 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Beach at Bernal Glacier in Patagonia last week.
Subrounded baseball to softball sized rocks at the water’s edge are green, red, and gray.
February 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Being judged for a 5 day camping trip.
A gray and tan tiger tabby cat with green eyes gives a look of condemnation to her staff.
January 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM