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Lynn Persists
@lynnpersists.bsky.social
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This becatted bisexual librarian finds happiness in books, cats, puzzles, and other good generic fun. Seeks to follow fellow enthusiasts.
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So glad for you! Here's my shell bowl. There should be a skate's egg sack, but ... cats.
A shallow glass bowl filled with two sand dollars, various beige-y shells, green sea glass, and a feather.
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Not very keen on this year's Aldi Merry Moments puzzle calendar. It is packaged very cheaply and the puzzle quality isn't great. Would not give as a gift. Anyway, this soup-green sleigh of presents was behind the first door.
A jigsaw puzzle in the shape of a sleigh filled with pink, red, and yellow wrapped presents.
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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"Felicette Astrocat" was a delight to assemble with some truly quirky cuts! Fit perfectly in on my small baking sheet, keeping it safe from the cats.

Title: Felicette Astrocat
Artist: Bill Mayer
Publisher: New York Puzzle Company
Pieces: 100
Size: 8x8 inches
A completed mini jigsaw puzzle featuring a tuxedo cat, Felicette, in a French astronaut space suit complete with cat ears. Her expression is one of caution.
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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My Thanksgiving dinner this year: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with a lake of gravy, peas, carrots, corn, creamed pearl onions, cranberry sauce, and pickled beets. Very traditional, very delicious.
A plate of traditional American Thanksgiving dinner foods: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with a lake of gravy, peas, carrots, corn, creamed pearl onions, cranberry sauce, and pickled beets.
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I'm doing two pumpkins at once and broke the stems off by smacking them against the counter edge. Fingers crossed.
Two whole stemless sugar pumpkins nestle in a 13x9 glass baking pan in an oven.
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Happy Black (Cat) Friday, my friends. Here's our twisty Shadow having a wee nap on the bay window.
A black cat, twisted on its side, snoozes on a floral blanket in a bay window.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Butter turkey!
A small sitting turkey modeled from butter.
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Baked Mom's cranberry-cherry pie for Thanksgiving—omit the sugar, as noted, and be aware that cranberry sauce cans are 2 oz smaller than they used to be.
A golden-crusted cranberry-cherry pie in white baking dish. A recipe for cranberry cherry pie. There are many near-identical recipes on the internet.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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All the pies.
A platter of pie slices, all different, with solitary lemon curd tart orbiting in the distance. A copy of Ken Haedrich's Pie Academy is also displayed.
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Last night the house was too safe;
the heated air, stifling;
touches and topics, calculated, civilized.

Later, I couldn't sleep;
the digital clock kept me
waiting for each next moment.

Rebecca Gonzales, THE SAFETY BEHIND ME repro. Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991)
REBECCA GONZALES THE SAFETY BEHIND ME from Slow Work to the Rhythm of Cicadas (1985) Rebecca Gonzales (1946-) has been influenced as a poet by the rhythm of cicadas and the desert distances. Born in Laredo, Texas, she has lived since 1970 in the Beaumont area, where she teaches high school English. Last night the house was too safe; the heated air, stifling; touches and topics, calculated, civilized. Later, I couldn't sleep; the digital clock kept me waiting for each next moment. In my robe and slippers, I went outside and stood, soaking the cold under our streetlight. The houses closed in, shouldering the night from the glowing street and me. But I wanted to be cold; could have flung the safety behind me, could have traded each moment for the thump of fear in a marsh rabbit, running to the sweet violence of a mate, the direction of the next moment in the wind. REBECCA GONZALES
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The bed will not be made today, no.
A fluffy gray cat vociferously refuses to leave the bed so her human may make it up.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Here are some pretty minerals from the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Red is rhodochrosite, yellow-orange is wulfenite, deep blue is azurite with malachite (green). I cannot explain how badly I wished to lick one of these.
A large chunk of deep-blue prismatic azurite crystals mixed with softer, velvety-looking malachite. A large chunk of rose-red rhodocrosite, a manganese carbonate mineral. It looks not unlike a hunk of fresh raw beef. A large hunk of yellow-orange wulfenite composed of many thin, flaky looking blades. Looks kind of like someone fused a bunch of cornflakes together.
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Spent part of my birthday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, gawking at the glass flowers in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. (Although, the Comparative Zoology’s selection of invertebrate models on display were in some ways more fascinating).
A lampwork glass Monarda didyma (bee balm) botanical model on display in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History A lampwork glass Rudbeckia (black-eyed-susan) botanical model on display in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History A lampwork glass Lilium philadelphicum (wood lily) botanical model on display in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. These grew wild in the waste land under the powerlines one year in my childhood.
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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We used to have good times: 12 October 2020.
A pink and white Saintpaulia violet in bloom in a round glazed brown pot before a window. The light through the window illuminates the violet and makes it seem to glow a little.
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Lilja, one of five Trolls who act as Guardians of the Seeds, in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The youngest of the trolls, she loves the colors and the scents of the flowers and when bees and butterflies fly among branches.
A giant, upcycled wooden sculpture of a child-like troll sitting with legs splayed and arms open as if asking to be picked up or hugged.
October 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Some very nice moss and a fern.
A wall of shaggy yellowy-green moss with a brighter green in the center.
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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American red squirrel friend looking very demure, very mindful.
Lil' American red squirrel crouched down on a tree branch, its tail tucked up over its back.
October 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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The feeling when you want to go to bed, but the cat has got there before you.
The head and forelegs of a fluffy gray calico cat peek out from under a quilt.
October 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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See the new friend I made today! This Chinese mantis could not get enough of my shirt. (New England has no native mantis. The Chinese mantis was first recorded in the USA in 1896 and the European mantis in 1900.)
A large Chinese mantis—about five inches long, slender, brown and green—perched on the upper arm of a person wearing a teal-blue linen shirt printed with tan line art mushrooms.
September 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Going through old image files and rediscovered this gem I'd commissioned from caricatss (ig) of my Lolly as a grumpy barbarian.
A grumpy gray calico cat standing upright in leather armor with toothy knives in each "hand."
September 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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May we all be as content as these mice, surrounded by the beauty of the natural world.

Name: Mouse in Spring
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Monhi (Mo Nhi?)
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
A small jigsaw puzzle featuring two chonky field mice surrounded by colorful mushrooms, dandelions, lily of the valley, berries, and leaves.
August 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Mrs. Grumpalong is having a day.
A grumpy-looking fluffy gray cat with pink nose and white muzzle glares out from the base unit of her cat tower, also gray.
August 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Name: Bicycle Ride
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Karen Cook
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
A woman, wearing a bicycle helmet, bikes through a countryside of boldly colored summer flowers and mushrooms. A gray tabby, also wearing a helmet, rides in a basket at the front of the bike.
August 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Orphée aux Feuillages (Orpheus in Foliage), a stained glass work, designed by Jean Cocteau and made by Roger Malherbe-Navarre at Les Gemmaux de France studio around 1954; now part of the collection at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, USA.
Hundreds of tiny pieces of glass in shades of yellow, blue, and brown take the abstract shape of a person's head and shoulders in profile. They are wearing a crown of golden leaves and looking up beyond the frame. Their mouth is open, in agony or song ... who can say?
August 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Cross your eyes and tell me there isn't a large and strangely muscular mouse holding a small barrel in its hands.
According to the seller, "sinuous leaves and foliage intertwine with buds and blooms while bees buzz lazily through the cacophony of stylised sprigs back to their hives. Honey and orange-coloured flowers blend with mint green hues while the block printed black leaves are the ideal contrast." Or there is a large and strangely muscular mouse holding a barrel in its hands against a background of honey and orange-coloured flowers You decide.
August 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM