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@ncoastbruin.bsky.social
He/him, human-ish elder queer, cat dad, bibliophile and historian, unrepentant omnivore and craft beers fan, not very tech-savvy, loving the quiet life on the northern California coast. Has camera and isn't afraid to use it.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So, this bit of authentic Medieval illumination predictively proves how to end this Trumpian nightmare: We just need a Gryphon.
#eightysix47
#EpsteinFiles
#eightysix47
#EpsteinFiles
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
So, this bit of authentic Medieval illumination predictively proves how to end this Trumpian nightmare: We just need a Gryphon.
#eightysix47
#EpsteinFiles
#eightysix47
#EpsteinFiles
I'd gladly accept this custom Rolls-Royce...yes, I would. Even for just a week...
#Stunday
#ClassicMotoring
#VintageBritish
#RollsRoyce
#SpiritOfEcstasy
#BlackhawkAutoMuseum
#DanvilleCA
#Stunday
#ClassicMotoring
#VintageBritish
#RollsRoyce
#SpiritOfEcstasy
#BlackhawkAutoMuseum
#DanvilleCA
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I'd gladly accept this custom Rolls-Royce...yes, I would. Even for just a week...
#Stunday
#ClassicMotoring
#VintageBritish
#RollsRoyce
#SpiritOfEcstasy
#BlackhawkAutoMuseum
#DanvilleCA
#Stunday
#ClassicMotoring
#VintageBritish
#RollsRoyce
#SpiritOfEcstasy
#BlackhawkAutoMuseum
#DanvilleCA
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Remember his "sleepy Joe" schlock?
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Remember his "sleepy Joe" schlock?
A marvel of marvels, with a champers bar, no less...🥰
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A marvel of marvels, with a champers bar, no less...🥰
It's been about 45 years since I last read anything by Edith #Wharton. The visit before last to my community #library caused me to find #Sanctuary, a slender little thing. An early work but Wharton through and through. I had to reaclimate to her style and compound verse, but enjoyed it even so.⭐⭐⭐
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's been about 45 years since I last read anything by Edith #Wharton. The visit before last to my community #library caused me to find #Sanctuary, a slender little thing. An early work but Wharton through and through. I had to reaclimate to her style and compound verse, but enjoyed it even so.⭐⭐⭐
Do not tell him he's cute. No, don't! He's already full of himself...
#CatsofBlueSky
#FurryFamily
#Tuxies
#CatsofBlueSky
#FurryFamily
#Tuxies
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Do not tell him he's cute. No, don't! He's already full of himself...
#CatsofBlueSky
#FurryFamily
#Tuxies
#CatsofBlueSky
#FurryFamily
#Tuxies
I'm glad I kept this grab-shot that I took of a neighborhood shop window in #Portland's #Kenton district back in November 2010. It pretty much sums up not only #PortlandWeirdness but the peculiarity of the #autumn to Christmas cycle.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I'm glad I kept this grab-shot that I took of a neighborhood shop window in #Portland's #Kenton district back in November 2010. It pretty much sums up not only #PortlandWeirdness but the peculiarity of the #autumn to Christmas cycle.
🧵end. The excursionists mostly spent all day roaming downtown San Diego and its old Gaslight District. We stayed on train and mostly napped. After sunset I lit the whole rear end package - red Mars light, markers, neon California Zephyr tail-sign and took pics. We then sloshed *hic* back to LA.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🧵end. The excursionists mostly spent all day roaming downtown San Diego and its old Gaslight District. We stayed on train and mostly napped. After sunset I lit the whole rear end package - red Mars light, markers, neon California Zephyr tail-sign and took pics. We then sloshed *hic* back to LA.
🧵🪡 Next morning we enjoyed a home cooked posh breakfast of French toast, bacon, sausages and mimosas in the yard (but up in the vista dome!) before returning to Union Station to receive our paying guests. San Diego, next stop! 90+MPH much of that leg made for a fine trip and back to LA after dark.🧵🪡
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🧵🪡 Next morning we enjoyed a home cooked posh breakfast of French toast, bacon, sausages and mimosas in the yard (but up in the vista dome!) before returning to Union Station to receive our paying guests. San Diego, next stop! 90+MPH much of that leg made for a fine trip and back to LA after dark.🧵🪡
🧵🪡 We hauled in @ Oxnard around 5:30 AM and held a side track there until all LA Metro commuter trains had come and gone from Union Station. We then rolled to Union Station and awaited an Amtrak switcher to move us to Riverside Yard. We cleaned the car thoroughly all day and slept there overnight.🧵🪡
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🧵🪡 We hauled in @ Oxnard around 5:30 AM and held a side track there until all LA Metro commuter trains had come and gone from Union Station. We then rolled to Union Station and awaited an Amtrak switcher to move us to Riverside Yard. We cleaned the car thoroughly all day and slept there overnight.🧵🪡
🪡🧵Now 5 hours late departing West Oakland, the routing was changed to the Coast Division. *Huge sighs* We absolutely had to be in LA by dawn; going by the freight-only Tehachapi route was too slow. Still, the alternative route was fine; we slept over most of it, awaking @ San Luis Obispo near 1AM.🧵🪡
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🪡🧵Now 5 hours late departing West Oakland, the routing was changed to the Coast Division. *Huge sighs* We absolutely had to be in LA by dawn; going by the freight-only Tehachapi route was too slow. Still, the alternative route was fine; we slept over most of it, awaking @ San Luis Obispo near 1AM.🧵🪡
🪡🧵UP's #BreastCancerAwareness GE diesel brought the UP special train all the way from Reno. After refuelling at West Oakland, its onboard computers began acting up. It repeatedly refused to engage its automatic air braking system after recoupling to our single car! A relief unit finally arrived.🧵🪡
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
🪡🧵UP's #BreastCancerAwareness GE diesel brought the UP special train all the way from Reno. After refuelling at West Oakland, its onboard computers began acting up. It repeatedly refused to engage its automatic air braking system after recoupling to our single car! A relief unit finally arrived.🧵🪡
🧵🪡 "We" turned out to be just two of us, my pal's husband being down in LA getting ex-CZ dome-observation car 'Silver Solarium' ready for the last quarter of the trip. We were supposed to go via UP's San Joaquin Valley line and #TehachapiLoop that night from Oakland. The plan collapsed at Oakland.🧵🪡
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
🧵🪡 "We" turned out to be just two of us, my pal's husband being down in LA getting ex-CZ dome-observation car 'Silver Solarium' ready for the last quarter of the trip. We were supposed to go via UP's San Joaquin Valley line and #TehachapiLoop that night from Oakland. The plan collapsed at Oakland.🧵🪡
🧵🪡 Where were we going? They normally ran their CZ dome and sleeping cars in charter service. The vista dome 'Silver Lariat' was just on a Union Pacific special train. I was to meet it and them at Sacramento. Amtrak's Coast Starlight got me there seven hours before the UP's charter train arrived.🪡🧵
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
🧵🪡 Where were we going? They normally ran their CZ dome and sleeping cars in charter service. The vista dome 'Silver Lariat' was just on a Union Pacific special train. I was to meet it and them at Sacramento. Amtrak's Coast Starlight got me there seven hours before the UP's charter train arrived.🪡🧵
One November 2011 day my home phone rang. Dear longtime friends were calling. They owned a couple of private railway cars from the original 'California Zephyr' (1949-70). "Hi! What are you doing next week? Wanna go for a ride?" Did I ever! Called the catsitter and booked Amtrak r/t immediately.🪡🧵
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
One November 2011 day my home phone rang. Dear longtime friends were calling. They owned a couple of private railway cars from the original 'California Zephyr' (1949-70). "Hi! What are you doing next week? Wanna go for a ride?" Did I ever! Called the catsitter and booked Amtrak r/t immediately.🪡🧵
#AlphabetChallenge
#weekSforShadows
#photography
#Black&White
#chiarroscuro
Folded-back, hand-carved and centuries-old window blinds at #ChatsworthHouse, #Derbyshire.
#weekSforShadows
#photography
#Black&White
#chiarroscuro
Folded-back, hand-carved and centuries-old window blinds at #ChatsworthHouse, #Derbyshire.
November 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#weekSforShadows
#photography
#Black&White
#chiarroscuro
Folded-back, hand-carved and centuries-old window blinds at #ChatsworthHouse, #Derbyshire.
#weekSforShadows
#photography
#Black&White
#chiarroscuro
Folded-back, hand-carved and centuries-old window blinds at #ChatsworthHouse, #Derbyshire.
Been a bit foggy and misty, mornings, that is. Four hours later and it can turn brilliantly sunny and mild.
#MendocinoCoast
#NorthernCA
#RuralLife
#Autumn
#BlueSkyArtShow
#MendocinoCoast
#NorthernCA
#RuralLife
#Autumn
#BlueSkyArtShow
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Been a bit foggy and misty, mornings, that is. Four hours later and it can turn brilliantly sunny and mild.
#MendocinoCoast
#NorthernCA
#RuralLife
#Autumn
#BlueSkyArtShow
#MendocinoCoast
#NorthernCA
#RuralLife
#Autumn
#BlueSkyArtShow
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A vibrant-hued #PistaciaChinensis tree, ensuring that everyone seeing its display that #autumn is fast wending down into winter.
#photography
#Portland
#PacificNorthwest
#photography
#Portland
#PacificNorthwest
November 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A vibrant-hued #PistaciaChinensis tree, ensuring that everyone seeing its display that #autumn is fast wending down into winter.
#photography
#Portland
#PacificNorthwest
#photography
#Portland
#PacificNorthwest
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#weekRforRock
#photography
When it comes to rocky landscapes, there's naught like #NorthWales.
#weekRforRock
#photography
When it comes to rocky landscapes, there's naught like #NorthWales.
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#weekRforRock
#photography
When it comes to rocky landscapes, there's naught like #NorthWales.
#weekRforRock
#photography
When it comes to rocky landscapes, there's naught like #NorthWales.