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Propane and Bourbon
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An adventure blog by two people who keep stumbling into things.
🍸Provisions | 🗺️ Places | ✍️ Stories
🔗 https://propaneandbourbon.com/
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lawrencecphd.bsky.social
Soskin shared her personal experiences and those of African American workers during the war at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, CA: “What gets remembered is a function of who’s in the room doing the remembering.”

www.kqed.org/news/1206821...
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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planzing.bsky.social
Sandhill Cranes…
At New Mexico’s Bosque del Apache Reserve…
December 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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‪Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday December 27, 2025
The theme is #Holiday

With over a dozen holidays happening there should be no trouble finding images to share this week. Show us what you love and how you celebrate!

Use both tags to be included in the feed
#art #artists #supportartists #makeart
Photo of lights strung across a walkway with text over it reading: Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday December 27, 2025 The theme is #Holiday Any art. Any interpretation. Use both tags to be included in our feed. Multiple entries welcome.
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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davidacody.bsky.social
The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Grounded.

Presenting the Roadrunner, when not being chased by the wiley coyote.

#birds 🪶 #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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artbykgh.bsky.social
A fun day out at Three Rivers Petroglyphs
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow!

I surprised myself with my submission this week. I definitely ended up in a much different place from where I started thinking about my #FavoriteThings. Go fig.

The rest of the story 👇
valinreallife.com/postcards-fr...

#ValWestonNM #ValinRealLife
December 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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sierrapasses.bsky.social
Hi, Sierra lovers! The window has closed to order our merch in time for Christmas delivery. But you can still order digital gift cards! Available in all 10 badge designs.

sierramountainpasses.com/product/gift...

#SierraMountainPasses #GiftCards
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
👋 Hi friends, join me on my groovy, new platform @southwestarttowns!

🎉 It's for a wide range of art enthusiasts.

💯 You can join for free for as long as you like to check it out.

👀 See you there!

🔗 southwestarttowns.com

#SouthwestArtTowns #ValWestonNM #ConnectionCommunityCollaboration
Graphic about Southwest Art Towns and who it's for: Artist, art business owners, artists' family and friends, art lovers, and anyone interested in art in the southwest.
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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dogofthedesert.bsky.social
If you've never had a good look at the eyelashes on a greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus), check out the second picture. This one practically ran me over but stopped long enough to glare. Photo taken at Tingley Beach, Albuquerque on December 18, 2025.

#nature #naturephotography #birds
The head of a roadrunner, against a plain gray background. The gray beak droops at the end. The plumage is predominated by an intricate pattern of black, white, and brown. The crest is raised, revealing black feathers. The eye includes a black pupil, surrounded by a thin yellow ring, surrounded by a thick brown ring. There's a bit of white in front of the eye and some light blue behind it. The image is detailed eough to show the black eyelashes, along with bristles (black above, white below) at the beak. Those eyelashes and bristles are specialized feathers. A close-up using the same image as before, but this time showing only an eye and the surrounding part of the face. The short feathers are an intricate mix of black, pale tan, and brown. The lashes extending from the upper eyelid are specialized feathers. This close up, when you look at the iris you can see a bit of reflected landscape, including the horizon (dark below, lighter above), a tree, and a bright spot that is the sun seen through haze.
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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nickmustoe.bsky.social
More tree-posting please.
thetreecorener.bsky.social Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · 9d
We need some more tree-posting on this app.

This is the oldest known living Douglas-fir in Oregon (and maybe in North America?) I cored it to near the pith in 2006 and was able to re-visit it recently with some other forest scientists.

It is at least 1015 years old, but probably ~1050.
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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churchstreetimages.com
‪Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday December 20, 2025
The theme is #OpenHouse

IT'S DIFFERENT THIS WEEK!
To celebrate one year of the show it's an open call for art. Show anything you made. Just still use both tags to be included in the feed.

#art #artists #supportartists #makeart #create #creative
Photo of a cloudy blue sky with text over it reading: Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday December 20, 2025 The theme is #OpenHouse IT'S DIFFERENT THIS WEEK, READ THE POST Any art you want to bring. Use both tags to be included in our feed.
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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southwestarttowns.bsky.social
🤯Wowza, what a crazy fun weekend in T or C!

🎉Some friends surprised us with an unexpected birthday trip for Val and they picked the perfect weekend for it.

#SouthwestArtTowns #TruthOrConsequences #ArtHop
Five people taking a selfie. Four people taking selfie in an art gallery. Two musicians performing with holiday lights in the background. Three people taking a selfie in an art gallery.
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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southwestarttowns.bsky.social
💯We didn't take nearly enough photos of all the festivities. The Art Hop was most definitely hoppin'! Thank you for the hospitality T or C friends! 🥰
Holiday lights in a park in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico Man and woman in art gallery with man wearing silly h9oliday sweater with a cow on it. Four women and a man taking. selfie in an art gallery.
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social
A historic marker celebrating a century of an Ohio organization’s service to the blind also comes in Braille and audio formats www.wyso.org/2025-12-09/s...
Seeing, hearing and touching the past: a new historical marker is an Ohio first
The Sight Center of Northwest Ohio recently unveiled a new historical marker with braille and audio components. The organization believes it’s the first of its kind in the state.
www.wyso.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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valinreallife.bsky.social
Well, here we are again. Another loop around the sun is in the books. And what a year it's been. I also can't believe I've been doing these birthday posts for 15 years.

valinreallife.com/fifty-four-u...

#ValinRealLife #ThisWasNotInTheBrochure
#Birthday #SouthwestArtTowns
Close up of wet yellow trillium flower petals
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
When it's your bday & your pal is a soap maker, you get soap. And I am *here* for it.

Big love to Brenda at #ZiryabsBodyBrew for being a good friend *and* keeping me fresh. (If you've ever bumped into me while I'm wearing my sweaty motorcycling gear, you know the struggle. 😅)
Small brown gift bag with tissue paper and bright cloth sticking out. Small brown gift bag with handmade soap bars in front.
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow!

This hill, tree, and #Sky have become one of my iconic memories of #NorthDakota.

📸Theodore Roosevelt National Park-South Unit (2012)

The rest of the story👇
valinreallife.com/postcards-fr...
Lone tree on grassy huillside under a partly cloude blue sky.
December 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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southwestarttowns.bsky.social
Answering the burning question many have had! Who is Southwest ArtTowns for?

It's for anyone who supports art in the southwest. It's for artists who create or exhibit here—or want to!

southwestarttowns.com

#SouthwestArtTowns #SWArtTowns #ConnectionCommunityCollaboration
December 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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valinreallife.bsky.social
Wow, it's the last newsletter of the year—my most important one to date. We've finally launched @southwestarttowns.bsky.social. We've been living and breathing this project practically non-stop for months & we need your help getting into the next phases.

mailchi.mp/valinreallif...
Graphic that reads "December newsletter: Woman owned business cage match. Team Val vs. Team Brorilla" with graphic image of blond woman and angry gorilla
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
I've just restocked my display at the Grant County Art Guild gallery. The card racks are full and I've got lots of giftable bundles of cards and postcards. Pop into that gallery at 316 N Bullard in Silver City. Or DM me to order. #ValWestonNM #LoveLocal #ShopSmall #PhotographicArt
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social
As the marker says, these are the remains of a summer home a mining magnate built in Nevada in 1897. They occupied it for two months.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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rsjon.es
I need to write a longer post about our visit to El Weirdo Brewing yesterday. But I’m going to offer this up right now.

This old payphone behind the bar not just works, but it’s the actual landline for the brewery. How cool is that?! And customers can use this other payphone, which also works!
December 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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southwestarttowns.bsky.social
[1/2] Forget Cyber Monday! We're all about #MicrobusinessMonday! And our micro-business is designed to help other art micro-businesses.

Learn more www.ifundwomen.com/projects/hel...

#SouthwestArtTowns #WhyIFundWomen #Crowdfunding #SupportSmallBusiness
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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churchstreetimages.com
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday December 6, 2025
The theme is #Sky

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #poetry
Photo of a summer sky full of puffy clouds with text over it reading: Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday December 6, 2025 The theme is #Sky Any art, any interpretation Use both tags to be included in our feed. Multiple entries welcome.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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jcbrandon.bsky.social
"Industrywide, the $21 million collected from ranchers by the BLM and Forest Service was about $284 million below market rate for forage last year."

www.hcn.org/issues/57-12...
The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab - High Country News
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.
www.hcn.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM