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TesniW
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Wondering leads to wandering and I am exceptionally curious...

Should note that all photos are mine, unless otherwise indicated in the post...
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Books read in Oct/first week in Nov. Second read. They are silly at times and the author doesn't really know how swords work (aggravating). But they have some favorite tropes, and characters I resonate with and enjoy. They demand little and visiting the world feels comfy. Some months need this...
Spines of Sarah J. Maas book series, A Court of Thorns and Roses. Includes A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Frost and Starlight, and A Court of Silver Flames.
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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I've been walking home from work and it certainly gives a different perspective of the city...

Location: Ewa side entrance to Waikīkī

Artist: Robert Wyland

More info on Wyland: www.wyland.com/the-artist/

#TagTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The sun setting over Waikīkī on December 31, 2020...

#Stunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun
The sun setting over the ocean, just above the horizon. The ocean is in the foreground with various people standing and swimming in it. At the horizon are various shades of orange that give way to blues and whites further up. Toward the top of the photo, the sky is dotted with deep pink-tinged and black-shaded clouds. Palm fronds frame the top of the photo.
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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He‘e Nalu: Two Hawaiian Olympians by artist Kamea Hadar

Depicts Native Hawaiian Carissa Moore, the first women's Olympic gold medalist in surfing (Tokyo 2020) and Duke Kahanamoku, the first Native Hawaiian Olympian and credited with sharing the sport of surfing.

#TagTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue
A sidewalk with bicycles leading up to a busy street with cars and a stoplight. The focus of the photo is a large mural on the side of a building showing Native Hawaiian Olympian Carissa Moore wrapped in a Hawaiian flag and Native Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku to the right of and slightly behind Moore. Moore is surfing the foreground of the mural. The photo is framed on the top left and partly down the left side by foliage.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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M had to go to California at the beginning of October. It was last minute and unplanned, but happened to be when some of the BG3 actors were signing at Funko.

This man took the red eye, went straight from the airport to Funko, stood in line, and got Pops signed on my behalf. I felt so loved.
3 Funko Pops, of Gale, Lae'zel, and Astarion from the Baldur's Gate 3 video game. Each has a signature and a quote, though they are not fully shown. The quotes are: Gale: Lost in thought. Lae'zel: Speak you're mind, I'm listening. Astarion: Hello, you.
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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All Hallow's Eve and a truer form emerges...

Happy Halloween Bluesky!

#ColorADay #BWFri #Spooktober #Halloween
Black and white image of a shadow of a person from the shoulders up, branching antlers stretching out horizontally from crown.
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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One of my favorite photos, of those I've taken.

Location: Somewhere near Busan, South Korea (I'd probably know if I looked it up on a map...)

#ColorADay #YellowThu
A single, yellow, daisy-looking flower with a black center in focus in the foreground with a sparsely-covered clearing, a hedge, and a few tall trees, slightly blurred in the background.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula...
Portrait of Matthew Goode as Matthew Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches. The blurred background is the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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A coffee, a book, and a window through which to gaze out at the world...

A most happy place...

#WindowsonWednesday
A window looking out on to a yellow-green lawn, with a tree-lined street beyond it. In the foreground, slightly blurred, is a travel mug, a pencil case, and an open book with a pen laying across it, all sat on a table pushed directly up against and in line with the broad window sill.
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Interesting cloud configuration over campus... I see what you've done here, October...

#Stunday #31DaysofHalloween
A vast sky of dark clouds, a portion of which is illuminated and looks to be in the shape of a ghost with eyes and a grinning mouth. Shadowed buildings line the bottom of the photo, with a small grove of palm trees in the bottom right corner.
October 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Pumpkin display at Times Supermarket because Hawaiʻi may not have an autumn with the leaves and the scarves and the cozy, but damn it, we will at least have pumpkins! And skeletons. We *will* have pumpkins and skeletons!

#spooktober #pumpkin
Large cardboard box of pumpkins with a pumpkin garland along the top and a green price sign that reads "Pumpkin Halloween 8-15 LB. .89". Two skeletons with lei and musical instruments around their necks are behind the box. Left side skeleton has a short-sleeve, button-up shirt on. Right side skeleton has a grass skirt and coconut bra on. The produce section of a grocery store stretches out behind the skeletons, with various square-shaped florescent lights overhead.
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Oh, boo! I'm sorry you're having to deal with such a junk day!

Here's a rainbow to help brighten it a bit? And here's to something good coming along soon to splatter the ick away! 🩷
A rainbow set against clouds arcing from left to right over a rainy street with cars.
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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A little bit of...what would I even call this one? Little bit silly, little bit horror, all kine fun? 🤔☺️

I am especially drawn to the interesting opposition of ominous and playful...

Another one from the Kaka'ako area.

Artist: Alex Pardee

#TagTuesday
Street art on a bright yellow concrete wall. Various, intertwining creatures emerging from a skull-like creature that is itself popping out of a black hole in the wall. All of the creatures are various pastel shades of pink, blue, green, and purple.
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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In Kaka'ako, this mural documents racial tragedy that happened in the US in summer 2020, interwoven with nature and messages of hope. Impossible to fully capture in photographs. Incredibly poignant...

From what I saw up close, I believe the artist is Storkeeperbme (but I'm not sure).

#TagTuesday
A large and very detailed mural in an industrial district. At the top is painted in large letters, Aloha E Komo Mai. There are several human figures and faces interwoven with nature scenes, including a tree, sun, waterfalls, and plants. The center of a large and detailed mural. The central focus is on a man holding a small girl, one arm supporting her and holding a standing dragon looking up at him in his other. The physical security light on the wall above the man and child is incorporated into the mural as a beam of light shining on them. There are several other details including black and white dragons on the edges of the light beam, and above the light beam, a body of water with islands emerging and above them, a woman's face within what looks like a moon... A mural of a wooden sign, with islands, tiki statues, and an elegant woman along the top and large green plants and a vase with bamboo along the bottom. The sign reads "Creativity is my freedom! The freedom to express not impress. To impress is to become a slave to others opinions." Underneath the sign, between the vase and the plants, it reads "George Floyd will give us breath. Breonna Taylor will bring us peace."
October 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Something about feeling like part of a community, esp one as kind as the Minkies, makes me feel just that much better about stepping outside of my comfort zone.

Thanks @squishylovemuppet.bsky.social 🥰

I don't art, but I sometimes doodle... (inspo in alt text)

#clemmifybluesky #itsclemmytime
A rather bad impessionist-like doodle of a dog in a field with a river on the right and a blue sky above. My impression of an Instagram post by devilligan from October 4, 2024.
October 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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M and I have dinner at Hy's Steakhouse every wedding anniversary divisible by 5. So tonight we had steak!

We met playing World of Warcraft. M was a Dwarf Hunter (and a Dwarf Cleric), I was a Draenei Paladin.

We both laughed looking at our drinks at dinner--the tall Draenei and short Dwarf... 😆
A glass of riesling and a short glass of Mac Daddy, which is a mixed drink with scotch and amaretto, sitting on a table with a restaurant scene in the background
October 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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What a pleasant way to welcome in the morning!

I couldn't quite capture it, being in the passenger seat of our car and in transit, but we could clearly see the end of the rainbow.

No chance for the pot of gold, though. The rainbow ended in the canal. Clever leprechaun...

#WindowsOnWednesday
Raindrops on a car windshield with the scene beyond blurred. The blurred scene includes a street, palm trees on the right side, and a the end of a rainbow. A street scene with traffic. Buildings line the left, with palm trees and parked cars along the right. A rainbow stretches up to the left, across a sky darkened with clouds.
October 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Reading between the lines? Perhaps within them?

It's still Tuesday here at the tail end of time zones...

Location: Kaka'ako

Artists: Tristan Eaton and Matt Eaton

#TagTuesday #AnimalArtTuesday
A mural of a tiger against a white wall, with scenes and faces in the Tiger's stripes
October 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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I'm giving it a try @sarajae.bsky.social !! I hope I did it right... ☺️

A small moment of peace before a busy day...

#BWFriday #ColorADay
A cup of coffee with latte art on a table in the foreground. A planter box with plants in the middle ground and the entrance to a coffee shop with the shop's name, Morning Glass, above it.
October 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Telling the boys my work friends thought the insect phone case was more like me...

L: That one may be more you, but the goose one is more your insides.
T: What does that mean?
L: Who you really are, on the inside.
T: And what is that?
L: A goofy goober

These emerging humans I have are wild...
Beige phone case with various insects on it in muted colors on the left and blue phone case with silly geese on it on the right
October 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I woke up to a gloriously gloomy sky and real rain! Ah, my heart! And then the sun decided to troll me. Can't we just have one full day of cozy gloom?!
A street wet with rain and shadowed by deep clouds through which the sun shines, blocked by the leaves of a tree.
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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I've got three books on order (old favorites, as I re-build my library), but they haven't yet arrived. So I'm melting into another old favorite until they do.

The world is bananas, so comfort books and visiting with favorite characters it is for awhile...
The reddish and black cover of the book Sunshine by Robin McKinley. The cover shows a ceiling medallion with a chandelier hanging from its center
October 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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It's still National Coffee Day in Hawaiʻi for another hour and 10 minutes...

Left: Very cute The Robin Cafe, in Richmond, England. First coffee stop in England and first time to try Square Mile Coffee! So good!

Right: Plantoem in Honolulu. Today's coffee and writing. Osmanthus Cappuccino. Yum!
Coffee and croissant on a red table with a small succulent in the background. The coffee cup sits on a saucer and has a cute monster-looking thing on it. A mug of coffee with a heart drawn in the foam sitting on a small table next to an open laptop, with another table and large plants in the background.
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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A new phone, grudgingly purchased, has meant trying to handle some 30k photos that were on the old phone. But in doing so, I found some sweet nostalgia...

This photo, scanned from a physical copy (!), is from a trip to St. Louis, Senegal 🇸🇳, when I lived in Dakar for 3 months way back in 2002...
Goats eating from a large mound of leaves and branches gathered against a concrete wall bordering a river, with a metal bridge spanning the river in the background. One goat stands on the wall and is eating while other goats variously stand around an eat on the unpaved road next to the wall.
September 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The sky looked particularly fun and interesting this morning.

Coming from Southern California, where it is a flat, cloudless, boring blue, I've always loved gazing at the Hawaiʻi sky. It feels closer, somehow. Or as M teases me, it's dimensional!

Well, it is...
Portable buildings surrounding a grass courtyard, all in deep shadow, frame a bright sky with multiple different shades and textures of clouds
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM