Ron
@tidesfalls.bsky.social
Husband, father, traveler, amateur - artist, photographer,woodworker,outdoorsmen, learner
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Budapest Christmas 2024 - Christmas evening in Budapest. Lights on, people out, winter alive.
December 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Budapest Christmas 2024 - Christmas evening in Budapest. Lights on, people out, winter alive.
Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
Ornaments borrow their shine from us. Maybe that’s the point: keep Christmas festive by giving it a bit of your own light.
#Christmas #Ornaments #HolidayMood #FestiveSeason #DecemberLight
Ornaments borrow their shine from us. Maybe that’s the point: keep Christmas festive by giving it a bit of your own light.
#Christmas #Ornaments #HolidayMood #FestiveSeason #DecemberLight
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
Ornaments borrow their shine from us. Maybe that’s the point: keep Christmas festive by giving it a bit of your own light.
#Christmas #Ornaments #HolidayMood #FestiveSeason #DecemberLight
Ornaments borrow their shine from us. Maybe that’s the point: keep Christmas festive by giving it a bit of your own light.
#Christmas #Ornaments #HolidayMood #FestiveSeason #DecemberLight
Thailand -
Buddhist/Hindu cosmology
Elephants rising from cloud and ash,
a dragon coiled in firelight—
not a battle, but a balance.
Where earth meets wind,
where storm meets flame,
the world begins again.
#mythic #art #cosmos #stormlight #elephants #dragon #elemental
Buddhist/Hindu cosmology
Elephants rising from cloud and ash,
a dragon coiled in firelight—
not a battle, but a balance.
Where earth meets wind,
where storm meets flame,
the world begins again.
#mythic #art #cosmos #stormlight #elephants #dragon #elemental
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Thailand -
Buddhist/Hindu cosmology
Elephants rising from cloud and ash,
a dragon coiled in firelight—
not a battle, but a balance.
Where earth meets wind,
where storm meets flame,
the world begins again.
#mythic #art #cosmos #stormlight #elephants #dragon #elemental
Buddhist/Hindu cosmology
Elephants rising from cloud and ash,
a dragon coiled in firelight—
not a battle, but a balance.
Where earth meets wind,
where storm meets flame,
the world begins again.
#mythic #art #cosmos #stormlight #elephants #dragon #elemental
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Born of fire and earth, her face carries the soul of Mexico — color as heartbeat, fracture as memory, beauty as resistance. #OscarSolis #MexicanArt #Expressionism #ModernMuse #ArtJourney
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Born of fire and earth, her face carries the soul of Mexico — color as heartbeat, fracture as memory, beauty as resistance. #OscarSolis #MexicanArt #Expressionism #ModernMuse #ArtJourney
The city still sleeps, but the harbor stirs — soft light, quiet water, and the first glow on the Opera House sails. #Sydney #MorningCalm #HarborLight #TravelPhotography #Serenity #Australia #WanderQuietly
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The city still sleeps, but the harbor stirs — soft light, quiet water, and the first glow on the Opera House sails. #Sydney #MorningCalm #HarborLight #TravelPhotography #Serenity #Australia #WanderQuietly
Me: “Ah, a peaceful walk in nature.”
Nature: leaves a sign-in sheet for the local grizzlies. 🐻✍️
Hashtags:
#BearTracks #GrizzlyRollCall #NatureHasJokes #TrailLife
Nature: leaves a sign-in sheet for the local grizzlies. 🐻✍️
Hashtags:
#BearTracks #GrizzlyRollCall #NatureHasJokes #TrailLife
August 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Me: “Ah, a peaceful walk in nature.”
Nature: leaves a sign-in sheet for the local grizzlies. 🐻✍️
Hashtags:
#BearTracks #GrizzlyRollCall #NatureHasJokes #TrailLife
Nature: leaves a sign-in sheet for the local grizzlies. 🐻✍️
Hashtags:
#BearTracks #GrizzlyRollCall #NatureHasJokes #TrailLife
Something else I made...
12 Layers, Maple, Walnut, Russian Birch
#woodwork #Newyork #laserwork #hardwood #architecture
12 Layers, Maple, Walnut, Russian Birch
#woodwork #Newyork #laserwork #hardwood #architecture
August 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Something else I made...
12 Layers, Maple, Walnut, Russian Birch
#woodwork #Newyork #laserwork #hardwood #architecture
12 Layers, Maple, Walnut, Russian Birch
#woodwork #Newyork #laserwork #hardwood #architecture
The mist doesn’t just blur the trees—it quiets the mind.
A place where time pauses, water whispers, and the earth holds still.
Not lonely. Just untouched.
#solitude #wildplaces #mistymornings #naturetherapy #forestquiet
A place where time pauses, water whispers, and the earth holds still.
Not lonely. Just untouched.
#solitude #wildplaces #mistymornings #naturetherapy #forestquiet
August 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The mist doesn’t just blur the trees—it quiets the mind.
A place where time pauses, water whispers, and the earth holds still.
Not lonely. Just untouched.
#solitude #wildplaces #mistymornings #naturetherapy #forestquiet
A place where time pauses, water whispers, and the earth holds still.
Not lonely. Just untouched.
#solitude #wildplaces #mistymornings #naturetherapy #forestquiet
Congress just rescinded $1.1B in federal funding for PBS & NPR
💔 Rural, tribal & community stations will lose life‑saving alerts, educational kids’ shows, local reporting This isn’t fiscal conservatism—it’s defunding trusted civic infrastructure.
#SavePublicMedia #ProtectPBS
💔 Rural, tribal & community stations will lose life‑saving alerts, educational kids’ shows, local reporting This isn’t fiscal conservatism—it’s defunding trusted civic infrastructure.
#SavePublicMedia #ProtectPBS
July 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Congress just rescinded $1.1B in federal funding for PBS & NPR
💔 Rural, tribal & community stations will lose life‑saving alerts, educational kids’ shows, local reporting This isn’t fiscal conservatism—it’s defunding trusted civic infrastructure.
#SavePublicMedia #ProtectPBS
💔 Rural, tribal & community stations will lose life‑saving alerts, educational kids’ shows, local reporting This isn’t fiscal conservatism—it’s defunding trusted civic infrastructure.
#SavePublicMedia #ProtectPBS
Somewhere between Sesame Street and Sin City…
Welcome to Straker Street.
#StreetArt #Melbourne #Graffiti #SesameStreet #Straker #UrbanArt #HosierLane #Australia
Welcome to Straker Street.
#StreetArt #Melbourne #Graffiti #SesameStreet #Straker #UrbanArt #HosierLane #Australia
July 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Somewhere between Sesame Street and Sin City…
Welcome to Straker Street.
#StreetArt #Melbourne #Graffiti #SesameStreet #Straker #UrbanArt #HosierLane #Australia
Welcome to Straker Street.
#StreetArt #Melbourne #Graffiti #SesameStreet #Straker #UrbanArt #HosierLane #Australia
Not all gargoyles are silent protectors.
Some were carved to trap the spirits they once failed to banish—bound in stone, cursed to watch the world forget their names.
In Melbourne’s shadowed corners, they remain. Watching. Waiting. Remembering.
#DarkFolklore #MelbourneGothic #ArchitectureWithteeth
Some were carved to trap the spirits they once failed to banish—bound in stone, cursed to watch the world forget their names.
In Melbourne’s shadowed corners, they remain. Watching. Waiting. Remembering.
#DarkFolklore #MelbourneGothic #ArchitectureWithteeth
July 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Not all gargoyles are silent protectors.
Some were carved to trap the spirits they once failed to banish—bound in stone, cursed to watch the world forget their names.
In Melbourne’s shadowed corners, they remain. Watching. Waiting. Remembering.
#DarkFolklore #MelbourneGothic #ArchitectureWithteeth
Some were carved to trap the spirits they once failed to banish—bound in stone, cursed to watch the world forget their names.
In Melbourne’s shadowed corners, they remain. Watching. Waiting. Remembering.
#DarkFolklore #MelbourneGothic #ArchitectureWithteeth
Tucked into the hills, the Pig & Whistle feels like it was plucked straight from the English countryside—complete with Sussex ales, vintage beer signs, and a pint under the gum trees. Doesn't it make you thirsty?
#Australia #PubCulture #TravelPhoto #PigAndWhistle #CiderAndAle
#Australia #PubCulture #TravelPhoto #PigAndWhistle #CiderAndAle
July 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Tucked into the hills, the Pig & Whistle feels like it was plucked straight from the English countryside—complete with Sussex ales, vintage beer signs, and a pint under the gum trees. Doesn't it make you thirsty?
#Australia #PubCulture #TravelPhoto #PigAndWhistle #CiderAndAle
#Australia #PubCulture #TravelPhoto #PigAndWhistle #CiderAndAle
Naples’ Castel Nuovo—once a royal seat of the Angevins and Aragonese—still guards the harbor with medieval defiance. Its stones have seen popes, poets, and plunderers pass. #Naples #CastelNuovo #History #Italy #Medieval #Architecture
July 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Naples’ Castel Nuovo—once a royal seat of the Angevins and Aragonese—still guards the harbor with medieval defiance. Its stones have seen popes, poets, and plunderers pass. #Naples #CastelNuovo #History #Italy #Medieval #Architecture
In Tangiers’ old medina, where Phoenicians once traded and spies once lingered, life still flows through sunlit alleys and lavender walls. Centuries pass, but footsteps echo the same paths. #Tangier #Morocco #History #Medina #StreetPhotography
July 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
In Tangiers’ old medina, where Phoenicians once traded and spies once lingered, life still flows through sunlit alleys and lavender walls. Centuries pass, but footsteps echo the same paths. #Tangier #Morocco #History #Medina #StreetPhotography
July 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In Monaco, the yachts are just parking spots. The real flex is owning the square footage above the clouds. Where the mountain meets the sea, wealth stacks itself in pastel tiers—yachts below, terraces above, no room for gravity.
#Monaco #CôteDAzur #LuxuryTravel
#HarborLife #Mediterranean
#Cityscape
#Monaco #CôteDAzur #LuxuryTravel
#HarborLife #Mediterranean
#Cityscape
July 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
In Monaco, the yachts are just parking spots. The real flex is owning the square footage above the clouds. Where the mountain meets the sea, wealth stacks itself in pastel tiers—yachts below, terraces above, no room for gravity.
#Monaco #CôteDAzur #LuxuryTravel
#HarborLife #Mediterranean
#Cityscape
#Monaco #CôteDAzur #LuxuryTravel
#HarborLife #Mediterranean
#Cityscape
They say the roots of this tree remember every name whispered to the wind. At night, the leaves rustle with old prayers, and the dead rise not to haunt—but to listen. In Guadalajara, even silence has a soul.
#Guadalajara #Folklore #CemeteryTales #Mexico #SacredGrounds #SpiritsWhisper
#Guadalajara #Folklore #CemeteryTales #Mexico #SacredGrounds #SpiritsWhisper
July 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
They say the roots of this tree remember every name whispered to the wind. At night, the leaves rustle with old prayers, and the dead rise not to haunt—but to listen. In Guadalajara, even silence has a soul.
#Guadalajara #Folklore #CemeteryTales #Mexico #SacredGrounds #SpiritsWhisper
#Guadalajara #Folklore #CemeteryTales #Mexico #SacredGrounds #SpiritsWhisper
In Guanajuato, gold-leafed saints sit calm at the center of carved storms.
Baroque art wasn’t meant to be quiet.
It’s human order wrapped in divine chaos—
an architecture of faith that refuses stillness.
#Guanajuato #Baroque #Churrigueresque #SacredArt #ColonialMexico #GoldAndGlory #DivineChaos
Baroque art wasn’t meant to be quiet.
It’s human order wrapped in divine chaos—
an architecture of faith that refuses stillness.
#Guanajuato #Baroque #Churrigueresque #SacredArt #ColonialMexico #GoldAndGlory #DivineChaos
July 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
In Guanajuato, gold-leafed saints sit calm at the center of carved storms.
Baroque art wasn’t meant to be quiet.
It’s human order wrapped in divine chaos—
an architecture of faith that refuses stillness.
#Guanajuato #Baroque #Churrigueresque #SacredArt #ColonialMexico #GoldAndGlory #DivineChaos
Baroque art wasn’t meant to be quiet.
It’s human order wrapped in divine chaos—
an architecture of faith that refuses stillness.
#Guanajuato #Baroque #Churrigueresque #SacredArt #ColonialMexico #GoldAndGlory #DivineChaos
Above the bay, the old city holds its ground.
Puerto Vallarta began as a fishing village in the 1850s, by the 20th century, it drew artists, exiles, and Hollywood stars.
Behind the modern skyline, the past still shows.
#PuertoVallarta #MexicanHistory #OldTownPV #ColonialMexico #TravelPhotography
Puerto Vallarta began as a fishing village in the 1850s, by the 20th century, it drew artists, exiles, and Hollywood stars.
Behind the modern skyline, the past still shows.
#PuertoVallarta #MexicanHistory #OldTownPV #ColonialMexico #TravelPhotography
July 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Above the bay, the old city holds its ground.
Puerto Vallarta began as a fishing village in the 1850s, by the 20th century, it drew artists, exiles, and Hollywood stars.
Behind the modern skyline, the past still shows.
#PuertoVallarta #MexicanHistory #OldTownPV #ColonialMexico #TravelPhotography
Puerto Vallarta began as a fishing village in the 1850s, by the 20th century, it drew artists, exiles, and Hollywood stars.
Behind the modern skyline, the past still shows.
#PuertoVallarta #MexicanHistory #OldTownPV #ColonialMexico #TravelPhotography
In my humble opinion:
#SupremeCourt #JudicialReform #BirthrightCitizenship #RuleOfLaw #ConstitutionalCrisis #PatchworkJustice #EqualProtection #NationwideInjunctions #LegalFragmentation #ExecutiveOverreach #SystemicBreakdown #ChecksAndBalances
#SupremeCourt #JudicialReform #BirthrightCitizenship #RuleOfLaw #ConstitutionalCrisis #PatchworkJustice #EqualProtection #NationwideInjunctions #LegalFragmentation #ExecutiveOverreach #SystemicBreakdown #ChecksAndBalances
June 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The north feels empty, but it isn’t.
This silence holds memory—of animals, of people, of stories, of a land that shaped all. Even alone, you’re not the first to stand here and listen.
#NorthernCanada #FirstNations #MackenzieRiver #QuietPlaces
This silence holds memory—of animals, of people, of stories, of a land that shaped all. Even alone, you’re not the first to stand here and listen.
#NorthernCanada #FirstNations #MackenzieRiver #QuietPlaces
June 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The north feels empty, but it isn’t.
This silence holds memory—of animals, of people, of stories, of a land that shaped all. Even alone, you’re not the first to stand here and listen.
#NorthernCanada #FirstNations #MackenzieRiver #QuietPlaces
This silence holds memory—of animals, of people, of stories, of a land that shaped all. Even alone, you’re not the first to stand here and listen.
#NorthernCanada #FirstNations #MackenzieRiver #QuietPlaces
Legends don’t die in Melbourne—they tag the walls and haunt the alleys.
Malcolm’s still riffing in the lane that bears his name,
and the city keeps the amp warm.
🎸 AC/DC Lane
#StreetCulture #UrbanShrine #ACDC #MalcolmYoung #GraffitiLegends #MelbourneStreets #Lushsux
Malcolm’s still riffing in the lane that bears his name,
and the city keeps the amp warm.
🎸 AC/DC Lane
#StreetCulture #UrbanShrine #ACDC #MalcolmYoung #GraffitiLegends #MelbourneStreets #Lushsux
June 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Legends don’t die in Melbourne—they tag the walls and haunt the alleys.
Malcolm’s still riffing in the lane that bears his name,
and the city keeps the amp warm.
🎸 AC/DC Lane
#StreetCulture #UrbanShrine #ACDC #MalcolmYoung #GraffitiLegends #MelbourneStreets #Lushsux
Malcolm’s still riffing in the lane that bears his name,
and the city keeps the amp warm.
🎸 AC/DC Lane
#StreetCulture #UrbanShrine #ACDC #MalcolmYoung #GraffitiLegends #MelbourneStreets #Lushsux