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@wandering-wow.bsky.social

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Pretty obviously undoctored travel snapshots of mine. No filters or AI. No DMs please. ."..strange and ragged like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the Dark Word, and the only word I had was "Wow!'" - Kerouac www.tonygentry.com

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 3h

Kings Dominion #Halloween Haunt, Doswell, #Virginia

#31DaysofHalloween #Spooktober #clowns #streetphotography

Menacing sad-faced clown in white makeup,striped shirt and baggy pants with suspenders, facing camera, standing in a red and white striped box

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 16h

Happy Birthday, and wow! Where is this?

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 21h

A closer view of one of the truncated phalluses marking the Dionysius temple ruins

White stone plinth with carved reliefs supporting a truncated phallus sculpture. Behind this, stacked stone foundation of an ancient temple to Dionysius, now in ruins. On Greek island Delos.

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 1d

42-foot tall replica #Athena statue in the replica Parthenon, #Nashville, #Tennessee

#Myth&Legend #PalacesandGardens #photography #art #sculpturre

color photo looking up at a 42-foot tall statue of a wide-eyed woman in a crown and golden gown, her hand holding a winged figure, also gowned in gold.

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 1d

thanks for reposting this one!

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 1d

The uninhabited Greek island #Delos is the birthplace of Apollo and features this ruined temple to Dionysius.

#PalacesandGardens #Myth&Legend #photography #Greece

ruins of temple to Dionysius on island of Delos, featuring a pair of truncated phalluses on plinths

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 1d

same

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 2d

Dauphine Street window, New Orleans

#spooktober #WindowsonWednesday #photography #NOLA
#NewOrleans

tall six-paned window. On the sill inside is a spooky sculpture of a nude woman standing and looking out at the street.

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 3d

Carytown, #Richmond, Virginia

#tagtuesday #RVA #streetphotography #murals #streetart

Framed outdoor wall mural of a green luna moth surrounded by foliage, flowers and yellow caterpillars

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Tony Gentry @logentry.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most haunted building in #Richmond, #Virginia, the original Medical College of Virginia, a National Historic Landmark and a sterling example of Egyptian Revival #architecture. Click alt text for why so haunted.

#Spooktober #hauntedhouses #VCU #Halloween #history #RVA

Hundreds of graves (mostly in Black cemeteries) were robbed to supply "anatomy material" for medical students in this building during the 19th Century. The remains are buried in a covered-over well beneath the building. My biographical novel The Night Doctor of Richmond tells the story of Chris baker, the reviled 19th Century grave robber and anatomy man for the medical school. More on that here: www.tonygentry.com.

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 3d

The sultan's bedroom. #Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum, #Malaysia.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent

Ornate four-poster bed with golden drapes and ornate golden scrolling repeated on mahagony walls.

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 4d

A poem by my late friend Sarah Knorr:

In the End

Let me go like the gingko
In a silent shout of glory:

Drop my gold
And lift my arms to heaven.

#imageandverse #EastCoastKin #poem #poetry #photography #autumnleaves #trees #nature

color photo. What it looks like to lie on your back under gingko trees in Autumn, their brilliant golden leaves above you.

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 4d

snakes are typically shy and prefer to escape rather than fight. You did the right thing letting that guy go on his way.

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 4d

If a juvenile, will deliver MORE venom. Apparently, as they mature they learn to titrate, but the kids just spurt what they got

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 4d

absolutely. Having quit all the others, much mellower here and blood pressure appreciates it

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 5d

#stunday #photography #nature #RVA

color photo of autumn leaves afloat in a pocket pool in a granite boulder, shot on the James River, downtown Richmond, Virginia.

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 6d

Forest Hills Park, #Richmond, #Virginia

#photography #autumn #outdoors #nature #RVA

color photo of autumn scene, lake lined with trees, their leaves orange and rust, a gazebo in the distance, smoke rising from it

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 6d

Our adult son shares your boat and we watch hopefully from shore. Row on, sir, and thank you for your candor here.

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 7d

The most interesting tree on our daily woods walk.

#ForestFriday #nature #photography #trees

B&W photo of an oak tree hollowed along its length, inside a thick tendril like a rooted artery or something. One part of the trunk a thick-lipped slash, probably from someone's axe. I never pass this tree on our woods walks with stopping to wonder at it.

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 7d

don't let him in, maybe a bowl of milk at your door. That's a vampire guise!

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 7d

thank you for follow. I'm gonna follow you on my main account - only really post photos on this one.

Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 8d

Gateway to walled city, #Carcassonne, #France.

#palacesandgardens #gates #urbangaze #travel

color photo showing a man and woman walking under turreted and arched stone gate, tall stone tower with pointed roof behind them

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 8d

Jamon Shop, Theatre District, #London

#urbangaze #WindowsonWednesday

color photo shot through a shop window showing rows of hams hanging, sandwiches, a woman's face, and pedestrians reflected in the window, a windowed collage

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 9d

Just discovered your photos here and as one with a gothic bent, really diggin' 'em! Imagine they'll be invading my dreams tonight! Thank you!

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Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social · 9d

amen