Catherine 📸✨🕯️

Black and white photo of a pathway through a row of trees creating a tunnel with a “door” of light at the end of it.

Escapism for the day, a little late in the day 📸

I took this as a baby photographer for my capstone project in college! Shot on 35mm black & white Kodak T-Max film, this photo now represents that liminal time between graduation and starting my career.

Where does this path lead for you?

Meee too 🫂

☺️📸 Thanks for following!

My husband is going through all the negative YouTube comments under Fox News’ post about the brave and compassionate speech by Rev. Budde. All bots. Don’t be fooled.

Photograph of a flock of birds taking off above the Puget Sound in Seattle Washington. The Olympic Mountains can be seen in the distance. Soothing shades of blue with soft ripples in the water.

Alright besties, let’s take to the sky 🕊️ Photo escapade of the day (from the archives) for 1/22/25 📸

This image was captured at Carkeek Park in Seattle, WA in January, 2009. I was listening to “To The One” by Mediaeval Baebes on the drive to the beach, which made this day positively epic.

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Let’s gooo! 📸✨

Yesss!! Lets fly! 🚀

I want to share some content for escapism and nervous system regulation in this space. I’m an ethereal nature & landscape photographer trying to fight chaos and destruction with art. So what do we think about me sharing a “photo a day” for us to escape into?

Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms

@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web

Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart

The mainstream media is already normalizing Donald Trump.

I won't, and neither should you.

This is why legacy media is dying.

Happy #MLKDay ❤️✨

And so we begin again…

#newbeginnings #liminalspace #mentalhealthmatters #darkaesthetics #forestcore #escapeism #darknaturalism

He quietly worried he would be leaving me with his insurmountable medical debt. We learned about & applied for HCAP since we were below the poverty line.

We thought we’d be moving back soon so he could go back to work, but the debt held us back. The cancer returned 2 months later. He was a Ph.D. candidate of molecular genetics. He knew his odds were not good from the very beginning, but tried to soften the blow for me.

$150,000 of medical debt was looming over us. The onslaught of calls every day from debt collectors. We could hardly breathe with all the anxiety & stress. Our lives were packed up in storage across the country because we’d moved back home to be close to family and good hospitals.

That’s how we initially found out it was cancer; his doctor hesitated to order a simple x-Ray. He’d just learned to walk again after chemo when we got the news that Aetna wouldn’t be covering all the treatment he’d just had. He was then declared in remission. But the relief was shortlived.

Thank you, friend! ☺️💗

We can also stop bending over backwards to help ungrateful people 🙃 My kindness and support is freely given, but a little reciprocity would keep it going.

I don’t think we should be giving our warmth away for free anymore. My energy is depleted from masking my feelings these past two weeks.

I recently had an initial interview for the type of role I’ve been looking for since April. Wasn’t the right fit, but it inspired me to make some changes to my resume. The search continues 🤞

He’s casting for season 249 of ‘Merica 😣

I love my mug, too ☺️ @mandarella8.bsky.social

Last day off before getting back busy work season and busy small business season. I have an entire web shop to restock before Friday 🫨

Love this. I started a list, too.

It’s been so long that I forgot how to do this. I deleted my Twitter account over the summer but have the archives to remember who I was and how positive that spaces used to be. I hope this is a safe space.

I have few words these days. I mourn the loss of 2008-2015 Twitter. I mourn the loss of justice. I mourn the loss of joy. But women all around the world are finding their voices and rising up into their power. Maybe one day I will, too.

What better day to begin my bluuuuue sky era than my birthday? Hello everyone 💙