Annie

Such a happy pink! 🌸

Great shot, and great texture on the water. 💖

YouTube video by Celtica - Pipes Rock! - Topic The Lion Sleeps Tonight

What I’m enjoying this morning

youtu.be/NarqKJo5p9k

I love how this captured the ripples!

Close-up of a gray butterfly, with a thin stripe paralleling the long edge of the wing and a little orange spot in one corner, perched in a patch of clustered green-white flowers.

Close-up of a three-petalled purple flower surrounded by grass and little brown leaves, looking like a propeller about to start spinning.

I’m sporadically going through old photos and found these from ~10 years ago!

I love the symmetry with the clouds reflecting in the water. 💖

Those are gorgeous.🕊️

Doodle of a five-point star with the points curlng around. A line of “stones” (circles with a bit of shading) outlines each arm, overlapping in the center and on the sides. The angles suggest a dramatic rock star pose.

Doodle of a curling four-point star crisscrossed with “ribbons”, hanging by a loop of “cord”. Each little section is filled with small shapes, a few of which are scattered around outside.

more doodles #Zentangle
Rock Star & Piñata?

View looking up at a stained glass skylight from just beside a hotel Christmas tree. The skylight is subtle greens and golds, smaller rectangles surrounding a central rectangle, framing an oval of gold “scales” filled with a geometric floral design. The top section of the tree is visible, very foreshortened, with gold lights, lacy tinsel-ish ornaments, and gold and red baubles.

An artistic “tree” of bare metal branches with small white and red blossoms, mounted on a brick wall. Large leaves from a living plant form a lopsided V framing the base of the “tree” from below.

Tree art at the Menger Hotel

Not quite original, but it was too good a chance to pass up. :)

Grey sand, silvery water with waves rolling in, layers of ombré grey-white clouds. A line of uneven posts marches out to sea, most with a seagull perched on top.

From a Thanksgiving beach walk: this post is for the birds.

Three glossy black birds on a patch of beach sand, spaced left-middle-right across the photo, staring intently at - each other? something else off-camera?

From a Thanksgiving beach walk: is it still an attempted murder if it’s grackles?

Magpie sitting in bright green grass next to a sunny wood fence

Magpie in flight, about to escape out of frame. Patches of white show on the wingtips and shoulders; on the inner wings and tail is black shading to blue. Most of the picture is sunny green grass.

Magpies! Not the best shot, but I was happy to get one that showed off the colors.

As a reader I would love all of this. I can’t keep schedules in my head to know when to check for new issues. Social media works ok but I often don’t have time to read when I see a post. And yeah, there are always more pubs that I don’t know about to even check.

Buy Now just for the title! (Ok, I did look at the preview first. :)

And I had to immediately go tell my mother because this is her also.

sketchbook page with two triangle doodles pointing opposite ways, filled in with different line patterns and joined with a line pattern like a switchback queue or a top-straightforward maze.

Quiet time doodling tonight. It looks nothing like the #zentangle models, but I kinda like where it wandered off to.

A cluster of tiny silvery blossoms with a whimsical label calling them Maid’s Wish. The shelf I put them on seems to somehow never need dusting.

*loved - but lived kinda works too!

Let the Star Explode - Lightspeed Magazine The last picture that Karu has of her father alive is on the day of her graduation. She has this big smile that by the placing of her dimples makes it obvious that she is his daughter. He stands next ...

Lines I lived #amreading

“Just count to three and take a breath when nothing makes sense. She reminds herself that making sense is a lie. Nothing has ever made sense. That makes her feel better.”

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/let-...

I was not expecting to recommend @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and @clarkesworldmagazine.com at a medical appointment today, but that’s the way the conversation went. Maybe a new reader?

This story also has me thinking about how one long extended metaphor can make a story that hits home and how Tuesday seems to be the day of choice for “ordinary mundane day, until…”

The Universe Ends on a Tuesday - Small Wonders The universe ends at 7:42 on a Tuesday morning, at the end of June, when the raspberries are still only little white fists clenched against a late chill.

Opening line I loved #amreading

“The universe ends at 7:42 on a Tuesday morning, at the end of June, when the raspberries are still only little white fists clenched against a late chill.”

smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-un...

Travelers’ Tales from the Ends of the World - Lightspeed Magazine Welcome, Stranger! This is a story for you, you who wait for my words to fall into your ear, so that we can share being and become more than we are alone. The tales I have to tell today are woven into...

Lines I loved #amreading

“For us, who work in the dark, in small, secret gatherings such as this one, we who dream of better worlds, we braid time, weave time, defy time, grant ourselves freedom from chronology.”

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/trav...