Ilona

Beam me there, please!

Evening Scene Façade of a building with a small and a large window to each side of the door at the center. The smaller windows are hidden behind large Christmas trees that are located to the left and the right of the entrance. The front yard is fenced in, there are tables and chairs in the yard. The windows are decorated with see-through curtains.

🌜 Good Night, Good People Everywhere! 🌛

VIENNA AT CHRISTMASTIME
Café Dommayer
Alt-Hietzing, 13th District
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#ClassicMono #Monochrome
#Kaffeehaus #WindowsOnWednesday

CAT TAKES QUEEN (our MG novel) is back from the proofer, and I’m amazed as usual at what a sharp eye will pick up even after many eyeballs have been on this manuscript. #KidLit

Did someone say #WaterfallWednesday? #Photography #Landscapes #UneditedPhotography.

Too much fun! I miss Albany CA, now being closer to Albany, NY.

The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.

Frozen waterfall in NY state

#Photography #Landscape #Monochrome

Fade
#Stunday
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn
#Fog
#PhotographersOfBlue
#Mood
#Chill

A band of green aurora below a thick band of vibrant pink at Vista House in Oregon.

I've loved seeing the northern lights more in the last year than ever before. #sky

#blueskyartshow #landscape #nature #photography #stunday #landscapephotography #art #photographersunited #eastcoastkin

#Stunday #Photography #Landscapes

Another chess-playing cat for #Caturday!

About time!

Confession: it’s a street light, not the moon. #Photography #Unedited

That precise cloud pattern will never be repeated, making it a unique shot. (And beautiful.)

#MushroomMonday

#SilentSunday #Stunday

High five for #Caturday

Perhaps I could write a sequel called “Kitten Takes King.”

I’m at the stage of reducing word count where I google whether “ice water“ is one word or two. #KidLit #AmRevising (bad news; it’s two words)

#WackyWednesday (frozen puddle)

Raindrop hanging from dry stems in the mist

#BlueSkyArtShow #Small

#ColorADay #YellowThu (with some bonus frost)

Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation | CNN In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm.

Disrespectful to both book and author! #Trump. #ICE
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...

We've got a book cover! And we're less than a year away from the pub date, which I'm trying to think of as a short time... #kidlit #scbwi

#BlueSkyMonday (Buffalo, New York’s David gets to look out over the freeway.)

#blueskyartshow #Bright

Usually, a wadded up Kleenex, but sometimes a dollar!

I'm always amazed to find the gate where it's supposed to be. (And that the bus or subway car actually goes where it's supposed to, and...)

#Urbangaze

I am so here for #WaterfallWednesday. (Watkins Glen, NY.)