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Elaine

@actuallyelaine.bsky.social

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Freelance fairy's midwife.🌈 Signs, portents, omens, and foreshadowing, with chips and a side salad. Jabberwock champion. Eldritch horror. The Shrew Remains Untamed.

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · Jan 22

Pebble beach, north island.

Beach pebbles of various colours and sizes. PnW

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 1h

I am Toad.
Absolutely Toad.
Unapologetically Toad.

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2h

“You have been asleep since November,” said Frog.

“Well then,” said Toad, “a little more sleep will not hurt me.”

Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 13h

Madness.
Look at you.
You're gorgeous!

Purple and red sunrise.
PNW island.
18 October 2025.
Photo by actuallyelaine.bsky.social

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 17h

Movement is curative.
Dance creates power.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 2d

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 17h

Because the world has too many loud sounds and sharp edges, please enjoy a look back at Reggie, a Pacific tree frog who took up residence in an outdoor planter at my workplace last October.

#pnwtreefrog
#tinybuthugelyloud

Pacific tree frog, vacationing in the planter outside the front door at work, 2024.
Photo by actuallyelaine.bsky.social

Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 17h

Oh no!!
Don't push yourself today.
🩷🩷🩷

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michelepix @michelepix.bsky.social · 1d

On a dreary morning this week a few hundred Yellow-headed Blackbirds gathered to perch atop reed clumps in a flooded field, making it look alive as if with wild sunflowers. It was a brief appearance, the likes of which I’ve not seen before. Another of Mother Nature’s special moments. #birds_matter

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 2d

They say the night has a thousand eyes, but this mushroom has two of 'em.

#pnwmushrooms
#spookyfungus

Wild mushroom/toadstool with two "eyes".

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, you may have all my toast edges. 🐶 🧈 🍞

Merlyn the AusPyr, at repose

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 3d

There's a distinct chill in the air today.
The sun is hiding directly behind this tree, possibly trying to shrug into a cardigan before anyone notices.

#pnwautumn

Autumn sun peeking around a maple tree.
Photo by actuallyelaine.bsky.social

Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 5d

Look at you, so ridiculously pink, despite the calendar!
Be a Queen, little geranium! 🌸

Pink geranium amidst fall leaves.
Photo by actuallyelaine.bsky.social

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A.Z. Fell, Esq. @azfell-esq.bsky.social · 8d

It is my deeply-held belief that all Creators are Divine.
●Storytellers
●Artists
●Music-makers
●Poets
●Dancers
●Makers of Beautiful Things
●Teachers
●Healers
You are all Gods and Goddesses.
✨️✨️✨️

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Professor Plum @davindaire.bsky.social · 8d

Books! The color blue! Ghosts and Goblins! And the month of October! I approve this message (and repost it every year)....

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 8d

It takes a bold hand to make gentle art.

Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 8d

@davindaire.bsky.social
I believe Turner painted this morning's sepia sunrise.

Orange and sepia sunrise 10 October 2025
PNW
Photo by actuallyelaine.bsky.social

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 11d

I am Toad.
I am also Frog.
But at least we're together in all this nonsense.

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 12d

“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?”

“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.

Toad questions Frog about the veracity of his ghost story, an animated look on his face.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 11d

What a beauty! 🩷

Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 11d

Does SDNP harvest any of the sloes, and might there ever be a Park gin on offer?
🍸

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 12d

Toodle-doo to a brilliant Monday.
Coffee with a dear old friend; sublime, teary, and hilarious.
Love you madly, Xander. 💜

Sunset PNW island 6 October 2025.
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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 13d

Hiya, 5th October!

Sunrise toward the mainland.
PNW island.
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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 14d

It's October, and that means...
A rewatch of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken!

"Why don't you run up an alley and holler Fish?"

#andtheyusedbonami
#murderanddeath
#attaboyluther

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken film 1966
Starring Don Knotts

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 14d

And I am here for every wisp of fog and petulant raindrop.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15d

Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mock’ry, hence!

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 15d

Fly agaric.

Stunning to look at but poisonous.

It can be spotted on lowland heath around birch and pine, where it is thought to have a mycorrhizal relationship - sharing nutrients between tree roots and the fungi itself.

📷 Olivia French

#SouthDowns #AutumnVibes

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Elaine @actuallyelaine.bsky.social · 14d

Oopsie.
It's 1:30, and I need to be to work by 8.
😵