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etaylorc

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The delight is in the finding out. Inveterate traveler, incorrigible animal rescuer, English teacher by trade. Mostly lurking/liking here. All photos by me unless otherwise stated.

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etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 4h

Performance #inside the Reed Flute Cave in Guilin, China.

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Guilin #cave #photography #travelmemories

The scene is in a cave with a large, nearly perfectly still pool reflecting the cave ceiling. Most of the photo is black, but blue lights illuminate the far shore, backlighting some of the stalagmites. On the left side, silhouettes of some people are barely visible as they mostly blend into the shadows. On the right there is a large screen showing ballet dancers - this is partly also reflected in the pool.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 18h

Ugh, miswrote with "what to do?" Should have been "what do you think will happen?" And the answer should have been "chaos and mayhem."

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 20h

A moment of #quiet about to become very loud; there is another cat and four small dogs in the flat, so, really, what to do?

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #rescue #adoptdontshop

A very cross-looking orange cat is lying on a blanket atop a green cardboard box. There are other things in the picture, but really all you need to know to know is that the cat is exceedingly cross-looking, and that other animals in his space are about to piss him off even more.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 23h

And oops, the photo in the original post is from Whippet Hilfe, and the video is from the original rescuer, a girl from Shanghai. All my own photos are from the clinic, and are in posters pleading for help paying the bills 😂

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 1d

So many people and orgs to thank for recovery from this: 50+ kind-hearted people in Shanghai; Eleventh-Hour Rescues, Shanghai; Candy's Hound Rescue International; Slaughterhouse Survivors Harbin; The Haven, Shanghai; and now Whippet Hilfe in Germany. Orgs are all on IG and FB.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 1d

Happy aside: earlier this year I posted a pic of this dog in the clinic, barely alive from horrific neglect. He is now getting ready for adoption in the EU through Whippethilfe.de.

(NSFL rescue video in the comments.)(A hard watch, but what a transformation.)

#dogs #rescue #adoptdontshop #bekind

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to watch. So many people and orgs to thank for his new chance at life: 50+ kind-hearted people in Shanghai; Dingding clinic; Eleventh-Hour Rescues Shanghai; Candy's Hound Rescue International; Slaughterhouse Survivors Harbin; The Haven, Shanghai; and now Whippet Hilfe.

Godspeed, Gangzi.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 1d

Hippos don't deserve the association. Neither do elephants, or any other animal.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 1d

#Quiet sunrise hill #scape in Ella, #SriLanka.

#EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #photography #travelmemories

Looking south through a narrow pass of steep hills, widening into plains on the southern end of Sri Lanka. Because it is dawn, the hills in front are nearly black silhouettes, while the low hills in the distance are beginning to be lit. But the sky is full of sunrise colors in the clouds above.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing so #quiet as being totally alone in the ruins of a massive city destroyed 3,215 years earlier. I was in #Hattusa before the archaeology teams were back for the season, and long before tourists.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #Türkiye #archaeology #travelmemories

A broad, flat, grassy plain drops downhill and stretches into bare hills in the distance, under a blue sky with clouds. On the plain in the foreground are low stone walls (some quite thick), tracing shapes that are clearly a complex building - one of many on the site.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 5d

This rescue from this spring had so much fluid in her belly I thought she was pregnant. It took a while to clear, and there's a risk of getting symptoms again, but with that treatment she is happy and healthy (and adopted!) now. Wonders of science.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 6d

Here's a #vertical for the #BlueskyArtShow - one bit of the world not many will have seen, and which still puzzles me: the WWII memorial to the fallen of Donji Milanovac, Serbia. I lived here for a while. Bonus clear #BlueSky.

#TravelMemories #Photography

Several silver poles rise gathered together into a perfectly clear blue sky.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 7d

Cat looms large on this brilliant-sky #caturday dawn.

#CatsOfBluesky #Cats #OrangeCats #Rescue #AdoptDontShop

The photo is mostly pale orange, the light cast from a particularly orange sunrise which casts a long shadow of a cat on the wall on the left. The cat itself is sitting in a clear bowl suspended near the top of a tall scratching pole. A sliver of the outside is visible through the window on the right.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 8d

Dawn #cloudscape in #pink and purple

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink #EastCoastKin #Scape #SkyScape #Photography #Daybreak

Broken streaks of clouds are lit up in brilliant pinks by the rising sun, against a lavender sky.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 9d

My HS class started "The Possibility of Evil" today with a whiteboard mind map with just the word "evil" circled in red in the middle. Loads of interesting connections (including "chicken nuggets"), but no context for the poor kids who came innocently into chemistry after...

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 10d

Prettied-up moped. It's definitely a choice.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink #WackyWednesdayArt

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 12d

Hope Monday treats you well!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink #bloomscrolling #ColorADay #PinkMon

Close up of a very pink rose bud.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 13d

Sundown #glow over an inlet on #CapeCod. My favorite spot to end the day for the year I lived there.

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Photography #TravelMemories

The picture is about half sky, with a band of low land in the middle, and a quarter each still water and, in the foreground, marshy grass. The picture was taken near sundown, making the sky pale yellowish-pink, which is reflected in the water. The long marsh grass also has a yellowish glow. Two small, white, 1-2 person boats float offshore (one sailboat, one motorboat), and are also reflected in the water.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 14d

My kind of opulence - a fraction of the stacks and stacks of Toblerones in Changi Airport duty free, Singapore. Maybe works as a chocolate #scape too.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent #TravelMemories #CabinPressure

Stacks of a variety of sizes and flavors of Toblerone chocolates. Most are the milk chocolate kind, in gold packaging, but a few other kinds in their different colors are visible. The display itself is made of the standard triangle shapes.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 15d

And here's a bit of Thai opulence - decorative elements from in and around the Wat Pho temple complex in Bangkok.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent #TravelMemories

Looking up at a giant golden reclining Buddha. The ceiling is covered in paintings and other decor, including a panel showing a landscape and a walled palace, and floral panels in maroon and gold.

Part of a ceiling in a room full of square columns. The columns are mostly covered in a gold pattern, topped with intricate gold capitals/ One column is white marble with an elaborate gold capital that looks like feathers, including green and white glass decoration. At the corner is a large piece extended toward the viewer. The ceilings are different panels with different designs in gold on maroon.

Closeup of a door and column against a plain white wall. The door and door frame are gold; the door has a black pattern. The column is gold with a geometric design of green, red, and blue glass. The bottom of the column looks like gold feathers. The edge of the step is also a gold and blue glass geometric pattern.

Closeup of a column and railing, with a heavily decorated background. The column if black with a detailed floral pattern in gold, such that the main color is gold. The railing is carved and mostly gold, with green and white glass design elements inlaid. The background is, at the top, panels of the ceiling in gold patterns on maroon. The floor is highly polished tan tiles, probably marble.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 19d

And here's a bit of Ottoman opulence - decorative elements from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. I find it pretty, but in way smaller doses than they lived in.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent #TravelMemories

A massive tiled wall with a wood framed, arched door. The tiles are greenish blue, and there are at least three different patterns. Above the door is a broad dark blue band with Arabic script in white and a different floral pattern. Directly above the door, within the wooden frame, is another phrase in Arabic script, but inlaid in gold. The double doors are inlaid in a floral pattern, probably in silver shell. There's a bit of pink-red and green tile arching over the upper right corner, so the colors just keep going.

The picture is mostly looking straight up into a domed ceiling in a square room, brightly painted but getting lost in shadows, with gilded edges. Lots of gilded edges. The walls leading up to the dome are tiled in light blues and greens, in at least two different patterns.

Closeup of a geometric pattern, mostly in cream-colored shell and what looks like amber, with a bit of pale green. This was the surface of a piece of furniture in a room with walls like the others described.

Hard to describe this one, because there is just so much going on. It's a wall. The far left edge is a mostly plain, yellowish colored stone, with a small carved pillar decoration. The bottom two-thirds is mostly split into two arches. In those arches are abstract vases and vines that resemble peacocks, but made of plants and maybe monsters. Above the arches are bands of Arabic script and geometric floral patterns.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 19d

If you were part of the Golden Horde, these would be the height of opulence. The amulet is supposedly original; the others were probably made by descendants. From a museum of Mongol history, Inner Mongolia.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent

A gold amulet on a thick gold chain. The amulet is of a stylized horse, legs folded beneath it, making the horse a long, low rectangle.

Closeup of an old saddle and saddle blanket. The saddle is decorated with painted buttons, worked silver, and dark patterned upholstery. There are also colored braids and ropes. The saddle blanket also has dark floral patterns on a white-ish background.

Closeup of an old saddle and saddle blanket. The saddle is decorated with painted buttons, worked silver, and dark patterned upholstery, and the stirrup is clearly visible. There are also colored braids and ropes. The saddle blanket also has dark floral patterns and a deer on a white-ish background.

Embroidered dragon on dark brown fabric. The dragon is orange and green in a round, classic style, and the fabric has rows of dark metal rivets.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 19d

Bumpy early AM approach into Seoul. Or maybe the shakiness was me, since I'd been traveling something like 28 hours by this time. I kind of like the squiggles - zoomed in, they look like the ice cream cones there.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight #TravelMemories

View of a brightly-lit city on a night flight. The city is flat and spreads across the entire frame, only going black where it reaches water at the top. All the lights are blurred into tiny yellow, green, and white squiggles that look a bit like butterflies, caused by a shaky camera.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 22d

The Dragon Bridge (Cầu Rồng) night show in Da Nang, Vietnam - fire and water. The fire is neat, but the water part is more fun.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight #EastCoastKin #photography #urban #travelmemories

There is a famous bridge in Da Nang that looks like a long, snake-like dragon, with its body arching above the road. The head is a simplified but classic Chinese style, and is set up with a system that can spit fire and spray water through its mouth. In this night picture, it is spitting fire. The lighting is red and yellow, to match the smoke and flames coming from its mouth. There are people standing on the other size of the dragon, tiny and barely lit, standing behind the fire. I am standing in front of the head, so the fire is overhead.

There is a famous bridge in Da Nang that looks like a long, snake-like dragon, with its body arching above the road. The head is a simplified but classic Chinese style, and is set up with a system that can spit fire and spray water through its mouth. In this night picture, it is spraying water. The lighting is green, to suit the water coming from its mouth. There are people standing on the other size of the dragon, tiny and barely lit, as well as on this side, larger, and closer to the spray. Two kids are running across the road in a blur, and the street is covered in water and reflecting the lights. I am standing in front of the head, so I'm getting drenched, and there are water droplets on the camera lens causing all kinds of lighting flares.

etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 23d

Night back-alley view into the kitchen of a hole-in-the-wall restaurant.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight #UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin

The photo is a night view into the open doors of a the brightly-lit kitchen of a small restaurant. The doors open into the alley at the back. Above the open doors is a large industrial ventiliation duct. Two shallow steps stretch the full width of the building, leading up from the cobbled street. The steps are cluttered with boxes, crates, buckets, and cleaning supplies, and in the dark next door towels hang on a drying line. The space inside the kitchen is very bright and blown out, but a man in black is visible cooking on a stove on the right. Also visible are stacks of huge plastic jugs of (probably) soy sauce or cooking oil and shelves of bowls plates, among lots of other kitchen things.