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Angela Avera Selter
@artemiskick.bsky.social
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Liberal realist, cynical mirthful optimist, photog living in the middle of nowhere as peacefully as possible with my human spouse and animal companions in the wee house we built ourselves.
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Photographer unknown; blue ocean, pale blue sky; the back of a dark haired woman treading water. Beneath the image is the following quote: "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."––Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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#Warmth for #BlueSkyArtShow. Check the ALT text for info.

The Off Season.
#Photography #Lumix #EastCoastKin
Color photo. The photo's color and saturation are not manipulated and the image shown here reflects very closely how it appeared to my eyes on this cold morning. An aluminum rowboat is turned upside down in preparation for the upcoming cold season. This was photographed today– early winter at sunrise; the warm light of the sun gave surrounding hills and knobs their mountain-glow tops and one section of light warmed this small hillside scene. A large, dark cedar (juniper) tree fills the left side of the view and shelters the overturned boat; assorted oak trees with their clinging dried leaves make up the remaining background. They're on a grassy hillside and you can just glimpse the approaching thick cloud blanket from the west peeking through the tree tops. In contrast to the warm light of the eastern sun, it looks steely blue-grey. The light lasted only a half hour and now everything has gone nearly monochrome as the rainy/sleet/snowy weather moves in.
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learn to trust your voice. Notice the nudges that matter. Become braver with what feels true for you.

🧡

#SelfTrust #kindness

Picture by simply_anxious
An illustrated image with the words “Sometimes you just gotta trust…” at the top. In the centre is a hand-drawn figure sitting cross-legged, looking thoughtful. A small robin sits beside them and a few autumn leaves float around. Surrounding the figure is a circle of soft blush and neutral shapes, each containing a different word: “yourself,” “the uncertainty,” “the timing,” “your gut,” “the slower pace,” “the pauses,” “the energy,” “the lessons,” “the redirections,” and “the process.” The layout feels gentle and reflective, highlighting the many small things we learn to trust within ourselves. Picture by simply_anxious
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.

Happy Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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This morning's light was an absolutely beautiful amber glow for just a few moments while the sun was low on the horizon. Even the dried out pokeweed looked poetic.

#Stunday #Photography #EastCoastKin
Dried pokeweed stems with berries and crumpled leaves hanging in front of a woods of dark grey tree trunks. The rising sun in the background is a buttery, amber orb infusing the atmosphere with a lovely warm glow. A tangle of tree trunks silhouetted darkly against an amber colored sky as the sun was rising this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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#Small frog hanging out in the leaf shadows for today's #BlueSkyArtShow

#iPhonePhotography #EastCoastKin
Color snapshot of low quality. The subject is a baby frog sitting on a dry white oak leaf on the forest floor. The frog is positioned in the bottom right of the photo, facing the center; a dried twig is directly below it making a horizontal line across the bottom of the image; the frog is an olive drab color with a wash of bright green across its back from nose to tail; it's warty and bumpy all over.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#Scape day and #ForestFriday combo.

#Landscape #iPhonePhotography #Monochrome #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
Woodland creek scene in warm monochrome taken on this late autumn day. Most of the trees are bare. A small, wet-season creek filled with leaves is in the foreground, reflecting the trees nearby; a large, dark tree trunk is on the left bank with a lower limb extending from left to right horizontally across the image; thick tree growth is in the background and the faint outline of a distant hill beyond.
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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For the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUnloved theme, is this cast away boot which has been in our woods since we moved here 28 years ago and who knows how long before that. It's not really unloved, as I have a fondness for its tenacity and ever-changing appearance.

#iPhonePhotography #EastCoastKin
In the rainy woods today, I took a snapshot of an old leather boot. It's arranged with the sole positioned diagonally across the bottom left corner of the image; the sole is black, worn nearly smooth, and separating at the toe. The dull grey leather upper has moss growing on it and the eyelets are the color of pewter. The boot is lying on a mossy fall leaf-covered mound; the fallen leaves are rich shades of brown and the moss peeking out from beneath them is bright green. The thin trunks of young trees are visible in the background.
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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rain, tree abstraction : : commute

#Photography #Abstract #Window #SensoryArt #Water #EastCoastKin
Looking through a car windshield at a bare tree on the right and a cedar tree on the left. The sky is blue at the top of the frame, fading to white at the bottom. The rain is fully coating the glass, showing a few droplet shapes on the left but mostly creating a wavy abstraction effect and a dreamy quality.
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Feeling this today: bedraggled, light/dark

#MinimalMonday #MacroMonday #Monochrome #Lumix #Photography #EastCoastKin
Macro monochrome of a downy edged feather. The feather is black with a pale center and has long fuzzy tendrils. It's sitting on a pale textured surface which is partially lighted, leaving the top diagonal of the frame in complete darkness.
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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A couple of weeks ago, I grabbed a shot of the Nashville skyline from the top of my hotel for #Scape day.

#MusicCity #Nashville #Skyline #CityScape #Photography #iPhonePhotography #EastCoastKin
Long horizontal view of the Nashville skyline at night. High rise buildings are silhouetted against a clear sky of deep blue punctuated by stars. A fog or haze is visible above the busy street which leads us into the view.
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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sky.skymarchini.net
The Sun: ha ha I will blast charged particles at the humans and fry them! 😈

Mother Earth: I will protect my children with my magnetic field, which will also give them beautiful lights 😇
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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but ̶h̶e̶r̶ his emails
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Need a renfaire costume?Or perhaps something new for the holiday office party? Here's your source. All handmade and modeled by Michelle. All pieces are interchangeable, giving flexibility to your costuming creativity. Happy to see her on bsky! Follow her page and please support independent artists.
damseldress.bsky.social Damsel in this Dress @damseldress.bsky.social · Oct 8
In she comes, that curious creature — all lace and logic, mischief and manners. Her skirts swish like the turning pages of a storybook that refuses to end properly, and her corset gleams with the faint golden shimmer of a key that almost certainly opens something it shouldn’t.
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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How I love these designs! Please purchase from independent artists this holiday season... and all year long for that matter.
gailmyerscough.co.uk Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · Nov 11
Right then. It's mid-November and if you're thinking about #Christmas shopping, now's the time. All my products are designed here in Manchester and made in the UK.
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of nine images. Prints, a phone case, a T-shirt, a cushion and Christmas cards and wrap.
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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While hiking today, I found a cute lil turt nestling themselves under a log. Wondering if this is going to be their season-long hibernation spot or just for today's rain...

#ForestFriday #Scape #Woods #Landscape #Turtle #Kentucky #Photography #SnapShot #iPhonePhotography #EastCoastKin
Vertical color snapshot visually divided into three parts: The bottom third is made up of dry oak leaves and the back end of a box turtle; the center is a horizontally arranged weathered log; the top sliver is a view of the sparse woods, with green and gold foliage, beyond the photographer's vantage point.
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Thoughtful read.
The Problem with Instagram Photography Culture
Marks of The Maker: Lesson 001
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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August 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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This site is fantastical. Great images and excellent essays- all out of copyright restrictions so that we can use, share, and build upon as we see fit. They've been one of my much used resources for many years. And they're on bsky too!

#Spooktober #PublicDomain #Resources #Art
Defining the Demonic
Although Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal, a monumental compendium of all things diabolical, was first published in 1818 to much success, it is the fabulously illustrated final edition...
publicdomainreview.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Breakfast prep. When the cool morning air makes visible the vapor swirling above my cup of tea. I learned a new word today while reading a piece written by a photographer... quotidian: everyday; commonplace; occurring or returning every day.

#EverydayBeauty #SmallThings #Photography #EastCoastKin
The frame is filled with buttered toast in the bottom left corner, a handmade pottery cup holding hot tea which is making beautifully swirly steam, and two clean white plates with forks crisscrossed on them. The sunshine is entering from directly across me, casting fork tine shadows on the plate surface, illuminating the steam, catching the edge of the toast, and cutting a line across the butcher-block surface beneath these items. It has a warm and cozy feel. Breakfast prep is an everyday occurrence for me and sometimes, like on this day, it strikes me as incredibly beautiful in its simplicity. The butcher block was my parent's, the stainless forks too with their 1970s aesthetic, plates from a cafeteria where our family used to work, and the cup is handmade by my brother in law who was a professional potter. Each of these objects, as well as the food and drink, offer me sustenance.
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM