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I take a lot of iPhone photos, post only mine unless I say otherwise

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mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 9h

Isn’t that fun? There are photos I take, keep, and don’t fully appreciate or share for a while. Then there are photos that I love for years before ever finding the right moment to share.

I really love so much about this photo.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 17h

This is a thing of beauty, for sure!

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 17h

So many #traveling photographers here, some may want to help Wikipedia by participating in a #photography contest this month!

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mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 18h

Yikes!

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 18h

Another gentle sunrise in northern Michigan. The docks are coming out for the winter this week.

Sunrise orange at the horizon and spilling over into the lake

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, nice photo

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 1d

Took my sister and brother-in-law through Middle Village, an old Odawa community on the western shore of the northern lower peninsula of Michigan. A good little drive in nice Fall weather.

A structure made of wood and green metal with a door and a sign that says "Changing Room". Fall colored trees in the background.

Wooden stairs leading up to fall colored trees (from the beach).

Stairs leading to a sandy beach of Lake Michigan with a man and a couple looking out to the lake.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 1d

Now that's a lake! Went for a drive in the NOT YET PEAK FALL COLOR northern Michigan. Crazy.

Lake shore beach at Lake Michigan with clouds above.

Photo of a lake with light waves out to the horizon with blue sky above and a little line of puffy clouds.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! I thought we weren't going to see any sunrise and I looked out the window to see the sun emerging. Briefly.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 1d

And also with you. 😉

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 1d

Haha! That was the first article in my email I read this morning! How could you not?

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful photos, Bob, as always. We'll be leaving the lake in a couple of weeks. Always sad to go...and happy to arrive in other places until we're back again.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 1d

Muted morning sun
#Stunday #BlueSkyArtShow

Dark clouds above the lake and Graham Point with the sun barely breaking through, casting a carpet of light across the water.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 2d

Well, that’s fun to hear! We loved our trip.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 2d

Little Traverse Bay sunset 2021
#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

Pink and orange sunrise from sky to lake with a dark tree in the foreground and a sailboat and a fishing boat on the lake.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 2d

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

UnCruise ship in the water at night with lights glowing

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 2d

Brother-in-law enjoying a 4th of July sunset
#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

Man on a house roof with a glowing sunset behind

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 2d

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

Hank's Restaurant in the morning light, pink clouds above and utility pole and lines in the foreground

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 2d

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

Pavilion lit up bright in a very dark sky

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 3d

On the side of the rebel Jesus.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 4d

Everyday #Spooktober beauty this morning. #31DaysOfHalloween

Spider web spread out along the top of a evergreen shrub

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 4d

Everyday #Spooktober beauty this morning. #31DaysOfHalloween

Dew covered spider web on a bright green trash dumpster

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 4d

Everyday #Spooktober beauty this morning. #31DaysOfHalloween

Outside electric outlet on a post with a spider web.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 4d

Everyday #Spooktober beauty this morning. #31DaysOfHalloween

No view of the lake with dense fog. Only a spooky outline of almost empty docks is showing.

mary p @matreyoo.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, interesting! This one's been there since 1974 so I'd known about it for decades before I ever visited. You really shouldn't make a special visit across the state to see it but since we were in the area it was fun to take the time to finally see it.