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Photography (portrait & still-life), poetry, art, kindness, air hugs & friendship #EastCoastKin 💯🦍, for longer writing on medium.com/@moonandbaboon Also, @WipaPhotography Website: moonandbaboon.com 📣 Please check my custom feeds for easy viewing

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 26d

— To Honor Her —

#poetry #poem #EastCoastKin #AmWriting

To Honor Her

Thinner than thin,
Just bone in skin,
She couldn’t stand straight,
Like a drooping flower on its last leg!
Her walker as her best friend,
A sight I couldn’t comprehend,
Death as the color of her skin tone,
She was maneuvering fragility alone.
Is she heading out to run errands?
Is she going to an appointment?
She can’t still be driving, can she?
Definitely not that SUV!
‘Determined’ was her demeanor,
I’m reflecting on yesterday’s encounter,
At the time, I was soaked in self pity,
Worn out by my own journey.
I don’t know who she was,
But the sight of her made me pause,
I don’t know if she lived alone,
Or why she wasn’t in a senior home.
All I know is this—
My moment of weakness ended,
She has NOT given up,
Because her heart hasn’t stopped,
So I won’t give up either,
That’s the least I can do to honor her.

9/18/2025

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 2d

Love is home
#Stunday

youtu.be/7TfYWL7W-1U?...

On the left in the center, a bee on a white aster. On the right, higher up another bee this one in flight, approaching the other bee, happy to be back. More asters, less focused in the background.

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 1d

Breathless

Mexican sunflower #MacroMonday

Orange flower almost fully open. Green background.

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 1d

Monday’s butt
#MacroMonday

Bee with back turned, showing off a beautiful butt. Clinging to a white aster.

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 1d

Montezuma Oropendola
Costa Rica
#BlueskyMonday

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 14h

Masterpiece again

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 1d

Red Ant Costa Rica

#BlueskyMonday #MinimalMonday

Red ant on a log on the left. Background is a cloudy sky

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 1d

#ThickButtTuesday

White aster with a bee clinging to it. Posterior angle.

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 14h

The circle of life …
My time to leave when you don’t shine,
I’m only here to mooch from you,
I’ll be back at your next bloom, boo!

🐝 💔

It’s raining here. Sad poem to match the gray mood. 😞

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amohr @amohr.org · 2d

Dahlias don't even need color
#stunday #bnw_macro #classicmono #dahlias #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #pnw #macro #photography #eastcoastkin

A close black and white shot of a dahlia flower; its many oval petals bespeckled in raindrops.

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 1d

😍😍😍

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skinskin @skinskintainan.bsky.social · 2d

バケツとねこでみちをふさぐ

#art #photo #photography #cat #alley #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Tainan #EastCoastKin
©️skinskin

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 2d

🙏🙏🤩🙏🙏

Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 2d

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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skinskin @skinskintainan.bsky.social · 2d

赤い提灯 66

#art #photo #photography #lanterns #streetsnap #Tainan #EastCoastKin
©️skinskin

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 2d

Saved

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the art challenge cheat sheet for October 13-19! Enjoy!

The host list and posts from hosts are in the comments.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Art Challenges: October 13–19

Monday, October 13
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay (#PinkMon)
#Spooktober (#TrickOrTreat)

Tuesday, October 14
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday
#TagTuesday (graffiti/street art)
#AnimalArtTuesday
#ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue)
#Spooktober (#cobweb)

Wednesday, October 15
#WaterfallWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual)
#ColorADay (#RedWed)
#Spooktober (#witch)

Thursday, October 16
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens (#stairs)
#ColorADay (#YellowThu)
#Spooktober (#darkness)

Friday, October 17
#scape (any kind of scape)
#FishyFriday
#ForestFriday
#FoodOnFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay (#BWFri)
#Spooktober (#alien)

Saturday, October 18
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#GreenSat)
#BlueSkyArtShow (#vertical)
#Spooktober (#mummy)

Sunday, October 19
#Stunday (stunning)
#ImageAndVerse (photos with
poems written by you or anyone)
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#OrangeSun)
#SelfPortraitSunday (#ForgottenCorner)*
#Spooktober (#SeaMonster)

ALL WEEK
#31DaysOfHalloween (anything fall, Halloween, or spooky)
#ArtYear (any art)
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture
#BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt)
#ClassicMono (monochrome)
#smArtist (purposeful art of any theme)
#AlphabetChallenge (#WeekPforPink)
#SensoryArt (#transportation)

*Pose in a location you’ve always overlooked

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skinskin @skinskintainan.bsky.social · 2d

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 2d

— Anomaly —

#ImageAndVerse #photography #EastCoastKin #poetry #ClassicMono

Full #poem in ALT Text

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You are an anomaly,
Watch your back accordingly,
The door’s lit; leave your square siblings behind,
Honor them by letting your elephant-self shine!

Image of a small wood carved elephant standing with trunk raised.

“Anomaly”
You are an anomaly,
An heir of discrepancies,
You must understand your chemistry,
Watch your back accordingly!
You are an anomaly,
This knowing isn’t superiority,
But truthful and necessary,
The door is lit after this clarity!
You may wear the same clothes,
But you don’t sing the same note,
Like a book with the same cover,
Written by a different author!
Just another kid with childhood trauma,
Just another child with family drama,
A cut from the same tapestry,
A character from the same story.
But somehow you turn out different,
The mold used to create you is irrelevant,
An elephant shape made from a square cookie cutter,
A miracle that is hard to decipher.
Inside the same type of oyster,
There you are, rendering a different color,
Similar environment and climate,
Somehow you end up a different shade!
For you to survive in this world,
You must know you are a rare pearl,
Square cookies might be your brothers and sisters,
That doesn’t mean you radiate the same color!
You are an anomaly,
Unlike your kin from the same tapestry,
Some of them currently have no capacity to bond,
Like closed rose buds with a lot of thorns!
You are an anomaly,
Watch your back accordingly,
The door’s lit; leave your square siblings behind,
Honor them by letting your elephant-self shine!
9/25/2025

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 2d

Limited screen time 🤗

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 3d

Boop!!!!!! 😍

Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 3d

Love ❤️

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Mary Macker @marymacker.com · 3d

2017
#selfportrait #selfportraitphotography #blackandwhite

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 3d

So glowy

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 3d

Glowy fig leaf

From my first macro experiments after I got my OM-3. It doesn't follow the rule of thirds but I'm not cropping that bokeh. 😂

#BlueSkyArtShow #glow
#ColorADay #GreenSat

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear

A macro of a fig leaf glowing in the sun. The veins are white. There's a large bokeh circle on the right side.

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Sasi @moonandbaboon.bsky.social · 3d

— #Glow in the Dark —

#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #EastCoastKin

Image of a woman wearing a hat sitting in the dark reading something on her cell phone. The background is an outdoor mall seating area and it is dim. The phone screen lights her face.

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