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Cathy Coley
@cathycoley.bsky.social
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she/her, writer, actor, advocate. Married, former educator, MamaBear 🏳️‍⚧️, late dx AuDHD. EDS, disabled. BC Survivor. Simon’s Rock Alum.
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UNCW’s stairway to nowhere at the Randall Library:
3 concrete steps lead up to a brick wall in a bit of an alcove of more brick.
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Hey, I’ve been busier than I have in the last decade plus of chronic stuff. Meisner class wrapped; we wrote a short film, I got an edit back today of my scene. It’s fun. Last week I shot a vertical film series in Charlotte, got home, got back in a vehicle to attend a wedding over the weekend.
If you’re ever in Wilmington, DE, I highly recommend this retro diner joint, Lucky’s Coffee Shop. Very mid-century vibe. They serve brunchy drinks, we stuck to coffee. Pic is of the neon style sign against blue sky, restaurant underneath and behind. After driving through the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, a bit of old bridgework, metal struts and supports in receding pattern against blue sky. I like old bridges. Rich orange striated clouds against darkening blue sky, sunset over an open field at a truck stop in a rural part of northern North Carolina, upper center of pic has the moon and Venus, I think, shining in distance.
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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When I posted same pic in IG, with a crop and music add, it tonally shifted to this “warmer” tone AI version that I did NOT post. It completely changed the way the picture reads to me, AND I DIDN’T POST THAT OR APPROVE A CHANGE TO MY ORIGINAL PHOTO IN MY PERSONAL ACCOUNT.
Same photo, darker, weirder.
September 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Surprised loaf
Grey tabby kitten with white bib stares directly into lens with classic “what.” cat expression, paws tucked under her, giving her a bit of a roast turkey look overall, she is on edge of bed with a colorful blanket.
September 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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This shot is of my hydrangea on 7.4.2020, amidst Covid shutdown & breast cancer. I’m 5 years free. A few months left of hormone blocker, and I’m officially home clear. I was dx’d at the beginning of lockdown, mammo day of, while I had COVID. This is about beauty, everywhere, always.
Blue hydrangea blossoms with dots and edges of lavender on petals, circles of white on petals around center dot, high contrast, maybe midday light.
September 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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THE BEACH IS MAGICAL ALL BY ITSELF!
A piece of dark,ruddy, root-looking driftwood lies on top of sand with shadowy late afternoon light on the days’ footprints. Deep blue water with white ripple divides the beginning of sunset sky from the sand along the top edge of frame.
July 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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National Kitten Day, you say?
Zephyr, a mostly grey-striped dilute tortie is all smooshy comfy on my colorful Peruvian blanket and my legs, having work herself out attacking my feet.
July 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Zephyr
Kitten named Zephyr has been determined to be a dilute tortoiseshell female. She is full of energy and growing quickly, here she is knowing her light and angles with sparkling eyes of grey and orange, much like her pale stripes of grey and creamy orange. She has a white chest and whiskers, and outlining around her facial features. Closeup of her face as the sunlight streams across.
June 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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How’s everyone doing? Long week, personally and well… anyway, here is an echinacea flower with bee.
Midday sunlight on a hot day, a background of mostly leafy green, a purple coneflower has a bee resting on the edge of its rusty red center pop, purple petals lie down toward stem.
June 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Rescued a kitten today from under our neighbor’s car. He kept climbing up into it via the axel. He found the dustiest corner of my bathroom. Current residents, 2 dogs, 2 cats are rotating patrol outside the door. Meet Zephyr:
Slightly confused yet feisty grey with white tabby, about 6-8 weeks old, shimmies toward me from the tub corner with a bunch of shells and a blue swirl glass star. He screech-mews, staring directly into lens.
June 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Heading to a rally (slowly), meanwhile, I’m hearing Lead Belly’s Good Morning Blues in my garden.
Two morning sun-dappled, big ball hydrangeas that are nearly cobalt blue against deep green grass and their brighter green leaves. One blue hydrangea ball with white centers on the smaller blooms that make the ball. Leafy green background. Sunlit blueberry grouping, mostly unripe burnished green to red berries, with one blue one at the top of the bundle, leafy green background.
June 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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#flowers #gardening

Parsley beginning to flower
Closeup of “web” of tiny yellow flowers starting to bloom on a networked stem. Pots of other growing veg, etc in background at edge of patio before upper left of frame’s deep green grass in evening light.
May 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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If you see this I implore you to post a pic from your device without context
Normal-sized tabby cat trying to mess with a behemoth orange cat.
May 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A few things in my garden: tomatoes, hibiscus, clustered peppers, laden blueberry branch.
Cluster of 3 green tomatoes that are due to become large, and little yellow flower to become another one. Cluster of light green, not quite ripe bell peppers hidden among darker green leaves in sunshine, high contrast light and shadow. Dangling cluster of not quite ripe blueberries, blueish, purplish. Yellow dandelions dot the green grass behind and under them. Bright red hibiscus in full bloom with yellow stamen cluster of pollen.
May 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Yesterday’s pre-storm aromavision: gardenia #flowers #gardening
Closeup of a white single petal gardenia with yellow center and stamens (at lest I think it’s the stamens) that lie flat in a star pattern around the center. Dark green small waxy leaves provide the backdrop, light is slightly dim due to storm clouds rolling in, not pictured. The light shows pollen drops and details, like shadows in the curls of the edge, and striations in the petals.
May 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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More rain by the buckets today, so here are some more fucking pictures from yesterday: flowers, sky, water shit. Excuse my attitude. I do have a few good possible things I can’t talk about, but dumpster fire is still burning.
Cosmos in a field by the Intracoastal Waterway yesterday, bright orange and bright yellow. They were brighter live than depicted here. The field of green, orange, yellow flowers leading to the waterway, houses in distance across barely visible waterway. Power tower to left of frame that supplies electricity to the island, cloud cover. Old swing bridge support still stands, though historic bridge is gone, left of frame. Gray rocks to shore up the land during incredible storms we get later in the season, in foreground, some deck fencing, to the right with a flag on a pole in distance, steely blue water matches cloud cover. Steely water, bridge leaning down toward mainland in distance, dramatically cloudy sky.
May 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Happy Fucking Mother’s Day. Here’s an oyster catcher from my walk
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway low tide reflects a swooping oystercatcher dragging the shallows for a meal, part of a big bridge to the island in the background, marsh grasses to left of frame and in foreground.
May 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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A little about Sunday afternoon in Cape Fear Region. #plants #flowers #oleander #pricklypear #naturephotography
White Oleander on Cape Fear Waterfront, a big bush of it in golden hour light to right of frame. Fluffy clouds over water against blue sky after a storm earlier in day and overnight. Long shadows of lampposts cross the boardwalk slats at an angle. Bright yellow prickly pear big blossoms in my neighbor’s yard. Buds showing behind and above them.
May 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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#garden #flowers
My one peachy iris in front patch. I have many other purple and blue variety out back that I transplanted from Virginia 8 years ago that haven’t bloomed for ages.
Close up of a peachy iris dappled in sunlight and shade
April 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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I grew this from a hunk of traveling plant my mother foisted on me well over 25 years ago from my childhood home in Connecticut. I’ve grown it -& split it to give to friends - in a few Boston and greater metro apartments as well as two states after. Colloquially known as Gaga’s Chives, her legacy.
Macro shot of Chive blossom going to seed.
April 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Well, I have been blessed by the carpenter bees for the season. I have been buzzed at for days, and now have been peed upon my face by one. Picture is not of bees, they are too fast. Carolina anole was fast, too.
Carolina Anole in an active scoot up a tin roof support. Bright green ombré to brown against wood grain, zigzag whiteish stripe down their back. A line to dry towels stretched left to out of frame, some bent nails, in background greening trees before bright blue sky, sunny day.
April 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Clouds coming in over windy waves and sand on Saturday, long pier deep in slightly askew horizon line.
April 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Addendum to alt text, these eyes think they’re irises.

Anyway, I took a short arboretum walk yesterday after a post-op appointment, and here’s a few shots from that:
Andromeda covered in gobs of little white blossoms that hang down like fancy trumpet heads. Summer Snowflake looks a bit like Lily of the Valley but with green dots at the tips of their petals. Magnolia with sunlight and shading float large creamy blooms on the breeze and bare branches. Gobs of pink Cherry Blossoms of a large tree hang over a still dark green pond.
March 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Happy Spring, everyone " Le Printemps (Springtime) " by Pierre-Auguste Cot
19thC painting of I detect light making a flowing maidens gown glow as she sits and hugs on a young man in red tunic, in a deep green woods cove, irises bloom at the left foot of frame.
March 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Short walk on a beautiful afternoon then came home to a daffodil in the yard
Male Brown Pelican coasts high above in a blue sky. Golden retriever named Gus scratching himself on a marsh boardwalk after making new friends (legs only pictured), including me. He is a very good boy. Long shadows of late afternoon light on the rails cross the boardwalk. Out of order, yellow daffodil, glowing in shadow, dips its head. Low bright sun from across the Intracoastal water makes bright greens and blues, and a bright yellow truck in distance beyond park benches and long shadows. High wire towers providing electricity to the island from the mainland are in high contrast light.
March 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM