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etaylorc
@etaylorc.bsky.social
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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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One tiny corner of a huge Christmas market in Vienna, many years ago.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #TravelMemories #ColorADay #RedWed
The photo is of a market stall displaying and selling hundreds of wooden ornaments hanging from bright red strings. The ornaments are dolls with moveable arms and legs, shaped like girls and boys and Santas, painted in bright reds and greens. There are a few other shapes mixed in that look like rocking horses and gingerbread trees, and a few other things.
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A colleague gave me this ornament two years ago and I took it as a sign for upcoming travel. But to actually go, I need to find homes for my rescue dogs, and I don't know how that will happen yet. High hopes for this year.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #TravelDreams #Rescue #Dogs #AdoptDontShop
A Christmas ornament held against a bright blue sky. The ornament is an propeller airplane with a green body and red wings, with large white stars painted all over. A large Santa sits in the single-person cockpit.
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Early morning walk on a #StunDay.

(I may have found things more stunning this morning because of the cold medicine.)

#EastCoastKin #Photography #SunBeams
The photo is of sun beams from behind trees with leaves changing colors. The sun is about halfway down on the right side, and is directly behind a tree trunk, making the beams and shadows on that side quite dramatic. On the left are some red and orange Japanese maples. The trees are mostly green with some yellow leaves, but is mostly washed out by the sunlight on that side.
December 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Morning #window, with bonus #cats.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #Caturday #Rescue #AdoptDontShop
The picture is looking out of a large window. Inside, the light is warm yellow. On the left is a simple cat tree with a wooden platform at the bottom and a clear plastic bowl on top. Inside the bowl, an orange cat lies with his head hanging over the edge. Attached to the window with suction cups is a cat shelf, with another orange cat lying on it. Outside the window it is bright but cold and somewhat faded, but the sky is clear and blue. Below, there is the roof of a large building; beyond that is a large city block of low houses; in the far distance are much taller buildings.
December 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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A whole week of #windows in a high-rise hotel.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #UrbanGaze #Architecture
The entire photo is the side of a multistory building, completely glass in a regular framework, in blueish tints. Since this is a hotel, the contents of rooms tends to repeat; where there are reflections, they are of more windows in the building opposite (where I am). About halfway down, on the left side, the small figure of a man in red hangs outside, cleaning the windows.
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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So torn between being not-keen-on-commercial and needing customers. I support a lot of rescue animals from my little online shops. I HATE self-promotion, but rely on them for food and boarding and vet care. Begging a bit? Maybe 🙃

#rescue #dogs #cats #adoptdontshop #starvingartist #starvingrescuer
My little online shops are my own photos and doodles and designs from my spare time; they support about 40 animals at the moment, and have saved some hundreds by now. Here are some links to my own designs and photos printed on things: https://www.zazzle.com/store/straysetc/products Mostly simple designs, mostly because I could never find things I liked related to rescue - they were always too cutesy for my taste. https://www.zazzle.com/store/travelsetc/products The most random of the randomness. erintaylor-connaughton.pixels.com Photos I'm actually proud of. and my PayPal purely for donations: etc@email.com For any graphics posted to 3rd party sites, I'm also happy to send files directly, and/or can customize colors for graphics on request.
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Essence of adorable.

Hard to believe something this cute is real. This is Cola, representing Shanghai Eleventh-Hour Rescues at a Christmas Fair on Saturday.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #Dogs #Rescue #AdoptDontShop
A tiny shaggy yellow dog sits in a Christmas-themed red-and-white dog bed. She has bright button eyes and perfect scruffy-dog ears, and is wearing a knitted shirt collar with blue tie. Eleventh-Hour Rescues is a small group that takes dogs that are headed for the infamous kill pounds of Shanghai, but also helps individual rescuers like me. Many of my rescues have found homes on Shanghai and abroad through their connections, and I am delighted that several of my dogs (now in happy homes) made it into in their 2026 fundraising calendar. You can find them here: IG eleventhhourrescues
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Angels, almost always. Eh, usually. Often enough?

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky #Rescue #AdoptDontShop
Three small dogs lie in various poses on a red couch with the back cushions removed. There are gold-colored blankets draped over the bottom cushions. All the dogs' noses are facing the camera. About in the middle, one of the back cushions is lying on the couch proper, adding a level. On the left is a mostly black dog with tan highlights, sprawling with her back end sitting on the middle cushion. On the cushion itself is a smaller, mostly tan dog with a black back, lying with her head draped over the edge of the cushion. On the right is the smallest dog, white, tightly curled into a ball.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I don't usually have photos for #BirdOfTheDay, but I like this one #OnTheEdge. No idea what it is (some sort of duck?), from a park in Johannesburg, South Africa.

#birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #EastCoastKin
A duck facing away, to a pond with ripples and reflection of the sky and trees on the opposite side. The duck stands on a rock at the water's edge. The pond is pale blue; the rock and ground are reddish. The duck has a reddish-brown head and back, but with half white and dark greenish-blue feathers on its wings and tail. Its legs and feet are bright red.
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Yawn.

Or, orange yawn if we're being strict vowelists 🙃

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #Cats #Rescue #AdoptDontShop
An orange cat crouches on a small wooden platform hanging from a scratch post, against a white wall. He is at maximum yawn, and is facing almost directly into the lens at face level, so you can see into his mouth and nearly down his throat. This cat does everything to avoid having his picture taken.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Once share bikes end up in piles like this, they are headed for bicycle graveyards. It's too bad, since most of these bikes would last ages if people gave even the littlest of a damn.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved
Closeup of a tangle of bicycles piled on the ground. Most are yellow and white, and look older and beaten up; the one on top is blue and looks new.
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Pic taken from an overpass; there is another level below this, and one on the ground below that. This is heading towards Suzhou - a huge concrete mess that everyone curses up one side and down the other. Very #unloved.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #UrbanGaze #MegaCities #TrafficHellscapes
The pic is of a system of overpass bridges. The highest one on the left is half-covered in vines. The sky visible between the overpasses is clear blue. Beneath the overpasses that are visible, there are some tall trees.
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I could never post this pic of Zazu #unloved without her happy after pic too. Just after rescue, and after #love.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #Dogs #Rescue #RescueDogs #AdoptDontShop
Two pics are shown. On the left is a small light-colored dog just after rescue - terribly skinny and with almost no fur (what is there sticks up in all directions), looking lost and utterly defeated. She is in a wire cage, wrapped in a dark blue blanket with stars. The caption above reads: "same dog" On the right is the same dog about a year later. She is sitting nicely at some event and looks like a healthy poodle or poodle mix, with full, well-groomed fur, wearing a bright orange harness. She looks happy. At the bottom is the phrase "Life is wonderful" (although it is partially cut off). The caption above reads: "different owner" Zazu was found in a half-ruined, abandoned house in a less-built part of Shanghai. We think she was used for breeding, and was dumped when she was no longer useful to them.
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Kichiro's #unrequited love. The ayi where my rescue dogs stay filmed this moment of his devotion and her disinterest.

Kichiro is problematic and won't find a home in China - but even he has the occasional soft spot.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #Dogs #Rescue #RescueDogs #AdoptDontShop
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The Good Place (2016-2020)

Any day with the #rescuedogs is a good day, but today was perfect - #bright sun and sky, and cool enough to run with abandon. Here (l to r), Cookie, Tanner, and Happy.

I wish they had homes.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #BlueSkyArtShow #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky
A low-angle photo of three dogs running on a rooftop, with a brick building on the right (shelter rooms are in there). The black dog on the left is running away from the camera; the small light yellow dog and larger shaggy grey and tan dog are running straight toward the camera. The sky is bright blue and the sun is shining brightly.
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Travels to the Edge (2007-2008, 2012)

The show with @artwolfe.bsky.social that inspired me to GO, because our world is amazing.

(Would be so lucky to attend an on location photo shoot with him now.)

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #Scape #TravelMemories #Cappadocia
The photo is looking down at light-colored rocks eroding into a flatter landscape with winter vegetation. Eroded rocks in the mid- to further-distance look like the classic fairy chimneys of Cappadocia: roundish-squarish bases of pale rock, with sharply pointed "roofs" in darker stone, usually noticeably separated, like towers. This was taken very early in the morning, so the shadows are stark and the sky in the distance fades into the sunrise brightness. This photo was taken from a hot air balloon, and we had barely cleared this rim at this moment. (We had maybe 8 people in our balloon basket - so we could get both really close to the ground, like here, and really, really high.)
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I couldn't choose one today, so here are WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982) and (Monty Python's) Flying Circus (1969-1974).

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky
A scene of downtown Cincinnati, taken from across the river in Kentucky. In the foreground is a white paddlewheel steamboat with red trim. Across the river, the baseball stadium is visible, with the red bleachers facing the camera. Behind that are the tall buildings of the downtown area, which are almost all greyish-beige stone; the sky is pale blue and the river is mostly reflecting it, meaning the red details really jump out. The picture is mostly a dark purple background. Hanging from an aerial acrobatic cloth is a man dressed in loose trousers and a tunic, which are white a blue with the light. Hanging from his other arm is a woman with a strap around her neck, obviously spinning. She is dressed in a pink outfit, with ruffles at the elbows and knees that flare out as she spins.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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House (2004-2012)

Houses and walls and the only road through town, at least a day's hike from anything bigger.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #WallsOnWednesday #India #TravelMemories
The picture is of a small village in the Himalayas in northern India, on a sunny day with fluffy clouds. The village is set up and down a steep mountainside. There is a narrow footpath in the middle, with stone walls and buildings alongside it. Some colorful pots line the walls and roofs, and blankets and clothing are hung to dry. Paths lead up and down from the main path. High, steep mountains are in the background.
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Rescue puppy Tucker
A very happy puppy looks into the camera, tongue out and ears sticking straight out from his head. He has short fur, colored roughly like a German Shepherd with more white around his face, belly, and paws.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Baby Wicket.
A shaggy puppy stands on a faux-wood floor. The puppy is dark brown and golden, and looks a bit scared. He wears a braided, light blue rope as a collar.
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Terriers (2010)

Well, terrier mix. This is Wicket, named because as a baby he looked like an ewok (see comment). Rescued from outside a restaurant in Shanghai.

Outstanding TV show, too.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #AnimalArtTuesday #Dogs #Rescue #AdoptDontShop
A single dog sits in strong sunlight, on a light grey cement floor. The dog is shaggy, with colors like a Yorkie with silver highlights (although the dog is only about a year old), but much larger than a Yorkie. He is sitting, facing almost exactly straight at the camera. One ear stands straight up, while the other is charmingly crooked. He casts a long, dark shadow, stretching towards the right.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Firefly (2002)

(They were selling this fob as Star Wars, but I know better.)

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #Shiny
A small gun-metal figure of the firefly spaceship, from the TV show Firefly. The background is my light-colored fake-wood laminated desktop at work.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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We never had cats growing up (mum is allergic), so I didn't know the joy of having a house tiger until fairly recently. I'm allergic too, so it's good mine lean into their tiger nature. Happy lazy #caturday from Molly. Any closer, she will whap you.

#CatsOfBluesky #Cats #OrangeCats #AdoptDontShop
Closeup of a completely orange cat reclined on her side on a burnt orange cushion, in front of a window pane. Outside it is sunny, and it is obvious from the building outside that we are fairly high up.
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Stray shopping cart casting long shadows against a stone wall.

#UrbanGaze #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Photography #Mundane #EastCoastKin
Part of the back of a regular barred shopping cart appears on the right side, with a bright light coming from the right. The cart casts long shadows toward the left. The wall is textured, yellowish blocks.
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Pretty sunrise this morning. That is all. Have a brilliant day!

#brilliantsky #upwaytooearly
Only the sky is visible, but it is a bright sunrise with clouds, so it is quite dramatic. The sun is rising from the bottom right, where the clouds are thickest, so the fiery clouds fade into blues and greys towards the top left.
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM