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@glassyide.bsky.social
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I am an amateur photographer mostly doing nature and architectural photography. I also enjoy painting, primarily abstracts in acrylic.

All photos are taken by me unless otherwise noted or a repost.
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glassyide.bsky.social
My fortune cookie had an unexpected message today. It applies to everyone out there who is trying to right the ship in the United States, looking out for your family, friends, neighbors, community. 💪

#strong #speakup #justice #humanrights #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
January 28, 2026 at 10:17 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
My cat’s expression, as he watches the big fat flakes of snow falling, mirrors my inner feelings as I dare to read the news or scroll through social media.

#cats #doomscroll
January 25, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Most important image I’ve seen for quite some time.
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14d
It's important for everyone to see this
danniemcq.bsky.social danniemcq @danniemcq.bsky.social · 14d
Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
January 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
War. What is it good for?
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Jan 3
There are a lotttt of people here for a frigid late notice protest. CPD bike cops hanging out across the street for now.
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 AM
glassyide.bsky.social
Happy Caturday! Shot I took a few years ago, while walking through my neighborhood on a foggy winter night. I liked the silhouette of the cat running across the street, it added to the cool vibe of the fog.

#caturday #cats #blackandwhite #night #photography #weather @thephotohour.bsky.social
Black and white photo of a residential street, taken on a foggy night. The silhouette of a cat running across the street is visible, and there are holiday lights on some of the houses, adding contrasts of light to the dark night. Large trees line the street and their branches and leaves are also visible.
January 4, 2026 at 12:35 AM
glassyide.bsky.social
For all those of you who “can’t even” anymore, as we celebrate the end of 2025. These spoiled pets also, can’t even 😑😂

#cats #dogs #nye #fire #pets #HappyNewYear #celebrate #warm #wintee
A picture of a dimly lit room with a fireplace towards center right. There is a fire going, and there is a brindle striped dog lying in her bed in front of the fire. She is completely relaxed and asleep with her legs stretched out. To the left, mid-frame, there is an arm of a couch with an end table next to it. A grey and white cat is lying on top of the table with one of his front legs dangling off of the table.
January 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
glassyide.bsky.social
I liked the symmetry and textures on this iron bridge.

#NYC #ironworks #bridge #cityscape #trains #geometric
Monochromatic photo of iron beams on a subway stop in NYC. The view is looking across multiple sets of tracks and the beams are all maki f angular patterns. The Sunnis shining through the beams brightly, in the upper left hand corner and makes a starburst pattern.
December 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Happy Winter Solstice from my sundial of a dog.

#winter #solstice #dogs #weather #happy #peace
Photo of a dog with brindle coloring (stripes of various shades of brown, reddish-orange and black), a white chin and neck, and a black nose, wearing a pink coat. She is sitting on a brick patio with some stacked up patio furniture in the background. She has her face pointed right into the sun and has a very blissful expression on her face, with her chin raised a bit, and her eyes nearly closed in happiness and warmth. Her shadow is clearly visible behind her, as though she is a sundial. Photo of a dog with brindle coloring (stripes of various shades of brown, reddish-orange and black), a white chin and neck, and a black nose, wearing a pink coat. She is sitting on a brick patio with some stacked up patio furniture in the background. She has her face pointed right into the sun and has a very blissful expression on her face, with her chin raised a bit, and her eyes nearly closed in happiness and warmth. Her shadow is clearly visible behind her, as though she is a sundial.
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Beautiful winter sunset this evening in Northern Illinois

#winter #weather #wx #sunset #goldenhour #sky #midwest @thephotohour.bsky.social
Photo of sunset in the winter sky, looking out over a residential intersection. In the foreground there is a large, 2 story house visible, as well as the silhouette of an evergreen tree on the left, and a utility pole with wires running across it. It is dusk and the light on the houses is low. Headlights are visible on cars in the street and on the front of a house. The sky is a periwinkle shade and the clouds lit up by the setting sun are very bright yellow near the center of the horizon, closest to the sun. There is a band of clouds radiating out that are very vivid shades of orange and pink, so bright that they look fluorescent. Further up and separate from the band of clouds are some clouds that are soft and wispy, that are also hot pink and then they gently fade into the periwinkle background of the sky.
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
I don’t have an elf on a shelf but I I am certainly still being observed 😍

#cats #Xmas #lights #holidays #happy
Photo taken in the evening while I was putting up a holiday tree and decorating it. My hand is visible in the forefront, adjusting the star on top of the tree, and immediately behind that is my gray and white cat, peering through the stair spindles, and he is very happily watching me decorate the tree and make adjustments. He’s lit by the multicolored light strings and his whiskers are pushed forward in excitement, as he stretches towards me. His little nose is so pink and his head is tilted in curiosity as he observes. A photo that shows a star that is lit up on top of my Xmas tree that I was decorating and my cat is standing up on the stairs directly behind, plotting how he can reach some of those shiny lights and decorations.
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Nice little autumn storm that came through Southern Illinois, USA, tonight.

#storm #wx #weather #autumn #lightning #clouds #night #photography #nature #longexposure #reflections
@bsky.app @stormhour.com
Night time photograph, looking across a lake towards the horizon where two massive cloud to ground lightning strikes are taking place. The lightning forks off into many branches, and is bright, bright white. The clouds are lit by the lightning and shades of blue and orange are visible. The clouds have a lot of texture with ridges and waves and in the area where the lightning is striking, it is possible to see the rain shafts. The lightning is reflected in the water and the water is rippling from the breeze that kicked up from the storm.
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
glassyide.bsky.social
Pretty views from an airplane window as my flight left NYC and then arrived in Chicago.

#goldenhour #fall #NYC #clouds #flying #photography
View of NYC after departing from LaGuardia. This is a shot of the NYC skyline in silhouette with the sun shining from behind it, and golden light sparkling off of the river as a ship heads out to the open water. View from the airplane window looking down across a sky filled with clouds in each and swirling patterns. The light from the sun is orange and yellow towards the horizon as the sun goes down in the late afternoon. Very soft and gauzy looking clouds, reflecting yellow light as the plane flies above the clouds. View from the plane of the pastel colors of sunset reflected in the sky, as we descend towards O’Hare. The colorful fall foliage is especially pretty in the golden hour light.
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
glassyide.bsky.social
Some bluebirds made a surprise visit to the birdbath and had themselves a good splash, though not without some arguing about who was allowed in the water.

#birds #birding #nature #photography
Three bluebirds are in a concrete bird bath. There are two male bluebirds on the edge of the birdbath, their feathers are bright blue on their heads, backs and tail feathers and their bellies are white with some rust colors. The females have the same colors but are not nearly as vivid, their colors are much more muted. There is a bird in the middle of the bath but it's barely visible amongst all of the water it is splashing around. Two bluebirds are in a bird bath but it's hard to make out two because one of them is splashing so much water everywhere that it obscures itself. A second bluebird is making it's move towards the water. A bluebird is splashing in the water in the birdbath and its beak is open because it was really letting the other two birds know that it wanted the water all to itself. A male bluebird is on the edge of the birdbath and it has twisted its head way around so it can keep an eye on the sky. There might have been a red-tailed hawk or a turkey vulture flying over, they are also frequent visitors to this area.
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Storms rolled through Southern IL on 10/18 and the fall colors were popping in that light.

#weather #wx #storm #photography #nature #fall #clouds
This is a view of storm clouds, taken from the vantage point of a view across a lake, and the trees around the shoreline are starting to get their fall colors. The sky is various shades of gray and white, and there is a rain shaft in the center, that has a slight green/teal tint to it. Another view from the same vantage point with a nice scud cloud forming as the storm comes together. Bright orange trees are visible in some areas The light is changing as the clouds become less dense and the contrast of the gray sky and water really makes the pretty fall colors, red, yellow and orange, stand out. As the storm continues to pass the colors in the sky are growing lighter, allowing for some bright reflections of light on the water in some places.
October 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
A few shots from the No Kings rally against governmental overreach, that I attended in Southern Illinois. It was wonderful to see the honks and waves of support from so many driving by. Proud of this little town with a turnout of 400 people or so.

#nokings #standup #democracy #resist
A group of people outside on a sunny day, holding American flags and various posters with protest messages written on them. A person wearing an inflatable baby Trump costume stands along a road where people are lined up with the protest signs and American flags. A woman standing outside holding a protest sign that says “REPLACING SCIENCE WITH IDEOLOGY - that is fascism” and a sign that spells out “NOPE” but uses a crown for the “E” in NOPE
October 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Happy Caturday

He’s trying to figure out how to call Sarah McLachlan for help, because he’s not convincing me to give him his dinner, an hour early.

#caturday
October 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Up close and personal with some pollinators and a spider that I have named "Charlotte".

#macrophotography #macro #photography #pollinators #nature #naturephotography #spider #insects
Macro (extremely close-up) photograph of a black and yellow bumblebee, feeding on red zinnia flower. The background is a blue sky and the green leaves of the zinnia plant. The bee's face and legs are covered in the yellow pollen grains and its proboscis (the part of its' mouth that it drinks the flower nectar through) is extended towards the flower. The bee is very fuzzy on its body and legs and it's evident that it's late in the season, by how beat-up its wings are. Macro (extremely close-up) photograph of a black and yellow bumblebee, feeding on red zinnia flower. The background is a blue sky and the green leaves of the zinnia plant. The bee's face and legs are covered in the yellow pollen grains and its proboscis (the part of its' mouth that it drinks the flower nectar through) is extended towards the flower. The bee is very fuzzy on its body and legs and it's evident that it's late in the season, by how beat-up its wings are. Macro shot of a green caterpillar on top of a tomato that it's eating. The caterpillar is green, with some white and black dots in symmetrical patterns along its body and hairs are visible sticking up all around its body. I don't know what kind of butterfly or moth it will become - please feel free to ID it in the comments, if you know. Macro shot of an orb-weaver spider in the center of her spiral web. Her abdomen has a mottled brown color and her legs have yellow and brown stripes. Her tiny little black eyes are visible. She has lived on my porch for a couple of weeks and reweaves her web every couple of days after it gets damaged. If I shut the door too hard when I come out, she will violently shake the web. I assume that it is a female spider because of it's huge abdomen which I'm guessing is filled with eggs.
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Went to a nature preserve to "touch grass". The white streak in the sky is the International Space Station passing over. All of the small "dashes" are stars/star trails, because this was a long exposure.

#astrophotography #photography #nightsky #nature #Wisconsin #peace @thephotohour.bsky.social
This is a photo taken in a nature preserve at night. There is a long streak of light in the sky that is the International Space Station passing over. The stars have left "trails" because it was a long exposure so the movement of the Earth and the stars is captured. In the foreground there is a road that leads to a vanishing point. On the right is the silhouette of a ridge of trees in the distance. On the left there are also silhouettes of trees. The light on the horizon is light pollution.
September 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Storms that came through northern IL on 8/18 - with @ninabrady.bsky.social

#weather #wxbsky #storms #photography #LakeMichigan
Photo was taken looking southeast at dusk, looking across Lake Michigan during a thunderstorm. There is a very large lightning strike hitting the lake in the distance. The lightning bolt is a bright, white/purple with many little tentacles faintly visible. The lightning is centered within a rain shaft visible with the storm clouds defined on either side of it. Building are visible on the shore, to the right. Roll cloud that was forming over Lake Michigan as thunderstorms moved through on all sides. Photo was taken at dusk so the sky and the water are all various shakes of gray. The clouds almost resemble lenticular clouds. Storm arrives over the northwest suburbs of Chicago, creating a surreal sky that looked like something from a Steven Spielberg movie. Dramatic shelf cloud that suddenly turned the sky quite dark and created some light turquoise colors within the clouds as they filtered the sunlight. Storm clouds move out over Lake Michigan at dusk, creating a dramatic scene with a high contrast of light and dark between more open areas of the sky or the areas with heavier cloud cover.
August 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
glassyide.bsky.social
Beautiful nature in action!

#insects #spiders #nature #beauty
Large, black and yellow garden spider waiting in its web to catch some prey. These are very large spiders, not venomous to humans. All garden spiders make that zig zag pattern in the middle of their webs, I think it’s for extra stability. A clearwing moth drinking nectar from a zinnia. These are large moths also called hummingbird moths. Gentle and beautiful little creatures that just flit around the flowers delicately. Different view of the clearwing moth that shows how they get their names. Their beautiful wings look like leaded glass windows, with the intricate lines and patterns. A freshly made orb web that is perfection in its spirals. This might be a crab spider but not sure. These are not venomous to humans and are great pest control around our homes.
August 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
glassyide.bsky.social
I have a couple of very, very silly, rescue pets. They are the light of my life.

#adoptnotshop #rescue #pets #animals #cats #dogs #silly #humor
August 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Important reminder.
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18
A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.

Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide
Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.
www.nbcnews.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
glassyide.bsky.social
Beautiful architecture. They don't make them like this anymore - and that sounds like something an old person would say. Oh wait, I am that person. 😆
ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · Jul 17
I could not in good conscience continue to claim to be on 1920s building entrance bullshit without adding this one to the list. Rare that one entrance gets its own post, but the Belle Shore Apartment Hotel is That Girl. Architects: Nathaniel Koenigsberg & Leon Weisfeld, 1929
July 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM