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Amy Simoneau
@midliferefit.bsky.social
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Landed sailor, writer. Lover of hand tools🛠.
Dog 🐕, libraries 📚, local food 🍽, buy nothing recyclevore. Build community.

Form and function philosopher.

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You too can watch #Kilauea #volcano spew live #lava from your living room. Thanks #USGS and #hawaiivolcanoes

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...
December 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The #sky is a lifelong love. ♥️

#cirrocumulous #BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#clouds
A photo of small puffy cumulous clouds in the upper atmosphere. Looks like many sizes of cotton balls with blue sky poking through in between.
December 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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#anvil clouded sea and #sky

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Photography #sailorlife #sunset
An anvil cloud on the sunset horizon at sea. The lower part of the sky is orangey-red and the upper part of the photo is still blue with a few dark clouds winding up into the atmosphere.
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I bought this sweater for my sister years ago and she recently gave it back to me. Wasn't I a nice person? 😜😳🤓🤪😁🥰🥰🥰

#icelandicwool #hoodie #fullzip
A photo of me in the mirror. The phone is covering my face, you can see neck to calf. I have blue jeans on and a primarily black icelandic wool zip sweater hoodie with a pink/red/maroon/grey decoration band across the chest and upper arms and then a smaller - pink and grey only - design band at the waist and wrist. Is it still called a selfie if you're camera isn't flipped?
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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This pile of #unistrut made me nostalgic for #sailorlife. Such a handy system for tie downs.
A small pile of unistrut and hollow pipe in the leafy fall grass aside a shipping container.
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Transformed in mere hours. #turkeysoup #savorygoodness
A spoonful of turkey barley soup emerging from the pot of savory goodness. The soup has carrots and celery too.
November 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I wish I could take a video of the way turkey soup smells when you walk inside from some late season yard work. #warmth #BlueSkyArtShow #turkey #soup #savory #lateentry #aroma #EastCoastKin #phonepix #cozy #nourish
A turkey carcass in a simmering pan with thick delicious broth brewing and pieces of celery, parsnip and fennel cutoffs, and garlic.
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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How gorgeous is a #cabbage?

#mapetitechouchou
The face of a cut purple cabbage, probably 1/4 left, where the center gets to the core and turns to white stars. The cabbage is on a cutting board and there are some shreds slewn on the bamboo surface.
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Saw Patti at the Orpheum in Boston last night. The stuff of dreams. #horses50th #horses

She knew how to woo a crowd by complimenting their home town #dunkin 🤓
A rock band on stage. Patti Smith is front and center.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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This one's darn good too. Mostly posting cause I own the racy discontinued album cover. 😎
Jane's Addiction CD cover for Ritual de lo Habitual.
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Same year as this ⬇️ one, here's the one I chose, couldn't find my casette for a photo. 🤓
A young Tracy Chapman looking down on her self titled album cover. Portrait in sepia.
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Got the 7-day free quicksand trial of apple tv so I could watch Come See Me in the Good Light. 15/10 worth it. Riveting and emotional in the best hardest ways.

Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley are sublime in their joy and anguish.

#movies #filmsky 🎥💙
A promo image for the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, about poet Andrea Gibson and their wife Megan Falley. They are both lying on the bed with their three dogs around them and they are both cracking up and smiling big.
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Saw this today, felt appropriate.

#US #flag #tatters
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The things that happen when you're not looking. My pineapple sage took off and flowered in mid November.
tiny red trumpet flowers at the tip of two stalks of sage by a brick wall
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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woot! made my own candied ginger from the farm, also #upcycling from the ginger ale project. Love that.

#ginger #homemade #diy #localfood
A close up of crystallized ginger chunks on a baking pan.
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Two weeks from today I'll be seeing the #legend Patti Smith, who released her album #horses 50 years ago today. Beyond excited to help celebrate the milestone at the Orpheum.
Patti Smith's album Horses, the white background photo of her taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. She' wearing dark pants, a white button down shirt with cut off cuffs and she's holding a blazer over her shoulder. She's staring straight at the lens.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Breaking news! Tim Curry published a memoir. Want to read.

#readersky #amreading #reading #BookSky #books #TimCurry
Tim Curry sitting sideways on a dock wearing mostly black with a long knit scarf. There's a pond or lake in the background and he's much younger than he is today. It's a book cover that says Tim Curry Vagabond, a memoir.
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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riotous color courtesy of shagbark hickory

#BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #autumn #trees #EastCoastKin #foliage
Sun and shadows on a bright bright yellow orange leafed shagbark hickory tree. Tiny blue bits of sky pop out from in between.
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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#mullein tapers

aka hag #torch

#samhain
five mullein stalks turned into torches. Three have flower petals on them, two are plain. They are staged laying down on an old white shower curtain to catch the wax drips. A red and orange marigold blossom lies unused and the wax paintbrush is laying there too.
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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What you hear you can't see unless you look hard.

#observation
#thenaturalworld
#honking
#flyingsouth
A photo of a telephone pole, wires leading across and back. The tops of three pine trees can be seen in the bottom center 10% of the frame. A Japanese Maple takes up the bottom right corner. The photograph is mostly sky, largely filled with clouds. The sun is apparent behind the pine tree tops, setting. A few blocks of blue poke through the clouded sky. If you zoom way way in on the first image, below an electrical wire crossing the sky, a large line formation of Canadian geese are flying by. Having lost the V-shape, the line is a loose arc, a rounded check mark.
October 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Variation on a theme of the Kybele Hotel in Istanbul. (internet pic)
A red-walled ornate feeling room with many small traditional Turkish lights hanging from the ceiling in no particular order.
October 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Gooseneck barnacles letting us take a peek at what's #inside.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #EastCoastKin #sailorlife #marineinvertebrates #crustacean
Silver-shelled with yellow edges gooseneck barnacles affixed to a bright blue float that sat on the sea surface for a year. They are large and aptly named. A large cluster or hundreds of organisms surround the underside of the float, this photo only shows a small portion.
October 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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My socks for the occasion.
A gift who's day had arrived.

they're #BlueQ

#nokings
Black socks with orange-yellow toes and heel. The socks have a flower pattern with lots of zaggy-cool stems in green, flowers in yellow and red and a greenery bubble with the words. HATE will fucking LOSE in single stacked words.
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Bringing up the #BlueSkyArtShow rear with 37 minutes left in this 🕒 zone.

#vertical
#plum
#stonefruit
#photography
#fruit
#EastCoastKin

It was delicious.
A large ovoid plum with dark purple skin.
October 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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My poster for #nokings.

#bustingupdams
#revolutionaryriver
#naturewins
#lovewins
#freedomfleeter

idea source: Michelle Alexander portside.org/2018-09-26/w... and Glennon Doyle www.instagram.com/reel/DOzJkqi...
A sharpie-drawn image of a raging wide river busting up the dam of oligarchy, white supremacy, and patriarchy. It says They Are The Resistance. We Are The Flow.
October 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM