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RobinJP
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Poet & former print journo.
💜 words, photos, SG, my sweet pup. She / Her
🏳️‍🌈 walking the hills of WNC.
Can we now leave trans kids alone.
Poetry: https://robinjphillips.com/
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Yes. In the US, but I'm sure we thought they were imported peas. They even sounded sophisticated.
Le Sueur.
A can of sweet peas. Le Sueur brand in the silver can.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Big boy stretch.
Cyber Monday?
Nah. He headed back to sleep.

#dogs #photography
#poodle #fluffball
Blond miniature poodle stretches. He's lying in bed. His front legs are stretched out. His ears look like he's running. His mouth's wide open and his tongue is out straight. He's lying in bed. Looks like he might be screaming but he's stretching before falling back to sleep.
December 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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It's fair to use a ruler. Or perhaps a friend can help. Or just trust me. :-)
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Actually, I can't imagine a day when that's not the case.
Good morning.
A small bird stand where the beach meets the ocean.
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I see that. Interesting. Never thought about literature inspiring photography. My background as a journalist means I shoot what I see. Document how it makes me feel or try to evoke that feeling in others. And don't adjust the scene.
Male .. female couple stand on a platform at the end of a dock on a lake. The water reflects the sun in a way that makes the couple look almost like silhouettes.
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Cute!

But don't believe everything AI tells ya.
AI text says: How do you eat turnips? You can eat turnips raw, roasted, boiled, mashed, or added to soups and stews.
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Nice. Right back atcha. These beauties are "yellowing" toward the sun.
Three sunflowers stand tall in a green field. In the background is a green mountain ridge and puffy clouds.
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Cooking that thing I planned to make 3 days in advance.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

(Yay cranberry sauce not from a can!!)
Two photos side by side. One has all the makings of a fresh cranberry sauce before it's cooked. The second picture was taken just 10 minutes later. Cranberry sauce! Not from a can!
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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In Ukrainian culture, the nightingale is a creator of sweet sounds, a builder of homes.

SOLOVEIKO

'night sweet nightingale
one last song before the frost
sing with overflowing heart

#haiku frost nightingale
#poem #poetry 
#DailyHaikuPrompt
A drawing of a nightingale, a songbird and national bird of Ukraine, sits on top of a yellow swoop. The background is blue. The image represents support for Ukraine.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The detail is amazing.
This beauty hitched a ride on my windshield last week.

Dubious Tiger Moth.
Moths of North Carolina.
#NCNature #photography
Dubious Tiger Moth. Moths of North Carolina. This is a fluffy white moth sitting on a windshield. You can see the fall leaves on a tree above reflected in the glass. The moth is white with black or dark brown spots that form a pattern on its wings. At what looks like the head or top, we see two things that look like fluffy antenna.
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Not many places have white squirrels hanging out. But this one's my neighbor. #nature
White squirrel sits on a tree. His tail is curled up. His coat looks very white against the dark tree.
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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My wife saw this leaf on a morning walk. She thought about picking it up but let it lie for the rest of the world to enjoy.

Later, I showed her this picture of the most beautiful leaf I'd seen on my walk. The same one!

Why didn't we walk together, you might ask. I guess, in some ways, we did.
Rust colored leaf, round with pointy top and strong dark veins. Lying on asphalt path.
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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NOVEMBER 10, 2025

first dust of the year
surprising winter canvas
old farmer's called it

#haiku first snow
#poem #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt
First snow of 2025 leaves a dusting of white on my driveway. A silver Hyundai's hood and windshield is covered and red leaves on the driveway look cold and brittle. The colors are muted. The scene is at night, lighted by a porch lamp.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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💜
Name the four chambers
of your heart:
Sue
Kai
Health
Love
Pretty lake scene. Trees have lost leaves, but in the middle there is one filled with bright orange leaves leaning over the lake. A ridge of pretty fall trees line the background and a simple dock with a ladder on the end of it struts out into the lake. The scene gives us an image of peace and calm in the changing seasons.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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sometimes
I misspell poet
a beautiful word
that transports me 
and touches my soul
comes out as pilot
that's true too
takes me
to another land

#poem #poetry
#aviation #photography

Photo: 2016 Look, Dad. Sky Harbor airport. Father and son wait for their plane.
Father and son wait for their flight at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix in 2016. They look at Southwest planes through floor to ceiling windows.
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Hunger is Real
White text on black background. "The President of the United States of America is appealing to the Supreme Court to allow him to starve Americans. Everybody needs to be “woke” right now. Wake up. Bernice A. King"
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Down but not out.

#photography
#FallColors
Red and yellow maple leaf with long stem lies on a pebbled tarred street next to smaller yellow leaves. This leaf is bright and colorful even though it has fallen off of its tree.
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Don't stay home! #VOTE
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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HOPE IS IN THE AIR!!

This tree is on the edge of a parking lot, standing in front of a shrub that hides trash bins.
Seems to be saying: And still I rise.
Bright orange tree, shaped like a ball on a stick, stands in front of a bank of green shrubs. The leaves have changed to Fall colors, yellow, orange and red.
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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silence is broken
woodpecker you can. not. come. in.
rat-a-tat on my house

#haiku woodpecker
#poem #poetry 
#DailyHaikuPrompt
Small red-headed woodpecker sits on a wall made of aged railroad ties
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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My pup had to go to a new vet today ... Dr. Couch. He figured that sounds like a shrink so he laid back to tell her his troubles. "Well, I never knew my father..."
Blond poodle lays back on his buddy's stomach.
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Kai says the time change is messing with his circadian rhythm ... whatever that is. Might as well just lie here until tomorrow.
Blond small poodle is sleeping on his human's tummy, lying back with the sun coming in a window. He looks content or really tired. It's a peaceful naptime.
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I take a lot of obviously pretty photos. Something about this one, looking through Fall's pretty colors to a tennis court parking lot, keeps me coming back to it.

#photography #FallColors
We're looking through Fall's pretty red and yellow leaves to a tennis court. Two black tree trunks add a frame to this pretty scene. In the distance is paved lot with two parked cars.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Oh come on ... aren't they just so cute?!
Two small mushrooms stand tall next to each other. They have thinnish long stalks and orange rounded tops. They are pretty, but I think they are dangerous to eat. We'll just look at them.
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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As a regular Manna Foodbank volunteer, I thank you. You put new meaning into Oh, SNAP.
Beautiful Black woman snapping her fingers.
October 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM