"The great novels are full of characters whom, in actuality, we would not care to know, with whom indeed we would be bored, or whose company we would not tolerate for a second, but whose fortunes, in their story, we follow with a sympathy and understanding denied to us in everyday life." #Booksky

The Obama Presidential Center in B&W

A Needful, Thoughtful, and Very Important Read: from Steve Inskeep, NPR

🦉"Arlena McCarter and Child," #TheParkwaysProjects by #TomOgburn #ArtYear #Substack #Appalachia Short Takes » To look about and see the leaves and ridge lines you know as home. #GreatSmokyMountainsNP #Photography #DigitalCollage

At the beginning of 2025, Ms. Scavino became the director of the Art in Embassies program, which manages permanent art collections in diplomatic spaces across 189 countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/a...

Kingfisher Bird

Where the world ends and infinity ensues, I give in to the peace of being evanescent #RockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #photography #MaineCoast #SchoodicPoint #Acadia #Clouds

All that remains of family mother father children aunt uncle cousins porch across the front of a clapboard house on red brick piers Outhouse behind Trash pile behind Land cleared trees cut Living Loving Leaving take your pine grove back We’re moving to the city

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

While There's So Much Positive Potential For Wildlife,Chump's Regime Is The Death Knell For Many Species. WE MUST WIN THE MIDTERMS, THEY DEPEND ON US.......

abandoned café 6 #art #photo #photography #nightphotography #abandoned #LightAndShadow #streetsnap #Tainan #nightsky #trees #ECK ©️skinskin

Dance with me #blue #snow #ice #DanceWithMe #reeds #SkyAndEarth #scape #snowscape #nature #travel #Finland #chatgpt

Only YOU can prevent forest fires, because he's dismantling the United States Forest Service 🐻

🦉CONGRATULATIONS TO VIRGINIA! 🪔 💙Thanks to Barack Obama, Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic Party of Virginia, Ghazala Hashmi, Jay Jones, L. Louise Lucas, Lamont Bagby, Scott Surovell, Kathy Tran, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Bobby Scott, Jennifer McClellan, Eugene Vindman, Don Beyer, Suhas Subramanyam!

🦉"Flora Sprawl," #digitalphotograph #CarolinaCoasts This is a BIG tree—you'd be awed by is sheer audacity to survive no matter the declining odds. In a few years, it too will be a ghost tree 🌙 #Stunday #Nature #ArtYear "Endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.” #AmbroseBierce

🦉🌙 🪔 Trying to reconvene my thoughts these days.

For #Stunday. It's a complicated composition. When standing over a river and under an explosion of new green foliage on a dead calm day, it's hard to see where reflections in the water start and stop. From this morning. #Photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #reflections #rivers #green #Nikon #Z8

Layers of pointy and prickly #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers #TextureTuesday #MobilePhotography #Photography

The moral injury of watching incredible colleagues leave federal science because of what amounts to partisan sabotage is indescribable. Godspeed, Dr. Marvel. We’re lucky to share our one wild and precious planet with you.

🦉🌙 "In memory’s vision graph, I’ve pieced together all the times Grandma would go out & stand by the Persimmon tree, which we always called ‘the ‘possum tree,” or sometimes place a lawn chair under it to sit and watch the cornflowers all swaying in the wind" #DigitalCollage #SouthernGothic #Fiction

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.

White cyclemen blossom and pussy willow stem. #Bloomscrolling #MacroMonday #MobilePhotography #Photography

For #WaterfallWednesday. This image was made somewhere in #Yellowstone National Park. I have no idea where. It was somewhere on the way to Old Faithfull in the middle of the winter on a snowmobile. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #waterfalls #snow

It's #Stunday. Here's another #infrared image made in #Yosemite National Park a few weeks ago. We gave up interesting skies for all the snow scenes at every stop. It was a good trade. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #fullspectrum #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #snow #rivers

#Stunday #ClassicMono #Pond #Bulrush #EastCoastKin

🦉"Flora Sprawl," #digitalphotograph #CarolinaCoasts This is a BIG tree—you'd be awed by is sheer audacity to survive no matter the declining odds. In a few years, it too will be a ghost tree 🌙 #Stunday #Nature #ArtYear "Endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.” #AmbroseBierce

Bears vs. Trail cameras

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

„Women belong in all places where decisions are being made." Guten Morgen mit Ruth Bader Ginsburg, die von 1993-2020 Beisitzende Richterin am Supreme Court der Vereinigten Staaten war. Dort wurde sie dem „linken" Flügel zugerechnet. 15. März 1933 - 18. September 2020 

"Atalaya Triptych," [work in progress] a #DigitalCollage (DCI) from the Digital Hybrid series, for 'The Parkways Projects." #TomOgburn I'm back, sort of in little dribs and drabs... #BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal #HuntingtonBeachStatePark #SCPRT #SouthCarolinaStateParks #DigitalCollage #CarolinaCoast

Many thanks to all who are staying with me & new followers. I've had to put 70% of my time in trying to finally settle a long estate dilemma & sell our properties while also trying to build 'The Parkways Projects' Substack site. 🦉🪔🌙 Here's a link: #TheParkwaysProjects

This is the latest attempt by me in Photoshop to recover the finer details and lose the really shudder-worthy digital artifacting that seems to be at the root of all of Thioller's images present online. 🦉✨ #FelixThioller #TheHorseTrainer #TheParkwaysProjects #ClassicPhotography #Photography ⬇️🥂

🦉🪔🍂The final feed, with intro, which technically speaking, should have arrived first on the scene. #theparkwaysprojects #ChestnutTrees #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #TomOgburn #TheSixties #1960s #TheGreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark

🦉 It’s a very personal quest for me, for my father tried very hard to find a few of the still standing remains of the old giant chestnut trees in 1963 & again in 1964. He had seen them as a young man, when he attended Clemson University in 1946; he was certain of it even if we were not. 🍂Hey Folks!

Sunday #Stunday Thin black branches flex in unison under the weight of the snow, gently bending to touch their tips into the snowy ground creating a pattern of black and white. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Snow #SensoryArt #Lines

. I know I've mentioned him before, but my BiL does some amazing collages. I got to poke around his studio when I was visiting! Not AI! Take a peek and give him a follow! #collage #art

歩道橋 #art #photo #photography #streetsnap #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Tainan #EastCoastKin ©️skinskin

An old Elevator in western Nebraska. Barely perceptible in the distance is the railroad track. See below for closer view. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #BlueskyMonday #FarmLife #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷

. Went on a mosey around my town yesterday. Been going very gentle with the new eyes! Between the vertical lines and the clouds, there was no way I could pass this up! Have a great Monday, y'all! #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Montana #photography #blackandwhitephotography

“She seemed to have a great affinity for the “great god Lost” in all his guises, whether a chipmunk-scaled gremlin or, on a few occasions, one of the last great mountain panthers.” ≈ Tom Ogburn “We were trying to get away from all the damned tumult.” ≈ Jean Ogburn #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Landscape

🦉 I'm almost ready to apply for a few things over here at #TheParkwaysProjects Thanks Y'all! 🪔 ✨And still writing up a storm. Here's a WIP entry with a couple of stories embedded. A choice of Fire or Rain. #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BlueRidgeParkway #NationalParks #Photography #Landscape #Mountains

🦉"The Seven Vacations (of nine tales) #TheParkwaysProjects #TomOgburn #TheBlueRidgeParkway #Appalachians 🪔 An introduction of a place, a family, and a once turbulent Time called "The 1960's." #Photograph by me at age 12, 2nd #Photo by my father. #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BlueSky🦋

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Lake Superior sunset, Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan.

🦉 An insightfully artful & poignantly powerful drop. The literary equivalent of the special ops soldier on a solo mission, parachuting into the fray below. "The stupidest way to get injured is to view everything through cynical wounds and never imagine a more generous world." #SarahKendzior