I did the map thingie….I’m clearly not someone who dreams of spending retirement touring the US in a motor home 🤣 I’d still need to be near big water, though, not inland, which makes CO and NM a challenge. CA is not ‘absolutely’ only because I already lived there for a lot of years.

I adore the flood of bird posts that fill my feed, but this is my favorite - it’s Rear Of The Year Day!!! Though the alternative is #Pigeons, I’m fairly certain Rob means you can post Pigeons if you don’t have bird butts and not that Pigeons are bird butts 😂 #BirdOfTheDay #BirdButts

If you’re wondering why everyone you follow who makes jewelry is super-sad/stressed and why you’re seeing lots more copper and brass and pewter and such, here’s the 10 year spot chart for silver prices. #HandmadeJewelry #EastCoastKin #ArtFeed

For #InverteFest here’s a sterling silver octopus hair fork with an opal gemstone that I made a few years ago. I added circle stampings to the forks to represent octopus suckers. This design is hard to press and easy to mess up, so I don’t use it a lot, but I love it!

Silver spot price $79.27 If I’d known that the silver I bought a few weeks ago at $50 was gonna be a bargain I would have bought so much more. Jewelry makers are have a tough time with these prices. 5 years price summary in the alt text.

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It's time for my annual watching of Dash & Lily 😀. A little late this year, but I'm on Christmas vacation all week, so it still counts.

I finally figured out that the reason I couldn't find the new episode of Heated Rivalry is because today's not Friday.

Snapped this before the sun started melting snow off the trees. Christmas 2025 Portland, Maine

I got sweet thank you email - with picture - this morning from a woman who was given one of my pendants for Christmas and I'm overwhelmed that she took time out of her busy holiday to write. I'm not crying, there's something in my eye.

The picture.....

A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

I'm an absolute fucking delight, yet in 26 months I've managed to convince only 958 people to follow me. Thank you and happiest of holiday wishes to 958 really swell folks!

My ever so slightly wine impaired brain thought "Golden Showers Fleet" and now I'll never not be able to call it that.

One last piece before locking up the studio and heading to the kitchen to start the holiday preparations: 15x22, oil on aluminum composite panel. This is "The Dinner Party". #artshare #artadventcalendar #oilpainting #art #oilpainting #blueskyart #artyear

How did I not know there's a new season of Emily in Paris?

Reason 847,962 why getting old sucks. For decades, I could fall asleep in the middle of my 12th cup of coffee. This evening I drank 2 cups of half-caff, then proceeded to clean stuff until 3:30am. My refrigerator is now cleaner than the day it was manufactured.

And there it is...the symbol of the resistance. A crowbar.

One of my regular podcasts on Pocket Casts played a cross-over episode of 'Okay, But... Birds' and I'm hooked. Some of you folks who flood my feed with your pretty bird photographs might enjoy it, too! #birds #birdsofbluesky www.okaybutbirds.com

They've given us copilot at work and now there's a giant pencil that follows my cursor around when I'm typing documents. It's so bad that it's making me miss Clippy....

Pardon my dark sense of humor, but Rob Reiner and Anthony Geary were both 78. Since these things come in 3's I wonder how many 78 year olds in Hollywood are nervous right now.

#BWFri #Moonscape #Scape #Winter #ColdMoon #Clouds #Branches #ClassicMono #MobilePhotography #Moon before #Yule #EastCoastKin 📷 12/04/25

This episode is brilliant. Give it a listen, then maybe listen again to pick up the stuff you missed the first time.

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 14 Cardinals have the best red, especially in the winter. 🪶

It's shoveling time ❄️❄️❄️

Taking Friday off to have a productive long weekend and then spending Saturday too sick to accomplish anything is a special kind of unfair.

I love threads like this - an endless list of sodas you've never heard of accompanied by all the reasons why said sodas don't exist in the other 49 states.

Another of my #FavoriteThings is pipe organs, which fascinated me from a very young age: my Mother KNEW I'd marry an organist. She was right, but she didn't expect he would be a man. This photo is inside the wind chest of the giant organ at Longwood Gardens, PA. 28 Dec 2017 #BlueskyArtShow

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12: falling into a tesseract Hand knit alternating brioche and garter stitch in wool 🧶

#ArtAdventCalendar day 12 Ocean Drive, Acadia National Park

Little garden collage for #ArtAdventCalendar

Oops. Seems I forgot to post about the Holiday Art at my studio space - Running With Scissors. I can't participate this year, but a lot of talented folks will be there. There's food and beverage vendors, too. 250 Anderson St, Portland Maine Friday 4-7pm (so, like, now) Saturday 10-5 Sunday 10-4

Melissa F Miller is one of my favorite authors. The first time I read Cut Off from Sky and Earth I couldn't put it down. I attempted a reread at a more leisurely pace to savor it. No such luck; I finished it at 3:30am 🤣 It's the best book she's ever written. melissafmiller.com/b/tvWwr #booksky

Reposting for the daytime people

The Portland Press Herald did a nice piece on craftspeople and buying handmade. It features some of the folks at Factory 3, which is having a Makers Market Friday (12th) from 4-7 and Saturday (13th) from 2-6. It's a great space, check it out! Gift article: www.pressherald.com?p=7545283&uu...

It's the time of year to dig out my favorite winter beanie, which is covered in mini holiday lights powered by a small battery pack. It's festive, it irritates people who have to stand near me in an outdoor crowd, and I'm not bothered at all because I can't see the blinking lights. win, win, win

I want to ask AI how to program a shortcut key on my computer to suffix every query I type with " -AI", but I'm concerned that the response will be something nefarious that bricks my pc.

Brilliant

For Day 11 #artAdventCalendar morning My first nebula M42 Orion 30×40 76×101cm Oil on Canvas 2019

An older photo of a bighorn sheep as the snow begins to fall. Scars and broken horns tell some of this ram's story. #bighorn #sheep #ram #nature #wildlife #protectnature #photography #animals #mountaindweller #EastCoastKin #snow

Day 9 of #artadventcalendar ! I’ve been doing a painting every year to send as holiday cards for… a long time. This one is one of my favs 😁

Long exposure of Niagara Falls at Night. #ArtAdventCalendar #Landscapes #Canada

January 2015, Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse in S. Portland during a heavy snowstorm. I couldn't get the lighthouse in focus through all the snow, so I focused on stairs in the foreground. Some of the white specs are the choppy water, but most of them are the big fluffy flakes ❄️ #ArtAdventCalendar

For Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar, a small butterfly elephant from last year! Paper mache, glass eyes, metal wire, painted with acrylics using a sand effect medium for a textured surface.

Take a moment from the doomscrolling and look at the trees in Andrea's feed for ##ArtAdventCalendar They are quite lovely, and very calming.

The most festive dragon for day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar! This dragon got into the decorations, and clearly has no regrets. Entirely handmade with polymer clay. 🧶

My annual "turn on apple tv for a month and watch everything" season started today, so I finally get to see season 5 of Slow Horses. Everyone said how brilliant it is, no one mentioned how funny it is.

*applauding wildly*

Here’s a photo of a specialized haul with 9 butternut squash strapped to the back from earlier this fall.