Tonight's read, my third in her series of alternative timeline space history. Glad I wasn't sipping tea when I read the line "...I stopped Gagarin and Haise from having a literal pissing match." 🤣 Thanks for the laugh, @maryrobinettekowal.com ... another winner here. 📚 #booksky #scifi #space

A quartet of historical fiction based on real life stories. All compelling reads, although time jumps in the Boxcar Librarian made it tricky to follow. Most unique: Sister Stardust, of an everyday British girl pulled into 60s jet setting rock culture. 📚 #booksread #womensfiction #historical

One summer long ago, I walked this shoreline and wished for the quiet of this cabin to escape from my everyday life. I escaped to live a writer's life by circadian rhythms, but haven't made it back to #IsleRoyale yet. #stunday #nature #nationalparks #wayoffgrid #lakesuperior

From yesterday's hike. #rareplants #floridahikes #titusville substack.com/@sandrafrien...

More intriguing reads of late. An oddball family tale; a fictional recounting of dystopian utopias that did exist in Florida; an imagined escapee of a failing British colony in America; real dirty deeds in 1893 wrought and ignored in Chicago during the Columbian Expo. #booksky #historicalfiction 📚

Fall in the Grayson Highlands of Virginia. #stunday #appalachians #appalachiantrail #naturephotos #mountains #naturephotography #photosky

A fragile moment in a swamp filled with perils. #blueskyartshow #inside #naturephotos #photography #frogs

Sometimes a week calls for light, fluffy reading. #booksky 📚#cozy #lightreading

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

#Stunday at the Mackinac Straits, Cheboygan #Michigan #lmackinac #greatlakes #gull

Some golden oldies found in used bookstores this summer and consumed in transit. #booksky #vintagereads 📚

Headlands along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan from the observation deck atop Arcadia Dunes. #greatlakes #michigan #arcadiadunes #geology #stunday #naturesky #geosky #photosky #photography #nature

A recent retro experience made me realize that you never quite lose the skill inherent in tactile games, it simply degrades. #pinball #owaa2025 #chattanooga thoughtsafoot.substack.com/p/angles-of-...

Read widely. Read deeply. Read for fun. Read for knowledge. Defend the right to read. #BannedBooksWeek #booksky 📚

#stunday Sunday: a delicate dance. #naturesky #photograph #butterfly

Descending to a massive swale between ancient dunes along Lake Michigan at Rosy Mound Natural Area near Grand Haven. #naturephotos #beautyspots #lakemichigan #hiking #nature #photography #naturesky 🌱

#stunday share: sunset on Lake Michigan. #sunset #photography #nature #photosky

#blueskyartshow #theroad #photography Out in the country.

Yesterday's magical monarch moment. 🌱 #butterfly #monarch #nature #naturesky #naturephotos

#Stunday share: walking in the footsteps of ancients among their geometric earthworks under a blanket of forest at Fort Ancient, a Hopewell/Adena Culture #UNESCO World Heritage Site in #Ohio. #fortancient #nature #photography #worldheritage #naturesky #hopewell

Delighted hubby and I caught the #OldCarFestival at #GreenfieldVillage en route to #SATW2025 a couple weeks ago. Mindblowing to see so many vintage vehicles in operation!

Latest Hollywood-themed fiction reads. All worthwhile and enjoyable. Queen and Esme most engrossing and moving as faux (auto)biographies, Canteen and Poppy romps of mysteries through Hollywood culture 60 years apart. #booksky #novels #fiction 📚

Don't move! An opportunistic tree frog trying to snatch incoming insects before they enter a pitcher plant. #naturephotos #frogs #naturalist 🌱

#Stunday share: Humbug Marsh, Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge. #photography #nature #satw2025 #detroit

Latest nonfiction reads. Enjoying and thought provoking, the big surprise being the memoir by two of Jimmy Carter's longtime friends. Details in alt text. #booksky 📚 #reading #nonfiction

A gal and a sport long forgotten: easy to lose several hours to plotting trajectories and putting some English on the ball after a 30 year hiatus - Pinball Museum, Chattanooga. #owaa2025 #visitchatt #pinballmuseum #chattanooga #pinball #travel

Sunset Rock, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. View of Moccasin Bend in the Tennessee River. #stunday #photosky #nationalparks #owaa2025 #visitchatt

Reading American Daughters, intertwining Alice Roosevelt and Portia Washington's lives after their fathers dined together to the horror of Washington elite, had me on a run of factual TR to sort out the fictional parts. All fascinating! #booksky 📚 #bookreviews #TR #theodoreroosevelt

Perspective . #naturesky #travel #photography

open.substack.com/pub/thoughts... A bit about sleuthing into my family's past

#Stunday morning: swampy cove on the cypress-lined north shore of Lake Istokpoga, one of Florida's largest but least accessible lakes. . . #boardwalk #lakeistokpoga #sebring #floridahikes

For #stunday: a gorgeous waterfall once used to power a mill near the town of Cedarville, Ohio, now protected within Indian Mound Preserve along with the amazing gorge it's carved into the landscape. . . . #cedarville #indianmoundpreserve #ohioparks #waterfalls #naturesky #photography #ohiogeology

A wee bit of whimsy and some whooping merengues along our walkabout in Cocoa Village. #whimsy #frenchbakery #cocoavillage #itsasign

50s alternative history Beat The Devils blew me away with its premise and by intertwining the lead's Holocaust flashbacks with sadly believable cruelty wrought by federal goons under President Joseph McCarthy. Read the last line; this book came out in 2022. Chilling. #booksky 📚 #thriller #review

Latest reads. Clear winner of the set: When in Rome. The protagonist wrestles with whether to go through with her college-age vow to become a nun after finding and falling in love with a cloister in Rome about to close due to not having enough nuns. #booksky 📚 #recentreads #novels

One of the many mysteries of New Mexico that I reflect upon and wish to visit again. Pecos National Historical Park. #stunday #ancientechoes #travelphotos #photography #newmexico

Cranes contemplating cranes, Orlando metro. #avianaugust #birdsky 🪶 #sandhillcranes

To open my #avianaugust, a moment with pigeons in Damascus thirteen years ago. 🪶#pigeonsky

Latest reads: a quartet of thrillers. Most unique: The Cloisters, about obsessive museum curators. Most grounded in reality: A Dredging in Swann, set in the Wild West of coastal eastern NC surrounding Camp Lejeune, with a cast of vets coping with PTSD and slimeballs. #booksky 📚 #thrillers #reading

A fascinating look into #conservation history in #California: a showdown at Dyerville Flats is one thread of the story of Mrs. Mahan's successful fight to save the #redwoods #naturesky

A writer. Imprisoned for writing an opinion piece. In America. 😡 Please read her own words about her experience. America, we all should be ashamed. This is what happens when cruelty is the point and prisons are for profit.

What a delight to find a Tom Lehrer shrine at an ice cream parlor one fine day. Introduced to his humor when I was a kid, I've appreciated him even more in recent years while researching current events in the late 50s. RIP, Tom. #tomlehrer #satire #comedy www.npr.org/2025/07/27/8...

More recent reads. Of these, both the Fossil Hunter and Cecily Larson deep dives into niche post WWI history. Threw in a couple cozies to balance the heavy but fascinating historical fiction. #booksky 📚

One of the best travel articles I've read in a very long time. Back in the 90s, I did a several similar immersions there thanks to my sisters. It's obvious the writer took a deep dive into the real #Corfu #travelwriting #greece #johnlecarre #booksky 📚

If you don't realize how far these moralistic crusaders will go if allowed to dictate terms, you're going to be in for a shock, because there's no end to what they'll seek to curtail by calling it obscene or straight up lying about it. You've not lived through censorship if you don't realize that.

Florida birds at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, where they are cared for due to injuries preventing their release...except the young brown #pelican hatched to injured parents. #floridawildlife #floridabirds #birdsky 🪶 #floridastateparks

One of those magical mysteries seen when hiking in certain well-drained scrubs in Central Florida. Look, don't touch. #redwidowspider #scrubpalmetto #floridascrub #arachnids #naturesky

Anyone else more than a little surprised to see Microsoft 365 jump from $99 to $129 a year "just like that"? No pretense at inching it up, but a BIG hop? For what? The AI I shut off? If I didn't need Word and Excel... (sigh) #writerslife #saas #corporategreed

Seems someone's been feeding the purple #gallinules at Venetian Gardens Park in #LeesburgFL as they are not shy about chasing passersby. #birdsky 🪶 #floridabirds #urbanbirds

Four more recent reads, every one a winner. All historical fiction from new perspectives: Oregon's race laws of the 1920s; not-so-famous USO troupe touring WWII Africa; mystery-solving ornithologist post WWI; punch card expert solving how Nazis used IBM computers to find Jews. #booksky 📚💙