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aneedagee.bsky.social
@aneedagee.bsky.social
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Aspiring author, alliteration addict, Anglophile, Austenite, ardent admirer of all art and great stories on the screen, stage, and page.
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“I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”—Anne Frank

Successfully sought some solace and serenity amid the new year’s start of seemingly interminable tumultuous troubled times.

#Nature #Birds #Peace #Perspective #Serenity
A single duck serenely swimming across a shimmery pond in a local park; with weathered winter reeds and other browned brittle branches/leaves in the foreground.
January 8, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Wonderful winter white Winchester Cathedral ❄️
Final resting place of wise witty writer #JaneAusten ✍️
January 6, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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“San Francisco itself is art…every block is a short story, every hill a novel, every home a poem.”—William Saroyan

#SanFrancisco #CityScape #GoldenGateBridge #Travel
January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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HAPPY
NEW
YEAR!
Hoping 2026 is an incredible chapter in your story.
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#HappyNewYear
January 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”—Brad Paisley
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“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”—Oprah Winfrey
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#Farewell2025 #HappyNewYear
#CountdownTo2026 #Celebrate
January 1, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”—Eleonora Duse

#BlueSkies #Grasses #Nature
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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“London opens to you like a novel itself.”—Anna Quindlen

#London #Travel #CityScape
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London at Dawn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
#photography
December 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Sunday snoozefest following the happy yet hectic #Holiday 🤎
#Slumberday #Dogs
#BlueSkyArtShow
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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' #Winter night' by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #WomensArt ❄️
Print featuring a homestead in snow by a large central tree under a clear blue and cold night sky
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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“I sincerely hope your Christmas…may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings.”—Jane Austen, letter to her sister Cassandra
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#MerryChristmas #JaneAusten
#HappyHolidays #WhiteChristmas
#Snow #Winter #Garden #Trees
Six inches of snowfall in late November 2025 covers my backyard garden and a dwarf Alberta spruce potted in a black container.
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Christmas Still LIfe, 1908 by German Expressionist painter Gabrielle Münter #womensart
Painting of a central decorated Christmas tree on a table with apples on a blue table cloth in a interior with bookshelves to the left and a woman in a long pink dress in the background to the centre right
December 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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“I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence, and just about everything else that goes along with Christmas.”—Hillary Scott, Lady A
#Christmas #SanFrancisco
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”— #JaneAusten
(Born December 16, 1775)
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Love her works, words, witticisms & wisdom.

Celebrating her 250th!

#JaneAusten250
#SenseAndSensibility #Emma
#PrideAndPrejudice #Persuasion
#MansfieldPark #Sanditon #NorthangerAbbey #LadySusan
Logo of the phrase ‘Austen at 250’ across a grey profile of Jane Austen in celebration of the author’s 250th birthday on December 16 (1775 - 2025). Artistic depiction of Jane Austen’s face based on a pencil and watercolor drawing by her sister, Cassandra. Artistic depiction of Jane Austen’s six completed novels with Regency era drawings of ladies and gentlemen on the book spines.
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Soothing cerulean sky & shimmering sapphire seashore
#BlueSkyMonday #Blue #Seascape #Alliteration
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Great stories on the screen, stage, and page.

#FavoriteThings
#BlueSkyArtShow
Ballroom scene from the televised series Sanditon, an Andrew Davies adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel (projected on a large community center screen during a PBS Masterpiece sponsored promotional event in Springfield, Illinois). Stage production scene depicting the parlor of the Bennet family home for a theatrical performance of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice at The Repertory Theatre in Saint Louis. Open book showing the contents of Captain Wentworth’s letter to Anne Elliot from the pages of Jane Austen’s novel, Persuasion.
December 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Sweet sensations sipping savory salt-rimmed spirits amid a summer sojourn in Santa Fe at sunset. Salud! 🥂

#FavoriteThings
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Margaritaville #Alliteration
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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All things green and growing in my garden…
#FavoriteThings
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Garden
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Flora
Fauna
Foliage
#FavoriteThings
#BlueSkyArtShow
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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“The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.”—K. D. Lang

#Sky #BlueSkyArtShow
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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“What light through yonder window breaks?”—Romeo, William Shakespeare

#Windows #AlphabetChallenge
#SantaFe #NewMexico
Dark cyan color painted framed windows and blinds, with a bit of sun glare reflecting off the upper left window panes—topped by metal block letters spelling the city name ‘Santa Fe’ shadowed against the building’s sandy color facade.
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Love this Japanese Maple in the Royal Roads Garden

#yyj #RoyalRoads #hatleycastle #nature #fallcolours #photography #VancouverIsland #WestCoastBestCoast
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Post a book quote that you love.
#writers #JaneAusten #readers
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Gender reveal windows?
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#WeekWforWindows
#AlphabetChallenge
Street side view of four upper story windows on a grey painted apartment building—two with pink window shades, and two with blue window shades.
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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“Blue is bright and gives us hope for the future.”—Didi Conn
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#BlueSkyMonday #BlueSkies
#Seascape #Beaches #Blue
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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“No matter what else is going on, watching a sleeping dog brings you back to the present moment and that is all we really have.”—Unknown

#Warmth
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Dogs
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM