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Tom Ogburn 🪔
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A visual artist & writer enjoying Bluesky🦋💙 Creating & writing for a new sequence of works:

The Parkways Projects: The Blue Ridge/The Skyline Drive Parkways, Great Smoky Mountains & Shenandoah NP @parkwaysprojects

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear
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Tom Ogburn 🪔 @bardicarts.bsky.social · Feb 10
The Parkways Projects—a 12/20 year series. A multi-tiered photo essay to be; a Substack/Patreon/Bluesky trio. Each arena has its own strengths. I appreciate your support & look forward to meeting you. #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Photography #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #NPS #USFS #GSMNP
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"Lunar Lantern" #TomOgburn #DigitalPhoto
#Stunday 🦋 #EastCoastKin #Photograph
#BlueskyPhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Skyart #BlueskyArt #Art #Firelight #JeromeAZ
For my NPS/OPN work: @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social
My Owl lantern, made of cast iron, a gift from my sister in 1983. It's perched on my great-great Grandfather's hand-crafted heart pine bookcase, which at the time was on the Hogback ridge in Jerome AZ. It's been with me all over America and then some. Although I love the quote below, this lantern is to me, as important as the illumination. “Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook” ≈ Nizar Qabbani
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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“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
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“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 The f...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The Parkways Projects. bsky.app/profile/park...

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BlueRidgeParkway #NationalParks
#Photography #Landscape #Mountains
An introductory tour of past artworks
Art Intro Tour » At earlier works and those I'm creating for The Parkways Projects
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October 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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🦉 Hey folks...still embroiled, and getting somewhere, just not sure where at this juncture. Thanks to all of you who've subscribed from Bluesky🦋 💙

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BlueRidgeParkway #NationalParks
#Photography #Landscape #Mountains
Ravens Roost through Photoshop Time
Short Takes » WIP » Experimenting with emulating Mid Century Photos
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October 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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"After the Deluge" It's the small things...

#photography #nature #storms 🦉

"You move away from storms as an invite for them to find you"

#Stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin
#TomOgburn #TheParkwaysProjects
September 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Quote on state crimes from 2023 article Servants of the Mafia State. Free here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state
September 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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This essay is from 2024, but it is applicable -- especially the latter half -- to now: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to Boomland
Will 2024 be the year America explodes?
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September 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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New article! A lot happened this week, so I wrote about how Antonin Dvorak wrote his greatest works in Spillville, Iowa in the summer of 1893.

And about saying goodbye: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/dvorak-liv...
Dvorak Lived in Iowa
And you once lived with me.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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New show! Three-hour interview on recent events and songs I listened to when I wrote my books. If you missed me live on KSQD, the episode is here: ksqd.org/what-a-week-...
"What A Week" Mixtape Edition with Sarah Kendzior
If you've been keeping up with her stunning non-fiction, Sarah Kendzior is a prophet with a great deal of honor. “They Knew”, “Hiding In Plain Sight” and her latest book, “Last American Road Trip” hav...
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September 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Homestead
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Home
#EastCoastKin
#Orange
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#TownScape
#Scape
#Photography
September 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Leaving home to go home. Not sure if I am coming or going. (Aug 2025)

#BlueskyArtShow #Home #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷
Raindrops on an airplane window, looking upon the blurred runway stripes.
September 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies.
Scientists link hundreds of severe heat waves to fossil fuel producers' pollution
A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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While there are some great journalists on @msnbc.com and @cnn.com, the CEOs are fascist-friendly. MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for telling the truth. They fired black and brown hosts during Black History Month. They will only get worse, and your support helps them.
September 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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This is wonder, too! 🦉🌙✨
minouette.bsky.social Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Sep 14
Day 14 #SciArtSeptember prompt is mimic. 🧪🐡 This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers 🧵
As described this is my 8” x 10” print showing the centre of a purple echinacea flower. The centre of the flower is orange with black outlines and some yellow bits and occupies the lower right corner. Radiating out are several pink and violet petals. The background is green. On top of the centre of the flower is a transverse-banded flower fly facing the lower right corner. It is yellow and black striped with translucent wings and red-brown eyes.
September 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🌙 If you are a parent, you should offer yourself a moment of wonder and joy, and read this 🌱🦉🎻

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Parenting #Hope #Journalism
#Art #Thoughts #Music #Dvorak #Dvořák (because someone, probably violinists and pianists, will know the marks) 😃
September 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Strongly radioactive cuprosklodowskite gets its name from sklodowskite & Marie Skłodowska-Curie.

Ikaite occurs in truly spectacular towers or columns (up to 18 m) growing out of the Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland, floor towards the surface. As a marine geophysicist I have to vote for it. #MinCup25
My linocut print of Marie Skłodowska-Curie in teal, holding glassware with radiating straight arrows and wiggly lines (to represent particles and photons respectively) in glow in the dark ink One group of the ikaite tufa columns of Ikka Fjord growing on top of a syenitic roches moutonneés. The tallest column in the centre is around 3.5 m tall. Photograph by Uli Kunz, SUBMARIS 2024.
September 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Okay, that's enough photos of endotherms. Back to bugs! Here is your Saturday Stink Bug, a very pretty little nymph spotted recently in Montana. I love the speckling on this quarter-inch critter. 🌿🐙 #insects
A macro photo of stink bug nymph on dry yellow and orange flowers. The bug is oval shaped, and mostly light green with many darker green speckles, patches of black on the thorax, and dark legs.
September 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Sep 14
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Water fountains in front of Denver Union Station.

#Stunday #JustForFun #Denver #VideoVignette #MobilePhotography 🎥
🎵 Tokyo Cafe, TVARI (Pixabay)
September 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I love Helen Mirren. I always have, for years. But these last couple of decades? I exalt her now! 🌙🙏👏

Writing, writing, writing, then writing some more, these days. I have a couple of grants deadlines approaching. Life can be exciting.

It can also be a lot of work! 💙 Cheers to all of you folks🦉✨
Helen Mirren DESTROYS Trump #trump #democrats #helenmirren
YouTube video by Celebs AgainstTrump
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September 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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“Because in the end, that is what you are left with — your work. The more you own that, the better off you will be. In the immortal words of Whitney Houston: 'No matter what they take from me, they can’t take away my dignity.' And in the equally immortal words of Whitney Houston: 'Kiss my ass.'”
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The End Times of Academia
"It was the non-existent future that I was working toward that was the problem."
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September 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Why am I suddenly channeling Yul Brynner? 🧑‍🦲🌙

🐝

This is a great post people!

A little shot full of happiness for this Thursday, and a toast to you all for a happier weekend to come🥂

Back to work for me ⛑️
rosemary-c.bsky.social Mary @rosemary-c.bsky.social · Aug 15
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
– Ray Bradbury
#bee #nature #photography #pollinators
September 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Thanks! BTW new wildflowers are blooming in STL and I thought of you. I always look for this tree stump on the lake because so many different flowers grow on it at once (not the best pic but you get the gist)
Flowers
September 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🦉There's another introductory post I've done for my BardicArts Substack site (I needed something up on it as it's my landing) but before I post it here later, I'll not waste a good opportunity to repost this one tonight🌙

#photography #nature #nationalparks #ArtYear #EastCoastKin
#appalachians #art
An introductory tour of past artworks
And a sneak peek at works I'm creating for The Parkways Projects
theparkwaysprojects.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFlatBlack

Flat black chalkboards outside a wine and cheese shop in Munich.

#EastCoastKin #Munich #Wine #Cheese #Chalkboard #ArtYear
A small green wooden wine and cheese shop has numerous black chalkboards around the exterior of the building offering prices and bargains. There is light snow on the ground, and crates hold bottles of wine also on the ground. Looking through the open door, you can see a glass case of cheeses. Munich, Germany
September 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM