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Mary Hrovat
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Essayist and poet. Autistic. Books, trees, clouds, sky.

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It's the 25th anniversary of my mother's death. I have many great photos of her with my father or with me and/or my siblings, but I also love this photo of her as a young woman. I miss her.
Photograph of a young woman in a sleeveless print dress, sitting in a chair in front of a wooden partition. She's looking off to the side with a thoughtful look on her face.
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Shadow.
Outdoor area with red brick paving and light-colored stone or concrete walls. Sunlight is coming through a decorative grille set into the wall on the left, causing a patterned shadow to fall on the red bricks. Blue sky, trees, and the top of a flight of stairs in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Sunday's sky, persimmon edition.
Photo of leafless persimmon tree bearing many small orange fruits, with blue sky behind it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Sunday's sky, oak edition.
Photo of brilliant red sunlit oak leaves and branches, with a little blue sky visible behind them.
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Early Saturday evening.
Puffy dark clouds and hazy blue sky, with a treetop at lower right.
November 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Saturday morning.
Clouds like loosely packed cotton balls in a blue sky. The sun is outside of the frame on the right.
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Cloud, Orion.
A rather spongy cloud in a dark sky above the constellation Orion, which has not quite cleared the treetops along the bottom of the frame. The bright star Rigel appears just above a pine tree.
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Trees, mid-November.
A slope in a forest. Several trees with sunlit orange and yellow leaves, standing amid bare trees.
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Beech leaves.
Dry brown beech leaves on a small branch, lit by late-afternoon sunlight. The veins in the leaves are visible. Out-of-focus forest in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Thursday's sky.
Twilight sky, faint orange glow near the horizon and muted blue sky above that, with dark clouds in roughly horizontal bands. Treetops and part of a building in silhouette along the bottom of the photo, with the branches of a tree on the left.
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Fall and winter, overlapping.
The center of the image shows sloping ground covered in yellow leaves, framed by trees. In the foreground, two low curved stone walls on opposite banks of a small creek. In the distance, behind a screen of trees, buildings and sidewalks.
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Tuesday's sky.
Gray clouds brushed with rosy pink, with glimpses of a twilight blue sky. A corner of a building and a treetop at bottom left.
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Red berries and ice.
Clusters of shiny red berries emerging from white flowers or calyxes. Green leaves with one large water drop near center right, ice near bottom center, and a little snow here and there.
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Many of the fallen ginkgo leaves were green this year.
Green and yellow fan-shaped ginkgo leaves at the foot of a large old ginkgo tree with a little snow.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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First snow.
Several yellow tulip tree leaves mottled with brown on snowy grass. The snow is wet and granular. The topmost leaf is face-down and has dark veins; on its surface are snow, ice, and drops of water.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Gulls being gulls while the lake lakes.
Gulls standing on damp sand near a piece of driftwood at the edge of Lake Michigan as a wave breaks behind them. There are 15 gulls in a loose group, some in the foreground on the left, away from the waves, and the rest more or less lined up close to the water.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Sand on the beach at Lake Michigan.
Light-colored sand showing various patterns: roughly parallel ridges at bottom right and center, and scattered rounded shapes. The more distant sand at the top of the image appears darker and possibly rougher.
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Saturday's sky. Beautiful gauzy clouds coming and going all day. Possible light snow accumulation tomorrow.
Blue sky and filmy clouds, with streaks of more solid clouds in the bottom half of the photo.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Friday's sunset.
Bright clouds in a blue sky just before sunset. The sky is framed on three sides by trees. Some of the clouds at the center of the image are hazy and diffuse, and there are vertical dark bands that I think are cloud shadows.
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Friday's sky. Gossamer clouds.
Diffuse clouds in a range of subtle whites and grays appear to be billowing in the sky like a sail filled by wind. A few treetops appear along the bottom of the image.
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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An exuberance of beech leaves.
Sunlit beech leaves, with other leaves and two trees in the background. The leaves are deeply veined and have slightly scalloped edges. Their colors are mainly yellows and browns, although some are olive green.
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Tree growing on rock.
A young tree extends its roots over a stony surface. The rocks (probably limestone) are pitted and mossy, with dried leaves here and there.
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Yellow.
Tall trees, yellow and yellow-green leaves, and blue sky.
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Thursday's sky, reflected in Raccoon Creek.
A creek reflects blue sky and trees showing autumn colors. In the foreground, trees with yellow leaves on the bank of the creek. In the background, more trees on the other side of the creek.
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Leaves at the foot of a tree.
Several leaves rest against the base of a large tree in late afternoon sunlight. I think the two leaves on the left (russet and dark gold) might be sycamore leaves, and the greenish leave face down on the right looks like an oak leaf.
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM