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Anne Hawley💜🩶🖤🤍
@annehawley.bsky.social
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💜🩶🖤🤍 Poster-crone for late bloomers. Writer. Editor. Bike rider. Portlander. She/her.
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November in Portland
View down at my legs in red corduroy jeans, walking through red leaves on the sidewalk
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Wow, this is excellent. Here's a repost with alt text.
A collage of all the most dire images from the Smith-Waite tarot deck: The Devil sits atop The Tower, which is surrounded by , The Nine of Swords, the Ten of Swords, Death, the Three of Swords, the Five of Cups, and the Seven of Cups. Sadness, destruction, loss, and heartbreak all around.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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One of my favorite kinds of text messages to get. (I love Oregon's longstanding all-vote-by-mail system.)
A text message saying ANNE H, this is Multnomah County Elections. Your ballot has been received. As soon as your ballot has been processed, you will receive a status update.
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I just slid my ballot into a drop box at my local Multnomah County Library. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Nobody questioned my right to vote.

I note this in case it's the last time.
View along a city street in the autumn sunshine. Benches, changing trees, and the library in the distance. A good day to vote.
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Thinking seriously about a stack of these bad boys. (Not glamorous unless you're a notebook nut like me.)
A set of nine Midori A4 notebooks as sold by Jetpens. They're bound but coverless lay-flat notebooks of blank pages with little cord bookmarks.
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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RIP
A Halloween yard decoration, a tombstone reading RIP D.E. Mocracy, 1776-2025. A skeleton is coming up out of the grave and there are other Halloween tombstones nearby.
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Yes. It does.
A stylishly dressed woman rides an upright bike on a snowy day in Paris.
October 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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We're used to it. (h/t Willamette Week: www.wweek.com/news/2018/12...)
Text: In the Trump era, Portland has hosted bloody political brawls. But this city was no slouch in the 1990s, either. Back then, protesters were staging shows of resistance against the George H.W. Bush administration that were so extreme that a Bush staffer gave Portland the name "Little Beirut".
September 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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War ravaged Portland. Casualties are mounting.
A neighborhood front lawn with some Halloween skeleton bones arranged to look like...maybe the dead rising?
September 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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War ravaged Portland
A city neighborhood street with fall ginkgo trees lining the sidewalk, which is covered with yellow leaves. I was so scared.
September 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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War ravaged Portland
A night shot of dancers in illuminated costumes, during a parade. (Granted, this was Mardi Gras, 2025, but Portland is no more war ravaged now than it was then.)
September 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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War ravaged Portland
A city neighborhood street in NE Portland featuring a lush green yard with roses in front of a little house, and a long, clear sidewalk with no bombs, guns, or teargas.
September 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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War ravaged Portland.
A city park with children in a playground area and adults congregating around a big picnic table in the background. The part is tree-lined and green, the sky is blue. A sign posted on a tree says "Fitness in the Park". It's terrifying, I tell ya.
September 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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If you see this post a bridge.
A very well-formed young white man wearing no shirt poles a boat in the river Cam in Cambridge, UK. I think there's a bridge behind him.
September 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Good yard art or best yard art?
A stone marker, something like a tombstone, standing before a tree in someone's parking strip. The marker is engraved with a dog lifting its leg, and the inscription PEE ON THIS: followed by a list of thing to pee on: racism, discrimination, ableism, oppression, sexism, bullying, xenophobia, ageism, classism, transphobia, bigotry, and prejudice.
September 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Good neighborhood yard art or BEST neighborhood yard art?
In front of a house painted chartreuse stands a skeleton at least 15 feet high, holding a Pride flag, before an arch made of skulls, presumably plastic but nothing would surprise me.
August 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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A small but lively protest on my local busy street corner in NE Portland this afternoon. Lots of engagement with people driving by.
Three protesters on a sunny city street corner with anti trump signs and an INDIVISIBLE banner. One person is wearing the trans pride flag as a cape
August 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Free breakfast from my overgrown backyard. (Grandma used to say that if you turned your back on Oregon for a few months, the whole place would be covered in blackberry vines.)
A white bowl full of ripe blackberries on an outdoor table. Blurred in the background is the blackberry vine they came from.
July 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I was brushing my hair out on the porch and this 🕷️🕸️ caught a loose one
A fine spider web hangs, almost invisibly, in midair above a garden featuring a blue hydrangea in bloom. The web has caught a long silver hair which curls around in some kind of mystic sigil.
July 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Low hanging fruit.
A blackberry vine dropping towards the sidewalk, with lots of unripe berries and a few glossy, near-black ripe ones.
July 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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It feels a little...off...to actually enjoy something these days, let alone post about it, but...look at these zero-drop, wide-toe-box *custom made* shoes I got from a Turkish shop on Etsy.
www.etsy.com/listing/1552...
I am enjoying them very much.
A photo of a woman's legs, in a patchwork skirt, ankles crossed and resting on a footstool. She's wearing a pair of oxford-style two-tone leather shoes in purple and black.
July 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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My pals Heckle and Jekyll
Two American crows wait, you might say impatiently, for me to toss them some food on an overhead wire against a cloudless blue sky with big leafy trees below.
July 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Bring back Accessory Commercial Units!

All up and down my NE Portland (OR) neighborhood are former storefronts that long ago got re-zoned as strictly residential. This is one of my faves (obv at Halloween time). It would be so cool if they were still little stores.
A house on a corner in NE Portland. The door opening directly on the sidewalk, as well as the flat, windowed front with no yard or garden, show that it was once a storefront with a residence above. The building is painted black and decorated for Halloween, with a skeleton perched on the first story ledge, and chalk drawings of a cat skull proclaiming The Dead Cat Tavern.
June 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Photo of a person's feet in purple patent leather Doc Martens standing on the famous green patterned carpet at PDX, Portland International Airport.
June 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Black Houses of Portland #27
Photo looking up from street level at an early 20th century big bungalow house with a full wraparound porch. The body of the house and porch are painted black, while the eaves of all three stories are in creamy white. The house stands in a somewhat rangy garden of hydrangeas and grasses. The sky is cloudless and blue.
June 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM