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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma
@asakiyume.bsky.social
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Nobody special, but I dream. Author of LAGOONFIRE, THE INCONVENIENT GOD (both from Annorlunda Books), PEN PAL, various short stories. New short story "THE BEE WIFE" available now on most ebook platforms, or directly from me.
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I ADORE Sophie Bass's portrait of Ruby Bridges, done as an illustration for RISE UP: POWERFUL PROTESTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, by Rachel C Katz. (The book is published by Barefoot Books)

This is a screenshot--original post is at the link, on Instagram.
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Ruby Bridges in a red pinafore and white blouse, with a golden halo or mandorla behind her, radiating outward like the sun, and behind that, one of her protectors, just a black form outlined in gold. She is like an icon of a saint. This woman is still with us. Art by Sophie Bass.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Not missing two days in a row, no ma'am! Here is today's #SkyPortrait --the gradient of fading day.

... might also double as a trees-portrait, but ehh?
Bare tree branches make a lacework border for a sky gradually turning pink at the bottom, pale blue-gray up top.
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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A #SkyPortrait from the highway
A sheep’s fleece of white clouds spreads out above Interstate 90
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Rio Juruá, a calligraphy through the forest. As the OP, geopanoramas on Instagram says,

"Nem todo rio corre; algumas águas caminham lentamente até o destino ... desacelerar é um convite a perceber o mundo com mais cuidado" [translation in alt text]

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The Juruá river traces a meandering path like Japanese calligraphy through the green expanse of Amazonia. "Not all rivers 'run,' some waters move slowly to their destination ... to slow down is an invitation to perceive the world with more care."
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Gralha-do-campo [translates as "field jackdaw"] is a 1950s heartthrob singer...
Black-and-white photo of young Frankie Avalon, showing a little curl of hair on his forehead, much like the bird in the quote post. Noticing now that the quote bird photo has no alt text: it's a bird with a black head and chest and white lower body, with blue wings. It has a tiny crest on its head, black, that looks like grease-curled hair.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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One clear day the novice asked the master, What is the meaning of blue?
The master said, Look up. #SkyPortrait
The photo field is almost entirely filled by unbroken blue sky, with just a blurry hint of tree branches at the bottom.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Perfect blue stage for The One Leaf #SkyPortrait
Blue sky with white cloud surf pulling back on the left. One oak leaf clings to a branch--other branches are all bare. This time they're on the top of the image instead of the bottom.
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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The day waned while I worked indoors. It's a dapple-gray sky and windy today. #SkyPortrait
The sky is bubbling shades of gray; the bare trees fringe the bottom, such lovely eyelashes.
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Water vapor beings in a blue sky. #SkyPortrait
Blue sky with columns of cloud, ending in wisps, reaching up from the bottom of the photo.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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American skyscape. #SkyPortrait
Highway rest stop McDonalds sign and Gulf gasoline sign against a sky of dramatic, dark clouds, 4:30 pm. It gets dark early in the Northeast in November!
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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A moment of November sunshine. #SkyPortrait
Deep blue sky with some white cloud-continents drifting on the right-hand side of the photo. The sun, low in the sky (it's November in the Northeastern US!) shines in the lower right. Along the bottom, bare tree branches with here and there a leaf, reach up.
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Missed posting a #SkyPortrait yesterday (classic ３日坊主 "mikka bōzu"--three-day monk... you do a thing for three days and then give up), but now I'm practicing getting back on the horse. Here is today's November skyscape.
"Look around, the leaves are brown, and the sky is a hazy shade of winter." Milk-shadow gray-white sky, with fine tree branches and a few leaves creeping in on the side."
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hinamatsuri munchkins! (The season is wrong, but...)
A munchkin donut with pink and green sprinkles sits next to a plain munchkin donut on a piece of paper that shades from pink on the left to green on the right, decorated with Disney "Wicked" images.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Today's #SkyPortrait shows some blue as well as white. In the air, a few snow flurries.
Blue sky reaches down from the upper right corner; white clouds meet it from the sides and below, and below the clouds, bare branches on the left and branches with a few clinging leaves on the right.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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November be Novembering. #SkyPortrait
Sky is a uniform shade of leaden gray-blue, the bare tree branches fringe its edges.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I want to do daily sky portraits, but I'm not sure whether I'll have the stick-to-it-iveness. Time will tell.

Here is a very typical November sky for my area. #SkyPortrait
A sky of several shades of gray hangs above bare-branched trees.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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The ghost of Halloween haunts November
Creepy pale jack-o-lantern lies amid fallen leaves by a tiny burning bush shrub with bright red leaves.
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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The furnace of my rage….
Notice at the supermarket checkout about the suspension of SNAP benefits and directing people to resources.
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The delivery guy arrived amidst the trick-or-treaters last night and brought me this treat! (I loaded the delivery guy up with candy in return.) It’s @vanessafogg.bsky.social ‘s short-story collection THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS. This collection is *wonderful*
Hand holds up the cover of The House of Illusionists, by Vanessa Fogg. The cover features an East Asian pavilion and a tree covered in purple blossoms.
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Chicopee, Holyoke, Springfield; N. Adams, Lowell, & Haverhill: all communities in Massachusetts where levees protect residents from flooded rivers' surges. But with more & fiercer storms, people are worried about levee failures. (Article in Boston Globe)

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Screenshot from the linked (but paywalled) Boston Globe article of a map that shows predicted stream and river overflow in W MA in 2050, plus current levees and pump stations. The source line says it's from the Woodwell Climate Research Center, National Levee Database, and based on the probability of a 100-year rain event.
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Just found out @vanessafogg.bsky.social's marvelous collection is going to arrive at my house early! \(^o^)/
The cover of Vanessa Fogg's collection THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS. The cover has a tile-roofed East Asian pavilion, behind which is a purple-flowered tree, and behind these both, a stormy sky, and in the foreground, grass and stone paths. A crescent moon reaches round the word "the" in the title, and from the outer side of the crescent, glowing rays extend.
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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She says it's gooooood! She says it's goooood! (I know you've said it in the past but it always makes me happy
Rudolph and Clarice from the stop-action Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer film from 1964.
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Where
Here
When
Now
Bend
Rise
Stand
Go
Sing
Again
Yell
Again
We
Grass
--Bread & Puppet
A poster hung on a line with clothespins. It shows 14 block prints of grass in black, green, and white, above each one word (where-here-when-now-bend-rise-stand-go-sing-again-yell-again-we-grass), with then the words "Bread & Puppet" in the lower right corner.
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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I practiced this guy a lot. Had a picture of him and his twin sister (oops, spoilers) doing magic that I'd drawn on my bedroom wall for a while (I'd love to say "as a kid" but this was actually when I was in college, LOL)
Manga face: troubled dude with long red hair and furrowed red eyebrows.
October 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Specifically....
Cover of volume one of the manga-from-anime version of Andromeda Stories, featuring a white-haired warrior woman in martial-arts gear charging forward, katana in hand, followed by a blonde-haired woman in a pink dress holding a baby and a muscle-bound auburn-haired dude with a western-style sword in vaguely Roman-style gear.
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM