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Betsy
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The Queen of California

Vintage from the 20th Century

Used to be studio_gal at the old place

Joni Mitchell, Cats, Gardening, Running, Traveling, Theater, Opera, Photography (amateur), Humanity. Sometimes in that order.
well fuck now I'm sunk.
I can't listen to the song without thinking of
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I've been asking this question for what seems like years.

Thank you for giving me an answer I can understand.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Any constellations you can see year round look the same winter & summer, which are viewpoints about 2x93 = 186 million miles apart. So anywhere in the inner solar system should be similar. Beyond that, as you traveled much farther out things would gradually look different.
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reposted by Betsy
3.8-mile #hike this morning up on the Ridge Trail. Lots of beautiful scenery. A couple of coyotes, too (also beautiful).

#hiking #joy
#happy #trails to you
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
pompous actor: "... I've got polyps on my vocal chords, brought on by 'tmt' -- 'too much theatre.'

Production assistant, quietly: "Or 'tmv' -- 'too much vino.'

#TheFranchise
#HBO
it's pretty funny!
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
3.8-mile #hike this morning up on the Ridge Trail. Lots of beautiful scenery. A couple of coyotes, too (also beautiful).

#hiking #joy
#happy #trails to you
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
LOL your post inspired me to go check it out and I think for $20 I am about to get the deal of a lifetime
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
this photo makes me ask, again, if the constellations we name & identify from earth would be recognizable from 'outer space'?
It was cold out in that field at 4am this morning!
But worthwhile just to get my own unimpressive photos of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas. 🔭
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
the opening sentence in the VICE article made me laugh right out loud at the breakfast table.

Upon reading the article I finally understand references to 3I/ATLAS which I've heretofore seen only in defiant comments re: NASA Insta posts (Mars photo: "fake! AI! why can't we get a clear photo of 3I!")
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa!

(watched it for the first time just yesterday)

#Interstellar
Interstellar is a Christmas movie. While they're on the knee-deep water planet 23 Christmases happen.
The original "Planet of the Apes" is a Christmas movie. In the first ten minutes alone it has like 2,000 Christmases.
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
love these beautiful #cactus #flowers!
Cactus flowers, photo taken today in Palm Springs, CA. #cactus #flowers #bloomscrolling
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I love this -- I had to dodge horses *and* cyclists crossing into the park in the mornings when I was in Lon -- I mean, Paris -- last!
The part of my morning walk where I get to pretend I’m in Paris
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Booootifull!
Cactus flowers, photo taken today in Palm Springs, CA. #cactus #flowers #bloomscrolling
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Noon at Hilltop. 65F with a ton of haze over Palos Verdes. No lizards, boids or doggos. No ice cream truck, either. Just a few people at the overlook and on the grass. It's been a slow week so far. I managed one shaky lap around the circular path, so that's something, I guess.
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Reposted by Betsy
Noon at Hilltop. 65F with a ton of haze over Palos Verdes. No lizards, boids or doggos. No ice cream truck, either. Just a few people at the overlook and on the grass. It's been a slow week so far. I managed one shaky lap around the circular path, so that's something, I guess.
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Oh mais c’est beau!
Belle nuit à vous 🩵🤍🥰😘
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by Betsy
3.1-mile training #run this morning at the Berkeley Marina. Pretty cold -- around 46 degrees -- but when you sign up for 10k's you gots to do what you gots to do!

My rule when I lived in Michigan was, if it was so cold your teeth hurt, you didn't have to run.

#running
#runners
#runner
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
nothing new under the sun

(more's the pity)
But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs, and arms, and heads, chopp’d off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, “We died at such a place”
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
boop!
Gus says boops are always welcome!
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
good morning
#USA2025
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@solange-fairwell.bsky.social stop me right here, I am undone
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
3.1-mile training #run this morning at the Berkeley Marina. Pretty cold -- around 46 degrees -- but when you sign up for 10k's you gots to do what you gots to do!

My rule when I lived in Michigan was, if it was so cold your teeth hurt, you didn't have to run.

#running
#runners
#runner
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
just ate 3 handfuls of miniature marshmallows at 7.30pm because I am a health nut
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I hate them all SO MUCH

I hate hating them

and I hate them

I hate them

I hate them
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
do let me know what you thought of it.

I only read a synopsis recently and was...

I don't want to say 'horrified' but I can't think of another word so...

please do let me know what you thought of it!
Winding down on Sunday night by watching Hereditary
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The first 85 minutes of #Hamnet were

but the last 20 were

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December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM