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braftery.bsky.social
Bridget Raftery
@braftery.bsky.social
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Big fan of opting outside | Photographer | Beginner gardener 🧑🏼‍🌾 | Creative marketer

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📍 Pacific Northwest

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what we said was going to happen

is happening right now
screenshot of fucked up by Macklemore playing on Qobuz
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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someone said they couldn’t unsee Ms. Now in the MSNCB rebrand so naturally I made this
Little Ms. Now made out of the new MS NOW logo. A character holding a microphone and Feminism Forward flag, with a news camera pointing at her. The text below says My Feminist Source, News, World.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#Seattle / #Bellevue folks

I’m taking photos tomorrow to raise money for a friend in a dire situation

He’ll soon be unhoused and lose his service dog

He’s a former coworker who has faced a series of unfortunate events, it could happen to any of us

Message me to book 🙏 thank you for your support
Mini-session photoshoot fundraiser on November 15th at Robinswood Park in Bellevue. Suggested $150 donation for a 20 minute session. Pets and humans welcome
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
braftery.bsky.social
hidden tomatoes

#garden #zone8b
A bunch of green cherry tomatoes held by someone wearing a black glove, standing in a garden patch with tomato plants, leaves, and grass in the background.
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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becoming a fan of doing whatever this is 🎨
Masking tape on a white paper with colorful paint pen marks scribbled all over The result of masking tape on a white paper with colorful paint pen marks scribbled all over, after the tape has been removed. Four rectangles containing the scribbles remain, with crisp edges that are slightly raised showing the layer of paint.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Big thanks to this pumpkin for providing joy this week 🎃

First go at scraping vs carving went well 👹 #Halloween #Spoopy
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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👻 #HappyHalloween
The top of a pumpkin cut out in a ghost shape and glowing orange. Newspaper with pumpkin guts and carving tools and used paper towels are seen below on the table.
October 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Floating amongst the stars 🌌

#sketch #paint #art #space #stuff #and #things
A pencil drawn sketch of an astronaut floating A sketch colored in with paint pens of an astronaut floating in space amongst the stars, with colorful lines drawn around the space suit and a planet with rings visible in the upper left corner.
October 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Drawing mountains at midnight was just what the doctor ordered

#Tahoma #MountRainier
A pencil sketch of Mount Rainier with a variety of curvy and straight lines doodled around it to represent the landscape and sky Paint pen used on top of pencil showing an illustration of Mount Rainier with wavy lines in the foreground colored in with blues, greens, and some purple, and the background showing sun rays of yellow, orange, and pink, with some wavy blue lines with white stars showing through in multiple places
October 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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this car has taken me everywhere

over 214k miles. driven through 36 states.

multiple trips from Washington State to Alabama and back. off road adventures. too many nights car camping to count.

initially never thought I’d even like having a Prius, but Perry the Prius is the goat
A periwinkle blue Prius parked on the side of a highway in Texas looking out to the Guadeloupe Mountains A periwinkle Prius drives through the brush outside of Tahoe on the border of California and Nevada A periwinkle Prius covered in snow at a rest stop in Wyoming A periwinkle Prius covered in bumper stickers, carrying two orange kayaks on the roof and parked in front of trees, grass, and a lake
October 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Shoutout to the child with the bubble gun for the clutch timing 🫧 and to my phone stretching the last 1% of it’s battery for one last picture

Final evening of the #WashingtonState Fair, 2025

#PuyallupFair #Celebrating #125years
A colorful metal set of stairs in the foreground leads up to the classic Swings ride at the Washington State Fair. People are suspended in the air, spinning across the top half of the image, with a beautiful yellow, orange, and blue sunset peaking out from behind a Ferris wheel and Mardis Gras amusement ride in the background. Bubbles are visible floating through the scene through lines of people on the right behind the metal barrier.
September 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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200+ seeds from a single dried marigold flower ✨

#gardening #gardensky #flowers
September 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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when your inner child wants to run around your camera on the beach at 1am, you say yes

selfie with the #MilkyWay 🥰

#Oregon #Photography
a person at night wearing in sweatpants, fleece, and beanie standing on a beach engraved with footprints all around, holding their hands up to showcase the Milky Way shown above
August 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
braftery.bsky.social
Love the patterns made by steel beams

#Astoria #Photography
a road in a shadow leads to a dramatic drop and then the rest of the road can be seen below. green steel beams surround the road, with water in the far background A busy crossing of steel beams on the Astoria-Megler bridge with a car driving below
August 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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This bridge is so dramatic 🎢

#PNW #Photography #Bridge #Astoria #Oregon #WashingtonState
The Astoria-Megler bridge seen from the Washington State side On the Astoria-Megler bridge, a shadow of a bridge railing runs across the road leading to a steep incline with industrial steel above. A car drives in the lane going in the opposite direction
August 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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@chrisclougholy.bsky.social thought you might like this 😄
Seattle seen from Elliott Bay with the Space Needle on the far right and radio towers on the far left. In the water, visible from a far distance, a sailboat is seen next to a breaching baby humpback whale.
August 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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after a lifetime of living in the area, I witnessed my first whale breaching in the PNW, in the middle of Elliott Bay from the ferry to Bainbridge 🥹

photo from very far away with a 400mm lens

@ferries.wsdot.wa.gov
a whale shows its belly and throws its fins up as it breaches in front of a beach along Seattle
August 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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home is where the Prius is 🏕️
A campsite with camp chairs and a blanket illuminated by rainbow LED lights strung from the trees to a car. The car is a Prius with a large 4-person tent attached to the hatch.
July 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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so shade at Perry the Prius, though - he has provided over 210,000 miles of adventure and will continue to serve us well for local commutes 🚙
A blue Prius with its back hatch covered in stickers carries two orange sit-in kayaks on j-hooks with straps attached to the car. Trees and a bench with people sitting in front of a lake can be seen in the background
June 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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We be snacking on peas, cooking with peas, giving peas away 😂 absolutely in love with how this is going lol
A hand holds out a wooden bowl of melting sugar snow peas with the climbing vines in the background
June 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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thank you, garden 🥰
A bowl of harvested sugar snow pea pods held in front of tall pea plants climbing up a trellis A bunch of Buttercrunch lettuce harvested held by hand in front of a grow bag full of greens
June 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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So, these mystery plants could either be Queen Anne’s Lace, or poison hemlock? 😩

Help me identify? One is starting to bud, so we may know soon - I see tiny hairs on the stems & poison hemlock is hairless? The bit of purple developing has me concerned but I don’t see any dark spots. #flowers #garden
An unruly plant growing from a container in a garden that looks like it could be Queen Anne’s lace or poison hemlock. Slightly darker purple is visible at the intersections of offshoots A thin plant with carrot-like leaves growing from a container in a garden that looks like it could be Queen Anne’s lace or poison hemlock. Chicken wire is wrapped around it
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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first pea pods harvested this morning 😍 so sweet and crunchy!

turns out I planted sugar snow peas, not sugar snap peas 😂🤷 small difference, still just as stoked!
A hand holds out a bunch of sugar snow peas in the foreground, with climbing pea plants visible in the background
June 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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3 days of kayaking in a row 🙂‍↕️

spotted a beaver, turtles, big fish, little fish, bald eagles, hawks, ducklings, bunnies, and great blue heron

totally worth the blisters
a single person kayak is visible in the foreground with the sun entering golden hour above the horizon a smiling person in an orange kayak paddling by a marshy area splashes water with their hand the tip of an orange kayak is visible in the foreground with a wooden bridge visible ahead over a small river and the reflection visible two kayakers head toward the sunset with trees and silhouettes of trees in the reflections
June 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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😍

#sunset #kayaking #datenight
two orange lifetime kayaks are partially visible in the foreground with their noses touching, with an orange and yellow sunset over the rippling water and the silhouette of a bird flying over head in the distance
June 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM