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Library Lagomorph
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Imagine a hobbit herbalist librarian. Libraries, books, herbs, gardens, pre-1650, fantasy-sf, middle grade fiction, tech support/training, Victoriana. Omnivorish interests & reposts. [She/her cis, trans-affirming]
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I will never not adore this aquamanile in the shape of Alexander's girlfriend charming Aristotle into a horsie ride. (Collections of The Met Cloisters, on display in their current Exhibit, Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages)
A brass sculpture, equipped with a spigot to be used for hand washing at the table, of a bearded man dressed in the 14th c. Style on hands and knees, with a lady also dressed in the 14th c. Style, seated sidesaddle on his back.
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A pot of saffron crocus with one last bloom on it at the Cloisters.
On a concrete sill sit several earthenware plant pots with raised band decorations. In the pots are growing clusters of narrow leaf stalks similar to chives but somewhat more separate. From one of the clusters is blooming a purple flower with a bright orange stamen dropping from it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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J and I now try to visit The Cloister once each season. The Cuxa Cloister was already enclosed in glass but the Bonnefort was not: we spotted several of these Johnny-Jump-Ups, which I hadn't seen any of in our summer visit.
A viola tricolor blooming in a garden bed surrounded by autumn leaves
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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If you've ever been curious what an accessible version of a see-saw is, here's one. The playground also has a see-saw analog where multiple users can walk, or roll, onto a platform on swings, sit on padded benches, and use their weight to make it bounce up and down on alternating sides.
A special needs type of see-saw playground equipment, where four seats with backs are arranged two and two on either side of a spring loaded center balance.
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I think it looks like "YOUNG MAN! If you don't stop that right THIS INSTANT, so help me god..."
A ruffled looking owl (possibly a barred owl) peers balefully over their non-existent glasses at the viewer through a screen of leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Survived the Halloween main event at work. My part of it was coming up with the content for the 'gross stuff you put your hand in the box and touch' activity table, and it had me literally nauseous with anxiety.
Mostly well decorated Halloween themed boxes on a table in front of a large window.
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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my god, they're full of stars.
A white person's hand with the fingers folded down to show black nail polish with silver sparkle in it on the nails.
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Probably bad civic plumbing, but it looks like a symbol of Resistance to me.
A set of plants growing and blooming in a storm drain, visible through the storm drain grate.
October 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Opened a sticker pack and ...
Look, it's The Secretary of War!
A green comic-book dinosaur in the t rex mode, wearing an orange t shirt, is holding a weight in one hand and stepping on a circukar item with the foot on that side. Over his head are the words Work Out.
October 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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A statue, Refugees, by Judith Peck, now on display in the entrance to Fair Lawn Public Library, North Jersey.
A mixed media statue in shades of bronze, brown and yellow, of a male and female couple. The man is wearing a watch cap & clutching some papers and a sack; the woman has a kerchief tied over her head and is carrying a small child wrapped in a blanket, and has a duffle bag over her shoulder.
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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In the Met Cloisters is this statue of Christ on a Donkey from the 15th century, which was on wheels and used in Palm Sunday processions. When we were last at the Cloisters, a Very Young Person was Quite Upset that they could not climb up on the donkey and get a ride.
Christ mounted on a donkey, a processional statue from 15th c. Germany. The donkey is atop a small wooden platform with large wooden wheels and looks like a scaled-up pill toy, though the animal is somewhat stubbornly looking down. Christ is dressed in a patterned robe with red, carved jewel trimmed mantle-cloak. He has a narrow face and keeps one hand upraised.
September 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Reminds me of The lower, fountain section of the Tower of Love at the Untermyer Gardens.
A huge pile of flat boulders mortared together with a dome-topped faux temple stop. Water springs out from several places between the ricks and falls into a rocky most type basin the foreground. For scale, two tourists are somewhat visible behind a railing in the middle left, approximately halfway up the faux-ruin/grotto.
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Look what I saw?! Apparently they still use them?!
Yes, this is the 3rd floor of a 1926 firehouse showing two brass fire poles to the next floor. Each pole is so rounded on 3 sides by brass railings and there are covers with handles over the holes, though the firefighters told me they do indeed still use them.
September 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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John Brown greeted by a Black Woman and her child on the steps of the courthouse as he is escorted to his execution:
Lithograph after a painting by Louis Ransom, Lithograph, 1863, (Currier and Ives), Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
The lithograph in question.
September 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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More Untermeyer Gardens Persian garden. Reminder, if you are near Yonkers NY, this set of elaborate gardens is free & open to the public.
A view down the length of the Walled Persian garden. An artificial pool with reeds and water plants is in foreground, connected beneath a low bridge to a narrow channel of water with small fountainheads spaced in its center, stretching into the distance. Nearest the channel on either side are low evergreens, then a walk, and then lines of taller evergreens. A temple partial open structure is visible in the distance on the right.
September 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Ok, let's have some timeline cleanse. This is from the Untermeyer Gardens in Flushing NY, taken at one side of the gorgeous walled Persian gardens. The Untermeyer Gardens are free to visit.
A round basin pours water into a canal crossing the garden. The channel is flanked on both sides with large semi tropical plants and evergreens. A low concrete bridge crosses the channel about halfway across the garden, and a sheltered garden seat/arbor is barely visible against the far wall. Three fountain jets are seen burbling in the canal in a line towards the bridge.
September 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Just some weird little guy face hugs from 14th c Britain.
Two pottery jugs in the shape of men's figures with faces. Originally apparently glazed green, but glaze seems to have worn off. One has a beard, the other a big nose. From The Cloisters collections.
August 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Figs in the Fig tree at the Cloisters. Seen from behind.
Unripe figs growing on a fig tree against a gray stone wall.
August 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Foam party for the end of summer reading at the library. Definitely worth it.
Foam shoots in clouds out of a specialized cannon into the air in a green park, while a number of children frolic in the foam on the ground Another shot of the foam cannon and the frolicking children.
August 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Two heartening signs seen at Pennsic
Wooden Sign saying: in this camp we believe- Black lives matter - no human is illegal - women's rights are human rights - science is real - love is love - diversity begets strength - kindness is EVERYTHING. Stitched traditional shaped banner of the Pride flag divided in Chevron with the black, brown, and trans colors edging, a gold heart in chief
August 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Sheetwall seen at Pennsic, at a Camp whose front gate is an old style British Police call box.
A Pennsic Sheetwall depicting the Dr. who Tardis in the style of a 14th illumination on the left, and Dr. Who Vanquishing a Villain in what I believe is the Mughal style on the right.
August 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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So.e very fancy chickens seen at Well Sweep Herb Farm in NJ.
A red chicken coop viewed through chicken wire. There are two roosters and a half-grown chick in the scene. The rooster whose back end is visible has a white upper half and a black lower half, with an extravagant plume of black feathers as his tail, twice as long as he is himself.
July 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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I brought balloon flower from my mom's yard last year but the plant died. Apparently it left us seeds though! Balloon flower is one of my most trivial indulgences, doesn't go with my garden theme, not useful, not native, but I love it.
The corner of a raised bed, showing a balloon flower plant with both open and closed blossoms. Also pictured, lemon verbena, meadow salvia, ice plant, and some goose grass.
July 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Ugh. I'm sorry. Have some Very Large Lilies.
A seven foot tall cluster of yellow lilies in a garden bed full of Russian sage, lavender & Mint.
July 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Activate the Bun Alert System!
Six fluffy adolescent/dwarf white bunnies in a cage, three with longer fur & brown markings, three all white with black 'eyeliner' markings around their eyes. A variety of gray rabbits are visible in a cage behind them.
July 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM