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emoontxwriter
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SF/F writer, Nebula winner, wildlife management, photographer, native plants, USMC veteran, horses, swords, knitting, cooking, classical music mostly, former chorister, liberal, married, mom.
THIS is the flag of NO KINGS HERE. THIS is the flag under which I served, and kept my oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. THIS is the flag--the ONLY flag--that represents what we have imperfectly, but steadily, tried to embody. NO KINGS = LOVE of country.
October 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Posted as reply earlier. Photo by Carol Highsmith at Martin Luther King, Jr., African-American Heritage Rodeo of Champions, this flag has never celebrated a US monarch but represents the entire Republic: ALL of us. WE HAVE NO RULERS, NO KINGS HERE. This is the flag I served under in the USMC.
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This flag has NEVER flown over a US "king"...it is the flag of the *whole* nation, here displayed in Denver during Martin Luther King, Jr., African-American Heritage Rodeo of Champions, and chosen here for that reason. Library of Congress collection, photo by Carol M. Highsmith. NO KINGS HERE!
October 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Good advice. We're very VERY dry right now, so the early fall color has turned brown and is crispy on the ground, but the shapes of the tree trunks are beautiful. Also just found Hackberry Emperor butterfly but will need to crop to show it.
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
ArmadilloCon is this weekend and I will be there, NOT here (home fires not kept burning because it's too hot, but you get the idea) by spouse who is not into SF conventions. I have a new collection to show off (Deeds of Wisdom) and writing friends to meet up with.
September 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 30, Decade 5

The Defence of Duffer's Drift, E.D.S.Swinton (1904. 1986 in the edition I have.)
September 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 29, Decade 5

The Deed of Paksenarrion Elizabeth Moon (1988-89) in this cover, 1992
September 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 28, Decade 5

Don't Shoot the Dog, Karen Pryor (1984)
September 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 27, Decade 5

How Children Learn, John Holt (1967)
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 25 Decade 4

Thinking in Pictures Temple Grandin (1995)
August 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Apple turnovers with puff pastry!!!!! Yes, it worked, they're delicious. 8 of them from one box of Pepperidge Farm puff pastry sheets (2 sheets in box)
August 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Umm....why didn't the picture of the covers get into this??? I took the picture, edited it, and thought I'd entered it into the above post. Let's try this again: A Natural History of the Trees of North America in 2 volumes, eastern & central, western. THERE IT IS.
August 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#Booksky #ChallengeSky

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, Lewis Thomas (1974)
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 23 Decade 4

Fundamentals of Ecology, Eugene P. Odum (1971) 3rd edition
August 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
#Booksky #ChallengeSky Book 22 Decade 4
Experimental Microbial Ecology Sheldon Aaronson (1970)
August 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 21, Decade 4

The Complete Training of Horse and Rider, Alois Podhajsky (1967)
August 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 20, Decade 4

Man and His Geologic Environment, David N. Cargo and Bob F. Mallory (1974)
August 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 19, Decade 4

Lads Before the Wind, Karen Pryor (1975)
August 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 17, Decade 3

Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas, D.S. Correll and M.C. Johnston (1970)
August 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 16, Decade 3

The Lord of the Rings (3 Vol.) J.R.R. Tolkein
August 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Native grasses on our place (a few!). L to R: Bristlegrass (not yet keyed out--we have both knotroot bristlegrass and Scheele's; this is a new one), Eastern gama, White Tridens, and Big Bluestem.
August 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 13 Decade 3

Treason in Roman and Germanic Law, Floyd Seward Lear (1960)
August 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 12, Decade 2

Dune, Frank Herbert (1965)
August 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 11, Decade 2

Three Came Home, Agnes Newton Keith (1947)
August 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
#BookSky #ChallengeSky Book 10, Decade 2

Roget's International Thesaurus, (1962) 3rd edition
August 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM