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etaylorc
@etaylorc.bsky.social
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The delight is in the finding out.

Inveterate traveler, incorrigible animal rescuer, English teacher by trade. Mostly lurking/liking here. All photos by me unless otherwise stated.
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The Good Place (2016-2020)

Any day with the #rescuedogs is a good day, but today was perfect - #bright sun and sky, and cool enough to run with abandon. Here (l to r), Cookie, Tanner, and Happy.

I wish they had homes.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #BlueSkyArtShow #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky
A low-angle photo of three dogs running on a rooftop, with a brick building on the right (shelter rooms are in there). The black dog on the left is running away from the camera; the small light yellow dog and larger shaggy grey and tan dog are running straight toward the camera. The sky is bright blue and the sun is shining brightly.
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Travels to the Edge (2007-2008, 2012)

The show with @artwolfe.bsky.social that inspired me to GO, because our world is amazing.

(Would be so lucky to attend an on location photo shoot with him now.)

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #Scape #TravelMemories #Cappadocia
The photo is looking down at light-colored rocks eroding into a flatter landscape with winter vegetation. Eroded rocks in the mid- to further-distance look like the classic fairy chimneys of Cappadocia: roundish-squarish bases of pale rock, with sharply pointed "roofs" in darker stone, usually noticeably separated, like towers. This was taken very early in the morning, so the shadows are stark and the sky in the distance fades into the sunrise brightness. This photo was taken from a hot air balloon, and we had barely cleared this rim at this moment. (We had maybe 8 people in our balloon basket - so we could get both really close to the ground, like here, and really, really high.)
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I couldn't choose one today, so here are WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982) and (Monty Python's) Flying Circus (1969-1974).

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky
A scene of downtown Cincinnati, taken from across the river in Kentucky. In the foreground is a white paddlewheel steamboat with red trim. Across the river, the baseball stadium is visible, with the red bleachers facing the camera. Behind that are the tall buildings of the downtown area, which are almost all greyish-beige stone; the sky is pale blue and the river is mostly reflecting it, meaning the red details really jump out. The picture is mostly a dark purple background. Hanging from an aerial acrobatic cloth is a man dressed in loose trousers and a tunic, which are white a blue with the light. Hanging from his other arm is a woman with a strap around her neck, obviously spinning. She is dressed in a pink outfit, with ruffles at the elbows and knees that flare out as she spins.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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House (2004-2012)

Houses and walls and the only road through town, at least a day's hike from anything bigger.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #WallsOnWednesday #India #TravelMemories
The picture is of a small village in the Himalayas in northern India, on a sunny day with fluffy clouds. The village is set up and down a steep mountainside. There is a narrow footpath in the middle, with stone walls and buildings alongside it. Some colorful pots line the walls and roofs, and blankets and clothing are hung to dry. Paths lead up and down from the main path. High, steep mountains are in the background.
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Rescue puppy Tucker
A very happy puppy looks into the camera, tongue out and ears sticking straight out from his head. He has short fur, colored roughly like a German Shepherd with more white around his face, belly, and paws.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Baby Wicket.
A shaggy puppy stands on a faux-wood floor. The puppy is dark brown and golden, and looks a bit scared. He wears a braided, light blue rope as a collar.
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Terriers (2010)

Well, terrier mix. This is Wicket, named because as a baby he looked like an ewok (see comment). Rescued from outside a restaurant in Shanghai.

Outstanding TV show, too.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #AnimalArtTuesday #Dogs #Rescue #AdoptDontShop
A single dog sits in strong sunlight, on a light grey cement floor. The dog is shaggy, with colors like a Yorkie with silver highlights (although the dog is only about a year old), but much larger than a Yorkie. He is sitting, facing almost exactly straight at the camera. One ear stands straight up, while the other is charmingly crooked. He casts a long, dark shadow, stretching towards the right.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Firefly (2002)

(They were selling this fob as Star Wars, but I know better.)

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #Shiny
A small gun-metal figure of the firefly spaceship, from the TV show Firefly. The background is my light-colored fake-wood laminated desktop at work.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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We never had cats growing up (mum is allergic), so I didn't know the joy of having a house tiger until fairly recently. I'm allergic too, so it's good mine lean into their tiger nature. Happy lazy #caturday from Molly. Any closer, she will whap you.

#CatsOfBluesky #Cats #OrangeCats #AdoptDontShop
Closeup of a completely orange cat reclined on her side on a burnt orange cushion, in front of a window pane. Outside it is sunny, and it is obvious from the building outside that we are fairly high up.
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Stray shopping cart casting long shadows against a stone wall.

#UrbanGaze #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Photography #Mundane #EastCoastKin
Part of the back of a regular barred shopping cart appears on the right side, with a bright light coming from the right. The cart casts long shadows toward the left. The wall is textured, yellowish blocks.
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Pretty sunrise this morning. That is all. Have a brilliant day!

#brilliantsky #upwaytooearly
Only the sky is visible, but it is a bright sunrise with clouds, so it is quite dramatic. The sun is rising from the bottom right, where the clouds are thickest, so the fiery clouds fade into blues and greys towards the top left.
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Clouds casting #shadows on sand dunes (pretty sure from Mui Ne, Vietnam), with bonus #bluesky.

#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows
The top of this photo is light blue with trails of white clouds, getting heavier on the horizon. The golden sand dunes are huge, undulating hills, with some dark patches where rocks under the sand wear through, or where someone or -thing has passed over the surface. Some shadows from the clouds cause unexpected highlights as well.
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#WeekSforShadows, huh? Caught this one this morning. (I have a replacement scratch post, never fear.)

#AlphabetChallenge #cats #patterns #shadows #photography
The view is looking upward, and part of the ceiling is visible on the right. A large orange-striped tabby with a white chin stares out over his domain (the living room) from his throne (a plastic bowl on his scratch tree). His face is also mostly in shadow, while his body is fiery orange. The early morning light, still close to the horizon, casts stark shadows of him, the tree, and the bowl on the white wall behind. The upper left is mostly in shadow, except for the narrow frame of a window on the second floor.
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Not sure this rises to a #Stunday, but I like it. The air quality was quite bad on this morning, giving those sunken buildings an even more surreal feeling. Guangfulin Heritage Park, Songjiang, #Shanghai.

#EastCoastKin #Architecture #Reflection #Photography
The photo is about 2/3 sky and 1/3 perfectly still water, with a low layer of buildings on the horizon. The entire photo is a hazy blue-ish grey from bad air quality, and the day is just beginning to lighten. meaning a few glimmers of what might become sun come through. The buildings in front are built to look like they are flooded; the buildings behind are a mix of traditional-inspired and traditional styled replicas.
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Fall arrives in the city.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #Photography
Brightly colored vines turning reds, oranges, and yellows spread across a two-toned wall (beige on top, grey on the bottom). Many leaves have also fallen, leaving a patches of a network of bare tendrils too.
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Beach-side boulders on the island of Panang, Malaysia. Late summer, and the day was very hot and very hazy.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #TravelMemories
Several large boulders stand on the edge of a beach, with pale blue water stretching into a pale blue sky on the horizon. Several more boulders are out in the water. On the largest boulder in the foreground is a plant multi-colored leaves in a decorative black urn-shaped pot.
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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A nameless rock in a Japanese garden, somewhere in Asia.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #Zen #JapaneseGarden #Photography
The entire picture is in shades of grey. A large roughly-oval shaped rock with a flat bottom stands vertically in a carefully groomed field of gravel. The standing rock itself has layers that make it look vaguely like a range of mountains disappearing into the distance. It casts a light shadow is cast on the gravel.
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Hard to see without the railing, but there's a very old cave church in this rock cliff wall above Radozda, #NorthMacedonia, dedicated to Saint Archangel Michael. Second pic is the fresco barely visible in the middle of the first.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #cavechurch #travelmemories
The pic is of a very tall band a multi-colored reddish rock cliff streaked vertically with white and blue. It is hard to tell whether the streaks are natural or painted. Below the band of rock is more rocks with some vegetation. Above the band of rock is brilliant deep blue sky, with some vegetation lining the rim. In roughly the middle of the pic, above the railing, is an arch that appears to be painted with figures. Closeup of the figures in the barely visible arch in the previous pic. It is a series of figures clad in red on a light blue background, and several appear to have halos. Below is a stone and brickwork wall filling in the odd shape of the opening of the cave. At the very bottom can be seen heavy horizontal wooden beams holding up the stones above, and leading into the dark opening of the cave church itself.
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Performance #inside the Reed Flute Cave in Guilin, China.

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Guilin #cave #photography #travelmemories
The scene is in a cave with a large, nearly perfectly still pool reflecting the cave ceiling. Most of the photo is black, but blue lights illuminate the far shore, backlighting some of the stalagmites. On the left side, silhouettes of some people are barely visible as they mostly blend into the shadows. On the right there is a large screen showing ballet dancers - this is partly also reflected in the pool.
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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A moment of #quiet about to become very loud; there is another cat and four small dogs in the flat, so, really, what to do?

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #rescue #adoptdontshop
A very cross-looking orange cat is lying on a blanket atop a green cardboard box. There are other things in the picture, but really all you need to know to know is that the cat is exceedingly cross-looking, and that other animals in his space are about to piss him off even more.
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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So many people and orgs to thank for recovery from this: 50+ kind-hearted people in Shanghai; Eleventh-Hour Rescues, Shanghai; Candy's Hound Rescue International; Slaughterhouse Survivors Harbin; The Haven, Shanghai; and now Whippet Hilfe in Germany. Orgs are all on IG and FB.
October 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Happy aside: earlier this year I posted a pic of this dog in the clinic, barely alive from horrific neglect. He is now getting ready for adoption in the EU through Whippethilfe.de.

(NSFL rescue video in the comments.)(A hard watch, but what a transformation.)

#dogs #rescue #adoptdontshop #bekind
The photo is of a dark grey whippet, a long, thin breed, lying on a beige bed with one leg extended towards the camera. His head is in sharp profile facing left, into the light, showing off his very long, aerodynamic nose and tall pricked ears against a cream-colored wall with sparse black paint-brush marks.
October 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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It's hard to watch. So many people and orgs to thank for his new chance at life: 50+ kind-hearted people in Shanghai; Dingding clinic; Eleventh-Hour Rescues Shanghai; Candy's Hound Rescue International; Slaughterhouse Survivors Harbin; The Haven, Shanghai; and now Whippet Hilfe.

Godspeed, Gangzi.
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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#Quiet sunrise hill #scape in Ella, #SriLanka.

#EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #photography #travelmemories
Looking south through a narrow pass of steep hills, widening into plains on the southern end of Sri Lanka. Because it is dawn, the hills in front are nearly black silhouettes, while the low hills in the distance are beginning to be lit. But the sky is full of sunrise colors in the clouds above.
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Nothing so #quiet as being totally alone in the ruins of a massive city destroyed 3,215 years earlier. I was in #Hattusa before the archaeology teams were back for the season, and long before tourists.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #Türkiye #archaeology #travelmemories
A broad, flat, grassy plain drops downhill and stretches into bare hills in the distance, under a blue sky with clouds. On the plain in the foreground are low stone walls (some quite thick), tracing shapes that are clearly a complex building - one of many on the site.
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM