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Let's get real, it's Tara.
@joyce4awhile.bsky.social
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MN Mississippi River backwaters gal.
Escaping into art, nature, poetry, and personal growth ain't bad.

PFP: Close up of my eye! There's a sunflower in there!
Banner: Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines dancing side by side in the movie White Nights.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur SO quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed. Søren Kierkegaard
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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No Kings
Hastings, MN
OCT 18, 2025
A frog and other protesters along highway 61 during No Kings day. One sign says WE ❤️ IMMIGRANTS.
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My daughter calls deer forest puppies.😍 We have forestcharleses in our yard and they're all named Twig. Here's my guy!
A forestcharles pauses breakfasting from a grassy neck of the woods to perk up and check out the human with a camera.
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Small role. Big impact.
A still of Milla Jovovich's character, Michelle, in Dazed and Confused. She's holding a guitar with one arm and gazing at a lit lighter in her hand while a joint is perched in her mouth.
September 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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These two loofah buds have a hot date tomorrow. 😍🌱
Male(top) and female(bottom) loofah buds are circled. They will blossom tomorrow, and though I have a lot of pollinators, I'll have them meet up close and personal. 😘
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Ok ok last one
WHAM! MAKE IT BIG Album cover
September 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Or (I could do this all day! Lol)
DEPECHE MODE OUT OF NOWHERE Album cover
September 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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PET SHOP BOYS DISCOGRAPHY The complete singles collection Album cover
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Planting a lot more this year on my balcony sure paid off with so many more hummingbirds! Here's a visit from a friend just now. 😍
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Thanks! And the result....
August 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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My broke down dock grew its own wildflower garden. 😍
Wildflowers grow on a wooden dock that is partially submerged in a river.
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Great Crested Flycatcher sitting on a branch lookin' derpy.
#birdsky
Great Crested Flycatcher sitting on a branch lookin' derpy.
July 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Just realized I'm wearing this right now!
A woman in a white tshirt of Prince in his absolute hottest era with the beginning lyrics to 'Let's Go Crazy': Dearly Beloved, We R gathered here 2day 2 get thru this thing called life. Potted corn, sunflower, tomato, and marigold plants on a balcony overlooking a river are in the background.
July 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Warbler visit.
#birdsky
July 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Happy #Caturday from my chill dude, Clarence.
A brown tabby cat with a white belly and paws lies on his back. He's surrounded by potted plants on a balcony over looking the backwaters of the Mississippi River. A brown tabby cat with a white belly and paws lies on his back. He's surrounded by potted plants on a balcony over looking the backwaters of the Mississippi River.
July 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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The Scarlet Pimpernel. One of Jane Seymore's finest and the Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews)may have been my first on-screen crush. Ian Mckellen played the antagonist just as brilliantly as he plays the good guy.
A still shot from The Scarlet Pimpernel. Dressed in fine 1790s European fashion, Marguerite gazes over her shoulder into the conflicted eyes of Sir Percy.
July 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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My 15 year old son just bought this authentic muppet (not sure if it was ever used since it's incomplete). It's the prized piece in his collection, though!
The head of a puppet built by Muppet Puppet builder Norman Tempia while he was working for Jim Henson's puppet shop, making this an authentically built Muppet puppet! The head is made of light orange Antron fleece. The Muppet has a large darker orange nose.
July 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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10 min max outside right now if you're in the Twin Cities area. Blech, i feel sick.
Extremely smokey skies over the Mississippi backwaters in Minnesota.
July 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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So many thoughts up there that she doesn't really wanna share makes Joyce a dull skeeter. Anyways, here's a cat.
#Caturday
Clarence, a black, brown, and white tabby cat, snuggled into a lap.
June 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Thank you for covering this. Hard to express the feelings I had standing vigil. As I took this picture, though, a woman broke the silence, saying, "And I'm MAD! FUCK TRUMP." Here here sister.
Flowers and lit candles lay on the steps of the Minnesota Capitol at the vigil for Melissa and Mark Hortman.
June 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Guess that's where I have to leave the rebounder now. 😻
A ragdoll cat loafs atop a mini trampoline set in front of an upright piano flanked by guitars.
June 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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These Pleated Inkcaps that popped up in my gem corn and sunflower pot are TOO FRICKIN CUTE!
Looking inside a pot planted with gem corn and sunflower appear the tiny frilly parasols of some Pleated Inkcap mushrooms and an emerging bed of purslane.
June 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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These Pleated Inkcaps that popped up in my gem corn and sunflower pot are TOO FRICKIN CUTE!
Looking inside a pot planted with gem corn and sunflower appear the tiny frilly parasols of some Pleated Inkcap mushrooms and an emerging bed of purslane.
June 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I miss my Hojo! 😻💔
Hojo, a black cat with yellow/green eyes, peers up from his giant pillow.
May 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Twig!!! We have groundhogs too, and they're all named Twig. Our neighbors live trapped 7 last year and took them on a cruise to the island across the river. 🥰 Recently spotted a new arrival this year.
A groundhog named Twig sits on a log pile.
May 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM