Julie Salmon Kelleher
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Julie Salmon Kelleher
@julieskelleher.bsky.social
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I write about selkies and saints. PNW.
THE SEA-GLASS SHORE forthcoming from Forest Avenue Press in Fall 2026.
www.underrevision.com
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My first weathergram! On scratchy brown paper.

Today's too windy for me to get a photo of it in action, but it's been installed on the porch.
A strip of brown paper with italic script reading "Something told the wild geese/It was time to go."
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Fallen big maple leaves hung in the little maples.
Large brownish fallen maple leaves hung on the branches of yellowing vine maples, with Douglas firs in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Silent and beautifully eerie Constitutional puppets by @puppetresistance.bsky.social at yesterday's #NoKings
People carrying puppets over grass at a #NoKings protest. The puppets are oversized hands and faces dressed in white clothes inscribed in the US Constitution.
October 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Please observe my color-coordinated autumn trail buddies.
Trail dogs: a buff-gold Cardigan corgi and a gray-dappled heeler sit on a gray gravel path with buff-gold fallen leaves.
October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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What's your sign?
A highway sign reading "WISDOM 50" on a dirt road edge in front of grassy hills.
September 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Oh, fine, whatever, make me like fall.
A rose bush with green leaves and bright red-orange hips against a blue sky.
September 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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final hurrah apple news
A round fruit pie with vent-holes in the shape of a wheat stalk, seen from above. a slice of apple pie on a blue plate on a cutting board
September 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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apple news 😭
A rusty wheelbarrow full of half-rotted apples.
September 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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apple. news.
3 jars of apple sauce.
September 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Still more apple news...
Jars of apple butter on a wood cutting board.
September 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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more apple news
A corgi on a dog bed with an apple in her mouth, like a cute little suckling pig A corgi on a dog bed with an apple next to her, looking caught in the act
August 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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apple news: we are in full-on fruit-drop season now.
Apples fallen on drying grass.
August 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Moonrise pup.
A blue heeler in a field of clover with the moon coming up over the hills above him.
August 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Here we are in an August drought but apparently it’s still mud time.
An extremely muddy corgi grins into the camera. Corgi tips her head up so you can really get a good look at the black mud all the way up to her neck.
August 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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If you see this, post a sword.
(“Steed” by Róisin de Buitléar, Fred Curtis, from the exhibit CAUTION! FRAGILE: Irish Glass Tradition in Transition)
A glass sword with a Viking-influenced horse-head hilt, lit halo-style by the photographer.
August 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Short-notice shortcake party.
A large plate of biscuit-sized shortcakes, with bowls of berries and cream behind it.
August 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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oooh! Gooseberry tart. Just made this yesterday.
Section of a gooseberry tart with red-purple berries in a custardy filling.
July 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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I admire the consistency of noting that the author will not be present. #JaneAusten
A city book club announcement: "Bellingham Reads is taking a break in July. The next monthly Book Group discussion will be held Tuesday, August 26, and will be on Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. The author will not be present. Join us for the in-person meetup or register for the online meeting!"
June 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The neighborhood deer are finally in their summer coats.
A red deer grazes under a tree past a foreground of waving grass and a picket fence.
June 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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‘Tis the season.
7 jars of homemade strawberry jam
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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How did I not know there was a fairy-changeling TALE OF TWO CITIES coming out? Spotted H.G.Parry's A FAR BETTER THING in the bookstore and gulped it down. A clever and faithful take on the original.
Cover of A FAR BETTER THING by H.G.Parry.
June 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Came back in from the garden with buttercups on the boots.
A pair of dirty blue rubber boots with yellow buttercup petals scattered clean over their tops.
May 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Had a good weekend. #WSFerrys
A woman in a large coat with her back to the camera stands at the green railing of a ferry deck overlooking a sparkling blue sea.
May 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Fantastic. Overcoming the difficulty of reading also means understanding what someone else has said is not necessarily what you assumed they were saying at first go, which means picking up something new, which can also be a thing of citizenry, truth, and beauty.
"He might have argued, drawing on his anthropological framing, that it helps a citizenry overcome the difficulty of reading and become more competent at comprehending and interpreting texts. It teaches how to make an argument about a work of art—and how to make a work of art in the process. Close reading, because it begins and ends with a conversation among critics, offers participation in an intellectual community. And my favorite: We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion, even a paragon, of human flourishing at least since Aristotle, and one that becomes more difficult for students to recognize with each passing"
May 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Annnnd... for the first time in the 17 years since I've lived here, the tree is taking the season off. This is it for bloom this year. Guess I'll just enjoy everyone else's photos.
Green hawthorn tree branches with a red arrow pointing to one tiny, tiny little white cluster of bloom.
May 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM