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Marie Carnes 🐝🦋🐸
@mariecarnes.bsky.social
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Springfield, Chicago
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Yesterday's snow totals in the vicinity.
Graphic depicting Central Illinois towns' snow totals in inches from Saturday, November 29, 2025 > SNOW TOTALS >>> SATURDAY STORM TEAM WEATHER SULLIVAN - 10.5" JACKSONVILLE - 10.5" PARADISE - 10.5" CHATHAM - 10" SPRINGFIELD - 10" ATHENS - 9.75"
November 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Visitor from up North.
Bare minimum snowman with three sections of the same size and two sticks for arms. He has no buttons or nose or smile or eyes on his head. He is surrounded by snow and there's a garage door in the background.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Winter on the Illinois River.
Starved Rock lock.
📷 Christopher Fausz
Snow-covered barge as it goes forward through the lock at Starved Rock on the Illinois River.
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Chicago
Photo of a house, with a front yard strewn with colorful, fallen leaves. Right in front of the house is a long table with the characters from Charlie Brown seated behind the table and Snoopy standing in front of the table wearing an orange cape. There are orange pumpkins and white gourds on the ground in front of the table. There's a sign in the front yard that says: "stop for photo op end seats open fur babies welcome"
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Post a movie where you are from
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Dusty brown horse with a black tail. There's an orange cat sitting comfortably on the horse's haunches. Both animals are facing away from the camera in a wooden horse stable. Also known as, a getaway vehicle and driver.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Book Collector w/ Six Cats (one hidden)
Edward Gorey
Color illustration of a tall, narrow bookcase jam-packed with mostly books. There's a bearded man in a suit and shoes sitting in a green wingback chair with his feet up on a matching hassock. Along the top of the green wingback chair is an orange cat asleep. On his lap is a sleeping orange cat. On the floor next to the hassock is a book. On the other side of the hassock is another orange cat, presumably fast asleep, and mostly hidden except for his rump. On the floor next to the green chair is a stack of two books, upon which is a sleeping orange cat. On the floor next to the two books is another book. On the top of the bookshelf is some kind of colonial architectural feature and an orange cat sound asleep up there. And on the third shelf of the bookshelf is another sleeping orange cat.
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Pawel Pawlak Art
Color illustration of a black kitty cat sitting on a stack of books, while reading a book, hunkered down below a window, in front of a radiator. The window has blue curtains pulled back and another stack of books on the windowsill. The floor is yellow. There are wooden bookshelves filled with books on each side of the window. There's a wooden card catalog. The scene is cozy.
November 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Cat in Window
Observing Night Moon
Edward Gorey
Black and white sketch of a window at night with drapes along the outer sides and the top, framing a moon and a cat looking at the Moon.
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Sixth and Cedar, Springfield, Illinois, about 20 years ago. Instead of moving the intrusive traffic signal pole, they removed that beautiful tree. Can you believe that? Somebody loved that tree. But no one loved that pole.
A beautiful, well-shaped red maple tree in all it's beautiful fall color, at an intersection with a L-shaped traffic signal pole presing into the tree.
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The James Gang with Brownsville Station and Sketch at The Coliseum, Illinois State Fairgrounds on July 6, 1973. Tickets $3.50 Advance $4.00 at Door.
Concert poster for The James Gang, Brownsville Station and Sketch at The Coliseum, Illinois State Fairgrounds on July 6, 1973. Tickets $3.50 Advance $4.00 at Door. The poster includes a monochrome photo of The James Gang. Black print on goldenrod paper.
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Post-season baseball is now! ⚾
(Photo from Carnes Archives, circa 1939.)
Black and white photo from about 1939 of a street scene with three boys and one girl. All with baseball bats and baseball gloves.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Birds on a wire somewhere in Springfield.
Birds on a wire on the top of a telephone pole against a cloudy sky.
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Dylan Blaha of Illinois. He's running in the 13th Congressional district.
Meme: "BREAKING: Dylan Blaha, the Illinois National Guard Captain who urged all military members to DISOBEY ILLEGAL orders, has had his security clearance SUSPENDED by the Department of War. I support Captain Dylan Blaha. DO YOU?"
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Illustrated by Jane Crowther
Illustration of a black cat sleeping with one eye open on a stack of eight colorful pillows. Sleeping on the cat's back is a gray mouse.
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Cat that Reads Journal Pour Tous, c. 1867
Artist: Wincenty Leopold Sleńdziński of Poland/Lithuania
Illustration of a gray and white kitty cat in a comfortable chair, smoking a cigarette and reading the paper. On the side table there's a cup of tea with a spoon and some kind of snack. On the wall there's a fancy red wall clock showing the time at 3:00.
October 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Last night a couple miles outside of Reykjavik, Iceland.
Photo: Julius Matikas
Green and pink Aurora Borealis over a snowy landscape.
October 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Downtown Springfield, Illinois.
Stuffed toy animal displayed in a window of a brick building.
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Iceland is all over my FB timeline tonight because Reykjavik got a major snow in October, which is early for them, they say. Sorry you guys had to put up with that, but turns out Iceland in one's timeline is good for the soul.
Screenshot from Hördur Kristleifsson's video
Lutheran Church of Reykjavik, Iceland, in a major snowstorm.
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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June Lockhart RIP. She was 100.
Cover of a vintage TV Roundup from April 5-11, 1964, featuring black and white headshot of Lassie and June Lockhart. The cover of the TV guide style booklet says that it is from Chicago's Sunday American most complete TV listings.
October 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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And the GOP Congress sits idly by.
Even in closed-door congressional briefings, according to people familiar with them, officials have provided no detailed legal answers. They are said to have cited drug overdose deaths of Americans, and stated that Mr. Trump decided the country was in an armed conflict with drug cartels. They are also said to have pointed to the part of the Constitution that makes the president the commander in chief of the armed forces, without much further elaboration. “Nixon tried to keep his criminality secret, and the Bush administration tried to keep the torture secret, and that secrecy acknowledged the norm that these things were wrong,” Professor Goldsmith said. “Trump, as he often does when he is breaking law or norms, is acting publicly and without shame or unease. This is a very successful way to destroy the efficacy of law and norms.”
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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My favorite Red Maple Tree. 🍁
Well shaped Red Maple in all its autumnal glory of red leaves on a bright sunny day in a cemetery with several headstones of the upright variety. This sky is blue and there's a row of fading green trees beyond the Red Maple.
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Gumtree somewhere in the neighborhood.
Several red leaves on a gum tree.
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM