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Michelle Baldwin
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Young beefy buck
Photo by me of a young mule deer buck (6 pts?) standing in dried grass and leaves.
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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If every one else is posting pretty aurora pics, I’ll jump on that bandwagon.
Photo by me of the night sky with pinks and purples dominating the majority of the sky. In the foreground is the top of a spruce tree from a bottom to top angle.
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Just finished this gorgeous book, The Hong Kong Widow, by Kristin Loesch.
Photo by me of the novel, The Hong Kong Widow. Cover art is of a headless woman wearing a red and black qipao. Edges of the book look like a gold frame.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Morning visitors 🦌 🐿️

Yesterday, a young buck wanted to sample my hydrangeas on the porch. I gently shooed him away after taking a photo through the glass.

This morning, a black morph of a fox squirrel sampled a pumpkin.

Didn’t realize I was running a breakfast café.
Photo through glass (by me) of a young buck nibbling at a potted hydrangea plant on my front porch. Photo by me (through glass) of a black squirrel nibbling on a knucklehead pumpkin on my front porch.
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I splurged and got this one.
Photo of the 2025 Bonne Maman Advent Calendar on my kitchen table.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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They’re so used to me singing that there wasn’t any change until I broke out “Caro nome.”
Two chihuahuas half-asleep on a grey and white fleece blanket in a round brown pet bed. Two chihuahuas, heads up and ears perked (one is mid-yawn), lying on a grey and white fleece blanket in a round brown pet bed.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I do love penguins, but they are very stinky.

Can’t beat the ravens on an intellectual level.

Can’t beat the shoe-billed stork… period. It looks like it would eat your very soul.
A very menacing photo (no photo credit) of a shoe-billed stork in all its glory. The photo shows the stork from the neck up with a mostly darkened background.
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Dropped my ballot off last night.

Do you have a local election today?

Love that my county and others in Colorado have sticker art designed by local students.
Image of my “I Voted” sticker stuck to the top of my finger. The sticker is round, and the design is of the “Welcome to Colorful Colorado” sign, but the text is “I Voted” on the sign. The background illustration is of mountains, foothills, and grass under the sign.
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Need some really good horror to take your mind away from… all the horrors?

Slashed Beauties by Allison Rushby… whew! This one was hard to put down!
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Photo by me of the novel, Slashed Beauties. The cover art includes a gilded cage with a waxed figure of a woman inside, wearing a rose pink dress from the late 1700s. The title and author’s name are printed on a pink ribbon that winds around the cage.
October 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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The new US military salute. 🫡
Zoomed in photo of the crowd at Hegseth and Trump’s meeting with top military brass, with one member holding his head in his hand. There is a red circle drawn with a photo editing tool around his head.
October 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I don’t think she’s on Bluesky, but I loved Sylvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching!
Photo of the book, The Bewitching, by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia. Cover art: dark green vines surround the border of the book; in the bottom center, a very pale hand is gently rounded and the index finger is slightly pointed upward; the top center is a gold bird with seven pins stuck into it.
September 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Just finished this incredible YA novel by @runwithskizzers.bsky.social - purchased it last year and held it in the TBR stack for a while. Sometimes, the right time to read a book just happens without planning it.
Book cover of Preeti Chhibber’s Payal Mehta’s Romance Revenge Plot. On the cover art, Payal Mehta is standing against a row of lockers with two boys on either side of her. Brightly colored flowers line the lower left side of the title, which is centered in the lower third of the cover.
September 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Here are my two, thrilled that I opened the blinds enough so they could sun themselves. 🥰🐕
Photo by me of two chihuahua mixes: one is sitting on the back of the couch, facing away from the camera and looking through the parted blinds to the mountain range outside; the other chihuahua is snuggled in a pocket of sunshine on a truly ancient powder blue and pink comforter with a cherub pattern.
September 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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On a happier note, this is the second time I’ve made this dish, and it is a consistent winner.

Chicken, Spinach, and Cannellini Beans
Chicken and cannellini beans with chopped bacon, spinach, Parmesan cheese; accompanied with some crusty garlic batard and a spoon in a purple bowl.
September 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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There are two rather large bucks wandering in between our yard and the neighbor’s, while another neighbor’s dogs are losing their minds.

The bucks are just doing their thing. 🦌 ♥️

(The second one moved farther into the trees- he must be camera shy)
A 10-pt mule deer buck poses for my photo (or maybe is just staring at me, whatever), centered in a mass of spruce, pine, and scrub oak branches. Deep in the tangled branches, the tail of another mule deer buck is barely visible.
September 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Bleptember

Chihuahua mixes love the blep… and hoarding all the comfy blankets.
Small buff colored chihuahua-corgi mix lying on a tan blanket with one eye half closed and his tongue sticking out. Brown chiweenie lying on a white and grey cuddly blanket- his big brown eyes are wide open and his tongue is sticking out.
September 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I have almost the same “injury” from moving school furniture around.
Photo of the top of my hand with four small, bloody scrapes where the fingers meet the rest of the hand. This photo was taken by me May 17, 2012. No one was arrested or sued for this grave injury.
August 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I need to order more of these tees to wear every day.

Purchased in 2015 or 2016 from @thebloggess.bsky.social
Cropped photo of me (torso only) from 2016 at the Colorado Ren Faire, holding a sword, wearing a pink tee that says “FEELING STABBY.”
August 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I’d love to go get my Covid booster, but… 🤬
Screenshot from the Walgreens app- text: “COVID-19 vaccination appointments are currently unavailable pending approval of updated vaccines for 2025-2026. Once the new vaccines are approved, appointments will be available again. Check back soon.”
August 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I didn’t get them visually on camera today, but there were some very active Spotted Towhees in our trees this morning (and one loud neighbor’s dog at the end of the video).
August 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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There’s a little baby chokecherry tree in my front yard that’s slowly grown over the last few years- thanks to some birds that “brought” some seeds.

Each summer, it gets heavier with fruit. Maybe I’ll get brave enough to make jelly one of these days.

For now, leaving it for the birds.
Photo by me of some branches of a small chokecherry tree: bright green leaves and a few grape-like clusters of small, dark chokecherries. In the background, some Russian sage branches and trees are slightly visible around a cement driveway.
August 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Husband is making fun of my lunch.

I stand by this combination. It’s delicious.
Photo by me of a purple bowl containing sweet potatoes covered with small curd cottage cheese, sprinkled with black pepper. Silver fork partially visible.
August 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

This tracks, actually.
Scene from Schitt’s Creek: David (Dan Levy) is behind the counter at Rose Apothecary, holding a pen in his right hand and wearing a white sweater with text “Wild Aloof Rebel” in all caps across his chest, looking at Patrick (Noah Reid) who is facing away from the camera; David is saying “That is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard.”
August 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Think I’m going to stare at this view until the thunderstorms arrive.
Photo by me of the Southern Rockies range; fluffy clouds lying low in the valley; wispy clouds in the blue sky, partly obscuring Pikes Peak; treetops in foreground.
August 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Ever since that charlatan suggested people stop eating carrot cake, I’ve been craving it nonstop. Finally got a little cutie carrot cake last night. Ate part of it last night and going to finish the rest today. 😋
Photo by me of a little round, 2-layered carrot cake with cream cheese frosting piped in between the two rounds and on the top; cake is sitting on a purple plate.
July 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM