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You're only limited by your own imagination! And your own stupidity.

#vss365 #QuickQuill #ThePenFlows #MoonMystic
#ArtAdventCalendar

Micropoet✒, artist 🎨

Allergic to stupidity

The thing we have in common is we are all different

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Remembering connects us

#7SyllableSentence #connect
#remembrance #poppy
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
#quilting

My Pic 📸
Quilted panel with a poppy red border framing a poppy made for Remembrance Day
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Step 1. Old dog's mattress, vacant.
Step 2. Cat takes possession.
Step 3. Dog curls round cat.
Step 4. Cat stays put.....

#cat #WritersLife
Elderly dog's mattress, with cat on corner first, then ten times bigger dog joins her on the remaining three-quarters of the bed.
September 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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When you need an #umbrella, but you can't quite reach one ...

Taken this morning in the rain in the centre of #York, #England
Lots of open colourful umbrellas strung in fours between the sides of a wet pedestrian shopping zone paved with stone flags. The city council removed many flagstone pavements from the old suburbs (replacing them with concrete) no doubt to make the centre more touristy.
August 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #vibrant
#EastCoastKin
#Norway 🇳🇴

Vibrant blue lake, getting its #turquoise hue from the glacial meltwaters of nearby Briksdal Glacier
YriNeset, Oldedalen, Norway in 2024

My Pics 📸
Turquoise lake, high mountains behind with a correspondingly high waterfall going all the way to the lake. Sunny grass and a few trees this side of the lake. Turquoise lake, mountains behind and the name of the place (YriNeset) in ironwork in a flower tub as a silhouette against the mountains Lookkng up the turquoise lake, mountains in the background, clouds above. Flower tub on a rock in the foreground with vibrant red and yellow blooms.
June 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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#BylandAbbey
#Yorkshire #England
#EnglishHeritage
#BlueSky

My Pics 📸
Tallest ruin viewed through an original arch now adjoining a nearby present day farm Tall ruined corner, circular steps into a wall's opening in the foreground. Deep blue skies on the background. Tall corner tower viewed through an arch in the main facade, blue sky in the distance. Tall corner tower viewed through an arch in the main facade, with most of the facade visible in a wide angle format (so verticals all angling towards each other) and blue sky in the distance.
May 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#BylandAbbey
#Yorkshire #England
#EnglishHeritage

What a difference #sunshine and #BlueSky makes over cloudy conditions within the same 1½ hours!
Main ruined abbey, cloudy grey skies Same main ruined abbey, but with blue skies and some small cumulus clouds. Tall corner ruin and cloudy sky Tall corner ruin and deep blue sky
May 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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#HelmsleyCastle, #Yorkshire, #England

#EnglishHeritage

#MayBlooms
Building on grassy plateau inside Helmsley Castle's defences Remains of square main tower, seen front on, with daylight through most of the windows, inside the castle's defences on the grassy plateau Main square tower seen at 45° to its faces. Dark clouds behind. Ruined walls in foreground with small purple flowers growing in some crevices. Pretty pink-purple flowers growing on low ruined walls, with the main square tower out of focus in the background.
May 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Looking across a well-kept garden in Yorkshire this week.
Tidy grass, a pond, shrubs and flowers sit in front of the hedge.
On the skyline is Sutton Bank, and the famous White Horse of Kilburn, turf-cut to reveal limestone.

#WhiteHorse #Kilburn
#York #Yorkshire
#England
#BlueSkyMonday

My Pics 📸
Garden lawn, flowers and shrubs around a pond, all bordered by a hedge. Beyond the hedge lies farmland, fields edged by dry stone walls in the middle distance. In the far distance, perhaps 2-3 miles away, the Sutton Bank plateau forms the skyline, and just below the top of the plateau there is a sideways on white horse looking to the left. All of this is below a May blue sky with some cumulus clouds. Closer view of the pond and the 100m wide white horse just below the horizon.
May 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire today.

#BrimhamRocks
#York #Ripon #Yorkshire
#England
#NationalTrust

My Pic 📸
Brimham Rocks outcrops under a changeable grey sky. The rocks dwarf the humans clambering on and around the outctops.
May 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Fountains Abbey looking glorious in Yorkshire today.

#FountainsAbbey
#York #Ripon #Yorkshire
#England
#NationalTrust
#WorldHeritageSite

#BlueSkyMonday

My Pics 📸
Fountains Abbey: 3 storey window frame, no roof over the remains, with grass foreground Fountains Abbey: same tall 3 storey window from outside, with even higher square tower next to it. Fountains Abbey: more ruins, with mill stream in the foreground, grassy area and ruined walls next to the stream Fountains Abbey: Mill stream, grassy banks, low walls and a wide angle view of all the remains of high walls
May 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire's glorious weather.

#RievaulxAbbey #York #Yorkshire
#EnglishHeritage

#BlueSkyMonday

My Pics 📸
The ruins of Rievaulx Abbey near York, England, with blue skies above and a few fluffy white clouds. Some low remains of walls with and grassy areas in the middle ground, and a garden bench in the foreground flanked by low stone walls adorned by shrubs beginning to hang over the walls.
May 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Blue skies, high clouds
Early Spring sunshine
Dominates the day
The #vineyard clads
South facing slopes
Patiently waiting some #rains
From which vine buds can #bloom
Countered by anxieties and hopes
That the summer
Does not rain to excess
To spoil this year's vintage
Too soon

#ThePenFlows
My Pic 📸
Acres of vines, prepped and pruned for the season, strung along wires, planted regularly, sometimes just a mass of shrubs others lining up in lines away from the viewer, perspective lines disappearing to the distance. Between the lines of vertical vines are long strips of grass. Greyfriars vineyard, on the Hog's Back ridge, Surrey, England, at a latitude of 51° 13' N. In perspective this is further north than the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada, most of Canada's population, and all of the USA other than Alaska. And yet it is south of London, England.
April 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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English winter's noon looking down to the mouth of #Langstone Harbour, #Portsmouth on Portsea Island to the right and #Hayling Island to the left. My picture taken from #Farlington Marshes.

My Pic 📸
#BlueSkyArtShow
#peaceful
Flat wide harbour, the water is still, and a low, watery, wintry sun hazy in the sky and reflecting off the sea. Portsea Island on the right and Hayling Island on the left separate the sea from the sky. Green and brown grasses make the foreground, with dead thistle-like shrubs silhouetted against the flat sea.
April 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Calm and peaceful evening in Portsmouth Harbour from Gunwharf Quays.

Masted yachts moored in front of Spinnaker Tower, and a bright red superyacht, no mast to be seen, moored on the open side of the pontoon.
Reflections are gently rippling at high tide.

My Pic 📸
#BlueSkyArtShow #peaceful
Grey evening, mirror-like water, silvery grey except in the foreground and in reflections where its greeny nature shows through. 4 or 5 yachts tied up on a pontoon in front of the landmark Spinnaker Tower, originally to be the Millennium Tower, but construction only started in 2001. On the right are the shops and restaurants of Gunwharf Quays, and on the left a big red 52m superyacht (the Akula) moored on the open side of the pontoon.
April 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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As I was looking in
You were looking out
A thorny barrier between
But it’s more than I thought
The thorns are tearing you without
The barrier tearing you up within
Lacrimation now in full flow

#QuickQuill QQ5ER8 #Ekphrasis
#PoetryCommunity #Art
“Maze” Art By Hiroko Sakai, Japanese Artist in SanFran
Art by Hiroko Sakai. It’s a powerful inspiring surrealism oil painting of a green eye looking up the sky out of thorn, shedding tears. This painting "Maze" is an "Emotion" themed one-of-a-kind piece of art, has been one of the best selling Art prints of Hiroko Sakai's artwork. Hiroko Sakai is a contemporary Japanese artist who has lived and worked in San Francisco, California since 1999. The intense passion that she conveys in her art has inspired deep expressions of emotion in viewers over the years. For more information about her artwork, visit Hiroko Sakai's official website : www.hirokosakaifineart.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Seven or eight hundred years ago
Someone thought it’d be good
To use arch technology,
Build a stone bridge,
And forge a dry crossing
Over the River Thurne.
So there it stands
To this day
Boats now designed
To pass beneath it.

#QuickQuill QQ5ER2 #Imagery #bridge
#ArtYear

MyPic 📷
MyArt 🎨
Watercolour painting, one of my first, dating from circa 2002. Depicts Potter Heigham Bridge in Norfolk, England, a medieval arched hump-backed bridge reflecting off the river water, a large tree behind it and summery blue skies and clouds behind.
April 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The words came out the way round wrong
The violinist, left-handed all along
Still played the only way she knew
Effortlessly bowing her beautiful song

#QuickQuill QQ5R8 #Ekphrasis
#PoetryCommunity
#WritingCommunity

🎨 artist Oksana Popova
“Violin and Blue Imagination” painting by artist Oksana Popova, it depicts in a surreal way, a young woman playing a left-handed violin against an abstract predominately blue background.
April 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#silhouette

Winter 2023 and a low sun silhouetting Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square, and down Whitehall, Big Ben silhouetted in the distance.

Crappy Samsung phone camera, but like they say the best camera for the job is the one you've got in your hand at the time.

My Pic 📸
Wintry sun backlighting London's Trafalgar Square, Nelson's Column and down Whitehall in the distance is Big Ben, all silhouetted.
April 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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"The present is a little misty, foggy even, but I can see the future, our future, with crystal clarity."

#vsspic #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
#vsspic prompt picture depicting a man in a dark suit and a woman in a flowing white dress holding each other's hand and facing each other in front of a foggy landscape.
April 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Chappel Viaduct, Essex, England.

My #sepia #watercolour en plein air.

Fantastic arches, and arches within the supporting piers.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Arch
#ArtYear
#RuralSketchers
#England

My Art 🎨
My Pics 📸
en plein air watercolour spiral pad standing landscape format on a picnic bench, with my sepia watercolour of the scene on the photograph. Beyond the bench is a grassy, parched field beyond which are trees and shrubs bordering the railway viaduct and its many arches. Long railway viaduct with many arches, some masked by trees Chappel Viaduct with a train starting to make its way across the viaduct towards the viewer. Close up if someone of the viaduct arches, from a glancing angle, showing the smaller arches across the viaduct piers. And our black labradoodle rummaging in the foreground sunny shrubs.
March 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Paintbox art without painting

#7syllablesentence #paint
#WritingCommunity
#ArtYear #watercolour
Watercolour paintbox with a row of whole pans and a row of half pans. The metal lid has 4 shallow mixing pans, in which paints have dried leaving behind shapes for the imagination, which after all is what #art is!
March 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Her reputation
Held far and wide
That she was made of stone
The truth however
Was far stranger
Hewn from a volcano
Her outer surface cooled
Of solid appearance
While inside a fire burned
Molten rock breaching out
“What am I to do?”
She thought

#QuickQuill QQ4ER8 #Ekphrasis
#PoetryCommunity
Image by Mario Sanchez Nevado Depicts a young woman apparently made of stone but with fire/heat breaking through her "skin", holding her head in her hands
March 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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A picture’s worth a thousand words
On paper made from trees
We never thought they’d share their feelings
Through twigs and branches
Intertwined under the breeze

#QuickQuill QQ4R8 #Ekphrasis
#WritingCommunity

(artist Tina Bruenetti)
Two trees with symbolic tree figures reaching to, and touching each other each other in a landscape/seascape (artist Tina Bruenetti)
March 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Great News!
#BlueSky hits 32 million users
February 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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What's your sign?
Roadside sign that says, "Sign NoT In Use". Gotta love the irony!
February 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM