Randi Lee Anderson
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Randi Lee Anderson
@randileeander.bsky.social
📚 Author of A GREAT SIBERIAN SILENCE, #amquerying adult high fantasy THE WHITEMAIDEN
🎨 Artist, oil painter
🌿 Gardener (zone 6b) and tree-hugger
🌐 eng/deu/рус

🔗 https://randianderson.com
Absolutely losing my mind over the fact that Avatar played "Don't Go Into The Forest" tonight at Stage AE in Pittsburgh!!! They must have heard my wish. 🤣 #metal
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Also, hello again, Bluesky. I've been away on account of my mentals, but here are some fall pictures from my local park. #getoutside #fallcolors
October 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I've been super sad and scared and angry lately, so I made a trip to confession and then went on an early fall hike with my bub. Nature is healing. #getoutside
September 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
THIS is why they got rid of de minimis? Their justification is even stupider than I expected.
September 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Much stress lately, so this week I've turned back to painting for some restorative creative time. This is a Rose of Sharon study (with bee!), oil on canvas, 12x12 inches. Almost done! #oilpainting #botanicalart
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Edelweiss," oil on panel, 12x9 inches. Inspired by watching THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE as well as the 60th anniversary of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. #oilpainting #botanicalart
August 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Plein air in the Finger Lakes. 🩵 This watercolor sketch was done over a glass of dry rosé at Living Roots overlooking Keuka Lake. #pleinair #watercolorpainting
August 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
End-of-July garden beauties. 💚🌱 The cardinal flowers have so many visitors, including two hummingbirds (Ruby and Reuben) and plenty of bumblebees. #garden4wildlife
July 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Did a little plein air at a fundraiser event today! This is a view from the RE Farm Cafe at Windswept Farm in State College, PA. Oil on 10x8 gessobord. #oilpainting #getoutside #pleinair
July 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I heard a rustle in my front garden and thought it was a dirty chipmunk at first. 😂 Ah, backyard wildlife.
#toads #wildlifegarden #garden4wildlife
July 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
THE THOUSAND NAMES by Django Wexler was languishing on my TBR list for way too long. I love me some flintlock fantasy, and so far this one is not disappointing!
(Mode: listening to the audiobook and reading the ebook at the same time. Fwiw, the print/ebook cover is better.)
#booksky 📚
July 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
For July 20's "moon" prompt, we have the start of an unpleasant vision.
#WIPsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #epicfantasy
July 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This was the first day in a while that the weather was actually reasonable (looking at you, humidity), so I went out in the garden for some #pleinair practice after work. 😊
#oilpainting #getoutside
July 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This snippet is from THE WHITEMAIDEN, in which the immigrant MC faces the disdain of authorities raiding her community. This was written a decade ago. 🤦‍♀️
#WIPsnips July 13 word prompt: "random"
#writingcommunity #writesky #epicfantasy
July 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Despite the hammam weather, I successfully finished my street painting at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts! It's a Turk's cap lily in the Smoky Mountains, based on an oil painting I did last fall after a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #chalkart #streetpainting
July 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
So, question for the gardening community, especially those in zone 6b or nearby. Every time I grow carrots in spring, they take much longer to grow than I anticipate. 🥕 It's hot now. Should I just let these grow until fall or what? 🌱
July 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Interestingly enough, I had NO instances of "somebody" in my current draft! So my July 6 #WIPsnips post will have to be "someone," namely a minor character with outsized attitude when she comes to the defense of another woman. I love her.
#writingcommunity #writesky #epicfantasy
July 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The big bad thing that I've been dreading for several weeks happened a couple of days ago. Stuff has not been good. Fortunately, I have a Golden Retriever of a partner who knows I love flowers.
July 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Felix is unsure whether this is a dream or something more...
#WIPsnips prompt for July 3 is "deep," and this is a twofer!
#writesky #writingcommunity #epicfantasy
July 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month, but look at these beauties in my garden. 🌱 #bloomscrolling
June 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Okay, it's been years since I've done #WIPsnips, but I'll give it a go! Word prompt: "whistle." This is from PROPHETFIRE, the sequel to a #fantasybook I'm editing for publication. The drafting's been on hold for a while, but I'm getting into it again, yay!
#writesky #writingcommunity #epicfantasy
June 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's a screenshot:
June 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I got this false goat's beard (Astilbe) a couple of years ago at a native plant sale, and I look forward to its blooms every year. 🩷🌱 #bloomscrolling
June 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Anyone in the gardening community 🌱 have any good remedies against rose worms (rose sawfly larvae)? Hand-picking hasn't been working.
June 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In spite of being ill, Dmitry Andreevich decided he wanted to go for a nighttime stroll. #catsofbluesky
June 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM