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Rebecca Upjohn
@rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social
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Kidlit author 📚, picture taker 📷, knitter 🧶, woods wanderer 🌳🚶‍♀️, tree hugger 🌲, dreamer 🌌
www.rebeccaupjohn.com
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Huge thank you to #WashingtonCounty, PA for using my book #LilyandthePaperMan during your Hunger and Homelessness week to raise awareness about the increase in food and housing insecurity. @secondstory.bsky.social Video on Instagram (where I'm not) and Facebook for more info. #kidlit #cankidlit
a screen shot of a woman with shoulder-length brown hair in a cream coloured sweater speaking to the video camera with the words Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week November 16-22 across the lower part of the screen. Below the words Hunger & Homelessness Week appear in black type. a screen shot of a woman's hand with rings and red nail polish touching the cover of a picture book called Lily and the Paper Man. The illustration shows a young girl in winter clothing looking worried.
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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even the city
cannot hide its glow this month:
the blaze of moonlight

#haikusaturday #haiku

5/7/5
a halo of blue and pink surrounds a bright moon in a mostly cloudy sky. An orange branch of leaves is in the top left corner, a highlighted electrical line crosses the bottom of the image. The top of a building under construction is visible below.
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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This sounds like a terrible idea. I hope they are fully transparent. Patrick Fortin, infected with hepatitis and HIV at 7 with contaminated blood products in Canada, died at 23.
a smiling boy in a red baseball cap and blue sweatshirt is driving a motorboat on the cover of a book. The title in yellow type says Patrick's Wish over top an AIDS ribbon. Along the bottom, the text days Written by Karen Mitchell with Rebecca Upjohn, Photographs provided by Patrick4Life.
November 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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October sweeps out
while wind, rain, cold, dark seep in
--haunted thoughts prevail

#haikusaturday #haiku
two ghosts hanging from a tree at night blow in the wind.
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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In the neighbourhood.

#baseball #worldseries #Toronto #Halloween
a carved lit orange pumpkin says Go Jays.
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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everywhere I go...
in the corner of my eye,
sly watchers on guard

5-7-5
#haikusaturday #haiku #facesinnature
a dried maple leaf with holes that look.like a face. logs in a configuration that look like a face a tree trunk with holes that look like a face two decaying boards each with weathered screw heads, divided by moss and decaying leaves and soil, are configured so that they look like a grumpy face.
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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rain silvers the lake
drives cold through mittens and shoes--
sudden arc blazes

5-7-5
#haikusaturday #haiku
a full arc of a rainbow over a gray coloured lake and mostly gray sky. The far shore of trees is lit by the sun highlighting the gold of fall leaves.
October 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Tried water colour pencils for the first time!
a drawn image of a fox-like shaped face with the veins of a leaf in pale greens and browns, outlined in black, above a photo of a leaf that inspired the drawing above it.
October 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Good morning!
a scene of a small island with red foliage bushes and sparse evergreens in a blue lake under blue sky. Sun sparkling off the lake is on the left behind a screen of hemlock branches. On the right is a spindly maple with orange and yellow green leaves. Behind is a mostly green shoreline
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Good morning! Wee froggo.

#woodfrog #aftertherain
a small wood frog on the tip of a green oak leaf by a rock. Other leaves are nearby
October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Fabulous! Is it the same sculptors, Gillie and Marc, who did this? 👇🏻
a human size sculpture of a male dog dressed in a jacket, pants and shoes seated across a round café table from a female rabbit dressed in a sleeveless red dress and high heeled shoes. Both are holding cups.
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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chipmunks
chirp-tocking alarms
—the morning news

#haikusaturday #haiku
a chipmunk with a raised tail looking toward the camera. The edge of a brown and silver tarp, dry grass and brown leaves are the background.
September 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Wait for meeeeee!
tiny green pumpkin on the vine.
September 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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lost heads
sunflowers warm
ruminant stomachs

#haikusaturday #haiku
several green stalks with lopped off flower heads in a garden with patch grass in the background
September 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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scent of summer's end
after the celebration
those here and not here

response by my husband:

Flowers cut for all
Here not here who celebrate
Their scent is always free

#haikusaturday #haiku
5-7-5 #poetry
a large arrangement of late summer flowers in a glass vase on a wood shelf.
September 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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sunflower
from seed to seeds
preparing for migration

#haikusaturday #haiku #micropoetry #sunflowers #birds #birdfood
a sunflower with some petals along the top missing and some disk flowers where the seeds grow also missing likely having been eaten
August 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Sturgeon Moon over the lake tonight!

#fullmoon #sturgeonmoon
the full sturgeon moon in a dark sky with two patches of light reflection on a lake..The surrounding landscape is dark except for some points of light along the shore where houses are.
August 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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wrinkled petals
of a poppy's brief bloom
my hand shares its time

#haikusaturday #haiku
the back of a hand below a red poppy flower
August 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Brian and Ezra, in alternating chapters, navigate new challenges at 13. Family, friendship, seventh grade, basketball, school culture, grief, mental health, resilience and courage are all explored. The balance of instability and finding allies is beautifully handled for middle-grade readers. 📚👍🏻
Two half-faces of boys, one with red hair and light skin, the other with dark hair, glasses and darker skin are shown on opposite sides of the picture. The red haired boy is in the lower left corner right side up. The dark haired boy is in the upper right corner upside down. The background is a light turquoise with suburban houses and a basketball net. The text reads Thanks A Lot, Universe Chad Lucas. At the top is also a book blurb.
July 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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pearls on the path
a tiny universe glows-
slime mold

#haikusaturday #haiku #micropoetry #slimemold #amwriting
white dots of possibly didymium squamulosum slime mold look like tiny pearls on dead leaves, sticks on the ground.
July 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Dear #fungifriends, is this a kind of slime mold? #fungi #slimemold? #NH 🍄📷
tiny white dots of maybe slime mold coating old leaves on the forest floor.
July 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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To alleviate angst I #knit - this one is for my month old great nephew to grow into. Pattern: #GrowingGardenCardigan. Yarn: #CottonChirp, both from #PurlSoho. Somehow the act of knitting turns down the volume in my head enough to re-set. Plus making something for someone...🧶
a partially knitted baby sweater in off white with stripes of different blues.
July 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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a rose
by another name-
bumblebee bonanza

#haikusaturday #haiku #amwriting #bloomscrolling #micropoetry
a bumblebee in the centre of a dark pink rose blossom
July 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A #Canadiankidlit collection #TodayIAm, 10 stories of belonging by @chadgalucas.bsky.social, @martychan.bsky.social, @lisellesambury.bsky.social, Michael Hutchinson, Rosena Fung, @dannyramadan.com, @jaelrichardson.bsky.social , @mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social, Angela Misri & Brandon Wint #kidlit 📚👍🏻
a book cover of a purple background with two girls and a boy in different coloured clothing - the title Today I Am is written in yellow, subtitle: 10 stories of Belonging. Edited by Jael Richardson, author of Gutter Child.
June 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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luna moth,
secrets of the night
on stilled wings

#haikusaturday #haiku #micropoetry #amwriting
a large pale green luna moth with light brown markings rests on a doorframe.
June 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM