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Suzanne Dimmit
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Awestruck by our beautiful world.
Wife, mom, and grandma; cat lady.
Family archivist.
Kindness matters. Shine your light!
Banner of blue and yellow. Stand with Ukraine.
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Sea Hunt
#WeekTforTelevision #AlphabetChallenge
#GulfofMexico
Two young sons stand next to their father in calm ocean waters. Dad is bent over the water with a fishing net--trying to catch a minnow, as I recall. The green waters come up to the waist of the smallest boy, upper thighs of the older boy. They are very intent on what their dad is doing. Beyond them, the ocean waters turn from green to turquoise to deep blue, with a bright clear blue sky above.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Laugh-In. #WeekTforTelevision #AlphabetChallenge

For my in-laws' 50th anniversary in 1999, we promised them a very special home-cooked meal. For the first course, we presented them with elegant shrimp cocktails. This naturally raised their expectations. When it was time for the main course, rather
Mostly bald, older man wearing blue and black plaid shirt is seated looking down at a plate of food (which is out of the picture). He is laughing so hard that his face has turned red. Older woman is seated in a wood dining chair. She is wearing a white sweatshirt decorated in a red and green holiday theme featuring a wreath, holly leaves & berries and a Christmas tree. She is laughing so hard that her face has turned red and she has her hands clutched over her heart.
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Nothing like the afternoon sun in autumn to create a perfect feline happy place. 💙Ike in 2020.
#WeekSforShadows #AlphabetChallenge
#Caturday #catsofbluesky
The afternoon autumn sun shines through a glass door to create long shadows on the beige carpeting. A sleeping black/brown and white tabby cat lies with his hindquarters in a shadow and his front half in the sun. His white front legs and paws are stretched out in front of him and his nose is burrowed in the v-space between his paws. The sun casts a shadow of his head and ears on the carpet in front of the shadow created by the door frame.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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#Evening on #LakeChelan #BlueSkyArtShow #sunset #WashingtonState #pnw
After sunset, quiet lake waters anchor the photo with a tall dead tree reaching up on the right. Near the top of the tree, an osprey has taken up the position from which he sleeps and hunts and feasts. Above the dark hills on the far side of the lake, emanating from the lowest point in the hills, blue and pink clouds fan out in a starburst pattern. A few small sections of blue sky peek through the clouds.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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On the opposite side of the country, I can feel it, and it is glorious.

"Hope is alive.... Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair." (Zohran Mamdani)

#votesmatter
Golden clouds fill a blue sky in with pre-dawn brilliance. In the foreground and on each side of the frame, tree silhouettes provide dark contrast.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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These two have been friends for so long that their shadows have merged. #WeekSforShadows #AlphabetChallenge
#RhodeIsland #beach #EastCoastKin
Two old friends walk along a sandy beach. They are wearing warm jackets and hats to keep away the early spring chill. On the right, the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean send waves curling up the beach. On the left, dunes are covered with green vegetation. The sun in the east casts a shadow up the beach from each man, but the shadows overlap giving the impression of a single shadow.
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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On the water. 💙
#Stunday #pnw #WashingtonState #WSF #PugetSound
Mid-afternoon sun casts its rays through wispy clouds creating a wide stream of sunlight across the dark blue waters of the Puget Sound. Where the water meets the sky, a ferry is silhouetted in the bright sunlit waters.
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Who needs fireworks?
#autumn #blueskyartshow #pnw #westcoastkin #tree
Looking up at a brilliant maple tree standing tall against a clear blue sky. The tree foliage transitions from green to yellow to orange to red to purple. Branches splay out in all directions, mimicking a pyrotechnic display.
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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I remember thinking it looked like someone had opened a box of Trix and emptied it across the hillside.
#Autumn beauty from 46 years ago along the #KancamagusHighway in #NewHampshire. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin
Tree-covered hillsides featuring brilliant fall colors interspersed with dark evergreens. The hillside on the right has a sheer rockface near the top. In the foreground the blue waters of a mountain river flow over large tan rocks.
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Sharing a little coziness for your Monday evening, Bluesky friends. Tomorrow's another day. #resist #saveourdemocracy
#catsofbluesky
Black/brown and white tabby cat is lying on the floor next to her human. Her white front leg is curled in on itself just below her little pink nose. Eyes half closed, she seems relaxed and comforted by the human hand resting on her back. The human is reclined with her knees bent--only one foot and leg are in the frame of the photo.
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Sure do!
Large green-lichen-covered rocks line the edge of a shallow stream in Kyoto. The center front rock features a distinctive natural zig-zag design over its entire surface. A few ferns peek out from between the rocks. The surface of the sandy-bottomed stream is still enough to reflect light from the sky.
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I like the way the texture of this #rockface near #LakeChelan seems to become more like the texture of the #tree trunk as they lean closely together. Buddies for life. #WeekRforRock #AlphabetChallenge
A large rockface and the trunk of a tall rough-barked pine tree come together as they seem to lean into each other. The texture of the rockface, smoother and yellower on the side furthest from the tree, changes as it comes closer to the trunk. Where they meet, it appears that they are trying to mimic each other's look.
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Deadly design.
#inside #BlueSkyArtShow #SonomaCoastStatePark #tree
Downed tree cut across the trunk to reveal a core damaged by excavating insects. A ring of channels and tunnels fills the center of the trunk.
October 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Peace.

#WeekQforQuiet #AlphabetChallenge #BlueSkyMonday
#OrcasIsland #pnw #madrona #moon #SalishSea
Looking downhill through tall evergreens (and one gracefully curved madrona tree on the far left) to a wedge of the East Sound off the Salish Sea. It is dusk and a full moon is rising over the blue-purple waters and mountains beyond. The moon sits about 1/3 of the way up in the sky, at the edge of a faintly sunset-colored band and below the soft blue sky above.
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I deleted my FB acct, but kept some posts because they are a diary of sorts. I have thought of this post many times in the past 9 years, but never more than today after seeing the King T*/Jet video. What our children are learning from regime leaders is doing untold damage to our country. #NoKings
Screenshot of Facebook post from November 9, 2016. It reads There was an image floating around Facebook yesterday: "If you win, don't gloat. If you lose, don't despair. This has been hard on all of us. Treat others the way you want to be treated. We will all need it." Well, I DO feel despair this morning. I despair that the person elected as our next president is someone who epitomizes the way I would NOT want myself or ANYONE else to be treated. I despair that America's children must read this outcome as a validation of language and behavior that would not be allowed in most homes and classrooms. I despair at the thought that decades of social progress might be rolled back to a time when life wasn't all that great for a lot of people. However, I realize that despair will do nothing to change today's reality, so I hope for better than I expect. And in the meantime, whenever and wherever I can, I will speak of tolerance, of love, of respect for people of all colors and creeds, because THAT is what makes America great.
October 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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And there were dinosaurs!
October 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Organizers estimate the Oct 18 crowd exceeded last April's, which was 4,500.
Some random take-aways:
"Do not be complicit in your own oppression. "
"Do not let them steal your joy" "Stay joyful"
"Stay optimistic" "We can't give up. Never give up"
"Democracy perceived is democracy achieved. "
No Kings rally sign being held by patriot wearing rain gear. The sign reads "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." No Kings rally sign held up by my hand, gloved to ward off the cold. The sign is topped with 2 small American flags, and reads "WE the people means ALL of US." No Kings rally sign held up by my hand, gloved to ward off the cold. The sign is decorated with blue stars and red stripes, topped with 2 small American flags, and reads "Peaceful protest is 100% American." Two signs in a No Kings rally crowd. They read "Democracy does not fear protest, dictators do" and "Silence is consent."
October 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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"When a dictator hugs a flag next to your altar, he's stealing your faith and using it against your #freedom."
October 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Incredible crowd at the #Edmonds #Washington #NoKings rally yesterday! Many thanks to @ricksteves.bsky.social and other great speakers. Much appreciation to the thousands of patriots who turned out in the rain to show love for America!
October 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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On this #NoKings Day, I am honoring the thousands of #antifa activists interred at #ArlingtonNationalCememtery.
#BlueSkyArtShow #vertical
Looking down a grassy, tomb-covered hillside at Arlington National Cemetery. This section of the cemetery features tombstones and monuments of different sizes and shapes. The tallest ones are on the far left and just to the right of center, with the Jefferson Memorial in the slightly hazy distance between them.
October 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Stand tall, Lady #Liberty! May your flame burn brightly to light our way through dark times.
(photo taken almost 3 decades ago by @willdimmit.bsky.social)
#BlueSkyArtShow #vertical #NoKings #StatueofLiberty
Looking up at the Statue of Liberty. The "folds" of her garment cascade down from her upraised arm which holds the flame of freedom.
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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"Be there - for the love of America."

#NoKings #NoDictators #SaveOurDemocracy
Red and blue No Kings Rally poster: Fighting dictatorship together Saturday, Oct 18 No Kings Rally, 3 to 5 p.m. Edmonds City Park, 600 3rd Ave. S. Peaceful family-friendly gathering with inspiring speakers, music, and a march to the ferry dock!
October 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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It was such a delight to come upon this anonymous gift during a January walk along the beach in Lincoln Park #WestSeattle! I hope good karma followed the giver. #WeekPforPink #AlphabetChallenge #pnw
A bouquet of fuchsia tulips edged in white is tucked into the nook of a driftwood pile on a rocky beach. The tulips, bejeweled with dewdrops, provide a welcome burst of color on a gray winter day.
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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We saw that beautiful omen too, about an hour before game time, from our place between Seattle and Everett. It was a good game!
Partial arc of a rainbow shows in the dusky sky between an autumn tree turning from green to purple (on the left) and a line of tall conifers in the distance (on the right). The sunlight on the trees explains the presence of the rainbow.
October 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Ike getting his #glow on in the late-autumn sun a few weeks before we lost him to cancer. I love the memory of this particular afternoon because I spent a long time lying with him on the floor--just treasuring him--and I believe he knew it. #BlueSkyArtShow #Caturday #catsofbluesky
Gray and white tabby cat is lying on his favorite brown paper, basking regally in the sun. Front paws outstretched, head up with eyes closed and whiskers relaxed, he looks like the king he is.
October 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM