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VivaElbonia
@vivaelbonia.bsky.social
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Fully Unlicensed Tyromancer and Umbrologist. Shy but excitable Glaswegian. Servant to a Cat. Tolerated by a lovely scientist lady friend. Photos. Music. Kindness. Powered in short bursts by tea, biscuits and a nervous happiness.
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Just a canal wander in the morning. One thing I didn't catch was when a sparrowhawk flew past with something in its talons. It was being chased and squawked at by two angry parakeets and a raging seagull.
Canal with yellow lilies and their pads in the water, a pathway on the left bank. Lush green trees line the banks and a gasometer looms in the background against the blue summer sky. Caustic reflections caused by sunlight on the canal surface bounce and project in the canal bridge. The river Kelvin looks brown and surrounded by lush green trees. A crane sits in the background against the blue summer sky. The sun shines on the canal. Lily pads sit in the water with bursting dull green tree foliage enclosing the sides of the canal. The blue skies in the distance have a stripe of white cloud across them.
July 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A few seconds of the river Kelvin washing past on a hot day.
May 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Chlorinated humans are delicious apparently. Every time after a swim he goes mental and tries to lick us all to death. 😻
A gripping paw of a mackerel tabby preventing his prey escaping licks. A hairy human arm gripped by a cat claw. A high as a kite cat licks a human arm which is fresh from a chlorinated swimming pool. A high as a kite cat licks it's own nose while grabbing a human arm which is fresh from a chlorinated swimming pool. A high as a kite cat sniffs a human arm which is fresh from a chlorinated swimming pool.
April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Beautiful out there today in Glasgow. ☀️❤️
The river Cart with it's tree and field lined bankings just before it meets the river Clyde. Blue sky and bright sun. The river Cart with a sculpture of a face on its bank. In the distance Clydebank and the Titan crane. The river Clyde shining and washed out in the sunshine. In the distance shipyards and cranes. Blue sky with a small aeroplane vapour trail. Some hairy hobbitesque feet stuck up in a window to get some sunshine.
April 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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A wee feline degenerate charging himself up in a sunbeam. 😻😼
March 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Well that's 3 out of the 4 Wyndford flats away. Not seeing them in the skyline will take a bit of getting used to. 🫤
March 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Also a lot of wild garlic out there just now!
Close up of a bed of wild garlic leaves on the bank of the river Kelvin. Wild garlic plants run down the banks of the river Kelvin. The river runs down past Kelvin bridge. Some trees sit on the bank including a dead tree coated in vine leaves.
March 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A walk about Glasgow in the spring sun. #aniceplacetorideouttheapocalypse ❤️☀️
Catkin blooms on trees along the Forth and Clyde canal bank. Trees reflected in the water and everything covered in sunlight. High towers of the soon to be demolished Wyndford flats in the background above the old railway supports in the river Kelvin. Blue shoes and sun reflected in the river. Trees surrounding the river banks. The Stockingfield bridge with Bella the Beithir mosaic snake monster. The giant needle pole supporting the bridge reflecting in the canal waters. The Belmont street bridge and church in Glasgow sat high above the slightly green looking river Kelvin.
March 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Made these with some tiny helpers yesterday. #MosaicMonday They need about 6000 more if anyone is in or around Glasgow and wants to help out.
All going on the fantastic Bella the Beither in Maryhill. An amazing, huge, public sculpture organised by the wonderful makeitglasgow.com/beither. 🐍❤️
Two mosaic tiles that have just been put together sat in their frame. Bella the Beither's head. A giant public sculpture of a mythical Celtic snake covered in beautiful mosaic tiles of winds and swallows. An unfinished section of Bella the Beither's neck. Awaiting mosaic tiles. Some mosaic tiles with a fish motif on the body of Bella the Beither.
March 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Where is my second breakfast?! 😾 Enzo is having a sit down protest for more food this morning.
Enzo, a stripey mackerel tabby, lies in the most obstructive way possible to try and remind a human that he exists and must have more breakfast imminently. Enzo, a stripey mackerel tabby, lies in the most obstructive way possible to try and remind a human that he exists and must have more breakfast imminently.
March 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Will hug for food. 😼 Someone trying to coax a second breakfast this sunny morning #caturday #catsofbluesky
Enzo, a stripey mackerel tabby, politely claws a human hoping to elicit a second helping of breakfast from it. Enzo, a stripey mackerel tabby, gives up demanding extra breakfast and starts to clean himself instead.
March 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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A slow and cuddly start to this Sunday morning. 😻
Enzo, a sleepy, mackerel, tabby cat, hugs and faceplants his human's knee early in the morning.
March 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Basking in some long overdue sunshine. A timely head clearer and reminder that there are bigger and more beautiful things out there.
Watery bog in the foreground with grasses and trees. Leading up hill into some pine trees and blue sky in Mugdock park. A wee bunch of snowdrops. Two blasted, bare, dead trees on a moor at Mugdock park. One looking like an open upturned hand. Hills in the distance against a blue sky. A copse of fir trees looming on top of a hill in Mugdock park.
February 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Out for a morning wander around Renfrew and this enterprising squirrel has made off with a whole slice of very burnt toast from the bin of a hotel kitchen.
An adult grey squirrel holding a large slab of burnt toast in its paws and teeth settles down to eat it high in the limb of a tree. An adult grey squirrel adjusts a large slab of burnt toast high in the limb of a tree.
February 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Ammonites are definitely getting hairier these days.
A generously fed mackerel tabby cat lies on his side, asleep in an almost spiral shape.
January 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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DPD lost my new pedal board last week so I had an attempt at bodging a few out of IKEA bits. 2 wee ones out a (£13) Hejne crate. 1 out of a Skådis standing peg board (£17). Added brackets to the crates and handles to the other. Kept me busy at least. 🎸
A small wooden pine slat pedal board. Back of unit. Two small pine slat pedal boards from above. Rear view of a pedal board made from an IKEA pegboard. IKEA Skådis peg board turned into a pedal board and pedals cable tied to it.
January 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Some much needed sunshine and fresh air in Dumbarton.
The shale shore of the river Clyde at low tide in Levengrove park, Dumbarton. The sun is shining and reflected in the river. The silhouette of Dunbarton Rock and Castle sits on the river in the distance. Some trees line a stone sea wall on the left bank. A view of Dumbarton rock and castle which is an old volcanic plug. The river Clyde surrounds it at low tide with sand and seaweed dotting the foreground. A few moody looking trees with a half moon in between as dusk settles on a cold clear sky.
January 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Satánico Pandemonium has some company at last! Björk has joined the party. Love them! Thanks again. We will keep our eyes peeled for one more to turn it into a triptych. 🔥🌓🪩
Beautiful illustrations of Satánico Pandemonium dancing in From Dusk till Dawn and Björk from the cover of her Homogenic album both in an Archie Comics style.
December 12, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Glasgow trying to shrug off the cold and wet this morning.
The River Clyde in the cold morning with a cormorant drying it's wings standing on an old post in the river. A large crane sits in the distance and the banking runs darkly up the right of the image.
November 27, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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A soggy Narnia vibe in Glasgow this morning.
A street beside a grassy park lined with dark leafless trees is covered in a dusting of snow. White grey clouds fill the sky and footsteps mark a path in the fresh snow.
November 23, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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A wee bit more sunshine from Glasgow today.
The reflection in the river Kelvin of the Gilbert Scott tower of Glasgow University in the low winter sunshine. Part of the stone facade of the Kelvin Hall building in Glasgow with the moon faintly visible above one of the spires. An image of the Gilbert Scott building over trees and the river Kelvin with a bright blue winter sky and it's reflection in the river below. The tops of the towers of Kelvingrove art gallery behind a dark wall of hedging. A light white cloud against a blue sky above and frosted grass in the foreground under the curving hedge.
November 20, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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Too cold and sore today so back inside. The view from the window is pretty great though.
Winter sun glowing through a cracked patchwork blanket of light white cloud. At the bottom a roof and some bare treetops. Enzo, a brown and black stripey tabby cat, stares into the camera ever hopefully of a snack as he sits in a sunbeam on a grey sofa.
November 18, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Good morning from a freezing Glasgow. -3 allegedly. 🥶
Looking East down the river Clyde on a frozen winters day. The sky is pastel blues and peaches crisscrossed by clouds and vapour trails. This is reflected in the river. There is a slight mist rising off the river. Shipyards and an old crane run along the North bank and black lumps of stones cut along the Southern side. Beautiful but cold by Glasgow standards. Looking East down the river Clyde on a frozen winters day. The sky is pastel blues and peaches crisscrossed by clouds and vapour trails. This is reflected in the river. Shipyards and an old crane run along the north bank and black lumps of stones cut and a walkway covered in frost run along the southern bank. The sun looks like glowing melting wax in the sky. Looking East down the river Clyde on a frozen winters day. The sky is pastel blues and peaches crisscrossed by clouds and vapour trails. This is reflected in the river. Shipyards and an old crane run along the North bank and black lumps of stones and bare tree branches cut along the Southern side. Looking East down the river Clyde on a frozen winters day. The sky is pastel blues and peaches crisscrossed by clouds and vapour trails. This is reflected in the river. Shipyards and an old crane run along the north bank and black lumps of stones cut along the Southern side. The sun's glow is seen just out of shot on the southern bank.
November 18, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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Great that you're here! 😻
Enzo, a mackerel tabby, leaning on an arm chair like he is about to start a discussion about his meal times.
November 17, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
The winter morning sun rises through a small hill lined with trees. It illuminates the morning mist. Armoured men on horseback wait in the cold for filming to start in Mudgock park in Scotland.
November 17, 2024 at 8:02 AM