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Victoria J Barnett
@vjbarnett.bsky.social
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Renegade Bonhoeffer scholar. General editor, Bonhoeffer Works (English). I write about churches in Nazi Germany & the Holocaust. Here to discover new research, interesting books, poetry, music & occasionally the humor. www.victoriajbarnett.com
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Evening walk, fading light.
A few clouds reflecting sunlight in a fading late afternoon sky. In the foreground almost bare trees (with a few glimmers of gold and red).
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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“Stumbling stones”: Attended a wonderful ceremony today to honor Isaac Jones and Sarah Gardner, two people enslaved in Arlington, Virginia.
Two circular brass discs—“stumbling stones”—honoring Isaac Jones and Sarah Gardner, two enslaved people. Arlington, Virginia.
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Wassily Kandinsky, “Yellow Circle” (1910)
Painting by Russian born abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky: vibrant golden orb (somewhat earth-like, with patches of ochre and sage green), partly overshadowed on the right by an amorphous deep sage blob, against a vivid blue amorphous shape. All this against a black background, bordered at the bottom of the painting by overlapping bands of blue and sage.
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Ready for any goblins this evening, thanks to the grandkids’ decorating skills.
A door covered with Halloween regalia.
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Halloween sunrise.
Sunrise: glowing clouds on the horizon lower right, purpled streaked clouds on the lower left. A single (bat-like?) cloud rising on the right.
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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And a friend this morning sent me this: "Tall Shadows" (Sarah Ross Thompson, contemporary UK printmaker)
Woodprint of tall bare trees and shadows. The trees in the upper part of the print are brown; the shadows cast in the lower part of the print are sage green.
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Morning walk, cascading light.
Looking upward through the trees on a late autumn day: blue sky, the turning leaves in light and shadow.
October 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Finished it Friday evening, but this one stays with you for awhile.
Book jacket cover for “What we can know” by Ian McEwan. Image of an old photo frame lying on sepia tinted grass, dead leaves, old artifacts. Inside the photo frame: a very blurry vibrant green/turquoise forest (?)
October 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Morning walk, bright berries
Not sure what these are, but they’re lovely! Clusters of tiny shiny lilac berries amongst fading green leaves.
October 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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October mosaic (there are some butterflies in there).
Bright autumn reds and golds in the sunlight (& a shadowed monarch butterfly in the lower center)
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Moonrise, Sunday evening. Wishing everyone a quiet night.
Moon ascending the horizon in a cloudless sky at dusk, pale blue above, darkening rose below.
October 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Morning walk, dew view.
Sunlight touches a dewy spiderweb, against a backdrop of dark leaves, purple and turquoise porcelain berries. In the foreground are scattered wild grasses that have also caught the sunlight.
October 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Gorgeous sunrise this morning.
Sunrise photo: streaking clouds across the horizon, suddenly aflame in orange, rose, purple. You can see the housetops in the lower fifth of the photo; beyond them are treetops and some low-lying fog.
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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#OTD in 2019. I spent that fall in Northern Minnesota.
September 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Afternoon walk, Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis: trees, Chihuly globes and water lilies, late summer flowers. A beautiful place if you’re ever there.
Sunny garden path framed by tall bushes and trees, late autumn. Bright orange, blue and yellow glass onion shaped globes amidst water lilies on a still pond. Reflections in the water of the sky and trees above. A bank of bright yellow, coral, and white flowers surrounded by lawn.
September 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Morning walk, fall shadows.
Looking upwards at a tree, the shadows of leaves on the trunk.
September 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Just received my copy of Beverly Mitchell’s new book from @fortresspress.bsky.social ! This is one of the thoughtful reflections on this topic I’ve ever read and it’s worth reading (& teaching).
September 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Drawing of four wonderful things in life, by my oldest granddaughter.
Child’s drawing of a rainbow, butterfly, cat, and two girls holding hands (with labels for each), on a tablecloth.
September 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I take so many pictures of clouds that it’s ridiculous. But I re-zen myself by looking at the sky (been doing a lot of that lately….)
Large puffy white clouds in a blue sky, late afternoon) Rainbow cutting through the clouds after a late afternoon storm Rosy sunrise, purple clouds streaking above.
September 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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“Autumn Moon” (Masayuki Miyata, 1977)
Woodblock print of a full moon against a black sky that dissolves underneath into a vibrant blue. The lower 3/4 of the print is filled with stylized strokes suggesting brush and tall grasses. Mid-picture, the grasses are against a white background, with some thicker strokes suggesting birds.
September 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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#OTD one my favorite photos just popped up on my feed, from 2017. This is a ferry crossing Lake Erie as a storm rolled in.
Ferry crossing Lake Erie in the distance on a stormy afternoon: steel grey waters and steel grey clouds rolling across the sky above—but in the distant horizon a bright peach-colored sky (& a cloud bank).
September 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I love the colors, movement and balance in this picture! “Chrysanthemums and Running Water” (Ohara Koson, 1931)
Bright red and white chrysanthemums against a black backdrop in the upper part of the picture; below is a flowing blue river. Woodblock print by Japanese artist Ohara Koson (1877-1945)
September 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Morning walk, early autumn color.
Path surrounded by trees and shadows; some very early fall colors.
September 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"Phosphorescent Sea" (M. C. Escher, 1933)
Lithograph of a night sky (the Big Dipper can be seen) above foam-edged waves breaking on the shore.
August 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Companions on the bike path this afternoon.
Two deer (one fawn looking directly towards the camera) in high brush).
August 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM