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Gracelaw Simmons
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Worried. Former librarian and philanthropoid, longtime volunteer with Royall House and Slave Quarters in Mass. Reading novels, enjoying flora and fauna in retirement. She/her. ⭐ Please don't forget to add ALT text to your photos! ⭐
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Warmth.

Thanks to indoor warmth, forsythia branches cut in January bloom in February. 

Near Boston. 2012.

#EastCoastKin
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Small.

Lemon verbena and planthopper. Near Boston. July 2025.

#EastCoastKin
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Bright.

Near Boston. August 2025.

#EastCoastKin
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Gracelaw Simmons
A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Evening.

It snowed all day in the Boston area on February 5, 2016. Then the storm ended, just in time for sunset in a winter wonderland!

#EastCoastKin
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I love this so much! ❤️
What we value...is priceless.
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Autumn.

What grows up must come down! Near Boston. December 15, 2015. (View of the back yard in replies.)

#EastCoastKin
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Autumn.

Near Boston, Mass. October 29, 2025.

#EastCoastKin
November 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reposted by Gracelaw Simmons
Gop policy ⤵️
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Oops! I forgot to add #EastCoastKin.
#BlueSkyArtShow. #Inside.
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Inside.

Near Boston. October 2015.

Begonia clippings rescued from an expected frost, in two of my favorite milk bottles.
October 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Inside.

Near Boston. October 2015.

Begonia clippings rescued from an expected frost, in two of my favorite milk bottles.
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Vertical.

Royall House and Slave Quarters, Medford, Mass. July 2023.

#EastCoastKin
#HistoricPreservation
#SlaveryHistory
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I grew up in NJ in the '50s, loved the book, and first visited the lighthouse when I was quite young. My father held me up so I could touch it inside the fence.
October 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Gracelaw Simmons
What a perfect day to celebrate this memorial. In the USA, Washington, DC. At the heart of the Republic: "…with malice towards none; charity for all,"
#LincolnMemorial #WethePeople #murica #travelphotography #photographer #fotographia #photographersofBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical #washingtonDC
October 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Vertical.

Royall House and Slave Quarters, Medford, Mass. July 2023.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #HistoricPreservation
October 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Gracelaw Simmons
Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Glow.

Ranunculus bouquet. April 2024.
October 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Relax.

Wellfleet, Mass. October 2021.
October 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #TheRoad.

July 16, 1954. New Jersey.

Ready to go!
September 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reposted by Gracelaw Simmons
I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.
You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.
September 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reposted by Gracelaw Simmons
Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.

Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.

Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.

Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Angles.

Near Boston. May 2022.
September 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Home.

Granby, Connecticut. August 1954.
September 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Gracelaw Simmons
Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".

youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U

It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
"Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
September 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM