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Gracelaw Simmons
@walecarg.bsky.social
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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! ⭐
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walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Warmth.

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

Near Boston. 2012.

#EastCoastKin
On a table in a sunny corner, yellow forsythia flowers bloom in a clear glass vase, alongside an oregano plant in a green pot, a tower of rainbow-colored wooden blocks, and a wicker basket.
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Small.

Lemon verbena and planthopper. Near Boston. July 2025.

#EastCoastKin
In this close-up, a white-painted porch railing angles across the frame, with a blurred brick path beyond it. Three narrow pointed lemon verbena leaves, each about three inches long, cast sword-like shadows across the railing from the unseen morning sun to the left. A small green triangular insect -- a planthopper, looking like a jaunty tiny leaf with skinny legs -- casts its own small shadow among the leaf shadows. 
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Bright.

Near Boston. August 2025.

#EastCoastKin
A sun-splashed nasturtium flower in shades of orange nearly fills the frame, with small green leaves, stems, and a just-opening flower bud around it. 
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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vreij.bsky.social
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
walecarg.bsky.social
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
The narrow corner of a house and a dark tree trunk are on the far left. Most of the frame is filled with snow-covered branches. The bits of sky that show between them are pale pink. 
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
I love this so much! ❤️
corybooker.com Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Nov 6
What we value...is priceless.
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
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
61 leaf bags and 1 barrel are lined up in rows along the curb in front of a green turreted house with bare trees around it. Christmas wreaths hang on either side of the porch stairs.
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Autumn.

Near Boston, Mass. October 29, 2025.

#EastCoastKin
A crabapple tree's green leaves and deep red fruit against a sugar maple tree's gold and orange fall show, with glimpses of pale blue sky beyond.
November 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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doomscroling.bsky.social
Gop policy ⤵️
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
Oops! I forgot to add #EastCoastKin.
#BlueSkyArtShow. #Inside.
walecarg.bsky.social Gracelaw Simmons @walecarg.bsky.social · Oct 25
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.
Sunlight streams through a tangle of orange and red flowers and leaves in two clear glass milk bottles on a patterned tablecloth. The bottle logos read Sicomac Dairy Products, Wyckoff, N.J. and Nauset Moors Farm, Eastham, Mass.
October 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
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.
Sunlight streams through a tangle of orange and red flowers and leaves in two clear glass milk bottles on a patterned tablecloth. The bottle logos read Sicomac Dairy Products, Wyckoff, N.J. and Nauset Moors Farm, Eastham, Mass.
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Vertical.

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

#EastCoastKin
#HistoricPreservation
#SlaveryHistory
Tall green stalks of Common Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa) with fuzzy white flowers and round buds stand in front of the gray trunk of a towering black walnut tree and part of an 18th-century two-story brick building showing two white-framed windows.
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
walecarg.bsky.social
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
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evanmichio.bsky.social
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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kathisphotos.bsky.social
This week’s theme #BlueSkyArtShow is #Vertical. #Boston nails it. Click on link to see more about these photos

kathi-isserman.pixels.com/collections/...

#vertical
#boston
#historic
#BlueSkyArtShow
#ayearforart
#buyandsellart
#blueskyartists
#blueskyphotographers
#EastCoastKin
#art
#digitalart
Old State House part of the Freedom Trail in Boston Paul Revere’s Ride with the Old North Church in the background. How appropriate for No Kings Day!
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Vertical.

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

#EastCoastKin #Photography #HistoricPreservation
This view of a blue 18th-century house includes both architectural and natural verticals: a three-stories-tall white pilaster on the building's corner in the center of the photo, muntins on three visible windows to its right, the end post and five pickets of a white wooden landscape fence in the foreground, tall oak tree trunks beyond the house to its left, and growing just in front of the fence, a dozen nearly vertical green spikes of black cohosh with round white buds and fuzzy white flowers. 
October 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
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
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Glow.

Ranunculus bouquet. April 2024.
Open ranunculus flower and a bud behind it that both have bright orange petals edged in red, with greenery behind them.
October 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Relax.

Wellfleet, Mass. October 2021.
A tall blue coffee mug stands on a square white table on a cement patio. Beyond it are low shrubs, then a sandy beach and Cape Cod Bay.
October 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #TheRoad.

July 16, 1954. New Jersey.

Ready to go!
In this black-and-white photo, a little girl sits behind the wheel of a child-sized pedal car, looking back over her shoulder with excitement. White print on the side of the car reads BMC Blue Streak, along with a graphic of a zooming rocket. Leafy plants fill the background. 
September 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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alanakinrich.medsky.social
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.
carolinepennock.bsky.social Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · Sep 22
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
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
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
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Angles.

Near Boston. May 2022.
Bright light green fern fronds tilt at many different angles.
September 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
walecarg.bsky.social
This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Home.

Granby, Connecticut. August 1954.
A little boy is sitting on a new set of concrete stairs, petting a black-and-white tuxedo cat. The ground is the rough dirt of a construction site. The stairs lead to a white door in a light colored exterior wall. A small sign beside the door reads SOLD.
September 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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marshfamilysongs.bsky.social
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