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Picture of the Day
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What a relief! #WallaWallaWallMap is also fun to say.

www.zverina.com/2025/1117.htm

#PictureoftheDay #creativenonfiction #since1997
screenshot of webpage located here: https://www.zverina.com/2025/1117.htm depicts bas relief map of Hood Canal, WA as seen from side, photographed on MV Walla Walla ferry
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Happy 103rd birthday, #KurtVonnegut. Wish you were here.

Had to retire my overused paperbacks as they were falling apart, replaced with @libraryofamerica.bsky.social box set.

Sturdy, elegant, and Sunny loves the ribbon bookmark.

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#PictureoftheDay #since1997
An orange cat bats at ribbon bookmark of Library of America hardcover edition of Kurt Vonnegut novels.
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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#ferries ✊

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Photo of a ferry worker standing at bow of cardeck, keeping watch as boat enters fog bank with superimposed caption: this photo encapsulates some of what is right in our society: a public service staffed by union protected workers, a mass transit system being operated safely despite often challenging conditions. here, captain slows the ferry and sets an additional watch on the cardeck to complement the Chimacum's high tech sensors as we enter a fogbank en route to Bremerton. seafarers respect natural limits and prioritize protocol and right action in times of stress; we passengers sense we're all in this together, fates entangled and interdependent, trusting in the integrity of the crew and vessel. on the water, mutual aid is mandated by maritime law--everyone is obliged to help anyone in distress. imagine those rules applied to our ship of state: rescue crews would be plying the streets, spiriting the stranded to relief.
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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ai is really helping you nail that germany 1940 aesthetic. can you please share your prompts so i can make some, too?
October 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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#screentime
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Unretouched photo of woman in one-piece bathing suit and broad-brimmed hat lying prone on a white painted picnic table bench looking towards camera as seen through screened porch door, towels and bathing suits hang on laundry line in background, with overlaid text: "something about salt damp towels hung out to dry takes me back to when this counted as screen time"
August 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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anyone else receive this fucked up email from the social security administration?
screenshot of social security administration email "applauding" the passage of Trump "big beautiful bill"
July 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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☀️🔥
www.zverina.com/2025/0404.htm
photograph of campire at sunset with silhouetted trees reflected in calm narrow channel of water with this text overlay: turned the compost, potted lemon tree that arrived in oblong box earlier this week, sanded and oiled front porch bench built only last year but already weathered. just puttering, trying to overcome the tendency to see time as a grid, each day nothing but a box to be X'ed off the calendar. slavko invited me to backyard campfire cookout and i arrived a bit before sunset, flames barely visible in daylight. i got to thinking how wood is embodied solar energy (as are we), and this crackling fire was yesteryear's sun being released, a tiny star at my feet. then i noticed i was smoking, fat ember in lap burning a hole in my pants, flicked away just as i felt the first sharp kiss of heat on my skin, brought down to earth again.
April 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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feeling something, i guess
#nachtybynature #night #Lichtfresserin #nightynight

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bare limbed tree silhouettes at dusk; shiny water, a ridge line, and billowing clouds in the distance.
April 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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i was just talking with a neighbor about
how dark this winter was--"in mood," he
clarified. i knew just what he meant.

now the days are getting longer, a little
brighter, even as metaphorical clouds
gather, and i'm feeling less immobilized.

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7 wet barefoot footprints on wooden stoop of waterfront cabin back deck, four paving stones embedded in the shaggy lawn. accompanying text here: https://www.zverina.com/2025/0402.htm
April 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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anyone else hitting a wall?

www.zverina.com/2025/0202.htm
Picture of the Day webpage screen capture, Feb 2 2025, photo of guitar player in a music practice room with beams of colored light illuminating fog machine vapor [follow link for text]
March 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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time was, people waving chainsaws over their heads this way were rightly considered maniacs

#Leatherface
Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre waving a chainsaw over his head
February 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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happy birthday to my website
3,001 posts in 27 years so far

www.zverina.com/2025/0124.htm

anyone else here been blogging that long?
i'd like to buy you a lollipop 🍭

any other paul violi fans in the house?
let's talk about his poetry 📚

#pictureoftheday #creativenonfiction #urblog
photo of sun low in sky reflecting off dead calm river mouth, following text superimposed: ever get the feeling that everything you've done has been in vain? long ago, when i was young and the world seemed flat and expansive as a playing field extending infinitely in every direction, i read a poem by paul violi that took the form of an index to the biography of an artist, with a thrice repeated line that's stuck with me ever since: Disavows all his work the implications of that seemed enormous and incomprehensible to my naive mind, but it's starting to make sense. and as it follows the rule of three, it's just funny--a cosmic joke on striving, succeeding, then acknowledging the ultimate folly of all human endeavor. what am i even doing here? i've been trying to capture feelings, but like fireflies expiring in jars with holes punched in the lid, they're better off free. as of today, been doing this for 27 years.
January 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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used book seller at flea market turned me on to Ryszard Kapuściński and i'm all in...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard...
photo of paperback book page, quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski from Shadow of the Sun: Maybe he really did not know. Or maybe he did, but his imagination failed him, he didn't properly consider things, acted thoughtlessly. History is so often the product of thoughtlessness: it is the offspring of human stupidity, the fruit of benightedness, idiocy, and folly. In such instances, it is enacted by people who do not know what they are doing--more, who do not want to know, who reject the possibility with disgust and anger. We see them hastening toward their own destruction, forging their own fetters, tying the noose, diligently and repeatedly checking whether the fetters and the noose are strong, whether they will hold and be effective.
January 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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ferries are a great example of the perils of socialism

www.zverina.com/2025/0110.htm

#WAStateFerries #sunset #socialism

#freefootferriesnow
rear deck of a ferry at sunset, dramatic clouds, calm sea reflects orange glow, man and woman stand silhouetted in foreground, he in profile checks his phone as she photographs the sun
January 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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(((🙏)))
January 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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end of year vibes

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#firewood #treerings #makingtherounds
photo of log cross section showing accretion of tree rings over time with superimposed text reading: each new ring another circle drawn 'round the sun
December 28, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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In It's A Wonderful Life, it's a good thing George Bailey didn't succeed in killing himself because there's no way the insurance would have paid out.
Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life, standing on bridge in snow contemplating suicide
December 18, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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as you travel this season,
try not to be a nuisance...

#Amtrak #VR #oblivious

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screenshot of photo with text overlay (follow link for legible text). photo depicts a grown man wearing VR goggles and flailing his arms like a toddler on Amtrak train
December 15, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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northwest state of mind
panoramic photo of placid waterway on grey overcast pacific northwest december afternoon, clouds predominate, land and sky reflected by unperturbed Hood Canal
December 13, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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took a tour of the #TurnerJoy museum ship in #Bremerton WA to get a feel for our military industrial complex. it was cold and hard, with cramped quarters for the lower ranks, relative luxury for those in command. kind of a microcosm. 🇺🇸

#gunsbeforebutter

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a photo of uss navy destroyer museum ship Turner Joy docked in Bremerton WA with painter Matt Wainwright grinning like a madman in transparent turret of 5-inch deck gun on ship's fan tail, an eagle perched atop the vessel's highest antenna, the sky a battleship grey on a typically cloudy pacific northwest gloomy day, with accompanying text which can be found at link.
December 9, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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greetings from Hood Canal in WA
December 5, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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my early optimism about the internet
sure has taken a beating since i started
my idiosyncratic website 26 years ago
but i'm just gonna keep doing my thing:
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#spawnstars #webv1 #soolditsretro
December 2, 2024 at 10:58 PM