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Photography of the outside world. Fstoppers: 10 Crazy Photography Facts You Didn’t Know, Cooke 30 November 2025. Hat tip to G. ~~~ Morris AvenueBirmingham AL USANovember 2025Photo by Greg Walcott Onwards!Katherine

Bones of the outside world. Location, Il Convento dei Cappiccini: The Capuchin Crypt. Article with photos, The Collector: The Secrets of Rome’s Capuchin Crypt: Interview with Pietro Costantini, by Marranca, Apr 30, 2025. ~~~ Same fashion, more change. The solid brace from the last appointment. Now I need to take it off more often. [WristContinue reading “Changing Fashion and a Note on Word Usage, Wrist Update”

Horses of the outside world. The Brothers Brick: Year of the Horse comes galloping along. Articulated LEGO horse. ~~~ The plot thickens. Last week, I talked about the potential problem of being eliminated for trotting into the ring. [Reading The Rules] Then I read, “Trotting into the ring with purpose shows the judges that you’reContinue reading “Reading the Rules, Take Two, To Trot Or Not to Trot”

Awareness of the outside world. (Opting for diversion today. News awful over weekend. You don’t need me to tell you that.) In the 2009 animated A Christmas Carol, Jim Carrey voices Scrooge AND all three ghosts. This raises the interesting philosophical point that the ghosts are not external but are aspects of Scrooge’s personality. WeContinue reading “Split Progress, Morning Walk Stories”

Horses of the outside cold world. Horse Nation: The Land of the Midnight Sun: Horse Ownership in Alaska, Sloan & Carlson 2021. ~~~ Screenshot ABC 33/40, Friday, 12 December 2025. Is anyone else tired of winter already? I mean yes, we have a few cold nights each year. In February! This is early December! NotContinue reading “Winter Woes”

Art of the outside world. The Color Palette Company, cities as collections of colors. They do a nice job. I would order, but I am trying to be where I am rather than thinking about where I am not. ~~~ Colors: jade, khaki, lilac Project Description [Colorwork Alphabet Introduction] Previous Posts [Colorwork Alphabet] Onwards!Katherine

Horses of the outside world. Not at the horse show today. The stars had aligned so that I would’ve had another chance to show the fancy horse from the TN show. Phooey. [Trip to Tennessee] Update: Backstory for new visitors. Injury is keeping me out of the saddle. [Horsekeeping, Not & Wrist Wear] ~~~ #25Continue reading “Extended November Writing Challenge Part 2, Fiction Fragments”