Laurie Olson

@2lolson.bsky.social

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Reading widely & doing handwork in NOLA. Also showing up at protests in defense of our constitution.

4 pictures showing some books read and some ongoing hand work. This is Happiness by Neil Williams and London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe. Happy Obama Appreciation Day.
Sound and picture of Kermit Ruffin playing a trumpet in front of the crowd at No Kings Nola. He has a great hat that appears to be patchwork of plaids in an oversized baseball cap configuration. So cool.
Pictured are the covers of 2 books: The Silence of the Choir and The Ends of the world. Along with those are a picture of a calm scene in front of a lake and hand sewn quilt.
Sock cuff knitted, and 3 Book covers - The Shadow Docket by Stephen Vladeck, Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, Shameless by Brian Tyler Cohen
Two book comers are pictured: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, and Train Dreams. Quilt blocks are laid in order on the third image.
Pictured are blue and white strips of fabric pre-cut for sewing into a quilt. Also pictured is the cover from the book, The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Erhlich and Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum.
Pictured is my 8 by 11 piece of printer paper with three words: impeach, convict, remove.
Today I finished this book: The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain by Sofia Somatar.
4 pictures in a square - a stem of native azalea blossoms, a campsite, and the covers of 2books: Dayswork and On Tyranny.
Pictured is a sloping branch of a flowering tree with large white petals and a pink center.
Photo of two light beige mushrooms- one about 3inches tall fully upturned. A smaller one beneath with a ball shaped top.
Pictured are the covers of two books: Epigenetics by Nessa Carey and Wayward by Chuck Wendig. Also pictured is the linen backing and pattern for a custom designed rug.
Picture of an older man bent over shoveling snow off the steps of his house with a narrow garden shovel.
Silly looking adult making a snow angel on her back patio because she can - there’s been an actual snow storm in New Orleans!
Snow covered bird feeder with a sparrow perched while it continues to snow which is only unique because it’s in south Louisiana.
Side view of combined white button mushrooms.
Four book covers are pictured from the New York Time’s list of the most notable books of 2024. They are: The Book of Love by Kelly Link, The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain by Sofia Samatar, The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Sarr and The Rebel’s Clinic by Franz Fanon.
Needle and thread lay against a quilting project. The fabric is brightly colored yellow, orange, red, purple and white bringing to mind Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two other pictures show the book covers of Haruki Murakami’s The City and its Uncertain Walls, and Charmaine Wilkerson’s Black Cake.
Two cut logs, side by side with lichen rimming both circular ends in a brown, leaf-strewn park.
A knitted baby’s hat in broad green, violet, orange and pink stripes with a small pink pompom.
Fried oyster mushroom splayed in a plate with drizzles of a tasty spicy sauce and topped with parsley.