Andrea (what the) L

@amlesh.bsky.social

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Dabbler in many small arts, veterinary tech, opinionated, striving to get better at compassion. It's a journey.

Rough and kind of crappy watercolor sketch painted in the open air - a small rolling meadow receding into layered treelines, bright sunlight and dappled shade. Mostly shades of green.
Rainbow against a dramatically cloudy sky over an early summer field, June 2024
Trout lilies in bloom, a spring ephemeral in New England. Yellow blossoms and leaves speckled brown and green on a forest floor covered with last year's fallen leaves.
Statue of U.S. Grant at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. This statue was rejected by the people who commissioned it because it did not portray Grant as heroic enough for their purpose. Instead he appears contemplative and even worn down, a man who appreciates the devastating toll of the Civil War.
Trout lily leaves sprouting up through last fall's dropped leaves on a forest floor
4"x4" oil painting of a fall landscape: a large maple in a roughly mowed open field, with a treeline in the near background and low mountain ridges receding to the far background. The sky is choppy soft ridges of clouds.
Just-after-sunset sky through bare tree branches, saturated pink clouds and deep blue sky - fleeting intense color on the first evening of Daylight Savings Time
Many heavy icicles from water seeping through a rock face. Trees atop the ledge. Sun shining through the tree trunks. Power line thru the upper left frame.
Screen capture of Democracy Docket web page showing "Sign Up for Our Free Newsletters"
Cropping of image by Peter Marteka: winter on a foggy winter day, bare branches and snow, a fence line and a gate, with more trees in a misty background.
Solstice sunrise. The falling angel meets the rising ape once again. Sun just clearing the horizon through a treeline, with an old barn in the foreground.
Screen capture: Are you an example? Have you publicly stated that you will personally send a campaign donation to any R who changes parties? Have you sent a donation to an R who has changed party to D? Have you sent at donation to Geoff Duncan? Be the change you want to see. No one is coming to rescue us but us.
Photo looking up at a small waterfall in the mid-spring forest, blue sky visible through the trees, with a rainbow in the mist from the waterfall on the right-hand edge of the image
"Tell me why I should support the NYT when their normalizing of DJT helped us get here. Why are you scolding Dems? And be specific. What do YOU want Dems to do? Otherwise this is just click bait to bolster the NYT" JW reply: "I have my issues with Ezra but he is in a position of influence and is making compelling points about whether Dems should vote to fund the government. We demand universities, law firms, and others take big risks, why not Dems? Can't wait for midterms, everyone is a node of coordination."
Photo of gold metallic Sharpie markers
Photo of part of a modern page based on the Luttrell Psalter, including calligraphy and illustration in the style of the manuscript. Beneath a few lines of handwritten text, a horse drawn cart full of miscellaneous objects is followed by an ox, a board, and a chicken. Painted vines and other decorations appear within the text.
Watercolor painting of a red eft (a bright red-orange newt) on a forest floor with rocks, moss, and dead leaves, and the photo that was used as a source, and watercolor paint palettes.
Alt text has a 2000 character limit, while a bsky post has a 300 character limit. So much room to expound! And write a vibrant, even poetic description of your image. This is a perfectly camouflaged little brown frog with a dark strip across its eye sitting on last fall's dry oak leaves. The color match is perfect. If it had not moved, I would never have noticed it to take its picture.
Small multiple-split waterfall flowing over broken ledge and jumbled boulders, green moss and a few ferns everywhere, and trees not quite fully leafed out. Pool of lightly rippled water in the foreground, reflecting the waterfall.
Saturday Night Live image from ~1975, Chevy Chase as a news anchor saying, "And this just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"
Photo of Hartford CT Capitol building and a small section of the protestors rallying to support democracy on 4-19-25. Not captured: the loud and nearly continous car-honks of support from passing drivers.
Photo of Hands Off protest, from inside the CT Capitol building, by Matt Lesser. Large crowd of people on Capitol lawn, fish-eye exposure
Background: glorious sunrise obscured by dramatic clouds, misty horizon of rolling mountains. Midground: birds perching in top branches of a dead tree silhouetted against the sunrise. Foreground: roughly mowed field.