Andrea Murphy

@andreamurphy12.bsky.social

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Lives near that river, in Ottawa 🇨🇦. Has been known to edit & work in arts orgs. Appreciates your book posts.

Exterior of Premium Detailing & Auto Spa.
An Ottawa Hospital sign with a typo. It says “Sklills and Simulation Centre.”
Hand holding Gwendoline Riley’s “The Palm House.” A man (mine) is visible in the doorway. He has already read it.
A painting, attached to a brick wall, outside, in the sun. Shadow of an umbrella over part of it.
A pink bicycle with an interesting green-apple-carrying setup taped to the crossbar. Two Ukrainian books form the lid.
B+W illustration from a graphic novel of a little running creature with big eyes and mouth and pointy face.
A square blue truck going down a leafy street. “Carlo’s Sharpening Service” and sundry items that could be sharpened are painted on the side.
Their fence in mid-construction. Our old fence being disassembled—“temporarily” we are assured. 🙄
View through bedroom screen. A guy in stands on a ladder working on construction of a fence.
View from a front porch onto a leafy street. A Canadian flag hangs, attached to a rough wooden “pole” (branch).
On a sunny late afternoon, a hand holding up a pine cone, in front of a set of locks.
View through trees of the Ottawa River, looking across to Quebec.
Upper legs of a person sprawled on a sofa.
View through two white pines to the Ottawa River, across from Bate Island.
Residential street at dusk, rainbow in view. A father is letting his young kid “ride” an adult ten-speed bike.
Woman wearing polka dot pants, white dots on navy background.
A hardcover book with a pattern of vaguely samovar-esque shapes on a dark orange background. Behind, a red box that it fits into.
Oil painting. “The Open Door,” 1913. A young woman in an interior just inside an open door with sunlight coming in. She is dressed in white and looking down at a cloth in her hands. On the left behind the door are garments hanging and a shaft of light coming under the door.
Some avocado & cheese toast on a chipped blue and white ceramic plate. Pistachios and chocolate too, and a mug of tea.
Piles of rubble behind a fence with warning signs, and two excavators at work.
A big magnolia tree in the front yard of an older two-storey brick house. Some of the heavy branches are propped up with posts.
A clump of about 17 bloodroot flowers (Sanguinaria canadensis) poking up out of last year’s leaves
A photo test strip of a youngish woman holding a Pentax camera on a tripod.
Catalogue. Gabor Szilasi: the eloquence of the everyday.
A cluster of tulip leaves poking up through last year’s oak leaves.
A view of a street in Ottawa’s Hintonburg neighbourhood. Some geese in a V formation are flying north.
A small white French porcelain teapot (Pillivuyt) on a round side table in a living room.
Interior. A man’s hand holding an unusual very textured double-tipped icicle.
Dusk. A female wild turkey standing on a porch railing in a snowy backyard.
A green clothesline with little icicles spaced evenly along it.
A potted cyclamen plant with one dark pink flower, in front of a window.
A Canada Post van parked on a residential street.
Dusk. On the snowy roof of a house, a female wild turkey walking along.
A residential street on a sunny afternoon. A man shovelling out the windrow at the end of a driveway, and a snow-covered car.
A hardcover copy of “The Broken Road” by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Inside page of Matt Cohen’s The Disinherited, with very yellowed paper
A card with Lawren Harris’s First Snow, North Shore of Lake Superior (1923).
A wooden hanger with “Hollanderized garments keep their beauty longer” resting on a bookshelf.
A wild turkey huddled on a snowy back porch, next to some cedars.
A snowy backyard. A wild turkey launching herself off the back porch.
Two huge trucks waiting for their snow-load.
A puffed up female wild turkey standing on the railing of a snowy back porch.
A man pulling his child in a sled along a snowy residential street.
A turkey standing in the middle of a snowy residential intersection.
Corner of a room with plant life: a blooming cyclamen, part of a Christmas tree, and some cactuses.
A hand-knitted ribbed woollen toque in shades of blue-green with hints of grey-violet.
A balsam fir in a stand in a living room.
Ottawa. View looking north from Cooper St. A variety of buildings including a gothic-style high school in the middle ground. A tiny Peace Tower pokes up behind.
A book. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia, by Rebecca West.
View from inside onto a very snowy residential street. In the foreground is a car, barely visible.
In front of a window, a single dark pink cyclamen flower and some of its leaves. It is snowy outside.
On a front porch, bird footprints in the snow.
Spelling Bee puzzle with the letters C R O T U A Y.
A wild turkey high in a tree in a backyard.
A hand holding up a finely-knitted brown cap. It has a turned-up ribbed brim above which is a row of small light-blue waves.
A potted cyclamen plant in front of a window looking out onto snow-covered trees. There are three buds, none yet open.
An ornate Victorian mirror on an exposed brick wall. A lady with a little smile is trying to squeeze by as I take the photo.