Bob Uva

@bobuva.bsky.social

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Trying to write, avid reader, interested in history, guitar, science/ecology, PNW denizen, orig. from MA, Boston sports teams

TuffShed front with ramp leading to single door. Window on either side of the door.
The front of a shed, barn red and oyster white in Sherwin-Williams colors, with small windows and window boxes to each side of the door. Not shown: ramps installed after picture was taken. A new fence appears on the left and an older one on the right. Branches of an apple tree appear in top right.
Cover of a book titled Reefs Of Time, What Fossils Reveal About Coral Survival by Lisa S. Gardner. Book appears on a table with framed maps and a scale model of the HMS Alexander Humboldt, all partially obscured by the book.
A can of sardines
A slice of French bread with sardines, pickled, mildly spicy peppers and capers, on a plate.
Phone screen showing the cover of The Allman Brothers Band’s a decade of hits 1969 - 1979. Whipping Post, the last song on the album, is shown as playing.
Three books : Vertigo, The Rise and fall of Weimar Germany, by Harald Jähner, Berlin in Lights, The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler (1918 - 1937), and Weimar Germany, Promise and Trafedy by Eric D. Weitz
A Tamarack in its golden beauty along a road in a pine forest.
Desktop with booklet to the left of a tablet, with a small vase in the left background, adorned with geometric lines.
A wall with a large colorful poster framed, to its right are smaller wall hangings.
A wall showing five wall hangings, and a computer monitor below on the right.
A large frying pan containing chicken thighs, sliced figs and shallots cooking in a broth. Splattered cooktop immediately around the pan on the left.
Foreground shows a descending hill covered with people in low chairs and on blankets, facing the stage.
Yellow an pink roses in a blue-black vase, on a faux marble tabletop
Cover of book: The Salish Sea, Jewel of the Pacific Northwest. Image from Powells Books, online.
A homemade pistachio layer cake with cream cheese buttercream frosting
Cover of Matthew Goodman’s book Paris Undercover, A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
Brad Marchand wearing a throwback Boston Red Sox uniform, carrying a wooden baseball bat on his right shoulder , with an old baseball mitt hanging from it. Marchy is smiling with pride.
View of waged up logs and a wet beach, with Haystack Rock in the distance on the left.The sky is cloudy with darker clouds all along the lower horizon. Those clouds almost appear as a line of raging waves approaching the shoreline.
Cover of Insert an Invert zine showing colorful sketches of a feather duster worm and other invertebrates, and the artist’s name, Saimi Hanma.
Cover of the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Background photo shows crowd of people, both black and white.
Cover of the book, The Lights That Failed: European International History 1919-1933, by Zara Steiner.
The front of the box in which a Cangshan steel carving set came. Shows the carving knife and tong with a black background.
Partial covers of two books, one called MapMatics and the other Beyond Geometry
Two smaller dogs with white coats lounging on a leather sofa
I’m number 728,198 in Bluesky, as they celebrate ten million users.
Mostly cloudy skies over stretch of Cannon Beach with Haystack Rock in the distance. Tide lapping in at the right.