Anne Midgette

@classicalbeat.bsky.social

3106 Followers 1579 Following

Writer, recovering music critic.

Jemima Puddle-Duck, looking for her duckling
A chunky white cat with blue eyes and some cream/tan markings sits next to a pot-bellied blue and white Chinese vase that has tan marks where it was mended with glue.
A wintry landscape with tree trunks and a small red fox: the cover of the book HAPPINESS l, by Aminatta Forna
A German Christmas card with the words "Frohes Fest" over a Santa and a Christmas tree -- which took two months to arrive.
One of Arthur Rackham's illustrations of Richard Wagner's opera "Siegfried," showing the young Siegfriedc clad in skins and partly bare-chested, raising his reforged sword aloft in triumph
Blond-haired, blue-eyed American figure skater Ilia Malinin in the warrior costume he wears for his short program, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Wagner's Siegfried.
A quote from Gertrude Stein about the uncertain feeling of writing a book
A chalkboard with the words "no ice melt" scrawled on it
A print quote from a Washington Post book review
Black cat sitting in an Amazon box looking uncertain.
A black cat and white cat napping in an arm chair - the black cat is looking at the camera and has his teeth slightly bared. (The white cat is sacked out.)
An ornate 18th-century silver mustard-pot with a cobalt-blue glass insert from Augsburg, Germany, for sale on eBay - it's under $600; should I consider it?
Dodger pitcher Snell stands on the mound looking slightly at a loss (from the back) after giving up home runs to the first two batters he faced.
Night view of a now-empty stretch of the Kennedy Center terrace, where the willow trees were felled due to their age
The Kennedy Center terrace at night, with four remaining trees, three with significant dead limbs reaching up into the darkness.
Black cat sitting intently staring out the window at the side of the neighbor's house.
A piece of peach-blueberry-cherry pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on a ceramic plate
An AI overview that says the name "Midgette" is most commonly associated with a low-maintenance ornamental shrub.
Two cats, one black and one white, sit just inside an open door looking out at the rain.
A black cat with glowing yellow eyes sits atop a bannister alertly
A pair of cats in silhouette in their window perch in a dark room.
Web ad for a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra on Thurs, Feb 13, as part of the "NSO in your Neighborhood" outreach program.
Another map showing the Gulf of America - Apple Maps has gone over
A screenshot of Google Maps from Feb, 2025 that labels the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."
A white cat with blue eyes next to a black cat with green eyes, both looking vaguely annoyed.
A screenshot from a Google search, repeating what I said in the skeet.
Barefoot footprints in the snow.
A woman with her long gray-blond hair brushed completely over her face, with glasses over the hair.
Woman with glasses posing next to someone in a hoodie whose face is entirely obscured by his long dark hair.
A cream-colored cat curled up against a patterned blanket in the sun.
A white/cream-colored cat discovering how to work one of those Newton's cradle toys with the five hanging balls, pulling one ball off the end and letting it click against the others, and examining it as if about to establish the principles of physics for herself.
A box labeled "Smith-Corona changeable type" containing a single typewriter key with a smiley-face and a sad-face emoji (obviously long before they were actually called emojis)
Black cat sitting on his perch by a window, looking alert, prepared to flee in panic if you do anything scary like move your hand slightly or cough or something.
A sequence of humorous mistranslations of the German titles of Bach cantatas (examples: Valet will ich dir geben, "I will give a deer to the valet;" Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, "My dear seal, you are such a schmuck").
A cafe wall in northern England collaged with drawings, photos and newspaper clippings of the great contralto Kathleen Ferrier
Cover of the 1967 EMI recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, with Otto Klemperer conducting Christa Ludwig and Fritz Wunderlich.
Colorful birthday cake topper, folded up but still beeping.
A birthday cake topper shaped like a flower with candles mounted on each plastic "petal." Not pictured: it spins while emitting high-pitched beeps.
A kangaroo with soft grey fur gazes into the camera, hoping very much for a treat.
Three boys, aged 12 and 13, pose smiling while patting a capybara, while a kangaroo standing on a ledge behind them does its best to steal the show.
A Pearls before Swine comic strip in which Pig asks for writing advice and Rat advises hitting himself on the side of the head until ideas come out.
A white cat, eyes closed and seemingly aglow in the light of a desk lamp, helpfully has her paw on a laptop keyboard as if groping for the right keys, because everyone's an editor, aren't they.
A large shape covered with a big piece of wrapping paper, from which a gray tail protrudes, elegantly curled.
A boy's recumbent head emerges from a sea of white.
A black cat lounging inside a cat bed shaped like a pumpkin, purchased a year ago by his owners in hopes of getting just this shot.
A black cat and a white cat lying on a dog bed made up with a pillow and tiger-print duvet, with a sticker that says "I escaped" on the wall behind it. (Subtext: tell me you live with a 12-year-old without telling me you live with a 12-year-old.)
A white round floofy orb with a ball of yarn on top of it. If you look closely you can make out a cat ear at one end of it.
A black cat cuddled up against my arm in my lap, sound asleep, with one paw extended imperiously into the void
A screenshot of the game Phrazle, in which today's answer is the nonsensical non-phrase "shoot my in the foot."
A perfect blue hydrangea.
Two eleven-year-old boys sitting on the front steps in the sun offering Kool-Aid, snacks, and trays of rocks (labeled "crystal's" and "obsidian") for sale to passers-by.
A black cat in a sunbeam that makes him look gray, looking up at the camera to see what I am documenting and if maybe I would like to pat him
A toilet paper roll that has been pulled out so that heaps of toilet paper are all over the bathroom floor.
An iconic red telephone box (booth) in rural England, with a yellow defibrillator partially visible inside.