Solomon Foster

@colomon.bsky.social

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Father to a teenage geek, librarian's husband. C++ and Raku programmer by trade. Interested in RPGing (Amber, 5e, Ironsworn (Starforged & SI)), Irish and Newfoundland trad music (Peter Horan, Rufus Guinchard), reading SFF, and Michigan football.

Old black and white photo of the Peche Island Rear Range Light (house).
Cover for Kitty Lie Over. Two men standing on a seaside, hair blown in the wind.
CD cover for The Thing Itself by Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O'Loughlin. Two to sit facing each other in side-by-side archways separated by a column. Maeve wears a turtleneck sweater and plays fiddle; Peadar a sweater over a white-collared shirt, playing a simple system wooden flute.
LP Cover. Text says "Music of Sligo" "Peter Horan" "Fred Finn" "Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann" "CL33" Sepia-toned picture is two dapper gentlemen in suits. Peter plays a wooden simple system flute with metal lip plate and keys. Fred plays a fiddle.
A very long, very pale yellow Labrador retriever with pink collar, asleep on a cat bed which only fits her front half.
Cover to Myth Adventures! #3. A mostly black cover with logos and two reddish targets (as from sniper rifles, or in this case, presumably sniper crossbows armed with heat-seaking armor piercing quarrels) on our heroes, a clueless human boy named Skeeve and a many-toothed demon named Aahz. This is somewhat inexplicably labeled "Heroes - 2 / Assassin - 8".
An older man relaxes at the back of a small wooden fishing boat as he controls the small outboard motor. The boat is on a large lake, though a distant pine forest can be seen in the far background. The sun is positioned behind him and a bit over his head, veiled by clouds.
Two yellow labs stare in the general direction of the camera.
Chart where columns are days of the week and rows are types of medicine, so I can check off when I’ve taken them.
Mrs Belle playing button accordion sticker by @crookedtunes
Five stickers on my button accordion case: 1. Part of van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhône 2. Mrs Belle playing button box by @crookedtunes 3. Bow of M/V Honorable James L. Oberstar by @tristymakes 4. New In The Roud logo sticker 5. Winslow Homer’s Eight Bells
Close up of my left hand, showing I’m wearing a plain green ring as my wedding band.
Jim Clary oil painting of the old icebreaker USCG Cutter Mackinaw, working to free the freighter Paul Carnahan from an ice jam. Painted in 1983, and definitely looks like the early 80s.
Colorful Raku butterfly logo.
Cover to the Amber Diceless RPG. Kind of surreal and hard to describe, but there are frilly eyes, a woman(?) with two bladed weapons, a flying dragon-like creature, a man with a cyborg eye holding a gun, etc.
Original paperback cover of Caroline Stevermer's A College of Magics. A golden castle on a rocky outcropping looks out over the ocean -- presumably this is meant to be the college of the title.
Cover of the 2020 edition of Kelly Russell's Collection The Fiddle Music of Newfoundland & Labrador Volume 1 Rufus Guinchard & Emile Benoit With an old black and what picture of each of them playing fiddle.
Eight Bells, 1887 by Winslow Homer (color version) Two sailors in wet weather gear use a sextant (and some other similar device) to try to find their position in stormy weather.
Starry Night Over the Rhone, by Vincent Van Gogh (September 1888). Oil on canvas, 72.5 × 92 cm (28.5 × 36.2 in). Musée d'Orsay, Paris "The vantage point he chose for Starry Night allowed him to capture the reflections of the gas lighting in Arles across the glimmering blue water of the Rhône. In the foreground, two lovers stroll by the banks of the river."
Mist is rising off the river in the early morning. This scene is about halfway between Marine City and Algonac. In the foreground is grassy yard, some bushes, sea wall, and three personal docks. Then comes an expanse of smooth water, left blue on the left shading to golden on the right with the rising sun’s reflection. A freighter going to the left (upriver) is in the distance; beyond her is Canada, here mostly visible as tiny trees in silhouette. The sky is blue and almost cloudless.
Page of the uehdspecial web shop with accordion stuff. Pictures include several thousand+ dollar accordions, what appears to be a one page button to note map, a tutorial, a photo of that tutorial book on a shirt, and a smaller photo of that book, etc. EVERYTHING is marked normal price $92, on sale for $37.
Poorly shot close up on some of the buttons and grillwork on my Salterelle Nuage C#/D button accordion — looking very similar to Tristy’s picture.
Voided Greek cross, this time for sure?
Voided Greek cross -- basically a think plus sign with a much thinner (but still as wide / high) plus sign taken out of it.
Meta AI generated additional info for a Facebook post: 'The "Old Gold Ring" is a traditional Irish song, and its meaning can vary depending on the interpretation. However, the general consensus is that the song is about: '1. *Lost love*: The song's narrator reflects on a past love that has faded, symbolized by the "old gold ring" left behind. 2. *Nostalgia*: The lyrics express a sense of longing and nostalgia for a bygone era, memories, and emotions. 3. *Fleeting nature of life*: The song may also touch on the impermanence of life, love, and relationships, emphasizing the importance of cherishing moments while they last. 'In the context of the Facebook post, the "OLD GOLD RING" is mentioned as part of a musical performance, specifically a riff on the traditional song, with a new fifth part added to fit another song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas".'
Nissua dough rolled thin, covered with butter and cinnamon sugar, rolled up, cut up, placed on a topping of brown sugar, butter, and vanilla, and baked. Nine irregular rolls pictured, as I don’t get enough practice at this to make it neat and uniform.
Dave Lambert, Annie Ross, and Jon Hendricks
Cover of Denis Côté 1978 album "Folklore Authentique". A grinning man (presumably Denis) holds an old one row button accordion with a blue and white checkered pattern on its bellows. He's wearing a red and blue plaid shirt, opened at least three buttons down. The background behind him is washed out; in front of him is the top half of a post light, which blocks the view of his hand and the lower part of the accordion's "keyboard".
Cover of the deluxe “1898” edition of Jacquelyn Benson’s Empire of Shadows. Dark green background with black ink and gold highlights, featuring the main characters, a machete, stepped Central American pyramid, and a small steam boat.
Poster advertising: Mill Race Folk Traditions presents Pub calling for Twelfth Night Sunday January 5th 3-5pm Ernie’s Roadhouse 7 Queen Street West, Cambridge Ontario If you want more details, contact the poster— I cannot read the finer print on my phone!
Close up of Sichuan peppercorn pork roast, showing the bark that has formed where fat, brown sugar, salt, and ground roasted peppercorns have melted together…
Left display showing the Michigan/Northwestern football game. Right display showing a live Bellowhead concert. Also visible top left is an old picture of my son. Hiding in the mess on the desk, my flute.
Backlit predawn video of fluffy snow falling on a Jetta and Odyssey.
Picture of the branches of two of the maples in our backyard this November afternoon. One still has a smattering of yellow leaves, the other no leaves at all.
A mirror on a a desk shows a balding, grey-bearded Solomon wearing a black mask covering his nose and mouth. He’s holding the smart phone he’s using to take the picture, trying to get a photo of the demo glasses to show off the frames he is getting for his new glasses.
Cover to "The Road to Roswell" by Connie Willis, with the name on a mock glitzy roadside sign, a classic flying saucer using a tractor beam on a cow above, and a simple desert landscape below.
Cover of the comic Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw #3, featuring an anthropomorphic fox woman dressed in vaguely medieval clothing, holding a mug in her hands.
Black and white comic art from Mark Oakley's Thieves & Kings Vol 7. Leahanna, a young witch, talking to dapper wizard Quinton. Leahanna: I always figured she was being paranoid. Sometimes a landslide is just a landslide. Quinton: No, it was me. I excel at landslides!
Navigational chart of the St Clair River from Recors Point down to the mouth of the Belle River.
Original hardcover cover image of Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist. The cover is mostly grey with blue lettering, and an ink outline of a Greek helmet and sword.
Snow falls on the edge of a parking lot, with a small forested patch beyond. Not much able yet, but it's steadily coming down.
Cover of what I think is the Mage: The Hero Defined vol 4 trade paperback. On the left, an upside-down Kevin Matchstick is falling in a black void while holding a glowing baseball bat from which lightning is arcing back to the top of the image. On the right, over a yellow-orange background the witch Magda looks out over a upside-down purple top hat from which many purple bubbles are rising.