geminica

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Art, tech, sci fi tall ships, and stars to steer them by Urban Sketcher in Humboldt County, California.

Chimney Sweeps - Crimes Against
Photo taken by me at the Fete Maritime de Douarnenez, France, 2024. Colorful small lateen, lug, and gaff sailing boats anchored in a calm harbour, surrounded with green hills, under cool pink skies, a morning light flooding the distance.
A large barren tree growing out of a green lawn, many storied buildings in various earth tones in tiers behind it and grave monuments at its base.
RESPECTED PATERNAL RELATIVE, - I write to make a request of the most moderate nature. Every year I have cost you an enormous - nay, elephantine - sum of money for drugs and physician’s fees, and the most expensive time of the twelve months was March. But this year the biting Oriental blasts, the howling tempests, and the general ailments of the human race have been successfully braved by yours truly. Does not this deserve remuneration?
Lush and dramatic Yosemite Valley seen from 30,000 feet up, with Nevada Falls visible on the right and Half Dome seen in side view on the left
Uxmal, Yucatan
Mayan glyphs on stones in front of the Palace of the Masks, Codz Pop, Kabah, Yucatan
Beach Pea
web site menus for Damn (Damas) and Knight (Caballeros)
bee in wild lilacs
dog
Topsail schooner La Recouvrance at night in cool blue light, viewed through through the rigging of Golden Vanity
Screen shot showing the text: You have developed a telepathic bond with your explosive bloat. Your hallucinations face.
Drop down menu for "salutation" offering: Mister, Woman, Family, Divers
Text accompanying a YouTube link, warning of weak regulations in the US
Video of Chateau de Brest and a horizon brimming as far as the eye can see with the masts of tall ships
Pages from Harris's List from 1787 describing a local practitioner of the oldest profession, using nautical terminology to reflect her service to naval officers.
British ketch Bessie Ellen sailing near Brest, France
seed bark with pepitas, sunflower, sesame, chia, and the tiniest touch of maple syrup.
Destination: "Cautious Optomism"
portland
san francisco from afar under grey clouds and an orange creme sunset
Young Miles, Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Finder by Carla Speed McNeil
Cover of The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Cover of Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the Sky
Ad&d Players handbook book cover
Cover of the book Forms in Japan by Yuichiro Kojiro. It's expensive in print, but available digitally for free.
Cover of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach
Gaff rigged ships sailing, seen past rigging of another ship
Square rigged ship sailing on a gentle wind at broad reach on a calm sea in the Rade de Brest seen through the rigging of chaloupe sardiniere Eulalie, July 2025
The book "This Thing of Darkness" by Harry Thompson, showing the cover with bold print and an illustration of HMS Beagle in a choppy sea
Cover of the book Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey, an illustration of a girl in perhaps a 14th century tunic playing pan flute while surrounded with a circular eddy of metallic colored miniature dragons
Cover of Engine Summer by John Crowley. Stylized image of a huge red tabby on the lap of a woman with long black hair.