Rebecca

@jeybecques.bsky.social

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Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn. “Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”

Big Boy locomotive steaming past
Closeup of the smaller rock sitting on the bigger one, showing their similar banding
Two lumps of agate, one large and one small. The larger one is a dull brown and the smaller one has orange and red hues
Five jar stash of chili crisp varieties
table with suspiciously more than two papers strewn across it (some of which are illustrations of butterflies)
Glorious pen facsimile of the title page, maintaining the weird spacing from the print version though slightly simplifying the embellishment
16th century page with printed animal woodblock with light source underneath showing a second piece of paper attached to replace part that was torn off, with extremely detailed manuscript copying of the missing part
gestation of a book display: table with an 18th century book discussing the appropriate pigments for flower painting, an early 19th century chart of mineral colors, a 20th century fan of swatches from the Royal horticultural society, and a modern paperback called “nature’s palette”
unnaturally vibrant color print of a collection of aquilegias in all sorts of colors
Shelf of books labeled “full of bees”
Slide with the header “departure, voyage, arrival” and the four panel Gru plotting meme where 1 is “they go to the ship,” 2 is “the ship sails away,” and 3-4 are Gru reacting in confusion to “the ship disappears”
Screenshot of PowerPoint slide that says “Spreadsheet time!” and has a list of books and barcodes that turn red or green depending on if they match
Green fleece blanket draped over person
office building style carpet in shades of brown and blue, with some pops of purple
Brick row house with blue plaque explaining that Dorothy! L!! Sayers!!! lived RIGHT HERE
camera roll screenshot in shades of pink and green full of plants, plant labels, and one sneaky oddish
Screenshot of camera roll showing like fifty different pictures of various rocks and minerals
Large stainless steel tank with records about alcohol concentration and a note that says “good condition” with a smiley face
it has “paper ancestor money” printed across the corner
an extremely mulched corner of what seems to be a hundred dollar bill
ziplock baggie full of medium size round black seeds with white edges
Tiny battered plastic box with a paper that says POISON and has a lil skull and crossbones drawn in ballpoint pen
One “galaxy stone,” aka amygdaloidal black basalt with cool agate inclusions, a boulder opal bead, mostly brown ironstone matrix with a few flashes of teal, and a big clump of clear quartz crystals
Wee little orange suited seated astronaut pendant
Daylily bud with white frills at the margins that especially when closed look awfully dental on the pink petals
Three copies of the exact same book, with three slightly different call numbers
Portrait of a Place: Oak Spring, a framed collage of flowers and leaves arranged like a knot work garden with a very geometric center and gracefully curving edges
Closeup of a wee baby orchid flower looking very impressive with two white and red arms and a big floofy pink petal skirt thing
Slightly more geometric stained glass panel with a rose that looks Charles rennie mackintosh inspired
Stained glass window with three orange flowers and three roots splitting at the bottom
Extreme close up of a euphorbia, in a weird combination of smooth curves and spikes
Beautiful complicated white flowers that smell so much better even than they look
Spiral shaped closed petals with an open white flower in the background
Literally a cosmic brownie held up in a toast to the spaceship on the computer screen in the background
Zoomed out spreadsheet with a whole lot of alarming looking red boxes
very brave moss sporophytes growing out of a wooden border over water
Glowing magenta checkerboard bell of a flower
Coral pink flowering quince blooms and leaves
Grey buckram the volume set of Rendle’s Classification of Flowering Plants. The title is written without serifs, very neatly, and there’s four dots in a diamond between author and title
Burgundy book cloth spine of reports on the water power of the United States, with a very simplified five-petaled flower ornament
Shelf of books about plants in Baja California, including one with nice handwriting and serifs of the Vegetacion de Mexico with what appear to be illustrations on the spine
Clump of fuzzballs
Clump of yellow trumpet shaped flowers on a bare twig
Star Wars fanzine with Anakin thinking “curse it to the seventh blue hell” and a truly impressive jareth-influenced illustration
Screenshot of the top results for a search for “hell.” They’re all different hellebores (the last is a stinking hellebore)
tangle of fuzzy silver leaves with a chartreuse three petaled flower (slightly out of focus)
blood orange something or other, with a similar but darker gradient
guava mimosa, lovely gradient from peach up to orange
truly gloriously derpy sixteenth century hippo portrait
Closeup image of a bush of purple asters in bloom; one of them has a bumblebee in it
Infuriatingly beautiful view over a small medieval town to the unacceptably azure Mediterranean
View of the Mediterranean glowing through an arched opening with trees in the foreground
Rebecca sits reading a book in massive floofs of pale blue satin dress
a much, much higher resolution image showing a 15th century woodcut picture of some lovage
potato quality photo of a book open to something that might be a plant, maybe
Carefully cleaned sidewalk, ten feet of horrible snowy alley, another nice clean sidewalk.
A concrete lion, seated, helmeted and cloaked in snow
open light switch box with two elderly cloth covered wires attached to the toggle switch
photo of your correspondent on the floor under a desk, holding a screwdriver
Super bright yellow two volume set with bold red capital letters, proclaiming both of these books to be Gondwana Nine