Joe Phelan ☀️🌻

@jpinnv.bsky.social

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Civilized, Discontent in Northern Nevada. Photos of the dog & other stuff. Prose & poetry snippets that I love sometimes too.

A post from Bluesky user Secret Drug Addict (@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social) that reads "Greatest one line in a song ever. Not verse, chorus, bridge. Just one line."
Panorama, with the characteristic distortion of a swinging lens camera, of a museum gallery with various paintings hanging on a dark wall. Of note, tucked between gorgeous landscapes, is a painting of two boys carrying an injured girl wearing an angel costume. Or maybe she is an angel?
Sandra Bernhard, surrounded by candles, saying she wants "to like, you know, put on some Shirelles. I just I want to be black."
Panorama of a row of buildings by a body of still water reflecting them and the clear blue sky.
The women in Nolan's ODYSSEY, glamorous, arm in arm, arrayed next to each other.
Panorama of Helsinki Central Station, its grand entry arch in the center, the clock tower above and behind on the right, and a tram on the left in the foreground.
Wikipedia entry for Jean Carnahan. It reads, Jean Anne Carnahan (née Carpenter; December 20, 1933 - January 30, 2024) was an American politician and writer who was the first lady of Missouri from 1993 to 2000, and served as the state's junior United States senator from 2001 to 2002. A Democrat, she was appointed to fill the Senate seat of her husband Mel Carnahan, who had been posthumously elected after his death in October, becoming the first woman to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate.
A copy of Fred A. Ryser, Jr.'s book BIRDS OF THE GREAT BASIN A NATURAL HISTORY sits on a table. The book is quite thick and features a white cover and a large rectangular photo of the head and shoulders of fierce hawk or eagle.
A still from the Albert Brooks film REAL LIFE of a man in a plaid shirt wearing a device that might remind you of a deep sea diver's helmet or a space helmet.
A tuxedo cat lies on the floor, head up, eyes alert and her right paw on my shoe.
A partial profile of a female mannequin, withe a male mannequin in the background.
A blurry black and white photo of a father and his two young sons on a fast-moving carnival ride, their hands waving in the air, happy excited smiles on their faces.
A tall narrow white bird with a long orange bill wades in a shallow rocky stream.
A bright red-orange dragonfly or damselfly clutching one of many green stalks.
Screenshot from one of the Night At The Museum movies in which Hank Azaria as the ancient Egyptian Kamunra declares "I have come back to life!"
A sign posted by a train station escalator of a black balloon trailing a string within a red circle with a diagonal line. The English reads "No balloons".
A sign on a very orange tent offering "Fried Vendace Muikkurove" for ten Euros. There is a photo of a paper basket of small headless fried fish.
Very wide panorama with purple flowers in the foreground, and bright red poppies scattered among some rye (I think). An overcast sky above. The horizon is level in the middle of the frame.
Panorama of a small body of water with a line of red floats and a row of small boats tied to a long wooden walkway on the shore.
Marlin the orange and white clownfish from FINDING NEMO swimming among an anemone's fronds as Nemo huddles at the base.
Two red cups flank a paper plate with a rectangle of scrumptious blueberry cake with a wooden fork protruding. Beyond the red wood fence slats, a wide body of water under a blue sky.
Café chairs and a table, whose blue paint is faded and chipped, next to a stone and stucco wall. Some flowering potted plants on the table.
Weather app screenshot for Helsinki taken at 4:28pm. It shows that the sun will set at 10:50pm.
Email screenshot of the cover of Pierre-Olivier Dittmar's book "L'Invention de l'animal".
People sitting at café tables on top of a hill overlooking the sparkling ocean. You can see small islands in the distance. The shy is clear blue and the light is bright.
Spray paint stencil on a concrete wall of Putin flanked by an automatic rifle and a bomb with the words above and below reading "Please Recycle".
A large banner hangs overlooking a courtyard with maybe a dragon graphic logo in rainbow colors and text that reads "Diversity is natural".
Many rectangles. A white building with wide thin yellow shades above a plaza with cafe tables.
A bronze statue of a young moose, its legs very long.
Looking out a window on a deck full of empty chairs and tables sitting in the pouring rain, inside is a small table with a cup of coffee and a copy of THE TALE OF GENJI on my lap.
A wide wavy building of wood and glass.
Antique wine glasses and a decanter reflect the photograper.
A bee hovers as it chooses which pale nk lilac blossom to investigate.
The 1853 painting "Port of Tallinn, Morning" showing the towers and ramparts of Tallinn behind various ships and boats under a glowing gold sky.
Two directional signs in Estonian, one if which reads "Museum of Applied Art" in its English translation.
The cover of BALTIC OUTLOOK magazine, featuring a photo of buckets of flowers at an outdoor market.
Another view of the children's section of the Kalmar public library.
Looking out of large picture windows overlooking a small boat harbor with the city beyond. Bright blue sky, puffy clouds.
Kalmar Castle and a white swan paddling in the moat.
Screenshot from a Wikipedia article on the "madman theory". It features an official portrait of Richard Nixon.
A post stuck with many many beige stickers that say "Kalmar Slott" plus one red white and blue American "I Voted" sticker.
A long blue boat tied up on the canal bank, with shiny boxy glass buildings behind.
In a window reflecting the street behind we see a model of a man in blue pants, a yellow vest and green cap riding a white swan on the wing.
A guy in the foreground, behind him an airport store wall sign that says "Finland".
A panorama of the Palais Royal garden with gravel paths, rows of trimmed trees, a large round fountain where people are reading in garden chairs, and the arcade stretching out along the background.
A mobile phone with a round "I Voted" sticker on the back.
A shaggy Dennis Hopper with at least four cameras hanging off of him, as he appeared in APOCALYPSE NOW.
A clump of Iris flowers bloom in a front yard in late afternoon light.
Tom Hardy as Bane in that one Christopher Nolan BATMAN movie.
A black greyhound whose face is turning whiter smiles at the park.
A black and white image of a letter X on fire, used by the band X for their album LOS ANGELES.
A gray cat with a white muzzle looks closely at a bit of desiccated plant material.
Woody Guthrie in a plaid shirt plays a dark guitar with a sign on it that reads "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS".
Screenshot from Bluesky indicating both "User Blocked" and "User Blocking You".
"Hanachirusato had been reluctant to put herself forth. She thought that she was not worthy to be in competition with the other distinguished ladies, who were using all their skill to create their fragrances, and felt that just having her incense compared to the others would be so embarrassing she would want to disappear like the wisps of smoke rising from a censer. Thus, she presented only one incense, her version of kayo, a summer fragrance that brought to mind the aroma of lotus blossoms. It was an unusual incense, subtle and secretive, that created a touchingly intimate feel."
Still from INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY showing Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller Bridge in a bar. Ford says glumly "going to the moon is like going to Reno."
Mosaic from St. Mark's Basilica in Venice showing the two men opening a basket for a group of men in turbans who turn away in disgust, one who holds his nose.