Luvbug

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New Englander, public librarian, live music junkie, knitter, childless cat lady, Team Oxford Comma Always striving to be a worthy ally 🌈 She/Her

A just-finished hand knit dragon with a cobalt blue body and scales and wings in butter yellow. Yarn is Plymouth Select DK Merino Superwash.
A bleeding heart plant. Green leaves frame brand new pink and white flowers in the center of the photo. Each blossom consists of a pink puffy heart-shaped upper part with two pink and white teardrop shaped protrusions dangling from them. The blossoms are lined up along and dangling below the stem. These blossoms are brand new, having just appeared in the past 24 hours.
Waylon’s heated bed is making him too warm, so he’s stuck out his Temperature Control Leg
A set list signed by Trey Hensley
A grey cat with white paws named Shadow wears purple leg warmers on her front legs. They are edged in white lace at top and bottom. She has one leg raised and is smelling the top of that leg warmer, as if trying to figure out why I’ve done this to her.
Bluegrass musician Del McCoury plays guitar and sings on stage at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival. Bass player Alan Bartram and mandolin player Ronnie McCoury are to his right. Behind them is a sign for the festival.
My eccentric kitty, Waylon, a brown and black tabby.
Cover of the audiobook Say Nothing by Patrick Radeon Keefe. The cover has a black background with a black and white photographic image of a woman, Dolours Price. The photo shows the top of the woman’s face: hair, forehead, and eyes. She has a black face covering pulled up over her nose and lower face, so the visible portion of her face stands out against the background. She stares directly at the camera in defiance.
A tiger cat named Waylon is surrounded by multicolored bits of wrapping paper and tissue paper, mostly in greens, blues, and reds. The photo is blurry because Waylon is in motion, pouncing on the piece of paper in the foreground.
The book cover of All the Water in the World. It shows a blue sky and slightly darker blue water partially covering Manhattan buildings, including the Empire State Building in the distance. The title and author’s name are in white and are reflected in the water covering the city.
The book cover for Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks. A photograph shows large orange-colored boulders leaning against each other with a hint of blue sky and clouds above and between them.
The cover to The Staircase in the Woods shows a forest scene backed by an eerie golden light. At the center is a spiral staircase with a crow or raven sitting on the railing.
The book cover of Art Work by Sally Man shows a tan background with a black and white photo of the young photographer, seated casually at a table that has a large vintage camera on it. The photo appears fastened to the background with blue masking tape at each corner.
The cover of The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi. The cover is white with the title in black. A butterfly shape that appears to be a paper cutout hovers behind the text.
The cover of the book Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley. The cover is maroon with a drawing of a woman’s face with Native American symbols incorporated. A bird covers the woman’s eyes and feathers float around her face.
The book cover of Living in the Present With John Prine by Tom Piazza. The cover is a black & white photo with white text at top and bottom. In the center of the black field, lit by a spotlight, is John Prine in his later years. He is looking down toward the neck of his guitar as he plays; a microphone is to the side.
The cover to King Sorrow by Joe Hill. A red and glowing dragon face, stylized to resemble a horned devil, floats against a grey background.
The cover of Bog Queen by Anna North. Greens and small brown mushrooms in the foreground just barely part to show behind them a woman’s starkly white face. She is lying on her side, facing the viewer. Her eyes are open and her expression placid.
Book cover of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid shows a woman from the chest up. She is shown against a blue sky, wearing what looks like a flight suit. She has dark curly hair and a shuttle liftoff is shown in reflecting in the lenses of her aviators.
A brown tabby is curled up on a gray couch. His eyes are closed, his ears slightly perked, and his tail wrapped around his nose and the side of his face.
A tiger cat lays on top of a sideboard. His right arm dangles straight down and his upturned green eyes exactly match the background color of a ceramic pitcher next to him.
A stage, set up for Lyle Lovett and Hid Large Band, bathed in blue light.
A hat knit with blue yarn lays flat on a white background. The blue is intense with slight variations in tone so that there are some darker and some lighter points. The hat has a band of ribbing at the bottom and a faux cable pattern that looks complicated but was easy to make with a combination of increases and sso decreases.
A tabby cat name Waylon crouches under a white sheet with his head tilted. The sheet is pressing down his right ear and he looks ready to spring at the photographer. He’s “helping” to make the bed. It’s not helping.
The Koussevitzky Music She’d of Tanglewood in Lenox, MA, as seen from the lawn. The sky is blue with a few whispy clouds, and the grass is emerald green. It’s a perfect first day of summer.
A tabby cat’s face, photographed close up so that his nose and mouth are the focus. His beautiful green eyes look up at the photographer quizzically.
A stack of shortbread rectangles on a light gray countertop, against a white tile backsplash. The shortbread is golden brown, with small pieces of pretzel throughout. There was an entire pound of butter in the batch, and the shortbread is just as delicious as you would expect.
Two Knubbelchens, floppy knitted dolls with white faces and long hats. Their legs, arms, and hat all have knots at the end to give them a bit of weight. On the left is a blue one, made for the impending boy. On the left is one for the impending girl; it has a lavender colored body and a light pink hat and frilly skirt.
A tabby cat sits tall on top of a suitcase, hoping to keep his human and spare human from leaving in the morning. His pink tongue is out, licking his upper lip and nose.
A tiger cat lays in his bed. He’s looking at the camera with ears forward and one leg stretched toward the camera. He’s looking might be thinking about biting you. He probably is.
A small jar of Peter Pan creamy peanut butter sits label-up on a sheet of white paper. At the top of the paper is a handwritten note that reads “Gifted by a patron who accidentally received 24! jars in a delivery and wanted to share. This might be the oddest thing I’ve been given by patrons.”
Charlie Parr on the Iron Horse stage in Northampton, MA. Parr is seated on a chair, playing a metal-body resonator guitar. He wears a plaid shirt and canvas pants, rolled up a bit and showing leather shoes worn without socks.
A cartoon in four panels, titled “Seeing Live Music.” In each panel, the figure waves its arms in joy as musical notes float around it. Below the panels, it says “So bad,” “for my lower back,” “but so good,” “for my heart.” Red pain marks radiate from the figure in the first panels and a full red heart glows in the figure’s chest in the final panel. Music is worth it all day long.
A tiger stripe cat sits on the edge of a kitchen counter and gives his spare human a fist bump. He seems a bit bored, as he’s looking off to the side, with just slightly flattened ears.
A paragraph from Maris Kriezman’s book “I Want to Burn This Place Down” as seen on an ereader screen. The line reads: “So off I’d go with my Baby-Sitter’s Club and Sweet Valley High; later I got into murder mysteries and various James Patterson series, which are the Sweet Valley High of police procedurals.”
A small portion of a menu for an Asian noodle restaurant. The highlighted dish is “Phuket Salmon.”
The bright yellow cover of the ebook version of Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic shows on an ipad.
The bright yellow cover of the ebook version of Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic shows on an iPad perched on my lap. It was checked out through Libby from my local library.
A brown tiger cat named Waylon is curled up on his side. One fang pokes out of his mouth.
Book cover for Time and Again by Jack Finnney
A sleeping tiger kitty named Waylon. He is lying curled up on his side with his front legs extended and paws resting against the side of his blue bed. Somehow, one back paw is pressed against the side of his head.
A tiger- striped cat named Waylon gives a BIG YAWN and shows lots of teeth. One arm is extended, with claws out. He’s laying on a brightly colored striped afghan.
Book cover of the novel All the Water in the World. It features an image of grey skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building, partially submerged in blue water.
A view of the rounded stone wall of the ring fort Grianan of Aileach with grass and the sea in the distance. County Donegal, Ireland
A small castle ruin, Kinbane Castle, with a backdrop of a green cliff in the background