MrTinMD

@mrtinmd.bsky.social

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Maryland, USA. Cyclist, photographer, birdwatcher, trains & transit fan, YIMBY, boats/ships/planes lover, cat dad, gardener, married to expert knitter @jerdlngr.bsky.social. Gen X, he/him.

Ominous clouds looming over a mountain chain with houses in the foreground.
Screenshot of an absolute garbage forecast, 20 degrees below normal, for the beginning of next week showing highs of 34 and lows of 18 in Thurmont, Maryland.
Forecast for a sunny, 70s weekend
A grey and white cat with a green and red treat puzzle. You hide the treats under the red things or the leaves.
A table on a deck, both covered with a millimeter or two of snow. The thermometer shows a temp of about 35.
Bronze life sized statue of Claire McCardell, in Frederick, Maryland next to a canal and under a blue sky.
A wintry sunset with pink clouds and silhouetted bare trees in northern Frederick County, MD.
Apple Weather screenshot showing 8 degrees in Thurmont
A partially shoveled deck.
A snow covered deck and table.
An unattractive sports arena with a drooping roof in the middle, surrounded by a sea of car parking.
A table on a deck, covered in a dusting of snow, with a thermometer reading approximately 27 degrees.
A badly-drawn map of the Great Lakes region with a ginormous Chesapeake Bay overlaid on it, and Kentucky labeled as "Varilia"
A poster for a 5k run in Maryland, the Fungi Fest 5k, featuring 5 cute anthropomorphic mushrooms running, in an overall brown, tan and green color scheme, somewhat reminiscent of the WPA.
A large beaver swimming in muddy waters.
Cyclists riding "crazy bikes" at the Tour de Fat - including one with circular arrangements of sneakers instead of conventional wheels. The riders are wearing brown helmets and one seems to piece of nose gear and is wearing a fur vest.
DS Winter, a young white man; forensics expert Perkins, an older, short white woman; and DCI Barnaby, a middle-aged white man, standing in the ruins of an abbey, somewhere in England's fictional Midsomer County.
A patch of native plants in the bus turnaround bay of a Metro station.
A meadow with flowers and trees in the background. A lake is visible in the distance, under a blue sky.
An orangey sunset over townhouses with a reflection on the ledge of the roof.
Apple maps screenshow of Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, showing all the parking areas and stadium footprint that will be available for redevelopment.
A dark green Hyundai Santa Cruz car/pickup, the smallest vehicle you can buy with a bed in the US as of 2025.
A sign posted on a fence in Columbia Heights warning of “carnivorous plants” (not actually present in the photo).
Right side of a green and white single speed bike with disc brakes.
A "nuclear-powered, double-decker, articulated bus" named Cyclops from the 1970s disaster film satire The Big Bus.
A ticket to a football game between the Washington football team and the Chicago Bears, dated Oct. 31, 1999. The location as listed as Jack Kent Cooke Stadium.
Screenshot of muted words in my feed “threepeat” and “three-peat”. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
Freshly cleared of snow, our sidewalk and Subaru. Can winter be over now?
A cute grey and white cat, with a pink nose and greenish eyes, sitting in the back of a sofa.
A grey and white cat with a pink nose and greenish eyes, laying on our Christmas stockings.
A lake surrounded by wooded parkland, on a grey, overcast day.
A grey and white cat sitting on a wood dining table. There are bookshelves with cookbooks, and a vintage map in the background.
A grey and white cat with greenish eyes and a pink nose sitting on a cat tree by a window.
Looking across a river at a hill or small mountain, with a truss bridge at right, and the sun at left, with a few wispy clouds in the sky.
Two cups of yummy Guernsey ice cream from Rock Creek Orchard in Damascus, MD.
A screenshot of a bike ride on Strava from 2018 showing a PR on the Whitehurst Freeway.
Bags of cat food for $7.24.
Side comparison of a Rivian and a Cybertruck from the Rivian side.
RadarScope screenshot showing clear skies inside the Beltway.
RadarScope screenshot of this morning’s rain event in the DC area.
RadarScope screenshot of an inbound line of storms just west of the DC metro area.
A small observatory structure with a telescope sticking out, in someone's backyard, judging from the hedges and lawn visible.
Seven day forecast from weather app showing sunny, warm weekdays, and a cool and rainy weekend.
The "epic handshake" meme customized for anti-49cc scooters/mopeds.
A shopping cart embedded into the windshield of a red, compact SUV, an early 2000s Honda CRV I think.
A tuxedo cat named Oliver (2007-2023). Miss ya, little buddy.
A young bicolor cat with a pink nose, laying in a sunbeam on a grey carpeted floor. She is dozing, and purring contentedly.
An orange and purple sunset, reflected in a pond, with a ped/bike trail in the middle distance in front of a line of bare trees.
A grey and white cat peeking over a white kitchen counter.
An orangey sunset with silhouettes of trees and a pedestrian bridge.
Six inches of snow on a round outdoor table.
A short man, middle-aged man in lycra, with a road bike standing on the side of Big Woods Road in the agricultural reserve of Montgomery County, Maryland.
A grey and white cat laying on a cat tree, looking out a window onto a street with apartments and townhouses. She appears to be scanning for birds.
A cat (Violet) intently looking out a window at a bare tree with some sparrows in the branches.
A young grey and white cat laying on a bed in a bright sunbeam .
An orangey sunset over a frozen pond with bare trees silhouetted against the sky. The colors in the sky are partially reflected in the frozen surface of the pond.
A bare tree along a river with a blue sky and puffy white clouds.
Screenshot of the main presenters of BBC's Escape to the Country; Denise, Ginny, Steve, Alistair, Nicki, Sonali and Jules.
A cute grey and white kitty up on her hind legs, looking for a treat.