Polly Shulman

@pollys.bsky.social

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Author of Enthusiasm and The Grimm Legacy series Frequent baker of popovers Admirer of mourning stickpins, portrait miniatures, rococo tongs, meteors, meteorites, proboscideans, and novels with frontispieces

Two semicircles of cake on a table, each with chocolate frosting, one decorated with pecan halves and the other decorated with walnut halves and a lit candle. Also on the table are glasses, plates, forks, knives, and a teapot. The people about to eat the cake have been cropped out of the photo, but some knees and hands are visible.
A white wading bird stands in the shallow water of a pond in a park. There are steps leading down to the pond in the foreground and trees and buildings in the background.
People jogging on the Central Park bridle path, one with a dog, in the middle ground, with the Guggenheim Museum in the background and blossoming trees in the foreground.
Huge crowd of protesters on NYC's Fifth Avenue. Some of the signs say: No King in America, Hands off Medicaid, A King of Fools is a Danger to Us All, Resist, Defund the Rich.
A spot on a wall where something was once glued on. The traces of glue are flowing shapes.
A crowd in front of the Washington Square arch, wearing coats and holding signs.
Photo of a terracotta architectural ornament, a winged baby sitting on a swag of fruit and flowers, on a brick wall with egg-and-dart molding. Everything is beige.
A man sits on a crowded subway car with a fluffy white dog in his lap. The dog is in a tote bag and is drinking from a paper cup.
A door with prominent lettering on it that says "Princess Polly coming soon." A blurry figure of a person is walking past it.
White graffiti on a railing. In large letters: NOPE. Also visible, but not as clearly: *DAD*, SHOx, and something fancy, swirly, and unreadable. In the background: a chainlink fence, a fancier railing, bare trees, a highway, and in the distance, a river. There is snow on many surfaces. The colors are white, beige, brown, and black.
A painting of a woman in a red dress against a gold background. She holds a black silhouette of a devil by the horns with her left hand. In her left right she raises a hammer to hit him with.
A group of partially deflated inflatable animals wearing santa hats lying in a planter area beneath a sign that says, "No loitering in front of or on this sign." A mostly deflated bear is lying on its back, staring glumly at the sky.
A glimpse of a lawn and hedges through an ornamental iron gate on which a pair of mythological creatures face each other.
Photo of storefront with shutter closed. Business signs say, "BLUESKY new york 145w since 2000"
An upside-down apple cake on a blue-and-white plate.
A double rainbow arches over a curving tree-lined road through a park. There are joggers and pedestrians on the road.
hand holding four-leaf clover
Photo of a museum display showing several tiny snail shells and an enlarged drawing of the snail shell. Text says: INTERRUPTED TURBONILLA Turbonilla interrupta Totten Family Pyramidellidae
Photo of a museum display showing several tiny snail shells and an enlarged drawing of the snail shell. Text says: IMPRESSED ODOSTOME Odostomia impressa Say Family Pyramidellidae