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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Habe mein Hals-Kühler heute morgen beim Pflanzenbewässerung und Aldi-Gang getragen. Kann ich nur empfehlen. Unterwegs habe ich folgendes gesehen -- es gibt schon gute Menschen! Apropos ... refill-deutschland.de/karte/

Ein Kühlbox steht auf einem Bank im Schatten. Darauf in 3 Sprachen (Deutsch, Englisch, Russisch) steht ein Schild: "Drinking water -- please help yourself!"
A cooler sits on a bench in the shade. A sign in 3 languages (German, English, Russian) encourages people to help themselves to drinking water.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sounds like a great place. The only Chihuly I've ever seen in person is the chandelier at the V&A.

Ornate - huge! - glass chandelier in blues greens and yellows, hanging in the entryway of the V&A Museum in London. My photo.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Monet painted from life, n'est-ce pas? 😉

A landscape featuring a rural paved track on the left, with a poppy-strewn field of ripening wheat on the right and a line of trees bordering it. The road and field and trees converge in the distance under a blue sky with white fluffy clouds. Very Monet-esque!

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Had to share this absolutely perfect post-stacking. Sure mirrored my reaction.

Jay Hulme's post stating "Yesterday I went on a little evening walk and while I was waiting to cross the road a squirrel pooped on me." Followed directly on my feed with a photo of a man reacting with immense disapproval to something, with pursed lips and a deep frown.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

As a little break from the horrors, how about a nice robin? Oh heck, it's that kind of day, I'll throw in some snowdrops, too!

Against a background of bare gray-brown branches and tree trunks, a (European) robin sits on a curving branch at the top left of the photo.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas, Bluesky! And wishes for joy and hope for all.

A Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. Mary is sleeping, apparently deeply and peacefully, on a bed of straw to the left of the picture. To the right, Joseph is sitting on a stool, holding the baby, who's stretching and yawning. Jospeh looks absolutely delighted. Afraid I don't know who the artist is.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🎶 Fast away the old year passes 🎶 Waning moon, shortly before dawn.

Trees and house roofs in dark silhouette against a lightening sky shortly before dawn. The waning moon is visible.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. (Nibbled to death by ducks, apparently.)

A pond, showing the reflection of autumn trees and the late-afternoon sky. The water's surface is rippled by swimming ducks

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only

Whoopie Goldberg sitting at a computer screen. Scene from the movie "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Caption reads "It's a gas, gas gas."

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Today is very gray (again), so here's a pic from a past October. 📷 my own

A branch, hanging downwards, with autumn leaves lit by the late afternoon sun. In the background are other trees with sparse leaves, that highlight the bright yellow and orange-brown leaves, which seem to glow from an internal source. Photo my own.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It is October. I live in the Northern hemisphere. And one of my rhododendrons has decided to start blooming. Mind you, it already bloomed this spring. None of the others are doing this. Very strange.

A rhododendron with a number of pink blossoms, surrounded by various other plants. Behind the rhododendron to the right is a garden shed.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Meine Güte, wie einfallsarm diese "Oma-Hobby"-Schlagzeilen immer sind, besonders was Handarbeiten betrifft (betreffen?). Senior*innen werden so gut, WEIL sie so jung angefangen haben (meistens). Unten ein Bild von mir in 1986, im selbstgestrickten Pulli, die ich noch habe und trage. Harrumph 😉

Die Posterin im selbstgestrickten Pulli, aufgenommen in 1986. Das Bild ist leider überbelichtet.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Yesterday afternoon I enjoyed the sunshine while picking, cleaning, and destemming grapes. Ended up with 4.9kg! After juicing, I had 3ltr of juice & about 1/2 cup of...pulp? Mash? Made a small spice cake with it, will bottle the juice this evening. 😋

A kitchen counter with gray granite work surface and black stove top. There are empty glass bottles on the left, a dark brown bundt cake on a flowered china plate in the middle, and a cooking pot with grape juice on the stove.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Onward! to Sleeve Island. Hope I've got enough snacks....

An unfinished burgundy cardigan on a dress form. It is still lacking sleeves and buttons and needs to be blocked. In the background are bookcases and a mirror.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Grape juice, fresh from the vine! 🍇

A liter bottle, about half full of fresh grape juice, medium pink in color.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I also love this Rockwell -- "Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve" (1947), used to illustrate the word "forswunk"=exhausted for A Word A Day wordsmith.org/words/forswu...

Norman Rockwell Painting, "Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve" from 1947. An obviously exhausted woman is slumped against a wall, rubbing her bare, sore feet together. There's a book on her lap, apparently stuffed full of orders and receipts, and she's surrounded by unsold toys, including a large yellow toy car big enough for a child to sit in. The toys aren't displayed neatly on shelves, rather heaped and scattered. A stuffed animal above her left shoulder seems like it's looking at her with a concerned expression. A sign above her head is partly detached and hangs crooked. It reads 'this store closes at 5:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve'. The woman's watch, pinned to her dress, reads 5:05.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A vase made of carnival glass, shown against a beige/offwhite rug, with the sun shining through. The changes in brightness are due to actual changes in light levels during the filming.

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Chatelaine @chatelaine1.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

What those redcurrants became -- a bottle of unsweetened juice to be used for something or other in the future, with the remaining juice sweetened and made into jelly for my weekend Brötchen. Juice canning instructions as well as the bottle from the excellent www.glaeserundflaschen.de site.