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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Little Angel--Greenwood Cemetery, Bridgman, Sun.25.Sep./'22. Taken on CineStill400D with the 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard [6RF621, uncoated Zeiss/Jena Tessar 3,8]; developing & scanning by mee

Diminutive white marble headstone showing a stylized angel clasping lillies in its hand while looking down at the inscription "Charles Jr. //Maranto // Aug. 12, 1928 // Aug. 8, 1932." Behind the headstone, further monuments are seen out-of-focus, resting among trees & shrubs.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally decided to get crafty & switch the dual-hour-hand off my '23 Bunn Special (that I sadly overwound back on Christmas Day) onto the 1915 16Size Illinois Bunn Jeweled Barrell that I've been carrying more frequently #TodaysTimepiece

Yellow-gold 16Size pocket watch with large arabic numerals on a double-sunk-enamel-face (also bearing "Illinois" in diminuative caps), showing a double-handed-hour-armature (red hand with diamond point arrow an hour earlier than the black/fire-blued-spade arrow) & a large second-hand-dial ar 6-o'clock. Watch is attached to fish-scale-like 5-fronded watch fob.

Interior of watch case opened on reverse, showing the 19-jewel "jeweled barrel" movement & the Jugendstil motif with leaves & shamrocks on the back case.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the Gremlin at-rest, March 2023. Taken on CineStill800T with a 1982 Minolta X-370 [58mm Quantaray multi-coated, f 3,5~4,5]; developed & scanned by meee

At a baffroom medicine cabinet mirror, bearded bloated guy (clad in gray button-up-cardigan) stands with a 35mm SLR film camera raised to his face. on his shoulder, a blonde chi-hua-hua (wearing a small black hoodie) perches, rather pleased with herself for getting a free ride around a few feet higher than usual.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the longest I've let my nails grow in a good 18 yrs--surprising for a nearly-lifelong-nailbiter. Maybe it's because this is one of the few aspects of my existence I can actually control...at any rate, it makes strumming strings a bit less painful

Left hand of bearded bloated guy spread slightly to show the beginnings of luscious nails. He is wearing an early-aughts yellow gold college ring on his ring finger ('cause arthritis & adipose now prevent it from being worn on the right); a late 1920s Jugendstil white gold ring on his middle finger (with an onyx-bordered 4-triangle-inlay of lapis & malachite, arranged in a repeating square pattern); & an early 1930s white gold Jugendstil band on his thumb (marked "Golden Wedding" to denote the repeating pattern of thistle leaves & orange blossoms).

Right hand of bearded bloated guy spread slightly to show the beginnings of luscious nails. He is wearing a yellow gold 1972 highschool ring on the middle finger (with a rectangular onyx inlay onto which the golden head of Jas. Whitcomb Riley has been bolted; the design is flanked by "19" and "72" on either side in gold numerals over a deep midnight blue background); a mid 1920s yellow gold Jugendstil ring on his ring finger (the rectangular inlay of onyx, jasper, malachite, opal, lapis, & serpentine stones arranged in what looks like a Franz Marc painting being housed in a raptor-claw-looking-shank); & a simple black-cord with blue beads as a bracelet.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Where is your boy to-night? I hope he is a gentleman. Maybe he won't find out what I know: You were the last good thing about this part of town.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

St. Paul's spire nestled into One World Trade (the shot I finally knew I'd understood the viewfinder) Thu.10Jan./'19; taken on Kodak Portra400 with a 1938 Kodak Junior Six-20 Series III

Light leaks abound as a neo-gothic spire nestles into the groove of Daniel Liebeskind's One World Trade on a frosty Manhattan morning where I had to move fast, before a security guard tried to come out & make me move away.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The straws are all stowed till next spring, so I've done the seasonal switch with all the pins

15-yr-old 6-panel-slouch-cap in blue & gold plaid, with pins arranged on the wearer's left. There's a crowned pink flamingo in enamel, with its left leg crossed; a 1956 red/white/blue button declaring "I like Ike and DICK;" a malachite-colored-pigeon ringed with scrolls saying "I will shit on everything you love" (a gift from my twin); a large gold-tone-elliptical-shaped-Jugendstil ND monogram (a replica of George Gipp's letter); a black round pin asking that you "pleaee use he/him pronouns" in gold; a post-war-enamel with the town of Innsbruck's Stadtwappen in red & black (the white has yellowed over the years); a rainbow heart; a blue dumptruck-ass with "NICE CHEEKS" overwritten upon it in gold caps (a gift from Uncle Dick's leather days); & a large Keith Haring "coming out day" square, showing a gold figure opening an orange door & emerging into a green room with reddish-brown-floor.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Readying for the walk home (George & Halsted Strs.), Thu.20.Sep./'18. Taken on Kodak Ektar100 with a Kodak Tourist II 620 (Canadian, ca. 1952), Kodet 12,5; original processing thru Central Camera Co., Chicago. #HappyAccident

Street- and vehicle-lights of varying construct (LEDs, incandescent, & c.) twirl over the night-darkened-corner of Halsted & George Strs., on a humid Chicago evening where just looking up the street shows the haze of a sultry evening. Dark orange brick commingles with the night, in a happy accident created by the photographer accidentally opening his shutter when he thought he'd closed it.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cornet & trombone soloists, please consider this 1903 duet [re-released 1906, still making it both #FairUse AND #PublicDomain (fuck you, S*nyMusic; pay ME for my record!)] with Herbert Clarke [cornet & Komponist] & Leo Zimmerman [tromboner] backed with Sousa's Band

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

somewhere damn-near 24 yrs ago this weekend, I took the-Buddy-Dog (my family's pet which they adopted the winter previous, when I was overseas) to my dorm's Chariot Race dressed in a pillow case & 1950s fake plastic grapes. He got to eat more than his weight in pizza-crust, 'cause he was so cute...

In a blue 1990 Plymouth Acclaim sedan, a brown/tan/white Jack Russell terrier smiles on the passenger seat (wearing a white pillowcase festooned with red,pink,&green synthetic grapes that have been pinned to his ersatz toga) as his chauffeur (a tragically closeted college senior wearing a white twin-sheet & his str8-cheerleader-roommate's compression shorts,along with the same '50s fake grapes & Vietnam-era-shades) leans in to get started driving toward campus.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Buddha in the backyard, Fri.25.Sep./'20; taken on Rollei Crossbird200 127 film with a 1926 Vest Pocket Kodak Special [Kodak Anastigmat 78mm 4.5 lens, Diomatic Nr. 0 shutter]; developing & scanning by mee

A large tan & white American Bulldog lays across the lawn on all fours like a sphinx, his red & greenish ID-tags jangling off his large black collar, staring at the photographer as if the say, "what the fuck are you doing?!" Behind him, trees & telephone poles are illuminated in golden sunset.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jake at Canal & Jackson, Thu.17.Oct./'19 [this was after our mutual first shots of Malört, so he's a little out-of-focus]. Taken on FomaPan400 with the 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard [6RF621, uncoated Zeiss/Jena Tessar 3,8]; original processing thru Central Camera Co., Chicago.

Bearded guy with mid-length short hair squints into the sun while waiting to cross the street. The columns of Chicago's Union Station are seen to his right, on a slightly-off-angle mimicked by the architectural elements of the building to his back in this sunny-16 black-&-white-image. One of my favorite street portraits.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Suddenly remembering a hookup soundtrack that turned into a half-dozen tunes adored by one of my first great loves & me ...

Tierney Sutton, Dancing in the Dark [Telarc, 2004]; "inspired by the music of Frank Sinatra." A redheaded woman clad in a white evening gown with plunging neckine cleaves a strawberry-red curtain on the album artwork.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I really need something to look forward to again.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If I get out in their backyard early enpigh, I can greet all my multi-leggèd-friends in my parents' backyard

A large spider clings to the outermost rung of a collapsible clothesline in a burned-up-backyard, as her web from the previous evening dries in the early morning sun.

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Duke Winter @dukewinter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry, but nope. Any argument that suggests that trans women aren't women and trans men aren't men, for whatever purpose, earns an automatic block from me, regardless of how much titty, pussy, or cock you post on main. Transgender bigotry has no room in my life. #NSFWSky #DontBeADick

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My nephew came to see his Grandpa today, & the three of us sat in Dad's room to watch this family classic together

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"...Once, we had some vigilantes; They got too big for their panties..."

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My parents' neighbors started videoing me at 20:45 this evening as I continued to play music for Dad at his birthday party (even though local noise ordinances allow for music on the weekends till Eric-Clapton-territory ("After Midnight")), so I did a fan-dance with a couple 78s as I waved at them...

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Trying to keep the birthday party going for Dad (who had to go lie down); I might stick with just 45s for the remainder of the playlist (even though I have 2 other players at-the-ready for earlier tunes)

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Grown adults of certain ages will immediately feel sharp pains in their shins upon seeing the double-armed-Sunbeam-sprinkler at-rest...but (I can confirm) the sensation is NOTHING compared to seeing one actually move again...

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Over at the old house, June 2021. Taken on KodakVerichromePan (expired March 1959[!]) with the 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard [6RF621; uncoated Zeiss/Jena Tessar 3,8]; developing & scanning by mee

In front of an ancient tall oak seen across the street, an older man stands in the gateway of a chain-link-fence, balancing a tandem bicycle between himself & the fence as he jestures to something in the sky. A tall younger man in a baseball cap holds a canned beverage as he stands underneath a swingset frame, his body pointed toward the older man talking. In front of the two of them, in the lower right corner of the image, a small chi-hua-hua squints thru the sunlight to look in the photographer's direction.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

See if you can hear my hand hitting my nightcap-glass...[yes, I'm re-sk@tting myself]

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Celebrating the Burffday-Boy, Sun.03.Sep./'22. Taken on KodakPortra800 with the 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard [6RF621; uncoated Zeiss/Jena Tessar 3,8]; developing & scanning by mee

A then-70-yr-old-man sits enrobed in pink feathers, sipping a canned beverage while sat in birchwood bench seating aboard the lower level of a 1920s paddlewheel boat (unfortunately named The Dixie) in a northern Indiana freshwater lake. He is flanked by a young lady wearing a flamingo-themed-shorts-onesie, and a large young man whose face appears enwreathed in one of the life rings [emblazoned with "DIXIE // NORTH WEBSTER" in red & blue caps.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I would never encourage anybody to deface US currency or coinage... ...but I have seen some impressive artistic metal-engraving-endeavors undertaken with such untraceable items as sewing- or lightly-played-steel-phonograph-needles... #FolkArt

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Obituarires in the local paper never cease to entertain me (excuse me--she was HOW OLD??!)

Obituary thumbnail from a local newspaper online, showing a photograph of a Lady of a Certain Age seated in a large wicker chair (likely an early 1980s Olan Mills shot) with the following text beside: "Jeanette O'Brien // Age 1000 [that's right--ONE THOUSAND] • South Bend, IN //Jeanette Clara (Jerzakowski) O'Brien, 100 [perhaps the earlier age had an additional zero added accidentally], of Walkerton, formerly of South Bend, passed away Friday, August 28, 2026. Jeanette is survived by her sons, Joseph O'Brien of..." [here the obituary thumbnail ends]

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Took my Dad's 2002 Ford pickup for a spin this afternoon to keep it mobile, & I found THIS accursèd object under the backseat. No idea why--but I'll ask when I get a chance...

Small segmented ceramic doll (likely late 19th or very-early-20th century) clad in a formerly white lace outer dress with an underskirt of cornflower-blue-silk. The doll is fabricated in 6 pieces [head, torso, arms, & legs], & the porcelain legs have red shoes painted upon them. The rouged bisque face has blue painted eyes, & a hole where a wig or bonnet had been formerly anchored. All body pieces were stitched together with twine--which remains surprisingly supple for having not only been in the doll for 120+yrs, but also having baked in the cab of a pickup truck for Christ-knows-how-long. Due to age, acid, & [likely] temperature, the doll's outer dress is a brownish-yellow.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Umm...some of us still do (the rare times we have money enough for fuel)...

Key cluster showing two separately-joined-rings of assorted keys; the rightmost ring still holds a rectangular ["square-"]head key for GM ignitions, and an oval ["round-"]head for doors [in some pre-1980-GM-configurations, there was a third key for trunk and/or glove compartments)

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

7 years ago today was my last haircut. At this point, I'm not even sure why I haven't yet shaved my head.

Bearded [not-so-]bloated guy sits in a chair, wearing a black graphic t-shirt, as he contemplates existence.

Bearded bloated guy wears same t-shirt 2,557 days later--his face more wrinkled & hair showing changes in color over the past 7 yrs.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Dad in his Christmas snuggie, Sat.25.Dec./'21. From first roll taken thru a 1932 Kodak Junior Six-20 [Series I; Nr. 0 Kodon (Kodak Doublet)] on Fuji AcrosII; developing & scanning by mee

Black-&-white-image of a man walking in a large light-colored hooded sweater on an asphalt street. The image is blurred, but you can still make out the smile on the man's face as he looks toward the photographer (whose shadow sprawls across his left foot onto the unseasonably-dry-Christmas-day-pavement). Behind the figure & shadow can be seen a brilliantly cloudless winter sky, registering as nearly white on the film stock.

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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Puppy and flower

Drawing of a puppy and a flower with the caption; "You deserve a life you aren't constantly recovering from"

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Barnaby ("Mister Dog"), San Diego, Thu.06.Dec./'07. Taken on TMax400 with a 1999 Canon Z135; original processing thru Central Camera Co., Aug. 2018.

An ancient basset hound sits in front of a pet bed on a finely-woven oriental rug. his eye creases evince all 16 years of his long life; nevertheless, he played with the photographer as though he were a puppy, prompting his then-current-owner to remark "I haven't seen him this active since [current-owner's-late-other-half] was still around." Our "Mister Dog" lived almost another year before crossing that rainbow bridge. It was a distinct honor to be the last human to get to play with him like a puppy one more time, & I hope he enjoyed that week of grunts & nibbles & grumbles even half as much as I did.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Afternoon orchids, February 2023; Taken on AgfaColor Portrait160XPS (expired 2001) with a 1931 Baby Rolleiflex [uncoated--& badly-scratched--Zeiss/Jena Tessar 2,8]; rolling of 127 film, shooting, developing, & scanning by mee

Several assorted phalanopsis (with an anthurium & a giant peace lily in the background) have their blossoms illuminated by sunlight thru a house window. The yellows/purples/reds of the flowers are muted in their shades, owing to the age of the expired film & haze from scratches on the camera's lens. Also, a short streak of blue interrupts the lower 1/6th of the image plane (a consequence of my having accidentally misaligned the film when taping it down in the dark bag after cutting it from its 100-foot-roll).

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible w/o giving away the title: An orphanage needs to pay property taxes, & a couple of its former residents use unorthodox methods to procure the necessary funds.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Untitled ("NO OUTLET;" the condos off Club), Thu.21.May/'20. Taken on CineStill50D with the 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard [6RF621; uncoated Zeiss/Jena Tessar 3,8]; developing & scanning by mee (this is that roll I made the mistake of blotting w/cotton flannel; I need to re-scan this whole series)

A cloudy blue evening sky is interrupted by a large storm-scarred silver maple twisting next to a yellow caution sign reading "NO OUTLET." Your eye then catches a newly-poured-curb that wids from the base of tree & sign, into the lower right foreground. Tracing the curb backward, two small outdoor houselights burn yellow-orange against the dwellings' brownish brick.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dad with one of his favorite gravestones--south of Sawyer, Mich.--taken on MaxZoom800GT in a Kodak Funsaver by mee, May/June 2000[ish?]; I'd forgotten about this image until I re-discovered the orphaned negative in a box of old bank statements when we cleared out the old house...

Late-40-something-man dressed in a blue golf shirt & blue jeans [his skin reddened by the sun] stands next to a ca. 1885 7,5 ft-tall tree-stump gravestone with the surname "SCHOPBAUGH" carved out of a flowing banner in its center. The western sky behind him has begun purpling with orange highlights creeping thru the forest surrounding the tiny cemetery.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don't forget that Tim Curry also had a pop-music-presence (I still maintain that "I Do the Rock" from this album below is a [not-so-]thinly-veiled-drug-entendre)...I'll be listening to this throughout the day, in between Dolly & video/film clips of both artists' storied careers

That same granny-square-afghan from yesterday--but today it's showcasing a blue & brick album [somewhat appropriately] edged in black--showing the artist with a mop of curly hair: it's Tim Curry--Fearless [A&M, 1979].

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anyone who AIs Dolly Parton for any reason is going to hell

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There's one tune I can't out of my mind (& I forgot I remembered the words better than the chords), & Dolly did "Travelin' Thru" far better thsn I ever could, but I thought I'd put forth my favorite verse & chorus (please be kind; I haven't sung & played in ages, & I kinda suck)

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton embodied the fact that people just can do good things, if they want to ...

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guess this means I gotta change my shirt--also, unbelievably, THIS is the only Dolly album I've ever purchased (I may have a Porter Waggoner collection simewhere on vinyl, but I'll have to check)

Sprawled out on a granny-square-afghan, a partially-folded-t-shirt showing a black-&-white-image of Dolly Parton, ca. 1982 sits over a CD copy of her collaboration album "Those Were the Days" [Sugar Hill, 2005].

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dad watering Burke Nr. 3, Sat.20.Jun.2020. Taken on CineStill50D with the 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard [6RF621, uncoated Zeiss/Jena Tessar 3,8]; developing & scanning by mee

Tall green pines frame a mildly cloudy blue sky, as a man dressed in a yellow golf shirt & gray-green-shorts drapes a towel around an ancient bronze sprinkler, in an effort to keep his brown leather workboots from becoming too waterlogged (the sprinkler's connection, some 90-yrs-old, is almost fully worn-out). In front of him, the brown of a sand trap snakes in front of the image, while behind can be seen a 1940s building that was set-up to be temporary--which the University has since poured over $10Million to keep from sliding into the lake. The grass--cut & watered by the same pictured guy--remains green.

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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We're on this rock for such a short amount of time--& still we spend so much of it worrying about how long we have left that we forget to enjoy how wondrous just existing here can be. Go out today, wherever you are, & listen for birds. Watch the sky unfold its clouds. Breathe. Try to enjoy the day.

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