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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

What's it like to live in Astoria Oregon in February? Well. . . Top: Tuesday Bottom: Thursday #photography #phoneography #weather #oregoncoast

2 photos, one above the other, of Astoria Oregon taken from almost the same spot. The upper photo shows snowy roofs and gray skies; the lower had brilliant blue skies and water.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

You know the problem with weight watchers is there’s nowhere in it to track 2 glasses of gin and a full scouring of all the leftovers in the fridge because Jesus, the country’s heading into civil war and what, really, is the fucking point anymore?

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

This nightmare year is indeed ending; I watched the sun sink into the ocean from the far western edge of the continent myself just an hour ago. Happy new year and may it be better than the last, oh please oh gods. #photography #phoneography #sunset #newyearseve

A horizontal color photo of the sunset over the pacific ocean. In the foreground is the reflection of the sunset in an undulating car hood, which at first glance looks like a pool of water. There is a dark beach in the middle with a few scattered people near the waterline.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

The best alarm clock is the sound of a trash truck rumbling into the neighborhood early when you forgot to take the trash out Thursday night. Some early Friday morning phoneography, not pictured, the almost full moon. And the trash made it out in time. When I got […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A color photo looking down a neighborhood street. There are electric poles and wires stretching through the sky. In the distance is water and misty hills. There is a very red Japanese maple tree in the lower right.

A color photo of a deer standing in a very green grassy yard. Behind the deer is an apartment complex and behind that is an expanse of water.

A color photo of a rainbow over a wide river. There are houses in the foreground and ships in the river.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Saw a coyote at Fort Stevens about an hour ago. I was walking Harvey at the historic area; the coyote was in the field near the Coast Guard whatever that is on the way to the Hammond marina. It was not too close - maybe 100 yards? Quite far - but then it ran towards us into the woods that *were* […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

The winter rains have come in with a bang and so at intervals all night Harvey the dog has woken me up by trying to get *under* my pillow, where apparently it’s safe. He weighs 65 pounds or so. . It’s been a long night.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

Took 4 to see a really nice kids ballet / theater group do Cinderella. When we got back she naturally wanted to do ballet in the kitchen so helpful gran did the first 3 positions and a couple pliés for the first time in, oh, more than 40 years. . .and that’s how I discovered that I am 2 pliés […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

I am having a really hard time with the destruction of the White House. Its weird, as atrocity piles upon outrage, which thing gets you deep in the feels. I would not have said I was deeply attached to the White House. I went on the tour once, on my 8th grade class trip to DC. I've walked by it […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Well TIL that flapjack is not actually just a British word for pancakes, as I have thought my entire life. I guess that’s what happens when you leave a child alone with way too many Edwardian children’s books . 🤣

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

Ran into some old friends and bless them, they hear about my caregiving nightmares and are like, you can come to my house! Just to get away! Spend the night! And they mean well but honestly that is not helpful at all. I want to be in MY house with my stuff and my life, just not constantly […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Have I mentioned how much I love the dreamlike juxtapositions the half-frame camera creates? Diptychs forever! This one gives such a string sense of place - 2 images to say, this is what it's like here. There's no way to know which two images are going to end up […] [Original post on mefi.social]

Two images forming a diptych with a border between them. On the left is an expanse of river under cloudy skies. On the right is a bull elk on the side of the road. This was taken with a vintage Russian film camera and the images are a little out of focus and hazy.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow. This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

We got our Halloween up! I think its looking pretty good. #Halloween #halloweendecor

A color photo of a small blue house decorated for halloween with a plast I c skeleton, a small inflatable grim reaper, an even smaller inflatable pumpkinhead, a large plastic dog in an inexplicable vampire cape and some other bits and bobs like bats.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

At the Rep. Suzanne Bonamici town hall in Seaside OR. Going to live toot it to keep the social anxiety at bay. Not a packed house. I'm old and one of the younger people here.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

I've been sitting on this photo for a couple weeks until it was just close enough to Halloween to bring it out. Mr. Binks, can't help it, he's just creepy by nature.#caturday #halloweenvibes #phoneography #blackcat #orbweaver #spider

A color photo of a black cat sitting on top of an fence with one paw up. In front of the fence is a larg orb weaver spider in a web.

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs. Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #Autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings . Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

Annals of caregiving in rural america: after spending most of the day in the local ER with brother, am now in the big city ER with brother. Actually daughter who has some medical background is in with brother as the dental surgeons try to stop the inexplicable bleeding. Wimp me is in the jammed […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Extremely rough night in the caregiving sector - are you familiar with the smell of blood in large quantities? No? Stay that way. - and consequently 3 - 4 hours of sleep. I was supposed to get a broken molar pulled today but got there only to find i had to have nitrous or they would not do it […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Recycling some sketchbooks from the 80s & 90s. L - R, the fantasy illustration stuff of my teens; a world weary early 20 something self portrait; a forgotten 90s Christmas card i might reuse this year - it's truly awful, yet heartfelt, so why not?

A pastel drawing with a loosely rendered blue princess leaving a line of loosely rendered trees. The sky is pink.

A rough charcoal drawing of a young woman's face.

A completely over the top oil pastel drawing of a Christmas card design, featuring an odd Santa in the upper right, a polar bear with antlers and some green pyramids. The artist confesses these were her new age get messed up and draw years.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

Cooking marathon concludes with 2 sets of savory breakfast muffins, on the right are corn, soyrizo, hatch Chiles, cotija and cheddar, on the left are veggie breakfast sausage, apple, spinach, zucchini and cheddar. Breakfast potluck at work tomorrow, here i come! […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A color photo of two big pans of muffins.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

My brother says Mr. Binks the cat is an outlaw - he is not naturally partial to cats and also, he is not wrong. So now I greet Binks by asking him how his life of crime is going and congratulate him on all the successful criming. Then he does more crimes - he just pulled a whole bunch of stuff […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

I am just going to point out that I took both of my silent sunday photos this morning. 😀

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

The move that wasn't continues on, slow motion train wreck of unpacking and convincing myself to declutter. I don't need a small green stone alligator with a broken claw and my 80s college edition of Strunk & White will not be useful for my granddaughter even if colleges still exist in 14 years.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

THREE small otters playing in a pond by the river tonight and the phone camera does not cut it at all. This is i think the 5th time I have seen river otters in the 7 years i've lived here and only twice have I had a decent camera, dagnabbit. They were very small […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A very blurry photo of two small river otters looking at the camera. They are mostly submerged with only their heads out of the water. The water is very green and there are trees and stumps and fallen branches and plants all around.

A very blurry photo of a small river otters swimming in a pond. They are mostly submerged with only their head out of the water. The water is very green and there are trees and stumps and fallen branches and plants all around.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

#silentsunday (OK there are sea lions in this photo and they are never silent)

A color photograph of the Astoria mooring basin. In the foreground are four white pelicans in the water. Behind them are sea lions on decaying docks along a metal seawall that has become striped with age; red on top with rust and green at the bottom with algae. Behind the seawall is a giant commercial vessel. It is a foggy day and the sky is white; things are indistinct.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

I have a little song I sing this time of year, it goes Ten Thousand Photographs of Pelicans 😀 and yes, here are two of those photographs and one that MIGHT be a stealth whale! I can't tell! I said, Computer, Enhance! and go figure, it didn't help. So I will let […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A color photograph of a brown pelican flying over the Columbia river near Astoria, Oregon. In the background is Fort Columbia, now a state park. The river water is very blue and the hills on the other side are dusty green.

A color photograph of a brown pelican flying over the Pacific ocean. It was a foggy morning but the tone of the photo is very blue. A breaking wave is in the foreground.

A color photo which might depict a whale in the Pacific ocean. It has been cropped to show the small detail of what looks like it might be a whale's tale and a breaching whale's head. There are whales in this area. Or it could be two diving pelicans. It is very hard to tell.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

Coming home from Portland yesterday, a shot through the car window as we started to get closer to home. A long day, horrible medical test, some good medical news - no surgery in my near future, huzzah! - and an exhausting trip to IKEA and Trader Joes. We don't […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A color photo of a watery landscape with a spindly pine that looks almost like a palm tree in the left. Shot from a moving car so a little blurry in the foreground. The sky is blue but covered with clouds and deepening to evening; the middle ground is a wide wide river and islands and in the distance, hills.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

A late caturday, let me present an action sequence with Mr. Binks who can get up on that fence after all but may not bother again soon. Those fence boxes aren't anchored, and that fence is 6.5 feet high! 😆 Not pictured, the cucumbers that are growing in the next […] [Original post on mefi.social]

A color photo of a black cat on top of an old wooden fence.

A color photo of a black cat balancing uneasily in a planter box on top of an old wooden fence.

A color photo of a black cat descending from the old wooden fence by going down a foot or so onto the old wooden gate.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

New to me phone and holy shit, the camera on the S23 is light years better than the S20. This is a 10x zoom. It's arguably better than my admittedly terrible Tamron 18 - 400. Also, #fog ! #sealions ! #phoneography #photography #oregoncoast

A color photograph of, from the bottom, choppy bluish gray water, a dock with many sea lions on it, an iron wall (it surrounds this boat basin) more bluish gray water and finally indistinct foggy hills rising to the sky. There is a sailboat but it's very difficult to make out as it is obscured by a chain link cage of some sort on the dock. That was probably supposed to deter the sea lions but it's full of them.

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

Unlikely that this will affect anyone here, but this morning in the midst of strapping Four into her car seat, shooing the cat out of the car (he loves the car) & running back inside for sunscreen, water bottles & socks, I left my phone on top of the car with predictable results about 2 blocks […]

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flisswave @flisswave.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

Y'all. I painted my floor. Before, during and after. And I left the linoleum of doom in the closet as a testament / portal for the time bandits to get through. #homerenovation #artsandcrafts #paint

1) A room with a vintage linoleum floor with a terrible wood grain op art vaguely psychedelic pattern. This is what was uncovered when the moldy carpet came up.

2. The same room with the floor painted white with primer. A black cat is sitting on the floor and looking at himself ina mirror. The original linoleum can be seen on the closet floor.

3) the same room with the floor now painted in wide wavy stripes in two shades of sea green.

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