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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving to all today! I am grateful for the BlueSky community and all of you. Thank you for your kindness and social media friendship. Many times, you make my day!

A tray of fruit including apple, mango, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, oranges, pomegranate arils, walnuts, pistachios, port salut and Gouda cheeses, and lime.

Tray of red onion, tricolor carrots, asparagus, broccoli, Romanesco, squash avocado, pomegranate arils, almonds, lines, sweet potato hummus, cheeses, etc.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Just finished reading this book recommended by my daughter. I believe it should be read by every adult in the world, but not at bedtime. Perfect for Hallowe'en as it's terrifying. More info in alt text. #books #booksky #reading #bookcommunity #Facebook

Photo of book cover of Careless People written by Sarah Wynn-Williams. This is a rather fast-paced memoir written by a New Zealand gal mostly about her work at Facebook. It confirmed many of my own thoughts about social media, privacy, politics, etc.

It is worth reading no matter what your opinions or beliefs, and it covers so much. Please let me know if you do read it and what you thought of it. I'm very fond of open, honest non-hateful discussion of such things.

NB: This is excellent as an audiobook as it is narrated by the author who shares the feelings of what she wrote in her own voice.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

A photo of Strawberry Field (not fields). This is near the childhood home of John Lennon. Ideas are all around us. #photography #writing #author #art #books

Large, red, wrought iron gate to Strawberry Field in Woolton, Liverpool, England. Green trees and ground cover behind gate. Old stone wall on either side with green growth on the stones. Not far from the childhood home of John Lennon. Owned and run by the Salvation Army.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Finally finished my alphabet painting for my granddaughter for the holidays. Followed tutorials by @Dewintonpaperco.com on YouTube. It was challenging, being miniature and following someone else's work, but I loved it! #art #watercolor #watercolour #bloomscrolling #flowers

A photo of a watercolor collection from A to Z of miniature flowers. Designed by Harriet DeWinton of @dewintonpaperco.com. A fun project that I painted from her tutorials. A holiday gift for my granddaughter.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Hi, Tara! I just love your work! Your Michigan cards are wonderful! I tried to make something along those lines to send to folks far away, but I struggled a bit. Too much salt, #1. But your colors are so beautiful. How did make them so rich and blended? Sending one of mine to show you what happened.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Having some fun looking at photos from our honeymoon in 2000. This is Point Barrow, Alaska. Whale bones in dumpsters. The bones are left far from the town so the polar bears stay away. Reminds me of the Flintstones. #photography #EastCoastKin #landscapes #scapes #art

A herd of dumpsters with whale bones sticking out. Another whale bone in the foreground. Point Barrow, Alaska in summer 2000. The bones are hauled away from town to keep the polar bears from coming into town.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Made a funny little watercolor card for my elderly mom. Although her life has become smaller, I chose three things she loves - the Southwest, out to eat, and games - both playing and watching. Thanks to Becca Courtice, @thehappyevercrafter, for the idea! Details in ALT. #watercolor #art #watercolour

The word "Mom" with pictures in each letter. The pictures follow a theme of something my mom loves - the Southwest for the first M, food and going out to eat in the O, and activities she enjoys doing or watching in the third. Card size, about 5X7", so teeny pictures. Done in watercolor with a Pigma micron pen. Inside it will say, "I love who you are!"

Much thanks to Becca Courtice, my online calligraphy teacher, for the idea. She can be found at TheHappyEverCrafter.com. I highly recommend her!

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My two new WIPs - one for me, one for my 3-year-old granddaughter for the holidays. Miniature flowers A-Z taught by @DeWintonPaperCo.com on YouTube. I'm learning a ton! (Type of flowers in alt text). So fun to do! #watercolor #art #painting #watercolour #flowers

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Mug/tea cup - I took pictures of it for you.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Last night was date night. After a fine meal with some homegrown food, my husband told me he'd tell my fortune. Intrigued, I said okay. Bless his sweet heart! With a necklace on his head, a scarf as his turban, and his robe (repurposed), we laughed hard and long! Best date ever!

A silly husband dressed up as the Great Robonzo on date night to tell his wife her fortune on date night. With a turtle necklace on his head and a scarf wrapped as a turban, even his robe, repurposed as the robe of a great gypsy fortune-teller, helped to create the personage. The candles and the cards completed the "ambiance". He actually looked up tarot cards online to help his authenticity!

Laughed so hard, and we're laughing still! Men could learn from him. Be vulnerable, play the fool to play!! Couldn't love him more! (Until tomorrow, of course!)

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I agree! This was mine...well-loved and read to my children BEFORE all of the movies. :-) Also 1966. My mom gave it to me when I was a little girl. Nothing can come close to a fertile imagination!

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Watercolor portrait of my stepdad from a 1980s trip to Russia. Mom loved the snapshot, so I did my best for her. He was a wonderful man! #watercolor #art #Russia #painting

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Working on writing my mom's life history with her - not to publish, except for her. It's an interesting project to get her to enjoy her memories and, hopefully, create more. Born during the depression, she didn't know her family was poor. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #wip #writerslife

Photo of a very young girl in a jumper that doesn't fit and hair that is disheveled.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Fascinating! Yes, We have enjoyed seeing many pieces of art in many museums, though impossible to see everything in any museum. We love finding new pieces which we hope to go back to see...someday, and yes, many that we'll see only in photos. Here's one we loved from the National Gallery in London.

Francois Langlois by Anthony Van Dyck, National Gallery in London. A relaxed soul and his dog, friend of the artist, playing a musical instrument.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I made up my own quote. Learning calligraphy, but I'm obviously not there yet.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Just around a bend on our morning walk, my husband and I came upon a mama deer nursing her young. Alas, no camera. So in honor of her, here is a picture of a mama in Yellowstone NP, 2015. Happy simple joys to all! #photography #wildlife #EastCoastKin #Yellowstone

A mother deer nursing her young while standing in a field of flowers. Photo taken in Yellowstone National Park, 2015.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Happy Friday and (e)Scape day to you all! This is the beautiful Agnew Lake in the Eastern Sierras of California in 2000. #photography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyPhotography #Scapes #Landscapes #BlueSkyArtShow

Peering down at California's Agnew Lake in the distance. Gnarled trees on either side of the view between the two mountains. Taken in the Eastern Sierra Mountains off the June Lake Loop.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

When I feel overwhelmed by our current times, I look back and wonder if days gone by were really "the good ole days". One type of window to look through. Here's another - Hotel Meade in Bannack, Montana. #photography #WindowsonWednesday #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyPhotography #art

Photograph taken through an old window in Bannack, Montana, ghost town. Through the window panes, the Hotel Meade can be seen, a large, two-story building made of bricks built in the late 1800s. The hotel has tall windows and has a porch and balcony in the front. There is a tall tree to the left of the hotel. In the foreground is an old fence with some bushes. Meade Hotel is across the dirt street.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In remembrance of those who gave their lives the last time a dictator tried to rule the world. You will never be forgotten. #WWII

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Just finished "James" by Percival Everett. Good book! A fascinating book - reimagined from Twain's "Huck Finn". The adventures are told from the escaped slave, Jim's, point of view. Made me think and feel. Worth the read. 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. I recommend it!

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Oops! Forgot to put in the leader, Earle Dexter, and his bride, Esther. Also on that trip in 1915. #Yosemite #NationalParks #BoyScouts

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The family's understanding is that grandfather, Earle Dexter, led the first Boy Scout group into Yosemite in 1915. #NationalParks #Yosemite #WaterfallWednesday #ProtectOurParks #Photography #BlueSky #Camping #Landscape #Wilderness #BoyScouts

1915 Photo of Boy Scouts in Yosemite National Park in front of a waterfall

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Just sharing that breathless moment when the water begins its journey over the edge of Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. Happy #WaterfallWednesday! #photography #EastCoastKin #art #nature #BlueSkyPhotography #landscapes

Top of Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. Lovely green and white water beginning the journey over the edge of the huge and beautiful Niagara Falls.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A lovely day for Sawrey, England near Beatrix Potter's home. Happy Spring to all! #BlueSkyArtShow #green #photography #art #landscapes

Lovely green hills with stone walls on a hill. Trees and sheep everywhere! Town of Sawrey, England near Beatrix Potter's home.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

About 1977, folks began wearing labels on the outside to show status - Calvin Klein on jeans, etc. This quilted label vest was my quiet protest. Details in Alt text. #art #bskyart #quilts #quilting

Hand made quilted vest made from clothing labels including a tie from Haight-Ashbury in the 1960's, a Calvin Klein label, a German dirndl label, Levis, Vogue, Macy's etc. This was a protest against people trying to show their status by wearing labels on the outside of clothes as so many do now with Louis Vuitton purses, Air Jordan shoes, etc. Meant to divide the "haves" from the "have nots", I protested in a quiet way that we are more alike than different. Vest made while attending the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. (Tie label is upper left in red - has flies around the head.)

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Wonderful! I've only been to this one.

Building in Dunbar, Scotland. Birthplace of John Muir.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Keep following the road north. It's almost touching the Canadian border...and well worth the time on the dirt road.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I love it! How fun to see it again! Here's a different view.

Brig o doon, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thank you for bringing back so many memories! We were there in the rain. Heilig-Geist-Spital (Hospice of the Holy Spirit) Pegnitz River

Beautiful hospice building overlooking the river in Nurnberg

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A huge dream of mine came true as I watched earth being born in Hawaii with my family. Camera couldn't keep up with the lava in the darkness, but the movement made lava and family abstract. Happy Earth Day! #Earthday #photography #travel #nature #bskyart #peace

Abstract images of four people watching lava flowing to the sea in Hawaii

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Flowers celebrating Earth Day at Anne Hathaway's garden, Stratford Upon Avon. #earthday #photography Happy Earth Day, everyone!

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The world has lost a selfless light. RIP Pope Francis. You will be missed. #pope #popefrancis #tribute #rip #love #rippope

Many candles lit at Strasbourg Cathedral, Alsace, France, 2014.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Love to make holiday gift tags for those special folks...and practice watercolor at the same time. This one went with a gift for a D&D fan. Any other watercolorists making tags out there? #watercolor #watercolorpainting #art #painting #originalart #watercolorexercises

Old stone building with wooden door, slate roof and Red Dragon Inn sign

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Enjoying some flower time in Niagara Falls on the Canadian side! Love those tulips! #photography #flowers #Bloomscrolling #TulipTuesday

Celebrating Tulip Tuesday at Niagara Falls, Canadian side - two people in front of beautiful red tulips

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

What lovely memories you have brought back to me! Thank you!

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A photo of Lu the hippo at Homosassa Wildlife State Park in Florida. In 1991, the governor of Florida granted him special citizenship so he could stay in the park even though he's not native to Florida. Happy 65th Birthday, Lu! (1/26/60) #photography #UnJourUnePhoto #wildlife #photobruary #art

Photo of Lu, the hippopotamus in the water at Homosassa State Park. Just the top of him is showing as he's relaxing in the water.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My 95-year-old mom lost her cat, Mimi, last week. This is a pastel of her I painted years ago. If you would, please close your eyes and think a warm thought for them. Hard to lose your best friend. Thank you all! #pastel #painting #cats #bkyart #artshow #peace #catsofbluesky #catpainting #siamese

Siamese cat resting on a stack of quilts with a blanket behind.

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Kelly Speer @kellyspeer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Thank you, @micheleclamp.com for helping me learn to loosen up my watercolors! (check out her YouTube channel) I appreciate you! #art #painting #watercolor #watercolour #bskyart #artbyKellySpeer #elephants #wildlife #loosewatercolor #watercolorexercises

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