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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Friday's sky. Sunset clouds after a refreshing storm.

Dark gray clouds tinged with increasing sunset color from top to bottom. Treetop along the left side and another at bottom left. Power pole at lower right with multiple power lines crossing each other in the bottom half of the photo.

Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RIP, Annie Dillard. I reviewed her book For the Time Being in 2006. She wrote so beautifully. maryhrovat.com/review-for-t...

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Book review: For the Time Being – Mary Hrovat

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wednesday's sky. I'm guessing that clouds near the horizon were casting a shadow across the sunset colors.

Sunset sky with clouds in shades of dark gray and vivid salmon pink. A wide swath of darkness cuts across the pink on the left side of the photo. Hazy twilight sky near the horizon, with treetops along the bottom of the photo and part of a tall tree on the right.

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Moon and clouds, from a few weeks ago.

Waxing crescent moon visible through thin clouds, which are part of a beautiful cloudscape in a blue daylight sky.

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Epitaph," by Wendell Berry. Set to music by Malcolm Dalglish and sung by the a cappella group Monkey Puzzle. From Dalglish: "A funeral song that sets [WB]'s poem for his father to the Scottish/Irish bagpipe lament, Lochaber No More." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qu0...

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YouTube video by Monkey Puzzle Tree - Topic

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Storm clouds getting biblical For @maryhrovat.bsky.social

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Saturday's sky. "_Once_ for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing." —Rilke, Duino Elegies, 9th Elegy; translated by Stephen Mitchell

A mackerel sky of small fluffy clouds fills most of the photo, with a fringe of gauzy clouds on the left. Some blue sky. Solid white clouds and part of a treetop at lower left.

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wednesday's sky. Wild clouds shortly before a thunderstorm rolled in.

Dark clouds and bright clouds against a gray background of more clouds.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ― Robert Lynd

silhouette of two birds on branches of a bare tree

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I wrote about a beloved set of astronomy books for 3 Quarks Daily. "You may begin reading about a quasar in the constellation Virgo and be whisked into a brief meditation on the incompleteness of human understanding of nature." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Burnham's Celestial Handbook: A Retrospective Review - 3 Quarks Daily

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Burnham's Celestial Handbook: A Retrospective Review - 3 Quarks Daily

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"What if you felt the invisible tug between you and everything?" Ellen Bass, from "The World Has Need of You"

Deep blue sky with subdued pink sunset color and dark clouds near the horizon. A tall tree on the right, other treetops along the bottom of the photo.

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This short video from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't is about a new species of plant that my daughter described and named earlier this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0hB...