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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The CDC has issued a clinical update on rabies prophylaxis, including a link to a rabies prevalence in animals checker, which I noodled around with. I applaud the wording for large, unspecified rodents kellycharniga.shinyapps.io/RabiesRiskTo...

Chart of rabies in animals in Ny, including the risk from “Rodents of Unusual Size”

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sperlak Nature Center and art gallery, New Jersey.

A signpost on a woodland trail has three arrows pointing to trails marked “death awaits”, “likely death” and “certain death”

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Sandpipers at Corson’s Inlet Park, running in and out of the surf

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Cox Hall wildlife management area, living up to its name.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Walking the dog through Cape May County Park North. Just an incredibly beautiful park on a clear day

Looking across a lake. Blue sky reflected in blue water. Green foliage, white clouds, and a near perfect reflection that would look almost the same upside down.

Bright red leaves of a Japanese Maple against a royal blue sky with a dead tree in the background

Water lilies, looking ready for Monet to paint them.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sperlak nature center and Sculpture Garden, Goshen, NJ. A lovely place, with many meandering paths through forest and along marshland, scattered with art (and dog-friendly)

Rebar, painted red and planted to resemble a grove of bamboo

A suit of black armor standing in front of a sculpture with vertical wooden beams bound together with rusted steel bands

A large blue cement sphere, painted blue and covered with crochet doilies painted in many colors. A tribute to the work of women

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In the past couple of days my allergies went from unrelenting to gone. I am not, apparently, allergic to whatever is in bloom right now. So I went out and photographed wildflowers.

A bright yellow flower with thin petals radiating from a core, like a kids sun picture.

A flower with a yellow core and many pink petals forming a fringe like a lion’s mane around it.

Tiny blue flowers on thin stems, so that the flowers seem to float in air and shiver with every breeze.

A mass of tall pink flowers rising from the forest floor

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Slide 38, first paragraph, all adults including elderly. second paragraph, just the 18-64 year olds. second paragraph, second line. Over the entire 7-299 day period the number of er visits in 18-64 year olds was reduced by 20%. Also who is coercing vaccinations?

slide 38, second paragraph, second line shows that in 18-64 year olds over the entire period monitored (7-299 days) the vaccine reduced ER visits by 20%.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The second section is adults age 18-64, which does not include the elderly. The study on slide 41 did not ask about immunocompetence, and probably included some in both vaccinated and unvaccinated groupd, neither page 38 or 41 excluded people with pre-existing conditions.

chart showing vaccine efficacy for 18-64 year old emergency department visits.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

That prompted me to look up religion in Indonesia

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I put on my thick fuzzy House socks. My husband made bacon and eggs for breakfast. One of us is going to need to walk the dog. eventually.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

List of countries sending asylum seekers to the US

Chart: Venezuela 20%, Cuba 17%, Columbia and Nicaragua 8%, Haiti 7%, Guatemala 4%, Honduras, India, China and Afghanistan all at 3%

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The little suited guy doing knee bends, heel lifts and leg raises is perfect.❤️

A black and white drawing of a very stiff guy in a suit and tie, raising his leg out to the side.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Fall in New York. Goldenrod, Poke berries and a field of yellowing kidney beans. One glorious sunny day after another. We’re in the midst of a New York drought, which means that its only rained a few times in the last month. I expect it’ll be a great year for finger lakes wine.

Sprays of bright yellow goldenrod flowers

This looks like a field of yellow flowers, but its actually the leaves of kidney beans turning yellow in the cool fall nights

Clusters of dark purple poke berries peek out between bright yellow goldenrod flowers

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I can always let the birds and the deer eat more of them.

Two mason jars on a wooden counter, one full, and one 2/3rd full of deep purple, almost black, liquid.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

NoKings Pittsford NY. Horns honking, flags waving.

Colorful crowd out on a beautiful day for NoParade

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The Erie canal in Bushnell’s Basin is lined with black locust trees in full flower. Trees 60-100’ high, bedecked and fragrant, the canal and towpath strewn with white petals

The canal, full of muddy brown water, and on the opposite bank tall trees that look to have each green leaf outlined by white flowers.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Dogs shouldn’t eat chocolate because if they do scarf down that slice of chocolate cake you left on the counter they’re going to dig up half your garden. Speaking from experience.

A tan hound proudly stands beside a deep hole in the ground

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I am not biking between a mother goose and her goslings, but I wish they’d make up their mind which way they’re going

A Canada Goose standing square in the middle of the towpath with goslings to both sides

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Payton has gotten away from me before. She’s also slammed me against a tree chasing deer and dragged my husband on his back through a patch of poison ivy. But look at those sweet brown eyes. When not after game she’s a sweetheart.

A beautiful tan hound with soft floppy ears, large melting brown eyes and a boopable nose. She’s in a full length gray harness because she can slip out of a shorter harness or her collar.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Brisk walk through snow covered woods this morning, towed behind a hound on the scent.

Wide snow covered path heading downwards through bare trees with a white sky nearly the color of the snow

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Trail tunnel through railroad embankment, near Hundred Acre Park

A narrow opening with tracks above allows a trail to pass under a railroad embankment

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Allens creek thundering through the railroad tunnel

A waterfall drops allens creek into a gorge after moving through a huge tunnel under a rail line

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Someone has been decorating random trees in Corbetts woods, and its delightful.

Winter snow covered woods, with a silver red glittery ornament hanging from a bare branch

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

White brook decanting into the Erie Canal on a winter morning and the snow-covered plank bridge crossing the outflow.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Canal drained for the winter between yesterday and today. Just a miles long ice rink waiting for a freeze now.

Yesterday, a canal full of water and migrating Canadian geese

Today, 12 foot high cement banks, holding a foot of water with leafless trees in the background.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Saw a beautifully carved bench on someone’s front lawn.

A wooden bench, sitting amid vibrant fallen leaves, carved in low relief with a moose head and waving grain.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

The polls have closed in NYS after an uneventful and unexpectedly gorgeous election day. The red bag has been delivered to the BOE, and I am winding down with 🧀 and 🍷

High red clouds in a pale blue/green sky above a darkened treescape at sunset

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Spotted along the eerie canal trail today

An oval stone, painted turquoise, with the words “Vote and smile”

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Forgot that! Here’s a starter pack.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Exploring the world yesterday via Ingress, and found Hart’s Woods, a nearby trail I didn’t know about, and a seriously over-the-top Halloween house.

A woodland trail with tall trees gloriously yellow and a carpet if bright leaves on the ground.

Skeletons! Riding bicycles! A sea monster! Ghosts, ghouls, lights, sharks! A house with the entire front yard decorated for Halloween.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Tinker Nature park. Full of Canada Geese on their way south.

A beautiful, perfectly still lake reflecting the fall foliage with around 20 Canada Geese

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Happiness is a warm pup, sitting on your lap in 45 degree weather by the lake shore as you wait for the aurora to show. My phone doesn’t have night mode, so this is pretty much what was visible to the naked eye.

Band of fuzzy neon green light above the horizon

Streaks of red and green light, coming down from mid-sky to Lake Ontario.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

intrigued, I found a copy on gutenburg.org. After learning that they are bankrupt, four (previously rich) orphan girls face the prospect of earning their daily bread.

Getting up at noon and then dwaddling away the hours until midnight is all very well for those who like it, but not for mine!

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Perinton off leash dog park. Asters, ripe bunches of wild grape on yellowing vines. Suck out the sweetness and spit the seeds. Mia played frisbee till she stepped on something. Limped back to the car and forgot her foot was sore after a dip in the stream.

The dog park, a vast meadow shorn of hay, with a small black and white dog in the middle distance

New England asters. 4 foot tall bouquets of purple flowers with orange centers. Not the two foot pruned bunches found in garden centers

Bunches of sweetly acidic wild grapes dangling from rusted vines

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Decided to walk a section of the Auburn rail-trail I hadn’t been on before. Turned out to be on a narrow ridge crossing a river valley. Must have been quite the feat to build! Returned with wet feet and a very wet dog, thanks to an overly optimistic weather forecast. Still worth it.

Gravel trail heading off into distance with trees and bushes bracketing it.

View across valley to hill on other side of

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I was curious enough about this to check some of the data at the Federal Reserve of St Louis. Apparently the sales prices of homes is going up steadily over time, and the average mortgage payment as a fraction of disposable income is still fairly low.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Stupendously beautiful day along the Erie canal

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

A #tinyjoys #nativeplants crossover. Two years ago I planted elderberries, and this morning I made biscuits with a smidgen of elderberry jam

A tumbrel of black berries peeking out from leafy foliage.

A quarter cup of dark purple elderberry jam.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

I may have fallen asleep for some of the kissy bits in the middle, but I was awake for the escape, and it made an impression.

poster for The Sound of Music, with Julie Andrews.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Trying to remember how long it’s been since we redid the kitchen. Doing it by remembering how old/which grade the kids were in at the time. Daughter probs a jr or senior in HS, 10ish years! Just got an estimate for refinishing floor. Barker cabinets still lovely, great workmanship.

kitchen shot with terrible floor and beautiful cabinets. Corner cabinet with deep lazy-suzan. Faked-out microwave / toaster oven hutch created by putting full length panels on either side of equal-depth base and upper cabinets. open shelves with mug hooks.

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Lewiston Auburn balloon festival, Maine

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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

The home-baked bread phase had its moments. A brief reminder of how good sandwich bread could be, before I succumbed to the ease of storebought again.

A loaf of homemade sandwich bread, supplemented with Bob’s red mill 7 Grain hot cereal, which unaccountably did not sell out immediately in March of 2020.

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