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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In foreground,  we're behind a red merle dog looking away down a gravel trail.  Down the trail, a small mule deer stands side-on, facing back at us.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's warm these days.
Happy brown-dappled white dog sprawled on a sun-dappled leaf-littered trailside in front of tree trunks.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
From a couple of weeks ago. (Only had my phone with me.)
A view looking east over San Jose towards Mt. Hamilton.  A large mountain-shaped cloud formation with crisp edges hangs above the entire ridge, surrounded by deep blue sky.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Sunol regional wilderness. A January day in California. #photos
Looking down a path that follows a creek through the grassy hillside.  A bare winter oak stands in middle distance.  You can see the back of a wee doggy's head at the bottom, as she studies the scene.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Looking west from Sunol Regional Park this morning, across the Tule fog that fills the valleys. The far horizon is south Skyline from Loma Prieta to El Sombroso. #photos
Landscape looking across a foreground hillside of California grassland into a system of valleys that are filled with white fluffy cloud.  In the distance the horizon is a modest mountain ridge, with the distinctive box of Mt. Umunhum barely discernable in the middle.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Broody sort of day today. View from Heintz open space, looking toward Mt. Hamilton.
View from Los Gatos hillside across San Jose to the silhouette of Mt. Hamilton.  Sky is overcast with many textures and layers.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
from the neighborhood
a big chaotic bush in a front yard has been given enormous yellow googly eyes and a broad grinning stripe of white teeth for halloween

it looks a bit like the giant head of Animal the muppet drummer
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Who gets the horse when he's done with it?
Your secretary of health and human services.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The Bake Off credits shot of a very very male squirrel.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Three lacy pyramidal structures of increasing size sit on a ground plane that shows a 2d sierpinski fractal in perspective.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Looking east over the interior of Henry Coe park. The oaks are still bare but everything else is blooming. #photos
Looking across some rolling hills covered in new grass and gnarled spindly bare oak trees. Glimpses of blue water peek color decorate a valley.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Skyline to the Sea trail, badly burned in 2020. These fuzzy stems were all bare after the fire. Lots are coming back. It's inspiring. The ones that aren't growing new green are coming down in their own time. Before the fire, on stretches like this you would barely see any sky at all.
Looking along a forest path towards tall thin trees that look like pipe cleaners, and some bare black trunks, one leaning a lot.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Mitch is pleased with your progress. You're housebroken now! Good boy!
A tweet by Mitch McConnel gloating over the democratic surrender to republican rule.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It's the time of year when the trees and bushes still think it's winter but the grass knows it's spring.
Hills with gray-green trees and shrubberies, with several stretches of bright green grass.  A small lake in the middle echoes the cloudless blue sky.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Silicon Valley this afternoon, looking north from Sierra Vista open space. #photos
Broad landscape view from a hillside, looking northwest over a built-up plain towards the south end of San Francisco bay.  A vague pattern of clouds above.  The day is hazy, so Skyline Ridge across the way is a blue blur.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Calero, today. New grass is beginning to color the hills. #photos
A broad arc of cirrus cloud roofs a rolling late-afternoon landscape.   A tiny box is silhouetted atop skyline ridge on the leftmost horizon. South Bay residents might spot the  Mt. Umunhum radar station. 
New green is beginning to shade the gray-brown of winter hillsides.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Fletcher Creek, Yosemite
Early light crosses a shallow creek dotted with flat stones.  Blue sky, green grass, and a white mountain are reflected in the water.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Calero county park looking towards san jose #photos
Green rolling hills and blue sky dotted with cotton-ball clouds.  An inviting ridgeline trail winds off to the left.  In the distance, a city lurks below the horizon.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
River Swale, Yorkshire Dales.
A river flows toward the viewer, tumbling over rock shelves. Grays and yellow ochres in the water, surrounded by fluffy green trees.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our bomb cyclone
An animated gif shows the satellite view of the northeast pacific coast, where a very large swirling formation is pulling plumes of cloud onto the coastal states.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Port Rexton, Nfld. #photos
Looking across a grassy slope of coastal village. A salt box house and a shed mingle with sparse spruce. A rocky formation in the blue-white distance is swathed in flowing mist.  Dense clouds roof the world.  It is very quiet.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Looking towards Las Vegas from Mt. Charleston #photos
A grey mountainous foreground leads gradually into a far distance where hints of a city can be seen.  Layers of featureless cloud cover the sky.  A line of white cotton marks the horizon.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hoover Lake, Henry Coe State Park
A smooth lake reflects the contrails in a blue sky.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Seems appropriate for a Sunday here. #photos
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite, against an utterly cloudless blue sky.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It's Saturday. Have a sheep. #photos
Sheep graze on the green green Yorkshire Dales.  One handsome fellow looks our way.  He could be Shawn.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
turning to the right in 1959, canada's city was montreal
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Wilder Ranch SP on the Santa Cruz peninsula. #photos.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is the original main concourse of Gander International Airport. A preserved slice of the Jet Age. #photos
A view from a side balcony into an airport concourse in midcentury-modern style.  A 60-foot long colorful mural on the far wall celebrates travel and flight.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
san francisco bay from mt tam #photos
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
High Sierra a few years back. View from Vogelsang.
A panoramic landscape of high grey rocky mountains, sparse trees, and two sparkling blue lakes.  The sky is blue with trace clouds.
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
the Skerwink trail, Trinity Bight, Newfoundland, 2022 #photos
a rugged rocky arm extends into the sea
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
recently, at Pinnacles top right is a perched Condor bottom left two people standing #photos
photograph of rock formation with condor sitting on top
two people can be seen standing at the bottom of the huge rock 
the bird and people are of similar size
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Puzzling Along @puzzlingalong.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Imagine the growing gap itself labeled as “wealth lost to the parasites.” That’s what the super-rich are; infectious organisms that sap all the prosperity out of the economy.
Graph with horizontal axis showing years 1940 to 2020 and vertical axis showing cumulative percentage change.   Two lines are charged. Productivity is a straight even upward trend.  Cumulative productivity growth reaches 258 percent by 2020.
The other data line is worker income.  That tracks the productivity line to 1980, for a doubling since 1940.   It is essentially flat after 1980.
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