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Mary Reilly

@rantingbanshee.bsky.social
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Artist, poet, friend to dogs, enemy of despots.

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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In City Hall and the clock tower. Dropping off our ballots.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Realization.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now for the taste test. Delicious! Slightly sweet, dense, crisp outer crust with a good, soft wheat and butter flavor. A little crumbly but slices well and can be use for sandwiches, sliced thick.
A slice of Irish soda bread fresh from the oven with melting butter on top.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
First Irish American soda bread of the season is out of the oven! I usually start baking them in Fall. This one is made with whole wheat flour and plain, no add ins like raisins, rosemary, etc.
Irish American soda bread loaf fresh out of the oven. Lightly browned.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The same tears.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At the cottage. This is where I love to read.
The little corner of the cottage with my comfy chair by the window where I like to read.The window in my cottage where the sun comes up.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Mirror
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A poem regarding this:
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me and my brother. Thankfully, he’s still with me in this world. I understand your loss. I lost my best friend, who was an older sister to me, a year and a half ago. I still talk to her sometimes. Which is O.K.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Curtains of light over the lake.
Dark clouds and curtains of sunlight streaming over the lake.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Found a little friend yesterday.
A little spotted frog sits on a piece of wood by the lake.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The sun setting through the woods at the cottage.
The orange sun begins to set through the deep green woods behind my cottage.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Fields of Gold, Acrylic on Canvas.
Early Autumn field in the sun with fluffy clouds and a deep blue sky.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We must always be watchful, ever vigilant.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
So, I just ate a faux burger And it was good It sustained me Without blood.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sometimes, it can take centuries and only our great grandchildren will see the results. Start now.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tomato relish.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Mary Oliver. This will be our epitaph if we don’t stop it. Now.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The lake.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The moss covered path to the lake.
The bright green moss covered path to the lake in dappled sunlight.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I finally found a frame for the poem I’ve carried with me since I was 18 years old. I transferred over & over, from one wallet to the next. Now it finally lives in my little cottage by the lake.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats in a decorative pale green frame in my little lake cottage.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Seasons
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I just took a short video of my cat. Where is Mitch McConnell? Really, where is he? My cat is alive and cleaning herself. Where is Mitch?
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Because, no one really knows unless they’ve been there, running.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“By day the banished sun circles the earth Like a grieving mother with a lamp.” Cormac McCarthy
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s a sunny day here today, or it would be. You can barely see the sun. Smoke is thick and settling in the distance like fog. Ash is falling on my little stock tank pool cover. Birds are nowhere to be seen and silent.
The dim sun struggles to break through the thick wildfire smoke on what would have been a clear and cloudless Summer day.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A lake of clouds.
The white, fluffy clouds reflected in the lake.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Black Rabbit of Inle, Mixed Media on 8x8x1 inch Board.
The Black Rabbit of Inle from Watership Down watches in the field at dusk for those rabbits who must cross over.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Milkweed by the lake.
Closeup of milkweed blooming on the lakeshore. Pink milkweed flowering on the lakeshore.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Perfect.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
To all the artists, everywhere on this planet, keep creating because every time you create something the universe sees you, just a little bit and the person who views your art sees a little bit of the universe, and so we share. night Flight, Acrylic on Canvas.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
In the Garden, Acrylic on Canvas.
A woman walks alone in the garden surrounded by flowers.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Very old fashion illustrations from about 1981. I still have these, somewhere.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Dawn Through the Dark Forest, Acrylic on Canvas.
Light of dawn through the trees and the water.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Lily Pads in Starlight, Acrylic on board.
Lily pads blooming under the star light. As if you wee gazing over the edge of the pond.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The Night Pond, Acrylic on Canvas.
The sun sets with descending clouds over the pond.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
At the lake again. The best place to be.
Blue sky and fluffy clouds at the edge of the lake. A blue kayak rests on the lake shore under the clouds.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
At the Cottage. Blue skies finally breaking through here.
A bit of blue sky above the tall trees.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The still lake.
Clouds reflected in the lake.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Why not try? In any way you can.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Old limbs looming over the fence.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Nannyberry in the woods next the cottage. Just outside my gate.
Nannyberry bush blooming among the tall trees in the deep woods outside my cottage.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It’s a fine soft day. Steady light rain, which is needed.
The mature Spruce trees gently lay their limbs over our fence while a soft rain falls.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Black Rabbit of Inle.
The Black Rabbit of Inle waits on the edge of the meadow for those whose time it is to pass on. The sun, Frith sets behind him.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Sam Gamgee “The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.”
The dogs, yellow and black, in the little garden, early evening.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Finally blooming.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Gandalf to Denethor:
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Some gave all despite the odds.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.” ~Cormac McCarthy
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