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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Drop your crime fighting Catholics (not technically crime they were fighting, but I'm gonna count it)

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Doing my best to live the dream out here

Kathleen Rowan crouches on the bank of a swamp, surrounded by bald cypresses and their reflections in the brown, green and blue sunlit water, one hand upturned and lifting as if drawing the short cypresses fingers up out of the ground in a circle around her.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I'm changing my header image again to welcome a greener season. Alas, I have no new travels to show you; but this one's still thrumming inside me, so I hope you're not bored of it either. Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado, USA #SaveOurParks #PublicLandsInPublicHands

Kathleen Rowan, in a deep blue medieval dress, stands on a mountaintop under a cloudy gray sky, looking across a green valley to a pale blue break in the clouds

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." - Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R.Tolkien

Tufts of grass mark the line between the sunlit dune where Kathleen Rowan sits and a very blue sky. Her head bends slightly in a melancholy attitude, and her hair dances in windswept tendrils before her face. The bright day casts stark contrasts between light and shadow on her dark blue dress, its skirt splaying dramatically on the sand where she sits on a dune.
Photo by Mr. Rowan

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I like to revisit my wintry adventures this time of year. Here's another inspired by HZD, with itty bitty me on the right for scale atop the mesa, and a thin line of a road for scale deep below. As you may imagine, a place called "Island in the Sky" is pretty chilly in late November. #Canyonlands

Photo, in theatrically wide dimensions: A small figure (Kathleen Rowan, dressed as a Nora from Horizon Zero Dawn) on a snowy mesa's edge looks down into a canyon that meanders toward hazy mountains in the distance. The earth is warm tan, dotted with scrubby green plants. Blue stretches beyond it: bright blue skies, vast and clear, and deeper blue mesa-shadows stretching into the canyon behind the eager, adventurous figure. In the distance rise the La Sal Mountains.
· The Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park
· Photo by Mr. Rowan

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Please enjoy #ArchesNationalPark looking like a crisp, sweet sugar treat, from one of my #HorizonZeroDawn -inspired adventures a couple of years ago. I haven't been able to get out into it lately, but I assure you: the world is still wide and wondrous.

Snow clings to hardy bushes and trees in the foreground, while lances of light flow from the sun peeking out from behind a looming stone formation above and behind them. The snow looks magical in its contrasts of white light and blue shadow.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It's been too long since I've shared one of my photos, so here's one from once when we went wonder-hunting this time of year. In the times we're living in, it's so important to me to remind you that the world is still bursting at the seams with beauty.

Kathleen Rowan stands in the blue shadow of a low cliff dripping with icicles, some of them reaching all the way to the ground, gazing across the road on the other side of her at the thin golden glow of a winter sunset slipping over rolling hills into the distance under a clear sky. She wears an ombré dark blue dress spangled with tiny white stars.
Near the southern part of the Appalachian Trail in north Georgia. Photo by Mr. Rowan.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I've switched out my cover photo for a winter adventure for the season. Please join me in marveling at Bryce Canyon in the snow. ❇* #AmericaTheBeautiful #KeepPublicLandsInPublicHands #HZD #HorizonZeroDawn #Sunfall

Kathleen Rowan stands akimbo in the snow amongst the hoodoos on a bright, sunny day at Bryce Canyon

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We took in a kitten somebody found motherless and was getting ready to take to a shelter. He's the most beautiful derp that ever derped, a true himbo, no thoughts only immaculate vibes. 10/10 best cat

A white cat sleeping on a white blanket with one front paw outstretched, the pink inside of his ear the only break in the snowy monochrome

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The stark mood of a fire season dusk. 📷 My photo. Yosemite, 2020.

A natural monolith, almost silhouetted in the falling dusk, juts into the smoky summer sky between trees in the foreground and tree-capped cliffs beyond. Yosemite National Park, fire season, 2020. Photo by Kathleen Rowan.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My new cover photo is a crop of this one. I enjoyed writing the alt text. The low sun shines golden through a colonnade of lakeside trees in autumnal hues, casting a pattern of alternating light and shadow over the ground. [I stand] this side of the trees, looking out across the shining blue water.

The low sun shines golden through a colonnade of lakeside trees in autumnal hues, casting a pattern of alternating light and shadow over the ground. Kathleen Rowan, in a long dress with hanging sleeves, stands this side of the trees, looking out across the shining blue water.
Photo by my husband.
Georgia, USA.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My black-and-white cat's fur is less dense, but more silky. Look at the SHEEN!

A tuxedo cat, rolled over mostly onto her back, her left paws stretched out and touching, and her right paws each curled in. Light shines a rim of highlight on the black part of her fur.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Folks are posting photos of first snowfalls around here, so I'll probably change my header image for the season soon. Here's my current one, in case you haven't seen it. Much adventure. Very wanderlust.

Photo: an adventuress pauses to survey the wide, orange and blue vista of natural desert monoliths under open sky. She is dressed as a Nora from Horizon Zero Dawn, in brown with accents of blue and a curved white "machine plate" clasping a short cape to one shoulder. Puddles of water pooled in shallow hollows in the plateau on which she stands reflect back the azure of the sky.
Arches National Park, Utah, USA.
Photo by my husband.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

(Voting day is today, USA, & local elections matter!) 🔺💙🔺 VOTE🔺💙🔺

Kathleen Rowan, in a dark blue dress with red sleeves peeking from it, stands on a beach gazing out at the Gulf of Mexico.
Photo by her husband.
Mississippi, United States of America

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

A new sculptural pose for your #Caturday She is available as a sketch reference for a very modest fee (your eternal, undying admiration). #CatsOfBluesky

A tuxedo cat on her back, curled almost into a circle, with her right paws raised, and her back, left foot extended

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The KPop Demon Hunters Sing Along is returning to movie theaters for Halloween, and some of you out there are nervous to go out and do this kind of thing in public - especially without a friend to back you up. I'm here to levy a challenge. I'll be ✔ attending ✔ belting ✔ on my own! How about you?

Frodo saying, "I'm going to Mordor alone!" but "Mordor" is crossed out in purple and replaced with "The KPop Demon Hunters Sing Along."

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Please get some rest today. Here, look at something beautiful. It'll help. 🌱

Looking up at a backlit weeping willow, photo by me

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

YOU can help protect the rare and endangered Kathleen Rowan! By standing up for democracy and creating a culture of mutual aid that builds community resilience in the face of uncertain times, you can help build a future where creatures like this can thrive. Thanks so much for your contribution. 🌱

Kathleen Rowan at Zion National Park, Utah, USA. Sunlight glows off the warm, brown highlights of her long hair as she stands on a smooth, sloped, Navajo sandstone overlook gazing across the vast, shadowed canyon at the line of peaks known as the Court of the Patriarchs.
Photo by her husband.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

What I lacked in punctuality in regards to Horizon Zero Dawn, I've made up for with mileage of HZD & HFW landscapes traversed. (But you don't have to do that either. You're a fan if you're a fan. Simple as that. You count.)

Kathleen Rowan, in a post-apocalyptic costume complete with (toy) archery bow inspired by Horizon Zero Dawn, stands boldly in the snow atop Angel's Landing at Zion National Park in Utah, USA. The canyon is so far below that the river looks like a road and the road is barely visible.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Just ONE WEEK from tomorrow, I'll be at one of the 2,000+ events planned nationwide for a second #NoKings Day. It's because I LOVE my country. I don't think I need to tell you that.

Kathleen Rowan, in a wind-billowed, deep blue dress under a bright blue sky, looks across a sunny vista of snow-capped mountains with clouds in the valley below. Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA

I sit on a boulder at a cliff's edge, leaning eagerly forward to look out over a canyon with a waterfall in the distance at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Almost silhouetted in the shadows of the foreground, I gaze up at afternoon-bright peaks of Zion Canyon under blue sky and leafless branches. Emerald Pools Trail, Zion National Park, Utah, USA

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I haven't been as playful here of late. Here's something that still brings me joy! – My thrifted bow Horizon upcycle, that I took with me on my adventures to Utah

An upcycled toy archery bow held aloft to align with a similarly shaped natural, angled cut in a cliff face at Zion National Park in Utah, USA.
I redesigned the bow in the style of Horizon Zero Dawn. It features blue "machine wire" and elements that look like "machine plate" off the robots from the game, along with earthier elements like feathers, beads, and braided cord.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I am determined to outlast this present moment, and I'll take as many people with me as I can. Here's a kitten for your #Caturday joy:

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Hey y'all, If you'd share this so folks who want to participate can get the reminder to do their shopping today, I'd really appreciate that. Here's a kitten for your kindness! Thanks!

A black and white kitten, asleep with one of his back paws up by his face

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Horizon Zero Dawn (and Forbidden West) locations make for the most amazing photography scavenger hunt. 📷

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I couldn't quite get as high an angle on Horizon Forbidden West's settlement of Chainscrape in the Daunt* but this'll do. * Zion National Park, Utah, USA

I stand, tiny and full of awe, on an outcropping on the right of the photo, amidst the grandeur of Zion Canyon, with its high peaks at intervals on either side and the sparkling Virgin River running through it.
Photo by my husband

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Aww, thanks! This is the other one, though. White kitty is the boy, black and white kitty is the girl.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

"Do you want to meet our new cat?” my husband asks, showing me the impressive quantity of fur that came off the brush from the fluff monster we already call our own. “I'm gonna name him Mitosis.” #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #fluffy

A white cat turns his head back to look at a white woman's hand laying lightly on his fluffy belly.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

O beautiful for spacious skies... 🇺🇸🏞📷🧵

Kathleen Rowan, in a wind-billowed, deep blue medieval dress under a bright blue sky, looks across a sunny vista of snow-capped mountains with clouds in the valley below.
Photo by my husband.
Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, WA, USA

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A #photo 📷 you took that brings you inner peace

Vibrant green moss adorns the thick bark ridges of a fallen tree like seafoam on rippling waves
Photo by Kathleen Rowan
Castle Crags, California, USA

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Here's a wider shot of this location! (Yes, that's me, ITTY BITTY up there.) The answer is... 🥁 CANYONLANDS! The Needles District of #CanyonlandsNationalPark, to be more precise.

A lone, seated figure -- tiny in the wide landscape, but stark against the bright blue sky -- watches the last white gleam of the setting sun glow in the crook between a cliff on the right and the broad, curved rock formation she sits on in the center. The silhouette of a tree, perhaps a pinyon pine, reaches up into the azure sky from the foreground on the left.

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