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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Get into a mellow mood and go out to shoot the yellows, oranges and reds around you tomorrow. Have a wonderful day and enjoy the great outdoors. I'll be thinking of you all. 💛 #MellowYellow #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ECK

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This time we get into the relaxed and content mood of Donovan‘s „Mellow Yellow“ and celebrate the beginning of autumn. youtu.be/bb3WpOJvsug?... #PalacesandGardens #ECK #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ECK

A promotional announcement graphic with dark blue lettering overlaid on a faded, warm autumn background. The backdrop shows a soft-focus garden setting filled with the glowing golden-yellow light of late afternoon. A few falling amber leaves are visible against the soft silhouettes of park trees. The text is arranged cleanly down the left side, detailing the prompts for the #MellowYellow challenge. The bottom corners read "Everyone is welcome" on the left and "#ECK" on the right.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Styling tip: Always match your outfit to your favorite palace garden. 😉🌸 Tomorrow we are playing #PompAndPatterns! Dive into your archives or grab 1 or 2 photos of a color twin or pattern double on your walk. No faux pas here! #PalacesandGardens #ECK #PhotographersOfBluesky

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Time for a matching game with #PompAndPatterns this Thursday. Dive into your archives or take a stroll to match your clothing with your surroundings. Show a color twin or a pattern double in 1 or 2 photos. Let’s get creative! #PalacesandGardens #ECK

An announcement graphic with dark blue lettering overlaid on a faded, cozy garden backdrop. The background photograph features an old, rustic wicker chair that is beautifully weathered and gently falling apart over time. A group of small, lively sparrows are perched comfortably on the woven frame of the chair, using it as a peaceful resting place right next to their garden bird feeder.

The text is arranged cleanly in a legible dark blue font down the left side, detailing the rules for the upcoming fashion and textile matching challenge. The soft textures of the decaying wicker and the organic shapes of the birds create a warm, inviting atmosphere that perfectly contrasts with the organized text. The bottom corners read "Everyone is welcome" on the left and "#ECK" on the right.

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Mick Lister @listermj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces Sam Read, Bookseller established 1887, Grasmere, Cumbria. A beautiful location in the English Lake District. Grasmere has many literary connections including William Wordsworth one of the Lake Poets. #grasmere #lakedistrict #cumbria #photography #eastcoastkin

The image shows Sam Read Bookseller, an independent bookshop located in the village of Grasmere in the English Lake District.
It is housed in a traditional Lakeland stone building with slate roofing.
Open since 1887, making it one of the oldest independent bookshops in the north of England.
It stocks a wide range of books including local interest books, guides and maps, and the works of the Lake Poets.
There can be few places in England that can lay claim to so many literary connections, from William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Romantics, to John Ruskin, Beatrix Potter, EM Forster, Arthur Ransome and Malcolm Lowry.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hope this place is going to last forever and isn’t swallowed by one of those anonymous chain stores.

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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Jane Austen Plaque in Winchester Cathedral was erected in 1872. The inscription begins, “ Jane Austen, known to many by her writings….” Also the last house where Jane Austen lived in Winchester with a blue plaque. #PalacesandGardens #PagesandPalaces #Hampshire #Literature #Photography

Her burial slab is just below this plaque. There is also a memorial stained glass window above the plaque and a bronze statue in the Cathedral’s Inner Close.

The blue plaque says,
“ IN THIS HOUSE JANE AUSTEN LIVED
HER LAST DAYS AND DIED 18TH JULY 1817.”

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This plague is such a beautiful piece of art!

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BelleAB @belleab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For #PalacesAndGardens, the theme is #PagesAndPalaces. Here is a bronze #sculpture of a Hudson River School painter, Asher Brown Durand, in the Hudson River School Artists Garden at Boscobel House and Gardens. Second photo is a view of the Hudson River from the garden. #newyork #hudsonhighlands

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The idea for this sculpture is really awesome, to make it look like the teacher is growing out of a tree.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Chineses ideographs look like little pieces of art.

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JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces The Reading Girl at Manchester Central Library

A photo of a white marble statue of a young girl reading a book. The statue is by Giovanni Ciniselli (1832-1883)
The life size statue shows the seated girl wearing a robed outfit looking down at a book held in her right arm that is resting on her leg.
The statue is on a stairway near the entrance at Central Library Manchester.
The stone stairway has a beautiful arched stained glass window with a crest and red roses. Most of the glass is in blue and white stripes.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Great motif for the theme, Julie, the grey tones with the colorful window in the backdrop are really beautiful.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces #ECK From a time before computers. A writing desk with china display cabinet, wall hanging, chairs and many books on shelves, in the study at Standen, an Arts and Crafts inspired house, in Sussex.

A writing desk with china display cabinet, wall hanging, chairs and books on shelving, in the study at Standen, an Arts and Crafts inspired house, in Sussex.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Intricate craftsmanship. I wish I could see it in person and look for the hidden compartments.

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Nfknanna @nfknanna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bookcases and shelves holding a National Trust collection of rare books and manuscripts in the Long Gallery at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. #PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces #photography #dailyphoto #out&about #Norfolk

A long narrow room with a wide bay window at the far end. The plaster work ceiling is highly decorated and the walls are lined with tall wooden bookcases, low bookshelves and an assortment of chairs. The wooden floor has rugs at intervals along the room, with two yellow sofas either side of the fireplace. People are looking at the bookshelves and the paintings on the walls, or leafing through the books open on small tables.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Such an inviting and comfortable library. The ones I remember from my student years where rather functional and uninspiring.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

She’s an icon never to be forgotten. 💛

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Jude 📷 @jude04.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Joseph Priestley’s Laboratory, Bowood House Description in alt. #PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces #ECK #BowoodHouse #JosephPriestley #Laboratory

A photo of the laboratory in Bowood House Wiltshire in which Joseph Priestley first discovered oxygen. Front and centre is his workbench with a glass front behind which are green curtains. Behind it are a number of bookcases and a window with red curtains.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Studying and researching back in the day, no AI necessary to discover or invent things.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This library certainly holds priceless treasures, documents of bygone times.

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Romek66 @romek66.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#UrbanGaze when people did not read books, images spoke Duomo di Siena, February 2026 #Tuscany #Italy #Siena #Cathedral #architecture #HumansOfBlueSky #PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A fabulous photo and a splendid place, Romek, the power of the language of pictures is amazing.

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Sandra Friend @sandrafriend.com · 10/09/2026

He would argue it was no palace, but the manor home William Henry Seward bought from his father-in-law documents a life robustly lived in the service of a young, fractured nation--and his love for reading. #PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces #ECK #FamousAmericans #AuburnNY #SecretaryofState

One wall of many of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves within the William Henry Seward House Museum in Auburn NY, documenting the statesman's life before and after his service as Secretary of State to President Abraham Lincoln. The cellar of the home served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A fabulous place I’d love to visit! I can imagine the books are priceless documents of the time then.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Stunning place, but even though I like Shakespeare, I’d probably go for the architecture. 😉

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Robert E. (He/him) @robertemond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#PalacesAndGardens | #PagesAndPalaces Prague Speculum Alchemiae. Evidence from 900 makes it the 2nd oldest building in Prague. An herbal pharmacy in the 1400s by the 16th century, Emperor Rudolf II established it as an alchemical laboratory. #Photography #WCK #ECK

A desk either maps and parchments. A document with a quill is aldo on the desk as well as a writing tray of quills and inks. Photo by Robert Emond.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

He was completely possessed with producing gold.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For reasons that escape me the story appears in the wrong order, BlueSky had other ideas it seems. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This month I wanted to join the #campfire community for the first time and yes, you saw it coming, didn’t you, I missed the day. But as you know, I don’t give up so easily, and the #SensoryArt theme #words is a nice loophole to squeeze my story in, as is #ArtYear. 😉🎶 youtu.be/gb6XtyFNawM?...

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I could wear my EarPods and listen to some book… 😅

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I agree and add a nice museum shop because I can’t help but go there too. 😀💛

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I like her and the TV show a lot actually. 😀

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Mick Pic @mickpic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy #PalacesandGardens #PagesAndPalaces "Another view from inside the Pittock Mansion. Fantastic bookshelves and places to sit. This was called the Family Room. No TVs back then, so you sat and read and talked. I like the read quietly part." -mick #Photography #MickPic #PNW #WCK #ECK #Portland

This image shows the wood-paneled library inside the historic Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon. Mansion Highlights History: The 16,000-square-foot French Renaissance-style chateau was built in 1914 for Oregon pioneer and publisher Henry Pittock and his wife Georgiana. The Library: Known as a favorite gathering place for the family, this room features rich wood walls, a grand fireplace, and period furnishings. Preservation: Saved from demolition by local residents in 1964, the house was restored and opened as a historic museum in 1965

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very cozy and inviting, Mick. I‘ll come over for a cup of coffee. 😀

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Laurie Agard @laurieagard.com · 10/09/2026

Good morning everyone. A photo of Leonardo da Vinci’s work studio for today’s art challenge #PagesAndPalaces #PalacesandGardens #ECK King Francis I invited Da Vinci to live with him in Amboise from 1516 until he died in 1519, working as the king's premier painter, engineer, and architect.

Drawings of inventions and plant life pinned up, candles and papers on a large wooden desk, a large book open, a mannequin, a window for light and a brick wall with a portion of a fireplace showing.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A genius at work, very fitting for today!

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Jason @bloodraynes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Morning #BlueSky ☕️ & welcome to a secret garden & a story in the Alt (staring our own Queen Sabine 👸🏼 🥰 @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social ) Have a beautiful day friends 😌 #ECK #PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces #Photography #PhotographyOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #AltText #BlueSkyStories

After today’s picture description, I’ve written a short story for this capture.

Our photograph shows a beautifully landscaped formal garden on an autumn day. A wide, reddish gravel or paved pathway stretches from the foreground into the distance.

On either side are carefully maintained lawns, rounded ornamental shrubs and numerous mature trees displaying rich autumn colours of gold, copper, russet and deep green.

In the foreground on the left stands an elegant stone statue of a young, robed figure. The figure appears to be reading from an open book, looking down towards the pages. The statue stands on an ornate, weathered pedestal decorated with carved details.

Above the garden is a dramatic sky of turquoise-blue and grey, filled with large, soft clouds. Sunlight falls warmly across the pathway and lawns. Finally our pictures is finished with a white border frame. And now for my story..

I call it…The Statue That Read the Gardens

They said the statue had stood there for generations, always with its book open.

Nobody knew what the words on its pages said. Visitors tried to lean closer, but the writing was too worn by time to read.

One autumn afternoon, a young girl named Sabine wandered into the gardens.

As she passed, she noticed something strange: the statue’s stone eyes seemed to be following the changing leaves.

She stopped.

“What are you reading?” she whispered.

For a moment, nothing happened.

Then a golden leaf drifted from the great tree overhead and landed upon the statue’s book.

Sabine looked down.

The pages had changed.

There, written in delicate letters, was a single sentence:

“I am reading the stories written by the garden.”

From that day onward, Sabine returned every autumn.

She never saw the words again but she began to notice things she had once overlooked.

Birdsong among the branches, sunlight moving across the path, and the quiet stories told by every falling leaf.

And the statue remained there, patiently reading.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Aww, Jason, this is heart melting! Thank you ever so much! ☺️🫶👌✨

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