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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#StandWithUkraine 45.2: "You don't have the cards." Zelensky: "I'm not playing cards. This is serious."

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Can't get enough of Monica Wood's splendid writing! Currently reading The One in a Million Boy. 💙📚

Book cover showing young boy climbing ladder into a tree for The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood.

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Praising the courage of Senator Angus King and Governor Janet Mills these last few days. Following a tradition of Republican and Democrat leaders in this state standing up for democracy. Looking forward to leaders of other states coming forward. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-2...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

February 23, 2025

Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Narramissic mixer - mallards and goldeneyes find open water #Birding #Maine #NaturePhotography

A mix of seven ducks on an open stretch of water In Penobscot County, Maine including 3 Common Goldeneyes with 4 Mallards, males and females.

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

💙📚 Starting this collection of essays first published in Al Jazeera "that reflect on how the [first] Trump presidency was the inevitable result of the realities first captured in Kendzior's writing."

The view from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America / by Sarah Kendzior

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A small flock of robin visitors. Not a harbinger of spring but still a nice surprise in our backyard. #birds #photography #Maine #backyardbirding

American Robin nestled in backyard shrub feasting on freeze dried berries.

American Robin reaching for dried berries on backyard shrub.

American Robin roosting in a tall pine in backyard; plumped up feathers due to the frigid temperature.

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🦉 Mister and Missus looking surprisingly unperturbed by the below zero temperature this morning.

A male and female cardinal sitting a shrub with edible dark blue berries.

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

💙📚 I hope I've got this right as my first post. Looking forward to finding what others are reading! At present, I've just started a mystery, The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny, a timely theme..

Book cover for title, The Madness of Crowds: a Novel by Louise Penny.

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Water ballet at it's finest on the Penobscot River this morning.

Fog wall rising off the river downstream with icy floes in the foreground

Upstream open water with crystal clear ice slice reflections

Clouds reflected in the water where the water flows over the ice jams

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Lovely hike yesterday at Sears Island with friend Margaret and her pups.

Margaret with two border collies on Eastern Ledges Trail

View south from shore on Penobscot Bay, mostly cloudy.

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"Inside the river there is an unfinishable story" -- Mary Oliver. The river near our camp is closing up -- again. Yet the Goldeneyes, a very large raft of them, continue showing their arctic pluck.

Raft of Goldeneyes fishing in the Penobscot River near Edinburgh, ME

Ice slush closing off the flow of the Penobscot River near Edinburg, ME

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Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald @sharonqfitz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

First post. Going with keeps me going.

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