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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Love exhibits like that, Laurie! Looks fascinating.📚

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I really liked Educated, too! Good thing she kept - and was able to get - all those old journals. Really give her memoir its power and immediacy, I think. Well written & an unforgettable story she tells so well.📚 #BlueBrewBooks

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quite a life he lead - I’ll try & find this down here in the library or used book sale, Susan #BlueBrewBooks I’m in between books at the mo’. Just starting this autobiographical creative-nonfiction book The Other Wes Moore. One is our governor (Maryland); the other is in prison (for life).📚

Paperback cover of “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” by Wes Noore shows a vintage black and white photo of an African-American kid riding a bike down an empty residential urban street, looking over his shoulder as if being chased by someone off camera.

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I get a kick out of these subversive stickers on the back of street signs and at the base of lampposts all over Capitol Hill. ⚠️⛔️✨ Sticker | 'Aufkleber' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Political #PushBack #DC

Sticker showing PETE “HAGUE”-SETH on a WANTED poster “For Crimes Against Humanity”. On Capitol Hill. Washington, DC (June 2026)

Sticker in a clever combination of Russian, English, and faux Eastern European letters in bold black typeface:
TЯUMP
IS A
RUSSIAN
ASSET
On Capitol Hill. Washington, DC (June 2025)

Sticker in blood-red lettering:
F C
MUSK
where the U and the K work in both words. On Capitol Hill. Washington, DC (May 2025)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And so the ‘rainy season’ starts🇬🇷♥️

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking forward to the new Strout novel & reading the Nerd Reich book. Glad you enjoyed them! 📚🙋‍♀️

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For today’s #BirdoftheDay theme #BestOfTheMonth. Only shot of the month TBH. These honking big Canada #geese go around like they own the place. 🪶 #photography #wildlife #ECK #birds #nature

A bunch of big Canada geese paddling upstream on a sunny day. In the foreground are some weedy yellow flowers growing wild along the bank. On the opposite side lies a cemetery with well-tended lawns. In the distance are trees and blue sky with some puffy white clouds sailing by. Woodlawn Cemetery in Baltimore, MD (September 2026)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Morning, Susan #BlueBrewBooks I marked this as wanting to read last year on goodreads, but will have to move it to the top of the TBR pile! Love the idea of reciprocity in nature.🫐📚

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happiest of birthdays to you, Susan, & many more to come!✨🥳🙋‍♀️✨

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s still the ✨Year of the Horse✨ 🏇🏾 Things starting with H | ‘Objekte die mit "H" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #horses

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Morning, Susan #BlueBrewBooks #BookSky I loved The Botany of Desire, too. Imagine being used by plants! 🍃🍎🌱✨📚

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Same here, Blythe! But maybe we need the harsh winter & summer seasons to appreciate the wonderful fall & spring weather. Such a relief!🌎✨🌱🍃🌞🍂🍁✨🌏

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lovely shot, Blythe! Turning fall here🇺🇸🙋‍♀️✨🍃🍂🍁✨

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

True that! One is an audiobook (The Keeper by Tana French) from the library. One is an old paperback (Is Paris Burning?) I’ve been meaning to read forever. And the other (Spook Street) is an impulse buy at B & N simply because the Slow Horses series (tv & book) is so well done, I can’t resist!📚🙋‍♀️✨

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Happy to see you back here, Susan #BlueBrewBooks Happy Labour Day weekend! I’ve got 3 books going at the mo’ - 1 nonfiction “Is Paris Burning?”🇫🇷 which is absolutely fascinating, and 2 novels, both modern & part of popular series (Slow Horses #4 🇬🇧 and Cal Hooper #3 🇮🇪).

Paperback cover of nonfiction book IS PARIS BURNING? The graphic design is stark and bold, using large typeface, all-caps letters, and the tri-color (blue, white, red) of the French flag in the titular question screamed by Hitler in his bunker. The background is dark, like the blackout of occupied Paris during WWII.

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes, reading it now. Riveting. 📚Choltitz practically begged the Allied forces to ‘liberate’ Paris so he wouldn’t have to burn it down🇫🇷

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wings ✨🦋✨ Things starting with W | ‘Objekte die mit "W” beginnen oder so aussehen ... ' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #butterflies #pollinators #nature

A big yellow swallowtail butterfly alights on a magenta jacaranda bush, its black-edged wings lifted in a V shape. Bethesda, MD (August 2026)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kind of you to say, Alan! Love all your shots.🙋‍♀️

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks for the update, Kyle! Ridiculous case.🚣‍♀️🥇⚖️

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Have fun at the concert 🙋‍♀️

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Back when the natives were friendly🇲🇽🙏🇺🇸 Our neighboring countries | 'Unsere Nachbarländer' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Mexico #Mayan #Travel #tourism

An American woman in skirt, white blouse, and dark glasses standing with three small bare-chested Native American men dressed in feathers, body paint, leggings, and skull-cap masks that make them appear fierce, perhaps like the Tolteca tribe (Feathered Serpent) that once dominated the Mayans. Cozumel, Mexico (January 2012)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Let us know if they’re any good, Susan!📚✨

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🍑Objects starting with P | ‘Objekte die mit "P” beginnen oder so aussehen ... ' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #peaches #summer #ripe #fruit #NJ

A pile of peaches just picked on display at a local farmer’s market in Highland Park, NJ (July 2015)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Congrats! Can’t wait til you’re Gov in FL👏🏖️☀️🙏

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Very cool, thanks for sharing it!

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thanks, Luis! It’s a lovely piece of work:

‘Milky Way Dreaming’ by Janet Forrester Ngala, an Aboriginal Australian artist, shows a circular pattern of dots in ivory and blue clustered like stars studding the midnight sky. The line bisecting the middle calls to mind the Milky Way.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (photo cr: not my own image)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

sounds fascinating, o-m✨ I really enjoyed The Songlines (a book by Bruce Chatwin) which explores Australian Aboriginal people’s sacred "dreaming tracks" or songlines📚✨

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🌌✨”Star studded”✨🌌 ‘Genoppt (oberflächenstruktur)' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #studded #surfaces #dots #patterns

Close-up of Milky Way Dreaming by Janet Forrester Ngala, an Aboriginal Australian artist, using a circular pattern of dots in ivory and blue like stars studding the midnight sky. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (February 2018)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lovely to walk by the water feature outside the Museum of the American Indian on a hot summer day. Fountain | 'Brunnen' ⛲️#FotoVorschlag #Photography #FountainFriday #Fountains #Museums

A small waterfall splashes down into a basin that curves around the side of the yellow adobe facade of the National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, DC (August 2024)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

#NationalBookLoversDay💚📚 For all who love to read.

Meme shows a 1950s housewife sitting in a wicker armchair holding a book open on her lap with amusing caption: “I was going to clean the house, but then I realized…… this book isn’t going to read itself.”

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wish the waterfront were one big pedestrian zone… 💚🏃‍♀️💚🚲💚🛥️ Traffic turnaround | 'Verkehrswende' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #greenzone #riverfront #TheWharf #SW

An urban foot/bike path lined with green saplings and glass highrises beside the newly developed southwest riverfront (Potomac River not shown). Washington, DC (October 2022)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think it’s called Lafter🌹🍑

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever." — Tennyson 🍃🌸🍃 Poetic/‘Poetisch' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #gardens #flowers #BloomScrolling #poems #poetry #walks

A path through a rose garden on a brooding overcast spring day. US Botanic Garden. Washington, DC (May 2024)

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Nice to see you again, Pelzer!🙏⛵️🙋‍♀️

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