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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sun-beamed web weaver seen on this morning's woods walk with our pup

partial spider web with red spider at its base framed by sunbeams through trees

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina late summer sunrise

sunrise in swath of orange horizon, wave coming in, silhouetted guy on life guard stand to left

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sunrise just now, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

color photo, bright orange sky, sun at rough surf horizon

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

All summer, this toad has come to hang out on our front porch in the evening. He's so perfectly camouflaged that we have to watch our step in the dark. So far, he's survived our clumsiness. Such a cutie!

color photo, a brown-spotted toad, legs gathered beneath him, his coloring almost exactly matching the pebbled floor where he perches

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In the central #Virginia neighborhood called Cohasset, where I grew up, a guy bought an old C&O caboose and then left it to rot. It's dark in there. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark #rural

color photo showing shattered door of a yellow train caboose, interior dark with a square of light from the opposite doorway

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Blue Ridge rail tunnel, Afton, #Virginia. Built by enslaved workers through a mountain, rails removed and now a spooky hiking trail. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark

color photo showing rough rock walls and flat path of a long tunnel, a dot of light at the other end showing its distant opening

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Antique store still life, Christiansburg, Virginia.

color photo of arranged chinaware with fake flowers, a shaded lamp and a painting of a somber nude

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Roanoke, #Virginia. I had the big cheeseburger and a bowl of chili. Sadly, no sign of Tom Waits.... #urbangaze #storefront #streetphotography

quaint white-bricked storefront of Texas Tavern burger joint (stools only) in downtown Roanoke, VA.

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

China shop shelf, Northside Richmond, VA

Seven whimsical porcelain pups, all with big eyes, on a shelf

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

86 years ago today, the Battle of Britain began. This shot from the remarkable memorial wall along the Thames in London: #WWII #London #history #sculpture #urbangaze

bronze relief sculpture showing WWII bombers and people on the ground looking up at them

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just last night, this dead tree fell across our woods walk path, bequeathing itself to the earth.

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Interior, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple Unitarian church, Oak Park, Illinois #churchonSunday #churches #architecture

color photo, sanctuary view of church, all in Wright's famous Prairie style

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Richmond, Virginia, early morning after a long night, six years ago today for #throwbackthursday #RVA #BLM #resist #statue #history

color photo showing Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA, the plinth colorfully grafitied, pale blue sky

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Rolling graffiti on the Norfolk-Southern for #tagtuesday

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Singing cowboy Gene Autry's boots. At the western movies museum in Lone Pine, California. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVocal #movies #California

color photo, flower-inlayed cowboy boots, a decorated plate, and an album cover titled Gene Autry's Golden Hits, behind glass in a museum display case

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

At the grocery store this afternoon, this pristine 1965 Chevy C/K pickup, over which I sorta went ga-ga. #antiquecars #oldcars #vintagecars

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Corolla, North Carolina, sunset at the lighthouse

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Welcome to North Carolina rest stop at Virginia border on I-95

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Sunset kayakers, James River, downtown Richmond, Virginia #RVA #rivers #urbangaze #scape

color photo showing quiet river, tree-lined banks, silhouetted kayakers in the water and a lighted city scape horizon

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Half Dome from the valley floor just before sunset, on the way back to our car after visiting #Yosemite Falls #nature #MountainMonday #NationalParks #outdoors #scape

color photo showing face of Half Dome at Yosemite, a line of pines silhouetted in foreground, blue sky

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

3 herons night-fishing on the James River, downtown Richmond, Virginia. #birdoftheday #birds #urbangaze #RVA

color photo showing rippling blue water and 3 great blue herons silhouetted in a row, all facing left, alert for fish

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense The Dairy Building, downtown Richmond, VA. Now rental apartments. Built in 1914 as an urban milk bottler, back when milk was delivered directly to your door. #RVA #architecture #urbangaze

color photo showing front facade of a 4-story brick building with arched window storefront and framed by two giant white milk bottle shapes, both with tall windows. In Richmond, Virginia's Jackson Ward neighborhood downtown.

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Main Street Train Station (1901, Second Renaissance Revival style - Richmond, VA) #buildings #architecture #urbangaze #RVA

color photo looking up at arches, gabled roof and clock tower of Richmond, Virginia's 1901 Rennaissance Revival Style Main Street train station, downtown.

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Kanawha Canal remnant downtown Richmond, Virginia. #BlueSkyArtShow #openings #urbangaze #B&Wphotography

B&W photo showing pool of water with weeds and trash beneath arched overpass, trees seen through opening in background

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Wow's the Word 2 @wandering-wow2.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The Markel Building, Richmond, Virginia. A baked potato in an aluminum foil jacket served at dinner was local architect Haigh Jamgoshian's inspiration. #abstractia #architecture #RVA #urbangaze #buildings

color photo of 3-story cylindrical building wrapped in crumpled aluminum cladding.

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