Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) / Redsky

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Mahntruk! Gorgeous light, that time of night🏛️

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Something that glows | ‘Etwas das leuchtet' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Twilight #Dusk #SCOTUS The after-glow.💔

The white marble facade of the US Supreme Court glows against darkening skies, lit up by the last rays of light from a sinking sun at dusk. Washington, DC (August 2023)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Twins | 'Das doppelte Lottchen' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Doubles #WomensMarch #NationalMall #Sisterhood #PowerToThePink #Twins Now in The President Trap

Two bespectacled older women wearing hand-knitted pink hats with “pussy” ears, spiky light-pink foam Statue of Liberty-like headgear, and identical purple sweatshirts protesting Trump’s 1st election. At the Women’s March on the US National Mall, Washington, DC (January 2017)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Tout le monde devrait en avoir un😊

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

🎶🎸’Stairway to Heaven’ #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke Literary version. I’d pick different titles, but love the idea. (Photo not my own)📚

Staircase with book spines painted onto the risers. Titles go: The Phantom Tollbooth Anne of Green Gables Pride & Prejudice Complete Works (Shakespeare) Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Being an Outlaw The Lions of Al-Rassan — FYI: These book titles are apparently stick-on decals once sold on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThatMakesAStatement?ref=l2-shopheader-name

11/9/2025, 5:26:55 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Blue Hour | 'Blaue Stunde’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #ChesapeakeBay #Birds #TeamGull #EasternShore Kent Narrows🪶

Four seagulls perched on pier pilings are silhouetted against a twilight sky streaked with dark-purple and rose-gold clouds as the sun sets over the ink-blue water of the Chesapeake Bay. Kent Island, MD (Sept. 2015)

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Things starting with ‘M’ | 'Dinge die mit "M” beginnen ...' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Museums #Renoir #art #Impressionists #Exhibit Modernism, back when a striped dress, theater box, and dance hall could scandalize the art world.🎨

A man in a dark suit is taking a photo on his iPhone of a painting by Renoir, “The Theater Box” (1874), shown at the original Paris salon exhibiting Impressionist art. The subject of the painting is a man and a woman dressed in fancy evening clothes seated in a theater stall at a dance hall. She’s wearing a white dress with black stripes going down the front; he’s got on a formal black jacket and is raising a pair of binoculars to his bearded face. One of the things that shocked viewers at the time was making the attendees rather than the stage the subject of the painting. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Sept. 2024)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonderful performance by Ralph Fiennes.🎬 My first Robert Harris book was Fatherland, which blew me away. I’ve liked almost everything by him. His latest - or the latest one I’ve read - V2 is an intriguing WWII story about a secret British mission in Belgium to thwart the Germans on the Dutch coast.🚀

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

High praise from le Carré! I liked Conclave a lot (better than the movie anyway). I’ve read so many Robert Harris books lately. The Second Sleep was a bold blend of historical fiction and futuristic sci-fi. Have you by any chance read it? #devonbookhour

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

I liked how the story tries to reconstruct the past through the eyes of a boy who witnessed it but without understanding it at the time. The past is kind of an enigma, which compels him to keep trying to explain it. #devonbookhour

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thoreau is kind of a bore. For me, Sterne was a let down. I get that Tristam Shandy is supposed to be a literary groundbreaker in narrative technique. But as a novel it failed to charm me into believing this is a life worth examining in such lavish, tedious autobiographical detail! #devonbookhour

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

👋 hi all & welcome back, Ian! I finally got around to reading So Long, See You Tomorrow which is one of those short but powerful gems of a book. It takes place in the 1920s & has to do with rural farm life - and infidelity. #devonbookhour

Paperback cover of the novel “So Long, See You Tomorrow” by William Maxwell shows a vintage black and white photograph of flat farmland with an isolated barn and farmhouse under billowing clouds in rural America.

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Really enjoyed the talk by Geraldine Brooks today at #NationalBookFestival She touched on so many aspects of what’s made her such a great novelist, journalist, and now memoirist. #NationalReadABookDay #BookLovers #Books #Read #Washington #DC

Poster of the 25th National Book Festival (free), sponsored by the Library of Congress. Washington, DC (September 2925)

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I like so much of Frost but I’d say “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” remains my favorite🌨️🌲🪾✨🙏🏻💕

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Magical nature in black & white | 'Magische Natur in Schwarz-Weiß’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Birches #trees #B&W #USNationalArboretum “When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.” - Robert Frost

A black and white shot of three birch trees, their snow-white bark and bare branches etched against a dark line of trees. US. National Arboretum. Washington, DC (November 2017)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

#FlowersOnFriday 💐 #Photography #flowers #BloomScrolling #gardening #MorningGlory #Baltimore Deep Purple💜

Close-up of a deep purple morning glory with its white-hot center glowing in bright sunshine - Baltimore, MD (August 2025)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Congrats to the new grad!🎓

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

City Hall | 'Rathäuser’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography An impressive gov’t building in any case. #Albany #NY

A château-like municipal building in Albany, New York (state capitol) with a steep mansard roof, tall chimneys, arched windows, and elaborate stonework. The grounds are fresh green lawn and new-leaf trees under a high blue spring sky. Lafayette Park (May 2024)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Snapshot from bus/train | ‘Schnappschuss aus Bus oder Bahn’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #VRE #Potomac #VA #dawn Only good thing about commuting was watching the sunrise over the river.

View from train window of an icy river reflecting streaks of orange, rose, and yellow as the sun rises and a plane ascends into the sky. Arlington, VA (January 2016)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Phone | 'Telefon’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #PayPhones #BusStation “Operator, could you help me place this call?” 🎶

A black & white shot of a man on a pay phone, standing in a tiled alcove of old but still working wall-mounted push-button telephones. Bus station, Philadelphia, PA (April 2018)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, I liked his earlier book, a chilling look at how Trump has been played by the Kremlin. It synthesizes lots of info that's already out there, hiding in plain sight, re: Trump's reliance on Russian money & what an unwitting asset (useful idiot) he’s been to Russian intelligence for so many years.

Book cover of “House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia” by Craig Unger (pub. 2018) shows a Russian nesting doll with Putin inside Trump’s head when the top is lifted off.

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump’s ties to the Russians actually go back to the 1980s when the Soviet Union was disintegrating & wealthy apparatchiks & mobsters needed a way to launder money. Trump offered the perfect solution, selling them luxury condos. In turn, the Russians bailed him out of $4 billion in debt. ROI: >100%!

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonderful, thanks for the post to the DD site here on BlueSky!🙋🏼‍♀️

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, I think that’s what I said, she inspired him. The Game of Kings was first published here in the US in 1961, I believe. A Game of Thrones didn’t come out ‘til 35 years later, both in the States & the UK (1996).

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

thanks for the reposts, too!🙏🏻

30/8/2025, 3:16:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Susan, lovely weather here & all along the eastern seaboard!☀️

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, then, you’re in luck, Susan! I think her books are brilliant. And inspired Game of Thrones♟️🏰💕

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

happy Labor Day weekend, Susan☕️✨🙏🏻

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

And my heart soars | 'Wofür mein Herz schlägt' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #nature #flowers #Rose #onlybeautifulthings #BloomScrolling #Quietness

“Quietness” - a pink rose still unfurling its petals in late autumn, US Botanic Garden. Washington, DC (November 2024)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Loved the Lymond Chronicles - so cool it’s something studied now!

Book cover for “Game of Kings”, first in the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett, shows an idyllic landscape painting of Scotland above and a faded ghostly old sepia photo of a lone castle on a rugged hilltop, below the title. The Game of Kings is historical fiction at its finest. (pub. 1961)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

So great💚

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

saw so many like her protesting out on the Mall that day, doing what they can, how they can!🙏🏻 💕 #NoKings

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Crazy nature | 'Verrückte Natur' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Mediterranean #fresh #fish #seafood #Rhodes #Greece Colorful & plentiful fruits de mer🐟

Three shiny blue fish lying side by side face down with six small pink fish lying face up in a wood crate along the big harbor where fishing caiques tie up. Rhodes, Greece (March 2015)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

My pleasure, Sabine!

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

'Urbex / Lost Place’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #PalacesAndGardens #Old #Rhodes #Greece A fixer-upper!

Interior view of the labyrinthine arched walkways and ancient living spaces within a medieval castle. One of the houses is being renovated; there’s an electrical wire running down the exterior wall. The wall next door has been knocked down, revealing a mossy stone courtyard. The castle, known as Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, was built in the 14th century. Old Rhodes, Greece (April 2015)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

hopefully, it won’t come to that…

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks! Me, too!🙋🏼‍♀️ Danke! Mir auch!✨🙏🏻

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Door handles | 'Türgriffe’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #NativeAmerican #symbols #art #Museum #Smithsonian

Custom-designed brass door pulls attached to glass doors at the Museum of the American Indian. The icons in the cast glass are sun symbols from Native American tribes. A man’s hand is reaching in to pull open one of the doors. Washington, DC (August 2015)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Baltimore from Federal Hill. #skyline #blueskyartshow #photography #eastcoastkin #InnerHarbor #scenic

View of the inner harbor with its many buildings, boats, and piers. In the foreground, white yachts are tied up at the dock. Across the water lies the triangular Aquarium on Pier 4; a white tent and hotel sit on Pier 5. In the background are office high-rises, luxury apartment buildings, and the old smokestacks of a brick distillery converted into modern condos. Baltimore, MD (September 2014)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Here’s to Jean Bach Sisley for this beautiful hybrid rose #FridayFlowers #roses #FlowersOnFriday #TGIF #Photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #botanical #gardens

A coral-pink rose budding in warm autumn sun, with sprays of purple milk thistle. US Botanic Garden, Washington, DC (November 2024)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for the repost, Laurie!✨☀️🙏🏻

20/8/2025, 8:18:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Elizabeth! Me, too, love how they edge out the sun occasionally like this.✨☀️☁️💙

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Odie! Happy the radiance came through in the photo😎☁️✨

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

thanks, Melissa!☀️🙏🏻✨

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Looking up into the air |’In die Luft geschaut' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #StressRelief #CityLiving #summer #skies #wonderful Clouds just blow me away♥️

An overhead shot of luminous blue sky, white billowing cloud, and dark shady treetops on a late summer afternoon. The sun is right behind the cloud which is moving rapidly in the wind, its white edges sharply illuminated against the sky. Washington, DC (September 2015)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, to have it come to this is distressing & painful. I always thought our country was basically intelligent or at least smart enough to see through a charlatan like Trump. It saddens me to know we are a nation of willfully ignorant people easily manipulated by a conman. He’s hateful & a disgrace.

17/8/2025, 6:43:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Distance | 'Abstand’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #ChesapeakeBay #beaches The Bay Bridge doesn’t look too backed up… from a distance.🤣 🛣️🚚🚗🚙🚛🛻🚗🚚🚛🚙⛱️☀️✨

An empty rowboat sits on yellow sand. A few beachgoers are by the water’s edge. In the distance is a stretch of the long, fairly level Chesapeake Bay Bridge under puffy-white clouds. Sandy Point State Park, MD (September 2017)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks so much, Sabine, glad you liked it! And thanks for organizing the theme of #statues for #PalacesandGardens today!📸♥️

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Standing guard over Mandráki harbour are two deer near where the Colossus of Rhodes once stood. The castle (Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes) still stands.🏰 #PalacesAndGardens #statues #EastCoastKin #7WondersOfTheWorld #UNESCOHeritageSite #Photography #Travel #Historic #Rhodes

A pair of deer standing atop two tall stone pedestals guard the mouth of a harbour. A ramparted sea-wall fortification lies across the narrow harbour entrance where the blue-and-white striped Greek flag is blowing straight out in a stiff wind. The castle was built by the Knights Templar in the 14th century and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Old Rhodes, Greece (April 2015)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Solidarity | ‘Solidarität’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Protests #solidarity #SignOfTheTimes #NationInDistress

A young couple holds an American flag upside down in front of the Washington Monument under gray skies. At the

A white-haired woman in coral-pink jacket, white sweat pants, and puce-colored sneakers is seated in a red folding chair holding up a protest sign with blood-red letters on a neon-yellow poster declaring: TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL People of all ages demonstrated at the

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Taken <1/3 mile from home | 'Weniger als 500m von zuhause fotografiert' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #CapitolHill #monuments I feel your pain, sisters. 🕊️🙏🏻

A white marble Peace Monument features two women in classical robes atop a pedestal, one with her face covered by her hand and leaning into the other figure, as if unable to look or to bear what’s going on, with the white-domed US Capitol looming behind them. Washington, DC (June 2024)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes! also lovely in the fall.🍁

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Stress relief | ‘'Stressabbau’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #meadow #nature #arboretum #urbanlife #Enjoying #Outdoors #Washington #DC 🌳🍂🌾 Where to get away from it all…

A young couple sit companionably on a wooden bench overlooking the Columns on a knoll across the Meadow. They are facing each other while chatting, seen from the back, bathed in warm sunlight, and framed by overarching tree boughs, the young man in white pants and a light green t-shirt, the young woman in dark jeans and long-sleeved shirt, her long brown hair loose and rippling down her back and shoulders. The meadow is golden brown, the trees in the background still green. At the US National Arboretum. Washington, DC (October 2022)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

The shiny brass lock. 🤣

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Pirritin! Your butterfly photos are super! Glad to see #ButterflyWeek taking off💕🦋🫶🏽✨🙏🏻

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice cover! I read Walden long ago. It will probably seem antiquated. But Thoreau was very influential in his day. And even now. A lot of people buy into the idea of living simply in a natural setting. He’d be pretty vocal now against an ‘unjust government’ & encouraging ‘civil disobedience’, I bet!

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, kind of you to say!✨

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Love cosmos! Such a cheery flower. Great shot!✨💕

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Of Bugs and Blooms #ButterflyWeek #butterflies #InsectThursday #Photography #gardens #onlybeautifulthings ✨🦋🌼 #BloomScrolling #flowers #floralscape #Botanicals #EastCoastKin #nature

A small brown butterfly alights on the upright pollen spikes in the center of a large orange aster (Mexican sunflower). US Botanic Garden, Washington, DC (September 2024)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Funny you should mention that as I just got that book out of the library. Love Rumi & the Shams angle, so really looking forward to see what she does with it.🙏🏻

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Mike, it was a wonderful space🍃🌺

4/8/2025, 4:59:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

you, too, IG!🙋🏼‍♀️✨💕

4/8/2025, 4:46:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Backyard atmosphere | 'Hinterhofatmosphäre und Hinterhöfe’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #summer #flowers #garden #pretty #relaxing #Bethesda Best thing about the ‘burbs.🍃🌺🍃

Backyard on a summer evening shows lawn chairs set out on lush green grass with a small garden blooming along the corner of a concrete patio. Bethesda, MD (August 2014)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

so true! beautiful shot, too🙏🏻

4/8/2025, 3:20:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Susan! I’ll see if one of her other books grabs me. I like literary fiction, which is how I stumbled onto Orhan Pamuk’s 1st novel The White Castle pub. in English 1985. It’s about a young Venetian scholar captured by the Turks & sold into slavery to an Ottoman ruler who is his doppleganger.✨

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, I think I’ve been to or through Stroudsburg - went to see some waterfalls nearby with my son when he was little… I lived in Türkiye for a few years. My fave Turkish writer remains Orhan Pamuk. I’ll give Elif Shafak another try. Any you’d recommend? Couldn’t get into her Island of Missing Trees.🙋‍♀️

3/8/2025, 4:53:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

So up in the Poconos? I used to go skiing there (grew up in NJ). What are you reading these days? Anything good?📕💕

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

P.S. Preston Singletary is a Native American glass artist from out in San Francisco, CA.

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, nice! Where are you these days?✨🙏🏻☕️

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Susan, this is from a few years ago when the National Museum of the American Indian exhibited Preston Singletary, a Native American glass artist from California. (April 2022)💙💚

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

In our nation’s capitol which politics aside is still lovely🤷‍♀️

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Sunny & cool here, too! Such a relief after all that heat🙋‍♀️☕️

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Dream World | 'Traumwelt’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #museum #NativeAmerican #arts #artists #sculpture 🪶

An exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian features a white glass bird seen against a virtual backdrop of aurora borealis flickering above dark conifer trees. The bird perches on a black pedestal encased in plexiglass. Washington, DC (April 2022)

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Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Bonnie! I used to have a clematis just that color, planted in the shade but blooming in the sun.💜

2/8/2025, 2:40:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

You, too! At least it’s cooling off🪭👏💕

1/8/2025, 10:11:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

You, too, Eine rosa Rose!🙋‍♀️

1/8/2025, 2:32:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

gorgeous! that grayed-out background really makes the pink dahlia sing!🌸🩶💕

1/8/2025, 11:07:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Floral climber. #FlowersOnFriday #PurpleFriday 💜 #TGIF #Photography #BloomScrolling #clematis

The purple starlike clematis flower shimmering in the bright spring sunshine at Dumbarton Gardens. Washington, DC (May 2025)

1/8/2025, 10:53:07 AM | 46 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

My cousins live in Chevy Chase. I used to live in Glen Echo if you’ve ever biked that far up the canal. Now I live in the city, on Capitol Hill. Politics aside, it’s a lovely place.📸💕

31/7/2025, 6:46:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Forgot to say thank you for the repost!🙏🏼☺️

31/7/2025, 3:29:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Such a cheery flower ✨🌺💕

31/7/2025, 2:11:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Things beginning with Z | 'Dinge die mit "Z” beginnen…’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #zinnias #flowers #Lovely #onlybeautifulthings #nature #BloomScrolling #bold #cheery #sidewalk #garden Zinnias brighten up everything. ✨🧡♥️❤️💖

A zinnia blooming like a colorful orange and red pompom along the sidewalk. Washington, DC (September 2024)

31/7/2025, 11:20:50 AM | 56 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice! I’m a fan of canals, miss walking along the towpath between the B&O Canal & the Potomac! It ends (or starts) in Georgetown, but that’s not near where I live. What part of DC did you live in?🙋‍♀️

31/7/2025, 10:41:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, it is! I love old lighthouses. Here’s one that used to sit on a “knoll” in the Chesapeake Bay called Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse. Built in 1856, it’s now on a pier in Baltimore’s Inner Harbour.❤️

Red round lighthouse on stilts at end of Pier 5 in Baltimore Harbour.

30/7/2025, 10:26:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonderful! Which lighthouse is it, if you don’t mind my asking?✨

30/7/2025, 11:46:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, Elizabeth! My favorite rose of all time.💕

30/7/2025, 11:45:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Color: pink | 'Farbe: Pink' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #flowers #USBotanicGarden #Blush #Rose #gardens #BloomScrolling #onlybeautifulthings The ever-beautiful, heavenly scented, perfectly pink Blush rose.✨💕🙏🏻

A Blush rose unfurling its delicate pink petals against a backdrop of dark evergreen cypress trees under a blue sky edged with white clouds. US BotanicGarden, Washington, DC (August 2015)

29/7/2025, 12:21:33 PM | 38 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks! It's one of my favorite places to cool off!⛲️ Danke! Es ist einer meiner Lieblingsorte zum Abkühlen!

28/7/2025, 10:36:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

I second that! I ❤️ short stories when they’re good.🙏🏼

28/7/2025, 8:09:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

I like the cover. Thanks for sharing it! 😊 #devonbookhour

28/7/2025, 8:04:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool! Hope you enjoy them. I’ll have to try Firefly Lane, #1 in the series! 🙋🏼‍♀️ #devonbookhour

28/7/2025, 8:02:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

#devonbookhour

28/7/2025, 7:41:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

not much happening this side of the pond bookwise - still doing a fair amount of audiobook ‘reading’ - The Second Sleep by Robert Harris turned out to be fantastic. He constructs a plausible futuristic story that takes place in a post-Dark Ages England. It’s well voiced (the narrator is great).

Book cover of The Second Sleep, a historical novel by Robert Harris, shows a silhouette of a man on horseback riding toward a gothic church tower under midnight blue skies.

28/7/2025, 7:41:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

were you going to attach a book jacket photo?🙋🏼‍♀️😊

28/7/2025, 7:28:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social)

Something cooling | 'Etwas kühlendes’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #summer #beautiful #lilies #flowers #BloomScrolling #playful #cheerful #Bartholdi #Fountain How refreshing!⛲️

A bright red canna lily enjoying fountain spray on a hot summer day. Bartholdi Park, Washington, DC (August 2015)

28/7/2025, 5:50:13 PM | 35 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonderful! Who doesn’t love a good rose-rescue bush! The only roses I ever had came with the house, tall thorny canes over my head when we moved in. I cut them back, sure I’d killed them, but lo & behold they turned out to be a lovely pink rose that bloomed nonstop with the most heavenly scent.💕

28/7/2025, 1:11:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

I sympathize! Where was yours? 🌹

27/7/2025, 9:02:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, tizzie, definitely one of my favorite roses there. The color intensifies as the weather cools off in fall.💛

27/7/2025, 8:48:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Trina Carter (@trinaherself.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, nice! I like the waterfront in Old Town.💕

27/7/2025, 8:45:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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