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Just springtime things.

#naturephotography #original photography #nature photography

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Shadows in the yard cast by the trees just as the eclipse started.

#2024 eclipse #original photography #naturephotography #junkshoplibrary

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Just a series of pictures I took this morning of some of the elephant ear plants that seem to spontaneously generate throughout my yard.

I am never doing A Lawn again. This is SO much better.

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It’s Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s birthday! Let’s all listen to some sweet electric guitar riffs and thank the Godmother of Rock and Roll for making it happen.

March 20, 1915 - October 9, 1973

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Centipede

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Things to Say to Someone in Top Drop/Dom Drop

I’m okay

I love you

Thank you

It’s alright

I’m not hurt

I’m not hurt too badly

You’re lovely/wonderful/kind

I enjoyed it

It was worth it

Take your time

Do you need anything?

Do you want a cuddle?

Do you want me to get dressed/take the collar off/put the crop away?

Do you want to talk about it?

I’m here

You’re not a bad person

Top drop/dom drop usually comes from shock, guilt or insecurity about the way you have just treated someone whose well-being you care about very much. Like sub drop, it is usually accompanied by a fall in endorphins and general energy levels. Especially for aces (who I find have a greater need to be in the right mindset/’zone’ for play and intimacy), a ‘snap’ moment where you break out of play mode can throw you emotionally, and the end of play causes a similar reassessment or double-take at what happened during the scene.

Dominants in drop require the same kind of care as subs, but a different kind of reassurance.

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Planting Pumpkins!

Never tried this before. We shall see.

Also yes I completely forgot about this account for large amounts of the past several years and am trying to remember to post more to remind myself that it's here.

-JSL

#backyard gardening #JunkshopsPunkinPatch

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It's the last day of 2023.

It's hard right now for a lot of us. I know for me the temptation can be either to descend into silence or to lash out at whoever's available. I'm going to try to be better.

That's all.

No grand resolutions, no marks for me to feel bad about falling short of. Just trying to remember to be a little better. That, I think I can do.

Stay safe out there, y'all.

-JSL

#happy new year

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To Read, Or Not To Read (Nov 2, 2023)

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And THIS feeling is why my perspective is "Like what you like; give yourself permission to enjoy it; let the critics be damned."

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Let Us Compare Symptomatologies (Aug 31, 2023)

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The James Webb Space Telescope has just completed a successful first year of science. Let’s celebrate by seeing the birth of Sun-like stars in this brand-new image from the Webb telescope!

This is a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. At 390 light-years away, it's the closest star-forming region to Earth. There are around 50 young stars here, all of them similar in mass to the Sun, or smaller. The darkest areas are the densest, where thick dust cocoons still-forming protostars. Huge red bipolar jets of molecular hydrogen dominate the image, appearing horizontally across the upper third and vertically on the right. These occur when a star first bursts through its natal envelope of cosmic dust, shooting out a pair of opposing jets into space like a newborn first stretching her arms out into the world. In contrast, the star S1 has carved out a glowing cave of dust in the lower half of the image. It is the only star in the image that is significantly more massive than the Sun.

Thanks to Webb’s sensitive instruments, we get to witness moments like this at the beginning of a star’s life. One year in, Webb’s science mission is only just getting started. The second year of observations has already been selected, with plans to build on an exciting first year that exceeded expectations. Here’s to many more years of scientific discovery with Webb.

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Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)