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Iā€™m offline for National Novel Writing Month (November)! See you on the other side.

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Yesterday, the view from Manchester dock, facing east toward Seattle.

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@chrisheck thank you! Nobody seems to fully understand the underlying processes that create the stunning geometric patterns. One of natureā€™s beautiful mysteries.

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@Miraz I know, they donā€™t look real! They truly take my breath away. I believe the same group of about eight birds returns every autumn.

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The Harlequin Ducks are back in the Puget Sound! Spotted on our walk yesterday evening. They thrive in turbulent waters, and adults have been known to live with multiple healed fractures due to their challenging environment.

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@hollie Natalie Goldbergā€™s Wild Mind: Living the Writerā€™s Life often helped me! I hope I did the link thing correctly.

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@jean šŸ‘‹waving back!!

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@alpower I hope you can make it! The west coast is beautiful. I hope to spend some time out your way as well.

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Just read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, from 1909. ā€œā€¦the round plate that she held in her hands began to glow. A faint blue lIght shot across it, darkening to purple, and presently she could see the image of her son, who lived on the other side of the Earth, and he could see herā€¦ā€

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@cjhubbs I love these too! I wish we had room for one. I have too many typewriters. :-)

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@alpower beautiful. Looks very much like the Pacific Northwest!

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@chrisheck maybe her son will attend UW? My husband is from Texas but does not want to ever move back there. He loves the beauty of the PNW!

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@chrisheck isnā€™t it wonderful? Most people donā€™t know that we get beautiful fall weather in the Pacific Northwest! ļæ¼

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@rpmik I would love to see an oriole! Our regular visitors are chickadees, juncos, towhees, and nuthatches. Chickadees will splash around in the birdbaths right next to me. They are fearless!

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@rpmik theyā€™re extremely shy. Often, Iā€™d see one through the window, but heā€™d be gone by the time I stepped outside with my camera!

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@chrisheck thank you! Iā€™m also in the PNW.

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I took this one in our driveway a couple of years ago. Cooperā€™s hawk.

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@jean beautiful! I was going to say this looks like the Oregon coast, then I realized it is the Oregon coast. Iā€™m not far from you on the Olympic Peninsula!

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Autumn in the Pacific Northwest.

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Do AI tools erode cognitive fitness? See a new paper, ā€œAI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance.ā€ Also see Cal Newportā€™s blog today. I wrote 15 traditionally published novels without AI, wonā€™t change. I love the struggle, the messiness of true creativity. And the typos!

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@Miraz Western tanager!

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@Miraz I have to get used to a platform without blazing notifications! I like it. šŸ˜Š

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@rpmik Gorgeous kitty!

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Visitors to our Pacific Northwest garden sanctuary this past summer. Theyā€™ve all migrated south. Towhees, juncos, chickadees and sparrows are sticking around. šŸŒ±šŸŖ¶šŸ‚

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@Miraz lovely!

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Iā€™m new here. I write novels as Anjali Banerjee and A. J. Banner, and Iā€™m desperate to escape the algorithm-driven, extractive attention economy. Iā€™ll post about books, my typewriter collection, cats, birds, my writing life, our garden, and whatever else comes to mind. Photo by Carol Ann Morris.

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