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Writer: science fiction and fantasy, personal finance, and Esperanto

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2024-04-13 18:27

Posted on 2024-04-13
by Philip Brewer

A view out my study window, where the flowering crabapple tree is in full bloom, and a dandelion flower with a pollen-covered bee. #bloomscrolling

A view out my study window, with a flowering crabapple in full bloom
A pollen-covered bee on a dandelion flower
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged bee, bloomscrolling, flower, flowers, Photography

2024-03-14 09:40

Posted on 2024-03-14
by Philip Brewer

Here: Have a pretty Pi Day sunrise.

Sunrise over a grassy sward with a few trees
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged Photography, sun, sunrise

2024-03-12 12:10

Posted on 2024-03-12
by Philip Brewer

Just a piece of bark with some lichens on it. A little moss too, I guess. #lichensubscribe #mosstodon

A piece of bark with lichens on it
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged lichen, lichens, LichenSubscribe, moss, mosstodon, Photography

2024-03-12 12:05

Posted on 2024-03-12
by Philip Brewer

Big open-grown oak in the Sangamon River Forest Preserve. #thicktrunktuesday

Big open-grown oak tree
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged champaign forest preserve district, sangamon river forest preserve, thicktrunktuesday, woods

2024-03-12 07:50

Posted on 2024-03-12
by Philip Brewer

Me: Ashley, we’re out for a walk! We’re not out for a “stand and stare at a squirrel”!

Ashley:

A dog standing and looking intently at something not in the photo

#dogsofmastodon

Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged Ashley, dog, dog pictures, dogsofmastodon, Photography, walking

2024-03-08 16:14

Posted on 2024-03-08
by Philip Brewer

Dramatic sky. Not quite as dramatic as this filter would have you believe, but pretty dramatic.

Dramatic clouds over Dohme Park
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged cloud, Photography, sky

2024-02-03 14:40

Posted on 2024-02-03
by Philip Brewer

The dog seemed happy to laze about for an extra half hour this morning, so I wasn’t out in time to see the dawn, but I got this nice view just after sunrise.

The sun rising between buildings, as seen from Dohme Park
Posted in Local, News | Tagged Photography, sun

2024-02-02 08:13

Posted on 2024-02-02
by Philip Brewer

Reminder: Your local spring is forecast by your local groundhogs. Ignore celebrity groundhogs!

I’m looking forward to an early spring, despite my dread of the other effects of global warming.

A tree on the edge of the street, with an apartment building and parking lot beyond, and a cloudy sky
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged groundhog's day, Photography, spring

2024-02-01 06:30

Posted on 2024-02-01
by Philip Brewer

After week after cloudy week, where dawn was just the sky going from black to dark leaden grey to light leaden grey, today we get an actual dawn.

Looking down the path through the prairie toward the dawn sky
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged dawn, Photography

2024-01-23 18:55

Posted on 2024-01-23
by Philip Brewer

Street lights on the ice glaze left by freezing rain.

Street lights shine on snow and ice, with a swing set in the foreground.
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged freezing rain, ice, Photography, snow, street lights, winfield village, winter

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I write science fiction and fantasy stories.

I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon.

For a while I taught Taiji.

For eleven years I was a senior writer at Wise Bread, writing about personal finance and frugality.

Before that I spent a quarter-century as a software engineer.

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