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Mike Shirley-Donnelly (MSD)
Hi hello I am msd I make music and take photos and make art but also run a joint cat rescue / recording studio in southern new england with my partner Della. I'm still mourning Cohost closing, but at least I started blogging as a result??
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All posts (213)
TALKIN SHIT Not my finest entry in the series but I'm nothing if not a bird photo opportunist. Speaking of - I'm pretty sure this is our resident red tail (we named them Tobias) but I can't be 100% certain since I don't have all the tells yet and only got these two very brief photos. The tail feather coloring though...
More or Less If anything, he looks as surprised as I am at the notion of being awake. Or surprised at the notion that I haven't done a true "Snowapple says good morning" post since December. He's been in other posts but the format itself really stopped a long time ago and I hadn't even realized. The sleeping habits...
I'm so sorry for blogging about blogging, you can skip this one but there IS a good cat photo at the end lmao As usual, there will be unrelated photos sprinkled about my post because I'm highly visual; enjoy some birds on a power line from the photo backlog! I’ve mentioned before that I've gone full hog into RSS and...
I thought this was poison ivy because I'm a west coast idiot at heart We moved to our New England place in the fall of '21 so it wasn't until the following spring that these vine plants with three leaves in the pattern I'd thought was a shoe-in for poison ivy danger (which I'd never seen before, coming from the west...
Happy Birthdaversary to all whom celebrate (it's us, we are celebrating) 21 years ago today, my now-partner Della was celebrating her 21st birthday with only her camera and film, a pair of jeans, a shirt, a pair of chucks, her passport and a $10 white dress with black polka dots that she bought at target (we'll get...
Moon's Haunted. Last night while I was taking out the trash, I was greeted by this view from my front door. Like, opened the door and there was the moon, peeking through cloud and tree . Honestly, this is great by itself but the 150mm and exposure doesn't really do it justice, so I grabbed my other camera and popped...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop (and that stop has come!) I got sick last week and it kinda messed up my rhythm; I've traditionally been able to be sick and keep drawing these but I had enough other stuff going on that when I woke up last Monday morning I realized...I hadn't...
Dude have I mentioned how much I love doing dishes now As usual, photo completely unrelated; there was a bitchin' sunset the other night and I massively underexposed while trying to get it shining on the cat mansion at the window Welcome back to another JulyReply; I haven't done as many as I'd hoped this month but...
Grab the slider and go on an adventure with me It's weird that I only have one other photo of this stick on the blog. I must have tagged some of them wrong?? This thing is trapped in a power line that I see when I go on walks and I love photographing it. It's been there as long as I've lived here and looks like the...
Camera focus adventures with a super rad insect There's this metal corrugated awning that covers a patio in my backyard right outside the living room window; birds love it because it catches a bunch of the oak tree's acorns and like, win/win - I look out a window and there's a goddamn buffet for creatures both avian...
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