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derekxword.bsky.social
There’s a kid at my church who’s really into pineapples, so I suggested the Téléfrançais theme, Mo Rocca’s piece on finials, and the Pineapple Pen guy as quick explorations on everything pineapple. Any other suggestions?
October 3, 2026 at 2:33 AM
blightuponthyaft.bsky.social
[Blight peaks out from his warehouse warily, finials pinned back and blue optic wide. He looks back to Ev and Gullet who are thankfully in a nap together before looking back to the outside world and stepping into it, closing the sliding door and heading towards the scream.]
break0ut.bsky.social General Break Out | TFA OC @break0ut.bsky.social · 2d
[In part of Detroit's industrial area, a neutral mech screams. It barely lasts a moment, but it's loud, and a crash follows. Then, silence.]
September 30, 2026 at 8:01 PM
luminaryshot.bsky.social
karrrr… hehe! no bitinggg…

{ grabbing on his scanner bar, reaching up to scratch his finials! }
September 28, 2026 at 11:33 PM
rovingsquared.bsky.social
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( puuurrrr! his finials are lifted a little bit! )
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September 28, 2026 at 3:47 AM
rovingsquared.bsky.social
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( this’ll be easy. he still hates this guy, finials aggressively pinned. time for him to see how good of a moonracer he can be. )
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September 28, 2026 at 3:35 AM
annabookwriter.bsky.social
Forgive the shit picture, just thought you might enjoy the roof across the way festooned with pigeons
A damp, gray afternoon punctuated by a dozen and a half pigeons perfectly spaced across a roof like finials on an iron fence.
September 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Once again talkin' up mouchette wheels
Color photo of the top floor and parapet or an over-the-top revival apartment building in light brown brick. Edges of window bay absolutely mobbed with quoins. Terra cotta mouchette wheels on window spandrels and parapet, which features central curved section with tagine pot-looking finials. Rest of parapet asymmetrical with section to right maybe 3 feet higher than left. Color photo of cream terra cotta panels, in center a mouchette wheel, resembling yin and yang but without the dots.
September 26, 2026 at 8:01 PM
littlescout.bsky.social
this point he’s pretty familiar with the bug tunnels so it’s not hard to take them straight to Kickback’s nest. The mound of blankets also wasn’t hard to see, his finials bent back when he heard the coughing. He picked his way to the front and dug around until he could find Kickback’s helm.]
September 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Just a little twirly treat for the weekend, 5751 N. Campbell (Adolph Proskauer, 1926-27)
Color photo of a fancy 1920s two-flat in mottled light, with recessed entrance section on left. Facade is tan brick with stone or similar trim on parapet, minimally around windows and in a big way around front entrance, which features skinny columns with diagonal fluting, two rows of smooth leaves (not acanthus) below volutes on each capital, then boxes with shield design, a skimpy cornice, and obelisk finials. Festooned shield in brick between shield boxes, S-curls above front door, painted red with two little windows featuring diamond panes. (Phew!) Same curls above three ground-floor windows on main bay. Matching windows above have plain lunettes. Parapet is swan's neck pediment, h/t @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social for terminology. Window above entrance has diamond panes and lunette, with red clay tiles on roof section.
September 25, 2026 at 10:27 PM
alexadwilson.bsky.social
Was looking through a set of litho prints from a file kept by my uncle who has head of the school of printing at Stoke Art School and found this. I wonder where it could be.
A B&W litho print of a dilapidated building. There's a cart in the yard resting on its shafts. The building has two gables topped with finials and windows with mullions and arches over.
September 25, 2026 at 4:04 PM
asls.org.uk
Glasgow, late September and the city I spoke of
in another country (its fierce sandstone
burning, its bombast of finials built on the heads of slaves…

—Gerrie Fellows, “Dream Cities”
from The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014)
a #poem for #WorldDreamDay
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/dream-c...
Dream Cities by Gerrie Fellows I Glasgow, late September and the city I spoke of in another country (its fierce sandstone burning, its bombast of finials built on the heads of slaves the monumental tower blocks of a later order catching fire from the west as a plane comes in) has become in two months a dream a nostalgia For it is litter not grandeur a muddied disturbance in a dirty river a sullen reflection sliced by concrete (the monumental pillars and glorious boulevards of a later order) Against the vivifying light of the south the suburban avenues of a world of space it is rain rain and old world pallor and beyond it on the high points of Aonach Mor and Ben Nevis (so early a door closing and opening) the first snows of the winter II Early November and the city I parted from in two months has become a dream technicolour not quite Auckland or Christchurch but a dream place of skyscrapers and heady blossom stern waxy magnolia silk of almond and crab apple A dream place but Christchurch as it was then in mid-September Jane driving me to the airport past gardens reeking with nectar for there Spring has continued without me And here I wake no longer at home
September 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM
everyuklibrary.bsky.social
Lynton Library 📚
Market Hall, Market Street, Lynton EX35 6AF
📍 Map
Devon, England · library since 1919

📷 Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0

#Libraries #Lynton
A.I.-written description: Buff-coloured stone single-storey building with pitched slate roof and decorative stone finials. Large arched windows with dark green frames and matching entrance doors, cream render detailing to window surrounds. Situated on a tree-lined corner plot with wooded hills beyond.
September 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM
bmdecorativearts.bsky.social
Folding Armchair (reception) (Renaissance Revival style) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2008
Renaissance Revival style folding armchair of walnut, gilt decoration, and original upholstery. Shield shape back with elaborate cut-out crest terminating at each corner in two large finials raised on four squat turnings. Crest with small applied burl and composition decorative panels. Upholstered back with vertical central machine woven floral panel on black ground between faded beige fabric. Floral panel continues on seat, front to back. Seat with long dark gold fringe. Front legs with square profile flare forward and continue from seat with downward curve to midpoint of back stiles. Front surface of legs and back with incised gold linear decoration. Simple turned stretcher between front and between back legs. CONDITION: Very good original condition; slight loss to front top center crest; screw split wood proper right rear stile inner side; gimp on front of back raveled, numerous moth holes to seat and back upholstery.
September 25, 2026 at 8:56 AM
mihobeckmann.bsky.social
‚Protz und Prunk‘ #FotoVorschlag
A daytime view facing Buckingham Palace in London from The Mall, framed by two tall, ornate white flagpoles with crown finials in the foreground. The Victoria Memorial stands in front of the palace, and a large crowd of pedestrians walks on the paved area beneath a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds.
September 25, 2026 at 6:14 AM
momfriend64.northsky.social
I will NEVER forget the number one safe and legal thrill on Earth, and I will NEVER forget the classic style 4" brass door hinges with ball tip finials
September 24, 2026 at 11:12 PM
lidibee.bsky.social
Red sky at night, shepherds' delight.
The sky is a striated red and gold; the four finials of the square tower of a Norman church are clearly drawn.
September 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
rovingsquared.bsky.social
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( the finials do not help his case. or the retractable claws. or the purring.. he quite enjoys this. )
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September 23, 2026 at 12:30 AM
tynesnapper.bsky.social
#Newburn #NewcastleUponTyne Grade II Listed Lych Gate of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Newburn photographed on this day 22nd September 2014. Lych gate 1885. Sandstone ashlar walls and pegged timber framing; stone-flagged roof with ridge tiles and wrought iron cross finials.
September 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
mtbotany.bsky.social
If I were a master photographer, maybe I could impart how it feels to stand next to the south tower. It is like a mountain. A carved cliff. It is 136 meters tall.
The inset corner, angles of stone gray limestone rough with age though it was probably smooth when placed 500 years ago. Above the first ledge the stone rises with carved details like small pillars to arch shapes, to intricate finials atop decorative empty arches, with further and greater detail higher and high into brightly lit gothic stone against a night sky.
September 22, 2026 at 8:46 AM
hughsviewsandnews.com
Looking into the greenhouse in early spring 2020 (just after lockdown).

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #Photography #garden
A small, wooden-framed glass greenhouse with decorative roof finials sitting outdoors on a wooden deck next to a raised garden bed. Inside, terracotta and green plastic plant pots are arranged on the floor and on two wooden shelves along the left wall. The greenhouse is surrounded by a wooden fence, with bare trees visible against a bright, sunny sky in the background.
September 21, 2026 at 2:32 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Highlights from @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social's rainy, rollicking, erudite tour of Morgan Park
Color photo of the Gothic Revival entrance to an apartment building. In pale green terra cotta, a Tudor or similar arch, with stylized flowers on the soffit. Shields and vegetation in the arch's spandrels. A mini-tower on each side of surround, with tall pointed finials. In between finials a pattern of flowers-in-diamonds, each raising from the tip of a wave (not Vitruvian). In the middle, among cusped quatrefoil patterns, the street number: 11053-55. Rest of building is in peach terra cotta, with a little pink brick visible. Color photo of a section of a three-story, with raised basement, Tudor Revival courtyard apartment building in tan brick. It's awesome. Castle tower on top left and half-timbered (stone on pale brick) bay on top right, with crenelated parapet in between. Rough light stone accents, most prevalently in vein on corner of slightly forward section middle-left. Northern catalpa kicking ass in rain on right. Color photo of a Mission but also a bit Art Nouveau entrance to a white stucco apartment building. Door surround, in same stucco, has buttress-like piers on each with an adorbs statue niche. Slim top curved. Door, newer, has a window with a teardrop shape. It's summer, so there's vegetation in foreground and a maple tree blocking a little of the view from the top. Color photo of a red stucco mansion, with many parts. One bay features pretty woodwork in window surrounds, painted gold and red, most prominently a triple arched window under a cornice. It is raining heavily, with a bunch of umbrellas in the foreground.
September 20, 2026 at 9:49 PM
towns.satyrs.eu
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿️ How Caple, Herefordshire 🐂

📌️ 51° 58′ 22″ N, 2° 34′ 26″ W
A high-angle satellite view of How Caple, Herefordshire, shows a patchwork of green and brown agricultural fields divided by hedgerows and trees. The River Wye snakes through the landscape, bordered by dense woodland and small clusters of farm buildings. An open black metal gate stands between two weathered stone pillars topped with stone ball finials. The gateway leads into a garden in How Caple, Herefordshire, featuring tall hedges, bare trees, and a wooden pergola in the background. (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gate_piers_to_How_Caple_Court_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7123076.jpg) A narrow, paved country road winds between high, grassy embankments topped with ivy-covered trees and winter foliage under a pale sky. The right bank features a section of weathered brick wall and exposed red soil. (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brick_support_for_bank_of_the_road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3423842.jpg) A large two-story brick farmhouse and a row of stone agricultural outbuildings sit behind a grassy field where a small flock of sheep graze under an overcast sky. (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brook_House_Farm,_How_Caple_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4241622.jpg)
September 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
chartresfi.bsky.social
A really rather lovely door handle with tiny acorn finials in Jesus College chapel, Cambridge.
#IronworkThursday
September 17, 2026 at 4:59 PM
walktalktours.bsky.social
Interesting comparison with the finials on the bannisters in Holmwood House
September 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
diabolicbug.bsky.social
[Hm. This is tricky. He's not supposed to talk to strange bots and this is a strange bot. But it's also impolite to not introduce yourself. Hmmm. His finials flick back and forth as he thinks things over.]

... I'm Dib! Who are you? Why are you in my old house?
September 15, 2026 at 4:55 AM