Genie Enabautelle
@genie-ollah-gist
Genealogist, artist, and author in the DC area (US). 🌈 🎶 📷 ⛰️ ⛱️ Twitter refugee...progressive viewpoints, no-nonsense attitude, sprinkled with thirst selfies (NOT an alt), travel pics, and a pinch of salt. Shade non-negotiable. #BLM #CeasefireNow
The standard pre-trouble/glamming, felt-pretty selfie to start off #MarketDays. Feels good to be back in #Chicago, albeit briefly.
Sorry, not sorry. These next 48 hours of the internet will be wünderschon.
Shared on my FB this morning. It's from an artist's viewpoint, but no less a viewpoint today in general... #ThomasGainsborough #eattherich
Spitting out loud laughing 🤣 Already heard this song three times in the past day and thought this would come up LOL
Way to go, New York!!!! Exciting! The corporate Dems are possing their pants, I love it.
Attaining 40 years earlier this year came the realization my beard is no longer the shade of red it was a couple of years ago. It definitely doesn't radiate as much as the autumnal colors behind me...and they don't make hair dyes for my color! #DC #fallcolors #dmv #agingGinger #RedBeard
If you're a Virginian, get out there and VOTE. No excuses. The message needs to be sent, the direction needs to be reset. #NativeVirginian #Virginia #ProgressiveVoter #Spanberger #VoteVirginia
Took a drive up to Ballston Lake/Round Lake area...where I haven't been since I was about 5 years old in 1990, when my grandparents lived in Clifton Park. I always remembered the apple cider donuts...so I grabbed six for the road. Autumnal feels! #UpstateNY #CiderDonuts #LakesideFarms
Well, nah...native Virginian here and I prefer it there. But, half my ancestry is from New York, so I guess I can't hate on it "too much" lol #EmpireState #Albany #StateCapitol
I've archival research to do for my next book series (one of several trips to NY necessary for it), but the NY State Archives and Library could be in a more interesting location. Alas, I'm in Albany. At least there's some fall colors to look at as well lol #Yawker #AllUpInYaAlbany #Genealogist
I'm back to work after a 13-day vacation in Spain. On my first walk break at the office, walking through #ConstitutionGardens, I couldn't help but notice they were cutting the grass with automatic lawnmowers. After 13 years walking these areas on my breaks, it's quite a first observation...
Camping at #WoodsCampground in the Poconos this past weekend. That fall crisp in the air (at night) was colder than I desired...
Hey, #USA, thousands of $$ a day are spent to send your National Guards on vacation to walk laps in parks. DC isn't particularly touristy these days, cause, you know. Do you feel safer? If not, take them back. We don't want them here (these are my own pics). #UnFuckAmerica #WashingtonDC #resist
"My god, what have I done?" #TalkingHeads #OnceInALifetime #LettingTheDaysGoBy
After a nearly 4-year drought in my previously annual/bi-annual visits to Colorado, my man and I had a wonderful time exploring in Denver and the Rockies. From atop Chief Mountain, with Mount Blue Sky behind us. #rockymountains #Colorado #hikers #gayhikers #beardedmen
My partner and I decided last minute to get the hell outta dodge [sic: DC], but it's rather fitting the birthplace of American independence and freedom is the backdrop of one of the larger #NoKingsDay protests. Over 100K attending, all peaceful, but with clear messages to send #DontTreadOnUs #Philly
My Swiss trip has been amazing and absolutely love the country. This was up at the Oeschinensee this past Saturday...unfortunately, just on the otherside is where that devastating landslide took place, destroying the town of Blatten. I remember hearing the evacuations on the news days earlier...
7 days into my Swiss vacation, and only had a few news leaks from stateside make it onto my phone...but enough of both to want to make me just stay here for good. Ugh. Meanwhile, me at Lauterbrunnen, SW...
Very much looking forward to a 2 ½ week trip through Switzerland later this week. It will be fantastic tuning out of all the DC/national news for a bit...#Zurich #Switzerland #ancestralties
Southward and bound, down to Appalachia for the weekend. #Roanoke #NewRiverValley #weekendtrip #roadtrip
Spring blooms can be from typically winter-blooming plants. #amaryllis
Some pictures I took on 17 April 2007, during the convocation and candlelight vigil held commemorating the 32 lives lost the previous day at Virginia Tech. I was a senior there that year and a rare event. 18 years later, I still haven't forgotten my coworker Leslie, who was among the casualties.
This is close to what Great Britain did with their criminals to the colonies (aka United States) until 1775, and then, subsequently, to Australia. I have an ancestor who, in lieu of the death penalty for stealing a shirt in 1773, was sent to Virginia. And they say history doesn't repeat 🙄
No one can tell I'm jamming to Ken Laszlo. #tonight #gymswolfie
Some new amaryllis blooms acting as spring harbingers... #amaryllis #springblooms
My phalaenopsis orchid has been bringing summer colors since December and still going strong... #plantdaddy #phalaenopsis #orchidthief #orchid #springisnear