orange rose bloom, green background

"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween."
~ Erma Bombeck

🌱 Happy Halloween, all you kind gardeners of BlueSky!
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A forested hillside rises into the clouds above the calm water of a lake. The forest is studded with yellow from larch and a few aspen.

I love autumn larches because they make it feel sunny even when it's not.

Truly a tree to live by.

#nativeplants 🌱🌿

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Check out this flower!

Carved pumpkin with a brown floppy top hat with green hatband & glowing face in front of black background

Happy Halloween!
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Large arrangements of pink and white moth orchid flowers

I really like it when businesses display large orchid arrangements for people to enjoy.

Phalaenopsis hybrids (NoID)

#orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #macrophotopraphy #365photo 📷🌱🌴🪴sky

The picture shows three carved pumpkins placed on a wooden surface, likely a step or bench. 1. The pumpkin on the left has a carved face with triangular eyes, a small nose, and a jagged mouth, giving it a classic jack-o'-lantern appearance. 2. The middle pumpkin has a more distressed look. It has large, round eyes with small pupils, and a wide-open mouth from which pumpkin guts and seeds are spilling out onto a green cloth below. The top of this pumpkin is partially cut open, and the expression appears shocked or horrified. 3. The pumpkin on the right has a smiling face with heart-shaped eyes and a wide, happy mouth. There are some seeds and pumpkin flesh around the top where the stem is. The scene suggests a playful and humorous take on pumpkin carving, with the middle pumpkin appearing to "vomit" its contents, adding a comedic element to the display.

#Gardeningfeed 🌱
#NaturePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#NatureLover#Photography
#UKGardening
Good Afternoon,BlueSky fam!
Check out this Next picture of Carved Pumpkins that I came across while exploring my neighbourhood
Captured on a Canon EOS R50

An magpie Ink-cap mushroom

Magpie ink-cap 🌱🍄

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Mushrooms #nature #autumn

A fall scene in a deciduous forest with gold and yellow and orange leaves on the trees and on a large winding path.

Enjoying golden strolls 💕🌱🍁 #fall #forestbathing #nature #Ontario #Canada

🌱 Your Daily Moment of Sanity

A wooden farm fence with metal gate; large fall-colored trees in the background, ornamental grasses and chrysanthemums in the foreground (lavender, yellow, and brick red).

Today's walk on the farm: ornamental grasses, colored leaves, and hardy mums (volunteers from last year).
#gardening #chrysanthemums #🌱

False color image of the nebula NGC 246, a wispy blue and purple object that resembles a skull.

💀The Skull Nebula🌌 (NGC 246).

Image: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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🎃A Jack-o-Lantern Sun🌞

Image: NASA / Solar Dynamics Observatory 🧪 🔭
nasa.gov/content/godd...

A glowing blue-green cloud of gas shaped like the head of. A witch in profile. It is gotten by a variety of stars in blue, orange, and violet.

🎃The Witch Head Nebula🎃

Image Credit: NASA / STScI Digitized Sky Survey / Noel Carboni
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Galaxy merger that resembles a face with large, glowing yellow eyes. At the center are two bright white, fuzzy ovals that appear side by side. These white ovals are the cores of the galaxies. The right galaxy’s core has a brown ring of dust and gas around it and appears fully face-on. The left galaxy is appears at a slight angle, but is mainly face-on. Together, they appear to make up the “eyes” of the “face.” Outside this core are lanes of blue gas and dust, which take the shape of a rough oval, and are about as large as a head when compared to the size and appearance of the galaxies. Strewn throughout the image are many fuzzy streaks and dots, which are galaxies and stars respectively.

There are no expansive, glowing eyes in this Hubble image. This “face” is the result of two galaxies that collided head-on and have begun to intertwine. They will merge completely in 1-2 billion years. For now, they make up a ring galaxy, a rare classification. Credit: NASA/ESA 🔭 🧪 🎃

Sunflower

Sunflower

U.S. sunflowers are grown primarily in the Midwest, in states like North & South Dakota.The growing process is a little different in Alabama.The summers are hotter & longer, and can be wetter in some regions. Rain is important after planting sunflower seed. ‬⁩ #Sunflowers 🌻 🌱 🧪

Ripe crabapple against green grass and blue sky

Mellow fruitfulness 🌱

#RedWed #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #UKGardening

A bloom of 'Sweet Mademoiselle' rose, many layers of pinky peachy apricot petals, covered in raindrops.

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday 🌱
#RoseWednesday

My photo of two pink roses from my garden.

Pink blooms from my garden. "Pink reminds us that vulnerability is a strength, not a weakness that Pink blooms in adversity, reminding us of our own resilience & reminding us to appreciate life's simple pleasures."🌱🌿🍃
#RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling
#garden #FlowerReport #PhotographersofBluesky

'Spun Gold', from 1940, was a top award winner in its day. Still shows off beautiful form and color.
#iris 🌱

Thin layers of lighter and darker blues reveal the many layers of Earth's atmosphere, seen at an angle from upper left to lower right from the International Space Station. The lowest layer is orange-brown line with clouds and dust and smoke. Nearest to the camera, Earth is dark from nighttime.

#PPOD: An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a sunset that looks like a vast sheet of flame. With Earth’s surface already in darkness, the setting sun, the cloud masses, and the sideways viewing angle make a powerful image. 🧪 🔭

Credit: NASA
Caption: M. Justin Wilkinson

High speed videography of the onion cut with segmentation sequences. The blade sharpness is 13 μm and the speed is 2.0 m/s.

I think we have a serious contender for the next Ig Nobel here - cutting onions with a sharp knife reduces tearing (also probably reduces general ejected droplets when cutting things). 🧪

Maybe time to upgrade my knife-sharpening game.

Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A pink rose on a bush sporting lots of rosehips

Hip Hip Hooray 🌱🌹

#Bloomscrolling #RoseWednesday #DailyFlowers #UKGardening

pink miniature rose bloom, garden and green leaves in the background

“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”
~ Alphonse Karr

Sending a bit of miniature rose joy on this sweet #RoseWednesday 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a

New @exeter.ac.uk reveals how cilia choreograph their “Mexican wave”, enabling marine creatures to swim!

Full paper in Science Advances - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦑🌊🌍🧪🐟 #AcademicSky
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Tributes to champion of Skye's 'Dinosaur Island' Dougie Ross, who has died at the age of 68, made his first fossil discoveries when he was a boy.

Tributes to man who discovered Skye dinosaur footprints as a child. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This has to be the end of season as temperatures dip. They going out bloomin! All praise to the mighty gods of the stoop. 🌱

G’Morn from #Brookside! Prayer to the garden gods: lettuce live on in the #BalconyGarden under our makeshift cold frame!

#GardenGrewPeas
#Gardening 🌱

Slipper orchid inflorescence with 3 flowers. Dorsal sepal is white with dark brown vertical stripes and lateral petals have dot like markings

I am still unsure about the name of this orchid.

Paphiopedilum Memoria Albert Eickhoff (P. stonei × P. kolopakingii)

#orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #macrophotopraphy #365photo 📷🌱🌴🪴sky

"Princesse Charlene de Monaco" is holding court in my garden. I think this is the latest she has ever bloomed.
#roses #flowers #gardening #Bloomscrolling 🌱

A large extra deep tray filled with peach, red, pale yellow-green, orange, and gnarly red/purple/gold peppers in a variety of shapes.

A basket full of red, striped metallic, & green tomatoes plus orange, pale yellow-green, red & green sweet peppers.

Forgot to share the last harvest from the weekend cleanup. Another mountain of hot peppers, plus a basket of assorted tomatoes and sweet peppers. Not too many green tomatoes to deal with this year!

#gardening #bloomscrolling #KitchenGarden #GrowFood 🌱