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A road curves to the left. On the right side of the road are trees covered in snow with one in the middle with no snow, its leaves still the color of autumn and a pile of leaves underneath that tree.

I like the first snow of the season when shows the beauty of both seasons. This tree on our road decided it didn't want to be dressed up in snow.

#photosky
#photography
#Trees
#Snow
#Winter
#Fall
#Nature

Meaning that any allegations of domestic abuse is not serious or of a concern. And yet women continue to vote for these assholes.

A boat is heading out to Lake Michigan. The sun is showing through a gap in the clouds with a streak of yellow on the water

Spent some time on Lake Michigan yesterday in South Haven. The sunset was spectacular with a bank of clouds rolling in across the lake. I was able to catch a boat heading out of the channel just as the sun was peeking through a gap in the clouds.

#photosky
#photography
#LakeMichigan
#sunset

A toad sits on a step. There is a leaf sitting in front of it.

#ToadMonday? Is that a thing? Saw this guy on the stairs of my deck recently. He politely told me to move along.

#photosky
#photography
#Frogs
#Nature

Thousands of years? Did the Babylonians have a communist party?

A red rose with water droplets from a recent rain. A used-up bloom is in the left background and several stems from another rose bush with dead heads is on the right.

I think this week could use a rose.

#photosky
#plantsky
#photography
#Roses
#plants
#naturephotography

Someone please take the microphone away from Grandpa. He's rambling again.

#embarrassing

I switched to BBC right after the election and the US news channels started normalizing thus shit.

A turkey looks through a cage straight into the camera. Several turkies are in the background.

Someone said 'Hi' yesterday at the county fair. Truthfully, he probably hoped I had some food.

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#birdsky
#photography
#birdphotography
#PhotographersUnited

As do I. Fuck this fascist bullshit.

A 13th disciple only in a white, Republican biblical times with white, Republican Jesus. Charlie would not have followed the real Jesus because he'd considered him a DEI hire.

The head and shoulders of a gray Buddha statue sits in the background with out of focus pink geraniums in the foreground.

Buddha sits by our front door as protection of our house. I caught him peeking out through some pink geraniums.

#photosky
#Buddha
#photography
#art

A silver spotted skipper butterfly sits on a dark blue butterfly bush bloom.

Add a new butterfly bush to backyard. Love the color. This silver spotted skipper thought it looked good, too.

#butterfly
#photosky
#nature
#photography
#butterflysky

A bumblebee on a plant that has blooms that are fuzzy and brownish in the middle with pink elongated petals. A reddish flower that is losing petals is to the left.

Caught this busy bee during a recent visit to MSU Kellogg Bird Sancturary.

#bees
#photosky
#nature
#photography
#flowers

Happy Friday. Someone stopped by to say Hi yesterday. Or, pissed that the camera didn't food.
#birdsky
#hummingbird
#nature
#photosky
#birds

Racist much? FFS.

A ruby-throated hummingbird is perched on a garden hook. A purple hummingbird feeder is in the foreground of the picture

A ruby throated hummingbird perched on a garden hook next to a purple hummingbird feeder

We've has hummingbird swarms lately in SW Michigan as they start their migration south. Pictures of them hovering are always cool but seeing them at rest is just as cool. This ruby-throated was hanging out in our backyard over the long weekend.

#photosky
#hummingbird
#nature
#birdsky
#photography

A swan is looking over the top of a chain link fence. There are two other swans in the background near the edge of a pond.

I live about 5 min from the MSU Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. There is a pond enclosure there housing swans, geese, and ducks that cannot fly. This guy gave us the stink eye when he found out we did not bring corn. Sorry, dude, next time.

#photosky
#birdsky
#photography
#nature
#birds

A bumblebee flies past a yellow cup bloom. The bumblebee is blurry showing its movement past the bloom. Withering blooms are on the left side of the picture.

A busy bumblebee to start out the week. Had the pleasure of seeing this one at the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary near Kalamazoo, MI. Bummed at first that the bee was blurry from it flying by but now I like it.

#photosky
#beesky
#bees
#photograhpy
#nature

If you're watching Trump's press conference, a good way to make sure you fully comprehend his message is whenever he says "homeless," "criminals," "scum," "filth," "savagery," "gang," and/or "illegal," substitute in the word "black."

Welcome to the police state. D.C. is just the beginning. He will be taking over other cities, as well.

#policestate
#fascism
#fucktrump

A Silver-spotted Skipper butterfly that is black in body with white and orange spots sitting on a pink and yellow lantana flower.

A Silver-spotted Skipper hanging out in the backyard.

#butterfly
#butterflies
#buttersky
#photosky
#photography
#nature

Purge is the right term. Trump and his regime are doing a purge like those of the old Soviet Union, North Korea, China, and any other authoritarian regime. We are in a dictatorship in progress. They are just making final moves to solidify their hold on to power. Our democracy is dead.

It's also something that someone who is not planning on moving in 3 years would do.

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

Hell, they'd vote to repeal the 13th amendment

A Great Spangled Fritillary, a brownish or yellowish butterfly with black spots on its wings sits on a pink/purple Echinacea flower. There are several Echinacea flowers in the picture.

A Great Spangled Fritillary hanging out in the backyard pollinator garden.

#photosky
#butterfly
#nature
#photography

A pink or purple echinacea flower

Lovely echinacea from our garden. I think the little flaws make it that much more charming.

#photosky
#photography
#flowersky
#flowers
#naturephotography

Photo of a white, wire handle of a wire planter with purple petunias and pink zinnias in the foreground and a blurred blue pot with orange Merigolds in the background

Going through my camera roll today and found this happy accident. I was trying to get a shot of a bumblebee on a flower. Missed the bee but got this shot.

#photosky
#flowers
#photography

A bumblebee flying next to a pinkish bee balm flower.

Life has been very lifey lately which has not left much time for creative outlets but that is finally changing. Our flowers have been full of bumblebees and honeybees. This one was kind enough to pose for a quick pic.

#photosky
#bees
#Flowersky
#naturephotography