The Forest Before Us

Art in the #sky
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#BlueSkyArtShow #art #photography

A big lizard on a tree branch.

Remember the little guy from my last post? Meet his BIG brother 🦎. Just a lot more spikes and attitude!💚. The "little" dragon part definitely doesn't apply to him! 🐲

#herpetology #borneo #wildlifephotography #borneolocaljourney #lizard #wildlife

The sawtooth mountains of an Alaskan mountain range just south of Denali. Tall pines adorn the foreground. Lamar Jackson famously tweeted Johnny as the correct answer to one of those stupid viral tweets and the Baltimore Ravens went on a historic win streak.

“Johnny” - Lamar Jackson

Pic of the day

#photography

"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language."
-Meister Eckhart
#videography #nature #mysticism #quotes #forest #Eckhart #river

"Glorious mountain view in the Pacific Northwest."

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

📷 Photo by Mike Manzone©️

Panorama shaped photo of a mass of golden sporophytes growing on a mossy log. Backlit.

Moss sporophytes

Clouds woven into the valley floor and hovering just above mountain tops.

Happy #Stunday morning!
#Mountains
#Landscapes
#Clouds

A view through a sparse forest, grass and moss covering the ground. The morning sun lighting the way.

A beautiful start to the day on Thursday last with the low winter sun lighting up the forest. This is how the hike started, walking through Tibradden to the cairn and onto Fairy Castle.

#Hiking #Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Forest #Woods #Trees #PhotoHour #EastCoastKin #StunDay #Ireland

Third and final post in my waxcap run, and species I find particularly gorgeous, the Goblet Waxcap (Hygrocybe cantharellus) #fungi

The Falls of Foyers #Scotland #Foyers #Inverness #LochNess damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar

Close-up photo of a small wildflower with long, thin and pointy green leaves, and 5 elongated blue-lavender petals and white anthers & stamen growing from a woolly bud, against a warm and soft out of focus background.

Lavender Woollystar (Eriastrum filifolium)

#FloralFriday #MacroPhotography #Wildflowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography #FlowerFriday #FridayFlowers #SanDiego #Herbs

This photo by Jack Greenwood shows five green lilly pads floating on the surface of a clear pond with their shadows underneath.

#ColorADay #GreenSat

Some cheer to brighten up a winter's day. Colletes daviesanus on Tansy (first Scottish record as far as I can make out😊) at Dumbreck Marsh LNR on 02/08/2025. Look at those pollen baskets! With @edinburghnats.bsky.social #Colletes #bees

A illustration(ai) of a piedmont region of a large mountain range

“Wisdom comes from reflection.”
-Deborah Day
#ai #synthography #nature #forest #quotes #philosophy #reflection #mountain

Came across a very striking Turkytail fungus earlier ,certainly the brightest i,ve seen #fungifriends#mushrooms#toadstools#fungi

Photo of a cream coloured lichen. It has large, orange apothecia. The apothecia have frilly edges.

Another orange rock posy lichen, Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca. Northwest Territorie, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

A vibrant orange flower stands tall against a blurred dark background, with soft circles of light.

#photography #unedited

A colour photograph close-up of British Soldier lichen (Cladonia cristatella) captured on a winter forest walk. The upright green stalks have bright red rounded tips and are found on decaying wood, soil, or mossy logs.

British Soldier lichen (Cladonia cristatella) growing on decaying wood, have gorgeous green stalks with striking red tips, resembling the red caps historically worn by British soldiers.

#ForestFriday #lichen #BritishSoldierLichen #photography #EastCoastKin

An illustration of a grove of trees in a high mountain landscape

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
-Veronica Roth
#ai #synthography #knowledge #power #quotes #philosophy

A mossy fallen log

Bakethin Nature Reserve in December

#nature #naturephotography #autumn #kielderforest #northumberland

An Upper Peninsula of Michigan pine plantation for #ForestFriday!

A very bright full moon surrounded by clouds in dark night sky

Supermoon tonight
#photography, #365photodgraphy2025, #potd2025, #photoaday, #everydayphotographer, #photooftheday, #pad2025-338, #supermoon, #moon, #fullmoon, #clouds

A Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) takes flight from a Douglas fir overlooking the Umpqua River today in rural SW #Oregon #birds #wildlifephotography #photography @zumapress.bsky.social

Had a magical few hours at Skinflats yesterdayafternoon, not much seen but the sounds of nature won the contest, with Water Rails & Cetti's Warbler to the fore.
#birds
#birdssounds
@upperforthbirds.bsky.social

Close up photo of spore capsules. The capsules are green, on orange stems, and with orange caps.

Polytrichum moss spore capsules. Newfoundland, Canada.
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking

Rhodonite from
Mina do Morro mine
Minas Gerais, Brazil

#rhodonite #minadomorro #minasgerais #Brazil #gemstone #mineral #mineralspecimen #mineralogy #gemology #gemspecimen #nature #beauty #red #crystal

An illustration(ai) of pooling water in a desert

“In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.”
― Paulo Coelho
#ai #synthography #nature #paths #Coelho #literature

Bears Ears Back Country…
Utah…

A waterfall spills into a pool. Above, below, and beside is green. Bare, skinny pines shoot up in the background. Several fallen trees lay near the mouth of the waterfall. A bare tree lay like a toothpick next to the bottom of the falls.

Waterfall on a trail not too far from Multnomah Falls in Oregon

#WaterfallWednesday

Photo of a grey lichen on rock. A portion of the lichen thallus/body looks like a human brain.

The brainiest orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) I ever saw. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends