A willow tree is reflected in the shrouded mist of the lake.

The large Willow gets a moment of reflective grace in the lake 📷🕊️ …

A winter scene of a pond on a sunny day… the sun shines through bare trees and on the opposite side is a frosty field

Good morning and happy New Year’s Eve, BS! 🦋 👋….
thank you so much for all the kindness this year, it’s been really lovely getting to know some of you ✨…. sharing a winter memory and wishing you all a happy and wonderful 2026 … I hope it’s full of all good things for you! ☕️🌿🍂🌳🌱💛🎄🥂❤️✨

A bird blind at the end of a footbridge with branches around it.

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." - Maya Angelou

An old barn in the middle of a field in the country. Tall grasses covering a wire fence is in the foreground. In the background are mountains.

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Santiam river still quite high after all the rain and still pretty muddy. Both sides of the swollen river are lined with trees. Under blue skies today.

The Santiam River flows
west out of Mill City, Oregon

mourning dove on a lichen-covered branch with blurred background

#BirdOfTheDay #BranchingOut

Stout Creek flowing to the west away from Lyons, Oregon. Dry grass and bare trees on either side of the creek. Many of the tree branches overhanging the creek are completely covered in moss. The surface of the water reflecting the cloudy sky with a shimmering silver amidst the trees.

stout creek

Rocks and boulders fill the scene with grasses and Joshua trees growing amongst them.

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

Close-up of a daisy. Only the flower head is visible, which is only slightly open. The very delicate petals have pink tips and lie in layers. The background has a green bokeh.

The tender-hearted
have to cover themselves up,
layer by layer.

Wishing you a happy new week 🫶

#MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #photohour #MinimalMonday #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings
#Poetry #Poem #Haiku #MicroPoem #FreeVerse #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin

A look out the wondow as light snow falsl.The ground is white with a red fence and a couple of trees.

"No matter how big your window is, what determines the light you get is how much open your eyes are!"
-Mehmet Murat ildan
🤍🎶💃🎶🤍

A European robin enjoys the sun on a fence. In the background are branches of a hazel tree.

Hey little birdie, enjoy your day 🪶

#HolidayRobin #FestiveDailyRobin #birds #birding #photography #SensoryArt #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin

Around the bend of the river the mornings first light awakens the distant vista.

The Winter Solstice arrived with the magic of sunshine and mist last year 📷🕊️ ….

A pond bordered by autumn trees. The water reflects the trees and the blue sky… reeds are along the right edge… a duck is swimming across the water creating small ripples behind it

Good morning and happy midweek, BS! 🦋 … We’re halfway there ✨…. I hope it’s a great one! ☕️🌿☀️🍁💛🌳🍂

A woodland path in early autumn with green and yellow trees and leaves scattered along the ground

Good morning and happy Tuesday, BS 🦋 … an autumn memory to bring warmth to the day … I hope it’s a lovely one for you ☕️🌿☀️🍂🌳💛🍁✨

In my excitement at finally seeing these Tibetan Snowcocks, I took neither a good photo nor a video! This was up at 17,000 ft with Gokyo Lake below and Everest somewhere in the background!

#birdoftheday #winterbirds #birds #eastcoastkin #wildlife #nature #scape #bluesky #mountains #video #pheasant

Close-up of an icy ivy flower, the background is blurred

❄️ Frozen #moments ❄️
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15

Have a great start to the new week 🫶

#ColorADay #PinkMon #SensoryArt #closeup #photography #flowers #MacroMonday #FineArt #PhotographersUnited #scape #photohour #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

A Santa Barbara Daisy bloom , white petals around a yellow and light green center ☮️

...Boating on this lake,
we make an oval track
on the surface; and,

gazing at rapeseed
flowering yellow along the shore,
we suspend but do not dissipate
the anguish of this world.

taken from- Qinghai Lake
by Arthur Sze

Der Himmel zeigt ein tiefes Blau mit verstreuten Wolken, die sich über die gesamte Bildbreite erstrecken. Am unteren Bildrand sind die Silhouetten von kahlen Bäumen und Sträuchern zu erkennen, die sich vor dem dunklen Boden abheben. Es gibt einige kleine Lichtpunkte im Hintergrund, die aus fernen Häusern stammen. Die Szene zeigt den Übergang von der Dämmerung zur Nacht.

Unterwegs
On the way.
#eastcoastkin #blueskymonday
#bluetue

Das Wattenmeer zeigt sich bei Ebbe mit flachem Wasser und freigelegtem Schlick, der kleine Pfützen und Inseln bildet. Am Horizont zieht sich ein graues Wolkenband entlang, das den Übergang zwischen Meer und Himmel markiert. Darüber erstreckt sich Gelb am Himmel mit grauen und bläulichen Wolken, deren Spiegelung sich im ruhigen Wasser des Wattenmeers widerspiegelt.

Erinnerungen ⛅️
Memories
#eastcoastkin
#tidesouttuesday

Manchmal brauchen wir einen Menschen, der unsere Seele streichelt.

Roswitha Bloch

Der Dezember ist die Stille, in der wir die Ewigkeit berühren.

Elise Green

Möge mein Herz stets offen sein für kleine Vögel, die die Geheimnisse des Lebens bergen.
Was immer sie singen, ist besser, als es zu wissen...

Edward Estlin Cummings

Im Grunde sind es immer die
Verbindungen mit Menschen, die dem Leben seinen Wert geben.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

A photo showing snow and a dirt field to the left of a road. there is a tree on the right and fog in the distance

"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Taken from below a short ridge at 9:30am. Looking up over the edge the tops of a few trees and bushes are all visible in silhouette in front of a band of white clouds that stretch across the sky just above the ridge. Above that a cobalt blue cloud afloat in a grey bed ☮️

blue monday

Le case del centro storico in Via Aurelio Saffi addobbate dalle luminarie natalizie.

L'albero di Natale allestito al centro del Combarbio, la piazzetta all'incrocio delle cinque vie principali della città. In primo piano un carretto per il trasporto di merci addobbato con luci e festoni blu

L'Arco Ganganelli addobbato con una rappresentazione luminosa della Natività visto dalla Fontana della Pigna.

Un'abitazione del centro storico completamente ricoperta dalla vite americana decorare con le luminarie natalizie

Avvento a Santarcangelo di Romagna

a glass sun decoration is dangling off the roof of a house. there are conifer branches hanging down from above. there is a reflection of those branches in a window.

“You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.” — CS Lewis

enjoying the simple things💜

The viewer is looking through a the dark silhouettes of tall grasses at the yellow, orange, peach, pink and with a trace of blue sky beyond. Across the bottom is dark trees in the distance, and two strands of barbed wire is visible across the bottom also. The tips of an eastern red cedar is in the top left corner and downward. Part of a leafless hackberry tree is visible on the top right corner and downward.

This evening out back

“Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then”
-Jerry Cantrell

#photography #macromonday #macro #flowers #nature #bloomscrolling #aliceinchains #would #music