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#HaikuSaturday #haiku
The Golden Triangle BID has an annual haiku contest. They post haiku throughout the community and give some prizes. This year's theme is The Joy of Nature. More info on their site under events. Submissions are open until 1/11/26.
Day 3 of #folktaleweek2025
Rain
#illustration #folktaleweekrain
Sketchbook page of birds, fungi and other wildlife from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, UK
Last week on the North York Moors (Northeast England) - before the weather turned! The freezing cold will probably finish off most of the fungi; hopefully the birds will move out of the worst of it🤞
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#art #nature
I am a circular-story person, myself. It's very satisfying. ❤️
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Young girl outside with glasses, looking at explorer journal
Wednesday Addams dancing in black dress
In gray scale, little girl in bed looking out window as dog howls at the moon
Bear with steaming pie in hands, and a fox, squirrel, and bird follow behind
🎨 Spotlight on Cyndi Wojciechowski (@cyndidraws.bsky.social)
Cyndi's illustrator website
Cyndi is represented by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black and is open to picture books, black and white interiors, chapter books, and covers.
Wow!!!❤️
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Bare-leaf tree in a green meadow with a mountain and blue sky backdrop in autumn
unwrapped leaf by leaf
radiant in autumn light
bold, beautiful - tree
#haikuSaturday #haiku #tres #dendrology #audubon #arcadia #autumn
Oh! I've never imagined potatoes as resembling 'gemstones' - and they DO! How lovely and fun. (And delicious!)
15.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Day 11 of the #makearteveryday challenge . This one is ART: SONG BIRD
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#mae2025 #makearteveryday #illustration #illustrator #lovewhatyoudo #birdillustrator
When I read the full review of THE OCEAN'S HEART I cried (tears of joy)...Okay, I'm still crying. The reviewer connected with this book on every level. I hope other readers will, too. ❤️@steelworksliterary.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social @carolhinz.bsky.social #Edusky #Skybrarians #kidlit
11.11.2025 00:06 — 👍 425 🔁 81 💬 24 📌 3Wow!! SO happy for you! Cannot wait for this one! 💙
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10.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 42 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 3Thank you!!
09.11.2025 20:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0oh! Interesting. I am currently in the Field Naturalist program with my state Audubon organization. Maybe this is something to think about! 💚
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09.11.2025 02:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nature Poetry walk sounds fabulous!!
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Spinybacked Orbweaver spider hanging from a web, which was strung between tree branches over a wooded trail in Blair Woods Nature Preserve this morning in Austin Tx
Had a great morning on our Travis Audubon poetry birding hike at Blair Woods Nature Preserve in Austin. This interesting spider was hanging above the trail. #haikusaturday #nature
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Sketch of a Black-capped Chickadee with a nonet typed onto the sketch.
On our poetry birding hike today we wrote nonets. This is my first attempt at writing one! We heard Carolina Chickadees along the trail. Although I didn't capture a good photo today, I added a nonet to a rough sketch I made from a photo I took of a Black-capped Chickadee in the NE.
09.11.2025 02:28 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I was listening to coyotes this afternoon. So fabulous!
09.11.2025 00:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'swish swash' is perfection! Fun and evocative!
08.11.2025 22:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0💛 gorgeous!
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Close up side view of a large bird with glossy black feathers with a blueish tinge.
Full body shot of a large black bird.
We love a good collective noun and there are lots of crackers for rooks, including congregation, storytelling, building, parliament and clamour.
The bird's Latin name Corvus frugilegus means "fruit-gathering crow".
📸 Pics by George Anderson.🐦⬛
Yes! I’ve read stories about that. I hope you do it to see one. They’re quite remarkable.
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08.11.2025 14:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0E.B. White mentions them too, I believe, in The Trumpet of the Swan. Also a sweet mention in Charlotte's Web when talking about the return of spring.
And now I want to go and read Charlotte's Web again! :) 📚❤️
It's one of the prettiest!
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Tree trunk gnawed by a beaver on the river bank in the autumn
beneath starry skies
buck-toothed builder carves
frost moon on the wane
#haikuSaturday #haiku #poetry #moon #beavers #ecology #rivers #trees
