Linda Barnia King

Mt. Adams in background…hop yard in mid ground…introverted (?) Bison cow dining away from the herd…Yakama Nation’s Reservation…
#monoMonday #monochrome #bnw
#Washingtonstate #photography
#blackandwhitephotography #PNW
#ruralscenes #landscape #rural
#bison #WestCoastPhotography
#cascademountains

Bald Eagle…I don’t post locations for where I see this protected national bird because there’s always someone eager to harvest and sell eagle feathers…
#birds #BirdoftheDay #sideview #eagles
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
#ornithology #Washingtonstate #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography

They’re early…my first Daffodil opened 3/7/26 in the lower Yakima Valley Eastern Washington state…
#gardening #flowers #Spring #nature #photography #Washingtonstate #PNW
#dailyflowers #bloomscrolling #Photo
#SundayYellow #flowerphotography

Lewis’s Woodpeckers thrive on acorns so those oak trees would draw them to that area…likely will stay there year around as they do here…named in the logs recording the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-06 as were many other birds…

Some of last week’s birding: Bald Eagle visiting our neighborhood, Mallard Drake in a ditch, White Crested Black Polish rooster from a backroad, American Robin in our driveway…
#stunday #birds #birdphotography
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdwatching
#Washingtonstate #photography
#WestCoastPhotography

Smokey, the feral tom who visits for a meal now and then, wandering through one of my gardens…Yakima Valley…
#caturday #cats #mygarden #Flowers
#dailyflowers #Bloomscrolling
#flowerphotography ##bloomsky

A few warm days and these snowy signs of winter are now gone from the southwest side of the Yakama Nation’s Reservation…drought conditions continue
#washingtonstate #photography #PNW
#washingtonisbeautiful #ruralscenes
#rural #WestCoastPhotography #nature
#backroads #landscape #scapes #snow

Another difficult day in America and a bouquet to cheer up those suffering from gray weather and really dark current events…
#bouquets #flowers #dailyflowers
#bloomscrolling #flowerphotography

A real sign of Spring is when farm/garden/animal feed stores bring in stock tanks equipped with heat lamps, feeders, water sources and fill them with baby chicks for sale…Union Gap, WA
#chickens #poultry #farming #rural #birds
#ruralscenes #farmlife #photography
#smallbirdSaturday #BirdsoftheWorld

Had a Paint/Quarter Horse who seemed to enjoy mud more than his bay, buckskin and black companions…always wondered if it had anything to do with all of his white coloring…

Bullock’s Oriole male doing a bit of pole dancing as he enjoys grape jelly at the feeder…White Swan, WA…
#birds #colorfulcaptures #orioles
#BirdoftheDay #birdphotography
#closeup #BirdsoftheWorld #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography #ornithology
#photography #backyardbirding

Lots of color for those who are impatiently waiting for Spring…weather rumors say March winds will likely ruin my fun in the dirt…may have to settle for potting up some flower seeds…
#floralFriday #dailyflowers #bouquets
#flowerphotigraphy #bloomscrolling

Did you see my corrected response to your question?

Sent that response wrong…I did some rodeo photography for a few years…this was shot from in my knees on the side of the arena opposite bucking stock chutes…prefer black & white to color…many photographers shoot best ride shots…I shoot the whole ride plus wrecks & bull fighter & pickup men action…

Water Lilies this summer 2025 at the big pond, Sportsman State Park, Yakima, WA…
#ThreeonThursday #waterlilies #flowers
#bloomscrolling #Washingtonstate #PNW
#dailyflowers #blossoms #photography
#flowerphotography #naturephotography
#WestCoastPhotography #water

A Ring-necked Pheasant slowly strolled across the road giving me time to stop my truck though I still had to shoot through my tinted window to capture him…
#gamebirds #birds #ornithology #PNW
#birdphotography #BirdsoftheWorld
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#Washingtonstate #birdwatching

Bull Fighter (not called rodeo clowns anymore) distracts the bull and buys the fallen rider a few seconds to escape…
#HumansofBlueSky #photography
#blackandwhitephotography #bnw
#monochrome #WestCoastPhotography

Black-headed Grosbeak…

Seen when out birding…beaver dam in an irrigation canal that has water during the winter…Wapato Irrigation crew’ll destroy it in a month when they clean the system…Mt. Adams in the distance…
#waterWednesday #Washingtonstate
#WestCoastPhotography #nature #rural
#ruralscenes #backroads #scapes #water

Never know what sort of birds you’ll find when cruising country roads…he was with another rooster I couldn’t get a photo of near Toppenish, WA…
#birds #chickens #birdphotography
#photography #rural #backroads
#Washingtonstate #farming

Peace Rose from the 2025 Rose Garden, Yakima Area Arboretum…yesterday felt like spring so I did the March pruning on our backyard “Chicago Peace Rose”…
#roseWednesday #roses #flowers
#dailyflowers #bloomscrolling #photo
#flowerphotography #photography
#flowerfeed

Lovely area…

Nice reflection…I call them Mutt Ducks…

These male Red-winged Blackbirds must really be hungry…showing their colors aggressively but kept eating and ignored each other…my lawn has greened up…
#birds #Two #TwosDay #ornithology
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdoftheDay
#Birdsintheirelement #birdphotography
#Washingtonstate #photography

Cottenwood tree found in a creek bottom near White Swan, WA…they are fast growing reaching massive heights and girth, but few survive to 100 years…
#thicktrunkTuesday #Washingtonstate
#trees #WestCoastPhotography #photo
#rural #photography #naturephotography

3/1/2026 7 Great Egrets & 1 Great Blue Heron spent time almost in our backyard…
been watching 4 heron for 2 weeks…could be a nest…egrets are new…Yakima Valley
#birds #egrets #herons #ornithology
#birdphotography #Washingtonstate #WestCoastPhotography #PNW
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdoftheDay
#fourormore

Sun rising on Mt. Adams as seen from the lower Yakima Valley, the second highest mountain in Washington’s region of the Cascade Range…elevation 12,276ft…3/1/2026…
#mountainMonday #mountains #PNW
#CascadeMountains #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #landscape #WashingtonState #WashingtonisBeautiful

Migrating Canada Geese making a rest stop at the neighborhood gravel pit pond, Yakima Valley, Washington state…
#birdoftheday #fourormore #geese
#birds #BirdsoftheWorld #birdlife
#washingtonstate #birdphotography
#water #reflection #photography #WestCoastPhotography #PNW

Gold Stars also known as Spring Gold, tiny member of sunflower family, blooming 2/27/2026 on the exterior grounds Fort Simcoe State Park, near White Swan, WA…
#stunday #WashingtonisBeautiful #PNW
#wildflowers #bloomscrolling #photo
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#WashingtonState #SundayYellow

Nashville Warble…nests in Canada and area of some northern states including the Wenas Lake area of the Yakima Valley…migrates to Mexico…
#SmallBirdSaturday #birds #ornithology
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
#warblers #birdsintheirelement #birdlife
#WestCoastPhotography #photography