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Black and white render during blue hour out of my window, silhouettes of neighbors house and trees, and power lines in the foreground beneath a cirrus flecked sky

Time for me to turn back into a pumpkin again perhaps. Sleep well wanderers of the azure heavens, I will wave as I pass, heading second to the right and straight on til morning. One more #BWFri straight out of my window at last light two days ago

#Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono #ColorADay

So pretty, pretty

Black and white render from a riverside path, looking across the mirror like brook to the snow covered trees and pavilion beyond

Another snowy view, a small riverside local park, no people around, they were sensibly wrapped up warm, but the still river and recent snow had me stopping for a snap through the brush and twigs.

#Scape #SuburbanScape #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono

Stunning C

Panoramic shot across ploughed and cleared fields in a very flat piece of Berks County, PA. First snow lying on the field tops with various farms and trees along the horizon, as well as a prominent mobile phone mast, beneath a near cloudless sky running from soft azure/turquoise blue to the softest amber toned white at the horizon

Cold start, first snow still lying around, and a shot of it in a rural Pennsylvania pano scene, late afternoon two days back in Berks County.

#Scape #landscape #EastCoastKin #Pano

Color photograph of a rusty blackbird head turned to one side as if listening, amidst the grass in William Kain State Park in York County, PA

Color photograph of a rusty blackbird sitting amidst the grass in William Kain State Park in York County, PA

Morning folks

Today's alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Black birds, and as folks seem to like the slightly scary looking grackle cousin before, here's another rusty blackbird; shot in William Kain State Park a few weeks back 🐦🦉

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #Wildlife #Nature

Color photograph of a twist on the bucolic; silhouettes of farm buildings and trees post sunset, with early snow on the ground still stop aged grave stones. Baby bird blue sky at the top of frame with some high level cirrus atop a gradient turning amber at the horizon

Good night folks, sleep well, for tomorrow brings that Friday feeling. With potentially record breaking low temperatures due tonight, a clear sky above rural silos and graves amidst the snow, I have a date with the sandman

#Photograph #Landscape #Twilight #EastCoastKin

Nice reflection!

Yeah, I thought choosing a weekday freezing night, the day after first snow, it would be deserted ... how wrong I was!

Color photograph of the Kissing Bridge in Koziar's Christmas Village. A small covered bridge across a brook, decked with mistletoe and festive lights

Couple of children look through the window at Strawberry Shortcake in an ice cream shop at the Koziar's Christmas Village

Path of lights glowing red against the night leading to an archway with people underneath

Photograph of the brightly lit barns and visitors at Koziar's Christmas Village

Thought I would do some handheld night-time experimentation in a little farm deep in rural Berks County, PA. Come Thanksgiving each year, the farm transforms for a month or so to become Koziar's Christmas Village, and has done for 70+ years.

#Photography #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze

Color photo of the front of a suburban house, the porch of which is decorated with hanging green ferns in pots, human sized nutcracker soldiers, wreaths and bells

Colorful Christmas porch of someone's suburban palace I happened across locally, not too kitsch, including a pair of nutcracker soldiers, hopefully neither of whom escaped from Cambridgeshire (as @rhapsodyangel.bsky.social noted).

#Photography #UrbanGaze #PalacesAndGardens #RedGreenAndGold

Color photograph of a male northern cardinal standing proud in short grass; very red!

Happy Thursday free thinkers in the sky that's blue. As a bad birder, one of the things I love about trying to follow Rob and Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is it forces me to learn. Today's is #Songbirds and I now know cardinals fit the ... bill ... and the beak 🐦🦉

#Photography #Birds #EastCoastKin

And yes, I be Durset born, and Durset bred, thick in t' arm and thick in t' 'ed

Why I stopped with feeders in my yard, instead of squirrels, a skunk or two would gather, add a local barking dog into the mix and yeah ... stopped that rapidly

On TV even! Sheesh

WTB an editor (or an edit button), PST

Oh that's nothing to worry about; its where they plug in the drip feed of the blood of virgins' and unicorns' each night

Black and white render of a bee feeding off a thistle head

An' when the zwarm wer seäfe an' sound
In mother's bit o' bee-pot ground,
She meäde us up a treat all round
O' sillibub to drink
-- William Barnes

Saw some Dorset poetry TV today for the first time in 40 years, in celebration, a busy member of the swarm.

#Photography #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono

Color photograph of the door and view through its double panes of glass to the interior of a railroad carriage on the Stewartstown Railroad in southern York County, PA. Deep olive green paintwork surround, with an almost armored look, and a wooden door with paint heavily distressed with age. The upper glass pane is relatively pristine, the lower heavily misted. Yellow interior lamps and curved roof supports can be seen through the upper pane

Not the Jim Lowe or Shakin' Stevens (just for @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social) Green Door, but one on an aged carriage on the Stewartstown Railroad

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #WindowsOnWednesday

Color photograph of a tufted titmouse standing in short grass atop a sunny mound in William Kain State Park in York County, PA

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LookingAtYou

Time for a bird I don't think I've ever posted on here, in the shape of a tiny tufted titmouse, surprised by the sound of some unthinking noisy photographer .. 🐦🦉

#Photography #EastCoastKin #birds #Nature #Wildlife

Color photograph of the view upstream on the Susquehanna River from the Blue Rock boat launch in Washington Boro, Lancaster County, PA. A near leafless tree rises from the bottom right corner into center frame, with the turbid river behind, and Rookery Island in the distance, beneath a blue sky with light scattered clouds

Work has been occupying much of my time this week, no skipping out for a gentle wander; first snow today, slushy messy fall, nothing picturesque, so it is back a week or so I go for some blue, and the lee of Rookery Island.

#Photography #ColorADay #BlueTue

Color photograph of a still scene on Lake Pinchot in York County, PA beneath a clear blue sky, with hazy cloud building out in the distance. Near still water reflecting the far tree line well, the reflections separated cleanly from their primary by a thin band reeds made amber by the late afternoon sun and to the bottom left the last vestiges of the lily pads this part of the lake is normally thick with.

Welcome to December, and with the first snows forecast for us tomorrow, was good to sit amidst the silent serenity around Lake Pinchot this weekend. In summer the waters here all but hidden with lily pads, and wading birds loving the far reed beds

#Photography #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin

Black and white render of mallard swimming on Kiwanis Lake, gentle contrasting ripples, the bird swimming left to right in the bottom left, with its reflection beneath

Little more on the art, less on the documentary photo, and yes its a Mallard, see I learned after saying duck last time! Early morning at Kiwanis Lake, York, PA.

#BirdOfTheDay #Mallard #Reflections #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #ClassicMono

Art Challenges: December 1–7 Monday, December 1 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) #XtraXmas (#PartridgePeartree) Tuesday, December 2 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) #XtraXmas (#TurtleDoves) Wednesday, December 3 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual) #ColorADay (#RedWed) #XtraXmas (#FrenchHens) Thursday, December 4 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#RedGreenGold) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) #XtraXmas (#CallingBirds) Friday, December 5 #scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) #XtraXmas (#GoldRings) Saturday, December 6 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #BlueSkyArtShow (#sky) #XtraXmas (#geese) Sunday, December 7 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) #SelfPortraitSunday (#LinesAndGeometry) #XtraXmas (#swans) ALL WEEK #ArtAdventCalendar (any original non-AI art daily through Dec 24) #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #FestiveDailyRobin (robins through December 31) #smArtist (purposeful art) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekWForWindows) #SensoryArt (#seasons)

Your art challenge cheat sheet for Dec 1–7!

NEW: #ArtAdventCalendar and #XtraXmas

Host list in the comments

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Thank you; I got lucky to be there when the wind was truly absent, rare these days 😄

Poor sidewinder

Yep, this could be one of those years

Black and white render of what I think are the hairy seeds on goldenrod; tend to see a lot of them in fall here in the eastern US, and always remind me of hairy caterpillars.

"Brown and furry
Caterpillar in a hurry,
Take your walk
To the shady leaf, or stalk,
Or what not,
Which may be the chosen spot.
No toad spy you,
Hovering bird of prey pass by you;
Spin and die,
To live again a butterfly"
-- Christina Rossetti

I know, they remind me of it

#ImageAndVerse #BNWmacro

And yes I know Yaffle is a 'woodpecker' in theory, but the commonality of form is striking

Color photograph of a couple of blue jays standing in short grass in the sunlight. One on profile, looking to the right, one from the rear.

Color photograph of a blue jay standing in short grass in sunlight, looking to the left.

I miss magpies (yes, and even the counting rhyme), instead around here we have these colorful #corvid, blue jays, as seen in William Kain State Park south of York, PA a week or so back. Professor Yaffle from Bagpuss anyone? 🐦 🦉

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #nature #BirdOfTheDay #Stunday

Yeah, Fourth Protocol all too often seems forgotten yet is so well put together; boring bits from that world and all