My Awe and Wonder, on yesterday's hike at The Quirang, Isle of Skye, Scotland. The most spectacular views!

#SensoryArt #Emotion #EastCoastKin #Photography #Scotland #IsleOfSkye

😀 thanks for the reposts, @nickoprints.bsky.social, @badcat6.bsky.social, and @dawnphotography.bsky.social 💙

Thank you @mel789.bsky.social and @sunflower-vp.bsky.social for the reposts.💙

The Dresdner Zwinger, in Dresden, Germany is a Baroque-style grand palace. Today, it houses world-class museums and an Old Masters gallery. Partially surrounded by a water feature, this view looks out from the beginning of the footbridge across the water to the two-level, open gateway (on the very right of the image) that stands at the halfway point of the length of the building. The corner of the building we see is half of one of the long galleries. It stretches out to the left, with 18 arched windows, each with 18 panes. Above the row of windows there is a balustrade at the roofline along the rooftop walkway, punctuated with statuary above every space between the windows below. Captured on a blue-sky/white clouds December day, this wing of the Zwinger is almost totally in shade from the Dresden State theatre across the street (not in the image). However, the gateway glows in sunshine, partly because of the gilt on the huge crown above the open archway. In the water feature below, there is a mirror-like reflection of the building, as well as of the leaf-less winter trees at the extreme left of the image. In the immediate foreground there is the leaf-strewn, steep grassy bank down to the moat, leading away from the viewer’s position. https://www.der-dresdner-zwinger.de/en/the-dresden-zwinger/

The Dresdner Zwinger on a crisp, cold December day a couple of years ago.

#EastCoastKin #Dresden #Germany #museums #landscape #photography #BlueSkyArt #Stunday #travelphotography #architecture #Baroque

Thanks Sharon! I don’t know if it will work for others, but it’s fun to try. 😀

That tail looks a lot more cooperative than what I fight with every night. 😁

A shining reminder of coasts of my past and future.
I love this photographer’s composition - and the sunburst is the cherry on top!

This gorgeous capture is a perfect morning shot! Thank you for bringing the bright and light, and the positive vibe. 🌻

round straw bales against a pink sky

#BlueSkyArtShow #Gratitude for a land that feeds our stomachs, our minds and our souls! #Photography #EastCoastKin

Overlooking Rice Lake in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The sun is shining through the cloudy sky and there are several mountains and trees in the distance.

I feel so much #gratitude for the healing power of nature, now more than ever! 🌿

#Scape #BlueSkyArtShow #GreenSat #ColorADay #mountains #trees #sky

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Lighting the Dark" 20"x20" oil on linen (2025). This moody, abstract-leaning seascape painting has a textured, orange-toned, atmospheric sky with textured colors of light on the horizon. Light from the sky reflects in the water below as it meets a dark, rocky, tree-lined coast.

For #BlueSkyArtShow #Gratitude

I'm grateful for the opportunity to paint almost every day, to create moments of light to share with you.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Lighting the Dark, oil on linen, 20"x20"

Original is available on my website:
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#painting #art #bsnm #ArtYear

This image is of a horizontal 5-generation family tree set against a grey background. It reads from left to right: from the host individual on the left through to the 2nd great-grandparents on the right. Each individual is represented by a rectangular box with space held for a profile thumbnail, a name, and years of birth and death. Profile thumbnails are present for generations 2, 3, and 4. For privacy, names are given only for the 5th generation. To the right of each 5th generation individual an arrow indicates further generations available. Just like a living tree, it continues to grow as each branch is discovered and reveals its story. ***** For all of their decisions - known and unknown, good and bad. For shouldering burdens, pushing through struggles, and making the best of what they were given . . . they warn me, inspire me, and make me proud. Because of them, I exist. The search for their truths recorded in dates and places and events of history enriches me, for which I am forever grateful.

#Gratitude for the grounding of knowing who I come from.
Gratitude for those who did the research before me, and for the passion it has become.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#family
#genealogy
#ancestors
#standing-on-shoulders
#family-history
#family-trees

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This is a picture of a soggy, white, floppy teddy bear perched in the crux of the branches of a tree beside a sidewalk, the day after a heavy downpour. The brightness of the bear’s fur and the dark markings of its face and paws make it stand out against the contrasting green leaves surrounding it. Presumably it had been found where it had likely been dropped by a sleepy child, in a stroller or in their parent’s arms, and then got soaked in the rain. I suspect someone had picked it up and placed it on the low tree branch to protect it from further damage, and in full view in the hopes of someone recognizing and returning it to its heartbroken owner.

Cutting it fine for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme of the day - #Gratitude . . .

To me, this image is a reminder that the majority of humans are good, and they care for the defenseless and voiceless without grandstanding.

#EastCoastKin
#teddybears
#neighborhood
#childhood
#lost
#compassion
#empathy

Colpoy's Bay, Ontario at dawn

#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds

Laguna Sucia, a deep blue glacial lake sits beneath dramatic snow capped peaks in Patagonia’s Los Glaciares National Park, with rocky cliffs and ice covered ridges above.

A splash of blue and some decent looking rocks for #rockintuesday.

#photography #nature #art #eastcoastkin #stormhour #tuesday #photohour #fitzroy #patagonia #travel #scape #landscape #mountain #ColorADay #BlueTue

🌻Sunflower hour🌻

#photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #macromonday #sunflower

A mossy covered rock sits at the base of a mossy tree. Lush green fills the landscape in stunning vibrancy. The sun beams through the forest, illuminating all that it touches.

Another contribution to #stunday, nothing more stunning than the forest!💚🌲✨️

"A song of Enchantment I sang me there,
In a green-green wood, by waters fair,
Just as the words came up to me
I sang it under the wild wood tree"

- Walter de la Mare

#poetry #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #westcoast

Thank you @beyondxistence.bsky.social and @juliew67.bsky.social for your help; for me, navigation here is still not automatic. 😀

Thanks @sheena-mck.bsky.social for setting this up.👍

😁
Thank you!

Looking for some guidance 🙂. . .

I’m intrigued by the #AlphabetChallenge and enjoy seeing the different posts. It looks like something I’d like to do.

What I don’t understand is where to find the weekly theme, and how come there are various themes in the same week?

Grateful for any pointers. 🙏🤔

Agreed. Many a night photo-opportunity has been dashed by that canopy.
I have to say though, imo, that it was an attractive feature in your photo. From that viewpoint - rather than from below.👍

Amazing capture!
I’m familiar with light pollution, but as a former resident of Portland . . . I had no idea. You don’t realize the scale when you’re inside.

This photo shows a breathtaking view from high above, taken from the cable car on the way up to Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze. Below, nestled among dense dark green forests, lies a large, shimmering lake - the Eibsee. The water appears deep blue with patches of turquoise near the shore and around small islands dotting the lake’s surface. Surrounding the lake, thick forests stretch into the distance, rising up into steep mountain slopes. In the background, layers of rugged alpine peaks fill the horizon under a sky filled with soft, streaky clouds.

An Aerial Amble Across Alpine Awe.

Captured during the cable car ride to the Zugspitze, this view reveals the blue waters of Lake Eibsee nestled among the Bavarian Alps.

#landscapephotography
#ThePhotoHour #EastCoastKin 📷
#MountainMonday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAlliteration

a view across a large, deep and still fjord at night with a full moon rising, on the horizon behind the snowy coastal mountain chain a curl of an aurora curtain unfolds slowly like a green lotus

'Green Lotus' (2014) -- If You Have Seen Enough Auroras, You Know That Eventually They Will Take the Form of Every Shape Imaginable... They Are Mesmerizing, Nebulous Spirits, Lofoten Islands, Norway

#BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday

#PhotographersOfBluesky
#ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

Thank you for the repost @kxswanson.bsky.social 👍

Thanks, Rebecca @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social 👍

Wow! Three reposts! Thank you @young-spartacus.bsky.social 🙏

Thank you @freyasnowball.bsky.social for the repost!

Thank you, again, for another repost! 🙏

We were lucky enough to leave before the *real* heat, after 6 months stay.

Plenty of photography subjects there. 👍

Thank you #EastCoastKin for reposting my photo,👍