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Three Horses

Three Horses https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/three-horses-1912

A pine tree that has curvy trunk and twisted branches surrounded by straight growing pines that seem more like the norm or with less character. Black an white photo.

Even the most gnarled tree is eloquent in the telling of its own tale.
-Brian Froud

#ForestFriday
#ColorADay #B&WFri
##EastCoastKin

A darkish mostly black and white photo showing 3 people bathing in a body of sparkling water surrounded by rocks with the sunlit ocean in the background. The closest person is pointing up at something out of view.

A beautiful and faraway day, the “Queen’s bathtub” on the Mokes at Lanikai

A Lynda Barry quote on top of a picture of a faraway person standing at the tip of an angular rock cliff under a big blue sky with clouds. Quote: The ordinary is extraordinary. The ordinary is the thing we want back when someone we love dies. When someone dies or leaves or falls out of love with us. We call it "little things." We say, "it's the little things I miss most." The ordinary things. It's the little thing that brings them back to us unexpectedly. We say "reminds us" but it is more than reminding-it's a conflagration —it's an inundation —Both fire and flood is memory. It's spark and breach so ordinary we do not question it. The atom split. The little thing. —Lynda Barry

This will spell the end for Monarch butterflies

Another kind of nurse log—a fallen tree...the heart-shaped, vibrant green leaves are likely False Lily-of-the-Valley...Mycorrhizal fungi bridge the gap between the log and the new plants, passing along essential minerals. #ecology #nature #plants
#science #parks

golden light, tall winter trees, soft blue sky

Meadows of gold dust. The silver
currents of the Connecticut fan
and meander in bland pleatings under/ river-verge farms where rye-heads whiten.
All's polished to a dull luster
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August gives over its Midas touch
wind bares a flintier landscape

In Midas' Country
Sylvia Plath

Everything they do is magic. Thank you for helping them!

Top of a crested saguaro in glowing silhouette with the sun behind it and a bird perched on top.

The crest of a crested saguaro in sunlight, showing the branching and curving patterns of its lined grooves going all crazy instead of just straight vertical like its other parts, a few balls here and there indicating new growth, will there be more crestage?

Cactus wren and crested saguaro (🎶volume up for sweetness)

Feeling lucky I got to live when the monarchs could do their amazing thing.

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Literally, The Last Image I took in 2025. A Short Eared #Owl perched today above Shillapoo Lake as the sun was setting on the Year.
A good year in some ways, a terrible year in others.

We hope for better #2026 for everyone.

#birds #newyear #Owls #photography #eastcoastkin #art #pnw #wildlife

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

Repost omdat: wanneer zie je nou een uil met een mislukte geheime zender?

"Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern."
- Oscar Wilde

#Cats #BlackCats #NightFury #NachtFürie #HerrNachtFürie #Dawn #Photography #Life #Gratitude

A tiny house sparrow, Passer domesticus, enjoys the morning sun and successfully blends with the surrounding autumn leaves.
#birds #autumn #sparrows #nature #photography

Animal Destinies (The Trees show their Rings, the Animals their Veins)

Animal Destinies (The Trees show their Rings, the Animals their Veins) https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/animal-destinies-the-trees-show-their-rings-the-animals-their-veins

A black square-shaped stone monument engraved with: Hier ruhet mein lieber Mann, unser guter Vater der Schlachtermeister Heinrich Hahn geb.12. Februar 1839. gest.10. September 1915.

der Schlachtermeister
#31DaysOfGraves #Occupation #Cemetery

I don’t do a lot of macro, but this little one intrigued me. It wasn’t until I was able to look closer that I saw that face. 😱

#Spooktober #CreepyCrawly #macro

A family mausoleum with 4 columns decorating the front and a double door with a green patina. There are 2 benches facing each other in front with faux tree trunk frames. Above the doors it says 1927 and P. Razzano and In Memory Of Our Son.

#31DaysOfGraves #Columns #Cemetery

A life sized angel figure carrying something in her right hand (which is perilously cracked at the wrist). Next to her is a barefoot child sized figure missing a head.

#31DaysOfGraves #Cemeteries #Figure What does she carry in her fragile hand? Who is her headless barefoot companion?

In honor of #WorldReptileDay, here are a couple of Green Turtles resting on Poipu Beach on Kauai.

#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin

President Carter in 1976. Almost like he could see America in 2025.

A 7th century Pictish symbol stone discovered in 1936 during excavations at the Knowe of Burrian - a broch at Netherbrough in the Orkney Isles. Now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Picts #Orkney

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest in memory of Paul E. and Gabriele B. Geier

Grazing Horses IV https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/222353

An 1875 grave monument broken in half with the top half leaning against the bottom half. It shows a hand pointing up and the words There Is Rest In Heaven

Pointing the way to rest in 1875
#31DaysOfGraves #Hands #Cemeteries

Old falling apart grave monument in the shape of a cross with a broken out photo holder spot and some glass marbles embedded near the bottom and top—no lettering visible.

Close up of the marbles near the top—they make a circle surrounding 4 bigger marbles and a white smudge is in the center

Close up of the marbles near the bottom—a seemingly random pattern of about 20 marbles in various colors

Nothing left but the glass
#31DaysOfGraves #glass #cemeteries

Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Large angel grave monument with flowing gown that’s fallen off one shoulder and large wings seemingly made of feathers against a background of green treetops and gray sky

Her feathered wings
#31DaysOfGraves #Angel #Cemeteries