Azulita

I don't really need any help. I trust that the package will be delivered. I just thought it was funny that the site said "weather delayed" on a mild, sunny day, as if the drivers took the day off to go to the beach. 😄

A close-up landscape photo of a pink poppy. The view is top-down, looking right into the flower. The pale green immature seed capsule is at the top, just to the right of center. White stamens tipped with bright yellow pollen surround the capsule like rays. The petals are pale pink near the center, deepening to hot pink toward the edges, with attractive streaking of the colors.

I'm one of those who gets summer S.A.D. and feels physically attacked by the heat and light of the season, along with a sort of depressed agitation and irritability, making me want to hide away alone.
But I still love beautiful flowers.

#BloomScrolling #Photography #iPhonePhotography #Art #ArtYear

A desktop screenshot of the FedEx website, displaying a package's "weather delay" delivery status, overlaid with a weather app window showing sunny and 75 degrees.

Don't you love it when FedEx says your birthday package will be delayed because it's too nice out to deliver it?

They're eating the habeas. They're eating the corpus.

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday May 17, 2025
The theme is #Texture
Straight, curvy or otherwise.

Icy texture looks good after sitting in the hot sun on Graduation Day. Damn, time goes by so fast...

A close-up photo of worn off spray painted graffiti that looks like an abstract painting. There is more color at the top becoming less toward the bottom in attractive wearing patterns. The colors are hot pink and cerulean blue with a little black and dark gray, on pale gray low-texture cement.

There's a beauty in the colors, patterns, and textures of worn-off graffiti. It's like an abstract painting.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Texture #Art #ArtYear
#Photography #iPhonePhotography

Random bumpy patterns in clear glass and blue glass.

Today’s #Blueskyartshow theme is #texture.
Here’s texture in glass (a close-up shot of a small part of one of my #fusedglass pieces).
#eastcoastkin #glassart #artyear

This is a photo montage with a diagonal split from the bottom left up to the right corner. On the too is black ashes from a volcano and below us purewhite snow. The contrast creates a sense of Zen.

From Iceland, fire and ice

#BlueSkyArtShow #Texture #EastCoastKin #Photography
#art #landscapephotography

A photo of dried weed tops at the side of a road. Close-up showing the ivory-beige many-armed stars left after the seeds have blown away. Boca background.

#MayBlooms prompt #Neutral

Some starry weed seed pods from late summer.

#Photography #iPhonePhotography #Art #ArtYear

A square photo of 3 white cats. The photo is from outside the house, looking through a few thin bare branches at cats in the window. The cats are sitting close to the glass and looking out toward the camera. They are posed attractively, in a triangular formation as if they are posing for their portraits. The slightly foggy glass gently reflects plant shapes. The house interior behind the cats is blurred and obscured.

The cats are considering this shot for their next album cover.

#Caturday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

This is so beautiful and interesting. And I'm happy to see I'm not the only person who notices this type of thing ... 😁

A landscape orientation photo of a tulip. It is a wild species tulip from Turkey. The color is shades of pink, darker on the outer petals and pale pink within. The bloom is fully open showing the large bright yellow center. Bright sunlight glows from the front creating sharp shadows on some of the petals, and glowing edges on others. Shadowed green leaves in the background.

A very old species tulip in my garden, fully open in afternoon sun.
My house's previous owner told me the wild tulips were planted in 1991. Amazing to see it blooming now.

#MayBlooms #FullBloom #Tulip
#FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling
#Photography #iPhonePhotography

You're so very welcome!

Thanks! They caught my eye from across the street. 😍

What a gorgeous butterfly 😍

A portrait orientation photo of primroses. Blurred in the background you can see deep blue-violet primroses with yellow centers, and green primrose leaves. In the lower half of the photo is the focal point. In brighter light, half opened yellow primrose blooms on a taller stalk. Three flowers are partially opened, and in one the deeper colors of the center markings can be seen. Several buds are not yet opened but show their velvety pale green calyxes.

Some pretty primroses I saw this morning for #MayBlooms #yellow day.

#Flowers #Primrose #BloomScrolling
#Photography #iPhonePhotography
#Art #ArtYear

Black and white close up of Bradford pear blooms (little white flowers) from underneath, looking up to the sky.

For #classicMono and #MayBlooms ( #monochrome) and #AlphabetChallenge (WeekS for #silver)
#EastCoastKin #bloomscrolling

A black and white portrait orientation macro photo of a branch of heather. The branch tip is diagonal from the bottom left corner to the upper right. Along the twig are the tiny dry seed pods. From the end, nine new branch tips sprout, their soft, velvety hairs catching the light like frost. The background is very blurred.

I shot this branching heather tip on the way home this afternoon.
I think it's much more striking in silver tone.

#MacroMonday #MonochromeMonday #ClassicMono
#Photography #iPhonePhotography #NaturePhotography
#Art #ArtYear

I don't think it's fully appreciated just how much Trumpism is a celebration of ignorance. Trump not only never learns but proactively avoids it. It's a braindead movement from the top down.

Sunrise over Downtown Seattle, taken from Queen Anne. The sky is bright orange & yellow at the horizon with streaks of magenta clouds across a blue sky. The city is just waking up with many buildings still lit up, but most are in silhouette, including the Space Needle on the far right.

Seattle Sunrise from my neighborhood (Queen Anne)

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #Photography #ArtYear #PhotographersUnited #Sunrise #Seattle #SkyScape #PhotographersOfBluesky #smArtist #Skyline #SpaceNeedle

Art Challenges: May 5-11 Monday, May 5 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #smArtist (#TigerLily) #MinimalMonday #MayLeaves/#MayBlooms (#monochrome)* Tuesday, May 6 #smArtist (#StargazerLily) #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #ContemporaryTuesday (contemp. art) #MayLeaves/#MayBlooms (#yellow) Wednesday, May 7 #smArtist (#WaterLily) #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #MayLeaves/#MayBlooms (#calming) Thursday, May 8 #smArtist (#MartagonLily) #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #MayLeaves/#MayBlooms (#rainbow) FRIDAY, May 9 #scape (any kind of scape) #smArtist (#CallaLily) #ForestFriday #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #MayLeaves/#MayBlooms (#missing) Saturday, May 10 #BlueSkyArtShow (#lines) #smArtist (#PeaceLily) #MayLeaves/#MayBlooms (#white) Sunday, May 11 #Stunday (stunning) #SelfPortraitSunday (#IconicYou) #smArtist (#Tulip) #MayLeaves/#MayBlooms (#sleepy) All Week #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekSforSilver) #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #ClassicMono (monochrome) #SensoryArt (#adventure) #smArtist (purposeful art, daily prompts optional) *Use either #MayLeaves or #MayBlooms **Iconic pose from history

Your cheat sheet for the art challenges for May 5 to 11 has arrived!

I'll post a comment with hosts of most of these.

#ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art #painting #drawing #ArtPrompts #TraditionalArt #ContemporaryArt

A photo of a white cat with pale green eyes. He is playing in a length of brown packing paper, peeking out from a curve of the crumpled paper. The cat is lit and colored by rainbow colors from sun shining through diffracting film on a window.

Momo with his favorite toy - a nice long coil of fresh crinkly packing paper.

#Caturday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

A banner in a magenta-navy blue-cobalt blue left-to-right gradient. Across the colors are the words "#5 Good Things" in white script font.

#5GOODThings

🩷 Waking up to tweety bird songs
🧡 Amazing cloud formations
💚 Kitty cuddles
💙 Watched the coolest movie I have seen in a long time
💜 Final round of line editing my book manuscript

I wish this were real ...

Macro image of bubbles on top of a bowl with lights flashing on the background in all colors

The most beautiful things are often the most fragile

#SensoryArt #Contrast #EastCoastKin #colorscape #scape #smartist #artyear #macrophotography #macrophotofriday #photography #art #bubbles #lightpainting #longexposure #nikon #artisticexpression #pictureperfect #creativeshots #abstractphotography

A close-up landscape orientation photo of a white Magnolia Stellata flower. The bloom is framed with the center of the flower in the left upper quadrant, just above the center. The beige-yellow stamens are still clinging to the pale green pistil. The sunlight shines on the narrow white petals, and creates bluish shadows.

A lovely white Magnolia flower.
So very springtime ...
#FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling
#Photography #iPhonePhotography

A landscape orientation fractal render in a slightly tinted, striped grayscale gradient, with a fur-like texture. The fractal features a large spiral filling the entire left half of the image curling counter-clockwise into a tiny terminal in the upper right. The striped fur-like texture runs across the spiral. Smaller and smaller forms fill the background. Overlaying the spiral are several 3-D abstracted leaf-like shapes with an almost insectoid character. They have the same striped texture on a smaller scale, with darker centers.

Getting an unusual and interesting form here. I often shape a fractal in grayscale to really see the light, shadow, and texture, and later color it up with a gradient.

#Fractal #FractalArt #FractalFriday #Art #ArtYear

I've also experienced this countless times. Sometimes, it's worse in person, even from people I consider my friends.

But it inspires me; when I see a veggie-filled photo online, I shower it with extra praise to counteract the hate.

Veggie power 🥦

A landscape orientation photo of tiny mushrooms growing in moss. A grouping of fully opened tan mushrooms is in the lower right quadrant. In the upper left are more mushrooms of the same type but younger, still domed, darker brown at their tops. The bottom front shows live moss. The upper right shows some lacy green leaves. Dark rich soil shows at the left edge.

Mushrooms, nature’s quiet recyclers, breaking down what has ended and weaving it back into the soil, fueling the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth that keeps the earth alive.

Amazing this happens right outside my front door

#BlueSkyArtShow #Earth #Mushrooms
#Photography #iPhonePhotography

Unbelievably cute!