A bee takes off from a zinnia bloom

Lift Off - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturetherapy #naturephotography #BloomScrolling #pollinators #bees #zinnias #fineartphotography #art

A female widow skimmer dragonfly hanging onto a blade of grass. The dragonfly has its wings spread wide and is facing upwards. Its body is mostly black. It has a gold stripe down its thorax, which breaks into two gold stripes along its side with black between them. The wings have dark black patches next to the body, then they are clear with veining showing, and at the outer upper edges a black spot on each of the four wings. The background is all green grasses.

Widow skimmer. #WidowSkimmer #LibellulaLuctuosa #Dragonfly #Skimmer #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin

Wot you looking at?? Robin seen in St. Michael's Churchyard Cofton Worcestershire UK - 27-10-25

A Thorntail Hummingbird perches at the end of a twig, its forked tail feathers pointing downward

Thorntail Hummingbird, Turialba, Costa Rica. #birding

Jumping on the Wifi long enough to past a quick #bird pic from this morning, Golden-hooded Tanager, #RanchoNaturalist, Cartago, Costa Riica #birding

Breathe. youtu.be/qsUK-BG5OQQ?...

I'm always amazed at how my mind wanders and imagination runs riot when wandering in woodlands. Case in point I think this scene looks like a "Face Off" between the young autumnal beech tree and leafless gnarled elder tree. #autumn #woodland #Scotland #photography #nature

#stunday
Mission San Jose, San Antonio, #Texas
A mission community established in the early 18th century when it was part of Colonial Spain
#travelphotography

Lulu, black cat, on a blue fleecie blankie. Looking at the treat that I’m holding so she looks at (near) the camera.

Lulu told me I’d get more likes and moots if I posted more pictures of her.

A bee pollinates a field of asters

This week for #BlueSkyArtShow I'm Sharing this capture of a bee pollinating our #Autumn Asters.

Bee Wild - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025 #photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #BloomScrolling #asters #pollinators #bees

In awe at the size of this lad.

Close up of a green tree frog (Hyla cenerea) in the middle of a big pink and green caladium leaf. Mayfield Park, Austin Texas

Little tree frog snoozing in the middle of a big leaf

#frog #naturephotography #treefrog #amphibian #macrophotography

#BirdofTheDay #grebe Here’s a Red-necked Grebe on its floating nest in Anchorage, Alaska from June 22. Pic. Is from my iPhone archives as K and I are on layover in LosAngelos waiting gyr our flight to Costa Rica. If we’re lucky we’ll see a SunGrebe there! #birding

In other news...I'm so proud of Betty Lou!!! I think she's going to be a great big sister!

#minterland

A close up photo of Garry the grey tabby cat’s face. He has big green eyes and a reddish nose, with white fur around his mouth.

It is Two Years since Garry went missing for Seven Weeks!!

Luckily he was Found and now he is Safe and Home Forever 🥰

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Good Doggie...

Two humorous social media posts about cats believing their owners can control nature, like rain and sunlight. Transcribed Text: Feline_Tales My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the ‘problem’, they look back at me, clear message. What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my ‘power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet” “Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain. purrfect_logic I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that. But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he’s fairly certain I’m just not applying myself properly here.

Two Sandhill Cranes in a field of green. The are winter visitors in our area of the Southwest.

The winter visitors are slowly making their way to the Southwest. It's still 90° here in AZ and these guys are wondering when Winter arrives 😁❣️🪶

October 2025~Cibola, AZ
#SandhillCrane
#TwosDay
#DoubleTake
#birdphotography

Check the comments for Indivisible's video of how to cancel your Spotify account. Let's do this! There is no power greater than our collective action!
#Voterizer

Black and white picture of slabs of rock in the sea using a slow shutter speed to show the effect of the water swirling around them. OM Digital Solutions OM-1 OLYMPUS M.12-100mm F4.0 @ƒ/8.0 92.0 mm 0.5s ISO200

Tarlair
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRocks #RockinTuesday #Monochrome #Eastcoastkin #Scotland #blackandwhite #handheld #Scotlandinphoto #Aberdeenshire #Seascape

A black and white cat seen from below through glass. His paw pads are pink and black.

When you look at Uni from below…

The underside of various cat paws as bean varieties including black, pink, pinto and mixed beans, black-eyed peas and chick peas.

In case you need to know.

Little dude loves his head rubs

ahh! a small fluffy ghost sits on a hardwood floor staring directly at us. but actually... the longer we take it in, the more cute the ghost becomes. one could even mistake this little guy for a golden retriever puppy wearing a sheet with eye, ear, and mouth holes cut out of it. even though he gave us a fright, we would still pet this ghost puppy.

My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)

“Dragging a ladder through long rows of bookshelves can be exhausting. It’s much more efficient to have a co-worker who’s able to reach the top shelves on their own or at least give you a boost climbing up.”

#miragaia #stegosaur #dinosaur #paleoart #library #librarian #books

A black cat is peeking at you from atop a box that's up high. If you keep looking at him he'll leap to his feet and jump into your arms with no warning. Be ready

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#Wordle #WQuers #Wordle_NYT

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#NationalBlackCatDay

#BlueSkyArtShow, #Inside, #Swallows, #photography