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I love their little feet!

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OpenBeak. A male Yellow-headed Blackbird proclaiming his territory having just arrived in #Saskatchewan, Canada for the summer. A #Kodachrome from the 1990s.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

So beautiful. Love the composition and color...thanks for sharing!

#MacroMonday
#Bloomscrolling
#VT365
#poetry

A close-up photo is marigold and verbena flowers shows structure, texture and color detail.

"What if you could take your one messy, complicated life...
all of the colours, the dreams and the hungers and, just for a moment, see it for what it is: a fragmentary masterpiece of the universe, a speck of dust dancing in the sunbeams which you alone hold in warm, cupped hands." Caroline Mellor

A wooden birdhouse on a treestump with snow on it.

A wooden birdhouse on a post with snow on it.

A birchbark birdhouse on a post with snow on it.

Neighborhood birdhouses, waiting for spring.
#Birds
#NaturePhotography
#VT365

A close-up photo of small ferns that have changed color from green to gold during autumn.

A detail of golden ferns from a larger landscape photo taken in the Green Mountain National Forest of Vermont in autumn 2025 adds a bit of warm color to a very cold winter morning.
#VT365
#Landscape
#NaturePhotography
#Bloomscrolling

Thanks Luis!

A photo of roots of a very old hemlock tree living on the rocky banks of a river in the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont USA.

If I am still standing,
it is not because I am strong,
but because love, once given,
teaches the body
how to remain upright
after the heart has left.
The cedar promises no reunion.
The snow explains nothing.
And still
this moment
is enough to keep me human.
Zulfiqar Hamdam Awan
#ForestFriday
#poet

i built an ad-free listener-supported internet radio station. we play new music, forgotten classics, indie, alternative and some deeply weird stuff.

i write the software that runs it (worbler.bsky.social) and from time to time get to be one of the many real-live-human DJs making shows: uncertain.fm

Big floofer.

A photo looking up into a tree in Vermont USA with fall autumn foliage and dark branches against a clear blue sky.

"There is a brokenness
out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness
out of which blooms the unshatterable.
There is a sorrow
beyond all grief which leads to joy
and a fragility
out of whose depths emerges strength." From The Unbroken by Rashani Réa
#VT365
#NaturePhotography
#Poetry
#Vermont

A secret waterfall in a beautiful mountain stream in the Green Mountain National Forest of Vermont.
#DogsOfBluesky
#VT365
#WaterfallWednesday
#NaturePhotography

Bookshop.org does not use Amazon Web Services...yes!

Amazon Web Services is used by over 80% of Fortune 500 companies including Bluesky, Substack, Alphabet, and Elon Musk companies such as Tesla. So to truly defund Bezos you have to not use his services. By using bluesky I am supporting but Im asking BSKY to quit it. Otherwise I'll try to find another

Stop using Amazon Web Services.

AWS makes way more money for Bezos than Amazon retail. Bezos is also going big time against Musk with sattelites in the next couple of years. They both want fat military contracts worldwide. This is dangerous because the 1% seeks to operate outside and nationalism or international legal system.

Amazon Web Services is used by over 80% of Fortune 500 companies including Bluesky, Substack, Alphabet, and Elon Musk companies such as Tesla. Reich sells his books on Amazon. So to truly defund Bezos you have to not use his services. By using bluesky I am supporting but Im asking BSKY to quit it.

Thanks...Will try this one today!

"And so in mountain solitudes--o`ertaken
As by some spell divine--
Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken
From out the gusty pine." Bret Harte

A very old white pine stands sentry over a historic campground in Vermont.
#VT365
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#NaturePhotography
#Landscape
#Poet

What is wholemeal flour? Can I mill it? Its not something easily available in the USA...our whole wheat flour is not the same.

"Beyond the mountains- beyond the line of blue!
My soul enraptured with the Heavenly view;
Would plume its wings for the celestial flight,
And swift as arrow see that world of light,
Drawn by visions of the loved ones there,
Where sweet-voiced welcome seems to fill the air." 1905 poem from Brochure

A landscape photo of Mount Ascutney in Vermont showing the summit and shoulders of the mountain and a very blue sky.

Mount Ascutney, a rocky monadnock mountain near the Connecticut River and the border of Vermont and New Hampshire.
#MountainMonday
#VT365
#NaturePhotography

Skiing over the river and through the woods...always more fun with a furry friend!
#VT365
#Ski
#NaturePhotography
#DogsOfBluesky

A photo of a blue twilight light landscape of a frozen lake with a cabin, dark pines and mountains in the background.

A detail from a landscape photo of a winter twilight at a lake in Vermont USA. I love the storybook quality of the image.
#LandscapePhotography #VT365
#BlueskyArtShow

Cool perspective! 🩵

A photo of a dark branched thin twig covered with long frost crystals on a blue background of sky during a Vermont winter.

Frost crystals on twig.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCloseup
#NaturePhotography
#VT365

Good job with the questions and comments Becca. Proud of you for demanding those extra few seconds to speak.

Poem 'I Go Among Trees" by Wendell Berry full text

"I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me like circles on water."
Wendell Berry
#VT365
#Poetry
#NaturePhotography
#ForestFriday