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Adrienne M
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AZ Hobby #nature and #bird photographer, love to #hike, read #books, learn about #science and the world, eat dessert. Curious. Introvert. Just completed section hiking the Arizona Trail. 🥾 She/her

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Adrienne M @adriennemac.bsky.social · Feb 15
I should probably introduce myself! I’ve been on bsky for a while.
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I’m from Arizona but lived in Canada growing up. I love nature, photography, hiking, reading, working hard, & democracy. My hubby & I have 2 rescue tuxedo kitties who are wild things! 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Posting samples of some of my work below
A grid of nine nature photos. A beach in Tulum, Mesa arch sunrise, a white datura flower, a sunset in the desert with a saguaro, a yellow monsoon sunset with 3 saguaros, a saguaro against a starry night sky, white dunes of white sands nm, a sunset with hoodoos, a green white and red elegant trogon A photo grid with photos of a rainbow in the desert, a green hummingbird, picture rocks petroglyphs at sunset, a pair of phainopepla birds, petroglyphs in moonlight, a mountain valley layered with yellow and orange flowers, elephant head peak at sunset, a cactus with a crown of pink and white flowers, a saguaro with a southern caracara flying in to its nest A photo grid of four photos with elephant head peak with a cloudy blue sky and yellow flowers, a mountain ridge silhouetted by a bright orange sunset, a saguaro with storm clouds and a rainbow at sunset, and mirror lake with snowy mount rainier reflected in it A photo grid of 9 photos Baboquivari peak with yellow plants in front and cloudy blue skies with ravens flying, a Tucson house and door with peach stucco and a cactus, a snowy finger rock peak and saguaro at sunset, a bright red and black vermilion flycatcher bird with a yellow background, a red cliff in Kolob Canyon Utah with a pine tree in front, a tent lit from within with city lights and a starry sky between mountain peaks, a white lined sphinx moth on a bright fuschia Arizona willow flower, a huge rock and cliff in the river of the narrows hike in Zion National Park Utah, a javelina in a golden desert morning
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February 17, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Democrats have introduced legislation to fund all of DHS except for ICE and CBP while negotiations on reforms continue, but at the moment Republicans think the chaos of the shutdown gives them more leverage. It’s up to us to change that.
Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine
On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...
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February 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Donald Trump is a racist.
He has always been a racist.
He will always be a racist.
When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.
February 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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A broadbilled hummingbird from a recent walk in Tucson AZ
#🪶 #hummingbird #birds #broadbilledhummingbird
A green broadbilled hummingbird with a bright orange pink bill sits on a green branch with a pale blue sky background in Tucson AZ
February 6, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Happy new year! I hope it doesn’t suck 😆
#arizona #hiking #SabinoCanyon #🥾 #mountains #eastcoastkin #scapes
Sabino Canyon at sunset with a view of golden mountains including Thimble Peak and with trees with fall leaves of yellow and orange on the bottom sides, also some saguaros, and then above in the sky there are yellow clouds with a bit of blue sky peeking over the top A green rainy desert scene featuring some saguaros and green bushes and some mountains with stormy clouds above in Sabino Canyon
January 2, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Arizona winter landscapes are pretty serene
#scapes #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #arizona
A green saguaro and green ocotillo and green bushes are highlighted in front of shadowy mountains and a blue and cloudy sky in Tucson Mountain Park
December 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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A Rivoli’s hummingbird at Ramsey Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains
#hummingbirds #rivolishummingbird #eugenesfulgens
#birds #🪶 #southernarizona
📍Ancestral lands of the O’Odham Jeweḍ, Ópata, Sobaipuri, and Tohono O’Odham peoples
A close up of a green, charcoal, and white Rivoli’s hummingbird in front of a white to pale orange-pink background A wider view, of a green, charcoal, and white Rivoli’s hummingbird in front of a white to pale orange-pink background and perched on a bright red hummingbird feeder edge
December 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Happiest holidays (at least as happy as possible that one can have in this wild world) to all! #birds #wintersolstice #yule #saturnalia #Hanukkah #christmas #Kwanzaa #festivusfortherestofus
#🎄
A green black and cream hummingbird sits on a thin branch in front of red and green of a pyracantha bush in Madera Canyon AZ
December 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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A cootie patootie
#coot #swamphen

#birdsofafeather #🪶 #ArizonaBirds #birds #birding #nature #Tucson #TucsonAudubon

📍Photo made on the ancestral lands of the O'odham Jewed, Tohono O'odham & Hohokam
A black feathered coot with a red eye and a white beak stands in water in front of green reeds at Sweetwater wetlands in Tucson, Arizona
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Saguaro National Park - Picture Rocks
#nature #Tucson #sunset #petroglyphs #eastcoastkin #landscapephotography #TucsonHikes #Arizona #SaguaroNationalPark #desert #🌀 #🌵

📍Photo made on the ancestral lands of the O'odham Jewed, Tohono O'odham & Hohokam
A well known spiral petroglyph on a large jagged brown boulder at sunset with pink and yellow skies and a strip of green desert behind it
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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A black phoebe in the middle of the pistache pink 🩷🖤🤍
#blackphoebe #birdsofafeather #🪶 #ArizonaBirds #birds #birding #nature #Tucson #TucsonAudubon

📍Photo made on the ancestral lands of the O'odham Jewed, Tohono O'odham & Hohokam
A black bird with a white stomach, a black phoebe, perches in front of a mass of pink berries from a Chinese pistache tree in Tucson AZ
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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"That's my secret, Captain: I'm always angry"
#angrybirds #birds #curvebilledthrasher #🪶
A grumpy looking grayish brown curve-billed thrasher looks at you madly with its yellowy eye as it stands on some old wood fencing. The background is cream and khaki
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reposted by Adrienne M
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New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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This is great!
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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A view of the Milky Way from the Rincon Mountains over Tucson AZ
#arizona #mountains #rinconmountains #scapes #nature #stars #milkyway #astrophotography #tucson #backpacking #landscapephotography #sony
#eastcoastkin
📍Ancestral lands of the
O’odham Jeweḍ
Sobaipuri
Hohokam
Tohono O’odham peoples
The Milky Way in the night sky over the city lights of Tucson AZ with a few stripey clouds on the right side from high in the Rincon Mountains at Manning Camp.
October 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Arizona mountain retreat
#arizona #mountains #waterfall #scapes #nature #backpacking #landscapephotography #shotoniphone
#eastcoastkin
Arizona mountain waterfall runs over a rock face into a pool of water while pine trees and blue skies round out the scene
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Wishing for fall and then snow. I’m over the heat!

#nature #desert #mountains #clouds #tucson #arizona #🌵 #naturephotography #⛰️ #hike #scape #desertsnow #landscapephotography

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam peoples
Moody Catalina Mountains with snow on the top featuring Finger Rock are featured behind a large saguaro cactus at sunset and with grey roiling clouds in the sky
October 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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This is nuts!
altcdc.altgov.info Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Sep 30
Actual HUD website right now: 🔗 hud.gov
⁉️😵‍💫

AND here’s the Hatch Act 👇

"The Hatch Act generally prohibits federal employees
from engaging in partisan political activity while on
duty, in a federal facility, or using federal property."

🚨 For those in power: yes, it applies to you. 🚨
www.justice.gov
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The variegated meadowhawk I spotted yesterday in Sabino Canyon

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam

#macrophotography #dragonflies #odonata #nature #bugs #meadowhawks #variegatedmeadowhawk
#🐞
A reddish orange and tan dragonfly poses on a small branch in front of a yellow-tan blurred background with its wings down A reddish orange and tan dragonfly poses on a small branch in front of a yellow-tan blurred background
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Last night’s sunset was a banger 🧡
#scapes #sunset #monsoon #arizona #saguaro #saguaronationalpark #landscapephotography
#🌅 #🏜️
A lone dark saguaro and a small strip of desert scrub against a sunset sky of bright orange to pink and light blue reflected on a huge monsoon cloud and sky A closer view of a lone dark saguaro and a small strip of desert scrub against a sunset sky of bright orange to pink and light blue reflected on a huge monsoon cloud and sky
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Sedona trail views
A light green prickly pear cactus is shown in the bottom foreground and the red cliffs of Sedona’s Cathedral Rock in soft focus in the background. The sky is overcast and the light is slightly dimmed.
October 15, 2023 at 5:55 PM
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Bird is the word
#hummingbird #rufoushummingbird #arizona #tucson #birds
#🪶
An orange, cream, and green rufous hummingbird with black and white tail feathers is caught midair with wings stretched back with a a blue and yellow background An orange, cream, and green rufous hummingbird with black and white tail feathers is caught midair with wings stretched back with a a blue and yellow background An orange, cream, and green rufous hummingbird with black and white tail feathers is caught midair with wings stretched back with a a blue and yellow background and a bit of water in the foreground An orange, cream, and green rufous hummingbird with black and white tail feathers is caught midair with wings stretched back with a a blue and yellow background
August 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I saw this storm hitting midtown Tucson from a mountain viewpoint
#monsoon #weather #arizona #tucson #stormclouds #eastcoastkin #scape
A large column of rain with sun highlighting the right side and the left in shadow hits a valley below a ridge of rocks and trees in Tucson Az A large column of rain with sun highlighting the right side and the left in shadow hits a valley below a ridge of rocks and trees in Tucson Az A large column of rain with a pine tree on the left side and the rain in shadow hits a valley below a ridge of rocks and trees in Tucson Az A large pine tree is on the left of the image and a large column of rain with sun highlighting the right side and the left in shadow hits a valley below a ridge of rocks and trees in Tucson Az
August 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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#Stunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Sunset #Clouds

Butterfly Clouds at Sunset
Tucson, AZ
8.10.2019
August 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Missing the usual summer storms, we have had almost no rain this summer and it has been very hot 🥵 This is a storm at the Mogollon Rim from a past summer #arizona #summer #mogollonrim #scape #monsoon #skydrama #moody #🌧️
A small oval of blue sky shows through dark stormy clouds over a rocky landscape with bare pine trees jutting from the rocks. The sky is dark gray and yellow tinged at near sunset. This is on Arizona’s Mogollon Rim along road 300.
August 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM