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Andrea Peterson
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A plaque with information about the relationship between the coastal forests and fog found on the Monterey Peninsula, California

#ForestFriday #WestCoast #California #PebbleBeach #17MileDrive #Photography #Forests #Fog #Trees
An informational sign discussing the effects of fog on coastal forests with a photo of the California coast encased in fog and a colored drawing of a tree branch. The sign is in front of a wooden fence and behind the fence you can see trees and a spot of blue sky in the background.
February 13, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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An American white pelican diving for yummies 😋

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #DivingForFood #Pelicans #FeatheredFriday #Birdscrolling #Photography
An American white pelican diving in a pond of water. Its large orange feet are almost completely out of the water and there is a numbered band on the bird's left ankle.
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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A pinecone fish at the Loveland Living Plant Aquarium, Draper, Utah

#FishyFriday #Fish #MarineLife #Monocentridae #Yellow #Bioluminescent #Photophores #Photography #FridayFish #Scape
A yellow and black pinecone fish swimming in an aquarium next to a bright yellow colored piece of coral.
February 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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A belted kingfisher flying through the rafters at the Edmonds marina

#Birds #FlyDay #Edmonds #PortOfEdmonds #PNW #Photography #Birdscrolling #FeatheredFriday #Scape
A blue, black, white, brown, and grey belted kingfisher flying through the metal rafters of a marina roof.
February 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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A WWI era grotesque on Smith Hall, in the Liberal Arts Quadrangle at the University of Washington

#Seattle #Scape #ColorADay #BWFri #Architecture #BNW #ClassicMono #GasMask #UDub #UofW #Photography #Photography
A black and white photo of a grotesque on the corner of a gothic style building. The grotesque is a person wearing a WWI style helmet with a gas mask over its face, holding a grenade in its left hand. It has been suggested to have been designed to commemorate the University of Washington students who died in WWI, listed on a plaque elsewhere on campus
February 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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Some thick mossy Pacific Northwestern goodness for #ForestFriday 💚🌲🌿

#Forests #Trees #Moss #Green #Nature #Scape #PNW #Washington #Photography #TreeHugger #Ferns
A tree covered with moss so thick that ferns are growing out of it, in the center of the image, with a forest of dense trees and plants behind and around it. The side of another moss covered tree trunk is in the foreground.
February 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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It's Friday! Follow the road into the forest with me 🫶🌲

#ForestFriday #Forests #Trees #PNW #Washington #PointDefiance #Tacoma #Photography #Scape #Moody #Solace
An asphalt road leading into a dense and dark forest. Trees and branches are in the foreground and appear darker than the ones up ahead because the light is shining on a spot in the road; the light is dull, suggesting an overcast or cloudy sky is above.
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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The Jelly Belly airplane, and Kent Pietsch is about to take off and dazzle the crowd with aerial acrobatics, from my archives Ft. Worth, Texas 2009

#UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky #Airplanes #PropPlanes #StuntPilot #Photography #ColorADay #YellowThu #Yellow
A yellow prop plane that has jelly beans painted on it with one red one that says 'Jelly Belly' in a yellow font. The plane is positioned on the top of a white van and camper, also decorated with painted jelly belly jelly beans, and the pilot is visible in the cockpit. The sky behind and above is cloudy and pale in color.
February 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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One from my archives, a scene from one of the pre-Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans

#UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky #NewOrleans #BourbonStreet #Parades #MardiGras #FatTuesday #ColorADay #YellowThu #Photography #Urban #Yellow
A street scene in New Orleans with four Policemen standing by a police car with metal fencing. Two of the men have yellow jackets on over their uniforms, the other two have longer yellow rain jackets and one has yellow pants. There are stores behind them, and a sign that says NO TURN ON RED on the left hand side. A man's belly is seen sticking out on the far right side of the image.
February 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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A member of the Pontifical Swiss Guard in Vatican City

#UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky #ColorADay #YellowThu #JuliusII #Rome #Italy #Photography #Travel
A member of the Pontifical Swiss guard, with a renaissance style uniform of red, blue, yellow, and orange stripes, standing in front of his guard station with a staff in his hand, at Vatican City.
February 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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A dahlia from my archives to help us celebrate Friday Eve 💛

#Flowers #Dahlias #ColorADay #YellowThu #Bloomscrolling #Macro #Yellow
A close-up of a bright yellow colored dahlia that has petals that curl down and underneath themselves, making the tips pointed. The petals are outlined in red, and the tips are a darker red.
February 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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The U2 Claw Stage art installation at the Loveland Living Plant Aquarium, Draper, Utah

#UrbanGaze #360Tour #U2 #Utah #BlueSky #Urban #EECO #Sustainability #ArtYear #Photography
A view from standing underneath a giant white, silver, and blue structure that resembles a claw, with a blue sky behind it and a little decorative frog head in the lower right of the image. The claw is from a U2 tour and has been repurposed at the aquarium in Draper, Utah.
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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A pretty painted rock spied at the Edmonds in Bloom garden tour this past year.

#RockinTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #AnimalArtTuesday #AnimalArt #Orca #PNW #Edmonds #EIB #Photography
A rock painted with an orca and sea scene and placed with some other rocks in a garden. A blue glass mushroom is also seen in the background, along with some green leaves
February 10, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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A crested wood partridge hanging out with a Luzon bleeding heart, Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, Draper, Utah

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples #Photography #Birdscrolling
Crested wood partridge, black with a red crest, and a white, grey, black, and a red Luzon bleeding heart bird on a stone brick fence with a painted background
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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This species of nudibranch is known as Chromodoris coi. I captured it while diving in the Philippines. They are exceptionally colorful and vibrant.

#marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #macrophotography #macro #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography
February 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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A marvelous magenta dahlia from a couple of summers ago to brighten up your Monday

#Flowers #MagentaMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #Pink #Bloomscrolling #MacroMonday #Macro #Photography #Anthophile
A close-up of the center of a dahlia that has large pointed pink petals with dark magenta threads running through them.
February 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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A fledgling Steller's jay visiting our garden in the spring last year, no blue head markings yet, just a bunch of grey floof 🥰

#Birds #Jays #Corvids #BirdOfTheDay #StareDown #BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday #BlueSky #Edmonds #PNW #BackyardBirds
A blue, grey, and black Steller's jay fledgling standing on a wooden trellis, looking into the camera, with a blue sky behind it.
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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A black and white macro of the center of a dahlia to bring back memories of summer blooms

#Flowers #Dahlias #BNWmacro #Macro #BNW #ClassicMono #Bloomscrolling #Anthophile #Photography #Stunday
The black and white close-up of the center of a dahlia
February 8, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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A close-up of the center of an anemone-style dahlia called 'Sandia Brocade'

#Flowers #Dahlias #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Orange #Macro #Anthophile #Photography
A closeup of the center of an orange colored anemone-style dahlia called Sandia brocade.
February 8, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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A cluster of snapdragons from my archives

#Flowers #Orange #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Bloomscrolling #Gardens #Snapdragons #Anthophile #Photography
A cluster of orange and yellow snapdragons with green leaves surrounding them. Additional flowers and leaves are blurred in the background, and there are a few flowers visible in the foreground, under the cluster.
February 8, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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A Steller's jay visiting our garden and owning the fence post

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Posted #Corvids #Jays #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEForEponymous #FeatheredFriends #BackyardBirds #Edmonds
A black and blue Steller's jay standing on a rusty colored fence post with a light colored blurry background.
February 8, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Reflections from the Seattle Japanese Garden, May of 2025

#Stunday #Reflections #Wisteria #BlueSky #Scape #Flowers #Trees #Gardens #Photography #Seattle #PNW
The Seattle Japanese garden with green trees, pink wisteria, and a large pond with reflections of the trees and the blue sky with puffy white clouds in it.
February 8, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Memories of Waipi'o Valley on the Big Island, Hawaii 2018

#Stunday #Scape #Mahalo #Aloha #Hawaii #Trees #Sunset #Photography #PacificOcean
A panoramic view of the Waipi'o Valley on the Big Island, Hawaii. In the foreground are plants and trees, in the distance are the cliffs and waterfalls of the valley with a pink and light blue colored sunset in the background with wispy clouds.
February 8, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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A foggy morning at the Point Defiance Zoo with strong support for the Seahawks 🏆🤞🏻

#Tacoma @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social #ColorADay #GreenSat #MonkeyPuzzle #Trees #Seahawks #Photography #PNW #TeamSpirit #Foggy
A large monkey puzzle tree with plants at the base of it, a light pole to the right of it, and a neon sign of the number 12, commemorating the Seattle Seahawks. Although it is difficult to see, the monkey puzzle tree also has strings of blue and green light strip all over it. The background is pale and light in color because it is thick with fog.
February 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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A black and white view of dahlia petals 🖤🤍

#Flowers #Bloomscrolling #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #Mono #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #Photography #BNW #Scape #Anthophile
A black and white close-up of the center of a dahlia with long floppy petals.
February 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM