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Anna Herrington🌱🌿🌺🍀
@annaherrington.bsky.social
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Pacific Northwest.
Oregon.
Photography my own. Love gardening, foodie stuff, nature...
writing, archaeology, art, books, architecture.
Also... three dogs, one cat 💕
Beauty in the world.
Penchant for democracy ~
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Anna Herrington🌱🌿🌺🍀 @annaherrington.bsky.social · Mar 12
Opinions were divided on whether to take flight or not.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKForKinetic #pacificcoast #seagulls #nature🪶 #photography #colorphoto #smokyday
Multiples of gulls at the edge of the ocean on a smoky day, half taking flight with breaking waves behind, half standing in wet sand, mostly looking towards the waves.
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Teeny tiny mushrooms seen on a walk.
#BNWmacro #nature #mushrooms #bnw #photography
Tiny white mushrooms with the thinnest of stems growing amidst mosses on the bark of a downed tree.
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Cold winter morning.
(As close to a post shot as I can find!)
#BirdOfTheDay #post
#hawk #nature #birds #photography
Hawk in winter with puffed up feather against the cold. Dark head, amber eye visible, darker back and wings with belly and chest feathers in russet and white.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Foggy morning trail walk.
#ForestFriday #scape #landscape #nature #woods #photography #beautyintheworld
Creek running through woods, light foggy/misty feeling in the air. Only a few yellow leaves left on some small deciduous trees interspersed with various woodsy greens.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Be the reason your local independent bookstore stays in business.
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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'Compassion' rose.
Last rose standing, in the garden. Hard freeze expected in a couple days...
Farewell flowers.🌱💗😢
#RoseWednesday #inthegarden #gardening #flowers #roses #photography #bloomscrolling #beautyintheworld
Close up of a medium pink, fairly classic-shaped rose. Dark blurred background.
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Every morning this little one is there, out back.
Used to be a whole bevy of doves years ago, mourning doves, collared doves, band-tailed pigeons. Now down to random sightings of a few flying in, plus this fella. Usually alone.
Is there an OkCupid for birds? 🤍🪶
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTheGround
Mourning dove sitting on a rock on a frosty morning, feathers puffed up for the cold. Head profiled, tawny feathers on head and chest, darker warm brown back and wings visible.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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My painting BICYCLE SHADOW.

This is a rare self portrait. I love to bike through all the seasons.
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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It's ptarmigeddon!
These guys are a lot harder to see now that the snow is on the ground. #birds 🌿
A group of 12 white ptarmigan (tundra chickens) sit in the dead leaves on the ground.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Dark-eyed junco snacking on some amaranth in the wild part of the garden. 🌱🪶
I used to grow Elephant head amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus), but stopped years ago.
They still come up each year, though...
The birds love them.
#MagentaMonday #inthegarden
#BirdOfTheDay #least
#birds #amaranth #nature
Odd-shaped magenta plant with long 'elephant' snout and red-gold-brown leaves, lots of greenery behind. Bird is standing on the amaranth, a couple amaranth seeds barely visible on its beak. Bird has black head and chest, brown back and wings, muted tan belly, pale beak.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Delicate.
#SundayYellow #stunday #AlmostAbstract #autumnvibes #mood #FallColors #nature #photography #beautyintheworld
Yellow maple leaves in focus on top center to left with blurred background in grey center top, and orange-reds in curve from top right down to bottom center, fading into darker red amid the white, in background on left.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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This year's peak bright yellows lasted about 5 minutes!
Windy, windy days followed by rains...
But oh so glorious while here. 💛🍂
#SundayYellow #Autumn #FallColor #mapletree #trees #nature #photography #beautyintheworld
Close up of a yellow-leaved maple tree in autumn. Mottled grey trunks visible in center, some groups of leaves still showing their transition from green to yellow, lower left and lower right. Sunny day but lots of shadow in tree depths.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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One little Cecile Brunner rose suddenly re-blooming.
Happy to see her! 💗
#FlowersOnFriday #November #inthegarden #flowers #bloomscrolling #roses
Small pink rose surrounded by greenery.
November 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Last of the tomatoes getting slow roasted in garlic. 🌱
Only the beginning of processing the pears. Anjou pears, just out of cold storage. This year I'm freezing them rather than canning, using a light honey syrup and hoping for the best.
#gardenharvest #harvest #tomatoes #pears #autumn #FoodOnFriday
Several Cherokee Purple tomatoes, darker, on right. 😋 Can't remember the others: the four lighter red on left. All on a wooden chopping board. Chopped and garlic-ed tomatoes ready for oven roasting. One tub of many, many, many tubs and baskets of yellow-looking Anjou pears. Bag of sliced, frozen pears in honey syrup.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Just some more sunset for you. #Photography #Minneapolis #Photo #EastCoastKin
purple and pink sunset on buildings
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Autumn table.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows #autumn #photography
Table in late afternoon light with mini pumpkins in a row casting long shadows, a china teapot with flowers in it, in the center, also casting long shadow as are the chairs on far side. Patterned fabric table runner runs down center. A few autumn leaves.
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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'Compassion' rose, after a night's rain. 🌱
#RoseWednesday #flowers #roses #bloomscrolling #inthegarden #photography
Close up of a medium pink rose in classic form, with tinge more apricot towards center. Raindrops visible on petals. Rose bud on right side of the flower. Greenery surrounds.
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Just as the sunflower grows in spirals,
so too does our healing; it happens in spirals.

#HealingKnotes #GentleKnotes
Close-up of a deep red sunflower with a dark spiral center, surrounded by soft greenery — a living reminder that healing unfolds in spirals, just like the flower’s pattern.
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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"I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core."
~ W.B. Yeats
#justbecause #lakes #nature
#beautyintheworld #heartscore #photography
Landscape/waterscape with glassy lake in foreground, hills with patches of gold, patches of dark green in background, trees, also shown in reflection. Image looks very serene.
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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November hollyhocks 💕🌱
#MagentaMonday #PinkMon #inthegarden #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography
Pink holly hock flowers with pink petals, magenta towards center, ivory anthers. Magenta-leaved plum tree blurred behind. Blue sky.
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Chrysanthemum 'Fine Feathers.' 🌱
Keep seeing fireworks, though!
A little bit of yellow in there... and they're still blooming in the November garden. Have grown to love mums so much. 💛🧡
#SundayYellow #AnydayOrange #OrangeSun #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography
Orange mums with yellow centers on a sunny morning after a night of rain. A couple red-orange little ones just opening, on right. Long, thin petals with tiny 'spoons' on the tips. Shadow and greenery behind.
November 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Hoping your goodbye to Oct is sweet. Full of surprises here as we prep for our end of the season. “Honey Perfume” opening to celebrate the evening. Thanks to followers for your engaging commentary, fun, likes, reposting & support. Eager to see you in November 🌱🧡🥰

#Gardening #FlowersOnFriday #Roses
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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This fella's head is at an odd angle, anyway...
I keep imagining the kids' song.
🎶 "This is the way we wash our back, wash our back..." 🎶
#BirdOfTheDay #OddAngles #ducks
Duck on a mostly submerged rock in the creek, head backwards and sideways (somehow!) as he washes his back.
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Gulls meeting up for a chat. 🪶
#BirdOfTheDay #gulls #adaylate
#photography #nature #birds #pacificocean #oregon
Silhouettes of two gulls walking towards each other. On far left, another gull just standing there. Photo was taken during the 'golden hour' just before sunset so it's tinged with a pale golden tint. Ocean waves breaking at the shoreline, behind.
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Sandhill Crane pair walking across frozen marsh.
In the valley it was all tulips & daffodils, in the high country, still winter. Showing close up & landscape shots. Mt McLoughlin, a volcano, visible on left.
#BirdOfTheDay is 'pairs of the same birds.'
#TwosDay #nature🪶 #photography #landscape #birds
A pair of cranes walking in snow facing right. White patch on cheek, red crown (not visible here), grey-ish/tan body, long, thin legs, long 'bustle' of feathers towards rear. Sandhill cranes can get to almost five feet tall, with a wingspan of 6 1/2 feet! Vista of flat, mostly snowy marshland, some fence posts visible in snow, tree line in distance, with snowy volcano rising on far left, further back. Low, grey clouds.
October 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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While inland redwoods, Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) are the most massive trees on the planet, Coastal Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are the tallest!
Up to 380' (115m) or more.
Hard to fathom, even when standing right next to one.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #redwoods #trees #PricelessTreasures
Photo taken standing on lower part of fairly old redwood tree where the burls and roots make it fairly easy to - carefully - climb up on. Lots of moss on lower trunk, rough bark. First branching is incredibly high up there, looking like a ball of green at very top of tree. These trees can get to be 2000 years old if let be. As priceless a treasure as any artifact in any museum, imho.
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM