Barb Bengela
@barbbengela.bsky.social
Love books, collect angels, Grandma and GGma, political junkie, Hillary Clinton fan, adore babies, writing is one of my passions
"Mother Nature's Own Fan Dancing"
I've posted similar images for #Stunday. I stood in knee deep water with a couple friends and opened the shutter many times for somewhere between 15 and 30 seconds hoping to catch oak leaves doing their fall dance on the water. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #oaktrees #trees #longexposure
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"Mother Nature's Own Fan Dancing"
It seems everyone in the news who is Republican is on the spectrum of being a sexual deviant of some sort. I wonder if it has anything to do with their ability to lie so blatantly.
The fact that Megyn Kelly minimized raping 15 year olds and wasn't immediately canceled from every platform, including @siriusxmprog.bsky.social and YouTube, tells you EVERYTHING that is wrong with right wing media and this country in general.
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It seems everyone in the news who is Republican is on the spectrum of being a sexual deviant of some sort. I wonder if it has anything to do with their ability to lie so blatantly.
I don't want to think it. I wish I didn't know it. I wish the rat was in a far-off prison somewhere.
And then think of what a cornered psychopathic human being with the morals and instincts of a rat and control of over five thousand nuclear warheads would do.
This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I don't want to think it. I wish I didn't know it. I wish the rat was in a far-off prison somewhere.
"Celestial Salvo to Savanna"
It's been a while since I've posted a nice and wide multi-image #panorama. It's a powerful way to get a lot more of a scene into one image. Especially salt marsh vistas along our coast in North #Florida. I've shot this scene many times. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #Bluesky
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Celestial Salvo to Savanna"
"The Golden Beak Makes 2-Point Precision Landing"
I think this #HighKey image of a beautiful tern landing on an old piling fits today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #bright. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #birds #terns #birdsinflight #Bluesky
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"The Golden Beak Makes 2-Point Precision Landing"
I agree, there is no one like you. BREAKING WIND NEWS is right on.
You can talk about me. There's no one like me.
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I agree, there is no one like you. BREAKING WIND NEWS is right on.
Makes more sense. You have all put Bill Clinton through the wringer enough times to satisfy the most savage heart. Leave the Clintons alone and concentrate on the EVIL in this trump regime.
Meet Bubba Saulsbury, son of Odessa oil industry magnate Dick Saulsbury. Also friend to Kash Patel and JD Vance. This is who the Epstein felatio email is rumored to be referring to. Not Bill Clinton.
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Makes more sense. You have all put Bill Clinton through the wringer enough times to satisfy the most savage heart. Leave the Clintons alone and concentrate on the EVIL in this trump regime.
Does this surprise anyone? HE IS EVIL!
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Does this surprise anyone? HE IS EVIL!
This is called the "Johnson Trying to make it the bathroom in time Cha Cha Aaah!
Witnesses describe his mood as rhythmic, urgent, chaotic yet oddly predictable.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is called the "Johnson Trying to make it the bathroom in time Cha Cha Aaah!
Please tell me the exit chute worked permanently.
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Please tell me the exit chute worked permanently.
Opening sequence to "When Hell Freezes Over"
It's #scape day. This is a long exposure of three minutes made of my favorite old snag on my favorite beach. I got to this spot at 5:30am and left 2 hours later. The sunrise was incredible. I had the beach all to myself. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #longexposure
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Opening sequence to "When Hell Freezes Over"
Not fast enough nor deep enough. I'd like to know he is so far underground he will never see the light of day again. Even if that were to happen trump would never feel the coldness, the depth, the desolation because he is inhumane. The next BREAKING WIND NEWS headline, please, TRUMP LOST!
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Not fast enough nor deep enough. I'd like to know he is so far underground he will never see the light of day again. Even if that were to happen trump would never feel the coldness, the depth, the desolation because he is inhumane. The next BREAKING WIND NEWS headline, please, TRUMP LOST!
Is there a "happy ever after" end to this story or is the man still sitting in the parking lot? 🥹
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Is there a "happy ever after" end to this story or is the man still sitting in the parking lot? 🥹
A live rat is only cute on camera!
Awwww! This adorable litte hispid cotton rat was munching on a blade of bermudagrass at our local wildlife refuge. I had my long lens and made its portrait. I mentioned to it that there are raptors about and to be careful. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A live rat is only cute on camera!
"In the Clutches of the Thicket"
For #HumansOfBlueSky, I used a zoom lens to photograph two of my friends under the trees of what we refer to as the Oak Garden. It floods occasionally and we wade out into it and make images. You might have to zoom in to see the humans. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #oaktrees #trees
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"In the Clutches of the Thicket"
The Mustang of old! Beautiful, resilient uses no gas, has license to pull, has the bravery to pass.
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The Mustang of old! Beautiful, resilient uses no gas, has license to pull, has the bravery to pass.
Your UNPOPULAR OPINION is the POPULAR OPINION of many. When the die is cast, the shade pulled up, the truth beknown there will be multitude of outed pedophiles who thought they were safe if they 'kissed the ring' of the evil doer. The sun will burn like Hell for both Republicans & Democrats alike.
UNPOPULAR OPINION: I'm waiting for all the Epstein files to drop, but honestly I’m enjoying the slow drip. Death by a thousand pricks is delicious. Each new document is just enough to remind the Orange Turd that sunlight burns.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Your UNPOPULAR OPINION is the POPULAR OPINION of many. When the die is cast, the shade pulled up, the truth beknown there will be multitude of outed pedophiles who thought they were safe if they 'kissed the ring' of the evil doer. The sun will burn like Hell for both Republicans & Democrats alike.
I will repeat so FART KNOCKERS HEALTH will know. Men have nipples because they are the buttons to their pectoral muscles. One never knows when a pec may suddenly sag. Men have reinforcements for the catastrophe in case it should happen. Now you know. You are welcome!
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I will repeat so FART KNOCKERS HEALTH will know. Men have nipples because they are the buttons to their pectoral muscles. One never knows when a pec may suddenly sag. Men have reinforcements for the catastrophe in case it should happen. Now you know. You are welcome!
Pappy Boyington, famous, courageous Marine who brought life to the words 🎶We fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea."🎶
Meet USMC Lt. Colonel Pappy Boyington. ACE. 28 kills, two years as a POW, a legend in the sky. Earned Medal of Honor & Navy Cross. A lifetime of chaos & courage. He led the Black Sheep Squadron with grit, whiskey & guts. Marines talked about him. No one flew like him.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Pappy Boyington, famous, courageous Marine who brought life to the words 🎶We fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea."🎶
Pappy Boyington, Famous name of a courageous Marine who brought to life the words
Meet USMC Lt. Colonel Pappy Boyington. ACE. 28 kills, two years as a POW, a legend in the sky. Earned Medal of Honor & Navy Cross. A lifetime of chaos & courage. He led the Black Sheep Squadron with grit, whiskey & guts. Marines talked about him. No one flew like him.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Pappy Boyington, Famous name of a courageous Marine who brought to life the words
Looking at this picture of gunnery sergeant Dan Daly I was admiring his uniform & how different from today, wondering if it was green & made from wool. He has the composure of a General. I wonder how far back the Marine Corps has kept records of all the heroes from the very beginning, every recruit.
Meet gunnery sergeant Dan Daly. Fought in China, Haiti, and World War I, earning TWO Medals of Honor and the respect of every Marine who followed. He stayed enlisted his whole career, turning down rank and glory. Pure grit, no polish. The definition of a Marine’s Marine.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Looking at this picture of gunnery sergeant Dan Daly I was admiring his uniform & how different from today, wondering if it was green & made from wool. He has the composure of a General. I wonder how far back the Marine Corps has kept records of all the heroes from the very beginning, every recruit.
WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN? YOU DON'T MAKE DEALS WITH VIPERS!
No words
My senator is speaking like she just suffered a major head injury and thinks it's 1993
My senator is speaking like she just suffered a major head injury and thinks it's 1993
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN? YOU DON'T MAKE DEALS WITH VIPERS!
How neat is this to meet the first woman Marine. When I was in high school someone told me a woman Marine was called a BAM but no one knew what the initials stood for. I called the Marine Recruiting Station, they laughed, said it wasn't an official name, but meant Bad Ass Marine, a compliment today.
Meet Sergeant Opha May Johnson who enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on August 13, 1918, becoming the first woman Marine. She proved that courage isn’t confined to the battlefield. The First Lady of the Corps didn’t follow tradition, she defined it. Legend!
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
How neat is this to meet the first woman Marine. When I was in high school someone told me a woman Marine was called a BAM but no one knew what the initials stood for. I called the Marine Recruiting Station, they laughed, said it wasn't an official name, but meant Bad Ass Marine, a compliment today.
Henrietta Heron modeling her "Tiger motif" scarf.
For #BlueskyMonday, this great blue heron was perched in a tree. I almost didn't see it. It didn't mind as I walked up almost right underneath where it stood. I filled the frame with its beauty. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #herons #birds
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Henrietta Heron modeling her "Tiger motif" scarf.
"Something Wicked This Way Comes"
For #BlueskyMonday, this popup storm raced across the salt marsh that lines coastal North Florida at our local wildlife refuge. It was just after sunrise. I dodged several of them that morning. So much fun to photograph. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #rain #storms
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Something Wicked This Way Comes"