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Beth Surdut
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Professional #wildlife artist, writer, environmental educator, creator of the multi-platform Art of Paying Attention #nature series heard and seen on #NPR, and Listening to Raven--drawings and true stories, winner Tucson Festival of Books nonfiction award.
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My expressively wonderful #Roadrunner #interspeciesfriendship #Birdlife #meepmeep
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Much of my prolonged interactions with animals is about establishing a comfort zone through repetition. This is a piece of a much longer song session with Roadie, who waits till the end of this clip to comment.
#roadrunner #interspeciesfriendship #southwest #FeatheredFriends #birdlife
October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Priceless #roadrunner
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Birthdays are better with Roadie
#roadrunner #birthdayparty #birds
October 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Sunday morning with Roadie, waiting for rain. I sing, bird listens. I know he doesn't understand the words, but I think he gets the good vibrations. #Roadrunner #birds #interspeciescommunication #singalong #serenade #monsoon
September 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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in the clearing
dharma becomes
dragonflies
#zen #haiku #poetry
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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From the past couple of days
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#Butterflies
An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on a pink zinnia. A Painted Lady on a pink zinnia. A blurred metal flower spinner in the background. A Pipevine Swallowtail on a dark pink zinnia. In the top and bottom right corners are other pink zinnias and the background is a combination of cosmos plants and a few pale pink cosmos and grass. A Gulf Fritillary on a yellow zinnia with the green leaves in the background.
September 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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A moment of peace
Better than a day of fear
Live inside that breath

#Emoetry #Calm #Haiku #Poetry #Writing #Nature #BlueskyPhotography #Skyscape #Clouds #Stillness
#PictureAndAPoem
Fluffy afternoon clouds, in a blue sky, framed by green trees
September 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#Narbonne with a very old 1884 lens from when photographers needed to be half artist and half chemist. Exposures were made on rigid glass plates. Chromolithography was used for the colour then, much easier with digital!

Taken in #France using vintage lenses in 2025 by #©SteveC #Photography #notAI
September 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Starry night cracker 🦋😍
#butterfly
September 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Nothing like a big wolf smile to start your Friday morning.😁🐺 #TGIF
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Shikantaza

Truth within dewdrops
Observes the gift of silence
Unwritten proverbs

#BlueSkyArtShow #Home
#EastCoastKin
#inkMine #Truth

#haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin
Orange Daylilies remind me of home. We've always had them in the front yard, and loyally, they bloom every Summer. This is a macro nature photo I took of water droplets along one of the green buds, facing an open lily. Within a lower drop, the flower can be seen, magnified, highlighting details blurred by the bokeh.
September 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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I've been photographing Burrowing owls for a few years this framed trio just flew to a client in MA. #birdart #owls #desertlife #nature #wildlife #adorable
September 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Is that a yes? #roadrunner #interspeciesfriendship #birds #birding
September 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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"In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing" — T. S. Eliot
grasses in front and behind water in the wetlands with mountains in the background and tree branches on the upper right.
August 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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drought
in the desert
i dream of being soaked
in your
soft rain

#dailyhaikuprompt #tanka #5lines #haikufeels
August 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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midday heat-
dragonflies stitching
the air shut
#haiku #poetry
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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newborn cicadas
sing to me the song they sung
to my ancestors

#haiku
#HaikuSaturday
Photo of cicada on tree trunk by fanfandu7-2@pixabay.
August 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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warm wind-
a lark sings higher
than my worries
#haiku #poetry #birds
August 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Face to face with a young #coyote this morning, I forgot to be quiet and said, "Hello, beautiful." End of conversation. #interspeciescommunication #desertlife #wildlifeartist #songdog
August 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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For @nytimes.com Magazine, I visited the Palisades burn scar to write about fire and resilience www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/m...
In the Scars of L.A.’s Wildfires, Ecological Lessons Bloom
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August 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The Lesser-long nosed bats are in town, which means every morning the sugar-water feeders are slurped dry, so I fill them for the daytime crew of hummingbirds and Gila woodpeckers. That's 32 cups a week!
#livingartist #birdlife #woodpecker #hummingbird #OpenHouse #bats
August 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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When you go shopping, the whiptail lizards know that it's always good to park in the shade.
#visitarizona #herps #heat
August 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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"When hummingbirds build a nest, it is compact, dense, designed with tensile strength and lined with soft materials. Clearly, the doves didn’t get that memo." White-winged dove, art/story by Beth Surdut. radio.azpm.org/s/38024-the-...
#artforsale #livingartist #wildlifeart #birdart #storyteller
Drawing of a white-winged dove nesting in a Tamarisk tree, Southern Arizona by wildlife artist Beth Surdut
August 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Skyline

Tawny breath of dawn
Lifting whole worlds by their sails
Skyline enfolds me

#BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline
#EastCoastKin
#BSPP 31 Skies

#Haiku #俳句 #Micropoetry #Sunset #Photography #WolfTwin #BlueSkyPoetry
A seascape photo I took in St. John. The orange dawn woke me from Caribbean dreams. Sheer clouds veiled the sun, casting on the island's ochre mountains below. Silhouettes of ships, gulls, buildings, a lighthouse, and jetties dot and frame the glistening ocean. A blazing column of golden light dazzles the surface of the sea, announcing the suns ascension.
August 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM