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Dawne Slater
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Certified(R) & Accredited(R) Genealogist. She/her. Lifelong liberal hippie tree-hugger & supporter of rights for ALL people. Nature & wildlife photographer. Photos are mine unless noted otherwise (except ancestors and reposts). Full time RVer ❤️📷🌈
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#Caturday food coma

#cats
Large sealpoint cat sleeps in the mulch
May 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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For your #caturday pleasure, this beastie who clearly has a rough life

#cats
Well-nourished sealpoint cat lying half in the sun, half in the shade in the mulch adjacent to a gray board deck
May 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Stellar's Jay at Bryce Canyon NP in Dec 2019

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
Bright blue and black bird sits in a snow-speckled evergreen tree and looks straight at the camera
May 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Another 🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼

#flowers
#spring
#naturephotography
#feedcleanse
A bright pink rose against green leaves grows near a gray sidewalk
May 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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FamilySearch's Full-Text Search is the greatest thing since commercial DNA testing. I'll die on this hill.

#genealogy
#familyhistory
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Lil traveler

#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
#insects
#ladybug
Red ladybug with black spots walking on a bright green leaf
May 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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More #flowers
Bright violet purple flowers with a red center
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Loving the flowers this spring

#naturephotography
#photography
#flowers
#purple
Vivid four-petal purple flowers with green leaves in the background
May 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Burst of #spring

#flowers
#nature
Bright yellow and red wild roses
May 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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The sky is really, really, really blue today.

#bluesky
#nature
#spring
A telephone pole with wires against a vivid blue sky. The green top of a tree is visible at the bottom of the frame
May 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Dawne Slater
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It embarrassing.
billybinion.bsky.social Billy Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · May 8
A hill I’ll keep dying on: Whatever your politics, the fact that so many U.S. leaders do not understand basic constitutional law—or willfully distort it—reflects extremely poorly on our country.
May 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio

#nature
#naturephotography
#waterfall
#spring
#nationalparks
A waterfall with abundant greenery to the side
May 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Fantastic www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Salt Lake City approves 3 new flags to get around Utah's ban on Pride flags
The city’s three new flags mix the existing Salt Lake City flag design with elements of flags celebrating various communities that were barred from being flown at public buildings.
www.nbcnews.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today would have been my mom's 86th birthday. Here are my sister, sister-in-law, and me with Mom in April 2014 just after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We had her for 2 more years.

#cancersucks #pancreaticcancer #family #mom #mother
Four women with their arms around one another wearing dark purple tee shirts that say Sparkle
May 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Pretty place to eat my sack lunch during a library break

#genealogy #familyhistory #familysearchlibrary #saltlakecity
Vivid yellow flowers on green stems spill out of a flower bed along a concrete wall. Across the street is the LDS Tabernacle
May 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Golden eagle or immature bald eagle? Where are my #bird people? Spotted at Yellowstone a few years ago.
Large brown raptor sits on a tree branch with evergreens in the snow in the background. It has a hooked bill.
May 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I always wonder who thinks color combos like this are a good look in hotels

#travel
#hotels
#vacation
#design
#decor
Odd circle and square patterned medium and dark blue carpet with lines. Looking down a hotel hallway. The walls are golden yellow
May 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Red-wing blackbird male & female

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
#nationalparks
Black bird with yellow and red markings on its wings standing on a log in a pond Mottled brown and cream-colored bird standing on a lilypad in a pond
May 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Kansas City: Arthur Bryant's #barbecue, American #Jazz Museum, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

#BlackHistory
#history
#music
Yellow wall sign that says "It's a good time!" and "Arthur Bryant's Barbecue" with a clock in the middle and the image of Arthur Bryant himself wearing a chef's hat in the center of the clock. Bright neon signs in pink, blue, and green for jazz clubs A metal image of baseball player Josh Gibson crouching behind a metal plate on the floor that shows his name. He's dressed in catcher's gear
May 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Nice non-breeding male red-winged blackbird

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
Bird with fuzzy black head. It has mostly black feathers that have some orange and white accents. It is standing on a log in a pond with lily pads behind it
May 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Violets after the rain

#flowers
#naturephptography
#feedcleanse
Close-up of a vivid purple violet surrounded by green leaves and grass and dappled with rain drops
May 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Handsome specimen doing a little grooming. Spotted today at Cuyahoga Valley National Park

#birds #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #herons
Great blue heron pulling at its chest feathers
May 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Festivities the night before my son's wedding

#citylights
#nighttime
A city skyline at night with bright lights from buildings
April 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Feed cleanse!

#flowers
#naturephotography
Bright red flower fills the frame. It has a yellow and white center with yellow stamen
April 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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#Bird photographer friends, look, it's us!
Snoopy pointing a camera at Woodstock and his thought bubble says "Okay, say 'birdseed'"
April 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM