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My Happy Place
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❤️ to explore this beautiful 🌍 with my camera in hand. Mountains 🏔️(climber). Airplanes 🛩️ (pilot). Oceans 🌊 (sailor/diver). Critters of all shapes (especially birds 🪶❤️)!
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Thick smoke blankets the sky in Victoria, BC a couple of years ago as two 🇨🇦 bird icons play & prune along the ocean shore waters.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OddCouples - two different birds in one capture.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #ArtYear
A Canadian Goose flaps its wings in the water while mallard ducks go about cleaning themselves up. The sky is filled with smoke.
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #posted or #red.

These two characters certainly qualify for the #red option 😎🇨🇷🦜. Not sure what has their attention on the ground below 😊

Happy Sunday Bluesky 🌍

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #Stunday #CostaRica #PuraVida
Two scarlet macaws hanging out on a branch looking down at the ground - appearing somewhat “headless”!
February 8, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Who is Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian tapped by NASA to fly around the moon?

🛩️ #Aviation #AvGeek #MoonGeek #Artemis #ToTheMoonandBack
Who is Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian tapped by NASA to fly around the moon?
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will soon be blasting off on NASA’s Artemis II mission. How did he get from an imaginary treehouse spaceship in rural Ontario to the real thing?
canadiangeographic.ca
February 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Embracing the sunrise.

🙏☀️🇨🇷

#CostaRica #PhotoHour #Sunrise #Photography #ArtYear #puravida
A photo of the sunrise from a ridge top in the tropics.
February 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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Coming soon….. 🚀🌘🛰️🧑‍🚀
NASA's Artemis II Live Views from Kennedy Space Center
YouTube video by NASA
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February 1, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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May I present for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #FavouriteOfTheMonth the gregarious & stunning Scarlet Macaw.

🇨🇷🙏🦜

#birds #birding #photography #nature #PhotoHour #TheArtHour #CostaRica #PuraVida
A colourful Scarlet Macaw perched in a tree.
January 31, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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A “cheeky” Scarlet Macaw peeks out of its nesting box. A nice addition to today’s #BirdOfTheDay - #EyeContact when the eye steals the frame. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #PuraVida #CostaRica

😊🇨🇷🙏
A scarlet macaw peeks down from a nesting box.
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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What a fantastic story!!!

A machine unlike anything before, during, or after 🙏

Thanks @blufly.media for sharing.

#aviation #avgeek | 🛩️
blufly.media BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · 22d
In this line of work, there is no such thing as a sure thing, but any story about Concorde comes pretty close. A new, well-written, fourteen-minute read by (clearly a fan) Francesca Street writing for @cnn.com Travel. | 🛩️ 📹
What it was like to pilot the supersonic Concorde jet | CNN
Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Here they reveal the secrets of flying the world’s fastest commercial passenger aircraft at more than twice the speed of soun...
www.cnn.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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Feliz sabado Bluesky world from Playa de Tambor.

🙏🏝️☀️🇨🇷

#CostaRica #PhotoHour #Sunrise #Photography #ArtYear #puravida
A photograph of the sun rising above the ocean.
January 24, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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My other “hometown” of CYYC has winter sunsets that are simply out of this world…..

Feliz martes world from the beautiful 🇨🇦 prairie land of Alberta.

#Canadastrong #PhotoHour #PuraVida #Photography #ArtWalk #Sunset
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Sharing this beautiful Scarlet Macaw 🦜 as it launches from a tree.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Bluesky world. 🎄🙏🎄

#BirdOfTheDay #contrast #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #ArtAdventCalendar
A colourful scarlet macaw launches off of high tree branch.
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A crisp and “fresh”🥶December afternoon at the Calgary Flying Club.

Blue skies & smooth air more than make up for the “frosty” air intake found on all types of machines including the two legged variety 😊

Happy Solstice! 🌎☀️🙏

🛩️ #Aviation #AvGeek #CYBW #Flightschool #Cessna #Canada #winterwonderland
A photograph of three small airplanes in a winter setting with the sun low on the horizon.
December 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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“What would appear to be the first emergency use of Garmin’s Autoland system occurred on Saturday in Colorado. Social media posts from flight tracking hobbyists reported a King Air 200 squawked 7700 about 2 p.m. local time today.”

🛩️ #Aviation #AvGeek
Autoland Saves King Air, Everyone Reported Safe - AvBrief.com
Aircraft landed safely at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver on Saturday afternoon.
avbrief.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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An itzy bitsy spider waits for breakfast after a night’s heavy rain in the jungle.

Pura Vida 🇨🇷

#CostaRica #PhotoHour #Sunrise #Photography #ArtYear #ArtAdventCalendar #Jungle #Spider #PuraVida #Arachnids
A photograph of a spider in a rain soaked web.
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The wonders of Arenal - both volcanic and lakeshore - provide an almost alien landscape in Costa Rica’s early morning light.

🙏

#CostaRica #PhotoHour #Sunrise #Photography #ArtYear #ArtAdventCalendar #Arenal #Lake #Volcano #PuraVida
A photograph of a lake and volcano.
December 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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In 1970, Philip Ryther produced a bombshell report on the FAA that went nowhere no matter how hard he tried to make it public. He was forced to resign and decided to let everyone know what happened. colleenmondor.substack.com/p/36-55-year...
#36: 55 years ago, a former FAA staffer decided to burn it all down
When Philip Ryther was forced out of the FAA in 1970, he set out to let everyone know what he thought about how the agency worked.
colleenmondor.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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With this issue, it's almost all she wrote for 2025. 💥 We kick off with Editor @terencecgannon.com enthusing about Japanese animé. He then takes a crack at the practice of directly linking press releases and then wraps up with the first annual Roy Bishop Stokes Aviation Book Christmas List. | 🛩️ 🥇
December, 2025
A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community — if made by people and flying up to the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly 🛩️.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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A Yellow-throated Toucan takes a break from chowing down to provide a pose for the #lookingatyou theme of #birdoftheday.

#birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #PhotoHour #ArtWalk #CostaRica
A Yellow-throated Toucan stares down from a fruit tree.
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Sunrise in heaven.

From the land of Pura Vida to wherever you find yourself this weekend.

🙏

#CostaRica #PhotoHour #Sunrise #Photography #ArtYear
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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The morning sun discovers a kin to the mystical Tree of Life along a simple dirt mountain road in the wilds of southern Costa Rica.

Feliz domingo 🙏🇨🇷🙏

#Photography #PhotoHour #ArtYear #PuraVida #CostaRica #Jungle #Mountain
A photograph a tree with the sun rise in the far distance.
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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😳

🛩️ #Aviation #AvGeek #UPS
Louisville MD-11 Prelim Reveals Cracks - AvBrief.com
The NTSB says it “found evidence of fatigue cracks in addition to areas of overstress failure” in the hardware that attached the left engine pylon to the wing of the UPS MD-11 freighter that went down...
avbrief.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Recently spent the afternoon at a stunning cascada in the land of Pura Vida 🇨🇷

So much beauty and wonder to be found on this little rock we rent. 😊

#CostaRica #Nauyaca #ArtYear #PhotoHour #Photography #Explore
A photograph of people enjoying a beauty waterfall in the jungle.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Three minutes of four blissful Curtiss-Wright R-3350 engines purring as FIFi arrives into AirVenture 2024.

One of only two flying B29s flying, it is a joy to witness her (and/or Doc) anytime one has the privilege to be in the same airspace.

🛩️ #Aviation #AvGeek #Warbirds #EAA #Boeing #B29 #CAF
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Finding some Pura Vida tonight as I watch the world slowly turn.

#Photography #ArtYear #PhotoHour #CostaRica #Explore #Sloth #Peace
A photograph of a sloth enjoying the sun.
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Honoured to be part of BluFly’s November letter - especially one that pays tribute to those who served to protect our futures. 🫡 🙏

For aviation writers - check out the Avergreen project. A visionary way to share your work online without all the “noise”.

Feliz domingo from 🇨🇷 🛩️ #Aviation #Avgeek
blufly.media BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · Nov 1
The November issue just dropped. 💥 It kicks off with an essay on remembrance appropriate for this time of year, triggered by the photo of this magnificent Lanc. Thence onwards to Avergreen, a new feature for viewing article photos and an adorable 🐸 little green frog. (📸 @goodnrg.bsky.social) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇
November, 2025
A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community — if made by people and flying up to the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly 🛩️.
blufly.media
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM