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Kats Peterson
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Birder, amateur naturalist, secular humanist, home cook, reader, picture-taker and for a few years, jewelry-maker. Know this: no bio = no follow-back. Simple as that.
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This rage is the cost of failed leadership. When you mobilize an army and then surrender without a fight, you don't just lose a policy battle. You break the covenant with the people who trusted you with their time, money, and courage. The capital is spent. The trust is gone.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Sea kayakers enjoying the #evening in Bar Harbor. #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #seakayaking
Under the vivid glow of a setting sun, sea kayakers are paddling in for the evening in Bar Harbor, Maine. The thin cloud layer diffuses the light, and makes an alleyway of glittering golden reflection on the water.
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Can a Golden-crowned Kinglet be angry? Maybe not, but this one was very serious. #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography #EastCoastKin 🦉
This Golden-crowned Kinglet paused very briefly on our old apple tree, with its gnarled, swirly, rough bark - a great place to find tiny prey hiding. They are tiny, busy birds, with their golden-yellow "crown" bordered by black. On th e males, there is a patch of bright red nestled in the gold which can only usually be seen when they raise their crest a bit. SNJ; Nov. 2014
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🍽️ Perfect night for some comfort food. Chicken Cobbler with a biscuit topping and lots of veg.
Chicken Cobbler, basically a pot pie filling with about three cups of bite-sized pieces of rotisserie chicken, carrots from our garden, celery, onion, peas and chopped green beans. The sauce includes homemade stock, butter and flour, thyme, sage and parsley from the garden, salt and pepper. The top is a basic buttermilk drop biscuit, baked until crispy on top and fluffy underneath.
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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#Autumn is the time to fatten up to prepare for winter's harshness. #BlueSkyArtShow #birds #EastCoastKin #naturephotography
This little hen Ruffed Grouse entertained us while we rented a camp in Maine on Moosehead Lake last October. She's sitting in a Spindle Bush, aflame in bright red and bearing tasty berries in pairs. She and her mate visited for most of the week we were there.
November 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Lots of falling leaves for the theme of #Autumn on #BlueSkyArtShow. Description in ALT, as always. #photography #nature #EastCoastKin
This colorful swirl of fallen bayberry leaves lies in a calm little backwater in Cape May Point State Park, NJ. I think it would make a very challenging jigsaw puzzle, don't you?
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Samhain. A time to honor your ancestors, hold close those around you, and celebrate the end ing of the year and the turning of the Wheel. Blessed Be.
A nearly-monochrome artwork of a rising moon, a woman dressed in a form-fitting black gown with draping fringed sleeves, appearing to cup a sliver-moon in each hand. She wears antlers on her head, symbolizing death and renewal.
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Pay attention to Senators in the Republican Party attempting to move into Governor seats. Tommy Tuberville, Alabama. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee. Nancy Mace in S.C. There's a political restructuring in the south. Senators shifting to positions of Governors for control of state military forces.
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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#Sunsets #EastCoastKin #CapeMay
A wide beam of red-orange light cast by the setting sun through a break in the clouds. The little brilliant spot of light down near the water is the actual position of the sun, nearly set. Taken in Cape May, NJ, October 2025
October 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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#Inside a seed capsule of Jimsonweed are the seeds awaiting dispersal. Datura stramonium is a toxic plant when ingested. #BlueSkyArtShow Further description in ALT
Datura stramonium, a.k.a. Jimsonweed, Thorn-apple or Devil's Trumpet has a pleasantly fragrant white, elongated, trumpet-shaped bloom, which belies is high toxicity when ingested. In the United States, the plant commonly known as "Jimsonweed" (or, more rarely, "Jamestown weed"). This name derives from Jamestown, Virginia, where soldiers sent to suppress Bacon's Rebellion in the English colony of Virginia reportedly consumed the plant and spent eleven days in altered mental states! This is a picture of it's dry seed capsule, a very spiky, 4-chambered body about the size of a ping-pong ball, and is filled with black seeds resembling little chunks of charcoal. Taken in Cape May, NJ.
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Few things bring joy and a bit of whimsy like the #glow of the holiday light displays at Longwood Gardens in December. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #holidays #nightphotography
A nighttime photo of lighted trees floating in a lake, viewed through another series of lights closer-up on the shore. Taken at Longwood Gardens, PA in 2017.
October 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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A sleepy American White Pelican in Santa Barbara. #Relax #BlueSkyArtShow
This large ball of white fluff is an American White Pelican at rest. Its long yellow beak is nestled along its back, with just a sleepy eye, rimmed in bright yellow, peeping out. They are one of America's largest birds.
October 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #angles #sculpture #LongwoodGardens
For this week's theme of angles, I choose a photo I took in 2021 at Longwood Gardens in PA. We are standing inside a structure called The Grotto, looking out through a diamond-pierced window made of cement. Looking out of the center of the window is some of the sculptures in one of the many fountains in this section of the extensive gardens.
September 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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I admit I enjoy playing along with Jeopardy. It's a bit challenging yet mindless at the same time (is that possible?). Sigh. Nothing is fun anymore.
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Ellison wants to be America's Murdoch.
September 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#Summer - where to begin? Well, the season here (SNJ) is most known for insect life in abundance. Other than insects that find us tasty, butterflies are some of the most showy and obvious. #BlueSkyArtShow #insects #butterflies #nature #photography #EastCoastKin
Description in ALT.
Pictured here is a late-summer visitor to our yard. This bog, lemon-yellow butterfly is a Cloudless Sulphur, pictured with its long proboscis inserted into a brilliant orange Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower). These are migratory butterflies and some favorite foods for their caterpillars include Senna and Partridge Pea. The adults nectar on a wide variety of blooms. Taken in S. NJ. in early September (still summer here!).
September 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow These railroad tracks behind our house get #Shiny only under certain conditions. This is late August, at sunset.
A late August sunset lights up the shiny railroad tracks behind our house. The sky was a beautiful graduation of colors from nearly white, to yellow, peach, pink, violet and hazy blue. The light has to be *just* at the right angle at the time of the year to reflect on the steel rails like that.
August 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The #Jagged stump left by a beaver's hard work. #BlueSkyArtShow
A large tree felled by a beaver left a jagged stump behind. The bulk of the treetop is now submerged in a pond - a food and building supply for the beaver and its family for the winter. Taken in Maine, 2022.
August 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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My heart sings with this sparrow of #gratitude for all the little things in this world that are still right with it. #BlueSkyArtShow #Birds #photography #nature #eastcoastkin
A Song Sparrow is a common and widespread species in the US. Their plumage can subtly vary from one coast to the other, but field marks are generally a small, brown sparrow with a slightly long tail, a black line through the eye, thick malar stripes descending from its bottom mandible and a central spot on a streaked breast. This one is singing the song of its people atop an Eastern Red Cedar loaded with berries, on a clear blue morning in a coastal NJ salt marsh.
August 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#Alternating colored glass and stone beads on a necklace I made a few years ago. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #jewelry
For this week's theme of "alternating", I chose a piece of jewelry I made in 2020 with alternating beads of purple and green colored glass and stones, and silver beads. The dangles alternate between violet glass rectangles on the chain. The flat glass beads on the dangles are handblown, tying together all the colors on the strand.
July 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #SummerDaze #photography #EastCoastKin
My mug AND my mug are sweating in this heat and humidity, so typical of an East Coast July.
Minimalist photo of condensation on a white mug containing a cold beverage on a hot, humid July day.
July 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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A hot midsummer Friday calls for some Watermelon Enlightenment. Cheers! Recipe in ALT. 🍽️
Watermelon Enlightenment is best enjoyed al fresco. Four ounces watermelon juice, one ounce vodka, a half-ounce of St. Germaine elderflower liquor, a squeeze of lime juice. Shake with ice and serve with a mint spring.
July 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Description in ALT. #Sideways #BlueSkyArtShow #birds #EastCoastKin #hummingbirds #nature #photography
This fledgling Ruby-throated Hummingbird decided to take a ten-second sunbath, tilting sideways for maximum exposure, on the edge of one of our raised beds. We get a bunch of them, going through about four cups of sugar-water a day this time of year. We never tire of seeing them and enjoying their frenetic activity. SNJ
July 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside #Sunsets #JerseyShore #EastCoastKin Sunset cruise on the Skimmer Salt Marsh Safari, Cape May, NJ. Additional info in ALT.
Living near the Atlantic Ocean in NJ affords us plenty of opportunities to get out on the water. This was taken from a nature cruise out of Cape May called the Skimmer Salt Marsh Safari. A brilliant pink-red sun prepares to set and paints the sky in hues of violet, pink, peach, and the palest of blues, framed by marsh reeds.
June 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM