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lauren e💙
@learls.bsky.social
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Here for beauty and community
Photographer 📷 animal & nature lover🐦‍⬛
Mom & wife of some great humans
Cat mom 🐈
Democrat ◽️ #Indivisible
PhD psychologist
Bookish 📚 musician 🎶
#Michigan and #Florida
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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · Mar 27
If you cannot be a lighthouse
Be a candle of light
—North African Proverb

#PoncedeLeonInletLighthouse #lighthouse #scape #landscape #sky #clouds #beach #photography #PhotographersofBluesky #EastCoastKin
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robcrank68.bsky.social
@alan678.bsky.social has chosen #Contrast for the #BirdOfTheDay theme (standing out against their backgrounds) and the Alternative is #FaceOff (facing the camera).
Here's a Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Little Egret ( #Contrast ) & Mallard ( #faceOff ) at WWT Castle Espie

#birds #EastCoastKin
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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listermj.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast
Another of my favourites from earlier in the year.
Who are ewe looking at?
Herdwick sheep, Easedale, Grasmere, Cumbria. (March 2025).
I blinked first in the stare off😀
#lakedistrict #cumbria #nature #herdwick #sheep #photography #eastcoastkin
A Lakeland scene on the fells at Easedale near Grasmere, Cumbria, England. A small flock of Herdwick sheep are standing on a grassy slope with a traditional stone wall behind them. In the right background is part of one of the Central Fells. One of the sheep is staring directly at the camera. Another looks to the right of the picture.
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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breeze420.bsky.social
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
-Edward Steichen
📷by my son
a photo of me looking out of a car window with blurred water and bushes in the background.
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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cristy7475.bsky.social
Je vous souhaite à tous un joyeux Réveillon de Noël enveloppés dans la douceur des festivités. 🌲🎄🎅
Une pensée tendre pour ceux qui sont seuls, les nécessiteux, les sans-abri, les enfants et nos fidèles compagnons les animaux…
Que cette période soit un baume pour tous les Cœurs. 💕
🥰♥️🎅
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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sdcushing.bsky.social
Hello friends! Happy Wednesday! 🎄How are you? 🙋‍♂️

It’s about 6:30am 🕡 EST here and 🌤️, so I’m making our rich & aromatic #BlueBrew coffee for the community in the #Coffeehouse. Who’d like a cup? ☕️

In any case, please do stop by & say hello! 👋

We close at 10:30am 🕥 EST 😊

#EastCoastKin
a cup of coffee is being poured into a bowl on a table .
Alt: Coffee is being poured continuously into a bottomless white cup
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December 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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tramontes-t-photos.bsky.social
If I remember it correctly, this #NewZealand lake is Lake Pukaki, looking towards the Mt. Cook area, for #ColorADay #CyanTue and #BlueTue. Nearby Lake Tekapo is pretty similar, and I just took this pic along a driving route, but it's one of those.

#landscapephotography #lakes #EastCoastKin #travel
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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ponzphoto.bsky.social
"Passing Through" - Photographed July 13, 2013, in Palmyra, Virginia. 📷

#deer #animal #wildanimal #nature
Spotted this young deer from my kitchen table as I sat down to dinner. The meal got a little cold as I jumped up to watch him (and two others) grazing in front of my house. The thrill never goes away.
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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alan678.bsky.social
Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Grounded birds on the ground. The alternative is #HolidaySeason captures of birds that feel seasonal. Sorry I have to go in a while back evening as I have a day of “ I’m a man, of course I’m doing last minute shopping.”😂 #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
A small Dunnock stands on short grass at ground level, shown in close-up profile facing left. Its rounded body is fluffed slightly, with finely patterned brown and grey plumage, a pale throat, a slim dark beak, and a prominent reddish-brown eye. Soft green and olive tones in the blurred background create a calm, natural setting that highlights the bird’s quie
December 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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ktfrost.bsky.social
Take a moment to reflect

#TidesOutTuesday
#RockinTuesday
#BlueTue
#EastCoastKin
Low tide over rocks with channel of seawater looking out to lapping waves and blue sky beyond. Take a moment to reflect.
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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ktfrost.bsky.social
We think it’s #Twosday
December 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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lorettarobinson.bsky.social
This week can be crazy for some folks. Remember to take time to B R E A T H E ! 🙏

This is #TidesOutTuesday on the #Oregon coast at #BlueHour

#RockInTuesday #EastCoastKin #Photography #OMSystem #Newport
December 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
#XtraXmas #Turkey

Tom Turkey strutting his stuff for the ladies in the hills of San Luis Obispo. 😁

#EastCoastKin #Hiking #WildTurkey #Birds
A male turkey is on the side of a green grassy hill with all his feathers on display and a puffed up chest. He has a long red waddle, blue around his eyes and a white head. His feather colors are black, brown, white and cream. Dark shadowy trees and brush are behind him. Spotted in the Irish Hills in San Luis Obispo, California.
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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belleab.bsky.social
Some colorful and fun street art in Northampton, Massachusetts 🎨
#tagtuesday ##ColorADay #bluetue #publicart #art #streetart #murals #northampton #massachusetts #newengland #photography
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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drippingwithwords.bsky.social
..feelin‘ the december-end-kickback.. into a groovy-little.. s l o w d o w n.. slow with me..

wishing-wonderful-everythings to all:)..

🩶🎸
-DWW

#pause #holidays #nature #art #rock #music #quotes #musicsky #songwriter #philosophy #writesky #bluesky #photography #sunset #sunrise #landscape #artist
December 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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prepekka98.bsky.social
Harkening back to the days when it would snow and it wasn't 70⁰ in December. (Some photos previously shared on Post.News)

#MobilePhotography 📷 #VideoVignette 📽
In the Bleak Midwinter
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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peter-mugridge.bsky.social
Since 455s seem to be the theme of the week on here, here's a flashback to 455 702 at Clapham Junction at 10.16 on 9th February 1991. #Archive
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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cristianvlad.bsky.social
I'm in a lazy mood these days...
#ChristmasIsComing 🎄🎅🎁
December 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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owlfeathers.bsky.social
#ThreeGratitudes

Beautiful sunsets
Receiving Christmas Cards
Christmas carols
December 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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dancingmonkey.bsky.social
My owner is busy preparing fishes. She told me that my job is to sit patiently and stay out of her way. Unfortunately, when patience was being handed out, I was standing in line for beauty. So now I'm impatiently waiting for at least one fish to jump out in front of me.🐟🐈‍⬛
#cats #catsofbluesky
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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championawareness.bsky.social
A quiet connection between wood and water.

#photography #nature #ThickTrunkTuesday #tree #beach #sky #clouds #ocean #aruba #blue
Westpunt, Aruba
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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albert-ibars.bsky.social
Arbres que il·luminen el cel. Camí dels aixaders. Bellpuig.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #Stunday #Scape #RuralScape #Bellpuig #Urgell #EastCoastKin
Imatge d'un arbre sense fulles amb les branques obertes en forma de ventall sota un cel ben ennuvolat.
December 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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robcrank68.bsky.social
Thanks Neil, i got plenty of Little Egret shots on this visit, there were 11 in the trees at one point and some didn't like the others being close by.
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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robcrank68.bsky.social
Good Morning Everyone

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideProfiles any 'Birds Side Profile'. The Alternative theme of #BlackBirds, any 'Black Coloured Bird'.
My #SideProfiles are of Oystercatchers, Mallards, Little Grebe & Little Egret captured at WWT Castle Espie.

#birds #EastCoastKin #ukbirding
December 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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robcrank68.bsky.social
Today's #TwosDay is from my trip to Northern Ireland, while there i visited WWT Castle Espie.
This set is all about Mallards & Little Egrets who were displaying really well.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #birdphotography @wwtworldwide.bsky.social #Ducks #Waders
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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katherinemancuso.bsky.social
This bird is #grounded due to inclement weather.

Thanks Alan and Rob for the great #BirdOfTheDay hashtags each day! 💙🫶🏻🪶
A dark eyed junco in the snow next to a branch on the top step of my patio.
December 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM