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Linda Barnia King
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Retired, 7 year survivor of stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, mom, granny, proud Democrat, birder, nature photographer, flower gardener, collage/glue booker…refugee from Facebook…photos are mine unless noted…
#birds
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Posting a dose of summer and the national flower of Ukraine from cold (36), fogged in lower Yakima Valley while the Felon brags about bagging Venezuela for his oil pals…so much for grocery prices, health care, and the Epstein files…
#resist #voteblue #dailyflowers
#sunflowers #bloomscrolling
January 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Bonaparte’s Gull, smallest North American gull…pink legs, nests far north in trees…one on water was alone 12/2024 at nearby Yakima Co. gravel pit pond, other 2 at McNary National Wildlife Refuge…
#birds #ornithology #gulls #audubon
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
January 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Smokey’s snoozing just for a moment…soaking up warmth from the sun-warmed earth…
#caturday #cats #pets #Photography
#WestCoastPhotography
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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It’s very frosty but we’ve had now had 3 Red-winged Blackbirds show up…heard one sing yesterday…migrations seem out of wack in the lower Yakima Valley, Washington…
#birds #blackbirds #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
#photograohy #BirdsofBlueSky #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
January 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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A small floral shop bucket of flowers and greens to start 2026…
#floralFriday #flowers #dailyflowers
#bloomscrolling #photography
#flowerphotography
January 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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A friend let me know he’d seen a few Greater White-fronted Geese in a massive fly in of geese…rechecked my photos from another Yakima Valley location same day…found I had one—yellow bill far right in photo…
#birds #geese #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #naturephotography #WestCoastPhotogrsphy
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Some of the very pregnant Black Angus ladies got together at the water tanks for a New Year’s Eve drink…eastern Washington state…
#cows #rural #farming #ruralscenes
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#mammals #farmlife
January 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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My best wishes for a wonderful 2026…
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Bald Eagle flashing its butt on take off from a tree hanging over the bank of a gravel pit pond…
#birdoftheday #birdbutt #birdphotography
#WestCoastPhotography #raptors #eagles
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A Bald Eagle is the reason I had no luck finding any geese on my favorite pond…actually delighted to catch this great bird near Harrah, WA…
#birds #eagles #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#birdphotography #birdwatching #WestCoastPhotography
December 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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12/30/2025…still waters of Toppenish Creek at the east access to Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge…photographing geese in particular and scenery that moves me…
#waterWednesday #reflection #water
#naturephotography #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #scapes
#landscape #rural #ruralscenes
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Orange Roses represent enthusiasm & desire, gratitude, sincerity & admiration, energy & fascination…wonderful messages to end 2025…Rise Garden, Yakima Area Arboretum
#roseWednesday #roses #flowerfeed
#rose #bloomscrolling #dailyflowers
#flowerphotography #flowers #photography #WestCoastPhotography
December 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Young Red-tailed Hawk sitting on a power pole near the end of our driveway in a very strong wind, December, 2025, near Harrah, WA…
#birds #hawks #raptors #ornithology
#audubon #WestCoastPhotography
#birdPhotography #BirdsoftheWorld
#BirdsofBlueSky #birdlife #birdwatching
December 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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AI says this is a Cedar of Lebanon, known for its widely spaced horizontal branching…it’s fragrant wood is naturally insect and rot resistant…used for making essential oils…Yakima Area Arboretum…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #photography
#WestCoastPhotography
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A second Amaryllis fully opened yesterday…a view of the indoor garden area I put together in the bathroom east facing window this month…will be keeping it there…
#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling
#flowerphotography #photography
#flowerreport #flowerfeed #gardens
#dailyflowers #gardenphotography
December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Black Bear sow…one of 25-30% with a white chest mark known as a “blaze”…I photographed her for 3 years before she and others were removed from Fort Simcoe State Park…
#monoMonday #monochrome #PNW
#blackandwhitephotography #bnw
#parks #bears #wildlifephotography
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
December 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Every time I visit this small Bison herd here in the Yakima Valley the lyrics of Roger Miller’s silly song “You Can’t Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd” come to mind…that’s a hop yard behind them…
#stunday #mammals #bison #rural #farming #photography #ruralscenes #WestCoastPhotography
December 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I have an Amaryllis bud that’s just opened…it helps make the holiday season brighter than the cold, gray sky we’ve been seeing too much of…
#stunday #bloomscrolling #flowers
#flowerphotography #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #flowerreport
December 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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My #outstretched #birdoftheday is a Double-crested Cormorant drying its wings after a successful fishing dive into the Columbia River at Richland, WA…
#birdphotography #BirdofBlueSky
#BirdoftheWorld #birds #ornithology
#WestCoastPhotography #PNW
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Bald Eagle flying a Yakima Valley Washington irrigation canal…opportunistic hunter—sometimes predator and sometimes scavenger…will steal catches from Osprey and hawks…
#birds #raptors #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#birdPhotography
December 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Feral tom Dexter licking his chops after enjoying a can of really good cat food as a Christmas treat…my daughter’s photo with her new iPhone…
#caturday #cats #photography #closeup
#petphotography #phonephoto
December 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Another holiday bouquet from a grocery store floral shop…rising prices caused by tariffs on imported flowers…
#floralFriday #flowers #bloomscrolling
#flowerphotography #photography
December 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Massive flock of about 3000 Snow Geese visited the Yakima Valley on Christmas Day, made a spectacular fly up from a field…fortunate enough to find and photograph them…
#flyday #birds #geese #ornithology
#audubon #BirdsoftheWorld #photography
#BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography
#birdphotography
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A farrier/blacksmith friend made this western themed tree for me of horseshoes collected from rodeo timed-event—roping, barrel racing, steer wrestling—horses…
Base is a mule shoe & piece of leather with our brand…I leave it up all year…
#Christmas #art #crafts #creative
15 horseshoes welded in a Christmas tree shape with a larger mule shoe base …our Two Arrow livestock brand burned on leather and western themed ornaments hung from each shoe…it sits on my computer armoire year around surrounded by greenery and dried plant items in wood vases and a replica of a Charlie Russell cowboy sculpture…
December 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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My daughter/best friend and I wishing BlueSky friends who celebrate it a very Merry Christmas…Valley Mall, Union Gap, WA…
#HumansofBlueSky #Christmas #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM