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ofduskanddawn.bsky.social
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Man moved by the beauty of nature. Photographer, writer, poet, filmmaker, and vestige of a kinder era.
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For tomorrow. Close up of a lotus seed head on the shore of an estuary. #nature #seeds #blackandwhite
Irregular shaped holes in a dried seed head of a lotus. Some chambers are empty, and some contain the round seeds waiting to find their place in this black and white photo.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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What remains. A rotting stump of a hollowed out tree that fell sometime ago. We get a chance to see the hole from the inside. Discovered on Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods Preserve, Bowling Green, OH. #nature #trees #hiking #fall #autumn #ohio
A rotting stump is what remains of a tree that had been hollowed out. The hole is now a window in brown, gray, and black stump.
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Golden November. A tree line on the edge of a grassy meadow in the sun. Seen while hiking in the Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods Preserve in Bowling Green, OH. #nature #autumn #fall #leaves #sky #hiking #bowlinggreen #ohio
Golden brown dead grasses cover a meadow that is edged with trees clinging to orangish-brown leaves under a bright blue sky veiled with thin white puffy clouds on a sunny November day.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The coming day. Moments ago as the sky is painted by the rising sun on the banks of the Maumee River. #sunrise #nature #clouds #trees #maumeeriver #ohio
The silhouette of a thin tree runs diagonally from the top left to the bottom right across a canvas of reds, yellows, oranges, pinks and powdered blue. Other trees stand straight on the banks of a river cutting through the landscape below the horizon. It reflects the mix of colors from above, as the sun rises out of sight.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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After the blooming. Dried flower in a meadow at Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods Preserve in Bowling Green, OH on gloriously sunny November day. #hiking #nature #flowers #fall #autumn #ohio
Five gray dried flower heads are in sharp focus with others below out of focus against a golden brown backdrop of dried grasses and underbrush in a meadow on a bright and sunny fall day.
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Tree without boundaries. Over time this tree has consumed half the sign nailed to it. #blackandwhite #trees #nature
Gray fields of grass are home to a black tree with a white sign with black lettering sticking out of its large limb in this black and white photo.
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A brilliant September day. The Lorain Harbor Lighthouse looms in the distance as a seagull rests on a rock along a break wall. Lake Erie was looking fine in the bright sunshine. #lighthouse #birds #nature #lakeerie #lorain #ohio
A clear blue sky and choppy blue-green water makes a good backdrop for a white lighthouse with a red roof, as a solitary seagull sits on a grayish rock and watches.
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Twins. November of 2019 along the banks of the Maumee River near Waterville, OH. #nature #deer #hiking #fall #autumn #ohio
In trees with yellow leaves and underbrush still green, two nearly identical deer are surprised to see a hiker so early in the morning along the Maumee River.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Watching the fields at dusk. A bird of prey surveys the ground below as the sun begins to set on a smokey fall evening. #sunset #rural #birds #nature #hiking #ohio
Heavy air made brown by smoke and the warm light of a sunset fills the scene where a field of brown grass catches the low angled light, and a dead tree has become a perch for large bird of prey. Beyond, trees with dying leaves rise to meet horizontal clouds of gray and pale yellow in a dirty and weak blue sky.
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Dawn in a drought. Standing where a set of rapids should be, I watch the sky stir as the sun approaches. The river struggles to flow. #sunrise #fall #autumn #water #sky #nature #maumeeriver #ohio
An exposed riverbed of gray and brown rocks is damp with mornings dew. Trees, laden with leaves of red, yellow and orange, line the river’s bank. The sky is orange and yellow with purple clouds, as the sun announces its impending arrival. The water still able to flow despite a drought, echos the call from above.
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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A shy yellow tree. In a stand of mature oaks, a young tree with bright yellow leaves tries to hide behind its older neighbors in the Secor Metropark near Toledo, OH. #fall #autumn #trees #leaves #hiking #ohio
A tree with bright yellow leaves is on the left side of the photo among much larger trees with grayish trunks and bark with deep grooves. The forest floor is a blanket of brown leaves stirring in the wind.
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Remnants of color. On a windy day an oak holds fast to its leaves under a brilliant blue sky in November. Yesterday at Oak Openings Preserve Metropark. #nature #hiking #fall #aitumn #ohio
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Feeding fungus. The side of a fallen tree is covered in fungus that slowly consumes stored nutrients. Secor Metropark in Lucas County, OH. #nature #fungus #fall #autumn
Whitish scales of fungus with a green cast stick out from the side of rotting tree covered in green moss. Fallen brown oak leaves, and a gray branch frame the view.
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Deer friends. Can you see both deer? Today in the Oak Openings Preserve Metropark near Swanton, OH. #nature #deer #fall #autumn #trees #hiking #oakopenings #ohio
Through a thick forest of trees large and small, a light brown deer peers at a moving shape in the distance that has suddenly stopped. The gray trees catch the low angled sunlight. Some bend to the right, other rise in straight lines from the forest floor that’s covered in brown dead leaves.
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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For some reason my feed is inundated with skeets in German this morning. Guten tag!
An exposed riverbed of gray rocks and green algal mats is lined with trees in colorful fall attire. Green, red, yellow, and orange leaves wait for the first rays of sun.
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Fading aurora. The display did not last very long, but the sky is clear tonight. It makes me feel very small indeed. #aurora #northernlights #nature #sky #stars #trees #ohio
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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They’re baaaack! Moments ago in Northwestern, OH. #aurora #northernlights #nature #sky #trees.
Behind pine and the bare branches of trees without leaves pink and green aurora visit again.
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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A glow from above. A tree is silhouetted over a cloudy sky glowing green and red from the northern lights. A rare treat for this latitude! #northernlights #aurora #sky #clouds #trees #nature #ohio
The sky is the backdrop. It glows a muted green and red from an aurora much higher than the milky clouds. A mature tree fans its branches in silhouette on the left side of the photo.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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When the sky is electric. City lights and clouds soften the view of the northern lights over the Maumee River in Grand Rapids, OH, tonight. #northernlights #aurora #maumeeriver #ohio
The sky glows a yellowish orange near the tops of trees from city lights reflecting off the clouds. A green glow and some red shafts of aurora are visible through the thinning clouds. Below is a river and trees of the near bank fill the right corner of the view.
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Sky afire tonight. Northwestern Ohio. #aurora #northernlights #sky #clouds #nature
Clouds hide the green aurora near the horizon, but above a curtain of red flows across the starry sky.
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Moments ago. The sky dances above the sleeping fields. #aurora #northernlights #nature #sky #ohio
A green band sits below a red tower of aurora in the sky above a dark rural landscape in Ohio.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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When morning comes. Sunrise over the Maumee River on November 6, 2019. #sunrise #fall #autumn #water #nature #hiking #ohio
Curling leaves on tree branches in the foreground are silhouetted agains a cloudy light blue sky that is textured with pink tufts. An intense yellow shows the point where the sun will appear on the horizon. shadow lines from unseen features are cast on the underside of the cloud with the disturbed water below reflecting the colorful mix.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Not Woody. A Pileated Woodpecker goes to town on an Oak tree in the Oak Openings Preserve Metropark, near Swanton, OH. (Sorry for the loud breathing sounds.) #nature #birds #woodpecker #hiking #fall #autumn #ohio
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Autumnal patchwork. Marl Lake, Roscommon County, MI in early October.
A sky full or puffy white clouds races over a small lake lined with trees. The mix of green pines with splashes of reds, yellows, and oranges from deciduous trees make the shoreline appear as a quilt of colorful patches. Brown and green reeds in the shallows fill the foreground.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Dusk in November. Sunset in rural Ohio, November 1st. #sunset #nature #clouds #fall #autumn #rural #ohio
Riverbanks of brown, dead grasses frame a mirror like river that reflects the sky near sunset. The gray and blue clouds block most of the orange sky, with only patches visible near the horizon. The sun is hidden behind an intense yellow spot on the left. Silhouetted trees and underbrush separate the land and sky.
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM