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Introverted horse owner that likes animals, nature, comedy, old movies, and introverted activities including reading, gardening, plants, photography, and genealogy. 🐎🐶📚📷🌱
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Celosia is very unique. #photography #celosia #flower #plants #nature #pink
Close-up photograph of bright pink celosia blooms growing from a green leafy stalk. The flowers have a velvety texture and have a ripple-like shape.
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” —L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables.

This was taken on a beautiful October day, and all these leaves have since fallen; glad to have found this on my camera. #photography #nature #tree #leaves #fall #autumn #yellow
A photograph looking up through a tree canopy of yellow and gold autumnal leaves on smooth bark branches against a blue sky on a sunny day.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This katydid was easy to see as it was the only leaf on the shovel handle. #photography #katydid #insect #leafbug #nature #green
Close-up photograph of a green katydid with its leaf-like wings (including leaf-like veins), grasshopper-type head with antennae, and long jointed legs, walking upwards on the handle of a shovel handle leaning against a wall. Katydids are insect cousins of crickets and grasshoppers.
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Shadow cat for October. My cat's silhouette while sitting on the top of a round fence post taken years ago. Even though he was a tabby, the sun had set behind the mountain creating a great shadow cat figure for the camera. #photography #cat #silhouette #shadow #nature
A shadow silhouette photograph of a cat gazing into the distance whiled perched on top of a round fence post against a cloudy late afternoon sky. I still think of you often, my fearless little friend.
October 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Many years ago a wonderful neighbor gave us this homemade birdhouse made out of natural resources. Bluebirds used it for years. I placed it among my climbing wisteria plant on top of a simple 6X4 board pergola. #photography #birdhouse #wisteria #nature #flowers
A birdhouse made of a round piece of log and a flat board roof sitting on the top board of a simple 2X6 board pergola among early blooming lavender wisteria blooms and green leaves on a overcast day.
September 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Pigeons silhouetted on a cloudy day.
#photography #silhouette #pigeons #birds
A photograph of a row of pigeons sitting on a semi arched unlit streetlight in silhouette against a cloudy dusky sky in the background. Dark thin tree twigs with buds in the foreground.
August 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Yay! The sculpture of Brighty, in the Grand Canyon Lodge, has been recovered.
tucson.com/news/state-r...
#brightyofthegrandcanyon #burro #margueritehenry #book
Brighty, a Grand Canyon mascot, recovered from the wildfire rubble
A big bronze statue of a donkey named Brighty the Burro has been recovered from the charred rubble of the Grand Canyon Lodge in Arizona. But it’s too early to
tucson.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Monday morning observation...you don't have to be the showiest butterfly, largest flower, or loudest bumble bee, in order to be important in the grander scheme of things. #photography #nature #flower #beetle #insect #bloom
A close-up photograph of a tiny shiny brown pollinator beetle crawling in the center of a small blooming bright yellow wildflower in the morning sun. Some petals show scattered specks of dusty grit from the ground.
August 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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A calming cactus flower for Sunday.
#photography #cactus #flower #cactus_flower #stunday #nature
A semi close-up photograph of a white blooming cactus flower in morning sunlight where the elongated multiple layers of petals cast shadows upon themselves. The pale green center of the bloom has delicate looking stamen made of slender white filaments with pale yellow anthers and a white stigma. The background is made of green cactus columns with spiny nodules, and fuzzy, hairy remnants of bloomed-out flowers.
August 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Happy Friday!
#rose #flowers #photography #nature
Close-up photograph of a blooming rose of bright yellow and orange colors. The outer petals are yellow with tinges of orange around the edges, and the inner curving petals have more orange color. Along with green leaves and stems of a rosebush, two additional blooming roses of the same colors can be seen in the unfocused background.
August 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Good morning!
#photography #tree_frog #treefrog #amphibian #frog #nature
A close-up photograph of a tree frog's face staring at the viewer with large black pupils ringed by golden irises. Its body is a mottled army green with a dark stripe running laterally along the body level with the eye and forming a "V" at the frog's nostrils. The frog is nestled at the top of a dusty green plastic watering can where the inside curve of the handle meets the opening of the vessel at the top.
July 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Up until his death, Ozzy Osbourne’s goal was to ascend a stage one last time and thrill his fans.

When the subject of retirement came up in a 2020 Rolling Stone interview, Osbourne huffed. “Retire from what?” he said. “It’s not a job...." 🖤
July 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Just a reminder that even if your some of your petals are bruised and tired, you can still bloom and bring beauty into the world. #photography #rose #red #flowers #nature #bloom
A close-up photograph of a not fully opened blooming vibrant red rose. The inner petals are nestled in a spiral within each other, and a couple of irregular shaped outer petals are marred with bruised spots. The red color of the rose pops out against a lighter green background of out-of-focus rosebush leaves, and a bit of dark reddish pink dried roses.
July 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Peaceful pink Crepe Myrtle #flowers for Friday. #photography #blooming #nature #pink #colorful #crepemyrtle #bloomscrolling
A semi close-up photograph of blooming bright ruffled pink Crepe Myrtle flowers and round green buds on a branch. A couple of the flowers have multiple vibrant yellow stamens. The background consists of out-of-focus slightly darker green leaves on dark thin branches against a very light sky.
July 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#Sideways cactus bud for #Stunday

#photography #nature #cactus #BlueSkyArtShow
A photograph of an oval-shaped sideways-growing cactus bud getting ready to bloom. The white flower petals taper to a point and are visible between long flat tapered sepals of various green. The stem has tiny hairs and is attached to a upright cactus column with evenly spaced spiny nodules. The background shows additional out of focus cactus columns and arms.
July 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Good morning everyone! Tried to get some photos of this big black bumble bee that was out early doing its part in nature. #photography #bumble_bee #bee #cactus #blooming #bloom #flower #nature
A photograph of big black bumble bee hovering over a blooming white cactus flower in morning sunlight. The upper left portion of the bee was not captured in the picture. A photograph of a large black bumble bee exiting the center of a blooming white cactus flower. Tiny specks of pollen can be seen on the bee. The center of the flower is light green with delicate looking pale yellow stamen.
July 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Not much to see, but this little red strawberry cheered up my day for a moment. #photography #strawberry #red #nature #plant
A semi close-up of a shiny red strawberry on a hanging stem, next to a still green strawberry, and additional stems of strawberry flower buds hanging from a faded red planter. The red strawberry has tiny green seeds.
July 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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This states the revised plan is nixed.

www.latimes.com/environment/...
Plan to sell off public land in the West nixed from ‘big, beautiful bill’ amid GOP backlash
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced late Saturday that he was pulling a plan to sell up to more than 1 million acres of federal land from the Trump-backed 'One Big Beautiful Bill.'
www.latimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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If Rep. Boebert’s unscientific and unethical wolf delisting bill becomes law, it may not stop Colorado’s reintroduction— but it would be devastating for wolves in other states.
bit.ly/4ejXMq7

Tap the link below to take action and say NO to H.R. 845.
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How Rep. Lauren Boebert's bill to delist gray wolves could affect Colorado's wolf reintroduction
For decades, the question of how and whether gray wolves should be legally protected has been debated through federal rulemaking, courts and now Congress—where a bill from one of Colorado's representa...
phys.org
June 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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NPR--Trump to rescind 'Roadless Rule' protecting 58 million acres of forest land

www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g...
Trump to rescind 'Roadless Rule' protecting 58 million acres of forest land
Speaking in New Mexico, President Trump's Secretary of Agriculture announced her intention to roll back a landmark 2001 conservation rule passed in the late hour of the Clinton administration.
www.npr.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Interactive map of public lands eligible to be sold through the
"One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
www.wilderness.org/articles/pre...
2 million+ acres of public land sales in Senate budget rec package: “a betrayal of future generations”
Budget reconciliation bill text released by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee includes a mandate for the sale of over 2 million acres of public lands.
www.wilderness.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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What To Know About the Senate’s Public Lands Sell-Off www.americanprogress.org/article/what...
What To Know About the Senate’s Public Lands Sell-Off
Among other damaging proposals, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes a controversial plan to sell off public lands to pay for billionaire tax breaks.
www.americanprogress.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Good morning everybody. A peaceful moment during a beautiful sunrise today. #photography #sunrise #nature #colorful
A landscape photograph of a sunrise reflected on clouds in an early morning sky over shaded foothills.
June 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Trump's newly confirmed IRS commissioner, Billy Long, brags about being a CTBA — Certified Tax and Business Advisor — on his X profile.

But tax experts told ProPublica they have never heard of CTBA as a credential in the tax profession.
Screenshot of Billy Long's X profile. His profile name is Congressman Billy Long, CTBA and his bio reads: U.S. Congresman 1/3/11-1/3/23 'Certified Tax & Business Adivsor' DM me to save 40% on your taxes. We have a new traunch of tax credits just out! His profile picture and cover image are of him standing with Donald Trump at campaign events.
June 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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thebulwark.com
Sen. Padilla was forcibly detained and removed from Kristi Noem's press conference.
June 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM