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Vicki
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Wife, mother who cares for 2 sons with autism, amateur photographer, mother of a golden retreiver, love nature and reading. Have recently been adopted by a stray cat. No DMs. No posts=blocked.
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Vicki @vickclicked.bsky.social · 3h
Ready for New Years Eve- frosted hair and lash extensions 😉
#WildlifeWednesday
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The magic of nature holds hope for the New Year, best wishes to all! 🕊️ …
The blue misty skies with dancing clouds was mimicked over the water way.
December 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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💫 Wszystkiego najlepszego w Nowym Roku! 🍀

✨ Kommt gut ins neue Jahr! 🥂
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The Hoar Frost of Rannoch Moor...

#Photography #Scotland #Mountain #Frozen #Freeze #Highlands #Mood #Winter #RannochMoor #Hoarfrost #OMSystem
December 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Painterly Magic...

#Photography #Landscape #Mist #Painterly #Scotland #Light #ShotOnLumix
December 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Another video of the Pileated Woodpecker nest where 2 of the 3 nestlings are seen getting fed by Dad. #WoodpeckerWednesday #birds #videography #EastCoastKin
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Rob says today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections. The Alternative is #BlueGreatCoal (any of the Tit Bird Species)

A Sandhill Cane #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #WaderWednesday
December 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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"What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on."

-Mother Teresa
Rocks and boulders at Joshua Tree California.
December 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"Shades of Beer" - Photographed May 24, 2023, in Richmond, Virginia. 📷

When I left 𝕏 I hoped instagram was the answer. It wasn't. But bluesky has been everything I hoped for, a nice place to share my photography. Thank you to everyone who has made it special. 🍾HAPPY NEW YEAR 🍾
A glass of beer, shaded by the sun on a wood picnic table
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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“The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.”
― Shel Silverstein
a lamp post in front of trees and bushes.
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Schön, dass ihr da seid. Ich wünsche euch einen schönen Silvesterabend, ein gesundes neues Jahr und dass eure Träume wahr werden! 🍀🐞
It's great to have you here. I wish you a wonderful New Year's Eve, a healthy New Year and may all your dreams come true!
#eastcoastkin #redwed
Ein Marienkäfer mit roten Flügeldecken und schwarzen Punkten geht von einem gelben Kleeblatt auf ein grünes Kleeblatt. Im Hintergrund sind weitere grüne Blätter und Pflanzen zu sehen.
December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Happy Wednesday everyone!!
Distant view of the Elkhorn Mountains from my side yard yesterday

#scape #landscape #Montana #artyear
The landscape unfolds in broad, measured layers, each receding gently into the next. In the foreground, tall, pale grasses stand upright and brittle, their straw-colored stalks catching the low winter light. They form a quiet threshold, marking the transition from open meadow to the darker band of evergreens beyond. Midground hills rise in smooth, rounded forms, their surfaces lightly dusted with snow. The snow lies unevenly, revealing underlying textures of grass and earth, creating a mottled pattern of white, blue shadow, and muted brown. Subtle tracks or wind-shaped lines cross the slopes, emphasizing the land’s contours and the slow, persistent forces that shape it. Clusters of conifer trees gather in sheltered pockets and along gentle draws, their deep green needles providing contrast against the pale ground and reinforcing a sense of scale. Beyond these nearer hills, successive mountain ridges stack toward the horizon, each layer darker and bluer than the one before. Atmospheric haze softens their outlines, giving the distant peaks a subdued, almost velvety appearance. The highest ridge carries traces of lingering snow along its crest, suggesting elevation and colder conditions above. Overhead, the sky is clear and expansive, a calm gradient of pale winter blue with no visible clouds. The light is crisp and directional, casting long, cool shadows across the slopes and enhancing the relief of the terrain
December 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Happy New Years Eve Everyone!!

Hopefully you will be smiling like Bleu tonight!!

How the party started..
I am pleased to report that I have officially begun celebrating New Year’s Eve, and I have done so with dignity, athleticism, and absolutely no understanding of calendars. As you can see, I am charging forward through the snow with my mouth open in what humans often misinterpret as “a smile,” but which is actually my ceremonial New Year’s Joy Vent. This is how one releases the emotional weight of the past year—by galloping directly at one’s human while snow flies into one’s chest fur like confetti. My tail is raised and waving in broad, confident arcs, signaling optimism, excitement, and the possibility that treats may be forthcoming because it is a “special occasion.” Behind me, my sister is conducting a separate but equally important New Year’s ritual known as Alert Barking at Absolutely Nothing. This is vital work. Someone must notify the forest that the year is ending. It might already know, but we do not take chances. She is facing uphill, where all serious announcements should be directed. The setting is perfect: snow for dramatic effect, pine trees for ambiance, and enough scattered rocks to remind me that despite my enthusiasm, physics still applies. I am mid-stride, one paw lifted, ears slightly back—not from fear, but from speed. I am fast. I am joyful. I am convinced this run has purpose, even if that purpose changes every three seconds. In summary, I am Bleu. I am ringing in the New Year by running happily toward the people I love, inhaling cold air, ignoring resolutions, and trusting that whatever comes next will involve food, sticks, and another run just like this one.
December 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
vickclicked.bsky.social
Ready for New Years Eve- frosted hair and lash extensions 😉
#WildlifeWednesday
December 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Goodnight #Mountainmonday #Blueskymonday
Glacier National Park
December 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Happy Tuesday everyone !!
A #monochrome picture of Square Peak Glacier National Park

In these wild places one feels the absence of man most strongly, and it is a relief—as if the land itself were allowed to breathe again-Muir

#Imageandverse #artyear #scape #NationalParks
The photograph presents a solemn, almost ascetic landscape rendered in black and white, where scale and restraint dominate the frame. A broad mountain mass rises in the background, its upper ridgeline uneven and weather-worn, with sheer faces and shallow cirques etched into the stone. The rock surface appears pale and textured, marked by long vertical striations and subtle tonal shifts that suggest centuries of freeze, thaw, and gravity at work. Clouds hover above the summit, diffuse and heavy, softening the boundary between mountain and sky rather than dramatizing it. Below the mountain, a dense forest forms a dark, continuous band across the middle of the image. Tall conifers—likely spruce or fir—stand tightly packed, their pointed crowns creating a serrated horizon line that mirrors, in miniature, the jagged outline of the peaks above. Interspersed among them are lighter-toned deciduous trees, their leaves catching more light and breaking the forest’s darkness with irregular patches of silver and gray. This contrast introduces depth and suggests seasonal transition, as if the forest is quietly shifting rather than flourishing. In the foreground, a narrow meadow opens the scene, its grasses pale and understated, offering a low, horizontal plane that anchors the composition. A single conifer stands slightly apart on the left side, taller and more isolated than the rest, functioning almost as a visual sentinel between meadow and forest. There is no visible path, structure, or human trace. The land appears uninterrupted and self-contained.
December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Bleu tested golden retriever approved Stick Floss

Stick-Floss demonstrates superior tensile strength, high chew satisfaction, and excellent post-use portability.

Bleu’s full evaluation in the alt text..
I have been tasked with testing a new dental innovation known as Stick-Floss, and I take this responsibility very seriously. As you can see, I am currently applying a calibrated bite, combined with a strategic head tilt, to evaluate tensile strength, flexibility, and overall chew integrity. This particular model shows promising resistance. It bends without surrendering, which is exactly what you want in a floss product meant for daily canine use. I am also noting excellent gum engagement—deep enough to feel productive, but not so aggressive that it compromises long-term stick performance. These are important metrics. My facial expression may suggest I am wrestling a small forest demon, but rest assured: this is the look of focused scientific inquiry. Ears askew, eyes narrowed—this is how breakthroughs happen. If the stick snaps, that is a failure of design. If it survives, it earns repeat testing, ideally in multiple locations and at increasing levels of enthusiasm. Preliminary conclusion: Stick-Floss demonstrates superior tensile strength, high chew satisfaction, and excellent post-use portability. Further testing will continue immediately, and indefinitely, until the stick is either destroyed or promoted to Most Valuable Stick, at which point it will be carried proudly and not shared.
December 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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"Garden Beauty" - Photographed June 10, 2023, in Afton, Virginia. 📷

#flowers #garden #nature
Garden variety flowers
December 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"Let your life lightly dance
on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

Tagore
🍀 💦 🌱 🌺

🎵

(Photo by Kirpal)
December 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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"Wrapped Up In A Wave" - Photographed September 29, 2013, in Colonial Beach, Virginia. 📷
A small wave wraps around a piece of wood.
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"Happy Squirrel" - Photographed July 1, 2023, in Palmyra, Virginia. 📷
A squirrel cracks open a peanut shell before eating the peanut.
December 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Let’s the moments and memories reside silently 📷🕊️…
A silhouette fir tree on a misty morning gets a wink from the morning sun.
December 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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kirpalsingh.bsky.social
How do you trust your feelings
when they can just disappear like that?

-i think the only way you can find out is ...
(just) to have the feeling.

Movie : Blue Valentine
(2010)
Director : Derek Cianfrance

...found another miracle 🌬️ 🪶 🍃
December 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A pretty sunset last night. Cascade foothills. Have a beautiful day. 🩷💕
Sunset. Dark green conifers, rolling mountains, a layer of white clouds above the mountains, topped with layers of creamy pink clouds and sky.
December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Mt. Hood late afternoon yesterday. 🏔️💕
Mt. Hood. Dark conifers, glowing snow covered mountain, gray blue sky with light gray clouds above.
December 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM