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AndiF
@aferguson.bsky.social
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Retired but not retiring taker-of-photographs and scratcher-of-dog-bellies
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The Friday Digital Archive Dive is uncertain about frost flowers this year (drought, unseasonably warm) so is picking some from the many in the archive (see 1st ALT image for how they are formed).
Taken #OnThisDay November 14, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020
#photography #frostflowers #ice #frost
Two frost flowers close together, both with swirls and ripples. In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. A tall frost flower with two 'wings' and a swirling ribbon. A frost flower with small ripples, curves, and a solitary curved ribbon at the bottom. A melting frost flower is almost transparent.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The Pleasures of Looking Up: Tulip Trees Are The Best Edition.
No wonder it's the Indiana State Tree.
#photography #trees #woods #fall #color
A photo taken looking up at a tall (well over 100 feet but the current tallest recordholder is 192 ft) and very straight tulip tree. The tops of other trees around it are also visible, including maples with red and yellow leaves and other small tulip trees (aka tulip poplar which is what I grew up calling them).
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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A day when the early morning light and early evening light had the same yellow-red cast.
#photography #moon #light #woods
A view through the trees in a woods just before the sun rises. The light from the sun has given a glow to the clouds and colored the leaves. A view of woods from a road. The moon is very low on the horizon and looks very big as it appears to hover just above the trees. All the trees are washed in a reddish-yellow light that is stronger than the first picture as no other color comes through.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Aurora photos in south Central Indiana
Red Aurora sky through the trees. More Aurora sky
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Snowy day yesterday looked pretty but didn't amount to much in accumulation (maybe an inch). It's going to be well above freezing today so it will all be gone soon. Flit enjoyed it.
#photography #snow #woods #trees #dogs
View standing our long (1/4 mile) driveway of the light snow covering the drive and the trees in the woods that the driveway goes through. There is a dog also in the photo caught in mid-trot. A view in the midst of the woods of leaves with snow on them. Most of the trees are white oaks.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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My mother met my father when he was in training in Indianapolis during World War II. Thus, my remembrance for the U.S. #VeteransDay always starts on a personal note with this photo of their wedding day.
This is a 1943 black-and-white photo of my mother in a pretty street dress standing next to my father who is wearing an army uniform. They look young (21 and 22) and a maybe a tiny bit stunned. They got married just months before he was sent to the European battleground as a medic.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: If you can just find the right vantage point and you put your mind 100% to the task, you WILL find and get that damn squirrel.
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogsonlogs
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle stands on a fallen tree trunk and stares up intently at a tree in front of her where she had seen a squirrel run up its trunk. The squirrel has moved on but Flit always has hope. PS: not a recent photo.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Hiking in the Sawtooth Mountains which make it clear that it's no mystery how they got their name.
#photography #mountainmonday #Idaho #hiking
A mountain range with peaks that are a series of jagged serrations similar to the teeth on a saw looms above a pine forest.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Snow is starting to stick.
Snow is sticking to branches and leaves.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Reality meets reflection ... in stunningly perfect way.
#photography #reflections #buildings #StunDay
A reflection in a glass building shows a brick church and the branches of a nearly bare tree. There is a distinct edge that is the corner of the building. Along the edge is an actual tree that is also nearly bare. Its branches are 'touching' the reflected tree branches as if they a part of the same tree.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Friday Digital Archive Dive finds the perfect picture of the paradoxical nature of #Fall, a beautiful yet melancholy transition from summer to winter.

Taken #OnThisDay November 7, 2013
#photography #lakes #trees
A diving dock floats on a very still lake that is reflecting the colorful trees that line the lake shore.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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This has been a weird fall. The red was plentiful & bright but the yellow have been muted & there hasn't been much orange. The big thing is there's still a huge amount of green. I found a same spot comparison taken 1 day difference in dates but 2013 (l) vs 2025 (r).
#photography #fall #colors
Photo taken on the road to my home as it curves up the hill. Orange, yellow, and red dominate with just a little green from a few beech trees. Same spot. There's a lot of green, more soft yellow, and a few spot of soft orange here and there.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Sometimes the shot isn't nearly as much about the #waterfall as it is about everything around it.
#photography #WaterfallWednesday #WaterWednesday #Indiana
Clifty Falls in Clifty Falls State Park is viewed from a distance with the creek feeding the falls and the rock wall bounding it visible but the falls are overshadowed by the vivid fall colors encircling it, reds, oranges, yellows, and a bit of green. The parks has four major falls, a bat cave, Ohio river overlooks, and excellent hiking trails.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Most of the maples are going yellow this year but some of them are enthusiastically bucking the trend.
#photography #trees #fall #color #yellow #orange #red
A large maple tree is full of golden-yellow leaves. A branch of a larger maple with bright orange leaves extends over a smaller maple tree that is full of bright red leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Theodore Roosevelt Stick Criticism #3*: You have to think about the stick you're choosing to carry because some of them are just too damn awkward to carry without looking like a klutz.
* #1, October 6; #2 October 27
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle is standing on a trail in the woods. She is holding a stick with has almost 90 degree bend and a bunch of dead leaves on one end. Her body is slightly twisted as she tried to get a good grasp on it so she can run down the trail (she did get a bit down the trail and then gave up on it).
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Tucson: land where sunrises and sunsets just keep on giving.
#photography #sunsets #skies #coulds #StunDay
The clouds in a morning sky are tinited red on the 'bottoms' while the sky just above the tops of the mountains are a vivid, fiery red. Saguaro cactus are visible. A sunset sky is filled with dramatic looking clouds that are tinted bright yellow and red yellow at the top of the photo and a more subtle red lower down. Again saguaro cactus are visible.
November 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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"How dare you, you scabrous, foul taker of all that is mine. Get off now or I'll off you."

Share an angry bird and the curse you think it embodies.
#birds #hummingbirds
November 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Third and last photo post today in honor of #Halloween, my favorite childhood holiday (1950s-1960s).
#photography #spooky
An old, dilapidated house sits below a bare and somewhat menacing tree. Everything is shrouded in fog.
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Continuing my 'spooky' photo posts in honor of Halloween (my favorite holiday of my 1950-60s childhood holiday).

Just to make this more spooky, I kept finding it in different places in the woods over the next 4 years (after 2 years, the lower jaw disappeared).
#photography
The skull of a deer lies on the forest floor on wet leaves. Its teeth are all visible and its 'mouth' is open as if it's laughing.
October 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The Friday Digital Archive Dive has a treat for @candissabean.bsky.social -- white oaks that have turned a deep burgundy color.

Taken #OnThisDay October 31, 2008
#photography #woods #fall #color
White oaks stand along a gravel lane curving through a woods. Some of the oak leaves are more a reddish-brown but in the foreground are oaks are a deep burgundy color.
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Posting photos today in honor of #Halloween, my favorite childhood holiday (1950s-1960s). People in my area went all out: elaborate costumes & decorations, loads of regular candy but also popcorn balls, hot cider, homemade candy. I'd come back home to dump my bag at least once.
#photography #spooky
A cutout piece of art of a black cat with its hackles raised and its eyes bugged out standing on a sliver of moon. This is signage from Le Char Noir, (The Black Cat), a fin de siècle cabaret in Montmartre. Various artifacts from the nightclub are in Musée de Montmartre.
October 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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🎶Into the woods/And down the dell,/The path is straight,/I know it well 🎶
#photography #trees #woods #hiking #fall #colors
The photo doesn't match the song lyrics but the spirit is the same as a path I know well leads me into and through the woods which are a mix of colors (red, yellow, green, orange).
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Got lines? I do.
#photography #shadows #fences #ColumbusIndiana
This black-and-white photo shows a wrought iron fence. The wrought iron is supported by regularly spaced brick posts that are topped by concrete finials. The sun is is hitting the fence so the lines of the wrought iron and the thicker lines of the posts are making distinct shadows on the brick walkway.
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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When I saw the picture on the left, I couldn't figure what strange phenom caused the pink splotch on tree on the bottom left (you may need to click on photo to see it). So I checked it out ... and huh, it was the devil's walking stick.
#photography #fall #colors #woods
In a heavily wooded area that are a mix of colors: yellow, red, orange, and green. Off to the bottom left is a house that looks tiny among the tall trees. And there looks to be a pink blob on the trunk of a tree. Close-up of the devil's walking stick which is now a pink blob on the lower part of the photo with trees with green and red leaves. The dominant red tree in both photos is a black gum.
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Reading-palooza: Finishing Philip Pullman's The Rose Field (end of Book of Dust trilogy) and audiobook of Katie Yee's Maggie [title ↧]. And ready when done: Alix Harrow's The Everlasting, Catherine Newman's Wreck and audiobook of Jade Chang's What a Time to be Alive.
#books Booksky 💙📚 #booksky
The full title of Katie Yee's novel is Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar. Note: I enjoy listening to audiobook novels where the 1st person narrator is telling their story. This one was excellent. If you don't usually listen to fiction audiobooks and haven't read Demon Copperhead, that's a fantastic place to start.
October 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM