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Anna Herrington🌱🌿🌺🍀
@annaherrington.bsky.social
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Pacific Northwest.
Oregon.
Photography my own. Love gardening, foodie stuff, nature...
writing, archaeology, art, books, architecture.
Also... three dogs, one cat 💕
Beauty in the world.
Penchant for democracy ~
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Seen while canoeing (about three cameras back).
Osprey.
I think they are magnificent. 🪶
#BirdOfTheDay #YellowEyes
#osprey #nature #photography
Large bird, face in mostly profile, hooked beak. White, with black sides of face to back of neck and wings. Yellow eyes. It's just landed on the top of a pine tree growing lakeside. Blue sky.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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The tea plant is blooming!
Many more flowers, now this plant's getting more sun (neighbor cut back a tree).
Camellia sinensis. 🌱
So far, harvesting about two cups of tea a year.
I minimally process (wilt in sun) some new leaves each Spring and drink it as white tea.
Delicious!
🤍🍵🫖
#tea #inthegarden
Small unassuming white-petaled flower with large circle of yellow-gold stamens in center. Dark glossy leaves, small round buds, not quite in focus, on lower left of plant. Blurred background.
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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End of season Honey Nectar rose budding out. 🌱💗
#BlueSkyArtShow #small
#roses #flowers #inthegarden #photography
#beautyintheworld
Delicate pink-to-salmon rose petals opening up from bud stage. Dark green leaves surround.
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Such a rare treat, a sunny calm day on the Pacific coast.
#TidesOutTuesday #seascape #BlueTue #TuesdayBlue #RockInTuesday #PacificOcean #PacificNorthWest #PNW #WesternUS #nature #photography #beautyintheworld
Turquoise ocean on a sunny day with small waves, white froth, and charcoal-looking rocks, boulders, and sea stacks scattered in the water here and there.
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Anemone blanda blooming in the midst of Veronica 'Georgia Blue.' 🌱💙
#BlueTue #TuesdayBlue #inthegarden #flowers #spring #photography #beautyintheworld
Small rich blue flowers with tiny white centers scattered around, with one much larger, daisy-like petaled, flower in center right.
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Unnerving look from the red eye!
Spotted towhee.
#BirdOfTheDay #StareDown #nature #birds
Bird on a trumpet vine branch, snow around and below, pale blue sky above. Bird has black head, russet sides, white chest with one visible red eye. Staring.
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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My favorite "Winter's coming!" photo, taken a couple years ago. His face is all white, now.
Pip turns 20 in a couple weeks! Our beloved rescue dog.
Still perky, until this morning.
He could use some well wishes, today, my funny little alien...
🤍🧡
Chihuahua wrapped up in a blanket, only eyes and nose showing. 'Tea cup' chihuahua in someone's arms, tongue out a bit, eyes bright, looking very perky and cute.
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Mt. Shasta dominating the scene in far northern California.
There's something surreal about this volcano...
#MountainMonday #nature #photography #volcano #MtShasta
Highway in center foreground stretching into distance with evergreen trees in mid-ground. Forested mountain range further back. Snow-covered Mt. Shasta towers overhead, filling the sky.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Birch tree yellows on a sunny day. 💛
#SundayYellow #nature #autumn #fallvibes #photography #beautyintheworld
Mostly yellow leaves on the birch tree on left in the foreground, glowing in the sun. On the right in the distance is the tan mountainside with dark greens and russets all over.
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Bright autumn. 🧡❤️
Already blown away by all the winds we've had this November...
#BlueSkyArtShow #bright
#trees #autumn #FallVibes #nature #photography #beautyintheworld
Red Maple tree in peak fall colors, rich reds and oranges. Dark trunks and branches showing through mostly in the middle. Sunny day.
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Teeny tiny mushrooms seen on a walk.
#BNWmacro #nature #mushrooms #bnw #photography
Tiny white mushrooms with the thinnest of stems growing amidst mosses on the bark of a downed tree.
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Cold winter morning.
(As close to a post shot as I can find!)
#BirdOfTheDay #post
#hawk #nature #birds #photography
Hawk in winter with puffed up feather against the cold. Dark head, amber eye visible, darker back and wings with belly and chest feathers in russet and white.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Foggy morning trail walk.
#ForestFriday #scape #landscape #nature #woods #photography #beautyintheworld
Creek running through woods, light foggy/misty feeling in the air. Only a few yellow leaves left on some small deciduous trees interspersed with various woodsy greens.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Smith Family Bookstore is a great place!
A true book-lovers kind of store.
Bookstore shelves with overstock stacked on floor in front of shelves.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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'Compassion' rose.
Last rose standing, in the garden. Hard freeze expected in a couple days...
Farewell flowers.🌱💗😢
#RoseWednesday #inthegarden #gardening #flowers #roses #photography #bloomscrolling #beautyintheworld
Close up of a medium pink, fairly classic-shaped rose. Dark blurred background.
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Every morning this little one is there, out back.
Used to be a whole bevy of doves years ago, mourning doves, collared doves, band-tailed pigeons. Now down to random sightings of a few flying in, plus this fella. Usually alone.
Is there an OkCupid for birds? 🤍🪶
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTheGround
Mourning dove sitting on a rock on a frosty morning, feathers puffed up for the cold. Head profiled, tawny feathers on head and chest, darker warm brown back and wings visible.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Dark-eyed junco snacking on some amaranth in the wild part of the garden. 🌱🪶
I used to grow Elephant head amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus), but stopped years ago.
They still come up each year, though...
The birds love them.
#MagentaMonday #inthegarden
#BirdOfTheDay #least
#birds #amaranth #nature
Odd-shaped magenta plant with long 'elephant' snout and red-gold-brown leaves, lots of greenery behind. Bird is standing on the amaranth, a couple amaranth seeds barely visible on its beak. Bird has black head and chest, brown back and wings, muted tan belly, pale beak.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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My sweetie girl. She would never....
😂 ... 🤔 ... 😳
My cat, Santa Paws. A patchwork of colors, part calico splotches, part tortoiseshell, some orange stripes, some grey stripes (on her tail). 100% sweetie cat.
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Delicate.
#SundayYellow #stunday #AlmostAbstract #autumnvibes #mood #FallColors #nature #photography #beautyintheworld
Yellow maple leaves in focus on top center to left with blurred background in grey center top, and orange-reds in curve from top right down to bottom center, fading into darker red amid the white, in background on left.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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This year's peak bright yellows lasted about 5 minutes!
Windy, windy days followed by rains...
But oh so glorious while here. 💛🍂
#SundayYellow #Autumn #FallColor #mapletree #trees #nature #photography #beautyintheworld
Close up of a yellow-leaved maple tree in autumn. Mottled grey trunks visible in center, some groups of leaves still showing their transition from green to yellow, lower left and lower right. Sunny day but lots of shadow in tree depths.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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One little Cecile Brunner rose suddenly re-blooming.
Happy to see her! 💗
#FlowersOnFriday #November #inthegarden #flowers #bloomscrolling #roses
Small pink rose surrounded by greenery.
November 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Last of the tomatoes getting slow roasted in garlic. 🌱
Only the beginning of processing the pears. Anjou pears, just out of cold storage. This year I'm freezing them rather than canning, using a light honey syrup and hoping for the best.
#gardenharvest #harvest #tomatoes #pears #autumn #FoodOnFriday
Several Cherokee Purple tomatoes, darker, on right. 😋 Can't remember the others: the four lighter red on left. All on a wooden chopping board. Chopped and garlic-ed tomatoes ready for oven roasting. One tub of many, many, many tubs and baskets of yellow-looking Anjou pears. Bag of sliced, frozen pears in honey syrup.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Autumn table.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows #autumn #photography
Table in late afternoon light with mini pumpkins in a row casting long shadows, a china teapot with flowers in it, in the center, also casting long shadow as are the chairs on far side. Patterned fabric table runner runs down center. A few autumn leaves.
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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'Compassion' rose, after a night's rain. 🌱
#RoseWednesday #flowers #roses #bloomscrolling #inthegarden #photography
Close up of a medium pink rose in classic form, with tinge more apricot towards center. Raindrops visible on petals. Rose bud on right side of the flower. Greenery surrounds.
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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"I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core."
~ W.B. Yeats
#justbecause #lakes #nature
#beautyintheworld #heartscore #photography
Landscape/waterscape with glassy lake in foreground, hills with patches of gold, patches of dark green in background, trees, also shown in reflection. Image looks very serene.
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM