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Nature Art by Gibson
@azgibsonz.bsky.social
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Hubby, dad & grandpa. Animal & Nature lover, avid hiker, snarky photography enthusiast...pics are all mine (unless repost) and are mostly captured in northern Arizona or southern Utah. Hope you enjoy the vibe! 🕉
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🌿 Totally gratuitous blue hour cloudscapes...💙☁️💙☁️💙

Trippy rain clouds edition. 🤘😶‍🌫️

#BlueSkyMonday
#BlueHour
#CloudScape
#Photography
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#SkyCandy
Blue hour cotton candy clouds up high and rain clouds down low over the mountains as the sun goes down... Then some cool spots of light bleeding through the cotton candy being lit from above as the clouds roll east. Low rain clouds still creeping east to cover the mountain tops with more cotton candy floating above. And lastly looking due east at my last, best hope for more drama but clouds behind me to the west quickly snuffed out this light before the oranges and pinks arrived.
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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🫠 TFW...a beautiful Gambel's Quail hen gives you the ol' 'get-my-good-side' head turn...while backlit. Both ways.

🌿 Have a double-sweet #TopknotTuesday peeps!! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Callipepla gambelii 🪶🪶🌞

#BirdPhotography
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
Two frames of my sweet backlit hen, both in 16:9, as they came off the camera, first in profile with her topknot facing forward and her crown highlighted in afternoon light... ...and then with her head turned to look back, giving me a backlit crown and topknot plume the other way. Zen birding.
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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🌿 This morning was lit tho'...🔥💙 #BlueSkyMonday

#Sunrise
#SkyCandy
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#Cloudscape
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#BlueHour
#Clouds
#Scape
This morning I had a curving arc of wispy cloud cover over the mountains to catch all the color and drama at blue hour.
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Resting Monday face.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StareDown, any bird #lookingatyou! 👀

📸 Toxostoma curvirostre 🪶🌿

#MimidaeMonday
#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#Photography
Curve-billed Thrasher #47 is the one with my pal hunched over in the shade but facing you with a text-book Thrasher glare... I usually look the same until I clock out on Mondays. Ymmv.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Now Autumn’s fire burns
slowly along the woods,
And day by day
the dead leaves fall and melt.
~William Allingham

🍁

#Seasons
#StunDay
#AutumnVibes
#FeelingFall
#FallFoliage
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn
A fallen maple leaf casts a last shadow on the snow and lichen-covered boulder it came to rest on.
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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This one would make a wicked 2,000 piece puzzle...🍁🌿

🤘😶‍🌫️

#StunDay
#FallFoliage
#FeelingFall
#AutumnVibes
#GreenTherapy
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Treehuggers
#Scape
All of nature's Fall colors paint the leaves in the dappled light under the canopy in a shady ravine somewhere on Aspen Peak.
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#BirdofTheDay has #shadesofgrey!

🤘😶‍🌫️ And I forgot to do a #SnowbirdSaturday, so we'll just call this a #BlueSkyMonday Bluebirb of Happiness! 🌿🐦❄️

💙 Adjust your schedule accordingly... #StunDay

📸 Sialia mexicana 🪶

#Bluebirds
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
The Leonardo Dicaprio of Bluebirds, a male Western Bluebird leans over his skis...er, the curved tip of a snowy branch in bright sunlight and the canopy in bokeh for background.
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Nature gives to every time and season unique beauty; from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it’s just a succession of changes so soft and comfortable that we hardly notice the progress.
~Charles Dickens

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#StunDay 🌿
#SundayVibes
#EastCoastKin
#Bloomscrolling
#Photography
#Scape
Blue Grama grass 'eyelashes' backlit against a snow drift in bokeh. Artsy.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
~Andrew Wyeth

🕉️ ...imagine you're the deer. 🌿🦌❄️🫶

🤘😶‍🌫️

#StunDay
#ClassicMono
#Monochrome
#Mammals
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Scape
A Mule Deer doe stares back at you through a window in the snowy woods, wondering why a human is crunching through the forest in all this snow. Zen in black and white.
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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🫠Feeling a Western Tanager vibe... have a #bright #StunDay peeps! 🔥🌿

📸 Piranga ludoviciana, a male! 🪶

#SundayYellow
#Yellowbirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#BlueSkyArtShow
The male Western Tanager is a bright yellow bird with a black back and wings, and a fiery orange-red head. Might be the brightest birb in the forest.
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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'I will not be clapped in a hood,
Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,
Now I have learnt to be proud
Hovering over the wood
In the broken mist
Or tumbling cloud.'

~The Hawk, William Butler Yeats 🪶

🕉️

#StunDay 🌿
#ClassicMono
#Monochrome
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#BirdsOfPrey
#Raptors
A Red-tailed Hawk perched at the top of some curving branches is backlit by a cool misty cloud cover filling the frame. Zen in black and white.
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Another day is breaking,
#bright sunshine upon waking.
I rise to greet the morning light,
more memories in the making.

🕉️

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#SkyPainting
#SkyCandy
#SkyScape
#Cloudscape
Trippy stripes of pink cotton candy clouds silhouette the elm trees at blue hour.
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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📖 Did you read about the 'Attack Squirrel' that sent 3 people to the ER...?? 🤨

Yeah well, don't say I didn't warn you they were up to something. IYKYK. 🌿🐿️ #SquirrelSaturday #Sqrlpix
The most vibes I ever got off a squirrel, and I still maintain he was about to jump on my face...so I took his picture with him in 'launch' mode and some light on his face so you can feel the vibe too...
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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We behold the face of nature
#bright with gladness...
~Charles Darwin

🕉️

📸 Calypte anna 🪶

#BlueSkyArtShow 🖼️
#TheLittleThings 🥰
#EastCoastKin 🌿
#Hummingbirds 🐦
#Iridescence ✨
#Photography 🎞️
The wife's favorite hummingbird, a juvenile male Anna's perched on a twig in portrait and showing off all his bright iridescent colors and cool blank spaces that will fill in as he matures, is her choice for this art show. I know. Right?
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Good morning! ✨

Backlit...and bokeh balls. 🫧

Best I could do with her... today's #birding! 🌿🐦🌄

Clouds are already rolling in...🌥️ #WeekendVibes

📸 Calypte anna 🪶

#TheLittleThings
#Hummingbirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#FeatheredFriday
Took a hike, spied a female Anna's Hummingbird perched on a twig. She's backlit and I had to thread a needle to reach her, but I like the composition and the bokeh balls in the canopy background over another feeder shot...all day.
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Every silver lining has a cloud.
~Mary Kay Ash

🕉️
Blue hour color striking clouds in pastel streaks and stripes across layers of purple and blue sky candy.
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I can smell #autumn dancing in the breeze.
~Ann Drake

🕉️ …smells like #WeekendVibes! 🌿🦌I'm off Friday!! Going riding, before the rains come...and hiking when they do. 🫠

🫶 Have a sweet weekend, peeps! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#Scape
#Seasons
#AutumnVibes
#FeelingFall
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Mammals
Smells like a strain called 'Mo' Dough'. Really. In portrait frame, a young Mule Deer lifts a rear leg with the big buck of the herd sniffing the Fall leaves on the ground right behind.
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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In a forest
of a thousand whispers,
listen to
the aspens sing.

🕉️ #ThickTrunkThursday vibes... 🤘😶‍🌫️

#Autumn 🍁
#AutumnVibes 🍂
#FeelingFall 🌿
#ForestFriday 🌲
#TreeScape 🍃
#Treehuggers 🫂
#EastCoastKin 💞
#GreenTherapy 💚
#Photography 📸
#FallFoliage 🔥
#Seasons ⏳
#Scape 🖼️
Finally. Looking straight up at that northeastern drainage on Hayden Peak for my clearest view, nothing in the foreground this time, of a stand of Quaking Aspens encircled by Gambel Oaks wearing yellow and orange Fall colors among the conifers covering the rocky mountain slope.
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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It just hits different...

...when a Curve-billed Thrasher 'looks down his nose' at you. 🫠

🌿 Enjoy the judgement on #ThrasherThursday! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Toxostoma curvirostre 🪶

#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#Photography
Great googly moogly, the eyes on a Curve-billed Thrasher, especially when you get them both in frame, are something to behold...this birb has run, literally, run across my back yard (yes, it's all rocks) to stop at the edge of the patio, raise its bill high and look at me inquisitively like "where's the mealworms, bub?" Zen.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Part of you died each year
when the leaves fell from the trees
and their branches were bare
against the wind and the cold,
wintery light.
~Ernest Hemingway

🕉️

#ThursJay 🪶
#FeelingFall 🌿
#Bluebirds 🐦
#BirdLovers 💙
#Photography 📸
#EastCoastKin
#LookingAtYou
#StickHappens
#BorbAlert
#Corvids
Without any leaves left, this bare Slippery Elm tree doesn't hide the borby blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay looking at you through all the branches.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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☁️ 🤏Patchy clouds in the west let just a smidge of soft light through for tonight's #bluehour #skypainting... 💙🔥😍

...in four directions! 🧭🌿

#BlueSky
#Cloudscape
#SkyScape
#SkyCandy
#Clouds
#Scape
#Sunset
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
Starting in landscape and looking southeast at the blue hour clouds catching color over the Hualapai's... Then switching to portrait for the frame of just pastel color painting the northeast blue hour sky, keep your phone this way up for... Another portrait of just clouds and soft color painting the frame looking northwest... And finally, back to landscape for those patchy clouds hugging the western horizon as the sun set. Thanks for looking!
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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..."Good Day, Sir!"

🤘😶‍🌫️ Thanks for sharing all your cool birbs! 🪶🌿

#WoodpeckerWednesday
#Woodpeckers
#NotLookingAtYou
#Photography
#BirdLovers
That would be the backside of a recalcitrant Acorn Woodpecker under overcast skies with some bokeh balls in the canopy background. Zen birding.
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Layers of cotton candy...🔥🌿

#BlueHour
#CloudScape
#SkyScape
#SkyPainting
#SkyCandy
#Sunset
#Scape
Looking west after sunset at the layers of color painting the clouds over Mayswell Peak silhouetted below.
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
~Martin Buber

👀 ...these say "Have a sweet #WildlifeWednesday!" 🤘😶‍🌫️

#WildlifePhotography
#EastCoastKin 🌿
#Mammals 🦌
#LookingAtYou
#Photography 📸
Deer peeps! The adorable face of a Mule Deer fawn stares back at you with huge fluffy ears and a little #stickhappens. Zen.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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For me,
hope is not a metaphor;
it's a lived practice.
It isn't a thing I possess.
Rather, I have to remake it daily.
I don't have hope,
I do hope.
~Mariame Kaba

🕉️ I do hope the wonders of Nature fill your #WoodpeckerWednesday!

📸 D. scalaris🪶🌿❄️

#Woodpeckers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
A male Ladder-backed Woodpecker is now wide awake and still clinging to the Ponderosa Pine tree he chose to ride out a snow storm.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM