CathWren
@cathwrenmoore.bsky.social
💙 Artist / Illustrator / Naturalist / I ❤️ Shelling / Forest Bather 🌲/ Collector of Words / AntiRacist / 🏳️🌈 Ally /
Beautiful sunset this evening.
January 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Beautiful sunset this evening.
Nothing like a peaceful walk through the snow.
January 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nothing like a peaceful walk through the snow.
Photographic credit: Nicolas Linsmayer, Ding Darling Nature Preserve, Sanibel Island, FL Happy 2025 Blue Sky Friends.
January 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Photographic credit: Nicolas Linsmayer, Ding Darling Nature Preserve, Sanibel Island, FL Happy 2025 Blue Sky Friends.
Watercolor sketches in one of my journals, of mostly feathers. I cannot wait to get back to it in 2025!
December 30, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Watercolor sketches in one of my journals, of mostly feathers. I cannot wait to get back to it in 2025!
How lovely. I’ll add this word to my collection.
I learned a new word -
Komorebi 木漏れ日 (pronounced kō-mō-leh-bē) Literally, “sunlight leaking through trees,” it describes the beauty and wonder of rays of light dappling through overhead leaves, casting dancing shadows on the forest floor. I can feel some new work coming on…
#komorebi #beechtrees
Komorebi 木漏れ日 (pronounced kō-mō-leh-bē) Literally, “sunlight leaking through trees,” it describes the beauty and wonder of rays of light dappling through overhead leaves, casting dancing shadows on the forest floor. I can feel some new work coming on…
#komorebi #beechtrees
December 23, 2024 at 7:19 PM
How lovely. I’ll add this word to my collection.
Breathtaking www.facebook.com/share/v/15Yq...
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December 18, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Breathtaking www.facebook.com/share/v/15Yq...
Moved house 1100 miles north, still settling into my home / studio, so here’s a look into one of my nature journals. Watercolor, Ivory-billed Woodpecker and Pileated Woodpecker.
December 13, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Moved house 1100 miles north, still settling into my home / studio, so here’s a look into one of my nature journals. Watercolor, Ivory-billed Woodpecker and Pileated Woodpecker.
Also in bloom. Don’t love all this happening indoors, but when you move from a subtropical climate and can’t think of leaving them behind . . .
December 13, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Also in bloom. Don’t love all this happening indoors, but when you move from a subtropical climate and can’t think of leaving them behind . . .
Loong Tone Red Catleya is now in full bloom, and the scent is lovely and perfuming the orchid room.
December 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Loong Tone Red Catleya is now in full bloom, and the scent is lovely and perfuming the orchid room.
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It's going to be a very wet night but the Great Tit still takes a bath just now.
Tiptop plumage is the way forwards.
#birds #wildlife #ornithology
Tiptop plumage is the way forwards.
#birds #wildlife #ornithology
December 4, 2024 at 5:17 PM
It's going to be a very wet night but the Great Tit still takes a bath just now.
Tiptop plumage is the way forwards.
#birds #wildlife #ornithology
Tiptop plumage is the way forwards.
#birds #wildlife #ornithology
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The hummingbird feeds on the sweetness that life offers; we should do the same, always seeking what makes us happy. 💫
December 2, 2024 at 11:24 PM
The hummingbird feeds on the sweetness that life offers; we should do the same, always seeking what makes us happy. 💫
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There's an old Irish way of saying "home is where the heart is" that goes is leor don dreoilín a nead. It means "the nest is enough for a wren"
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
There's an old Irish way of saying "home is where the heart is" that goes is leor don dreoilín a nead. It means "the nest is enough for a wren"
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Please refer to me as Little King of Winter exclusively for the remainder of the season
The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Please refer to me as Little King of Winter exclusively for the remainder of the season
Mangrove tree, drop roots.
November 30, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Mangrove tree, drop roots.
Gumbo Limbo tree, a favorite tree of mine. Taken on Sanibel Island.
November 30, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Gumbo Limbo tree, a favorite tree of mine. Taken on Sanibel Island.
Matador Beach, California
November 30, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Matador Beach, California
Blue sky over Jersey City.
November 30, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Blue sky over Jersey City.
Collected on Sanibel Island.
November 30, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Collected on Sanibel Island.
Roseate Spoonbill, photo taken with my phone.
November 30, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Roseate Spoonbill, photo taken with my phone.
A little sea turtle I found upside down on Bonita Beach. I returned her to the Gulf of Mexico but we were experiencing a red tide and her chance of survival wasn’t promising.
November 30, 2024 at 12:40 PM
A little sea turtle I found upside down on Bonita Beach. I returned her to the Gulf of Mexico but we were experiencing a red tide and her chance of survival wasn’t promising.