colormysoul ..celebrating life, every color & hue
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Writer.Contemplative.Author.Naturalist.
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Something beautiful every day...
Even dogs are full of wonder! Ladybug stopped playing to gaze at the floating leaves when strong winds lifted and swirled them.
Even dogs are full of wonder! Ladybug stopped playing to gaze at the floating leaves when strong winds lifted and swirled them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Something beautiful every day...
Even dogs are full of wonder! Ladybug stopped playing to gaze at the floating leaves when strong winds lifted and swirled them.
Even dogs are full of wonder! Ladybug stopped playing to gaze at the floating leaves when strong winds lifted and swirled them.
A walk in nature walks the soul back home. -Mary Davis
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
A walk in nature walks the soul back home. -Mary Davis
I love tree roots. They remind me to stay rooted in all that gives me life. Especially these days. ancestors. I learned that giant sequoia trees have relatively shallow roots. They stand firm through storms because their roots are so intertwined. They hold each other up. Lovely metaphor for humans!
October 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I love tree roots. They remind me to stay rooted in all that gives me life. Especially these days. ancestors. I learned that giant sequoia trees have relatively shallow roots. They stand firm through storms because their roots are so intertwined. They hold each other up. Lovely metaphor for humans!
Never underestimate a working dog. Despite the lack of sheep or cattle, this Australian Cattle Dog takes his job seriously!
October 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Never underestimate a working dog. Despite the lack of sheep or cattle, this Australian Cattle Dog takes his job seriously!
Not sure what this flower shrub is, but it’s beautiful!
October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Not sure what this flower shrub is, but it’s beautiful!
Silvery Checkerspot - Chlosyne nycteis
I love watching the butterflies visit our flowers. The closer to the end of summer, the more butterflies come. For this lover of long days of light, it's bittersweet. I still cherish the butterflies!
I love watching the butterflies visit our flowers. The closer to the end of summer, the more butterflies come. For this lover of long days of light, it's bittersweet. I still cherish the butterflies!
August 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Silvery Checkerspot - Chlosyne nycteis
I love watching the butterflies visit our flowers. The closer to the end of summer, the more butterflies come. For this lover of long days of light, it's bittersweet. I still cherish the butterflies!
I love watching the butterflies visit our flowers. The closer to the end of summer, the more butterflies come. For this lover of long days of light, it's bittersweet. I still cherish the butterflies!
Something beautiful every day…
June 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Something beautiful every day…
Gah, the news is so bad these days esp the written stories about detention and deportation cruelties. Detain and deport if you must but be humane about it!
So, something beautiful this day. (1)
So, something beautiful this day. (1)
June 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Gah, the news is so bad these days esp the written stories about detention and deportation cruelties. Detain and deport if you must but be humane about it!
So, something beautiful this day. (1)
So, something beautiful this day. (1)
Something beautiful every day…
“I send my energy against the chaos. All that I do has a single intent: to calm and strengthen. Join me. Focus on the core of chaos and release your love." Stephen Charleston
“I send my energy against the chaos. All that I do has a single intent: to calm and strengthen. Join me. Focus on the core of chaos and release your love." Stephen Charleston
June 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Something beautiful every day…
“I send my energy against the chaos. All that I do has a single intent: to calm and strengthen. Join me. Focus on the core of chaos and release your love." Stephen Charleston
“I send my energy against the chaos. All that I do has a single intent: to calm and strengthen. Join me. Focus on the core of chaos and release your love." Stephen Charleston
Caught a rare pic of a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at our peanut feeder. He must have needed a break from drilling holes in my lilac tree.
#birds #naturalist #woodpeckers
#birds #naturalist #woodpeckers
March 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Caught a rare pic of a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at our peanut feeder. He must have needed a break from drilling holes in my lilac tree.
#birds #naturalist #woodpeckers
#birds #naturalist #woodpeckers
Something beautiful (joyful) everyday…
March 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Something beautiful (joyful) everyday…
Something beautiful every day…
March 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Something beautiful every day…
March 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world."
~Mary Oliver
#colormysoul
#soulfulnaturalist
~Mary Oliver
#colormysoul
#soulfulnaturalist
March 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world."
~Mary Oliver
#colormysoul
#soulfulnaturalist
~Mary Oliver
#colormysoul
#soulfulnaturalist
Something beautiful every day....
...a small part of my spring, Lenten altar.
...a small part of my spring, Lenten altar.
March 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Something beautiful every day....
...a small part of my spring, Lenten altar.
...a small part of my spring, Lenten altar.
“Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.” - Betty White
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February 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.” - Betty White
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Counting for Cornell’s Project Feeder Watch. The birds don’t make it easy. They all need to sort into species and hold
still! 😂
still! 😂
February 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Counting for Cornell’s Project Feeder Watch. The birds don’t make it easy. They all need to sort into species and hold
still! 😂
still! 😂
February 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Snow day of writing and reading. Writing my rescue dog Ladybug’s book. Reading Louise Penny’s “The Cruelest Month.”
February 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Snow day of writing and reading. Writing my rescue dog Ladybug’s book. Reading Louise Penny’s “The Cruelest Month.”
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.” —Oscar Wilde. (He forgot to add dogs to the list). #dogsofbluesky
February 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.” —Oscar Wilde. (He forgot to add dogs to the list). #dogsofbluesky
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Fabulous cirrocumulus clouds.
February 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Fabulous cirrocumulus clouds.
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
-Rumi
-Rumi
February 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
-Rumi
-Rumi
“…the opposite of despair for me is not hope but …wonder. Wonder that in the presence of great darkness there is also so much beauty, so much love.” ~Christine Valters Paintner
Red birds against white snow. Light, shadow, color. A long hug. Coffee in the morning. Yes!!
Red birds against white snow. Light, shadow, color. A long hug. Coffee in the morning. Yes!!
February 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“…the opposite of despair for me is not hope but …wonder. Wonder that in the presence of great darkness there is also so much beauty, so much love.” ~Christine Valters Paintner
Red birds against white snow. Light, shadow, color. A long hug. Coffee in the morning. Yes!!
Red birds against white snow. Light, shadow, color. A long hug. Coffee in the morning. Yes!!
January 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Cooking soup with lots of color to nourish my body and soul. These times need such!
January 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Cooking soup with lots of color to nourish my body and soul. These times need such!