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Amateur photographer. This is my creative space, no politics please! Nature 🌿 art, traveler, music, storyteller, dreamer, hsp, animal & yoga lover - Seattle, WA
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Hello friends! I hope you're having a beautiful #Stunday. I love the quote, "The universe always falls in love with a stubborn heart." J.M. Storm
This Pooh Bear Dahlia is not ready for it to be fall yet. The leaf on the other hand is ok with it.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Happy #Saturday friends!
The theme for this week's #BlueSkyArtShow is #Evening. Here is the Seattle Great Wheel at sundown. (Of course you can't see the sunset because of the clouds, so golden hour was compliments of the wheel ✨)
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Seattle's Great Wheel is lit up in yellow on this November evening. The sky is gray and light rain is falling. The yellow from the wheel is providing this evening's golden hour as it reflects on the water of Puget Sound. Off to the left is a playground that looks a lot like an octopus.
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Autumn in Vermont
Welcome to November everyone!
The theme for today's #BlueSkyArtShow is #Autumn 🍂 I'm super spoiled to live in the Pacific Northwest where we have all 4 seasons. Ironically, I'm sharing a photo from New England.
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This photo was taken at the Weston Grist Mill in Vermont. The season is fall and the colors are popping. There is a low fence in front, and the river with a low waterfall that runs the mill in the middle. In the back is a field with orange and yellow fall foliage. Happy Autumn everyone!
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Good morning from my little corner of the world. Today is the perfect day for an (e) #scape! Happy #Halloween 🎃 Here are a few fall photos and one I edited deeply to capture the mood of the spooky holiday 👻
#photography #Autumn #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #landscape
A scene from Kubota Garden in Seattle from last weekend. The colors of fall are abundant in this beautiful Japanese garden with greens, red, yellow, & orange. This feature is an inviting bench to sit and watch it all. Anotgee scene from Kubota Garden in Seattle from last weekend. The colors of fall are abundant in this beautiful Japanese garden with greens, red, yellow, & orange. This photo features a traditional red Japanese bridge with an orange maple right at its end. Raindrops collect on Autumn leaves. A simple macro featuring red, yellow, and burnt orange fallen leaves. An old barn that can be found on the Palouse Scenic Byway in Eastern Washington that I have deeply edited with sepia and fog to create a spooky feel for today's Halloween vibes 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Sleepless in the onyx night
But now the sky is opalite"
~ Taylor Swift
For all the Swifties out there (or not) 😉 I hope you have a nice #BlueSkyMonday
#photography #autumn #naturephotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PNW #fallcolors
Autumn has peaked in the Pacific Northwest. A beautiful orange and green tree can be seen in the foreground with others in the back. Happy fall 🍁
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Good evening! It's still Friday in my little corner of the world, & now that the busyness of the week has settled down, I can finally share my (e) #scape. I hope we all have occasional breathtaking sunrises!

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Nature was showing off! A beautiful sunrise over the Kent Valley in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State. The sky is painted yellow, orange, red, and gray. The Cascade Mountains can be seen in the background and the Kent Valley with homes, businesses, and beautiful fall foliate can be seen in the foreground.
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Happy Saturday friends! The #BlueSkyArtShow theme today is #Vertical
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A moss covered staircase leads up through an English ivy pathway. Trees surround the image and the stairway. This can be found in the University of Washington Botanical Gardens in Seattle.
October 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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The only rocks I've got to share for #RockinTuesday are in my head - lol. Here's something beautiful with our Washington girl Mount Rainier in the background. I hope you have a great day!!
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Autumn is showing off with Mount Rainier. This image showcases a beautiful field with a wooden fence in front, a green and golden lawn in the middle, a fantastic line of fall foliage covered trees with hills and misty mountains in the background. The crown on top of it all is Mount Rainier against a beautiful early morning blue sky.
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Good #MacroMonday morning friends! Happy Thanksgiving to my wonderful neighbors in Canada 🍁 I hope you all have some beauty in your day today!!
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A beautiful maple leaf is still in transition. The center is dark green with red veins and the outside of the leaf is bright red. It is covered in raindrops 🍁
October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Hi friends! Happy #Stunday. I'm sorry I've been absent; life has been getting in the way. I hope you're enjoying your #autumn (or spring if you're in the southern hemisphere) and this day!
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It's a beautiful fall day in Seattle Washington. Bright orange leaves have fallen onto this path that goes through a tunnel of golden foliage. Green shrubs can be seen in the front with orange foliage on the left and yellow foliage still clinging to a large tree on the right. The same variety of yellow tree continues down to create a tunnel of yellow on this path.
October 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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What are the chances of a Celtic Hawthorne growing in a Celtic woman's yard in the U.S.? Evidently quite good, because one did 🍀...
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Said to be the entrance to the otherworld, Irish folklore sites ruin when a lone tree is cut, angering the fairies who live there. Never fall asleep under a hawthorn tree. You will be taken away by the fairies 🎃 ✨✨✨ The photo is of a Hawthorne branch with lush green leaves and red berries covered by raindrops. Bokeh can be seen in the background in the sun rays are coming in from the upper right.
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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I am going to have to sandwich this share between #Stunday and #BlueSkyMonday. Life has been a bit lifey. Much love friends!

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It's golden hour at Golden Garden Beach in Seattle. The reflection on the ocean is golden/orange like the sky. Puffy clouds can be safe blowing by with the islands of Puget Sound in the background. There is a sailboat moored just offshore.
October 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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These always remind me of Alice in Wonderland 🍄

"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here." 😼

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A beautiful red fly agaric mushroom is growing in the loamy fall soil under a maple tree. Soon it will be covered with autumn leaves. Happy October everyone 🍂🍁🍄
October 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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October Arrives (Best viewed in the dark 🎃)

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One single pumpkin in a pumpkin patch photographed at night. Only the pumpkin is in the spotlight. Faint dark green foliage can be seen around with trees looming in the background and stars in the sky. Welcome to October! 🎃
October 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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PNW Autumn 🍂
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A grove of deciduous trees pop in the autumn sun on the Pacific Northwest coast. Fir trees can be seen in front, the Pacific Ocean in the middle, with color-changing shoreline hills in the background. Puffy white clouds can be seen in a blue sky 🍂
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy #Stunday friends!
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Vashon Island, Washington at sunset. The waters of Puget Sound are framed by a fir tree on the left and a deciduous fall foliage filled tree on the right. A tree in the middle has already lost its leaves. The sun is setting in the background against the mainland of Seattle with soft sunrays reaching up into the sky. Happy Sunday friends!
September 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Hello friends! Sorry I've been absent - I was in the hospital but am home now and feeling much better. I see that the topic for today's #BlueSkyArtShow is #TheRoad. Take care everyone!
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This was early in the morning and I'm lost somewhere on Bainbridge Island Washington. I love roads that you can get out on to photograph without fear of being run over =) The photo is of a dark road with yellow lines down the middle; silhouettes of majestic fir a trees line each side of the road and at the end is a shroud of fog. Very mysterious!
September 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Well, fall has fallen in the northern hemisphere and I think it's time to kick things up a bit. Here's a #ThrowbackThursday to Vermont in 2024...
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A road in Vermont early in the morning last fall. No one else is on the road with me so I get out in the silence to take photographs. There is fog at the end of the road. Orange fallen leaves line up perfectly on each side of the road and beautiful autumn foliage still on trees stand guard on each side.
September 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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The kids went back to school and their parents all brought new viruses back into the office. I'm home with bronchitis and completely forgot to say Happy Autumn Equinox to everyone 🫣 (Oops) Stay well out there!
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Oh, and Happy Autumn Equinox!
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Seward Park in Seattle is beginning to show off its fall colors. Happy Autumn Equinox everyone! There is a Japanese pagoda statue in the front with Lake Washington in the middle; in the background is a hill of trees filled with lush green fir trees and dotted with orange and yellow deciduous trees. 🍂
September 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home". ~ Rumi
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I wish everyone a beautiful and peaceful Autumn Equinox Eve, #SundayYellow and #Stunday
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The silhouette of a gull can be seen flying in the middle of this golden hour photograph. The sun is almost to the horizon and is bright yellow with sun rays shining up. This sky is painted yellow, white, and blue. The islands across Puget Sound can be seen off in the distance and the reflection of the sun can be seen on the waters at Alki Point in Seattle.
September 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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The theme for this today's #BlueSkyArtShow is #angles. This is the side of the museum of Glass in Tacoma Washington...
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The museum of Glass in Tacoma Washington is appropriately made of glass. The mirrored exterior reflects the sky beautifully, especially with the white puffy clouds that can often be seen in Tacoma. The sharp angles of the mirrors create interest in this structure.
September 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Let's (e) #scape shall we?
"The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." - John Muir
#photography #landscape #mountainscape #PNW #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #TGIF #quotes #autumnvibes
(I promise I was standing on the path; it snakes around.) Mount Rainier is in the background with some snow still left on her. Green grass with the path cutting through in the foreground and in the middle off to the left there are fir trees & a little bit of fall foliage starting to show through. "The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." - John Muir
September 19, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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"Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree."
- Emily Brontë
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#photography #PhotographersUnited #ArtistsOfBluesky #fallphotography #nature #naturephotography #poetry #autumn
A large leaf maple tree is changing in a spectacular manner. The middle of the leaves are still a deep green with a bright orange that turns into red on the outsides. An early fall evening in the PNW 🍂
September 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
— Bernard Williams
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I hope we all have a #BlueskyMonday. If not, they'll be waiting for us here #Bluesky

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At Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, the gardeners have brilliantly placed a beautiful yellow-turning larch amongst the vibrant fall maple trees and lush green lawns, shrubs, and fir trees. The sun is bright in the sky with some puffy white clouds. A perfect fall day.
September 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I hope everyone is having a peaceful #Stunday
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A beautiful sunset over Puget Sound taken from Lincoln Park in Seattle. The nearby islands and Olympic Mountains can be seen in the distance. A bit of the beach can be seen in the foreground, with Puget Sound in the middle. The sun is casting a yellow reflection all the way across the water and sun beams are extending up into the painted orange and yellow clouds with a blue sky peeking through. Golden hour.
September 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM