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Laurie
@elsdrai.bsky.social
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Mother, artist (traditional mostly and dabbles with digital), nature photographer and speed runner of friday the 13th on the nes. I also play other video games.
You can buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/elsdrai
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This is my dad's cat, Boo Boo. I met her for the first time the other day. Very loving and sweet kitty. I love her. #cat #blackcat
A black cat sits on the bed, with her keyboard behind her.
February 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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It's like this. Currently 86°.
South Florida skies. Not a flake of snow in sight.
January 26, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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Lizard (not Marvel)
Photo by me.
This little one made me late back from lunch. It's ok. I got within two feet and he didn't scatter, which was nice.

#lizard #photography #naturephotography #invasivespecies #womensphotography
A bright green iguana takes center stage in this parking lot photo.
December 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Just me doodling again.
A pencil sketch and watercolor.
#art #sketch #doodles #watercolor #womensart #traditionalart
Water color of red patterns. A solid red bulb, or egg. Possibly hatching a creature into the center of the page. A pencil sketch of a face over some doodles and scribbles on the page. A close up of the water color showing the creature hatching.
December 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Rainy day yesterday.
All photos by me.
#womenphotogrpahy #photography #raindrops #nature #leaves
Raindrops on a green leaf slowing turning brown. The wet black asphalt of the parking lot makes the background. At the bottom is the reflection of my phone. A close up of the rain drops on the same leaf.
December 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Magnetoe by me as requested by my husband.
#XMen #magneto #drawing #pencil #sketch #foot #toes #womensart
A pencil drawing of a foot in a sandal. The big toe has magnetic abilities depicted by wavy lines. The toe is wearing a cape and has a face in the toe nail and is drawing in the following objects: a blade for an xacto knife, a fork, a paperclip, and a push pin.
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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bee butts

All photos by me. All photos are of the same bee.

#naturephotography #photograohy #bees #flower #nature
A bee head first in a pink flower collecting pollen. It's little bottom and legs sticking out. A bee head first in a pink flower collecting pollen. It's little bottom and legs sticking out. A bee sits atop a pink flower, it's wings open. The bee is either about to leave this flower or has just landed and is about to dive in head first for more pollen. A bee head first in a pink flower collecting pollen. It's abdomen and legs are covered in pollen.
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Grey Autumn
Watercolor painting by me today
9x12 using Faber-Castell watercolors

#watercolor #traditionalart #womensart #autumn #abstractart
On the left is the painting and the right the watercolors used. The background of the painting is a mix of blues and greens with some purples and reds. The foreground is an abstract of curved lines in hues or oranges and reds.
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Yesterday was around 47° and the flowers did not want to bloom.

All photos by me.
#nature #flowers #photography #naturephotography #womensphotography
Little pink and white flowers refusing to open in the cold of yesterday. One flower in the top left is attempting to be brave and open. Another group of the pink and white flowers. Two of them attempting to be brave and open on the left. And on the right two other remaining tightly closed.
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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DRAGON!!!!!! TAKE COVER!!!!!

Just got home to a cloud dragon.
A cloud forming the profile of a flying dragon breathing fire clouds.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Nature photography by me when I was out walking the other day.

Remember to go outside more and doomscroll less.

#photography #nature #womensphotography
A closeup of a yellowing leaf with what looks like insect eggs laid woven around the center stem. The yellow leaf with insect eggs around the stem. The leaf is lying in the pavement of a parking lot. A seed, or something, with a little bit of a green leaf around it. It is on the pavement of a parking lot. The same seed, or something, with that green leafy cap around it, from a different angle. The seed itself is a golden brown. The background grass and trees are blurred.
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Stormy day with a beautiful rainbow. #photography #womensphotography #rainbow #nature #trees #clouds
A rainbow boarded by two palm trees, one on either side, and storm clouds in the background. Two other trees are in the bottom center.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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All hail the sky salmon! Or maybe an eel?

#naturephotography #photography#womensphotography #clouds #sky
Blue sky at sunset with the bottom left a bring orange-yellow. The eye of the fish cloud is almost in the center of the image and is a bright yellow.
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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In Florida, even the sky has gators. Sky over the Everglades.

#photography #womensphotography #nature #clouds
Just a grey sky with a bluish-grey cloud going across the center that looks like a crocodile or alligator with it's mouth open. The mouth is on the left and the body stretches across to the right. Same cloud image, but the mouth is a bit deformed. Q close up of the mouth which reveals some smaller crocodilians in both the upper and lower jaws.
October 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Water color
9x12 paper

#art #traditionalart #watercolor #womensart
The paper is framed and ready for whatever comes out of my brain. Water color set is on the bottom. Sketch completed. Abstract curvy wavey patterns. Painting complete and the tape removed. Grey outlines with different colors in the panels. Blues, greens, and purple with many spaces left blank. Giving the image the appearance of different stained glass panels.
October 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Working with water colors for the first time in decades. Using Faber-Castell water colors.

#art #traditionalart #watercolor #abstract #womensart
In the center: Abstract strokes in warm reds and purples. Mixing light narrow brush strokes, stippling, and broad strokes. Some light bronze added in some parts. On the left my mixing cup of brushes and water. On the right the water colors used.
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Stormy skies
Digital photography from my phone.
Grey skies and grey clouds. Precursor to the storm. Grey skies and dark clouds. Storm clouds.
September 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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My photo of some red flowers in the rain the other day
#photography #flowers #rainyday #nature
Fresh raindrops on the small red flowers of the Ixora coccinea, also known as jungle geranium, flame of the woods, or jungle flame.
June 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Dracula at 19:08 time stamp.
9x12 pencil on vellum.

#art #sketching #pencilsketch #belalugosi #dracula
Bela Lugosi as Dracula from the 1931 Dracula. The movie is paused 19:08 minutes into the movie on my tablet, on the top half of the photo, and my sketch of him is below.
May 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Raindrops on leaves are a few of my favorite things.

Rainstorm today gave me pretty leaves to photograph.

All my photos.

#photography #nature #raindrops #leaves
A leaf with raindrops on it from the rain today. The green is mostly gone to brown on the leaf. A close-up of a green leaf with raindrops on it. The largest of drops really shows all the little leaf vines. A little leaf on the ground from the storm. With water drops on it and the ground still wet A different angle of the leaf on the wet ground with water drops on it. It's stem pointing in the air.
May 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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HUGGBEES!! (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj2W...)

A bee that I noticed on my lunch today.

All photos by me.
#bee #nature #photography
A bee with its head deep in a little flower. The same bee. Again the head deep in the flower. Done with one flower and the bee is getting ready to find another. The bee landed on a new flower for more pollen goodness.
April 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Leaves

#photograpghy #aftertherain #nature

Photo by me
A fallen small set of green leaves still on their twig after the rain yesterday. They rest atop the still wet pavement of the parking lot.
March 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Cloud from the other day. My first thought was Lady Liberty's torch. Viva la revolution!
#photography #cloud #nature
A large cloud in front of gray skies. Its shape reminded me of the torch held by the Statue of Liberty. Below it are tree tops and telephone/electrical wires.
March 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The current sky.

Photo by me

#stunday #photography
#nature
#skies
The current sky. Grays and whites and some blue. Mostly cloudy with the bright sun shining through in the top right.
March 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The paint is now dry.
The painting is now dry. Yellow background with blue lines and swirls added with a pallet knife while all the paint was wet.
March 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM