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Dawne Slater
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Certified(R) & Accredited(R) Genealogist. She/her. Lifelong liberal hippie tree-hugger & supporter of rights for ALL people. Nature & wildlife photographer. Photos are mine unless noted otherwise (except ancestors and reposts). Full time RVer ❤️📷🌈
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#Caturday food coma

#cats
Large sealpoint cat sleeps in the mulch
May 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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For your #caturday pleasure, this beastie who clearly has a rough life

#cats
Well-nourished sealpoint cat lying half in the sun, half in the shade in the mulch adjacent to a gray board deck
May 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Stellar's Jay at Bryce Canyon NP in Dec 2019

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
Bright blue and black bird sits in a snow-speckled evergreen tree and looks straight at the camera
May 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Another 🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼

#flowers
#spring
#naturephotography
#feedcleanse
A bright pink rose against green leaves grows near a gray sidewalk
May 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Lil traveler

#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
#insects
#ladybug
Red ladybug with black spots walking on a bright green leaf
May 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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More #flowers
Bright violet purple flowers with a red center
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Loving the flowers this spring

#naturephotography
#photography
#flowers
#purple
Vivid four-petal purple flowers with green leaves in the background
May 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Burst of #spring

#flowers
#nature
Bright yellow and red wild roses
May 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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The sky is really, really, really blue today.

#bluesky
#nature
#spring
A telephone pole with wires against a vivid blue sky. The green top of a tree is visible at the bottom of the frame
May 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio

#nature
#naturephotography
#waterfall
#spring
#nationalparks
A waterfall with abundant greenery to the side
May 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Today would have been my mom's 86th birthday. Here are my sister, sister-in-law, and me with Mom in April 2014 just after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We had her for 2 more years.

#cancersucks #pancreaticcancer #family #mom #mother
Four women with their arms around one another wearing dark purple tee shirts that say Sparkle
May 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Pretty place to eat my sack lunch during a library break

#genealogy #familyhistory #familysearchlibrary #saltlakecity
Vivid yellow flowers on green stems spill out of a flower bed along a concrete wall. Across the street is the LDS Tabernacle
May 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Golden eagle or immature bald eagle? Where are my #bird people? Spotted at Yellowstone a few years ago.
Large brown raptor sits on a tree branch with evergreens in the snow in the background. It has a hooked bill.
May 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I always wonder who thinks color combos like this are a good look in hotels

#travel
#hotels
#vacation
#design
#decor
Odd circle and square patterned medium and dark blue carpet with lines. Looking down a hotel hallway. The walls are golden yellow
May 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Red-wing blackbird male & female

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
#nationalparks
Black bird with yellow and red markings on its wings standing on a log in a pond Mottled brown and cream-colored bird standing on a lilypad in a pond
May 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Kansas City: Arthur Bryant's #barbecue, American #Jazz Museum, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

#BlackHistory
#history
#music
Yellow wall sign that says "It's a good time!" and "Arthur Bryant's Barbecue" with a clock in the middle and the image of Arthur Bryant himself wearing a chef's hat in the center of the clock. Bright neon signs in pink, blue, and green for jazz clubs A metal image of baseball player Josh Gibson crouching behind a metal plate on the floor that shows his name. He's dressed in catcher's gear
May 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Nice non-breeding male red-winged blackbird

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
Bird with fuzzy black head. It has mostly black feathers that have some orange and white accents. It is standing on a log in a pond with lily pads behind it
May 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Violets after the rain

#flowers
#naturephptography
#feedcleanse
Close-up of a vivid purple violet surrounded by green leaves and grass and dappled with rain drops
May 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Handsome specimen doing a little grooming. Spotted today at Cuyahoga Valley National Park

#birds #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #herons
Great blue heron pulling at its chest feathers
May 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Festivities the night before my son's wedding

#citylights
#nighttime
A city skyline at night with bright lights from buildings
April 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Feed cleanse!

#flowers
#naturephotography
Bright red flower fills the frame. It has a yellow and white center with yellow stamen
April 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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#Bird photographer friends, look, it's us!
Snoopy pointing a camera at Woodstock and his thought bubble says "Okay, say 'birdseed'"
April 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Soar! Just wish it were a sharper image

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
Brown and white hawk flies from a railing
April 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Bird is definitely the word. Laundry. Laundry is also the word today. Doing a spring cleaning laundry. Everything goes in.

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
Bird with black feathers and white accents, with a redish-orange belly and a red eye sits on a feeder
April 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Two days in a row I have found pennies on the ground. Mom's letting me know she's thinking of me as the anniversary of her death approaches. #penniesfromheaven #mom #love
Two copper pennies on a wood table
April 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM