Harold von Drehle
LightNews LightNews
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
Harold von Drehle
@haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
500 followers 79 following 1.1K posts
Sharing with others seems to brighten the day.
Posts Replies Media Videos
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#MacroMonday:

From San Jose, California, yesterday.

Alt text would have been:

A macro close-up photo of a reddish orange ladybug with no spots. The front armoring is black, outlined in white. The eyes are black with a white stripe between them. She is on a thick green leaf, among more leaves.
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
Good night, #FlowerReport.

Thank you for sharing.

Dream well.
A photo of a small gathering of Springtime blossoms, and yet, these are from this morning in Gilroy, California. The petals are white with shadowed hints of their crepe-like surfaces. They have both pink and dark pink anthers splaying out from their centers. Above, out of focus, are full green leaves. Below, in sharp relief, is a leaf with many small interspersed blocks of lighter and darker browns and greens, defined by the veins and sub-veins meandering haphazardly over the leaf's surface.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#SundayYellow
#FlowerReport:

This morning, in Gilroy, California.
Photo of a yellow Daylily among long thin green leaves.
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#SixOnSaturday
#FlowerReport:

All from yesterday,
in San Jose, California.
A six frame photo collage: A bee hovering before a purple flower. A daisy with short petals and a rounded yellow center. A bunch of tiny flowers with four petals and green and yellow tufts at their centers. A macro close-up of a teeny bug on the yellow flat center of a small daisy. A dandelion in spherical seed form. A small white flower with five petals and yellow anthers.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#FlowersOnFriday
#FlowerReport:

Actually, from Thursday after a night of rain, in Gilroy, California.
Enhanced photos, for more contrast.
Close-up photo of a white lily from directly overhead, with six white petals below and three very light violet petals above, all completely covered with drops of various sizes. The photo has been enhanced to where some of the yellow stripes on the lower petals show through the upper petals, and the creases and veins stand out. Reedy green, brown, and gray leaves fill the background. Close-up photo of a yellow rose among green leaves and thorns. Droplets are on every petal, even inside where they haven't fully opened. The flower is in the process of rising again after a night of rain, and looks a bit disheveled. A gray sky is beyond the tangled leaves above.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#Photo:

Jonathan.
Photo of a roiling, clouded sky of gray and white with a hint of blue at the base. Small against the sky, not far from the horizon, wings stretched upward in a V-shape, is a seagull, flying to the left.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#InsectThursday
#FlowerReport:

From late yesterday afternoon,
in San Jose, California.
Macro close-up photo of a bee on a yellow dandelion. The flower is beginning to close as it is about 4pm. Some petals and curlicue anthers are in sharp focus in the foreground, along with the front of the fuzzy bee. A few dots of pollen cling to her antenna, eye, and foreleg. On her rear leg is a ball-shaped, yellow-orange pollen sac. Her wings and the back curve of the dandelion fade into a light blur, and the background is a deeper blur of dark green.
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#RoseWednesday
#FlowerReport:

From San Jose, California, this morning.

The cycle of life.

.
A photo of three pink and white roses. The furthest away, to the right, is a bud, pointing right, whose anticipatory petals are a dark pink. To the left is one from the side, about half open, looking up, showing the brighter pink underside of the petals. The nearest rose is fully open, facing left, with darker pink edges leading through the vein effect to a white center where charcoal pink anthers dance. The background is mostly green leaves and dark earth below, and a low wall of gray rock above.
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#BlueTuesday
#BlueTue
#FlowerReport:

In Gilroy, California, this morning.

Plumbago Blue.
A macro close-up photo of a light blue plumbago flower with five petals, with five violet stripes running up those petals, and five whitish anthers standing out from the confluence of those petals. Mottled green is in the background, with hints of plumbago buds and flowers as well.
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#Photo
#CityLights

Last night, in Downtown San Jose, California. City Hall, with Sonic Runway out front, which pulses a rainbow of alternating colors in time to a variety of music.
A nighttime photo of the City Hall complex in San Jose. To the left is a bit of Santa Clara Street, moving to the right is a series of neon hoops (lit with dashes of white) attached to the concrete ground. Some green and red stoplights and one car's brake lights are showing through the hoops. In the middle of the photo is the tower, with a staircase of green, and a vertical string of picture windows in alternating blues, pinks, and purples. Many window lights are on in the rest of the tower. All the way to the right is the front half of the dome. It is made of clear glass, with sparse supporting concrete and horizontal rings of metal. In the foreground is a low concrete sign leading into the frame. Most of "San Jose City Hall" is apparent on the sign.
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#MacroMonday
#FlowerReport:

In Gilroy, California, Saturday afternoon.
A macro close-up photo of a dandelion in spherical seed form, with a dandelion in full flower form centered directly behind, and being contained within the stems of the seeds, so that the "parachute" forms are unobscured. The background is filled with the small green leaves of ground cover.
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
Good night, #FlowerReport.

Thank you for showing us each day
that we are all part of a larger world.
Macro close-up photo of a black-spotted olive green Cucumber Bug on a knoll of light green buds, next to a mustard flower whose yellow petals and anthers beckon. The background is shades of green and black.
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#Photoillustration:

As the crow flies.

.
Photo (photo illustration) of a crow flying directly overhead, wings outstretched, in silhouette. A tumbling bank of gray clouds is in an angle at the top portion of the frame. Tufts of gray clouds dot the middle part, which also has an unnatural roiling sky of wispy, twisting clouds in blue-grays, turquoise, and dark blue. The bottom of the frame has a smaller bank of gray and white clouds with a bright area in the upper middle, as if the crow had flown out of the light.
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#FlowerReport:

Yesterday afternoon, in Gilroy, California.

From a pear tree that usually blooms in December,
a harbinger of hope.
A macro close-up photo of a pear tree blossom, five white petals, with pink anthers on white stamen a-tumble. White and pink buds are nearby, and an opening and open blossom are in the background, out of focus. The rest is dark green with a few bright patches.
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#SixOnSaturday
#FlowerReport:

Mostly from today in San Jose, California.
Photo collage of flowers: Tiny yellow ground cover flowers among green leaves, all dappled with raindrops. A bright orange, yellow, and pink rose. Wild radish flower, very light violet with purple veins, looking like an angel, with "wings" outstretched above, and the two petals below coming together like a "toga." A yellow daisy with dozens of petals, and a golden yellow center. Another wild radish flower of a deeper violet, and traditional evenly placed four petals. And a pink and pale-orange rose.
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#FlowersOnFriday
#FlowerReport:

From a field in Gilroy, California.
Thursday.

Alt text would have been:

Macro close-up photo
of a cluster of mustard,
flowers that is.
Yellow petals, Cucumber Bug.

(And some green leaves and buds.)
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#InsectThursday
#FlowerReport:

From Monday morning in Gilroy, California.

Next to a fallow field that blooms with wild radish and mustard flowers in the Springtime.
A taste of what's to come.
A macro close-up photo of a tiny hover fly on a wild radish flower. The fly is a dark orange and black with yellow-orange legs, holding on to one of the yellow stamen dusted with pollen, while standing one one of the four petals that each fade outward from white to a light violet hue. The entire flower, seen from the side, fills the frame at a 45 degree angle, looking to the right. An unopened green bud is in the foreground, and the background is blurred greens, and two smudges of yellow.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#RoseWednesday
#FlowerReport:

In Gilroy, California this morning.
A rose, dotted with droplets from a sprinkler.
Photo of a yellow rose looking up toward and above the camera. Droplets from a sprinkler dot her petals. To the right are green leaves from the shrub she hails from. Behind her are gray clouds with patches of white.
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#TuesdayBlue
#BlueTuesday:

Yesterday in Gilroy, California.
Photo of a fallow field, with hills in the distance, and a blue sky with streaky white clouds filling most of the frame.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#MacroMonday
#FlowerReport:

From early Sunday,
in San Jose, California.
A macro close-up photo of a California Golden Poppy just beginning to open. It is a side view, and sunlight and shadow are on the petals and stem. In the background, in shade, is a closed poppy. Also in the morning darkness beyond are dozens of spheres of tiny white flower "bouquets."
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
Good night, #FlowerReport.

Thank you. Light on.

And, dream well.

Alt text would have been:
Close-up photo of a small daisy of short white petals and a bright yellow center, shining in the rays of the lowering sun, among green grass blades and ground cover leaves.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#FlowerReport:

From this morning,
in San Jose, California,
a lavender lavender flower.
A macro close-up photo of a lavender flower, in name and color, with greens among smaller buds and a tiny central five petal flower with a pale yellow middle in the midst of the teardrop shaped stalk.
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#SixOnSaturday
#FlowerReport:

From this week in San Jose, California.
A photo collage of flowers: An open yellow dandelion next to another in sphere-seed form. A yellow flower, like a daisy with tubular anthers. A purple daisy with a fly at twelve o'clock. A simple yellow daisy with a yellow orange center. A close-up of a backlit pink rose. And a rose, mostly yellow with some fading to pink.
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#FlowersOnFriday
#FlowerReport:

In San Jose, California, yesterday afternoon.
Photo of two roses, side by side. The one on the left is mostly yellow, with hints of pink on the petal edges. On the right is one with pink petals that fade into yellow near the center. Both have stamen and anthers of golden yellow. The background is very dark green with some bits of light.
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
haroldvondrehle.bsky.social
#InsectThursday
#FlowerReport:

Even in November,
in San Jose, California.

Alt text would have been:
A close-up photo of a bee in the midst of the golden yellow stamen and anthers of a yellow rose, casting her shadow upon the tossled petals. She is straight up and sideways, looking to the left.
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM