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meganisalanis.bsky.social
🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻
@meganisalanis.bsky.social
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Walking, nature, and enjoying photos from both.
#Maths #Nature #Flowers #BeautifulSkies
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#Kevin #SchoolCat
#AltText #AltTextPonderings
Kevin is about 9-10 years old, here he is on the mural and on the cleaning trolley. Kevin is a tabby cat with white paws and a white chin and chest. He has two different coloured eyes and he is adored in our school community 🤩
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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If you see this, post a bird 🪶
There is a tiny kingfisher in the branches of a bare maple tree in the right edge of this photo. In the foreground is a round backed cane chair and a variety of pot plants on a second story deck. In the background is the ocean, sky and clouds. The kingfisher was easier to see with my eyes than in the photo sorry!! The feathers on its back are a delightful turquoise, it has a creamy belly and a formidable beak which helps it be a very accurate catcher of bugs and crabs.
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Walkies 10 minutes from home, ahhh.
#NZ
Riverside walking/running/cycling path, trees line both sides of the river, fluffy clouds cover some of the blue sky
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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#SchoolCat #Kevin #Mural #Swiftmantis #Cats #AltText has more info 😻

Aww, such a lovely boy.
This is Kevin. Kevin is about 10 years old and he lives at school. About 4 years ago, Swiftmantis painted this amazing mural of Kevin on our then new senior bathroom block. Kevin is a tabby cat with long ivory white whiskers. His left eye is green and his right eye is brown with speckles. Kevin has white tips on his paws and a white chin. He often comes to hang out in my classroom while waiting for students to arrive before school. One of my jobs is to unlock the bathroom block and when he chose to follow me, I seized the opportunity to take this photo.
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Nasturtium flowers catching my eye. I have heaps of orange, yellow and orange-yellow mixture but the red ones are pretty rare.
Four close up photos of nasturtium flowers. Bottm left - Yellow Bottom right - Red Top right - Orange Top left - Orange-Yellow mix and orange
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Post you from a different era

Me, 14yo with my family as we made our way to the UK in 1986
The Taj Mahal with a family of four seated in front. Mother on left has a light pink short sleeves shirt, son 7yo has a checkered shirt, me 14yo has a white short sleeved top and father in a grey blazer over a light pink shirt.
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Gorgeous day huh. Bees, flowers, blue sky, I'm in shorts too 🤩
Close up of a honey bee visiting the gazillion flowers on my avocado tree
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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#Grateful #Awa ##BeautifulSkies #Colours #walking
Blue sky with no clouds in sight, the Manawatū Awa is finally lowering after weeks running high from all the rain. The colour of the sky is reflecting on the water. Trees and other vegetation are bright green. There are rocks in the foreground which were put here to try and keep the river away from the city of Palmy.
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Love the description, we get unusual clouds like this here too, NZ. Not perhaps the best example, but one of my recent photos. I'm somewhat addicted to taking photos while I walk near my house 🏠
A line of spring growth covered trees, clouds above fill the left edge of the photo and brilliant blue sky is on the right. The clouds are lined with sunshine.
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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#Fireworks #ClimateChange #wind #BanPrivateSales

Surely the time is now.

With our increasingly windy world, it makes no sense to allow people to buy privately and set Fireworks off whenever they feel like it?
Fireworks, lots of sparks and no control of where they land, especially in an increasingly windy world
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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#Trees #EastCoastKin #Photography #ThickTrunkTuesday
A large gum tree with dangling bark strips and a bright blue sky behind. There's a green grass stop bank in the background. The bark is bathed in sunlight from the rising sun and is an orange and copper mixture of colours
July 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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My favourite photo from my 'feels like -4°C' walk yesterday morning (according to my phone!)

#winter #photography #BeautifulSkies #frost #walking
A fence line between two paddocks, both grassy and covered in a thick frost. The sun is rising from behind the ranges, and trees are silhouetted in a golden glow. The ranges appear a bluey-purple in the distance. The sky is clear and gradually changing from the golden skyline to blue up above. A truly magical morning, freezing cold and wonderful ✨️
July 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The golden glow of sunshine through this line of trees is beautiful - the sun shines directly along this stretch of the river at this time of year.

#trees #sunrise #colours #photography
Frosty grass, macrocarpa pine trees, a sealed path, then the river, sun shines in a radiant golden glow along behind the trees where the river is. The sky is clear and bright blue.
July 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Happy dog, happy dog-mum 🐾❤️
#dogs #colours #sunrise #walking #frost #winter
Sky is 8.5yrs old staffy collie cross dog, in this photo she is rolling around on the frosty grass. The sun is rising in the background and shining across the grass and through the tall poplar trees, casting a golden glow on everything.
July 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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#BookWeek #SchoolLife #lights

We've had an Under the Sea themed Book Week at school. I took this photo last night after finishing parent conferences - cool huh 😍

How many fish? How would you estimate this or count it?

#Pattern #Maths
Photo taken outside in the dark, Four windows with black paper stuck over the inside. The black paper has hundreds of tiny sperm-like fish cut out in an intricate pattern. The lights are on inside and shining through the fish shaped holes, very effective!
July 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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#Bookweek #School
We have had fun with the Book Week at school this week - Under the Sea themed dress up parade, our library transformed by two talented and dedicated librarians, one of the three people who have been reading ambassadors in NZ visited 🤩
#SchoolLife #Education #Reading
Cardboard cut out space for my face, the Cardboard has a painted shark with its mouth open heading straight for me.
July 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#Sunrise #trees #BeautifulSkies #colours

One of the many photos I have taken recently while out walking and marveling at the colours in the sky 😍
Sky full of colour on a bright blue background clouds reflect orange, pink and golden glows as the sun rises from behind the ranges
July 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Sunrises are great 👍
The 'red sky morning' rhyme has had me expecting rain the last two days, none here... yet.
#Sunrise #BeautifulSkies

Ick... Twitter... I miss some of it...

I enjoy reading your posts (there back a couple of years. here now), don't let that place suck too much for you
Sunrise over a grassy paddock, scattered clouds reflecting orange glow, trees along the middle of the photo
July 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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This morning's walk, one of the spots I like to take a photo from.
#BeautifulSkies #River #Nature
Manawatū River with early morning sunshine reflecting an orange glow, clouds with light pinky orange tinge, trees and grass.
July 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Wednesday morning to Friday morning...
Spot the difference!

#river #water #rain
July 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Collage of 4 photos of the double rainbow from Saturday.
It was so intense as I got closer to the river - absolutely beautiful 🌈
4 photos of a rainbow growing from right to left, reflecting on the river, my dog Sky is in one of the photos.
July 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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#Gardening #tools #LostAndFound

Phew, the feeling when you are packing away from time in the garden and you go to put your small tools away only to discover you must have tipped them in the green waste pile...

Thankfully I found them after some rummaging!
Sunlight hitting the tree and garden where I've spent time yesterday and today, weeding and clearing between the stones and pots.
July 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#Rainbow #Dogs #Walking #rivers

A gorgeous double rainbow on my walk Saturday morning.
Very special for so many reasons 🙏
Double rainbow 🌈 reflection on the river, golden sunlight hitting bare willow trees on one river bank and long dry grass tops on the other. My happy dog Sky is walking along the green grass in the foreground towards me taking the picture.
June 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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#Kevin
❤️🐈‍⬛🐈🐾

Our morning ritual, him and I sitting 'working' on the mat in my classroom 🥰
June 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Check out 'Stuff', a quick search may well locate him ❤️

Here's a picture of Kevin 🐾🐈‍⬛🐈
Kevin is our delightful school cat. He's about 10 years old, tabby with two different coloured eyes like David Bowie. Here he is enjoying a few treats next to his house. He has a microchip opening door and other snuggly beds in the library and on our lovely cleaner's trolley ❤️
June 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM