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Minou
@minou313.bsky.social
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Artist,sky/nature watcher
📷 All photos by me © with Motorola phone
💉🔬Science is real.
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From tiny white flowers in May to nothing but orange-red berries in the fall, the Queen of the May, Hawthorne, continues to show her beauty. #photography #trees #autumn #art #landscape
A hawthorne tree is puctured covered with small reddish orange berries, now without leaves, against a blue sky with a green pine tree in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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My contribution to the Northern Lights show in Northern #Colorado. #northernlights. I could barely see it with my eyes but my camera could! #photography #amazing
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The Mad Hatter enjoys her winning hand, smugly. The March Hare examines his poor cards in frustration while being silently mocked by the Cheshire Cat. My digital art from 2022. #art #drawing #wonderland #wacom
A drawing depicting the Mad Hatter as a Steampunk female black cat and the March Hare as moustached male rabbit with long ears. She is leaning back in her chair smugly, holding her cards up to see them while placing one foot boldly on the table. She is dressed in a purple top hat with the playing card, the Queen of Spades in the hat band with a purple corset and transluscent ruffled skirt. Thigh high purple and white striped toeless socks adorn her legs. The man is wearing a white dress shirt with a blue vest and an arm garter with blue pants. He is seated on a green mushroom while the almost invisible Cheshire Cat grins under his seat. The table legs are adorned with twining red and white roses. Drawn using a Wacom tablet with Photoshop.
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I guess birds just like to be in my moon shots. I have no idea what kind these were. #photography #moon #nature #birds #Colorado
A pale, waning moon in a bright blue morning sky. The image is edged with yellow willow leaves as birds fly through the image.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Two weeks of limited walking after leg surgery kept me from many of my favorite trees. I was glad to find leaves on this maple tree! #photography #art #landscape #trees #autumn
Looking up at autumn mapke leaves that are a dark golden yelliw light by the sun. Dark veins create umbrella like spines of dark orange and brown for contrast. In the background, a weeping willow begins to turn more yellow than green.
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Apparently the title "ICE! How the Grinch Stole Christmas" didn't strike the same bizarre chord for the Gaylord resort in Aurora #Colorado (east of Denver) that it did for me. #ICE
#Grinch #Gaylord #Pepsi #Marriott.
A screenshot of an ad for a Christmas event at the Gaylord of the Rockies in Aurora, Colorado. Located east of Denver, miles from the Rocky Mountains. The event is called "ICE!" and says it will feature How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a Dr. Seuss book, in ice sculptures.
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Sunrise over the lake lends a golden glow to the remaining yellow tree leaves and fading yellow grasses below it. #photography #sunrise #landscape #art #autumn
The sun is muted by thin clouds as it rises over a lake, its image reflected in the water below. The early morning color lights up tree leaves and dying yellow grasses, giving both a golden glow through the translucent leaves.
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Sunset over the rooftops with a foothills backdrop. #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening
#photography #art #sunset
The setting sun slips towards Colorado foothills in the distance. The yellow light is partly covered by thick streaks of dark gray blue clouds. Bare tree branches reach into the scene from either side while the roof of a building crosses the bottom of the picture.
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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She stayed up all night so I could say goodbye. The super full moon descends in the west. A cloud bank, bringing red flag winds, rolls up over the mountains and wild geese buzz the frame. (phone camera) #photography #moon #art #geese #clouds
The white super full moon descends in the west in a morning blue sky. A large white cloud bank fills the lower half of the sky. It is a weather front bringing red flag winds as it rolls up over the mountains. Roof tops and leafless trees are in the foreground. Two wild geese are flying in the left side of the frame.
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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It's the sunset that creates the pinkest moonrise. This was the western sky as the moon was rising. #photography #art #sunset #mountains #landscape #Colorado
A hazy, cloudy view of the sunset behind Colorado foothills and mountains on the evening of the super full moon.
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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For the moon, my phone won't do. I use a 16 year old Canon digital 35mm SX40 HS with 140x zoom. Mostly automatic, I have a preset that helps me keep the color of the moon as it rises. I love it when clouds get involved to create a unique moment. #photography #art #moon
The super full moon ascends through the dark blue sky, changing to a shade of yellow. Thin clouds in the foreground add a mysterious layer to the face.
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I took so many photos of the moon last night, but I think this is my favorite. I didn't realize there was a cloud bank at the horizon until she finally peeked over the edge. Just as I took it, stray ducks entered the frame. #photography #art #moon #landscape
The top quarter of the super full moon finally emerges from a cloud bank well above the horizon. It glows a pale pink in the dark blue sky of sunset. Three ducks fly above it.
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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A few shots I got through open car windows on my way to a pre-Halloween gathering last night. Sometimes getting stuck in traffic yields good things I've you watch for them. #photography #nature #moon #trees #art
The sun sets behind a rural cluster of trees that were formerly a farmstead's hedgerow creating a glow in the fields beyond A waxing gibbous moon floats in a darkening evening sky above a nearly leafless tree where a small flock of black birds have paused in the top branches.
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Another day of "why I live here". This was my dream as a teen, to escape the flat wheatfields. I made my dream come true. Never give up!!
#photography #art #mountains #nature #scenery #truth #beauty #peace
A vista across a green hay field and suburban area to distant blue foothills nearby and mountains in Rocky Mountain National Park. White clouds are blowing up from the west against a pale blue sky. A fishing pond in a natural area with still gree trees on the far bank. The near bank shows tall reeds growing near the shore. In the distance, foothills reach into a blue sky with white clouds.
October 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I saw these beautiful flowers on my walk. I thought, in addition to inflatables, we should bring back an old tradition... Flower Power. It was part of peaceful demonstrations during the Vietnam war.
#bloomscrolling #flowerpower #peace
White Cosmos flowers edged with lavender push through a white fence. The are a daisy looking flower. Clip art shows a hand placing a daisy in the barrel of a rifle held by a hand with a green shirt cuff. It is reminiscent of the actions of peace demonstrators of the Flower Power movement in the USA furing the Vietnam War.
October 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A hot air balloon enjoying the crisp, cool morning air.
#photography #art #clouds #morning #balloon #fridayfreedom #sky
A hot air balloon, small and silhouetted over the distant horizon, glides through golden clouds on an early Colorado morning.
October 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Why I live here, number 3.
#photography #art #mountains #nature #scenic #autumn
A view of Horsetooth Rock, Colorado. A foothill with a rocky peak like a camel hump with two vertical gashes that create what looks like a large flat tooth sticking up toward the sky. A morning view of two mountain peaks that are in Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, CO. The peaks are visible for miles from areas on the flat lands below
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The not quite full moon almost invisible in the 8:30 am sky
#photography #art #moon #nature #autumn
A pale not quite full moon is setting in the western sky. Autumn colored trees and foothills are visible below it.
October 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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A faceted crystal jar caught the sunlight at just the right angle to create a shadow of my pothos vine in a refracted rainbow spectrum on the ceiling.
#photography #art #shadow #refraction #rainbow
A shadow of some plant leaves has been created on a ceiling by a crystal prism which causes a refraction of rainbow light around the shadow.
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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We ran to catch this shot of a brlliant red sun at dawn before she quickly moved into hide and seek mode with a cloud.
#photography #sunrise #nature
A large sun near the horizon at dawn turning the horizon a dark shade if orange red as it rises into a purplish cloud.
October 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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"As we wind on down the road,
Our shadows taller than our souls..."
Led Zeppelin
#shadows #photography #whimsy
A dog is puctured walking down a sidewalk withe the shadows of the dog's and the owner's shadows cast long before them on the sidewalk, giving the illusion that the owner has very long legs.
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Brilliantly beautiful!
#roses #photigraphy #art #bloomscrolling
A single open rose in shades of orange, peach, and yelow Several fully open roses in shaded of orange, peach, and yellow.
October 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Back to beauty.... I love the way roses look just before they fade.
#bloomscrolling #roses #photgraphy #art #flowers
Two pink roses past the glory of full bloom, just before they diminish and fall apart
October 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I liked the contrasting effects that autumn has created in these two leaves. Red veins with brown mottled decay versus green veins with red mottling.
#photography #art #trees #leaves #autumn
Two different leaves are shown next to each other to highlight the differences in fall color. One leaf has green veins with the leaf space changing to a mottled bright red, still hanging from a tree. The second leaf, from a different tree, was found on the ground and has red veins. The leaf space of the second leaf is tan with many small brown spots. #autumn
October 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM