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Photograbee
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Disabled apicentric photographer and artist, gardener and bee lover (run by @beeloveds). Spreading bee love one note card at a time. https://photograbee.com (2025)
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photograbee.bsky.social
Of course I'm gonna add bees and flies to my flowers for #FlyDay. I hope you're all holding up okay in this almost endless PNW rain. ♥️🐝✌️
A single honeybee on a vibrant red and yellow Gaillardia in full sun. A colorful iridescent syrphid fly rests in the out petals of a deep red and yellow Gaillardia flower in the shade. Side view of a honeybee snoot deep in a very bright yellow and orange choriopsis flower in diffuse daylight. Jan Groh Photograbee 2025.
December 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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grays.art
Best of 2025 count down: #13

Happy Fly-day! 🪰

Thick-headed fly
(Physocephala tibialis)

A harmless wasp mimic
shown here on common milkweed,
in Chicago.

July 24th, 2025
Size: ~1cm

#flyDay #eastCoastKin #macro #photography #macrophotography #nature #diptera #native #insects #flies #bugs #art
A wasp mimic fly in the edge of a leaf.
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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bar44.bsky.social
Mushrooms thriving on these wet days. #Photography #Mushrooms #PortlandJapaneseGarden 📷🐸🐌
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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grays.art
Best of 2025 count down: #14

Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee
(Megachile pugnata)

on what may be wet swamp milkweed

June 20th, 2025
Andersonville neighborhood, Chicago

#eastCoastKin #ColorADay #YellowThu #insectThursday #macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #pollinators #art #nature #chicago
Lateral view of sunny bee facing right, with yellow, cream white, brown and black fur, dark eyes, and long antenna, atop a damp, green, patterned leaf with the bee’s shadow, dark army green background.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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juliejam.bsky.social
There's a reason they call it Bee Balm. Brown-belted Bumblebee sleeping on Monarda citriodora. #fallbackflowers #fallback to June 18. #bumblebees #bees #nativeplants #insectthursday 🌱
December 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
photograbee.bsky.social
I'll see your bonking beetles and add some #bees of course, bee-cause. We can't have too much Vitamin Bee especially in the winter!
These were in milkweed last spring. #InsectThursday #ThrowbackThursday
Close-up photo showing a single honeybee feeding in a pale pink and white milkweed blossom in the sun. Side view. A pair of honeybees feeding in milkweed blossoms in parallel, both pointed a bit to the right at a similar angle. In soft sunlight.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social
Red #Maple #Leaf & #Azalea #Wreath
This reminded me of a #Christmas wreath with a red bow on top. #RedWed #PNW #Photography
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
photograbee.bsky.social
I'll add a flower for #RoseWednesday to help lift some soggy spirits around here. No bees though, today, sorry. (Oddly I rarely see bees in roses, unsure why.) #Flowers
Face on photo of a single large half-open lavender purple rose blossom in dappled sunlight. Jan Groh Photograbee 2025.
December 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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brymo.bsky.social
Anna’s Hummingbird sips from a Pride of Madeira
#art
#photograph
#birds
#flowers
A photograph of an Anna’s Hummingbird and a Pride of Madeira fower
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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ukulady.bsky.social
#RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers

Neptune, the mysterious, which I planted last year after seeing it in a Bluesky post. I couldn’t find the right spot in the garden for ages and it sat in a pot neglected but once the clematis flowered it was obvious where it needed to be.
December 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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pacnorthimages.bsky.social
🍄‍🟫 Tiny construction workers of the forest 👷‍♂️

📍#Oregon

#mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography #naturephotography
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
photograbee.bsky.social
I'm gonna riff on #Twosday myself, and share this pair of native bees* feeding "cheek-to-cheek" so to speak on this Gaillardia last summer. #bees #Flowers #Gardening *see next for ID
Two bees with matching black and tan striped butts feed in opposite directions (tail to tail) on a bright red and yellow Gaillardia flower at dusk. (I now think the left one is a longhorn and the right facing one with the green head is a sweat bee. I thought they were both sweat bees at first.)
December 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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lauren-oujiri.bsky.social
for you, a softly vibrant + peaceful moment with some African daisies
🤍🕊️

(from a few summers ago, needed on a rainy windy day such as today)
.

#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #daisy #flowers #oregonphotographer #oregon
Photo of African daisies with soft gold, yellow, pink, and coral, and a circle of orange around the purple-black center of some.
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
photograbee.bsky.social
Good #MagentaMonday beeps. I'm wholloped but thankfully not shattered after this super busy weekend of back-to-back markets. (I have #EDS, so all my bones try to come apart under minimal strain. Follow @ohtwist.bsky.social for more in that.)

Back to bees-ness. 🎈🐝💐✌️ #flowers #bees
A large black and yellow bumblebee resting on a large magenta dahlia in soft sunlight. Side view of a large vibrant full magenta Dahlia at dusk.
December 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
photograbee.bsky.social
Super wholloped but happy after a second busy market. I did okay, not great, but enough to buy more ink. 😉
And I may have my first collectors.
Sadly, this may be the last Cmas at Lloyd Center, TBD. 😥✌️ #pdx #history
December 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
photograbee.bsky.social
Up and at them! Hope to see some of you today in the Lloyd Center mall in Portland, OR. 12-5 pm Sunday 12/14/25. Free. Second Level near the middle just east of the escalators and Macy's. ♥️🐞✌️ #holiday #market #art
photograbee.bsky.social Photograbee @photograbee.bsky.social · 7d
Then I'll "bee" back at The Spot Market in Lloyd Center mall on Sunday 12/14 from 12-5pm in Portland, OR. We're on the second level, in the old GAP store space by Macy's near the middle. Look for the red and black signs! And Ladybugs! #pdx #arts #crafts #gifts #markets
Colorful graphic showing two bright photo notecards on a dark green background. Left one has six bees in a circle around the center of a fresh red and yellow Gaillardia flower. The second one shows them clinging to the tattered petals of a bedraggled mature Gaillardia flower. Text: Photograbee.com logo. FREE! 12-5pm. Come see me Sunday @ The SPOT MARKET. Lloyd Center mall space #1222 (The old GAP store space by Macy's on the second level, Portland, OR 97232.) Right arrow. Very busy promo graphic with red and black ladybug illustrations around the red white and black Spot Market logo in the center fills the top half on a white background. The bottom half has tons of fine text. Major details include Dec 13th (12-6pm) and 14th (12-5om), Holiday Deals, free raffles every hour. Free community event brought to you by Ladybug Homes, Cornerstone First Mortgage and more.
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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beeloveds.bsky.social
Happy #Stunflower #Stunday, to bring a little summer warmth back in the middle of this cold wet December in Portland. Thanks to a customer for the inspiration yesterday, I will try to add a sunflower to my catalog next year! #Flowers 💛
A solid yellow sunflower sporting a two toned male sweat bee on its lower face whose curved body matches the still unfurling curved yellow and green petals beside it
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
photograbee.bsky.social
Wholloped but not shattered. See you tomorrow at the Spot Market at noon! Crashing early. Gnite.
photograbee.bsky.social Photograbee @photograbee.bsky.social · 7d
Then I'll "bee" back at The Spot Market in Lloyd Center mall on Sunday 12/14 from 12-5pm in Portland, OR. We're on the second level, in the old GAP store space by Macy's near the middle. Look for the red and black signs! And Ladybugs! #pdx #arts #crafts #gifts #markets
Colorful graphic showing two bright photo notecards on a dark green background. Left one has six bees in a circle around the center of a fresh red and yellow Gaillardia flower. The second one shows them clinging to the tattered petals of a bedraggled mature Gaillardia flower. Text: Photograbee.com logo. FREE! 12-5pm. Come see me Sunday @ The SPOT MARKET. Lloyd Center mall space #1222 (The old GAP store space by Macy's on the second level, Portland, OR 97232.) Right arrow. Very busy promo graphic with red and black ladybug illustrations around the red white and black Spot Market logo in the center fills the top half on a white background. The bottom half has tons of fine text. Major details include Dec 13th (12-6pm) and 14th (12-5om), Holiday Deals, free raffles every hour. Free community event brought to you by Ladybug Homes, Cornerstone First Mortgage and more.
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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photograbee.bsky.social
Then I'll "bee" back at The Spot Market in Lloyd Center mall on Sunday 12/14 from 12-5pm in Portland, OR. We're on the second level, in the old GAP store space by Macy's near the middle. Look for the red and black signs! And Ladybugs! #pdx #arts #crafts #gifts #markets
Colorful graphic showing two bright photo notecards on a dark green background. Left one has six bees in a circle around the center of a fresh red and yellow Gaillardia flower. The second one shows them clinging to the tattered petals of a bedraggled mature Gaillardia flower. Text: Photograbee.com logo. FREE! 12-5pm. Come see me Sunday @ The SPOT MARKET. Lloyd Center mall space #1222 (The old GAP store space by Macy's on the second level, Portland, OR 97232.) Right arrow. Very busy promo graphic with red and black ladybug illustrations around the red white and black Spot Market logo in the center fills the top half on a white background. The bottom half has tons of fine text. Major details include Dec 13th (12-6pm) and 14th (12-5om), Holiday Deals, free raffles every hour. Free community event brought to you by Ladybug Homes, Cornerstone First Mortgage and more.
December 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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beeloveds.bsky.social
Happy #FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday beeps. These hot lips salvia were actually blooming right outside of a Christmas Bazaar in Portland last week as though they signed up to help decorate for the season. #Flowers #Gardening
Photo showing a pair of bright small red and white blossoms lower left and a few up at the top of a mostly green hot lips salvia plant in December 2025 on a rainy day in Portland Oregon.
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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photograbee.bsky.social
Clackamas County bee-lovers and gardenerscome find me at the Gleaners of Clackamas County Cmas Bazaar Saturday 10-4 at 13821 Fir Street, Oregon City, OR 97045.

FREE and open to the public. I'll have my beautiful sleepy bee cards and more! I take cash, cards and app$.
#art #photography #gifts
Green promo graphic showing two of Jan's colorful photo notecards. One shows six bees in a perfect circle around the center of a vibrant red and yellow fresh Gaillardia flower. The other shows a gang of bees clustered on the tattered petals of a bedraggled mature Gaillardia flower. Show details included. SAT 12/13 from 10-4 at 13821 Fir Street. Oregon City. Free. Photograbee.com. Busy holiday themed red green and white graphic showing a red cup of Cocoa with a ton of whipped cream on top. "Join us for our 3rd annual Gleaners Christmas Bazaar Dec 13th from 10 am till 4 pm. Open to public." Below that a cheerful reindeer points to red and green text on white: "Come find sweet hand made gifts and learn about the Gleaners of Clackamas County Program to help feed local families! " "Warm drinks! Treats! Gifts!" "I'll have my sleepy bee cards available and take ALL forms of money - cash, cards, apps!"
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
photograbee.bsky.social
Yup. No bees here, neither. Just cold rain. 😔
beeloveds.bsky.social BeeLover @beeloveds.bsky.social · 9d
Happy #RoseWednesday beeps. I'm scrambling to keep up. How about you?
Top down shot of a single large yellow rose with nearly perfect whorls and dark orange splashes and accents at dusk.
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
photograbee.bsky.social
And I'll add a regular blue cornflower with a bee from last summer to match.
A single honeybee arched over a royal blue cornflower in diffuse daylight.
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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jaspersharp.bsky.social
One of the UK’s most beautiful mushrooms to my mind, the Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus) is much less rare than one might think. I’ve found it in at least 3 different locations. As appetising as it looks, and despite its name, this one is in fact not considered an edible - bitter and rubbery.
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
#MacroMonday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #ClassicMono

This was a Christmas finial decoration on outdoor stairs to a house. It is a ball of pinecones with a base of pine needles.

#EastCoastKin #Pinecones #ChristmasDecoration #Macro
A closeup of what is a ball made of pinecones that sits on a bed of pine needles. This was on a rock wall post for a staircase. In this image, only the pinecones and pine needles show, not any of the wall or stairs.
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM