Terri Milton 🇨🇦
@terrimilton.bsky.social
Librarian. Human being. Live in Mi'kma'ki - Nova Scotia, Canada. The photography is real and the views are my own.
First bird down the trunk,
nuthatch dives headfirst to earth;
seeing paths most miss.
~Justin Farley, Haiku
#naturephotography
📷Terri Milton
nuthatch dives headfirst to earth;
seeing paths most miss.
~Justin Farley, Haiku
#naturephotography
📷Terri Milton
October 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
First bird down the trunk,
nuthatch dives headfirst to earth;
seeing paths most miss.
~Justin Farley, Haiku
#naturephotography
📷Terri Milton
nuthatch dives headfirst to earth;
seeing paths most miss.
~Justin Farley, Haiku
#naturephotography
📷Terri Milton
@wajali.bsky.social A 🇨🇦 fan here. Love Go Back and Domestic Crusaders. You and your 800 kids are welcome here in beautiful Nova Scotia! 😀This amazing Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative, AL) interview aired on CBC today. What a conversation you would have on The Left Hook. tinyurl.com/2f8kzcbx
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@wajali.bsky.social A 🇨🇦 fan here. Love Go Back and Domestic Crusaders. You and your 800 kids are welcome here in beautiful Nova Scotia! 😀This amazing Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative, AL) interview aired on CBC today. What a conversation you would have on The Left Hook. tinyurl.com/2f8kzcbx
White
cobwebs, the grass
leaning where deer
have looked for apples.
~Denise Levertov, The Breathing
#naturephotography
cobwebs, the grass
leaning where deer
have looked for apples.
~Denise Levertov, The Breathing
#naturephotography
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
White
cobwebs, the grass
leaning where deer
have looked for apples.
~Denise Levertov, The Breathing
#naturephotography
cobwebs, the grass
leaning where deer
have looked for apples.
~Denise Levertov, The Breathing
#naturephotography
Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush
Not far off in the oak and hazel brush, Unseen
~Edward Thomas, The Brook
📷Terri Milton #naturephotography
Not far off in the oak and hazel brush, Unseen
~Edward Thomas, The Brook
📷Terri Milton #naturephotography
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush
Not far off in the oak and hazel brush, Unseen
~Edward Thomas, The Brook
📷Terri Milton #naturephotography
Not far off in the oak and hazel brush, Unseen
~Edward Thomas, The Brook
📷Terri Milton #naturephotography
In a month or so, when they reach the size of
bumblebees they'll fly to Costa Rica without a map.
~Jim Harrison, Warbler
📷 Terri Milton, Chestnut sided warbler #naturephotography
bumblebees they'll fly to Costa Rica without a map.
~Jim Harrison, Warbler
📷 Terri Milton, Chestnut sided warbler #naturephotography
August 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In a month or so, when they reach the size of
bumblebees they'll fly to Costa Rica without a map.
~Jim Harrison, Warbler
📷 Terri Milton, Chestnut sided warbler #naturephotography
bumblebees they'll fly to Costa Rica without a map.
~Jim Harrison, Warbler
📷 Terri Milton, Chestnut sided warbler #naturephotography
Here, where the gulls speak of everything I am not, the tall grasses not yet tall, the tide out and in repose, a hint of ocean floor offering passage, seaweed torn by time, drowned without the sea
~Howard Altmann, The Gulls
📷 Terri Milton, Little Gull #naturephotography
~Howard Altmann, The Gulls
📷 Terri Milton, Little Gull #naturephotography
August 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Here, where the gulls speak of everything I am not, the tall grasses not yet tall, the tide out and in repose, a hint of ocean floor offering passage, seaweed torn by time, drowned without the sea
~Howard Altmann, The Gulls
📷 Terri Milton, Little Gull #naturephotography
~Howard Altmann, The Gulls
📷 Terri Milton, Little Gull #naturephotography
Thy leaves possess the season in their turn,
And in their time thy warblers rise on wing
~Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Progress of Spring
📷 Terri Milton, Black and White Warbler #naturephotography
And in their time thy warblers rise on wing
~Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Progress of Spring
📷 Terri Milton, Black and White Warbler #naturephotography
August 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thy leaves possess the season in their turn,
And in their time thy warblers rise on wing
~Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Progress of Spring
📷 Terri Milton, Black and White Warbler #naturephotography
And in their time thy warblers rise on wing
~Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Progress of Spring
📷 Terri Milton, Black and White Warbler #naturephotography
her spirit yearns in twists and turns entwined in rockweed tangles
~Terry O'Leary, Unsettled Sea
📷 Terri Milton
~Terry O'Leary, Unsettled Sea
📷 Terri Milton
July 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
her spirit yearns in twists and turns entwined in rockweed tangles
~Terry O'Leary, Unsettled Sea
📷 Terri Milton
~Terry O'Leary, Unsettled Sea
📷 Terri Milton
gossamer wings
of four inch span
so fragile and
yet so strong
~John Beharry, Monarch Butterfly
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography
of four inch span
so fragile and
yet so strong
~John Beharry, Monarch Butterfly
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography
July 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
gossamer wings
of four inch span
so fragile and
yet so strong
~John Beharry, Monarch Butterfly
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography
of four inch span
so fragile and
yet so strong
~John Beharry, Monarch Butterfly
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography
Yr wylan deg ar lanw, dioer,
Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,
Dilwch yw dy degwch di,
Darn fal haul, dyrnfol heli
Dafydd ap Gwilym, Yr Wylan
Gracing the tide-warmth, this seagull,
The snow-semblanced, moon-matcher,
The sun-shard and sea-gauntlet
Glyn Jones trans., The Seagull
📷 Terri Milton
Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,
Dilwch yw dy degwch di,
Darn fal haul, dyrnfol heli
Dafydd ap Gwilym, Yr Wylan
Gracing the tide-warmth, this seagull,
The snow-semblanced, moon-matcher,
The sun-shard and sea-gauntlet
Glyn Jones trans., The Seagull
📷 Terri Milton
July 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Yr wylan deg ar lanw, dioer,
Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,
Dilwch yw dy degwch di,
Darn fal haul, dyrnfol heli
Dafydd ap Gwilym, Yr Wylan
Gracing the tide-warmth, this seagull,
The snow-semblanced, moon-matcher,
The sun-shard and sea-gauntlet
Glyn Jones trans., The Seagull
📷 Terri Milton
Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,
Dilwch yw dy degwch di,
Darn fal haul, dyrnfol heli
Dafydd ap Gwilym, Yr Wylan
Gracing the tide-warmth, this seagull,
The snow-semblanced, moon-matcher,
The sun-shard and sea-gauntlet
Glyn Jones trans., The Seagull
📷 Terri Milton
Rambling over sea side banks
Sending out tangled shoots
Like green tatting
~Barbara Joan Spring, Vetch
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography
Sending out tangled shoots
Like green tatting
~Barbara Joan Spring, Vetch
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography
July 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rambling over sea side banks
Sending out tangled shoots
Like green tatting
~Barbara Joan Spring, Vetch
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography
Sending out tangled shoots
Like green tatting
~Barbara Joan Spring, Vetch
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography
When over the flowery, sharp pasture’s edge, unseen, the salt ocean/lifts its form—chicory and daisies/tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone
~William Carlos Williams, Flowers By the Sea
📷 Terri Milton
~William Carlos Williams, Flowers By the Sea
📷 Terri Milton
July 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
When over the flowery, sharp pasture’s edge, unseen, the salt ocean/lifts its form—chicory and daisies/tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone
~William Carlos Williams, Flowers By the Sea
📷 Terri Milton
~William Carlos Williams, Flowers By the Sea
📷 Terri Milton
Don’t feel bad if you thought that such a tree was a figment of my imagination.
~Terry Johnson, Georgia DNR Wildlife Division, Out My Backdoor: Dogwood Berries Are a Wildlife Favorite
📷 Terri Milton, Red Osier Dogwood
~Terry Johnson, Georgia DNR Wildlife Division, Out My Backdoor: Dogwood Berries Are a Wildlife Favorite
📷 Terri Milton, Red Osier Dogwood
July 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Don’t feel bad if you thought that such a tree was a figment of my imagination.
~Terry Johnson, Georgia DNR Wildlife Division, Out My Backdoor: Dogwood Berries Are a Wildlife Favorite
📷 Terri Milton, Red Osier Dogwood
~Terry Johnson, Georgia DNR Wildlife Division, Out My Backdoor: Dogwood Berries Are a Wildlife Favorite
📷 Terri Milton, Red Osier Dogwood
There seems a mystery in thy work and place,
Which crowns thee with significance and grace
~Helen Hunt Jackson, Milkweed
📷 Terri Milton
Which crowns thee with significance and grace
~Helen Hunt Jackson, Milkweed
📷 Terri Milton
July 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There seems a mystery in thy work and place,
Which crowns thee with significance and grace
~Helen Hunt Jackson, Milkweed
📷 Terri Milton
Which crowns thee with significance and grace
~Helen Hunt Jackson, Milkweed
📷 Terri Milton
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
~Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
📷Terri Milton Spur-throated grasshopper
This grasshopper, I mean--
~Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
📷Terri Milton Spur-throated grasshopper
July 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
~Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
📷Terri Milton Spur-throated grasshopper
This grasshopper, I mean--
~Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
📷Terri Milton Spur-throated grasshopper
Oh how serene, oh how serene,
when pretty ringlets now are seen/in meadows where the snow has been/Among the tree fronds fresh and green
~A shacknofsky, Ringlet Butterfly
📷Terri Milton Common Ringlet aka Large Heath
when pretty ringlets now are seen/in meadows where the snow has been/Among the tree fronds fresh and green
~A shacknofsky, Ringlet Butterfly
📷Terri Milton Common Ringlet aka Large Heath
July 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Oh how serene, oh how serene,
when pretty ringlets now are seen/in meadows where the snow has been/Among the tree fronds fresh and green
~A shacknofsky, Ringlet Butterfly
📷Terri Milton Common Ringlet aka Large Heath
when pretty ringlets now are seen/in meadows where the snow has been/Among the tree fronds fresh and green
~A shacknofsky, Ringlet Butterfly
📷Terri Milton Common Ringlet aka Large Heath
To these sweet poets of the summer fields;
Me much delighting as I stroll along
~John Clare, Wild Bees
#naturephotography
📷Honey bee on Sumac, Terri Milton
Me much delighting as I stroll along
~John Clare, Wild Bees
#naturephotography
📷Honey bee on Sumac, Terri Milton
July 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
To these sweet poets of the summer fields;
Me much delighting as I stroll along
~John Clare, Wild Bees
#naturephotography
📷Honey bee on Sumac, Terri Milton
Me much delighting as I stroll along
~John Clare, Wild Bees
#naturephotography
📷Honey bee on Sumac, Terri Milton
Swallowtail butterfly larvae! There are 3 wandering on my dill plants. #naturephotography
📷 Terri Milton
📷 Terri Milton
July 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Swallowtail butterfly larvae! There are 3 wandering on my dill plants. #naturephotography
📷 Terri Milton
📷 Terri Milton
Her face peered at me through tall grass
and we held our breath,
still-lives in dappled light
~Susan Auld, The Doe
📷Terri Milton
and we held our breath,
still-lives in dappled light
~Susan Auld, The Doe
📷Terri Milton
June 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Her face peered at me through tall grass
and we held our breath,
still-lives in dappled light
~Susan Auld, The Doe
📷Terri Milton
and we held our breath,
still-lives in dappled light
~Susan Auld, The Doe
📷Terri Milton
In a calm course of meditative years,
Oft have I hailed thee with serene delight;
~William Wordsworth, The Tuft of Primroses
📷 Terri Milton
Oft have I hailed thee with serene delight;
~William Wordsworth, The Tuft of Primroses
📷 Terri Milton
June 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In a calm course of meditative years,
Oft have I hailed thee with serene delight;
~William Wordsworth, The Tuft of Primroses
📷 Terri Milton
Oft have I hailed thee with serene delight;
~William Wordsworth, The Tuft of Primroses
📷 Terri Milton
A hum, a gentle pace,
Earth's resilience in place.
~Emily Verse, Bumblebee
📷 Terri Milton, Bumblebee on Dianthus
Earth's resilience in place.
~Emily Verse, Bumblebee
📷 Terri Milton, Bumblebee on Dianthus
June 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A hum, a gentle pace,
Earth's resilience in place.
~Emily Verse, Bumblebee
📷 Terri Milton, Bumblebee on Dianthus
Earth's resilience in place.
~Emily Verse, Bumblebee
📷 Terri Milton, Bumblebee on Dianthus