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triciajobrien
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Have flown the coop, landing here. Writer (former news & features reporter), reader, friend of the arts and nature. Photos taken by me unless it's a repost.
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It's not over yet. Red.
#autumn #red #trees #leaves #nature #photography
Brilliant red maple leaves in sunlight against dark green evergreens.
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It's not over yet. Yellow.
#autumn #trees #leaves #yellow #photography #nature
Yellow leaves, the last of fall color, against dark green evergreens and pale blue sky.
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I had a bit of fun with this year's carved pumpkins. May your Halloween be spooky not horrid and may we welcome the thin veil between worlds. #Halloween #Samhain #pumpkins
Carved pumpkins. One with a smirky, sinister smile and the other with wide eyes looking at him.
October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Autumn love. #trees #nature #fall #October #red #photography #PNW
Brilliant red leaves and sun-bright limbs against a blue sky on a perfect October day.
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQForQuiet #photography #graveyard #Edinburgh
Elaborate old gravestone with angels and skulls back-dropped by a gnarly old tree in Scotland.
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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getting a head start 🎃🕸️😱
October 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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One of my favorite fall sights: leaves turning red on this vine. #autumnalequinox #fall #nature #photography #iPhone
Ivy leaves turning red, covering side of a building.
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Early morning sun bursts above the cloud layer on this first day of Autumn. #autumnalequinox #fall #nature #photography #iPhone
Bright ball of sun appears above cloud bank, lake, and trees on this first day of Autumn.
September 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#ForestFriday #forests #trees
Nature's art is where I find peace.
Sunlight shining through a canopy of Douglas firs stretching towards the sky.
September 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Sky and trees. Where my heart is.
Douglas fir trees reaching up toward a stream of bright white clouds.
September 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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tableau
#photography #backlit #viewfrommywindow #peace #aesthetic
green trees out window while inside on a table sit a handmade pottery bowl, a vase with wood roses, and a cut-glass light, all backlit
August 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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duplex :)

Actually, there were even more holes bored into this dead tree, most likely by Pileated woodpeckers who live in this forest. I love seeing the bits of nesting material on the edges.
#forest #trees #woodpeckers #birds #photography #iphone
Two nest holes in a dead tree, most likely made by woodpeckers.
July 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Osprey landing at nest atop light platform at a high school ball field in Western Washington. Second photo parent and two chicks (click to enlarge). I've worried if this nesting pair would return after migration, but here they are and successful! #birds #osprey #nest #photography #iPhone #nature
Wings still raised with light shining through feathers an osprey lands on a nest built on top of a light pole above a ball field. Osprey parent on nest with two little chick heads rising above the nest twigs.
July 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Shadow and light. Remember to breathe. #ForestFriday #forests #trees #nature #photography #iPhone
sunlight illumines a small, new evergreen tree amongst the towering older firs and pines with their long shadows
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Stopped to savor this beautiful scene of tree, sky, and water on a walk the other day. There is still so much beauty in this world. Wishing peace-filled moments in nature for us all in these troubled times.
#photography #iPhone #nature #outdoors
A pretty scene of dramatic clouds lit by sunlight, a windswept tree, and blue lake. Wishing peaceful moments like this for everyone.
June 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Peace, please. #waterfallWednesday #nature #outdoors #photography #iPhone #oregon
A single, narrow waterfall cascading into a pool of water in Oregon, surrounded by lush green trees and moss.
June 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Mama hairy woodpecker feeding her fledgling at the suet feeder. Taken through a windowpane and with an iPhone so not the sharpest image, but cool moment, yes? I love seeing who comes to visit this time of year.
A female hairy woodpecker feeding her fledgling on a suet feeder. Their bodies form a heart shape as heads come together. A female hairy woodpecker feeding her fledgling on a suet feeder. Their bodies form a heart shape as heads come together.
June 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Somebody created a goofy face out of a tree downed in a storm. I love walking in this neighborhood forest because it's beautiful and invigorating but also inspires labyrinths made of rocks, fairy doors, and toy creatures clinging to branches. It's a happy place.
#ForestFriday #outdoors #art
A split tree, which looks like an open mouth. Someone added eyes and ears to make some fun art in a forest.
June 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Forest light and the scent in the air refresh me so much. Last time I was here, a Pileated woodpecker was busy hammering while three ravens carried on an animated conversation.

#ForestFriday #PNW #nature #photography
Sunlight turns the tops of tall fir trees golden while the trunks remain in shadow on a forest slope.
May 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Today honoring Robert E. Kells, who died 25 Dec 1944, and was buried in a mattress cover and blanket in Belgium following fierce battles in Hurtgen Forest on the Belgium/German border. He was 26, the son of my great aunt. A few years later his body was brought home. This day is for the fallen.
May 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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bright peony
the color of lemon ice
and summer fields

#DailyHaikuPrompt (bright) #haiku #photography #flowers #nature
May 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Goslings closer view.
#birds #nature
Fluffy yellow goslings swimming between parents on Lake Washington.
May 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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goslings all in a row
A little line of about eight goslings swims between two parent Canadian geese on Lake Washington.
May 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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rain moving in
crow surveys the darkening
of a once clear sky

#DailyHaikuPrompt (clear sky) #haiku #birds #photography #nature
a black crow sits on a house chimney looking at dark clouds rolling in.
April 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Love this Rosie the Riveter headwrap and sandwich sign, as well as the handmade Thank You to Cory Booker sign at the small town #HandsOff #protest I went to in Western Washington. No idea of numbers because it was spread along the highway. Modest but mighty protests everywhere!
At a protest one woman wore a polka-dot red headscarf like Rosie the Riveter with a Hands Off Due Process sign while another wrote a Thank You sign to Sen. Booker for his 25-hour protest speech in Congress.
April 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM