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Trina Carter
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“The earth has music for those who listen.” - Reginald Holmes
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Textures | ‘Texturen'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#boat #Rhodes #Greece 🇬🇷
Layers of paint on an old boat create interesting textures. Where the paint has chipped away, the underlying wood adds its own patterns. Colors range from orange to burnt umber and white. The gunnel or upper edge of the boat's side is painted a vivid blue. Rhodes, Greece (March 2015)
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Naptime for ducklings
#BirdOfTheDay #ducksoutofwater
#birds #nature #spring #EastCoastKin #photography
A pair of ducklings snuggled up together on the cement edge of a reflecting pool, their eyes open and heads swiveled so their little black bills are resting in their back feathers. Washington, DC (May 2024)
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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‘Baywatch’
#WeekTforTelevision #AlphabetChallenge
#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #VirginiaBeach ♥️
A tanned blond lifeguard seated on a wooden platform painted white under a big red umbrella. He’s wearing dark glasses and a faded red swimsuit; his face is in profile, his arms crossed on his knees, one hand holding a walkie-talkie, his gaze trained out over the waves from atop lifeguard station No. 25. Virginia Beach, VA (September 2015)
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🛍️Emily in Paris👛
#WeekTforTelevision #AlphabetChallenge
#Paris #NotreDame #Hugo
Not the first to use the city as a stage for human drama.💗
A kid with dyed blond hair squints through wire mesh next to a stone gargoyle leaning out over Paris high atop Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, France (1998)
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Dark Desire on display.🍂♥️
#RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling #Roses #Flowers #garden #nature #Photography #RedWed #RosesOnWednesday #DC
Close-up of the red rose Dark Desire still blooming in late fall. In the background is the white-marble facade of the US Botanic Garden building. Washington, DC (November 2024)
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The joker is wild | ''*' (Joker, Freispiel)'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#ginkgo #trees #memorials #honor #VeteransDay
In war, you never know if you’ll come back in one piece—or at all.
Golden yellow ginkgo trees are reflected in a still, flat pool of water. A glass wall runs between the two rows of trees, inset with panels showing enlarged black and white combat photos from the Vietnam War. One in the middle is of three soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. The memorial celebrates men and women who may be broken in body – but never in spirit. American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial. Washington, DC (Nov. 2022)
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🎶”Where everybody knows your name”🍻 #Cheers #WeekTforTelevision #AlphabetChallenge
A glass of beer set down on a black bar mat at the Big Stick. On Half Street, Navy Yard, Nats Park, Washington, DC (Sept. 2015)
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay is #StandingOnThings so here’s a gull perched - on one foot - on a piling.🪶 #Baltimore #Harbor #birds #TeamGull #Photography
A gray and white seagull with black tail feathers and a black bill is standing sideways on one foot on a wood piling streaked white from bird droppings. In the background, two historic ships are tied up to Pier 3: a gray submarine named the USS Torsk and a red Lightship named the Chesapeake. Behind them rise office buildings. Baltimore, MD (August 2025)
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Things beginning with ‘D’ | Dinge die mit "D” beginnen…
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#Detritus #leaves #Fall
Deck debris.🍂🤎🍁♥️🍂💛
Red, yellow, and brown leaves lying on a weathered deck where they’ve fallen from a maple tree. Baltimore, MD (October 2025)
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The wind is whipping away all the colorful leaves, but otherwise a pretty nice fall day here. I’m engrossed in this non-fiction book about a criminal who became a remarkable double agent during World War II.
Book cover of “Agent Zigzag” by Ben Macintyre, a non-fiction book about Eddie Chapman, a charming criminal who became a double agent during World War II.
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Mirrored | 'Gespiegelt’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#InnerHarbour #Baltimore
Skyscrapers are mirrored in the still surface of Baltimore’s inner harbor. A line of white yachts tied up to a wharf stretches between the mirrored image of buildings. (July 2014)
November 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Transport|'Fortbewegungsmittel’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#Marmaris #harbour #ferries #Adriatic #Sea
Getting around.🇬🇷⛴️🇹🇷
A small white ferry plying the still waters of the Agean Sea. Clifftop rocks and sparse vegetation are in the foreground. The entrance to the harbor is narrow and well concealed by craggy mountains seen across the gray-blue water. Marmaris, Turkey (May 2012)
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Feather light | 'Federleicht’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#butterflies #flowers #zinnias #gardens #lovely #BloomScrolling
Aloft, battered wing & all.🦋
An orange and black monarch butterfly alighting on a hot pink zinnia. The tip of its left wing is missing. Baltimore, MD (August 2025)
October 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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A long way to go | 'Ein weiter Weg'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#Canal #GlenEcho #bleak
A long way to go ‘til spring…
A frozen canal stretches ahead. It’s bordered by dark bare trees. A couple of runners are out running along the towpath beside the canal. The day is bleak and grey. Glen Echo, MD (February 2015)
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Close to the ground | 'Dem Boden ganz nah'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography #fall 🪹🍂🪶
A bird’s nest close to the ground is filled with brown autumn leaves. Bethesda, MD (November 2014)
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Tree | ‘Bäume’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#HarpersFerry #WV #trees
OK, maybe not the same as the white weirwood trees in Game of Thrones, but still pretty close.
A lone sycamore tree with stark white branches stands out against the small grey-stone bridge in front and the bare stony hillside behind. A sward of green grass leads up from the stream bank on a frigid winter day. Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia (January 2016)
October 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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That’s a shame about your trip.⛩️ But the TBR pile is always there, and does provide a lot of vicarious pleasure for when you can’t travel but feel like going somewhere!📚
Whimsical poster of a flying machine powered by a man pedaling upright under a book, its pages spread like the wings of a bird, soaring high above a city illuminated by the pearly light of dawn.
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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What turns (not a wheel!) | ‘Was sich dreht (kein Rad!)'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#carousel #NYC
Merry-go-round🎠
A gaudy marmalade cat side-by-side with a blond Palomino horse, two of the animals you can ride on the merry-go-round in Bryant Park, New York City. (July 2015)
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Things beginning with ‘A’ | Dinge die mit "A" beginnen oder so aussehen...
#FotoVorschlag #Photography #Autumn
Acorns
Acorns amid fallen oak leaves lying by the side of a black tarmac road. Bethesda, MD (August 2014)
October 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods” - Byron
#Stunday #ImageAndVerse
#Photography #still #trees #fall #USNationalArboretum
A view looking straight up toward the treetops, the sunlit branches and yellow leaves of three tall trees seeming to meet overhead. US National Arboretum, Washington, DC (November 2017)
October 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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#NoKings massive turnout here in the nation’s capitol☮️
A sign held up by several people in front of the US Capitol says in big bold red block letters: GOP PROTECTS PEDOPHILES
October 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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#IndigenousPeoplesDay
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. Chief Seattle Quote is imposed over sepia-like photograph of rock hills and dark plain at dawn.
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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In a museum | ‘Im Museum'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#Museums #art #Rodin #Impressionists #sculpture #garden #Hirshhorn #DC
Balzac by Rodin, 1891-98
Balzac cast in bronze by Rodin. He stands amid trees turning gold and red, in the outdoor sculpture garden, Hirshhorn Museum, in Washington, DC (November 2015)
October 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Making the invisible visible | 'Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#OnThinIce #USCapitol 🪶
This my stage, walkin’ on water
A gray and white seagull walking on thin ice. Reflecting Pool, Washington, DC (February 2025)
October 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Dahlias are such show offs. ♥️🤣🍃
#Autumn #balcony #flowers #containergardening #floral
#Photography #RedWed #BloomScrolling #DC
A crimson dahlia blooming, its bold red petals pointed outward like a pinwheel in the wind. It dwarfs the red impatiens growing below in flower boxes on a black iron balcony railing. Washington, DC (September 2025)
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM