Beauty is everywhere 🌲🌺🌄 Kindness costs nothing 🤗🫂🫶 Love has no limits ♾️💓🏳️🌈
coneflower #photography #macrophotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #botanicalphotography #fineartphotography #flowers #art our friend echinacea. bees love it. i love the center's geometry. the spiral follows the Golden Ratio. Magic. Divine order. take your pick. photograph.
When the sun sets and color floats toward the horizon, the evening echoes of crickets and the soft, rhythmic, sound of the rippling lake touching the shore. #poetry #sunset
#Bestof#July is the #birdoftheday theme today. Here is a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird from Moose Lake Minnesota. #birds #birding #birder #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #photography #birdsofbluesky
A stretching #Goldfinch is my #BestOfJuly #BirdOfTheDay #birds #birding
This giant swallowtail butterfly landed long enough for a nice little series of photos. #nature #butterfly #photos
Thinking this week about overgrown paths in the garden and the trend of wild things toward chaos. Here is a reminder that native plants matter and butterfly weed is not just for monarchs. And a plant in the lawn is a plant Learning to let go & grow #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #nolawn #mentalhealth
Adding a splash of colour to our coastal grasslands are the #harebells and #spearthistles @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #eastlothian #bythesea
Missed last Sunday’s #wildflowerhour as was returning from beautiful Scotland. One of my highlights seeing my very first Grass of Parnassus in real life in the hills over looking Loch Ness! A beauty. Himself in the Loch agreed!!
Folks at #AOS2026: See my coadvised student Renata Beco's talk "Do female ornaments influence territorial responses in a socially monogamous suboscine bird (Myrmoderus loricatus)?" Room 163, 3:30 pm, Thurs Aug 6 [photo by Ciro Albano / Brazil Birding Experts, macaulaylibrary.org/asset/179111...]
Good to see numerous Clouded Yellow butterflies in North Yorkshire yesterday. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social
For #wildflowerhour the impressive Wood Cow-wheat (Melampyrum nemorosum) carpeting the woodland floor this week at Durmitor National Park, Montenegro #botany #durmitornationalpark
A white-flowered Common Knapweed and a very unusual lilac coloured one too this week #WildflowerHour
Very little amount of blooming fireweed here in Kasilof Alaska this year.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. ~ Paulo Coelho #flowers