spring flowers, wishing dreams

#pics #photography #📷 #pictures #nature #spring

An orange and black monarch butterfly perched on tall thin purple flowers with other red, yellow, and pink flowers in the background

A pristine and very large white magnolia blossom with curled petals surrounded by green and bronze leaves

Today I got to see monarch butterflies and a perfect magnolia blossom 🌱

blurred in between

#flowers #pics #photos #photography #📷 #camera #spring

The recumbent Bramley had yet another hard prune this year, but it’s flowering up nicely. A bit of rain this year might help with the Bitter Pit, not as bad as it was but still a problem. 🌱

#Apples #Orchards

Okay, I just ran across some native shooting stars yesterday, and I can confirm that they are delightfully fragrant. They don't bludgeon you with aroma like mock orange, but it's a delicate treasure for those willing to pause and get on their level. I never knew! #nativeplants 🌿🌱

A top view of the solid magenta color with its long petals forming a star shape and a bright golden center.

A coordinating white lily-flowering tulip with magenta streaks coming up from the base that has yet to open because it is chilly today.

#MagentaMonday lily-flowering tulips. I love the shapes of these. I wish they perennialized better.

#gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys 🌱

The beautiful scrolled edges of unfurling ‘Dixie Wood Fern’ highlighted by wide flat foliage of other plants behind it.

The simpler but more textured shorter structure of unfurling Ostrich Fern sparkling next to a clump of Phlox divaricata with its purple blooms & star-shaped clusters of new buds.

#NativePlants fern season is on. Dryopteris hybrid ‘Dixie Wood Fern’ is shapely, matures quite large, & tolerates drier soil which makes it good for back row of Hosta garden closest to house. Plus classic Matteuccia struthiopteris (Ostrich Fern).

#gardening #bloomscrolling #FantasticFoliage 🌱

Photos in pink
#trees #cherrytrees #pics #📷 #spring #mobile #pics #photography

"American healthcare"
#pics #realism #photography #pictures #📷 #america #healthcare

Saturday night’s all right for sighting… the waxing gibbous #Moon. #astronomy

NGC2024(Flame Nebula),B33(Horsehead Nebula), IC434(Emission Neb) NGC2023(reflection nebula) #Celestron 8/AVX, 0.4X focal reducer, ASI294MC Pro, Orion Autoguider, 120x30s subs, #autostakkert!, GraXpert, #Corel Paintshop Pro
#Astrophotography, Imaged: 1/27/2025

Nightly votive in the porch garden.

"Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity." — James Baldwin
🌱📷

“First of all the posies,
Dewy and red.
They that have roses
Never need bread.”

- Dorothy Parker 🌱

Felix in the stars
#cat #stars #pictures #cats

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 46 volunteers.

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.27 (lookback time 3.25 billion years) with coordinates (149.98562, 1.82996).

46 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Pink hellebore flower over scruffy old foliage.

This week's cheerful flower has caught me out. More on the blog: bit.ly/3N5gqbG
#CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #UKGardening #hellebores 🌱#photography

A large flour tortilla topped with eggs scrambled with potatoes, scallions, chiles, and cheese garnished with sour cream, hot sauce, and cilantro

Brunch today: Potato, egg, chiles, scallions, and cheese breakfast burrito. Sour cream, cilantro, and hot sauce at the table 🍽️ 🍜

My painting MOUNT HOOD

Digital illustration of a brown skink with white markings with large pointy scales, it is eating wildflowers and there are vegetated sand dunes in the background.

Well this is as done as it's going to get. Tiliqua frangens, a megafauna skink from pleiocene and pleistocene australia with large pointy scales feeding on spring wildflowers. #palaeoart #palaeoart #reptile #lizard

Saturn with Tethys, Dione, and Rhea on September 2nd, 2025. 12 years to the night after my first shot of the ringed planet with an EdgeHD 8 and original USB 2.0 ASI120MM.

#Astronomy #Astrophotography

Deep yellow almost orange nasturtium flower flecked with deep red/dark orange against a backdrop of green round shaped nasturtium leaves.

I forgot to post a flower pic earlier, I was too excited about the prospect of my first proper shower since my foot op. Anyhow, I feel wonderful now, and I had a trip out for lunch too with beloved OH. Managed fine on crutches now that I am allowed to put my bad foot down. Have a happy flower 😁 🌱

That's gorgeous, wow!😍

Interstellar Comet 3I Atlas at 09.11.2025 shows nice tail structures Despite interference from moonlight (82 % illuminated) and a small height of around 9 to 12 degrees a try on comet 3I Atlas. The picture is heavily processed to show the antitail and the "smoking" tail. Combination of a picture series with 2 telescopes, piggyback mounted and tracked on comet: TEC 140 at f5 and ASI 6200MM, 5x180s L Askar 300

New images of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS are coming in as it moves out of the Sun's glare and (barely) back into view.

This shot, by Michael Buechner and Frank Niebling, shows an intriguing anti-tail and a "smoking" tail. 🧪🔭

britastro.org/observations...

White corsage orchid flowers

This orchid flowered 3 wks ago and here’s another spike.

Cattleya trianae var. coerulea x sib

#orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #macrophotopraphy 📷🌱🌴🪴sky

"Curiosity killed the cat"
#crayons #art #drawing #fanart #aliceinwonderland

Luxray from Pokemon Heartgold & Sliver
#art #pokemon #handdrawn #crayons

Vines from hell and orange nightmares

#pumpkin #pumpkins #belatedhalloween #vines #nightmares #nightmare

Tonight’s waxing crescent #Moon. #astronomy 🌒

#flowerfeed🌱

Large orange dahlia flowers in bright sun, a blurred, white with purple streaks, dahlia on left. Colored metal cage bits in lower left are the cayenne pepper cages. Also a good year for peppers! Greenery behind.

Nearing the end of dahlia days...
A lovely season for them this year 🧡🌱
#dahlias #flowers #inthegarden #bloomscrolling #anydayorange