Holding a disc of ice up to the sunlight

Holding the moon
#Photography

Stand of trees in Lolo National Forest, Montana 2025

Looking up at treetops in Lolo National Forest, Montana 2025

Lolo National Forest, Montana - August 2025

#NaturePhotography #Trees

Ferns at the Como Conservatory, St Paul, Minnesota, Feb 27, 2026 #Ferns #NaturePhotography

Fringe

#FlowerPhotography #FirstFrost-Oct-24-2025

Hidden beauty

#CloseupPhotography #FlowerPhotography

Moon peeking out from behind tree branches

I see you

#NightPhotography

Zinnia

Zinnia
#FlowerPhotography

Sunflower

Sunny side up

#FlowerPhotography

Purple coneflowers from below

Looking up

#FlowerPhotography

View near Anaconda, MT August 2025

Montana, 2025

#LandscapePhotography #Montana

Zinnia with candy-striped leafhopper

First zinnia bloom from seeds planted this year. If you look closely, you'll spot a bonus...

Photo by S. Bruins, 2025 - Dandelion (gone to seed)

Make a wish.

#Photography #Closeup #DandelionFluff

Photo by S.E. Bruins, 2025 - Closeup of a leaf with raindrops

A closer look...

#Photography #Leaves

Dancing! <3

Sandhill cranes flying over Fredrick's Hill, Pheasant Branch Conservancy, Middleton, Wisconsin, July 2019

#LandscapePhotography #Wisconsin #PheasantBranchConservancy

photo by S. Bruins, September 2012, Clay colored sparrow (?) stretching. Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin

Morning stretch - Clay colored sparrow (?)
Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin

#NaturePhotography #Birds #Wisconsin

photo by S. Bruins, 2012, Clay colored sparrow (?) in oak tree at Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin

Clay colored sparrow (?)
Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin
2012

#NaturePhotography #Birds #Wisconsin

So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)

photo by S. Bruins, 1998. Sămboeni, Romania (Erdőszombattelke) Transylvania

After the party...

#Transylvania #SămboeniRomania #Romania

Stunning! Brava!

Maybe it's also crown politeness ... (allowing fellow trees' personal space) ;-)

photo by S. Bruins, 2016 - taken at rest area near Anaconda, Montana

Montana, 2016

#LandscapePhotography #Montana

Super photo!

Love it!

Yeah, they seem to fumble a lot of deliveries. I've had orders go astray, too.

Great photo!

photo by S. Bruins, September 2012. University of Wisconsin Arboretum.

Going somewhere?

#LandscapePhotography #Prairies #Flowers #Clouds

photo by S. Bruins, 2012

Dreaming of summer

#Goldenrod #Bumblebee #NaturePhotography #Wisconsin

Photo by S. Bruins, 2018

It's in the details

#NaturePhotography #Leaves

photo by S. Bruins, 2016

Bindweed

#NaturePhotography #Flowers