Looking straight up a massive Oregon oak trunk that’s covered in lush, green moss and liverwort, all the way up to the branches, through which we can see a partially blue and partially cloudy sky.
Look at all that glorious #moss! There’s probably #Liverwort in there too. Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday! #Trees #Forests #ISeeMoss #PNW #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
There’s nothing quite like a deep blue sky after a storm. In this picture, we’re looking straight up at a deep blue sky with some puffy white clouds that makes a river through the spring-green tops of the freshly-leafed out Oregon oak trees and a couple of dark-green Douglas fir trees on the left “bank” of the sky river. The day before had been super stormy with hail and rain.
Hope you have a fabulous #BlueSkyMonday, all y’all. #Forest #Trees #PNW #Spring #TakeAWalk #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Lovely wide-angles there! Practice, practice, practice.
Thanks for the shoutout! Nature is the best!
A spray of salmon pink dogwood flowers on a cloudy, rainy day.
Some fabulous #dogwoods in the #rain for #StunDay Sunday. #Trees #BloomScrolling #NatureIsArt #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
Thank you so much for the shoutout! Alt text for the first one: A super tall, big-leaf maple tree in the Coast Range, absolutely dripping with gloriously green moss, branches all akimbo, and two fluffy, darker green ferns at its base. Not quite ready to leaf out yet. Cloudy skies.
A monochrome shot looking up at the vertical slats of wood used to decorate the hallway of a new building on the University of Oregon campus. Looking up at floors 2, 3, and 4, there are lights on in those offices. 4 globe-shaped glass lights hang from the ceiling - the round shapes contrasting pleasantly with the angular wood slats.
And purely for fun - the hallway in a newly-built reception hall that sits in the same place where my old university dorms used to be. #ClassicMono #Interior #Geometric #PNW #LookAround #KeepGoing
This tiny, half-centimeter wide, heart-shaped reproductive part of a type of beard lichen looks like it has sea-green rays bursting off of it, amidst a tangle of the sea-green beard lichen itself. The heart has a few tiny dew drops on it. This was all on a big branch that fell out of a tree during some hailstorms this week.
And it’s just barely still #HotStickSaturday. So I have this awesome #heart-shaped thing on some beard #lichen… #FungiFriends #Fungi #MacroPhotography #NatureIsArt #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice
Thank you!☺️
A storm coming towards the #edge of the continent. #BlueSkyArtShow #waves #OregonCoast #NatureIsArt #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
Heading into the morning sun on a forest path lined with freshly leafed trees and green grasses mingled with purple camas lilies. The sky is blue with puffy white clouds and the new leaves on the trees are backlit, with the squiggly Oregon oak tree trunks and branches silhouetted against all the brightness.
May your wandering be wonderful today. #ForestFriday #TakeAWalk #Spring #PNW #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A super tall, big-leaf maple tree in the Coast Range, absolutely dripping with gloriously green moss, branches all akimbo, and two fluffy, darker green ferns at its base. Not quite ready to leaf out yet. Cloudy skies, probably drizzling.
Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday from this #Mossy giant giving #EntVibes. #Trees #Moss #ISeeMoss #PNW #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A branch with an explosion of poofy, Pom-pom-like, ruffled, pink cherry blossoms against the deep blue morning sky. Another couple of pink, blurred-out cherry blossom clusters floats in the background on the right. New, reddish cherry leaves poke out of the top of the cluster, and on the lower right.
Happy #BlueSkyMonday from this lovely bouquet of #CherryBlossoms. #Spring #BloomScrolling #PNW #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A half moon hangs in the blackness of space. I don’t know all the names of the features (I should learn), but the dark patches and the craters are pretty clearly visible. La Bella Luna!
Still savoring the #ArtemisII mission in my heart. Brings me #Hope. In honor, here is a #Moon pic I took a few weeks ago for #StunDay. #Luna #NatureIsArt #WeAreACrew #EarthIsAwesome #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A reddish brown branch of a tree features a tangle of stringy, pale, sea green lichen with little intricate lacy bits that hold onto sparkly raindrops. There’s a tangle of blurred-out reddish brown branches and green foliage and moss in the background.
And for #HotStickSaturday, a thin tree branch draped with some kind of lace #lichen (if my #iNaturalist choice is correct, dripping with raindrops. #Fungi #FungiFriends #PNW #OregonCoast #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Closeup macro shot of a tiny bundle of new forget-me-not flowers covered in tiny beads of morning dew. Three flowers are open in the center, with unopened bids to the left underneath the open three. One flower is a rosy pink, and the other two have shades of pink and lavender, going into periwinkle blue. The surrounding foliage is spring green.
When #forget-me-nots are #new, they sometimes come out pink and then shift into periwinkle blue. Here are some covered in fresh morning #dew. #BlueSkyArtShow #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Macro #Photography #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
You too! 🌳😊
I know. It makes me happy!
A dirt path shows the way through forest of Oregon oak trees. The ground is covered in long, green grass and a few purple camas lilies poke out of the grass. The oak trees still look winter-bare, but they are getting little leaf buds. The oak in the left foreground has dry moss covering one side. One three in the center does have leaves, and a couple of Douglas fir trees play on the right and left edges. The sky is blue through the branches.
A forest path for #ForestFriday. These mossy oaks are just starting to leaf out. #Moss #ISeeMoss #CamasLilies #NatureIsArt #PNW #Trees #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A lovely heron story!
A profusion of blooming camas lilies gives the long, green grass in this meadow a purple-indigo tinge. The meadow is also interspersed with many Oregon oak trees that are just starting to leaf out, casting their dark sharifs on the ground. The sky is blue with a few light clouds along the distant horizon.
A closer-up shot of what is making the meadow purplish-indigo: gorgeous camas lilies! Their foliage looks a lot like thick grass blades, and they are growing in thick, long, green grass. This cluster of lilies shows off flowers with 6 indigo petals that have bright yellow, pollen-covered stamens that contrast beautifully with the indigo. There are still several buds that have yet to open on the top of each lily column, and they are a pale periwinkle color. Love these so much! Probably one of my favorite flowers ever!
It’s time for camas lilies! Yay! Two different views: #CamasLilies #PNW #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Trees #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
It’s pretty stunning!
A pom-pom-like poof of light pink cherry blossoms just sprouts out of the trunk of this cherry tree, with its grayish bark, spotted with rust-colored knobs and bits of green and yellow lichen and moss here and there.
For #ThickTrunkTuesday, I love how the #CherryBlossoms just pop out of this trunk here. #Trees #Spring #BloomScrolling #PNW #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
The top of the picture is just brilliant blue sky with some faint, wispy clouds. The rest of the picture is a profusion of deep pink cherry blossoms with green leaves poking out here and there.
Happy #BlueSkyMonday - now with extra #blossoms! #BloomScrolling #PNW #Spring #Trees #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Thanks! Me too! I loved the effect- different than just the sun shining directly on the petals.
Thank you!
Sunlight shines through a section of white great cherry blossoms on my neighbor’s tree. The blossoms are backlit, as are some of the deep green, new leaves. The backlighting gives the white blossoms interesting layers of shade.
Happy Easter #StunDay. #BloomScrolling #Blossoms #Trees #PNW #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
You too!
A black and white photo with a central opening into Newport Bay from the estuary near the Oregon coast aquarium. There is a strip of land on the right that has some grasses and trees poking out, and a strip if land on the left with. Some bushes and a larger coastal fir tree. There is a pale gray, foggy sky, and darker gray water below that. It’s foggy.
An #Opening to the bay on a foggy day. I guess that rhymes. #BlueSkyArtShow #ClassicMono #PNW #NewportBay #OregonCoast #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
This is about 5 centimeters wide of a fallen stick in the grass. The center is covered in a white rim-disc lichen with disc shaped growths that have sort of light yellow-orange centers, kind of like creamsicle color. There’s a dead, brown leaf in the left of the stick, and a combination of deep green liverworts and mosses growing from the right and top sides of the stick. Tiny dew drops hang from the tips of the grass blades in the lower left corner.
Happy #HotStickSaturday! Here’s a lovely stick that fell out of a tree during a storm: #Lichen #Moss #Liverwort #Fungi #FungiFriends #ISeeMoss #PNW #Macro #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing