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Open ranunculus flower and a bud behind it that both have bright golden petals edged in red, with greenery behind them.

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Edge.

Ranunculus. April 2024.

#EastCoastKin

Seen through a car's open window, a great blue heron stands among tall reeds at the edge of a wide river. The car's side-view mirror reflects a cloudy sky.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Edge.

The scenic drive within Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge follows the edge of the shallow, marshy Blackwater River. Cambridge, Maryland. March 2018.

#EastCoastKin

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An array of white and pale pink blossoms, closed buds in various shades from light to deep pink, light green leaves, and glimpses of dark branches fill the frame. This is a small section of a large crabapple tree.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #New. #EastCoastKin.

Today's buds will be tomorrow's newest blossoms. Near Boston. Photo taken April 2023, but it happens every spring!

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Gray stone roughly two inches square with a raised curl on one side resembling a snail shell.

This is my favorite fossil because it's the only one I've found myself, standing knee-deep in Lake Champlain just off Isle La Motte, staring straight down into the water. Tough on the back, but good for the soul!

Happy birthday! 💐

Large windows show bits of a restaurant's interior, but mostly reflect the blue sky and the neighborhood's other buildings with their many windows. A huge wooden door stands open. The view is across wooden patio tables. My lunch date and I (phone/camera in position) are choppily reflected in the window glass. We were the patio's first customers!

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Openings. #EastCoastKin.

Opening day of The Smoke Shop patio. Assembly Row, Somerville, Mass. July 2018.

My lunch date, on the left in 3/4 profile, has his back to the outer wall of a raised restaurant deck. Beyond the wall is a blue sky full of fluffy white clouds, the far shore of a tidal river, and the masts of three moored sailboats. Unseen by the human, a seagull with head and neck visible just behind the deck wall, stares directly at the camera.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Background.

Michael's Harborside, Newburyport, Mass. August 2023. #EastCoastKin

Wonderful! I can almost hear the street sounds...

My #BlueSkyArtShow entry this week was a slide taken a few months later than yours, with my post-high-school Minolta SLR, which was 5 years old by then. Wasn't Chartres glorious!?

Four- and five-story buildings line a narrow street busy with cars, bikes, and pedestrians on a gray winter day. Straight ahead, an elaborate, soaring, hazy, sepia-colored cathedral more than fills the frame.  Constructed of reddish-brown sandstone between 1015 and 1439, Strasbourg Cathedral was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874. Today it is the tallest extant structure built entirely in the Middle Ages.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Stone.

We were in our early 20s, meandering from Luxembourg to Paris, with no idea what to expect in Strasbourg. About a mile from the train station, we turned a corner ... and saw this! 

Strasbourg, France. December 1974. 

#EastCoastKin

This view from the dark interior of a bayside cottage to the bright outdoors begins with a lamp on a shiny wooden table, silhouetted against the wide center pane of a picture window. The bottom of the lamp's shade parallels the table edge, window sill, and distant horizon. Outside there are low green shrubs, a modest headland on the left and pine trees on the right, then sandy beach, blue gray water, and a hazy distant shore with thin gray clouds above. White clouds drift across the blue sky. 

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Horizontal.

Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass. October 2017.

#EastCoastKin

A baby in a pink-striped footed onesie is seen in profile with a slight smile, lying on her back on a terracotta and beige patterned rug, legs in the air, with a side eye looking toward the camera.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Horizontal.

February 2026. ❤️

#EastCoastKin

Obscene.

On a patch of grass in front of a wooden fence and under low-hanging branches, sunlight on the water flowing from an oscillating sprinkler creates a rainbow in this quick summer snapshot.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Flowing.

Sprinkler rainbow. Near Boston. July 2019.

#EastCoastKin

During an incoming tide, gulls congregate on a narrowing sandbar in a sparkling gray-green bay. A pastel pink-blue-green sky shows above a narrow strip of land at the horizon, below a soft low cloud that's white at the top and gray at the bottom.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Flowing.

Flood tide at sunset, Cape Cod Bay, Wellfleet, Mass. October 2017.

#EastCoastKin

A fully open ranunculus flower is seen from above a teal tablecloth. The petals are lemon yellow with a thin line of red on their outer edges, and there's a dusting of brown pollen around the flower's center.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Round.

Ranunculus. Near Boston. May 2024.

#EastCoastKin

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Two black gloves, but not a matched pair, hang side-by-side on a picket fence in downtown Reykjavik. Beyond the fence is a small snowy garden between houses. Straight ahead is a one-story wall with a bold mural of a bright pink octopus in blue water with a black sky.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Two.

Two lost gloves. Reykjavik, Iceland. February 2017.

In the left foreground, a dead tree with black, burned-looking bark extends half a dozen pale, barkless, bone-like branches that are slashed with black shadows across the frame to the right. Behind them, bright red leaves allow glimpses of deep blue sky.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Wood.

Along the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest. October 1973.

#EastCoastKin

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A triangle of sunlight illuminates part of a framed poster and items on a small wooden table in an otherwise dark room: a basil plant, honey mangoes in a vintage bowl, and yellow tulips with pink accents in a deep blue pitcher. The poster features stylized salmon and vegetables advertising Seattle's eighth annual Pike Place Market Street Fair on Memorial Day weekend in 1979.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Sunlight or #Sunshine.

Kitchen corner. Near Boston. October 2009.

#EastCoastKin

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Afternoon sunlight filtered through nearby trees highlights purple Siberian iris flowers and random small bits of greenery in a shadowed garden bed. 

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Sunlight.

Siberian irises. Near Boston. May 2020.

#EastCoastKin

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