Burrowing owl perched on his post in front of a sea of green.

Good morning! 🪶

Photo of a swallowtail butterfly with black and blue colors and a few orange splotches on a blue flower.

Good morning friends, for #InsectThurs and #ButterflyWeek please enjoy this swallowtail on a blue flower 🌱
#Gardening
#Bloomscrolling
#ECK

Multiple yellow flowers form a bright flower spike on a blooming Tree Aeonium (also known as Aeonium arboreum or Irish Rose).

Tree Aeonium (also known as Aeonium arboreum or Irish Rose). #ColorADay #YellowThu #Flowers #BloomScolling

House front with Ukrainian flag

#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography
#ArtChallenge
#ColorADay #YellowThu

Flaking paint at a wall

#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography
#ArtChallenge
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld

Hi Alan, just connected for the first time today after numerous no connection messages!

An Icelandic waterfall fills the upper frame, plunging from a dark basalt cliff through a narrow gap before striking a dense cluster of moss-covered boulders mid-frame. The water doesn't pool — it fractures across the rocks, reforming into smaller cascades that spill left and downward through a rocky channel. The surrounding landscape is all dark volcanic stone and saturated lichen, rendered in deep blacks with occasional texture breaks where light catches wet surfaces. The image reads as a sequence rather than a single event. Three moments of water moving through resistance — the initial fall, the boulder collision, the foreground scatter — give it a structural rhythm that the vertical format supports. The falls are bright against the cliff shadow; the foreground resolves into quieter motion. Something about descent made gradual rather than complete.

"Descent"

A waterfall doesn't fall once — it breaks, reforms, and continues down through moss and basalt. Iceland.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #ClassicMono #WaterfallWednesday #Fuji #ECK

a view down the sand to the placid lagoon's edge in the late afternoon with various sea kayaks waiting for their owners who are either swimming, eating or having cocktails

'White Sands, Blue Waters' (2022) -- Loh Dalum Beach, Phi Phi Islands, Southern Thailand

#HumansOfBlueSky ✨ #UrbanGaze ✨ #ClassicMono ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#Portraiture #ECK #JayceeCrawford

A long exposure of a little stream in the woods making the water looks quite unreal, like a wispy trail of fog.

We still have the occasional foggy morning here in the hills.

#Hiking #Photography #WoodlandWednesday #EastCoastKin #LongExposure #Scape #Dublin #Ireland

Several red blooms of a Regal Pelargonium Geranium. Each bloom has several ruffled red petals, with dark veining and white around the edges. The anthers in the centre are yellow and the leaves are a pale green with serrated edges.

#ColorADay
#RedWed
#Bloomscrolling
#Flowers
#ECK
#RegalPelargoniumGeranium

It’s early Thursday as I read you reply, so have a terrific Thursday Rike 😀

Thanks Luis 😀

A very large tree truck with some moss growth stands out amongst others in a forest. A blue sky appears in the background through green leaves and branches.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Naturephotography
#trees
#blueskykin

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@billstahlin.bsky.social

A very lively aurora Borealis this evening……

Image posted by astronomybot

Youthful NGC 362
Image date: 24 October 2016, 06:00


Globular clusters offer some of the most spectacular sights in the night sky. These ornate spheres contain hundreds of thousands of stars, and reside in the outskirts of galaxies. The Milky Way contains over 150 such clusters — and the one sho...

An orange-tip butterfly hovers beside a cluster of delicate pale pink wildflowers, its wings partially open to reveal bright orange tips against white forewings. Its fuzzy body and slender antennae are sharply in focus, while the green background fades into a soft blur. The butterfly appears poised to feed, lightly touching the flower with its legs. Facts about the Orange-tip butterfly: • The vivid orange tips are only found on males—females are entirely white with black markings. • Their underwings are beautifully marbled green and white, providing excellent camouflage when at rest. • They are common across the UK and Ireland in spring, especially in meadows, hedgerows, and damp grasslands. • Caterpillars mainly feed on plants in the cabbage family, such as cuckooflower (lady’s smock) and garlic mustard. • Males are quite territorial and can often be seen patrolling for females along field edges. • Despite their delicate look, they’re strong fliers and rarely sit still for long—making shots like this quite difficult.

For the wonderful Rina’s @rina2012.bsky.social #ButterflyWeek here’s an Orange-tip butterfly 🦋

Facts in alt.

#Butterflies #photography #ECK

I want to take a walk Would you join me? I don't have much to say Would that be okay? Something about your soul Just brings me peace Maybe I wouldn't be Such great company But something in those eyes Makes me believe that's okay Even if my silence Did somehow detract Summer breezes Under twinkling diamond blankets Always finds a way To make up for my lacking You don't have to say yes I would never dream Of making you go Where you don't wanna be I just thought it might Be some kinda lovely Crow

What do you say?

A brilliant golden sun sinks into dark blue ocean turning the horizon a burning orange and creating an echoing reflection that glistens on the sand as the surf retreats. Footprints track from the left foreground to beach walkers silhouetted in the distance as two pelicans glide through the sky above.

"Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night" – David Levithan 🧡✨💛
#TidesOutTuesday #Sunset #Beach #ECK #Florida #Silhouettes

A small piece of red seaweed on the beach at Seaview Isle of Wight.

Seaweed for #ColorADay #RedWed #Macro #MacroPhotography

A fly with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The fly has pale legs and underside with brown on the top of the head and a brown and tan striped scutum. It is standing on an off white mushroom.

Two flies with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The flies have pale legs and undersides with brown on the top of the head, a brown and tan striped scutum, and a dark brown and pale striped abdomen. The fly on the left is getting ready to shove the fly on the right with his front leg.

Two flies with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The flies have pale legs and undersides with brown on the top of the head, a brown and tan striped scutum, and a dark brown and pale striped abdomen. The fly on the left is shoving the fly on the right with his front leg.

Just a lil guy defending his mushroom.

We found a log covered in mushrooms and spotted some small hammerhead flies on it. Turns out these are feisty fruit flies and the males are serious about defending their patch. One of our coolest finds so far! #invert
(Zygothrica sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

As above, so below

Dwarf tulips and snake head fritillary, from this springs garden 🌱🌷

#Bloomscrolling #TulipTuesday

Close up photo of a cluster of small, pink flowers that look like tiny parasols. The flower buds look like pink versions of chocolate rosebuds.

Bog Laurel, a relative of Sheep Laurel (recent post) and Mountain Laurel. An iconic early summer wildflower of Newfoundland’s ubiquitous bogs.
#flower #wildflowe #plants #botany #Newfoundland, Canada.

Image posted by astronomybot

Astronomy Picture Of the Day - APOD

Title: The Long Wispy Tail of Comet R3 (PanSTARRS)
Date: 2026-04-14
Image by: Haythem Hamdi

#APOD #NASA

Super Rare Magenta Aurora in the sky over Finland ✨

Old tree shaped like an angel in Hatfield House Park, Hatfield UK.

Hatfield House Park. The wood angel. #thicktrunktuesday

Thanks Robyn 😀

Thanks Audrey😀

Thanks Rina😀

A row of yellow tulips with one tulip in a puddle in the middle of the row. There's a moody blue sky above.

A moody Tulip Tuesday in Oregon.

#eck #Photography #Scape #Landscape #ColorADay #BlueTue #CyanTue #EastCoastKin

Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York cemetery The whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study

The whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study