My photo of some of my roses blooming in front of our many green trees.
Pops of color we added to our lawn areas and garden because we are surrounded by primarily oak and pine trees. This is a portion of the back lawn area. I ENJOY!🌱🌿🍃
#nature #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling #trees #EastCoastKin #Garden #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography
Good morning! It’s #TulipTuesday and #TwoForTuesday #Flowers #Bloomscrolling
Purple clematis blossoms.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple #Bloomscrolling #Photography #MobilePhotography
The amount of bees in this picture is just filthy. Nine species spotted today
#bloomScrolling #flowerPorn #bloomScrollingWithBee #permaCulture #GardenInspiration
A field of purple sunlit tulips with the center horizontal line in focus and the rest slightly blurred.
In the middle of a field of purple tulips in Skagit County, Washington
#Flowers #Tulips #Bloomscrolling #Skagit #Anthophile #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPurple #Purple #Scape #PNW #Photography
A ruffled double tulip, its translucent pink petals fringed in white, is surrounded by curly green foliage. The petals are a faint pink at their tops, but deepen in color at the center of the flower.
Love at first sight! Bathed in sunlight, its fringes wavering in a slight breeze,this Queensland tulip became a fast favorite of the season. #TulipTuesday #Bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #Flowers #FlowerReport 🌱 #Tulips #Photography #OnlyBeautifulThings #Spring
Two for Tuesday
Obsessed with the blooming cactus
#TwosDay #Twofer #flowers #ECK #bee #TextureTuesday #cactus #Arizona #BlueTue #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #bloomscrolling #saguaro
Color photograph of Dr. Dianne K. Newman (born 1971), the pioneering American molecular microbiologist and geobiologist whose interdisciplinary research at the California Institute of Technology has transformed our understanding of microbial metabolism in oxygen-poor environments, ancient Earth geochemistry, and modern applications in chronic infections and sustainable ecosystems. In the image, Newman appears in a warm, close-up head-and-shoulders composition, positioned slightly right of center and looking directly at the viewer with a gentle, knowing smile and bright, intelligent eyes framed by rectangular black glasses. Her dark, wavy, shoulder-length hair falls naturally around her face. She wears a simple black V-neck top, a delicate gold chain with a small heart-shaped pendant and small pearl stud earrings. The background is a softly blurred laboratory or research office setting filled with wooden shelves, glassware, bottles, scientific equipment, and storage containers—evoking the active, hands-on environment where her groundbreaking work takes place. The lighting is natural and even, highlighting her face while keeping the scientific surroundings visible but unobtrusive.
Caltech molecular microbiologist & geobiologist Dianne Newman launched the field of molecular geomicrobiology, which explores how microorganisms have shaped Earth's evolution over billions of years.
+ MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, 2016
+ Elected, National Academy of Sciences, 2019
#WomenInSTEM
A view of the footpath on the north side of South Terrace in Cork, Ireland. On the left are a row of Georgian houses with steps going up to the front doors and (wrought iron?) fences and hand rails painted black. The houses are light pastel in colour on the ground floor. On the right of the footpath along the road are trees that are finally showing lovely spring leaves in bright green.
Good morning, Cork!
#Ireland #cork #georgianArchitecture #spring #springtime #trees #green
#notTheOnion... but also The Onion.
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A flowering dogwood tree
#Stunday
#NaturePhotography
Ah, kindness.
What a simple way to
tell another struggling
soul that there is love
to be found in the world.
A.A. MALEE
#photography #ECK
#BloomScrolling #Flowers
#nature #dogwood
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@bskyphotos.bsky.social @botanical.bsky.social
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#peace #freedom #bloomscrolling #Flowerscape #photography #art #pnw #sakura #サクラ #桜 #写真 #さくら #FlowersOnSunday #cherry #blossom #tree #blossoms #artist
This composite image is a three-panel collage honoring Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and playwright whose sweeping, socially conscious bestsellers captured the American experience across race, class, gender, and the frontier. In the central black-and-white portrait, Ferber appears in her prime, seated and leaning slightly forward with poised confidence. She wears a stylish cloche-style hat trimmed with a feather, a tailored coat with a luxurious dark fur collar, a single-strand pearl necklace, and a sparkling brooch pinned to her lapel. Her expression is direct and engaging—eyes meeting the viewer, lips parted in a subtle, knowing smile that conveys intelligence, wit, and quiet authority. The plain studio background keeps the focus entirely on her. Flanking the portrait are two iconic posters representing her most enduring literary legacies. On the left is the vibrant, color-saturated 1956 movie poster for Giant, featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, with bold text declaring “A George Stevens Production GIANT From the Novel by Edna Ferber.” On the right is the classic 1927 theatrical poster for Show Boat, illustrated with lively passengers on a Mississippi riverboat; it proudly announces “Florenz Ziegfeld presents SHOW BOAT,” with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Jerome Kern, and the credit “Adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber” at the top.
Novelist/playwright Edna Ferber died #OTD in 1968. Her novels included:
1924: 𝘚𝘰 𝘉𝘪𝘨, #Pulitzer Prize 1925
1926: 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘉𝘰𝘢𝘵, adapted into the #Broadway musical
1930: 𝘊𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘯, made into the 1931 #film (won Oscar for Best Picture)
1952: 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵, made into the epic 1956 movie
#litsky #moviesky #filmsky
Romeo ❤️ | An Istanbul Cat in The Park 🐈⬛
#cat #cats #catsofbluesky #catpics #catlover #Blueskyねこ部 #caturday #nature #kittens #catsofistanbul #photography #catsky #istanbul
#ColorADay
#RedWed
Mesa Red Blanket Flower
Good morning friends 🦋
It's #InsectThursday and maybe time for a different view on the beautiful #Butterflies
Have a fabulous day 🦋
Red admiral / amiraaliperhonen
#ButterflyWeek #Nature #Insects #ECK
Lanzarote
A pink flower with a yellow heart photographed in close-up and in profile, with a Moro Sphinx butterfly foraging. His proboscis seeks the nectar in the heart. 📸 : Magdebuerger.
💚💜💛
#HummingbirdButterfly
#InsectThursday
#NaturePhotography
This luminous oil-on-canvas self-portrait, painted in 1782 by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), captures the artist at the height of her early fame. The 27-year-old Vigée Le Brun — already a sought-after portraitist to the French court — presents herself with confident grace against a dramatic sky of soft blue clouds. She wears an elaborate wide-brimmed straw hat decorated with a large white feather and a garland of red, white, and blue flowers, her curly hair cascading over one shoulder. Her gown is a soft pink silk with a low neckline framed by a voluminous white ruffled fichu, accented by satin sleeves with lace cuffs, a black sash, and delicate earrings. In her left hand she holds a wooden painter’s palette laden with vivid pigments and several brushes. Her expression is direct, intelligent, and subtly smiling, conveying warmth, poise, and professional pride. The composition places her figure prominently against the atmospheric background, emphasizing her identity as both elegant woman and working artist. This celebrated self-portrait, one of several she created, underscores her key achievements as a trailblazing female painter who escaped the French Revolution to continue her career across Europe, painting royalty from Russia to Italy. It stands as a powerful declaration of her talent and independence in an era when women artists faced significant barriers.
This grand oil-on-canvas portrait, titled Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787), was painted by the celebrated French artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842). One of the most accomplished women painters of the 18th century, Vigée Le Brun served as official portraitist to Queen Marie Antoinette, produced over 600 portraits, and became one of the first women admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. In this monumental composition, the queen sits regally yet maternally at center in a sumptuous crimson gown edged in gold, a towering powdered wig adorned with a dramatic red velvet hat trimmed in white ostrich plumes and gauze. She gazes calmly outward with poised serenity, cradling the infant Duc de Normandie (future Louis XVII) in white on her lap while her eldest daughter, Madame Royale (Marie Thérèse), leans affectionately against her in a rich red dress with lace cuffs. To the right, the young Dauphin Louis Joseph stands in an elegant blue-and-gold suit, pointing toward the large, draped empty cradle swathed in black fabric — a subtle reference to the recent loss of an earlier child. The opulent Versailles setting features heavy brocade curtains, marble columns, a gilded cabinet topped with a crown, and an ornate floral carpet. The overall mood is one of tender domesticity and royal dignity, yet it carries poignant historical significance: completed just two years before the French Revolution, the painting was intended to humanize the queen as a devoted mother but became a symbol of the monarchy’s final years. It remains one of Vigée Le Brun’s most famous works, blending Rococo elegance with emerging Neoclassical restraint.
French painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: one of the most successful/sought-after portraitists of the late 1700s. Easy to see why.
She was the official court painter to Marie Antoinette, producing ~30 portraits of the Queen over 6 years. Born #OTD in 1755. #art #artsky
Left: Self-portrait, 1782
A brown and tan powdery shelf fungus growing from a moss covered tree
Forbidden pancake #fungifriends
I hope it's still available come payday.
6/6
#fashionista #ridiculous #thatFleeceIsMine #outdoors #clothing #iMustHaveIt
Would not normally be my cup of tea. Could honestly do without having the deer on there. But LOOK AT IT! IT MATCHES MY SOCKS!
5/?
At first glance it's kind of tacky (OK, second and third glance, too) with styling that looks like a hunting lodge painting from the cover of an original run Nancy Drew book (or Trixie Belden, if you remember her).
4/?
Female presenting person with pale skin and dark hair facing the camera. They are standing in front of a brick wall. They are wearing a large fleece pullover printed with a woodlance scene. The bottom is a meadow in light greens and browns. There is a deer off to one side. In the distance are dark green pine trees. Further off, a hill or mountain rises in the distance. It's a bluish green. Behind the hill the sky, in a light blue but with slight greenish overtones, rises to the top of the garment.
Today they started showing me clothing ads that I like in a format I enjoy (several items in one ad and you can scroll through; even better when the prices are listed). For no good reason, since everything else I liked looking at was nothing like this, they showed me this fleece.
3/?
Female presenting person with pale skin and dark hair facing the camera. They are standing in front of a brick wall. They are wearing a large fleece pullover printed with a woodlance scene. The bottom is a meadow in light greens and browns. There is a deer off to one side. In the distance are dark green pine trees. Further off, a hill or mountain rises in the distance. It's a bluish green. Behind the hill the sky, in a light blue but with slight greenish overtones, rises to the top of the garment.
Today they started showing me clothing ads that I like in a format I enjoy (several items in one ad and you can scroll through; even better when the prices are listed). For no good reason, since everything else I liked looking at was nothing like this, they showed me this fleece.
[The Book of Face] is getting so clever about roping me in. I'm wanting to spend less time on the site, but the reels it keeps sharing - cute dogs, rescue horses, people being silly and/or kind - are getting me so much of the time.
2/?
Sock from Darn Tough. The colours are blues and greens, with a scene woven into the wool that looks lke an alpine mountain environment at night. The silhouette of pine trees can be seen against the colour band of the next section. The top section is the darkest blue-green with a white crescent moon hanging in the sky.
This is ridonkulous, but I'm wanting to buy something I don't need. I've bought a whole mess of these expensive merino wool socks from Darn Tough (no affiliation with the co.). I love them so much.
1/?
#hiking #trekking #socks #darnTough #merinoWool #caminoDeSantiago
Grey wagtail - older posting - share your wagtail photos in the comments.
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🪶🦉 #ukwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #birdoftheday #birds #birdphotography #greywagtail
