Vibrant cluster of pink dogwood flowers in dappled light. Flowers are white toward center, tight cluster of light green ball-like stamens, with lines of magenta and pink to petal tips where the color is more concentrated.
Sumptuous Spring.
Love seeing dogwoods in bloom! 💗🌱
#Spring #dogwoods #flowers #bloomscrolling #MagentaMonday #PinkMon
Two mourning doves side by side on rose arch with tiny rosebuds reaching up on right, rain falling, and greenery behind.
Doves in the rain. 🪶🌱
#BirdOfTheDay #ABCD
#inthegarden #gardenlife #backyardwildlife #birds
#rosebuds #CecileBrunner
Thank you!
This particular fellow befriended me, grabbing worms, grubs, as I weeded in the garden, followed me around all during the pandemic, even followed me into the house one day... too close, too close! 😂
That has never happened with any other bird, before or since.
I admit, I kinda miss him.💙
Thank you!
Blueberries in a blue bowl, just after picking them.
Blueberry harvest. 🌱🫐🫐
From the archives. So looking forward to this year!
#homegrown #gardenlife #TuesdayBlue #BlueTuesday #BlueTue #blueberries #photography
Bird perched very close to me ~ this pic isn't zoomed in very much at all. Royal blue head with white eyebrows and neck, pale grey belly, blue wings barely visible. Black beak and eyes, with intense gaze. Laurel leaves behind.
Meet Jay.
California scrub jay, that is! 🪶💙
During the pandemic, this fellow & I hung out together in the garden quite often. Too often.
All fun & games until wildlife wants to come inside!😅
His descendants are around.
Outside.
#BirdOfTheDay #JKLMNOP
#BlueSkyMonday #birds #nature #gardenlife
Pink weigela flowers and buds. Flowers small and pale with white stamens, buds more fuchsia.
Cecile Brunner rose. Very small and tidy, many bunched petals in center, pale pink in person, more towards apricot in photo.
Pale pink camellia, can't remember the variety, on the tiniest camellia bush ever. Three years old! And very slow-growing. First flowers produced. Leaves are very dark green, and glossy.
Tiny bleeding heart flowers, although I tend to call them lyre flowers, or lady-in-the-bath... who needs a bleeding heart! 😅 Beautiful, heart-shaped, medium pink, delicate. Several, dangling off the stem in a small arch. Lots of greenery behind.
Garden pinks showing up in full force, even a rose! 💗🌱
Very early, very early, for a rose to arrive... it was an unusually warm winter.
Snow expected this Wednesday, though! 😅🤷♀️
#flowers #bloomscrolling #PinkMon #inthegarden #photography #gardenlife
Sometimes it just goes south in life, doesn't it.
May this week be better!
We're getting a lot of rain in April, so, so grateful for it! Heavy rain, even, which is pretty rare around here... delightful.
🌸🌹🌸
Yeah, I know, just couldn't resist a comment this morning!
A caffeinated response, no doubt. 😂
I see your comments a lot in the morning and have to breeze right by quickly!
All good fun.
A beautiful new dawn!
Some of us do these at 10pm, not 6am... will let you know then. 😂
Small wooden building with parapet, an old post office, with two windows on either side of the door, small front 'porch.' Mountains in distance, open grassy hill right behind building.
The old Buncom post office, circa 1896.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld
#Buncom #ghosttown #teenytinyghosttown #Oregon
So sorry you had a rough weekend, Ana.
What a lovely way to nurture yourself! 😍🤗
Vibrant mix of clouds, blue sky, brilliant sun with lots of rays, all over silhouette of hills below.
An incredible sky this afternoon.
#sunday #sky #sun #clouds #nature #photography #blueskymonday
My husband is a carpenter.
I show him every post you post about bookshelves with rolling ladder!
He wants these posts to stop.
Immediately. 😂😂
(Just kidding! It's definitely been added to our lengthy to-do wish list...)
Chair belongs in a living room... but that type of chair doesn't!
How bizarre.
😍😍 So lovely! Especially pic 4 with the trees behind... thank you for sharing a peek of your Spring. 🙏😊
Yes!
Six people dancing in a circle wearing an assorted mish-mash of pink costume-y outfits and hats, leis and glasses, all laughing and acting goofy.
Not sure what kind of nonsense they're up to, but they're certainly having a good time with it!
They called themselves: 💗 *Pink Leisurators* 💗
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNonsense
Close up of Muscari, or Grape hyacinth. Very small blue-purple bulbous shaped flowers, some with white band at open end. Bee feeding on right, medium brown with very dark bands across back half.
Muscari and Bee.
(Muscari armeniacum)
(Not sure which kind of bee this is, honeybee? Regardless, glad to see her.)
#gardenlife #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #bee #nature #photography #BlueSkyMonday #MacroMonday
A group of yellow and pinky-apricot tulips (that look more pink in person) with a small hummingbird sculpture in top right, a post to its right, further back. The yellow tulips are peony tulips, the more apricot are classic shape.
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”
~ John Muir
Happy Spring! 🌱🌷🌷🌷
And Happy Easter to those who celebrate.
#Spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #tulips #inthegarden
😁
Many, many robins sitting in a maple tree in a snowstorm.
Two robins on snow-covered branches, not super clear due to driving snow. One on left shows its face in profile and round ball of a body, one on right not clear at all, turned away, showing mostly its wing.
American robins waiting out the storm.
...and a close-up of one, all puffed-up and round. 🤍🧡🩶🪶
#BirdOfTheDay #Weather
#robins #winter #snow #nature #birds
It's very happy there, clearly! 🤩
How beautiful. 🪶❤️
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #weather. The picture is from 24 Dec. 2025. Two females and one male Northern Cardinal after a snow. Yarmouth Maine U.S.
#Birds #OM-1.2 #OM #Olympus
#WildlifePhotography
It really is a lovely, serene spot. Would love to get here more often!
Thank you, Ana. 💙💚
Tall redwoods and other mostly evergreen trees with a clear, still pool of water below. A log on left half in the water, many rocks and boulders visible underwater, a couple breaking the water's surface.
A quiet blue-green eddy in a redwood forest river...
Far northern California.
#ForestFriday #redwoods #coastalredwoods #trees #california #farnortherncali #nature #beautyintheworld #peaceful #serene
Oh my, what a beauty!
