A stream running through rocks with flowering gorse either side.

Bore da! It's a sunny Sunday. Here's a Welsh mountain stream from a walk yesterday 💙
Have a lovely day 😎🌼

A dense forest, bathed in sunlight. Moss-covered trunks and branches lie on the forest floor

The forest in Ordesa #NationalPark, Spain

#ForestFriday #Woodland #woods #Scape #photography #landscape #nature #ECK #outdoors #ECK #thelittlethings #EastCoastKin

A Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) is perched on the side of a wildflower. Its small body and antennae are clearly visible. The closed wings are white with black spots. The background is a natural green, out of focus. The Holly Blue is often the first blue butterfly to be spotted in spring, as its first generation begins to fly as early as late March or April. The undersides of the wings are characteristically light grey to almost white with a slight bluish tinge. They are covered with many small, deep black spots, which, however, do not have orange markings or ‘eyes’, distinguishing it from many other blue butterfly species. Size: It is a delicate butterfly with a wingspan of approximately 23 to 30 millimetres. Upper side: The upper side of the wings is light blue in both sexes, although the females also have a broad, black-grey margin on the forewings.

A Holly Blue for #ButterflyWeek 🦋

Wishing you a great weekend 🫶

#ColorADay #GreenSat #Stunday #photography #flowers #BugSky #butterflies #ArtYear #Art #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings #ECK #EastCoastKin

She’s a bit special 😍 First orange tip #butterfly of the year 🦋💛

A Swallowtail butterfly with cream wings and dark veining … bits of red near its body perched on green leaves taken at a Butterfly House.

A Swallowtail #butterfly

For #ButterflyWeek 🌿

🦋💛✨

🤩😍🌤️🌲🌱🌼 🌲Stunning!

A forest path through the trees with sunlight breaking through the sky is blue the pathway is warm browny orange … the sun through the trees is creating patterns across the parh

Good morning, Bluesky 🦋

Happy Friday and weekend ahead…I hope it leads you somewhere bright ✨

Have a beautiful day 🫶

☕️🌿💛🌳

#ForestFriday #nature #trees

A black and yellow swallowtail butterfly on yellow and orange flowers surrounded by green and pink leaves.

Good morning, Bluesky 🦋

Happy Saturday ✨

Sharing a Swallowtail #Butterfly for #ButterflyWeek

Have a beautiful day ✌️🫶
☕️🌿💛🌳

This photograph captures a spring garden composition with bright red tulips as the centerpiece. Main Subjects Tulips: Several large, rich red tulips dominate the foreground and middle ground. Their petals form a classic goblet shape. Based on their visual characteristics, they may belong to popular garden groups such as Triumph or Darwin hybrids (e.g., varieties like 'Ile de France' or 'Apeldoorn'). Greenery: The flowers are surrounded by dense vegetation. The tulips' characteristic broad, lanceolate leaves have a glaucous-green hue. Fern: Young fern fronds are visible at the bottom of the frame, not yet fully unfurled and possessing a distinctive spiral shape ("snails"). Background: Other garden plants, including small purple flowers, are visible in the background, creating the effect of a natural, lush spring garden. Atmosphere The photo was taken in bright daylight, which highlights the richness of the red buds and the texture of the foliage. The composition conveys a sense of awakening nature and the typical spring blooms of the temperate climate.

Spring awakening of nature 🌱🌸🌿🌷
#Gardening #tulips #flowers #spring #bloomscrolling

This photograph captures a landscape in a pine forest in early spring. Key elements of the image: Trees: Slender Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris) dominate the foreground. The characteristic thick, gray-brown bark with deep fissures is visible in the lower portion of their trunks, while higher up it thins and takes on a recognizable orange-red hue. Needles: The tree branches are covered with dense, evergreen, bluish-green needles. The pines have whorled branching, forming lush crowns that allow ample light into the upper portions, typical of "light coniferous" forests. Nature: Judging by the presence of dry, withered grass on the ground, the photo depicts early spring (April). In the background, deciduous trees are still bare, contrasting sharply with the evergreen pines. Lighting: Soft daylight and patches of blue sky with light clouds create the calm, tranquil atmosphere of a budding forest. Landscape Features: Such forest areas, growing on sandy or sandy loam soils, are often called pine forests. At this time of year, the first spring mushrooms, such as morels and gyromitra, can already be found in pine forests.

🌳🌱🌲💚
#Forest #ForestFriday #ForestScape #Scape #landscape #trees #nature #mobilephotography #EastCoastKin

Memories gather softly, beneath the open sky…

#BirdoftheDay #Manmadeperch
#ECK #birds #sunsets #nature
#scape #ImageandVerse #gulls
#photography #photographersunited

Light bends but never breaks
As hope resides in the amber glow
Guarding dreams the darkness
can never hold…

#Imageandverse #Stunday #scape
#ColorADay #orangesun #glow
#sunsets #photography #nature
#edge #blueskyartshow #art #eck
#photographersofbluesky #sky
#photographersunited #seascape

Looking over marshland by a small flooded area. Thin trees, grasses & bulrush across into the distance. A cumulus filled blue sky which is reflected in the water.

Yesterday.

#OneWalkADay
#MentalHealthMatters

The ruins of Whitby Abbey dwarfed by a big sky.

Whitby Abbey.
est 657AD

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOld

Different wildflowers and grasses on a hill.

"Love is like wildflowers;
It's often found in the most unlikely places."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Several boathouses lined against the hill in a lake. There are trees around them and a branch hanging in the upper right corner.

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
― David Foster Wallace

I bet they don’t… 😅🐾

Guardians on duty. Nothing gets past them!
#pets

Lily and Finlay are growing up, having fun leading each other side by side with this small rope we found on the beach!

A huge dark cloud hangs almost overhead, but it is sunny and blue above. The cloud is over mountains and the city of San Luis Obispo. The photo was taken while hiking up Cerro San Luis mountain, so a wide dirt trail is seen going up the edge of the mountain. Just ahead is a hiker in a white shirt and dark shorts. The sun is shining on the trail which contrasts with the dark cloud almost above.

#BlueskyArtShow #Edge

On the edge of a storm while on the edge of a mountain.

#ECK #Clouds #Hiking #WestCoastKin #SLO

Pink and white blossoms cradle each other under blue skies and Springs fluffy clouds.

Sometimes beauty collides 📷 🍃…

A high-contrast, black and white street photography self-portrait captured with a Lumix GX9 and Leica 25mm lens at f/4.0 and 1/6 sec. The image utilizes a reflective effect, showing me standing centrally in Buchanan Street, Glasgow, layered over architectural details of tall buildings and shopfronts. To the right, a ghostly, translucent silhouette of a person wearing a beanie is visible. The composition is moody and textured, featuring heavy grain, light leaks, and a dreamlike quality that blends the human figures into the urban environment. Light reflects off wet pavement and glass surfaces, creating a complex, layered scene of urban life.

Old Reflections

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld #AlphabetTechPhoto #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #ClassicMono #ECK #Lumix

A sky of many cumulous clouds are mirrored in the calm river along with the backdrop of Spring’s fresh blue sky.

A day for daydreaming 📷🕊️ …

Some days feel like life is a tilted #scape

Digger, Betty & Carpets of Color… 🌼🌤️🌱🐾

Wednesday evening’s cloud. Lough Neagh.

Dzień dobry ☀️ Miłego i spokojnego wtorku

Guten Morgen ☕ Habt einen wunderschönen Dienstag

🏔️🌲 Almaty region, Kasachstan

The photograph depicts a picturesque spring landscape with a wide green field in the foreground. Sky and Clouds: Most of the frame is occupied by a bright blue sky with numerous white, fluffy cumulus clouds of varying shapes and sizes. Sunlight creates contrasting shadows and bright highlights. Foreground and Middleground: The foreground is occupied by a rich green field with low vegetation. In the distance, beyond the field, a strip of trees and bushes is visible, some of which are still leafless. Background: Several small buildings or houses surrounded by trees are visible on the horizon, suggesting the presence of a small settlement or village. Atmosphere: The photograph conveys a sense of space, freshness, and the tranquility of a clear day in nature.

Have a beautiful Tuesday!🔆 💚💙🤍
#clouds #ColorADay #BlueTue #BlueSkyMonday
#Scape
#landscape #mobilephotography
#EastCoastKin #ECK

A hibiscus fading without losing its grace, only changing its expression.

Through grateful eyes,
every bloom is art…

#BloomOnPurpose #photography
#nature #ArtInNature