Purple irises, pink, white, and yellow African daisies, and greenery against a grey house siding. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. A neighborhood front yard.
"...The garden is yours
And it is yours to gather the fruits
And every flower of every kind..."
- Helen Hoyt.
Wishing you a lovely evening and a terrific Tuesday!💐
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#ImageAndVerse #ECK
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
- William Wordsworth
#poetrymonth #nationalpoetrymonth
#poetry #wordsworth #imageandverse
(photo by a friend)
Non Finito I - Les Taches et les Touches Peaches so real They cease to be Edible - Indestructible in their Thingness, Ineluctable in their Hereness. Hours spent Studying brushstrokes; Fruit outstared until it Decays into abstract Mosaics of light - Vision Splintered into Hued rudiments. Quilted streaks of paint - Les taches et les touches* - Patch-daub panoply of Hint and sense probed into a Suggestive nexus of Line and edge: Forms brittle but Scrutable; Forms Fastidious in their Ambiguity. Photon truth Eyeballed as Scant-adequate Clue for Unravelling by Brains so Calibrated that Reality fails to Resolve on its Own. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 *Refers to the fundamental duality or tension in the novel approach to painting devised by Cézanne and Pissarro.
"Still Life with Peaches & Apples" (1905) by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Such a richly suggestive #PromptCombo #ThingInItself, thanks to @victoriaspires.bsky.social
#newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026
#ImageAndVerse #cezanne #pissarro #art #arthistory #neuroscience #perception #poetrycommunity
b/w picture of a veiled sunset over a foggy landscape, flooded meadows, forest vanishing in mist, framed by bare branches
tired winter sun
cradled to sleep
by bare branches
a last 'Winter shot', a farewell to the cold, near one of my favourite spots, flooded meadows adjacent the winding river, early March '26
#classicmono
#ECK
#EasCoastKin
#photography
#ImageandVerse
#blackandwhite
#mono
I typically hit you with a monochrome Mule Deer, but I wanted to try out 'Esmerelda' in black and white this week, so that's her, my crab spider hunting in profile from the wife's Cleveland Sage. Yes, the name is my idea.
Normal is an illusion.
What is normal
for the spider
is chaos for the fly.
~Charles Addams
🌿 Trying out a little #BWMacro... 🕷️ #ImageAndVerse!
🤘😶🌫️
#MacroMonday
#MondayVibes
#Monochrome
#Classicmono
#Photography
#Arachnids
#BugSky
#Inverts
#Eck
A capture of a sunrise, droplets of dew catching the light in the foreground.
Bravery is the audacity
to be unhindered by failures
and to walk with freedom,
strength, and hope in the face
of things unknown.
-Morgan Harper Nichols
A little reminder to start the week, be well light weavers.
#sunrise #imageandverse #photography #nature #bluesky
"I believe in love alone
It might take forever till we watch those dreams come true
All the money in the world won't buy you peace of mind
You can have it all but you still won't be satisfied"
#annielennox #SensoryArt #alone
#ImageAndVerse
#badgirlmysticart
#originalart
#artsky
#artistsofbluesky
A branch bearing pink peach blossoms (Prunus persica) runs diagonally across the picture. Each blossom consists of five petals with numerous thread-like stamens in the centre.
✨️ Go your own way, even if it takes a slightly unusual turn every now and then... ✨️
#MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #MinimalMonday #ImageAndVerse #Spring #photography #flowers #ArtYear #FineArt #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings #ECK #EastCoastKin
A man wearing a saffron dhoti (unstitched loincloth) and angavastram (shoulder cloth) sashays past a large busstop billboard advertising 'Saravana Stores Super Jewellery' and featuring four women displaying the retail outlet's gold and diamond selections. The juxtaposition between these ostentatious displays of wealth and the large pile of tender coconuts in the background is jarring. These humble fruits are consumed by pilgrims for their nutrient-rich natural water and delicious soft pulp as they walk barefoot the 14 km girivalam around Mount Arunachala, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.
I'm too sexy for my shirt
too sexy for my shirt
so sexy it hurts
I'm a model
you know what I mean
and I do my turn
on the catwalk
yeah on the catwalk
Right Said Fred, 20th century
#Photography #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm #SpéirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
A close-up photo of an orange flower with yellow center petals, (Ranunculus) accompanied by a quote about death & grief. 📸 Robert Fischer of California, March 31, 2026.
Immersed in sun flowers unfold as a reminder; death leaves a heartache no one can heal, while love leaves memories no one can steal.
Enjoy your new week!✨️
Ranunculus in California. 03/31/26
#ImageAndVerse
#ECK #Flowers
#Quotes #Writing
#Photography
#WestCoastKin
#ArtInNature
#ColorADay
#OrangeSun
“She can't catch up with the working crowd
The weekend mood and she's feeling proud
Live in dreams, Sunday Girl”- Blondie
#Stunday #Sunset #EastCoastKin #ECK #photography #imageandverse #lyrics #SundayGirl #orangesun #SanDiego #photographersofbluesky
A half dozen pink roses with outside petals in purple waiting to be picked up & adored by an admirer.
#StunDay #Photography #Bloomscrolling #ImageAndVerse #poetry
Love
When you love
Love deeply
Magic all around us
If we both believe in it
Maybe it too will come true.
We live for these dreams,
And in these dreams
I escape to you
Over and over again.
Sparks in my eyes
You are
And I am
Yours.
A black and white photograph of a dark choppy lake with jet black land under an opening in the sky, with thin young trees in the foreground.
Stormy Day #ImageAndVerse #LakeLife #ClassicMono #Stunday #Monochrome #ECK #Photography #VT #LakeChamplain
Soft shifting rain clouds
Above the dark, choppy lake
Waves strike the shoreline
A tender spring dandelion flower pops up through leaves, grass, and clover
#ImageAndVerse #Photography #NaturePhotography
Poem follows 1/3
“Life is calm and serene like a
breeze on a warm spring day.
Peaceful and pacific.
Time seems to stand still
just for a moment, but long
enough for you to collect
your thoughts in tranquility.”
- Matthew R. Callies.🌱
#ImageAndVerse
Collage of 4 photos showing different copper art sculptures of human figures performing balancing acts or athletic poses while standing on top of high poles. The artist is Jens Galschiøt, known for his socially engaged art. Though his sculptures have been shown internationally, these ones were in front of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark on a dark, cloudy, and stormy afternoon in September 2011. That's why the sky above and behind the statues looks either stormy grey or a blueish grey. It makes the dark black colour of the sculptures look bolder against the pale background.
Don't twist yourself into a knot to fit in. Don't make yourself small. Stand tall, be your awkward, funny, quirky, unique, wonderful self.
"Balancing Act" #sculptures at Christiansborg Palace.
#ECK #ImageAndVerse #Stunday #Photography #ModernArt #BnW #MentalHealth #UrbanGaze #SensoryArt #Alone
Today’s evening sky unfolds in soft, layered hues of violet, rose, and fading blue. Wisps of cloud drift like quiet thoughts across the horizon, touched by the last light of day, while faint contrails trace fleeting paths through the calm. The colors seem to breathe — gentle, unhurried — holding that in-between moment where day lets go and night has not yet begun.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
— Rabindranath Tagore
#Stunday #SilentSunday
#PhotographersOfBlueSky 📷
#EastCoastKin #ImageAndVerse
Closeup photograph of raindrops on the leaves of a chestnut colored plant.
My haiku poem for today’s #ImageAndVerse Art Challenge
Rain falling on leaves,
Gentle teardrops from Heaven
Nature’s heart beats on.
📷 leitzinger.photography
#ArtYear #eastcoastkin #PhotoOfTheDay #macro #macrophotography #photographersunited #leaves #photography #Nature #PhotographersOfBlueSky
A chocolate mouse with almond ears, cherry stem for a tail, and strawberry gel for eyes and nose. Photo by Robert Emond.
#Emoetry | #threatened
tall green grass conceals,
chocolate bunny hides threatened
by annual hunt-
spring starts the circle of life
birth for some end for others
#Tanka #Senryu #Haiga #Haiku
#skypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrysky
#ImageAndVerse #Easter
#PictureAndAPoem #Photography
#WestCoastKin #ECK
Thank you so much for reposting, L. 🫶
barbara lee has written some lovely poems; I was happy to find something in my photo files to accompany this one for Sunday’s #ImageAndVerse.
#StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #ImageAndVerse
€ They have no mouth, but
Seem to speak ...
A thousand words so mild
and meek ...
They have no eyes, but
Seem to see, and bury thoughts
into me...
They have no ears, but
seem to hear all my cries,
My every tear.
💚🌺**Pearlyn Tan
Two-image photocollage of chalk drawings on sidewalk. Above is a bunny drawn in white chalk viewed upside down and an R turned sideways Below is written: Spring ⬅️ Beaver π the word "Spring" is in pink There's a yellow :) beside. The rest of the writing is in bright yellow. There are other blue and yellow scribbles
#ImageAndVerse #SundayYellow #SignsonSunday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies (Hoppers - 2026)
Easter covered sidewalk
Someone has given them chalk
An upside down bunny
And kids being funny
Next thing they'll draw
Is a rooster
(image Friday, limerick today)
#Phonetography
#eck #ormaybeachicky
A softer light
came into sight.
No sudden start,
just steadier heart.
#EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear #dailyart #artchallenge #artprompt #ImageAndVerse #BnW #mono #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #vienna
For #ImageAndVerse and #Stunday
Blue grape hyacinths
Below medieval fortress
Guarding the gardens
#haiku #photography #mobilephotography #artyear #nature #onlybeautifulthings #thelittlethings #photooftheday #Wales #PowisCastle #NationalTrust #landscape #flower #floral
Dewdrop hanging from a dirty lily petal, with a bed of daffodil's behind bokeh'd out giving the image a lot of golden yellow almost negative space
“I went to turn the grass once after one
Who mowed it in the dew before the sun,
The dew was gone that made his blade so keen
Before I came to view the flowers of green.”
-- Robert Frost
#Photography #Macro #Yellow #ImageAndVerse #ECK
Mono image of a gentle hill with low scrub brush and rocks leading to small white pines and bare branches of deciduous trees. The tall pines further in the background become increasingly shrouded with fog.
The trees
in their
raw spring veil
bring no disquiet
for what's beyond.
There is peace
in the silence.
#Stunday
#ImageandVerse
#ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin
#photography
#PhotographersofBluesky
#SensoryArt #alone
#Fog
#Trees
Captured at the creek last month. Close up of a dried up weed with an orange/rust hue. In the out-of-focus background a creek side with a heart shaped rock in the center stage.
Leftover seeds
bound for the winds
to find a home..
📷: by me
#OrangeSun
#ImageAndVerse
#nature
#ECK
This local art inspired my Haiku:
With each deep breath in
Consider what you can share
I will start with #love
#ImageandVerse #haiku #poetry #portland #eastcoastkin #blueskyartshow #portland #streetart
All photos mine.
Photo mine.
Photo mine.
When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale.’
The Winter’s Tale 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EastCoastKin #Photography #ImageandVerse
