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Ashwynn Hanks
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Atheist, Climate change realist, Forager, Traveler, Vegan & Yogi wannabe. I'm trying to get ambidextrous, listen more attentively & enjoy cold showers. Pics are mine and taken with an outdated smartphone🙂 Carolinas fauna, flora and fungi enthusiast.
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · Mar 12
Chicken of the woods. Pic from this past year 🍄NC, USA

#Wednesday
#FungiFriends
#Nature
#Photography
#MushroomSky
#MushroomForaging
#Mycology
#Mycophile
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 9h
Few straggler wild American persimmon fruits to forage🙂

#Native #forager #Nature
Wild American persimmon in North Carolina,USA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 1d
Light breaking through storm clouds in Coastal Carolina📷

Harbinger of hope🤔🙂

#Coastal #Nature #Photo
Light breaking through storm clouds in Coastal North Carolina, USA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 2d
Sunset glow at Sunset Beach in North Carolina, USA📷

#Stunday #Photo #Nature
Sunset Beach, North Carolina, USA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 5d
Pumpkin spider🎃📷😍

Happy Halloween!!

#Native #NorthCarolina #Photo
Pumpkin Spider
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 6d
Pumpkinita muscaria for Halloween (Amanita muscaria)🍄

#Halloween #fungi #fungifriends #EastCoastKin #Art #Spider #Pumpkin ##NorthCarolina

Bringing Christmas symbolism closer to Halloween each year🤔🙂 Some kind of decoration competition amongst the crew🎨
Pumpkin decorated as Amanita Muscaria for Halloween Top view of Halloween mushroom (pumpkin)
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 8d
Governor's lighthouse on the Intracoastal Waterway under beautiful Carolina Blue skies 📷

#BlueSkyMonday #Lighthouse #Coastal #EastCoastKin #Photo
Governor's lighthouse in SC, USA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks!
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 9d
Two shades of grass with storm cloud making way for light to breakthrough📷

Marshside, Sunset Beach, NC, USA

#Stunday #Photo #Nature #EastCoastKin #Coastal
Two shades of Marsh cordgrass with storm clouds making way for light. Sunset Beach, North Carolina, USA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 10d
Great Egret at low tide📷

#Birds #Heron #Nature #Photo
Great Egret at low tide in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. Pic taken Oct 25, 2025
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 11d
Sunset earlier in Coastal South Carolina, USA📷

#EastCoastKin #Nature #Sunset
Sunset at Cherry Grove inlet, SC, USA. Pic taken Friday, October 24th
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 11d
Yogi at Cherry Grove inlet SC, USA😍📷

#HumansofBlueSky #Eastcoastkin
#Yoga #Meditation #Nature #Photo
Yogi at Cherry Grove inlet in SC, USA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 12d
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 12d
Plateful of pyramids (Amanita polypyramis), Coastal SC, USA🍄

#Fungi #fungifriends
Amanita mushroom from South Carolina, USA. Pic taken Oct 23, 2025
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 13d
Mama and baby🤱

From my travel archives...South India
Mama and baby monkey
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 13d
Sunrise at Cherry Grove Beach in South Carolina
Sunrise at Cherry Grove Beach
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 14d
Fresh off the horizon- East Coast Sunrise📷

#Sunrise #Coastal #EastCoastKin
Sunrise at Cherry Grove Beach in SC, USA. October 21, 2025
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 15d
Sunset over Intracoastal waterway (ICW), SC, USA📷

#Sunset #EastCoastKin
Sunset over Intracoastal waterway, SC, USA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 16d
Late October Aster bloom📷

#Sunday #Bloom #northcarolina l
October Aster
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 17d
Eastern King Bird by a creek of St. Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts, this past summer. #NoKings
Eastern King bird. Boston, MA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 17d
Eastern 🤴 King 🐦 Bird

Creek by St. Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.

#NoKings #Bird #EastCoastKin
Eastern King Bird, Boston. MA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 18d
Sunset after the storm📷

#Photo #Sunset #EastCoastKin
#NorthCarolina #Nature
Sunset after the storm at Sunset Beach, North Carolina
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 19d
Log gaggle📷🦆🦆

#photo #Nature
Log gaggle
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 19d
Great Egret in a wetland📷

#Bird #Heron #Fauna #Photography #NorthCarolina
Great Egret in a waterlogged duckweed filled area in North Carolina, USA
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 20d
Best I could do for you is an East coast sunset🙂

#EastCoastKin #Sunset ##SouthCarolina
East coast sunset
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Ashwynn Hanks @ashwynnhanks.bsky.social · 21d
Starling convening before dusk. Next up, murmuration🙂
Starling
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