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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a female house sparrow.

#bird #housesparrow
A small bird with a light brown breast, brown wing and tail, brown head, and a pale eye-stripe.
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Norway Maple tree
Image of part of a tree. The trunk and branches are very dark, the leaves are bright yellow.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a "volunteer" sorghum plant in my garden
A plant with one dry leaf at the base of the stalk and a cluster of beige seeds at the top. In the background are dry oak and maple leaves.
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: the Water Court at Glenstone on a grey November day
A wooden bench on a wooden deck, facing a pond which is surrounded by a building. In the pond are dried plants and a barely visible sculpture.
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: night view of a bicycle with great lights
an image of a street scene at night. A bicycle is moving too fast to be seen clearly, the rider's body is a pale blur, the wheels are seen a many curved streaks of light.
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: "Last Garment" by Simone Leigh is on display at Glenstone
A sculpture of a woman, bent over with arms reaching toward. The sculpture in a body of water, surrounded by plants. There is a stone building with some large windows behind the sculpture, which is reflected in the water.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: goldenrod flowers, dried on the stem in a field
a flower stem with a cluster of dried flowers near the top. The stem is reddish, the flowers are beige.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: dried slender mountain mint seedheads
Light, almost white, round clusters of tiny pointy structures on dark stems.
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Carolina Chickadee

#bird #carolinachickadee
A small bird standing beside a pile of sunflower seeds and holding one seed in it's beak. The bird is white with a black throat and a black cap that extends to just below the black eye.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: the first bird bath ice disk of the year
Part of a thin transparent disk textured with lines in a branching pattern.
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a squirrel eating an acorn
A photo of a squirrel showing the hands holding a partially eaten acorn near the mouth.
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: an egg
A brown egg in a paper carton. There is one bit of white down on the side of the egg.
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: Hat on a Fire Hydrant

It seems likely that a child dropped this hat and a passer-by put it up to increase the chances that it would be found.
A yellow hat with ears, an eye and eyebrow, and a red band. The hat is on top of a fire hydrant with a blue top and a yellow body.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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A white-breasted nuthatch at my suet feeder

#birds
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Cardinal eating at a suet feeder

Apparently this bird (a female Northern Cardinal) didn't read the paragraph in the bird book that says they don't eat suet.

#bird #northerncardinal #cardinal #suetfeeder
A reddish-brown bird with a triangular orange beak eating suet through the holes in a wire holder.
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: Broccoli romanesco
A bright green vegetable with points in fractal pattern.
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a squirrel
a photo of a squirrel
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a key holder

Not fancy; well made enough to be a pleasure to use.
A metal cable looped through a metal disk and through the hole in a key.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: sky spaghetti
A night view of a power pole with dozens of power cables. A variety of sizes, textures, colors; some are looped, most go from the pole to the left, some back, and a few to the ground.
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a spice infuser with a few cloves
A metal mesh container with a few dry cloves inside it.
November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Cranesbill flower

It is early November and most of the plants in this garden have succumbed to frost. This single cranesbill flower is still going strong.
A single flower with a white center and blue edges, and thin red lines radiating out from the center. The flower is surrounded by drying or dead foliage.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: "Mirror of Thoughts" by Joseph O'Connell

This sculpture is on a street corner in Rockville, MD. It is interesting in the daytime but far more interesting at night.
A sculpture a night. A sphere, perforated so that the light inside it shows words, casting shadows on the pavement.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Ginko tree
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Ginko tree
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty little things. Today: a pileated woodpecker at my feeder

#bird #pileatedwoodpecker
A bird looking at the camera. You can see both eyes, the beak, and the underside of the chin. The top of the head is red as are stripes from the side of the beak. The rest of the face and the neck are white, the body of the bird is black. The bird is behind a wire cage containing something orange.
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty little things. Today: a Blue Jay
#bird #bluejay
A bird standing on the edge of a bowl. The bird is a Blue Jay, a grey back, white breast, white face with black markings, a blue wings and tail with black markings.
November 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM