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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 10h

#SixOnSaturday
#FlowerReport:

From this week in San Jose, California.

A six part photo collage of flowers: A yellow rose. A yellow lily with thin petals. A tiny violet flower with very long filaments that have blue "dots" on the ends, with an ant on the end of a petal. A yellow lily with broad petals that have reddish edges, and some with red dashes. A small purple flowering shadow and sunlight. And a burst of a tiny yellow flower with a clump of orange anthers.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 20h

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 1d

#FlowersOnFriday
#FlowerReport:

From a walk in San Jose, California yesterday.

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A mini collage of two photos. In the frame above is a multicolored sunburst, seemingly coming from inside a large gathering of light-blue plumbago flowers. A bit of a slat fence is there, too, and green leaves and vines meander among the five-petal flowers. In the frame below is a close-up of several of the flowers, with their broad teardrop petals that have violet creases down the middle of each one leading to five light blue stamen at their centers. A few unopened buds are scattered about.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 2d

#InsectThursday
#FlowerReport:

A skipper butterfly in San Jose today,
among the pink lantana.

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That Photo Guy @thatphotoguy.bsky.social · 3d

Goodnight #Bluesky, it’s Nytol time, then bed time 😁

Anyway, here’s a photo..

Our home galaxy over Lake Vrynwy in Wales UK.

The Milky Way over Lake Vrynwy in Wales UK.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 3d

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 3d

#RoseWednesday
#FlowerReport:
San Jose, California, yesterday.

Rest in the rain
Rise in the rays

Photo of a white rose, from the side and the back, looking down. The photo has been enhanced so that the many droplets of various sizes across the petals stand out better, as if there are valleys and hills of shadows and light. A few green, curled leaves are at the top, and the background has been blurred into green and darker green shades.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 4d

#TinyFlowerTuesday
#FlowerReport
#RockinTuesday:

From Gilroy, California, Saturday.

A macro close-up photo of a very small yellow flower growing from between granite-like stones and pebbles. There seems to be seven petals with flat, serrated ends, and several thin anthers reaching outward some of which are as long as the petals.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 4d

#ThickTrunkTuesday:

A short palm tree in San Jose, California.

A photo from beneath a very short palm tree, but one with a mass of tan fronds underneath, with a few green ones above seen through them. Just barely showing below is the top part of the trunk. The fronds fill the entire frame of the picture, their tips are not shown.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 4d

#TuesdayBlue
#TueBlue:

Looking up, in San Jose this morning.

A photo of the sky. Light gray and white clouds, wispy and tousled by the wind fly about the light blue stillness beyond.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 5d

#MacroMonday
#FlowerReport
#Bee

In Gilroy, California, this morning.

A macro close-up photo of a bee clinging to a small white flower which is open, and one of two unopened flowers, whose petals are shown to be pink on the other side. There is a feather, about the size of the bee, wrapped around the upper bud. The background is blurred green and brown leaves.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 5d

I remembah (he says as he leans back in his rocking chair, looking over the years with a twinkle in his eye and a smile casting wrinkles across a wizened, wise, and wondering face) when the caretaker of #FlowerReport allowed that foliage would suffice for brightening the gloaming days. So... Yep.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 5d

I think flowers just for the heck of it always works.
(And such fine artwork in the background.)

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 6d

Love is home
#Stunday

youtu.be/7TfYWL7W-1U?...

On the left in the center, a bee on a white aster. On the right, higher up another bee this one in flight, approaching the other bee, happy to be back. More asters, less focused in the background.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 5d

Good night, #FlowerReport.

Thank you for the bright views.

Dream well.

An extended horizonrwww photograph of a mound of lantana flowers and green leaves. The flowers run from purple to orange to pink to red, and several shades in between. Around them is a solid black sky.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 6d

#FlowerReport:

softly.

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A soft focus photo of a bee hanging from a light violet flower at the top of the frame. Pastel greens, pinks, peaches, and violets fill the faded background.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 6d

#FlowerReport:

Lantana flowers and fallen leaves
in Gilroy, California, yesterday.

A macro close-up photo of two clusters of pink lantana flowers poking out through several curly light brown fallen leaves. A few flowers are below, next to a green casing of a future sphere of flowers. This is all in bright sunshine, making the few shadows appear quite dark.

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Page @pagejpdx.bsky.social · 6d

I finally got to visit the redwoods… it was my bday wish for this year. We did so much hiking and I have so many pics, but I’m starting with this one… the amazing drive on Howland Hill Rd in the Jedediah Smith Redwoods SP.
#Stunday #redwoods #trees #treemagic #naturalbeauty #getoutside #photography

A brown and tan dirt road leads through a forest grove of extremely tall redwood trees. Shorter green foliage lines the road on both sides at the feet of the trees. Golden morning sunlight is shining through foggy trees in the distance.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 7d

#Moon over San Jose this morning.

Photo of the high tower of a building built in 1926, the Bank of Italy, brick and sandstone and a green mini tower at each corner, with one rising higher in the middle, with a white cap column. A guess would be that the green is old copper, much as the Statue of Liberty began as bronze, becoming her classic green over the years.

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Capucine @capucinep.bsky.social · 7d

#FineArtFriday courtesy of Alphonse Mucha - "Fall" circa 1896.

From his series of seasonal maidens. My favourite Art Nouveau artist, using elegant flowing elements & a palette of gorgeous colours.

#AlphonseMucha #ArtNouveau #ArtHistory #ArtisticElegance #Masterpiece #FineArt #IllustrationArt