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AndiF
@aferguson.bsky.social
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Retired but not retiring taker-of-photographs and scratcher-of-dog-bellies
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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · Oct 25
I guess I need to add that if you post other people's photos without giving them credit and/or getting approval, I will block you.
aferguson.bsky.social AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · Feb 13
Reminder: if I haven't followed back or have unfollowed you, it's probably because
your timeline has few posts or mostly retweets
you're following thousands of accounts
you're selling something or asking for money
your timeline is full of things I'm not interested in
you post images without ALT text
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jimferguson.bsky.social
It's #FrostFlowerFriday. I think this one looks like it is holding out its skirt for you to admire. #photography #plants #nature #winter #ice #frostflowers
A ribbon of ice has formed on a dittany stem.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
The Friday Digital Archive Dive gets its ducks in a row (so long as the row is more of a scatterplot).

Taken #OnThisDay December 5, 2010
#photography #otd #ducks #lakes #winter
A group of mallard ducks cruise on a lake whose shore is lined with trees. There is snow visibly falling.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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These are all the dogs we sponsored in November ❤️‍🩹
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Caught the sun but missed the moon ... until I realized I hadn't.
#photography #morning #light
The sun shines through branches of a tree in a woods, lighting up the leaves above. To the left of the tree a tiny speck of white is just barely visible.
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Sniff and Giddy drank the creek dry. #photography #dogs
Two dogs, a beagle mix in the foreground and a malamute?/shepherd? mix in the background, are sitting and lying in a dry creek bed at the height of summer. Giddy, the mala-mutt hated summer and soaked herself in a creek whenever she had a chance.
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
I'm sitting at the computer looking at our first snow that has lasted for more than a day and this little one popped up on my screen. #photography #summer #insect #dragonfly #macro
A red dragonfly is perched on a green leaf. I took this shot at the end of July over 20 years ago. Just recently I learned that dragonflies do not use their legs for walking. Somewhere I read that the legs and feet are used for landing to grab onto what they are landing on and as springs to takeoff. If that's not right, please correct me.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Sometimes the waterfall isn't the star of the photo.
#Photography #WaterfallWednesday #waterfalls #wildflowers #Yosemite #hiking
Tuolumne Falls in Yosemite's High Sierra is seen behind a bunch of pretty yellow wildflowers sprouting in a crack in a rock slab.
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
I didn't come up with any new books to add to my TBR from the NY Times 10 best books of the year. I was impressed though that the line "a stream-of-consciousness World War I novel, told in one sprawling, 285-page-long sentence" was such a succinct indicator that a book was not for me.
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
The path not taken yet. #snow #B&W #photography #forest #nature
A snow fall covered the branches and ground in the forest. The path does not have any animal or human track on it yet.
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Two #frostflowers from the first batch of the season.
#photography #winter #frost #ice
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A tall, swirling frost flower is partially transparent where it is melting. In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. This frost flower has a window in it that lets you see a structure within it.
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Spiny saguaro cactus, spiny ocatillo, and the spine of a mountain range in Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona set the theme for today. #photography #Support_Public_Lands #desert #plants #MountainMonday
The thin branches of an ocatillo tipped with its orange buds are in front of a large saguaro cactus. The green of the cactus contrasts the orange of the ocatillo buds and the dusty red of the distant mountains.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Never underestimate the power of looking cute.
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle lies on a couch with her muzzle on a pillow and a paw under her head. She looks cute.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Third in a series of #StunDay proof that of our 8 dogs, Bebo was the one with the exceptionally stunning talent for finding me very scenic shots to take, this time with an assist from Sniff.
#photography #woods #light #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A black, tan, and white beagle mix and a tan and white boxer (maybe) mix walk on a steep hillside in a woods colored by a light, golden fog.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Here's another frost flower. I cropped this photo a lot to show the streaky patterns in the icy ribbons. The cropping made the background grainy. The actual frost flower was only about 2 inches (5 cm) tall. #photography #frostflowers #nature
White ribbon-like ice that has been extruded from the stem of a dittany plant makes an interesting and fragile natural sculpture on the forest floor. The ice that had been in sunlight was beginning to melt and was clear.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
The first frost flowers that I've seen this season showed up in the woods yesterday. #photography #frostflowers #nature
The white ribbon-like flower on the stem of a dead plant is not a flower at all or a fungus. Frost flowers are icy structures that emerge from the stalks of thin stemmed plants. The water in the plant is forced out of the plants in these fragile sheets. Like snowflakes, frost flowers are infinite in variety. The ones in our area mostly emerge from dittany (Cunila origanoides).
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
aferguson.bsky.social
The Friday Digital Archive Dive finds the line to take for a texture cornucopia.

Taken #OnThisDay November 28, 2009
#photography #house #moon #otd
I happened to look up at the moon at my sister's house and saw all these interesting lines from the roof and two brick chimneys offsetting an almost round moon. There is a mix of textures from bricks, clapboards, and roofing.
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
(I'm confident in the coming awfulnesss of December but fun to find something to post anyway).
Sign on a door at the Skógar Museum in Iceland reads "Please remove your crampons/spikes before entering the museum". This was one of the few signs we saw in Iceland that was only in English.
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Look but don't touch. I am not sure what this plant is. I don't think it is a stinging nettle, but it doesn't look like it wants to cuddle. #photography #plants #nature
This close up shows the thin transparent hairs covering the leaves and stem of a dead plant in the late fall. The stem is mostly brown but has just a bit of pale green left from the summer.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Forest floor flora came through in my #quest_for_color in the gray months #photography #nature
Yellow maple leaves and a Christmas fern frond brighten up the brown and black leaves and decomposing wood on the ground.
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A very good Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it. I hope everyone has at least one very good thing to feel thankful about.

Meanwhile, in the Indiana woods ...
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
I am feeling very thankful for the weeks of watching this sweet little dog slowly but steadily recover.
#dogs #thankful
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Little Stormzy had his first trip out into the "real world".

Testing him out to see if he'll be OK for adoptions.

Look at him go! I think the early answer is a yes!
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Did you know that schools are in large part where the Thanksgiving myth was born? Alarmed by what your kid learned about Thanksgiving at school? You are not alone. After a wave of immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Americans grew increasingly worried that their...🧵
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Late November celebrates the months long almost black and white #photography season. #trees #nature #gray
Standing in a grove of tulip trees (aka tulip poplars) I shot straight up to show the bare branches and gray sky.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I have finally had to accept that I have reached an age where I no longer have the patience (forbearance? grace? desire? concentration? all of them?) to read books over 400 pages full of meandering chunks or books of any size about the angst of being a 20-30 something.
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Changes in a morning sky.
#photography #sunrise #colors #moon #clouds
The clouds in a morning sky are lit with a deep purple-pink. The clouds are still in the sky but they've lost most of their color and they've thinned enough that a sliver of moon is showing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM