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Nature Art by Gibson
@azgibsonz.bsky.social
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Hubby, dad & grandpa. Animal & Nature lover, avid hiker, snarky photography enthusiast...pics are all mine (unless repost) and are mostly captured in northern Arizona or southern Utah. Hope you enjoy the vibe! 🕉
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“We can only be said to be alive
in those moments when our hearts
are conscious of our treasures.”
~Thorton Wilder

🫶 Deer peeps! Gather together in the spirit of love and gratitude. #GiveThanks!

☮️ Have a Happy #Thanksgiving!! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#WildlifeWednesday
#Mammals 🦌
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Scape 🌿
Looks like the whole family are snoozing off a food coma...that's 'Bingo' the Mule Deer buck and his harem resting in a shady clearing in the forest. A little afternoon light filters through the trees and shines on the fawn in the center of the family circle. Zen. Have a sweet holiday Bluesky fam!!
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Find magic in the little things...
~Isa Zapata

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📸 Calypte anna 🪶🌿

#TinyTuesday
#TheLittleThings
#LookingAtYou
#Hummingbirds
#TinyTuesday
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
The wrath of a tiny territorial male Anna's Hummingbird is focused on you with one glare from the tip of a bare pine branch. Zen birding.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Give thanks
as if you are living
just to appreciate life.
Live as if your life
depends on love,
kindness, gratitude,
and thanksgiving.
~Debasish Mridha

🕉️ Thank you Bluesky fam! 🫶 #Gratitude

#TurkeyTuesday 🦃
#GiveThanks 🙏
#EastCoastKin 💚
#Photography 🪶
#AutumnVibes ✨
#Autumn 🍂
#Wildlife 🌿
TFW...when you catch a backlit waddle on a Wild Turkey in profile while he's scratching the ground in some backlit bastard-sage for a sweet composition and my fav turkey.
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Me: "Ya know...some humans eat quail for Thanksgiving, bud..."

🪶: "..."

Me: "Not us. Lighten up, Francis..."

🪶: (*inner monologue) "...I'm sooo pooping on your patio furniture..."

🌿 Off early! Have a sweet #TopKnotTuesday! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#LookingAtYou 👁️
#BirdLovers
#Photography
A male Gambel's Quail looks a little surprised he got caught this close up.
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Ugh, I was unsure how to frame them. The wife picked the one I shared, while I liked this one.

And we know who won that. 😉 Ty Jen!
The frame I preferred of some doves in a bare tree...iykyk
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Crapola. #BirdOfTheDay is warblers, but I literally just moved 2 years worth of deer pix, my vultures, and my warblers to a thumb drive...somewhere. Good thing I have a thrasher pal with #yelloweyes for the alternate! 🤘😅

📸 Curve-billed Thrasher 🪶

#Mimidae
#MimidaeMonday
#BirdLovers
#Photography
The yellow eye of my pal the Curve-billed Thrasher is always a welcome sight, especially when framed by a floofy face.
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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There's a Bluebird in my heart
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶

❄️💙❄️

📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿

#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
A borby blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay waits patiently with his junk in the fresh snow covering my Emory Oak tree while I take pictures before filling the peanut bowl. Zen birding.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, individual threads splitting, being snipped off, branching again, creating an incredible tangle of species that are both discrete and connected.
~Riley Black

#BlueSkyMonday
#BirdOfTheDay 🪶
A flock of doves warming in the sun together perched in the bare limbs of a tree against blue sky above a cloud in bokeh.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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blep 🫶
"Number 3", as I call him, has dismissed me by sticking his tongue out and is walking across the snowy clearing.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Being spiritual
has nothing to do
with what you believe
and everything
to do with your
state of consciousness.
~Eckhart Tolle

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#StunDay
#SundayVibes
#ClassicMono
#Monochrome
#Mammals
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Scape
The largest, and third of three, Mule Deer bucks to cross this snowy clearing right in front of me, pauses just out of the treeline to look into my soul before stepping out into the backlit field of snow. Zen in black and white.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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When snow falls,
Nature listens.
~Antoinette Van Kleeff

❄️🍁🌿

#StunDay 🤩
#FeelingFall 🍂
#Winterscape 🏔️
#SundayVibes 🕉️
#Landscape 🖼️
#Treehuggers 🌳
#GreenTherapy 🍃
#Photography 📸
#Treescape 🌲
#Scape ✨
It was my sincere hope to have a bull elk standing in this frame with morning light shining through the freshly-snowed-on forest full of Fall color along our 'secret' valley up the slopes of Aspen Peak...but the elk never showed up. Zen.
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Good morning Bluesky! 💙

📸 On the off chance you prefer 16:9 for your #StunDay #SkyCandy wake n bake... I got you. 🤘😶‍🌫️

#SkySunday
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#Cloudscape
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Clouds
#Scape 🌿
Last night's cloudscape in my Western sky after sunset, but in landscape with Peak #4087, Mayswell Peak, and Bull Mtn silhouetted below the color.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🌿 #SundayVibes: bundle up! We're going up the east-end of Aspen Peak...for some snowy #greentherapy! ❄️🌲🏔️

Wanna come along? 🤘😶‍🌫️

#MentalHealthMatters
#GetOutThere
#Winterscape
#TreeHuggers
#Photography
#Hiking
I finally got around to our hike. This is 8,167 foot Aspen Peak, after our recent snowfall...see those two shorter stubs on the left? We're hiking to a little valley just underneath them...can you feel the cold air in your lungs yet? First we hike through the enchanted forest of curved Gambel Oaks, whose Fall leaves are scattered in the snow... ...then we have to hike though all these Ponderosa Pines to the base of Aspen Peak, on the eastern end instead of the well-travelled west end...I tend to avoid humans... ...to our spot in a little valley under those two stubs and that dead pine because we've seen elk up here before. But not today. Not another soul. Zen.
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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It seems like a sunset,
but in reality,
it is dawn.
~Rumi

🕉️ ...epic #sunset tonight, for #StunDay! 🔥💙

#SkySunday
#CloudScape
#SkyScape
#SkyPainting
#SkyCandy
#BlueHour
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Clouds
#Scape
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.
~Mary Midgley

🕉️

#BirdOfTheDay
#BirdOnAWire
#BirdsOfPrey
#BirdLovers
#Raptors
#Photography
A totally borbed Kestrel is perched on a wire right above my head so I'm taking pictures of his frank n beans for you from this angle against overcast skies, because it's cold...
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Squirrel vibes atm...🐿️

🌿 May your #SquirrelSaturday be the floofiest! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#Squirrels
#Sqrlpix
#Mammals
#Photography
Intentional tail floofing, 15 yards, Arizona Gray Squirrel ...in a cold rain stealing suet from my woodpeckers. Zen.
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Sunrise this morning...🔥🌿 #SaturdayVibes

...in three frames. 🤘😶‍🌫️

#Sunrise
#CloudScape
#SkyScape
#SkyPainting
#SkyCandy
#BlueHour
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
I was hopeful this brief bleed through of light low on the horizon would fire up the entire sky over the mountains this morning... Especially since the cloud cover hugging the mountain peaks was gone and the fresh snow was visible below the blue hour color... But this was as good as it got over the valley, with the light and color getting closed out soon after. Thanks for looking at my sky!
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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For #small creatures such as we
the vastness is bearable
only through love.
~Carl Sagan

🤍

#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#SaturdayVibes
#Winter
#Scape
#SnowScape
#Photography
#TheLittleThings
#LookingAtYou
It's the Bluesky Art Show, of course I'm sharing a favorite small deer in the snow, I've got the file open!! Staring back at you from the shade of her own fluffy ears, a backlit Mule Deer fawn appears to smile for the camera despite the cold and snow. Zen. When fawns are 4 to 5 months old, they have shed their summer coats and spots, and grown a thicker, denser, and more uniform gray-brown winter coat to prepare for colder weather. Now you know.
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The future lies before you,
like a field of fallen snow;
Be careful how you tread it,
for every step will show.
~Doris A. Wright

☯️

#Scape 🌿
#ClassicMono 🖤
#Monochrome 🤍
#Mammals 🦌
#ForestFriday
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#NoKings
A backlit buck and his shadow cross a snowy clearing in profile. Zen in black and white.
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
~Carl Sagan

🕉️ ...damn it, Carl. 🌪️

#Scape 🌿
#CloudScape
#Landscape
#SkyScape
#SkyPainting
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#BlueHour
#Clouds
The landscape frame of last night's blue hour clouds over the mountains with some of the cotton candy clouds catching color and reminding me of a twister. Yes, I was on Star Pebbles.
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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🎶I hear the alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme is #singing...

...see what I did there? 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Curve-billed Thrasher 🪶🌿

#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#FeatheredFriday
Curve-billed Thrashers sing a pleasant, highly variable ditty composed of repeated notes in short, often staccato phrases, sometimes mimicking other birds, belting out an endless and ever-changing melody. Like this one is doing in profile so you can peep the curve in that bill.
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Did you hear that???

I said "May the wonders of Nature fill your weekend!" 🫶

#WeekendVibes 🌿🦌❄️
#GetOutThere
#GreenTherapy
#Photography
#Mammals
#LookingAtYou
A Mule Deer shoots me a look as she is resting in the dappled light under my Emory Oak with snow melting into the ground around her.
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Chasing clouds, catching dreams...💙

#BlueHour
#SkyCandy
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#Cloudscape
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Clouds
#Scape
Looking east at puffs of cotton candy clouds catching a little color and silhouetting the trees at blue hour.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I just saw a twister...🌪️

...made out of cotton candy...🔥😍

#BlueHour
#SkyCandy
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#Cloudscape
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Clouds
#Scape 🌿
A twisting column of pastel cotton candy clouds rises into the blue sky from the low snow clouds hugging the mountain tops at blue hour tonight.
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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The snow doesn't give
a soft white damn whom it touches.
~E.E. Cummings

🕉️ ...so let's #scape! 🌿❄️🦌

#Snowscape
#WeekendVibes
#GetOutThere
#ForestFriday
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Mammals
A young Mule Deer buck looks hopeful from the treeline as he cautiously approaches the two does standing together out on the blanket of fresh snow covering the creekside...but he's a bit early and I would say overly ambitious given the size of his rack. IYKYK.
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM