Penguin On A Bike
@blueforestpenguin.bsky.social
• Teacher & legal researcher/writer • Lover of the sky, mountains, the arts, science, nature, & running • Fight climate change, hate, inequality, & fascism • Vote Blue 🩵 • Eyes open, heart pure • 📷 & 🎨 mine unless otherwise credited •
Watercolor Sky
August 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Watercolor Sky
August 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
August 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“... Under its burnished belly slips a ray of eventide,
The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds in tenebrous side...”
- Victor Hugo, A Sunset (From Feuilles d'Automne, 1831]
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[📷: Sunset over the Great Salt Lake, 08/22/2025]
The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds in tenebrous side...”
- Victor Hugo, A Sunset (From Feuilles d'Automne, 1831]
~~~
[📷: Sunset over the Great Salt Lake, 08/22/2025]
August 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“... Under its burnished belly slips a ray of eventide,
The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds in tenebrous side...”
- Victor Hugo, A Sunset (From Feuilles d'Automne, 1831]
~~~
[📷: Sunset over the Great Salt Lake, 08/22/2025]
The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds in tenebrous side...”
- Victor Hugo, A Sunset (From Feuilles d'Automne, 1831]
~~~
[📷: Sunset over the Great Salt Lake, 08/22/2025]
Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay
By F. H. Varley (c. 1920-21)
By F. H. Varley (c. 1920-21)
August 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay
By F. H. Varley (c. 1920-21)
By F. H. Varley (c. 1920-21)
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
- John Muir
(📷: Mount Baldy/Mineral Basin, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah)
- John Muir
(📷: Mount Baldy/Mineral Basin, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah)
July 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
- John Muir
(📷: Mount Baldy/Mineral Basin, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah)
- John Muir
(📷: Mount Baldy/Mineral Basin, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah)
March 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(My original #watercolor #art)
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(My original #watercolor #art)
January 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(My original #watercolor #art)
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(My original #watercolor #art)
Twilight Moon
January 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Twilight Moon
Tonight’s sky from the Wasatch Front of the Rocky Mountains (Utah)
January 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Tonight’s sky from the Wasatch Front of the Rocky Mountains (Utah)
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- T.S. Eliot
(Little Gidding)
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- T.S. Eliot
(Little Gidding)
December 30, 2024 at 4:14 AM
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- T.S. Eliot
(Little Gidding)
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- T.S. Eliot
(Little Gidding)
Norwegian Holiday Lights
December 30, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Norwegian Holiday Lights
Abounding December Sky
December 12, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Abounding December Sky
Chasing the light
December 5, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Chasing the light
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
- John Muir
- John Muir
November 20, 2024 at 11:48 PM
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
- John Muir
- John Muir
For all of us…
November 18, 2024 at 9:09 PM
For all of us…
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
- Gustave Flaubert
- Gustave Flaubert
November 17, 2024 at 11:09 PM
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
- Gustave Flaubert
- Gustave Flaubert
November Sky
November 12, 2024 at 12:47 PM
November Sky