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@learls.bsky.social
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Animal & nature lover 🐦‍⬛🌳 photographer
Mom & wife of some great humans🧍🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️
Cat mom & grandma 🐾 democrat 💙
#indivisible
PhD climate aware 🌎 attachment & trauma psychologist
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🏡 MI & Fla
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A #SnowyEgret walks from wet sand toward the ocean and its breaking waves.

#BirdoftheDay #OntheEdge #WeekVforVowels #Egret #WaterWednesday #WingsWednesday#birds #birding #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A Snowy Egret, back to us, head turned to the left, walks in wet sand toward the deeper foamy gray-blue breaking waves of the Atlantic Ocean.
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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#WordlessWednesday #sunrise #CloudscapeClub #EastCoastKin #skyscape #birds #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
Eight gulls, all in flapping positions, fly in a purple and pink sunrise sky over a gray strip of the Atlantic Ocean.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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To slip the bonds of Earth
and fly on white wings...

Wishing you a wonderful #Twosday !

#BirdOfTheDay #TidesOutTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #AnimalArtTuesday #SensoryArt #lines #EastCoastKin #SnowyEgrets #birds #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
Two Snowy Egrets fly together, one chasing the other, just above the steel gray bars and wooden planks of a pier extending from the lower right corner to left upper upper mid-ground. Below the pier are black and gray boulders in the lower left. Above the pier is the gray Atlantic Ocean and a commercial fishing boat under a hazy blue sky.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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-but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at,
not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say This is happiness, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it
--Niall Williams

Happy #BlueSkyMonday
A lone Seagull in silhouette soars at the top right of the photo. It's backdrop is a cloudy sunrise cloudscape that is dark blue and gray with windows of clear light blue and white on top and in the middle and pinkish-orange and gray-blue at the bottom.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A Laughing Gull in #Silhouette for #BirdOfTheDay

#BlueSkyArtShow #small #gull #bird #birding #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A lone Laughing Gull walks left in shallow, sunlit orange and blue, rippled surf water. Behind it is shallow blue and then deeper, navy swelling ocean waves.
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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One of my favorite backyard residents making an appearance for #SquirrelSaturday and #BlueSkyArtShow #small

Wishing you a lovely day🐿️

#EastCoastKin #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan
A Black Squirrel, surrounded by green grass and crumpled brown leaves, sits looking at me. His arms hang straight down, and his paws are nearly together in front of him. His tail lies in the grass horizontally to the left of his body (to the right in the photo).
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The first of these majestic birds I’ve seen for #BirdOfTheDay #waders !

#ReddishEgret #EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography #birding #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A reddish-brown and charcoal gray Reddish Egret walks-left foot and leg raised-through the gray and olive Atlantic Ocean on a cloudy day in November. A small swell and churned white water runs horizontally across the bottom of the photo in front of the egret.
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#WordlessWednesday #WingsWednesday #EastCoastKin
#CloudscapeClub #Seagull #bird #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A single silhouetted Seagull flies, just left and slightly below center, in a blue (above) and yellowish-green (below) sky among luminous orange (at the bottom right) and pink and purple clouds across the top of the photo.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Palm trees representing for
#ThickTrunkTuesday

#ColorADay #BlueTue #TranquilTuesday #EastCoastKin #trees #FortheLoveofTrees #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
One close on the left side and taking up the length of the photo, and two more distant palm trees accounting for very little length stand in silhouette in front of a dark blue, light blue, and yellow (bottom right) sky. Not sure of the specific type of palm, but I'm guessing they're a type of Bottle Palm, maybe-?
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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This guy is #mottled from head to tail.

#BirdOfTheDay #Larus #WesternGull #Seagull #bird #EastCoastKin #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A black, white, and gray Larus occidentalis (I think?) or Western Gull steps on gray sand.
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Everything was beautiful
And nothing hurt
—Kurt Vonnegut

Wishing you a beautiful #BlueSkyMonday.

#ColorADay #PinkMon #EastCoastKin #CloudscapeClub #clouds #sunrise #GoldenHour #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan
Sunrise in the neighborhood. Black silhouetted treetops and a roof make up the bottom of the photo. Above them are orange, pink, and purplish-blue horizontal clouds. Higher still are white and purple clouds.
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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When Mom's away....🦆

#BirdOfTheDay #ducklings #BlueSkyArtShow #bright #birds #EastCoastKin #photography #photographersofbluesky
5 Mallard ducklings have fun swimming in the sunlit turquoise water of our pool last June.
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Being Shy-a 😻

For those of you who are aware, Shiya (my 17-year-old) continues to do well on her fluids and steroid regimen.

Happy #Caturday ❣️

#CatsofBluesky #CatSky #BlueSkyCats #cats #photography
Shiya, an elderly gray, cream, and white Tabby cat with green eyes, looks down, shyly, as I photograph her. Her head, ears, neck and some of her chest are visible. The background is a blurred gray quilt.
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A new day dawns
holding myriad possibilities
What will you make it?

Wishing you a #bright and beautiful Saturday☀️

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #GoldenHour #oceanscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A just risen yellow sun, it's yellow and orange corona, and a sun flare shining diagonally to the right sits low on the horizon in a orange and gray sky over the charcoal and orange Atlantic Ocean. Small puffy black clouds spread horizontally just above where the ocean meets the sky. A morning walker is highlighted at the end of the vertical sun reflection on the brown shore.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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A #RoyalTern on his lofty perch for #posts #birds

Wishing you a lovely #Scape Friday🌊

#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #birding #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A Royal Tern sits sideways, facing left atop a charcoal and light gray wooden post in front of a green wave that is about to break and the gray-blue Atlantic Ocean under a light gray sky.
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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A little egret
navigating its way
through liquid gold and shadows

#ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin #TheWildImages #GoldenHour #egret #bird #birding #birdphotography #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A silhouetted little egret (egretta) walks on a diagonal to the left through the calm, sunlit and gray-blue shadowed water of the Atlantic Ocean at sunrise. A small black and orange breaking wave is seen in the background, and above it, a peice of the orange corona of the rising sun. Below the corona, in a broken, vertical line, is the bright yellow sun's reflection.
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Protestors at the 10.18.25 #NoKings Rally
in #YoungstownOhio

#HumansofBluesky #UrbanGaze #TheFightDoesn'tEndHere #NoKings.org #EastCoastKin #resist #Indivisible #photography #photographersofbluesky
Protestors, multicolored handmade signs, a T-Rex, and flags stand /are heldin front of the gray walls of a building in downtown Youngstown, Ohio. Signs read: Make America Free Again, Unity Makes Us Great, We are Peaceful, Resolute, United,We the People, etc.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Six #Ibises #Paddling for #BirdOfTheDay

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday🌊

#WingsWednesday #WaterWednesday #EastCoastKin #TheWildImages #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #photographersofbluesky #AtlanticOcean #Florida
6 white Ibises with orange beaks and legs walk toward the ocean in shallow blue shore water, their reflections below them. In the mid-ground are several white Seagulls in more blue ocean water. Tide pools relecting (unseen) buildings and the white foam and blue water of small breaking waves make up the background.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A Mama #Mallard and her ducklings exiting the yard after a swim in our pool last summer for #BirdsOnTheGround

#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #TheWildImages #ducks #birds #birdphotography #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan
A brown and white Mama mallard with six fuzzy brown and yellow ducklings in tow walks quickly on the gray cement of a pool deck. The background is long, green grass and a black steel pool fence.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Good morning (or afternoon), Bluesky☀️
—-the Sunrise Committee🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

#TidesOutTuesday #BlueTue #TranquilTuesday #EastCoastKin #GoldenHour #Seagulls #birds #oceanscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
3 Seagulls stand facing left, their shadows beneath them, on wet sand reflecting the orange sunrise sky. The gray-blue Atlantic Ocean and small breaking waves stretch across the mid-ground.It is gray with a few small glowing pink clouds where the ocean meets the horizon, topped by orange sky and yellow sky at the top of the photo.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Five Pelicans fly on silent wings
against a backdrop
of early, tender, apricot light

Wishing you a peaceful Sunday.

#Stunday #SuperSeabirdSunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #cloudscape #oceanscape #BrownPelicans #birds #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
5 Pelicans in varying stages of flight fly low over the gray Atlantic Ocean just before sunrise. The backdrop is a gray, orange, pink, and yellow cloudscape. The shallow shore water in the foreground is the pinkish-orange reflection of the sky and clouds.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Good morning, Susan!☕️ It’s good to see you, as always! And twice already, thanks to #BlueBrewBooks📚 I’m back in MI today, and thankful that Shiya is no worse for the wear, but also, I’m not happy about this❄️ Anyway, wishing you a lovely day😊💫
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A backyard friend and #CitySlicker for #BirdOfTheDay

#MourningDove #bird #birding #TheWildImages #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan
A gray and blue Mourning Dove perched on a black steel fence strung with mini white lights looks at the camera as I shoot its photo:). Blurred green and yellow leaves make up the background.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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For you💙
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Last #Evening

Wishing you a peaceful and rejuvenating Saturday☁️

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #dusk #cloudscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A couple at the bottom on the left walks on gray sand at dusk in front the calm, seafoam and blue Atlantic Ocean. On the horizon is a strip of violet sky and pink puffy clouds that span the width of the photo. Above them is a pale yellowish-pink sky.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM