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practicaljourney.bsky.social
@practicaljourney.bsky.social
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Retired Minnesotan 💙. Photography, art, nature, sociology, and news junkie. (Nature photos are mine.)

People before profits.
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Autumn is such a great time to discover cute little mushrooms!

#photography #mushrooms #mushroom #autumn #fall #nature #naturesoothes #forest #forestfloor #nature #outdoors
Portrait of a little red mushroom growing up among a thick forest floor of autumn leaves.
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Practically speaking, why do billionaires need tax breaks?

#wealth #millionaires #billionaires #perspective #taxes #poverty #taxbreaks #fairshare #GOP #DFL #republicans #democrats
A social media post putting the difference between millionaires and billionaires into perspective. One million seconds is 12 days. One billion seconds is 32 years.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow

#photography #frost #autumn #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #quotes #beauty #unexpected #nature #life
An autumn portrait of wildflowers that have lost their petals and are covered in light frost.
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks October 10, 1842

#photography #minnesota #autumn #trees #sunlight #landscape #quotes #woods #trees #beauty #uplifting
A walking sunlit path leading through a gate in the autumn woods.
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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When you’re not coloring all the places where NO ONE lives the color red, and instead ONLY color the places where lots of people live, suddenly the political map looks rather different.

#politics #maps #demographics #repubilcans #democrats
These are two political maps of the United States of America. The top map colors in the entire country including the portions where NO ONE lives. It gives the impression that most of the country is red or Republican. The lower political map only colors in the portions where many people live while leaving uninhabited areas white.
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Yellow maple leaves offer a feeling of warmth and cheer on a rainy, autumn afternoon.

#photography #minnesota #autumn #mapletree #maple #yellow #beauty #nature #outdoors #rain #trees
A close-up of wet, yellow maple leaves still attached to the branch.
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The days in Minnesota are shorter. The air is crisp and fresh. I so enjoy the asters that still provide a pop of color in my October garden.

#photography #flower #flowers #garden #bloomscrolling #autumn #minnesota #floral #nature #beauty
Light purple-pink flowers (asters) with yellow centers growing in a group.
October 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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“What was stolen by the city, nature restores.”
~Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

#photography #minnesota #nature #horse #farm #pasture #rest #refresh #encouragement #naturesoothes
A white horse grazing in a rural pasture surrounded a white picket and tall trees in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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An image of the following words: Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world if full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved. Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God’s wrath but never a source of God’s mercy, generosity, or compassion. ~Reverend Benjamin R. Cremer
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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“If the farmer is poor then so is the whole country.” ~Polish Proverb

#photography #minnesota #farming #farmland #autumn #agriculture #tariffs #economy #farmers #landscape
A landscape image that overlooks farmland surrounded by autumn trees under a sky ready to rain.
October 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"I escape into the great outdoors; where freedom’s soul forever roars."

~Angie Weiland-Crosby

#photography #minnesota #autumn #freedom #quotes
Looking over a glassy lake onto a variety of trees in autumn colors of yellow, orange, and light green.
October 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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How to keep our spirits up is a daily challenge during these divisive times in the United States. I find so much solace in nature. Please enjoy a photo from my archives.

#photography #nature #autumn #woods #forest #encouragement #resilience #perseverance #joy #resist
A maple tree in autumn splendor of orange and yellow surrounded by white aspen trees.
October 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This is disturbing. Does he not remember that he was President at that time - not Biden.

#january6
October 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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“Rebellious leaves
going out
in a blaze of glory,
setting trees aflame
in riotous color.
Reluctant surrender
to rumors
of coming winter.”
~John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems

#photography #autumn #nature #outdoors #quotes #endofsummer #minnesota #autumnleaves #leaf #moss
An autumn maple leaf of red and yellow sitting atop a bed of moss.
October 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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An autumn photo from my archives to add a little cheer to our rather gloomy timeline. Hang in there everyone!

#photography #minnesota #autumn #encouragement #bloomscrolling #trees #beauty #perseverance
A grassy clearing surrounded by colorful trees in autumn foliage.
October 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” ~ Terri Guillemets

#photography #bird #birds #chickadee #minnesota #autumn #birdscrolling
A small bird known as a Black Capped Chickadee sitting on top of a broken branch.
October 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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This hurts my heart.
October 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Need a break from the news? I know that I do!

Please enjoy this Purple Finch on a sunny autumn day in Minnesota. Nature soothes.

#photography #birds #birdwatching #nature #naturesoothes #outdoors #minnesota #autumn
A pretty red and brown bird (Purple Finch) seated on a dead branch. In the background note the lovely fall colors.
October 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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As I took photos of my dahlias, I was photobombed by a beautiful Monarch butterfly. So fun!

#photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #butterfly #nature #naturesoothes #dahlia #monarch #beauty #encouragement #minnesota
A coral colored flower with symmetrical petals and yellow center - dahlia - in the midst of a garden. A black and orange butterfly - monarch - has landed on the side of the flower.
October 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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They took awhile to bloom, but now that these dahlias are here, they make me smile everyday.

#bloomscrolling #gardening #photography #dahlias #flowers
A coral colored flower - dahlia - that has shades of orange too.
September 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Keep your chin up, just like this yellow zinnia still blooming during late September in Minnesota!

Let’s encourage one another.

#photography #flower #zinnia #bloomscrolling #gardening #yellow #minnesote #autumn #kindness #resist #encouragement
Image of a yellow flower blooming in a garden. Blurred images of other flowers appear in the background.
September 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” ~ 
John Muir

#yellowstone #photography #wyoming #mountains #clouds #trees #wilderness #johnmuir
Photo image from an overlook featuring white fluffy clouds and mountains covered in pine trees. A cluster of pine trees appear in the foregound.
September 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Release the Epstein Files.
A Maya Angelou quote: “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” The words appear on a yellow background with a vector image of women’s heads in a variety of colors and shapes below the words.
September 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” ~ Native American Proverb

#photography #wildflower #wildflowers #authenticity #appreciation #simplicity #joy #bloomscroll #freedom
A purple wildflower with buds about to bloom taken in the light of twilight.
August 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM