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Handcrafted paper, ink, and multimedia mandalas + observations by T Jacobs in AZ.
Graphic designer in real life.
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“Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.”
- Joseph M. Marshall III

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #Mandala #CutPaperArt #Journey #Art #SensoryArt #3DMandala
A mandala made of cut, stacked pink and blue paper with paint and ink details. The mandala is mounted on a metallic gold paper background and photographed at an angle that shows the layers of paper with shadows from an unseen light source behind the art. The details are drawn in black ink and pink, magenta, teal, and gold paint. Art by T Jacobs.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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“The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.”
- Claire Cameron

#BlueskyArtShow #Warmth #MomentOfPeace #Coffee #EastCoastKin #Morning
Coffee in a big black mug sits atop a wood table. Plants under grow lights and art on a pale green wall are in the blurry background. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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“Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.”
- Terry Pratchett

On cold days, Jack insists on crawling into my shirt to make biscuits and warm up. #Caturday #Cozy #CatSnuggles #HappyCaturday #BiscuitMaker
A cat peeks out of the top of his human’s sweatshirt where he’s been making biscuits and snuggling in warmth. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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“Don’t wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain.”
- Steve Rizzo

#Scape #EastCoastKin #StormClouds #Clouds #PNW #LakeCrescent
An overcast gray sky over Lake Crescent near Port Angeles, Washington in a chilly fall day. The water is deep blue and choppy. Layers of forested hills get lighter as they extend into the misty distance beyond the lake. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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“Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.”
- Rene Dubos

#ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #WillowLake #Cormorant #Trees #ClassicMono #BW #AZ #Birdwatching #Cottonwood
Cottonwood peninsula at Willow Lake near Prescott, Arizona in early spring. Tall, black-trunked trees stand on the edge of dry marsh grasses. Double-crested Cormorants nests can be seen high in the leafless cottonwood trees. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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“The calming movement of the sea along with the restless ocean breeze gently caresses me creating a soothing trance which lulls me to a place of peace.” - M.L. Borges

…have a moment peace before the chaos of Thanksgiving.

#EastCoastKin #Ocean #PNW #WashingtonCoast #Beach #Nature #Peace #BeachGrass
Tall green beach grass overwhelms a path to a cold Washington beach. White capped waves hit the beach and low gray clouds cover the sky. Photo by T Jacobs. Discovery Trail at Long Beach, WA.
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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“Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves.”
- Tasneern Harneed

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Forest #Roots #Nature #PNW #EastCoastKin
Lichen-covered rocks in the foreground and an old tree clinging to the ground with a moss-covered exposed root system in the center of the frame. Rocks are caged under the roots of the tree. Vibrant green moss, ferns, and bushes cover the hill behind the tree. This photo was taken by T Jacobs at Moulton Falls near Vancouver, Washington.
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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"The smell of rain is rich with life."
- Estela Portillo Trambley

#WMountain #Stunday #Gunnison #Colorado #AfterTheRain #Rainbow #EastCoastKin #Petrichor #Sage #SmellOVision
Grass, sage, and flowers after a rain. A rainbow is in the distance with peach, blue, and purple pastel clouds beyond green bushes and W Mountain in the distance. Gunnison, Colorado. Photo by at Jacobs.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Happy #Caturday.
A white Flame point Siamese on a bench faces a window, looking outside and dreaming of adventure on the other side of the glass. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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“A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.”
- Allen Klein

#BlueskyArtShow #Small #EastCoastKin #BugsEyeView #Yavapai #PrescottAZ #Sun
Bug’s-eye view looking up a rocky trail toward the bright white sun in a blue sky. Dry Arizona grasses and bare black branches of leafless bushes border the rocky trail. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
- Sir John Lubbock

#Scape #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #Trees
Looking up a tree trunk to the stunted ends of old branches coated with green moss. Beyond the green-leaved treetops are blue and white cloudy skies. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
- Henry David Thoreau

#ClassicMono #Photography #Landscape #Monochrome #BW #EastCoastKin #Yavapai #Peavine
Still waters sit within rounded granite rock formations. Watson Lake from the Peavine trail in Prescott, Arizona. This trail follows the bed of the former Prescott and Arizona Central railway. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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“In addition, no one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it.”
- Philip K. Dick

#ColorADay #RedWed #EastCoastKin #Clouds
Vibrant red, orange, and gold clouds with dark purple and gray shadows at sunset in Prescott, Arizona. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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“We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.”
- Lynda Barry

#Stunday #FlowerReport #Rose #LastRoseOfTheYear #Yavapai #Arizona #PrescottAZ #Dreamy #Magical
The last rose of the year. A vibrant yellow/orange/red climbing rose gathers the last heat of fall as it opens in the sunshine against a west-facing garden wall in Prescott, Arizona. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.”
- Bill Dana

#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #Cats #Catitude #Tabby
Tabby cat sitting on a patio table, looking up at the camera with judgement. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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"For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
- Wendell Berry

#BlueskyArtShow #Bright #Yavapai #Arizona #Walkabout #Sun #Autumn
Dry autumn grasses backlit by the bright sunshine on a November afternoon. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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“You’re alive and breathing. That’s a fine reason to celebrate.”
- Johnny Lung

#ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #breathe #Scape #Trees #sunshine #PNW
Morning sun glows between tall trees with black trunks and green leaves. WSU Vancouver campus. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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We have a lovely view of the aurora tonight in Prescott, Arizona!

#NorthernLights #Aurora #AZ #Yavapai #PrescottAZ
Northern Lights in vibrant greens and reds. Photo taken in Prescott, Arizona on November 11, 2025 by T Jacobs.
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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"I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves."
- Ann Drake

#Stunday #Autumn #Fall #VelvetAsh #EastCoastKin #Leaves #Yavapai
Looking up the trunk of a Velvet Ash tree with crisp yellow leaves clinging to the late days of autumn. Blue sky is peeking through the leaves. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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“We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell

#Joy #Stunday #EastCoastKin #Jalepenos #ChooseJoy #Harvest #PickledFire
Fresh cut jalapeños from the garden. These vibrant green peppers are destined for pickling and sharing with family members who love the heat! Photo by T Jacobs.
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Cheers to the weekend. May it bring you the peace you need to recharge.

#Caturday #Caturday #Cats #Recharge
Tabby cat sleeping in a carpet tube upside down without a care in the world. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"
- Brian Greene

#BlueskyArtShow #Evening #EastCoastKin #Dusk #Stars #Expanse #Yavapai #AZ
Arizona dusk with the black silhouette of trees in the foreground, a power pylon with power lines extending past left and right edges, and mountains in the distant horizon. City lights twinkle on the low horizon as the stars begin to show themselves in the fading blue sky above. Photo by T Jacobs.
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend."
- Bob Ross

#ForestFriday #Scape #EastCoastKin #FriendshipFriday #Path #Ferns #Breathe #SmellOVision
A dirt path leads through dense green ferns, vegetation, and tall trees whose dark trunks contrast against the green forest. Photo taken on a path near the Columbia river in Washington state by T Jacobs.
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”
- Elizabeth Peters

#WhiskersWednesday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
White flame point Siamese cat with long white whiskers and pale blue eyes. He is laying on a dark purple fuzzy blanket in front of a bright orange wall. Photo by T Jacobs.
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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"Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise."
- Maya Angelou

#TidesOutTuesday #BlueTue #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #Seascape #PNW #Beach
Washington state beach with wet sand reflecting the blue sky. The silhouette of a forested hill is in the distance, beyond cold white-capped waves and mist. Photo by T Jacobs.
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM