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Me: “Stop it, Oregon! I can only handle so much beauty!”

Narrator: But Oregon refused to stop.

📷 = Canon EOS Rebel T7

#photography #nature #hiking

View of the Pacific Ocean through a dense coastal forest, with tall evergreen trees in the foreground and a glimpse of waves and rocky shoreline beyond. Ferns and underbrush cover the forest floor, and sunlight filters through the branches under a bright blue sky.

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Today's cold weather has me dreaming of spring...

Colorful spring garden with tulips - handmade watercolor painting -
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/colorful-spring-garden-with-tulips-karen-kaspar.html

#spring #tulips #SpringFlowers #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #watercolour #creativeToots #BuyIntoArt #flowers #gardening #garden #floral #nature #bloomscrolling #florespondence #handmade #aquarell #aquarelle #natur #blumen

In this abstracted watercolor painting in horizontal format by artist Karen Kaspar many colorful tulips in vibrant shades of yellow, orange, pink and red are blossoming in a sunny spring garden.

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Are you in the mood for some cuteness?

Early morning rendezvous hand painted watercolor painting:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/early-morning-rendezvous-karen-kaspar.html

#love #heart #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #watercolour #BuyIntoArt #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdArt #birding #nature #NatureLover #BirdWatching #vogel #cute #animals #liebe #cuteanimals #ValentinesDay #valentine #romance #LoveArt #lovers

Early Morning Rendezvous is a watercolor painting in landscape format painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. Two sweet little birds sit opposite each other in a bush and look at each other. The dense branches of the bush form a heart shape around the two birds. The rest of the bush can only be seen blurred in the light blue morning mist. The two birds are depicted as silhouettes in front of the rising sun in a delicate pink heart shape and surrounded by green heart-shaped leaves.
This watercolour painting is the ideal gift for lovers - for Valentine's Day, a birthday, a wedding anniversary or just to say "I love you".

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Howdy to Mastodon! I'm still wrapping my head around things here but figured I'd go ahead and do an #introduction.

I'm a #landscape and #nature #photographer based out of Fort Worth, #Texas which means, aside from my local park, I do a LOT of driving for #photography, especially to #utah and the desert southwest.

I produce my own #prints for sale, create educational and in-field videos for YouTube, and also offer workshops.

Learn more about me here: https://www.michaelrungphotography.com

Riverside Glow: Golden cottonwood trees wind into the distance along the Paria River under a pinkish sky at dusk in southern Utah.

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This may be the strangest planet yet discovered. It seems to be a Pluto-size world circling the remains of three dead stars: two white dwarfs & a pulsar, as massive as the Sun but no bigger than Brooklyn.

If confirmed, it would also be the smallest exoplanet known.

https://astrobiology.com/2025/01/have-we-discovered-the-smallest-extra-solar-planet.html #space #science #astronomy #nature

Illustration of a likely planet orbiting PSR J0337+1715, a tightly packed triple-star system consisting of a pulsar and two white dwarfs.

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Robin in a holly bush - my hand-painted watercolor painting for Christmas on today's warm summer day...
Enjoy!

--> https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/robin-in-a-holly-bush-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #watercolour #creativeToots #BuyIntoArt #bird #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdArt #birding #nature #BirdWatching #wildlife #vogel #cute #animals #handmade #robin #christmas #ChristmasinJuly

Robin in a holly bush is a watercolor painting in landscape format painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. A robin sits on a branch in a holly bush and looks to the right. It is surrounded by green leaves and red berries. The background is painted with loose brushstrokes in different shades of green, which form a strong color contrast to the red winter berries of the bush and the red-orange breast feathers of the bird. The Ilex is also called Holly or Christmas Holly. The evergreen branches with the red fruits are often used for Christmas decorations.

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Waterlily Whispers - available here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/waterlily-whispers-lisa-s-baker.html

#waterlily #waterlilies #flower #flowers #nature #pond #water #enchanting #magical #spring #art #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #canvasprints #mastoart #mastodonart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #giftideas #beautiful #serene #magical #CreativeToots #pretty #peaceful #water

"Waterlily Whispers" portrays a serene and enchanting pond bathed in soft light. The brushstrokes are rich and expressive, blending vibrant hues of blue, green, and lavender, with accents of pink and yellow flowers. Delicate water lilies float gracefully on the shimmering surface, surrounded by lush foliage that dances with life. Art by Lisa S Baker.

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#WildlifeWednesday

The organized chaos of Snow Geese at sunset - Fir Island, Washington where they’re wintering right now. In a few wks they’re going to migrate …

Prints, Puzzles, Cards etc: https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-organized-chaos-of-snow-geese-at-sunset-fir-island-wa-ez-lorenz.html

#Washington #PNW #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #Nature #Sunset #WomensArt #WallArt #ArtPrints #Prints #HomeDecor #Puzzle #GreetingCards #Gifts #Giftideas #FediGiftShop #Photo #Wildlife #Photography

A huge flock of Snow Geese fills the sky against a tranquil backdrop with Tahoma (Mount Rainier) and trees at Fir Island, Washington. The birds are both in flight and on the vibrant green field below, creating a dynamic scene at sunset.

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Was the tree lonely, standing all by itself on the hillside, with nary a tree friend beside it?

I don't think so. There was the grass, bushes growing amongst it, the distant forest, the surrounding hills, and all the small animals that stopped to take rest in the tree's shade.

There was always someone to talk to. And then there was that view . . .

Lone Pine greeting card -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lone-pine-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card

#nature #hiking #tree #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #rural #landscape

Greeting card of an original oil painting depicting a lone pine tree on a hillside.

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Yesterday I posted some #moss pictures from my lunchtime walk; that's currently the most-boosted toot I've had on Mastodon!

So here's some more - same walk, different bits of #mosses, #lichens, and #frosty leaves. Enjoy.

#lichensubscribe #lichen #nature #mosstodon #awalkaday

Fuzzy mounds of half frozen mosses crown a grey stump.

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Timelapse video of hair ice growing, 5 hours in 21sec

#Washington #PNW #HairIce #Fungus #Fungi #Nature #NatureLover #Timelapse #Video #Sunday #SilentSunday #Winter #WaWx

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Gonna fly high
And catch a ride
On a ray of the sun

#michigan #nature #kayak #photography 1/4

A serene view from a kayak on calm waters, with the sun shining brightly in the sky. The surface of the water reflects glimmers of sunlight, creating a tranquil atmosphere.

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"Across Canada and the U.S., a growing number of shuttered #golf courses are being rewilded.

"At least four courses in California, and a handful of others in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, have been bought by non-profits, cities or land trusts and turned into #nature preserves or #parks in recent years, leading to an increase in #wildlife sightings, plant species and tree cover."

#rewilding #ecology #landuse

https://www.rewildingmag.com/when-golf-courses-go-wild/

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📷 Butterfly, in the peach orchard gone to weed.

#FediversalPictures #Nature

high-angle view of thigh-high weeds. a white butterfly appears out of focus in the mid-distance.

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You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down further & tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/ #science #nature #space

This periodic table depicts the primary source on Earth for each element: from the Big Bang, massive stars, white-dwarf supernovae, merging neutron stars, low-mass stars, or other processes. In cases where two sources contribute fairly equally, both appear.

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Meanwhile, far from Earth...

The space between stars is full of gas and dust that is normally dark & invisible to us. But a flash of light from a 350-year-old supernova has lit up the interstellar medium -- revealing it in all its strange, swirling glory.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-102 #space #science #nature

Image of light echoes near Cassiopeia A captured by Webb’s NIRCam instrument, with compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for reference. The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky. Note that the relationship between north and east on the sky (as seen from below) is flipped relative to direction arrows on a map of the ground (as seen from above).

The scale bar is labeled in light-years, which is the distance that light travels in one Earth-year. (It takes one year for light to travel a distance equal to the length of the bar.) One light-year is equal to about 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers.

This image shows invisible near-infrared wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-light colors. The color key shows which NIRCam filters were used when collecting the light. The color of each filter name is the visible light color used to represent the infrared light that passes through that filter.

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Can I have your sandwich?
Pleeease!!!!

Black headed gull on a sandy beach hand-painted acrylic painting - here: https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/black-headed-gull-on-a-sandy-beach-karen-kaspar.html

#seagull #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #BuyIntoArt #bird #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdArt #birding #nature #NatureLover #BirdWatching #wildlife #vogel #cute #animals #handmade #beach #picnic #summer

Black-headed Gull on a Sandy Beach is a hand-painted acrylic painting in a contemporary square format by the artist Karen Kaspar.
Against an abstract background in various shades of orange, sand and yellow, a small black-headed gull stands and looks curiously at the viewer.

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*** First video up!
https://ecoevo.social/@xris/114167406196864478
** I'm approved! @xris. No videos yet.
* Thanks to all for the *unaninimous* recommendations for lone.earth. Pending approval, I will be at https://lone.earth/c/xris.

#FediVerse Hive Mind: I have been using @Vimeo to host my videos. I want to try using a @PeerTube instance instead.

Example Video:
https://vimeo.com/705157758

#Video #PeerTube #Vimeo #Nature #Ecology #Animals #Mammals #Groundhog #Gardening

cc: @darwin

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Many thanks to my 1/22 #FineArtAmerica client from Lady Lake, FL. for their purchase of a coffee mug of "Glamour Girl." I hope she helps start your mornings with a big smile!!!

At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/glamour-girl-lois-bryan.html

And at Fine Art America, here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/glamour-girl-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #nature #wildlife #birds #parrot #cockatoo #fun #cute #buyintoart #LoisBryan #photography #NotAi

Many thanks to my 1/22 #FineArtAmerica client from Lady Lake, FL. for their purchase of a coffee mug of "Glamour Girl." I hope she helps start your mornings with a big smile!!!

At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/glamour-girl-lois-bryan.html

And at Fine Art America, here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/glamour-girl-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #nature #wildlife #birds #parrot #cockatoo #fun #cute #buyintoart #LoisBryan #photography #NotAi

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Hanging with Gaston, a wild, friendly grouse. Apparently some grouse just like hanging out with humans.

#Grouse #Cobden #Ontario #Birds #Bird #PicOfTheDay #PictureOfTheDay #WildlifePhotography #Nature

The lower body of a person in winter clothes, sitting in a woodshed with a full grown grouse standing beside the persons knee.

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#SilentSunday

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/a-peaceful-morning-at-lake-ballinger-wa-ez-lorenz.html

#Washington #PNW #Nature #Reflection #Photography #Peaceful #Sunday #WallArt #ArtForSale #Prints #HomeDecor #GreetingCards #Puzzle #Gifts #Giftideas #FediGiftshop #WomensArt #FediArt #MastoArt

The peaceful Lake Ballinger in Edmonds, Washington, reflects the surrounding trees, with a gentle mist hovering over the water. In the background, a dense forest adds depth to the tranquil scene under a clear morning sky.

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Green Heron gliding gracefully over Lake Ballinger, WA
First time seeing one wintering here, usually see them between Spring and Fall.

Cards, Prints and more: https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/green-heron-gliding-gracefully-over-lake-ballinger-wa-ez-lorenz.html

#Birds #Heron #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #BirdPhotography #ArtForSale #WallArt #Prints #ArtPrints #HomeDecor #GreetingCards #Gifts #Giftideas #FediGiftShop #WomensArt #MastoArt #FediArt #Photography #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife

I was surprised to spot this beautiful Green Heron (Butorides virescens) on one of my outings to Lake Ballinger this winter, gliding gracefully over the tranquil lake, displaying the beautiful colors of their vibrant wings. I usually see them here between Spring and Fall. Evidently some of them are wintering in Wester Washington to my delight.
Edmonds, Washington, PNW

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When painting this abstract landscape painting, I had fun letting watercolor, ink and water flow and playing with the expressive color contrast between the bold red of the barn and the bright greens of the landscape.

--> https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/the-red-barn-abstract-landscape-watercolor-painting-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #painting #FediGiftShop #artist #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #BuyIntoArt #watercolor #watercolour #abstract #abstractart #landscape #landscapePainting #nature #outdoors #rural #aquarell #handmade #color #barn

A red barn between green trees and fields under a blue sky is the focal point of this abstracted rural landscape painted with watercolor and ink in horizontal format by artist Karen Kaspar.

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#WildlifeWednesday
This tiny Golden-crowned Kinglet was zipping by me in a park the other day, acrobatic songbird with a remarkable ability to survive in cold climates. Just a bit larger than a hummingbird.

#wildlife #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdphotography #nature #womensart #Photography #Washington #PNW #winter

A tiny bird called, Golden-crowned Kinglet with their wing spread feeding on a frosty plant; acrobatic songbird with a remarkable ability to survive in cold climates. Just a bit larger than a hummingbird.

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I send thanks to the buyer from Texas who purchased a canvas print of

Evening Light at the Grand Canyon -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/evening-light-at-the-grand-canyon-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

May the artwork take you to a still, silent place full of majesty and grandeur, one that invites you to stop everything you're doing and simply be awestruck by creation.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #nature #travel #sunset #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #decor #canyon #nationalpark #arizona #southwest #vacation #peace #quiet #calm

Canvas print of an original oil painting depicting the Grand Canyon at sunset.

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