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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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"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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Great white egret glides over the Everglades. The morning sun illuminates its outstretched wings.
Beautiful wall art for your home or office.

https://rhartprints.etsy.com/listing/4417040014

#buyintoart #birds #wallart #nature #florida #photography #art #photo #fineart #fediart #giftideas #ayearforart

Great white egret with wings fully outstretched, backlit by the morning sun as it glides over the everglade wetlands

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Great white egret, wings outstetched lit by the rising morning sun fly over the Florida Everglades hangs on a wall in a large framed format.

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Winter in the Valley

Stoneman Bridge in Yosemite Valley is a popular spot for photographers and painters alike. Looking up to the Northeast the Merced River flows down from Happy Isle and crosses in Front of Half Dome. To the south you can follow the river down along the eastern walls of the valley.

https://pixels.com/featured/winter-in-the-valley-bill-gallagher.html

#WinterInTheValley #BillGallagherPhotography #Yosemite #YosemiteValley #HalfDome #River #MercedRiver #Snow #Clouds #Nature #NatureLovers #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Winter

Winter In The Valley

A quiet winter hush settles over Yosemite Valley in this scene. Fresh snow softens every surface, turning the landscape into a world of muted whites and silvers. The Merced River moves slowly through the frame, its dark, glassy surface reflecting the pale sky like a strip of polished obsidian. Along the riverbank, snow-laden pines lean inward, their branches heavy and still, absorbing sound the way thick velvet absorbs light.

Half Dome rises like a ghost emerging from thinning clouds—its granite face catching a faint wash of afternoon sun that glows warm against the cold surroundings. The air feels crisp enough to sting the lungs, carrying the faint scent of wet stone and pine bark exposed beneath the snow.

The entire valley seems to exhale slowly, as if pausing between storms. Light drifts across the scene in soft, shifting patches, illuminating the western bank where the sun briefly kisses the fresh snowfall, making it sparkle as though dusted with crushed crystal. It’s a moment of stillness, clarity, and quiet awe—winter holding Yosemite in a gentle, luminous grip.

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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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Elder Shore
The sea moves endlessly, reshaping itself with every breath, while the rocks remain. Just before sunset, light softens the water into silk, revealing a balance between calm and motion.

#sea #seascape #ocean #landscape #LandscapePhotography #photo #photography #noai #nature #naturephotography #meer #meerMittwoch #mar #art #MastoArt #fediart #sunset

A rugged coastal scene at golden hour. Dark, weathered rock formations frame the image on both sides, forming a natural corridor toward the open sea. Long-exposure water flows silkily around the rocks, turning the waves into soft, milky streams that contrast with the sharp, textured stone. The ocean beyond is restless but controlled, while the sky glows with warm pastel tones - peach, gold, and pale blue, layered with gentle clouds, suggesting either sunrise or sunset. The overall balance is between power and calm, permanence and motion.

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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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Hiking in winter can be nice, but if you tell old man winter I said that I will deny it 😜😂

@outdoor @nature @photography @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking @hiking@fedigroups.social

#FridayFrolic #Friday #Frolic
#OC
#NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography #Photo
#January #Southern #Finland #Archipelago #Åland #Eckerö
#Hiking #InMy #Winter #Wonderland

Phot of a woman standing by the water on a rocky coastline with patchy snow cover. The sun is shinning on some cloud cover and reflecting of the water making the scene both light and dark. In the distance are some islands and seabirds on the calm water.

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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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📷 This squirrel and I watched each other through the window this morning as they munched on green leaves.

#Nature

gray squirrel with a bushy tail perches on a broken tree branch, holding food in its front paws. green leaves and tree trunks surround it, and a blurred background shows more foliage and tree branches.

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I send thanks to the buyer from Maryland who purchased an iPhone case of

Wallowa Valley Storm -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/wallowa-valley-storm-steve-henderson.html?product=iphone-case-cover

May the image on the case transport your mind from the walled world of digital to the real world that surrounds you.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #iphone #oregon #storm #weather #nature #spring #green #giftidea #rain #clouds #valley #hiking #sale

iPhone case with an image of a rainy landscape on it.

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Roads have the ability to take us to fantastic places, but it's a partnership: they break a path, but we have to walk, bike, drive, or fly upon that path.

Road to Monument Valley canvas print -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/road-to-monument-valley-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #travel #utah #southwest #adventure #nature #wallart #print #landscape #west #western #fedigiftshop

Road leading to rock formations in the distance.

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Go ahead: think like a kid, act like a kid, remember what it's like to immerse yourself in the sheer joy of the moment . . . and just do it.

Boy in the Rhubarb Patch canvas print -- https://www.pictorem.com/2671947/boy-in-the-rhubarb-patch/

Free shipping in the U.S. and Canada

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #boy #play #forest #nature #green #woods #rhubarb #weekend #joy #plants #imagine #fedigiftshop #decor #outside #outdoors

Canvas print in living room of a boy playing with a rhubarb leaf.

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👋 This winter, ❄️ if you find an opossum in your garage please leave the door open a crack, don't call animal control.
They are trying to warm up and will leave on their own.
👉 edit: Correction: Apparently this is incorrect. We can find this stated as fact throughout many publications ➡️ They are nature's Lyme Disease Control-eating 5,000 ticks per year⬅️ but it was based on an incomplete study. Read about it here https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/conservation/wildlife-conservation/possums-dont-eat-ticks
Thank you @KellyLepo for providing new info and link.

As scavengers, opossums help keep the environment clean by consuming carrion, thereby preventing the spread of diseases. Additionally, they are natural pest controllers, feeding on populations of rodents, ticks, snails, and slugs.

#Winter #Nature #Animal
https://animalfact.com/opossum/

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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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#PhotoJanuary2026 #PhotoJanvier2026
J - 24 Thème / Theme / Tema : #Voyage #Travel #Viaje
🇫🇷 Voyage, faut-il aller à l’autre bout du monde ? À 15 km de chez-moi, #Yvelines - #France
🇬🇧 Travel : do you really need to go to the other side of the world? Just 15 km from my home, Yvelines, France.
🇪🇸 Viaje : es necesario ir al otro extremo del mundo? A 15 km de mi casa, Yvelines, #Francia

#photography #photographie #fotografia #photo #foto #rando #randonnee #hike #hiking #nature #naturaleza #outdoors #landscape #etang #lac #Pond #lake #Estanque #lago

- Ponton en bois traversant un étang calme entouré d'arbres verdoyants sous un ciel partiellement nuageux.
- Wooden footbridge crossing a calm pond surrounded by lush trees under a partly cloudy sky.
- Pasarela de madera cruzando un estanque tranquilo rodeado de árboles frondosos bajo un cielo parcialmente nublado.

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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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The 1.1% illuminated Waxing Crescent Moon setting in sunset afterglow over the Space Needle and Lk Washington last night.

#Seattle #Washington #PNW #Moon #Sunset #Nature #Astro #Astrophotography #Photo #PhotoOfTheDay

A collage of three photos shows a thin crescent moon above a silhouetted cityscape at sunset. The orange sky is warm and serene, creating a peaceful mood over the Space Needle, Seattle.

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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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#Washington #PNW #Nature #HairIce #Ice #Forest #Photo #PhotoOfTheDay #Outdoors #Getoutside #Hiking

Hair ice, a delicate natural phenomenon, appears on wood in icy curls. It looks like silky white hair, formed by specific cold conditions.

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Psst – Winter Sale!
Art Heroes and Werk aan de Muur are offering 10% off everything this weekend!

Why not stop by my shop there and pick out a lovely gift for yourself or someone special?

I'd love to see you there!

--> https://karenkaspar.artheroes.de/

#art #cats #birds #painting #nature #watercolor #MastoArt #gifts #buyintoArt #shamelessSelfPromotion #sale #fediGiftShop

Collage of nine handmade paintings by Karen Kaspar. 1. In the center "Little Robin" acrylic painting of a Robin bird on pink background, Clockwise: 2. "Black cat" acrylic painting, head of a black cat in a meadow, 3. watercolor painting "pink Zinnias and butterfly", 4. watercolor painting "you and me together", a black and a white cat form a circle like the yin and yang symbol, 5. watercolor painting "Two sunflowers", 6. acrylic painting "calm sea", a serene landscape with beach, ocean and blue sky, 7. acrylic painting "sweet home", a little house in a yellow field under a dark blue sky, 8. acrylic painting "pastel bird", a bird on a branch in shades of pastel purple, 9. acrylic painting "big red heart".

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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