Blue tits are frequent visitors to my garden. I love watching them - and painting them.

Portrait of Eurasian Blue tit bird - acrylic painting: karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featur…

#MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #BuyIntoArt #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdArt #birding #nature #NatureLover #BirdWatching #vogel #cute #animals #ArtForSale #blaumeise #bluetit #handmade #giftideas #artwork

Peeking through the branches in the breeze, it's a treat to see these adorable, 9-10 days old Anna’s hummingbird chicks in their natural habitat, being fed by Mom and growing strong day by day.

#Washington #PNW #Birds #BirdsOfmastodon #Hummingbird #Nest #Chicks #Nature #NatureLover #Forest #Trees #Evergreen #Video

Bright yellow primroses bloom in a purple flowerpot.
Have a wonderful day!

Spring flowers in a pot - handmade watercolor painting --> karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featur…

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With love from me to you -

Inspired by a heart-shaped sunflower I spotted in a sunflower field, I painted this small floral still life using watercolors in bright tones of all colors of the rainbow.

--> karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featur…

#love #romance #LoveArt #MastoArt #art #painting #FediGiftShop #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #watercolor #watercolour #BuyIntoArt #flowers #flower #gardening #garden #floral #nature #NatureLover #sunflower #artwork

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About to have a breakthrough 📸

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#Bird
#Birdwatching
#Nature
#Naturephotography
#Wildlife
#Walk
#Hike
#Avian
#Photo
#Photography
#Countryside
#Country
#Birdsofpixelfed
#Featheredfriends
#BirdsofMastodon
#Naturelover
#PixelFed
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#MastodonArt
#Photooftheday
#Vogel
#Mastodon
#Duck

My model was originally a female sparrow, but I felt like using some pastel candy colors...
Enjoy!

Sweet bird:
--> karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featur…

#cute #candy #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #creativity #BuyIntoArt #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdArt #birding #nature #NatureLover #BirdWatching #vogel #animals #handmade #colorful #rainbow #sparrow

Great tits and other songbirds are welcome visitors in my garden and always inspire me to paint.

Great tit hand painted acrylic painting - see more here:
karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featur…

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#Today 08

Good day!

I’d look for signs of spring, but there’s no need. I’m carrying them around in my head.

The variable, roller coaster weather of spring drives my sinuses crazy some days.

Trees are starting to bud, though. The woody brush is leafing. At least the wind died.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

#Today 07

Good day!

A windy day is expected. “Breezy” is the term we’d have used when I lived in Wyoming.

Even so, there’s always the possibility that a fallen tree branch could cut off my power.

Please don’t do that when I have a blog post to draft and a chapter to edit.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

#Today 06

Good day!

We seem to be passing the thresholds that qualify as spring. The temperature. The passing of snow. Of course, bunnies and chocolate.

It’s a strange thing that humans do, creating measures of time, which includes calendars and clocks in the first place.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

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🤍... Just 🤍
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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Walk #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon
#SilentSunday #Swan

#Today 05

Heart Lake, from 2023, the summer I returned to hiking.

Be everwell.

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Floating Beauty 🤍
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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Walk #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon
#Swan

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When the end is good all is good 🩶
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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Walk #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon

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Floating Beauty 🤍
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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Walk #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon
#Swan

Was es wohl wichtiges zu besprechen gibt bei dieser Versammlung von Schwalben?

--> artheroes.de/de/motiv/Versamml…

#Schwalben #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #watercolor #watercolour #BuyIntoArt #birds #birding #nature #NatureLover #BirdWatching #wildlife #vogel #animals #monochrome #silhouette #swallow #aquarelle #aquarell #blue

#Today 04

Good day!

It’s the yo-yo weather of spring, which is to say, we plunge into winter, and then soar towards summer.

It’s time to soar again for Easter, which, these days, mostly translates to chocolate.

The final chocolate holiday until Halloween. That’s an odd link.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

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Morning Water #Yoga 🧘🏼‍♀️
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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Walk #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon

#Today 03

Good day!

An image from October, 2024. Blodgett Canyon was the hike I measure all other hikes against.

There are some wonderful local trails, but none can compare. I try to do one “spectacular” hike each year.

Time will tell if I find one this year.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

The quiet company of coastal ponies. 🐴 Finding these two taking a drink was the highlight of my morning walk at Buckroney Dunes.

#photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #Ireland #WildLife #ConnemaraPony #CoastalLife #NatureLover #IrishLandscape #EquinePhotography #countywicklow

#Today 02

Good day!

Light rain falling. This is the wettest couple of months I’ve seen here in a long time. I’m not going to complain. We needed it.

When we get rain, though, it typically isn’t like what I remember back east as a kid. Downpours here are rare, and usually brief.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

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How to look just like a Boss 🩶
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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Walk #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt #Heron
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon

#Today 01

Good day!

What’s amazing about this shot isn’t just what you see, which is an island in the Clark Fork River, but what you don’t see.

I took this image directly across from downtown (no April Fools).

The channel on the left is where they siphon off irrigation water.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

#Today 31

Good day!

Winter, not that we really had one, is back. Why is it that when below freezing temps return in the spring, they feel extra cold?

Why is it that I left a window open last night?

Well, I did sleep wonderfully last night after finishing my latest project.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

I love the bounce of the suspension bridge at Mount Usher Gardens, especially when it leads to a beautiful cherry blossom!

#photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #Ireland #GardenDesign #SpringVibes #HiddenIreland #NatureLover #Botanical #Bridge #Wanderlust

#Today 30

Good day!

It’s cold and drizzling outside, and I’m facing a big day of editing. I like a challenge.

We humans have evolved that way.

Let’s not stop now. If there’s anything worth bringing back from the past, it’s the appreciation of excellence and achievement.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #Moss #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

#Today

Good day!

Apparently, walking miles to a protest, spending hours there, and then walking home, all after editing a chapter, is exhausting.

Wow, did I sleep well.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #SilentSunday #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

#Today 28

Good day!

The weather here for NO KINGS DAY is supposed to be cloudy, but relatively mild.

Since I don’t want to negotiate downtown traffic, I’ll walk there like last time.

On yesterday’s walk, at each entrance to the path, someone had written in chalk, NO KINGS DAY.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

#Today 27

Good day!

Busy, busy, busy…

I’ll grocery shop early, meaning before sunrise, which means I reach the store before the buses pickup the kids.

I’ll finish shopping after the buses are done, return home after sunrise, and walk.

I’m annoyingly efficient.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

#Today 26

Good day!

It’s below freezing outside and someone left the windows open last night.

Hot beverage on the way, what Evie Cat refers to as “hot sewer water.”

No Kings is on the way the day after tomorrow. We the People don’t forget, nor do we tolerate.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

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She's just breathtaking isen't she 🩶
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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Hunter #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon

#Today 25

Good day!

One thing that brings me a measure of peace here, is all the flowing water. There are three rivers within the city limits, and then there’s Rattlesnake Creek.

The water you see is headed for the Columbia and the Pacific. Sometimes I want it to carry me away…

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

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Shake it up 🩶
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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Walk #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon
#Duck #WildlifeWednesday

#TextureTuesday
A sunlit forest scene with snow-dusted moss hanging from branches. Sunlight filters through trees, highlighting the lush greenery and creating a serene, fresh ambiance.
If you zoom in you can see the snowfall …

#Washington #PNW #Moss #Mosstodon #Winter #Nature #NatureLover #Tree #Forest #Texture #Photo

#Today 24

Good day!

Thick clouds above. No rain. That’s a lot of the reason why I moved here. My English skin isn’t fond of burning.

I’ll be out on Saturday no matter what the weather is like. The reasons to march seem to grow exponentially each time.

It’s time to be heard. ✊

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

a photo I took last week of one of the neighborhood cats hanging out on our wall in the early morning ~

#cats #cat #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #catsofmastodon #catstodon #wildlife #life #animals

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Spring vibes 💛

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#Bird #Birdwatching #Nature #Naturephotography #Wildlife #Walk #Hike #Avian #Photo #Photography #Countryside #Country #Birdsofpixelfed #Featheredfriends #BirdsofMastodon #Naturelover #PixelFed #WildlifePhotography #MastodonArt
#Photooftheday #Vogel #Mastodon

#Today 23

Good day!

We have four seasons here, which is part of the reason I moved here:

• Frozen
• Mud & Tick
• Dry & Dusty
• Unpredictable

You might recognize Mud as spring. Yup. There are also flowers, along with spring fever. I have that. Can’t wait to hike again.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #Moss #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

Sanftes Erwachen. 🌱💜

#Pixelfed #Spring #Crocus #Nature #Minimal #QuietMoment #FlowerPower #SpringIsHere #richtergrafie #Pixelfed #Makrofotografie #Krokus #Blumen #Frühlingsblüher #Bokeh #WeichesLicht #Detailverliebt #Naturpur #LilaLiebe #PhotographyArt #Frühling #Naturfotografie #Krokus #Morgentau #Minimalismus #Stille #Blumenliebe #NatureLover #NatureGraphy #Macro_Perfection #FloraAndFauna #TheBeautyInSmallThings #NaturalWorld #EarthCapture #OutdoorPhotography #WonderfulNature #ArtOfVisuals #FineArtPhotography #DreamyAesthetics #MinimalistPhotography #SoftFocus #MoodEditor #VisualPoetry #PastelTones #Master_Shots