Pink cherry blossom on this morning's walk, very shallow depth of field with the background a confetti shower of bokeh in pink and purple as the far side of the road catches the sun.
A bouquet of bokeh from this morning.
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Award-winning author of six books, including WOLF BOY, THE LAST INVISIBLE BOY, and HANK'S BIG DAY. Amateur photographer. Serial tree hugger. π¦ Please support Parkinson's research.π¦ Peace + love + joy to all earthlings.
Pink cherry blossom on this morning's walk, very shallow depth of field with the background a confetti shower of bokeh in pink and purple as the far side of the road catches the sun.
A bouquet of bokeh from this morning.
The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. from Openings: Poems (1968)
My dad used to tell my siblings and me that his favorite sound was silence. I get it now. In the midst of the chaos, in the midst of the turmoil of life in this world and in this head, I sometimes need to remind myself to actively seek silence, and the sounds it lets in.
Rainy morning in the park. Spring has truly sprung on Vancouver Island.
#photography #nature #flowers #EastCoastKin #bloomscrolling #crocus #scape #VancouverIsland #PhotographersOfBlueSky
Lake Doctors say you have only weeks yet. You go early to bed and draw meadows. One day remembers a better one as she crawls out of consciousness. Whatever happens happens now. Red painted monuments bloom. Itβs a messy, wild-growing grief. One child ventures out, the child, lovely and bespeckled, the child, a powerhouse, the child grown up, a person capable and remarkable. Then the ocean comes for the land. Drought is causing the reappearance of the canyon. And of the split level house on a lake.
Lesle Lewis
recently appeared in @periodicities.bsky.social & in the forthcoming collection with @pizamapress.bsky.social
A photo of blue skies and an apartment building and a tree.
Happy #BlueSkyMonday, fellow earthlings and moon buddies. #photography
Have a peaceful Sunday.
#Stunday #photography #EastCoastKin #scape #bloomscrolling #nature #crocus #flowers #PhotographerOfBlueSky
Pic of the Dayβ¦Red Skies β€οΈπ©΅β€οΈ
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#sunset #sunsets #sundowns #sunrisesandsunsets #beach #sunsetters #sunsettrip #sunsetsky #sundaysunsets #beaches
A photo of a bird flying over a field and trees in the background.
βWander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty.β
- Chuang Tzu
#imageandverse #poetry #photography #wisdom
A photo of dozens of white and purple petunias.
"Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself." St. Teresa of Avila
#photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #saints #wisdom
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
LATE We are not ever lost and nothing delays us. We carry the sun on our backs and cover such ground as you would not believe. We are the colonists of dark, the cousins of radiance, who shall bloom among you. Listen, do not move in your hard beds; we enter your rooms and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, memories of the moon, warm bouquets of air. . . Listen, even now the breathing begins. --MARK STRAND
Another by Mark Strand from The New Yorker, this one for the completist. An early version of "The Coming of Light" (one of his most celebrated poems), "Late" was never collected, and hence, has been relegated to the dustbin of literary history. Enjoy!
"For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy and unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we havenβt forgotten: the open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood."
~Β Carl Sagan
Super excited to share my review of E.G. Cunninghamβs FIELD NOTES, out today in Another Chicago Magazine! Itβs a wonderful collection, friends!
Read the review here: anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/02/24/r...
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@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
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A colorful post-sunrise sky above a field in Central Michigan.
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." - Rumi
#photography #wisdom #poetry
Happy Tuesday! This was our first sunrise after the big storm and the super-smooth sand from the storm surge abutting the beautifully white snow capped dunes under wave layers and the rising sun made the entire package very pretty. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!
Stunning. Thanks for posting.
Experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have rediscovered a recording and determined itβs probably the oldest whale recording still in existence. The likely vocalist? A humpback whale. π spklr.io/6007Dxy1Z
π·: BlackBox
ποΈ: Luis Lamar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Hundreds of fallen flower petals fill a patch of lawn, with added colorization.
"The point in life in to know what's enough--
why envy those otherworld immortals?
With the happiness held in one-inch square heart
you can fill the whole space between heaven and earth."
-- Gensei (1623-1668)
#imageandverse #poetry #photography #wisdom
Thank you!
A photo of Queen Anne's Lace, and other weeds and flowers.
Sunday is #Stunday. Pictured below is an arrangement of weeds and #flowers and other living things from last August. #photography #bloomscrolling
Poems for Lent (Day 4)
β’ St. John of the Cross β’
A photo of two white flowers and several buds.
#BlueSkyArtShow #two #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography
Here's thirty seconds worth of calming tropical fish action for your Friday enjoyment. #tropicalfish
A photo of red roses soaking up sunlight, and a poem fragment by Bibi Hayati.
"Before the first seed broke open the rosebed of Being,
An inner lark soared through your meadows,
Heading toward Home." - Bibi Hayati
#photography #roses #flowers #bloomscrolling #wisdom #poetry
From MORE FLOWERS β¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈ
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text graphic featuring a portion of Jim Moore's poem. it reads: Sometimes tenderness arrives out of nowhere, stays for a moment, and then is gone. Like a grown child who leaves home to make her way in the world. She goes away, she returns, then goes away again. You remain behind.
"Despite February being my birth month, it is easily my least favorite month of the year," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1459 of The Slowdown.
Read βFebruary" by Jim Moore β from ENTER (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) β and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4aDC1Qn
Principal Weatherbee!
because everything is on fire there are flowers a thousand thousand times a day
Gary Barwin
@garybarwin.bsky.social
#ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #trees #psychedelic
A close-up of a dandelion seed puff and a quote from Rumi.
Happy Sunday, Blue Sky fliers. Photo by me. Words by Rumi.
#imageandverse #photography #dandelions