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You’re welcome, Javier. 🕊️

You’re welcome, John!

Y-E-S to the 🥾! Wonderful news, Jean!! It’s a happy day:) 🙏 🤗

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So, I suppose the surgeon will give you the go-ahead or a no-go (🥾). Thank you, and have a wonderful day too! 👋😊

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Close-up of two butterflies perched together on a green leaf, their brown wings marked with pale yellow bands and small red spots, wings open and nearly touching.

Today is World Wildlife Day.

Share an image of your favorite wildlife.

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The photo captures a violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) foraging on a grape hyacinth (Muscari), a classic early-spring pairing that signals the season’s awakening. The star of the image is unmistakably a violet carpenter bee, one of the largest bee species in Europe. Its dense, jet-black fur is absolutely dusted with golden pollen granules, a testament to its industrious foraging, and the dark, slightly iridescent wings are clearly visible folded along its back. The bee clings closely to the flower stem, its bristly legs and abdomen pressing against the blooms to maximize pollen collection. The early timing makes sense: violet carpenter bees emerge from winter hibernation in wood tunnels as early as late February or March in mild weather, making this a wonderfully early spring encounter. The grape hyacinth spike provides a perfect compositional anchor, its classic cone shape shows the characteristic gradient from tightly closed, pale greenish-white buds at the tip down to fully opened blue-violet bell flowers below. Muscari are among the very first flowers of spring and provide crucial early nectar and pollen for pollinators emerging after winter, when food sources are still scarce. The shallow depth of field beautifully isolates the bee-on-bloom against the soft, blurred greens of the Muscari leaves, with a hint of a second flower spike in the left background adding natural depth. The warm, raking sidelight brings out every hair on the bee’s body and makes the pollen dust glow. The perspective, close, lateral, and at flower height, is exactly right for this kind of insect-on-bloom macro work, giving the viewer an intimate window into a fleeting moment of early spring pollination.

Good morning everyone and happy #BlueTue!
#AnimalArtTuesday #bee #insects #naturephotography #flowers #photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin

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As the sun rises a wall of clouds are moving in and blanketing the shoreline. The clouds are illuminating in reds and orange colors. The water is frozen with some ice that is reflecting the sky. In the foreground is a skinny leafless tree, a spruce and hydrangea tree. A pole and a couple of wind spinners.

Good morning friends! It’s ridiculously cold and 9 degrees outside 🥶 We’re going to get snow then rain later. Here’s today’s #SunriseMagic on the #CTShoreline with #clouds. I hope you have a peaceful day! Go outside and just breathe! #landscape #photography #reflections

Good morning, Jean! It’s freezing there. Brrr. Sending you positive vibes and hoping your appointment goes well today. 🤞🫂 The weather forecast is messy, so please take care while traveling to and from. 😘

Wooded area with trees and shrubs.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

Sun rising reflecting on a palm tree.

You, mom or dad, making some breakfast and hears sounds in the house from your child getting up to start the day...the little things that warm our hearts...💞

A magnolia bud covered in fresh snow with a blurred evergreen tree in the background. March 2, 2026

In like a lion... ❄️🤍

#MinimalMonday #bloomscrolling

A little egret stands in a body of water and is photographed from the side. It is looking towards the right side of the picture.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideView, the Alt theme is #Yellow

I photographed this Little Egret yesterday in Le Teich, #France

#birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildlife #photography #scape #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin

A meadow full of blooming crocuses in blue, white and yellow

For everyone who needs it right now!
Life is colourful 🌈🌷🪻🌼🌻
Wishing you a wonderful day 🫶

#ColorADay #BlueTue #scape #FineArt #photography #flowers #ArtYear #photohour #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings #EastCoastKin

Morning Jules! ☀️ 🫖☕️🍵
Happy Tuesday, my friend! 😊

Wooden steps lead up through green trees and bushes… at the top stands a tall tree with wide branches covered in ivy… The sky is clear and blue… sunlight creates light and shadow across the steps and ground

Good morning and happy Monday, BS 🦋… Wishing you a beautiful week and a bright month ahead ☕️☀️🌿🌳💛✨

A tree with bare branches on a leaf covered slope in a forest area… . moss covers the base of the trunk… other trees and evergreens are behind it…the sky is a pale blue

Good morning and happy Friday, BS 🦋…
Wishing you a great day and happy weekend ✨🥂
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#ForestFriday #Nature

A purple alium flower

From last Spring #BlueskyArtShow #Round #bloomscrolling 🌱

A silvery moon glows netween pink sunrise clouds in a blushing dawn sky. The moon is framed by dark winter bare trees on the left. The ground is covered with a light layer of snow. The trees dwindle to shrubs on the right, through which you can see the dawn's light reflected off distant hills.

#SilentSunday #Photography

#MomentofZen #Sleepytime

In the tropical conservatory, Denver Botanic Gardens. Again.

#VideoVignette
Set in Stone, Cerulean Skies (Epidemic Sound)

For #BlueskyMonday. Another #infrared #colorswap. This fogbow was persistent. I photographed it with my color and infrared cameras for about 30 minutes. They are rare to see. I've only photographed them a few times. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #fullspectrum

The picture shows a handsome male **Mallard** (Anas platyrhynchos) swimming calmly on fairly calm, dark water. Key features visible: - **Head and neck**: Iridescent emerald-green (very characteristic of breeding male mallards), with a glossy sheen that catches the light. The green extends down the neck. - **White neck ring**: A crisp, bright white collar completely encircling the base of the neck. - **Bill**: Bright yellow-orange, very typical of an adult male in good condition. - **Breast**: Rich chestnut-brown/maroon. - **Body**: The visible parts are mostly light grayish-tan (the flanks), with some darker brown/gray tones toward the rear. - **Tail**: Small area of white is visible at the very back (the tail covert feathers), with the classic small upward-curling black feathers just above the tail (the "curl" that male mallards are known for). - **Eye**: Small, dark, and set against the green head. - **Posture**: The duck is floating relaxed, body low in the water, creating gentle concentric ripples spreading outward in all directions. The water appears quite dark (possibly reflecting a blue sky or late-afternoon light), which makes the bright green head, yellow bill, and white neck ring stand out very strongly. Overall impression: classic, beautiful, textbook-looking adult male Mallard in prime breeding plumage, photographed on a sunny day from a fairly close, low angle.

Good Evening and goodnight , BlueSky friends.

Continuing with my reservoir series, here’s a handsome Mallard Duck swimming in the reservoir. The photo was taken with my Canon EOS R50.

#Birds 🪶 #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #NatureLover #UKBirding #WildlifePhotography #CanonR50

Moonrise. Bare deciduous tree bottom left, pinkish sky with random dark gray clouds, full moon center right, topped with creamy white sky.

Pretty moonrise going on right now. 🩷🫶🏻

Ein helles Foto von weißen Blüten an dünnen Zweigen, umgeben von sehr kleinen, sprießenden grünen Blättern; im Hintergrund strahlend blauer Himmel.

Guten Morgen, happy day 🌞
#BlueSkyMonday 💙🤍 #MacroMonday #FlowersOfBluesky 
#bloomscrolling #flowers #scape #nature #photography

Eine Nahaufnahme eines großen, dicken Baumstammes in einer Waldlandschaft, an dessen Fuß grünes Moos wächst; der Waldboden ist mit goldbraunem Winterlaub bedeckt, im Hintergrund sind weitere Bäume und ein leichter, mystischer Nebel zu sehen sowie ein blauweißer Himmel, der zwischen den Bäumen hervorschaut.

Schönen Dienstag, happy Tuesday 🌞
#ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #woodland #forest #moss #scape #nature #photography

Thank you, Jeanne! 👋😊