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Another daffodil #Daffodil #BloomScrolling #Yarden

A daffodil with white petals and a yellow to orange central trumpet. It’s planted in a yard with bark, gravel and river cobble. It’s sunset where a rear fence is in sun but the ground is not.

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A few glimpses of wildfire-oriented aircraft in the last weeks here near Chico, CA. They’re out training for the season. Love hearing the RJ85 (second photo) fly #Aviation #AvGeek #PlaneSpottingA C130 on approach to Willows Airport, just above the giant berm of I-5, the airport hidden behind that berm. Its red tail has a 120 on it and two of its turboprop engines can be seen. Its gear is down.An silohette of a Aero-Flite RJ85 flies overhead against a blue sky with thin, somewhat chaotic and translucent clouds. It's a bit off in the distance but its four engines and T tail are clearly visible.

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Our backyard right now with purple flowering ceanothus. The bright green shrubs are elderberries preparing to flower #BloomScrolling #Yarden

A row of tall ceanothus with dark green leaves and clusters purple flowers set between two tall elderberries with bright green leaves set against a blue sky and a wooden fence. The shrubs are pruned toward the ground, providing space for shade and keeping ladder fuels in check

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House Finch showing their spring colors #HouseFinch #BirdPhotography #Birds #Yarden #Fujifilm #SOoC

A house finch, with bright red upper body, perched on an at-capacity yellow seed feeder. Its chest is facing the camera but its head is cocked to the left, as if it is eyeing the seed port. Some one out peanuts in the bottom feeder tray

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Our “Hosui” Asian Pear tree is now blooming #HomeOrchard #Yarden #BloomScrolling

Two white open Asian pear flowers with red anthers on a young tree above a rocky path. There’s tree has several visible flower buds. There are blooming yellow daffodils in the background along with a narrow elderberry shrub and a bird bath.

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#SilentSunday #BurneyFallsMcArthur-Burney Falls flows mightily with two primary falls in the center with whitewater fed by Burney Creek and multiple smaller falls -- mostly coming from groundwater. The sun shines at the top of the falls and where their water crashes into a pool. A dozen or so people enjoy the falls from a sunny rock shore. Conifers frame the entireity of the photo, with a bit of grass on the right.

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Yesterday, Manzanitas, Daffodils, and just barely visible on the left, sage, show their spring colors. These daffodils were volunteers so the bulbs either came in with the mulch or a previous home owner planted them and later they got smothered by a lawn. #YardenA tight cluster of daffodils present their yellow flowers of trumpets surrounded by a frill while manzanita bush on the left shows off its aging light-pink colors, and a sage plant on the right shows a few purple flowers amidst lush green growth. The ground has small rock and dried up leaves.

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Somewhere near the North Fork Clackamas River on the Mount Hood National Forest in May, 2018 #Mosstodon

A vine maple, with moss draped branches, like arms, reaching the photographer. Almost as if it is climbing out of the ground. It’s surrounded by a dense stand of narrow, tall conifers . In the foreground, close to the ground, are ferns.

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This is my accidental winter moss garden. Our rear fence and winter-happy native shrubs (ceanothus and elderberry) provide ample shade & the ground rarely dries out in the winter #Moss #Yarden #Mosstodon 

A 1-2 foot wide and longer area of ground covered by moss and surrounded by small rocks. There's various pieces of wood and smaller amounts of rock in the moss.Green long stemmed moss with blunt ends grow on the ground, with various sticks and rock interspersed. There's a fly resting on a rock and there's a tiny brown mushroom just in view.

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Backyard Daffodil #BloomScrolling #Daffodil #Yarden

A bright yellow daffodil is illuminated by the sun, though its interior is in shadow of itself. The flat leaves kind of curve in and out of sun. It’s planted in a mulched area and there’s blurred gravel behind it.
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#SilentSunday

#DeathValleyNPOvercast skies, with a ribbon of blue breaking through, let some sun break through to highlight rugged mountains, brown with patche sof red, that obliquely frame the photo. Dark green shrubs, maybe mesquite, dot the landscape from near the photographer and into the distance. Some of the closer mountains have layers of dark and light rock. Those closer mountains are shadowed by clouds.

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Back in March, 2024, we went to Death Valley. It was nowhere close to this year’s reported superbloom, but it was a treat seeing the cloud shrouded desert landscape painted with yellow north of Ubehebe Crater #DeathValleyNP #BloomScrolling #Fujifilm #SOoC

A wide-angle view of an area north of Ubehebe Crater where yellow flowers carpet the valley and some hills. Clouds are low, touching the peaks of some far off mountains. In the midground, a dirt road crosses the frame in front of some endoheric basins shine, but they're not filled with water, just really freshly deposited sediment.

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Yesterday, at the refuge, a Bald Eagle was soaring in a thermal. I’m going to miss the winter sunlight illuminating everything from the side!

#BaldEagle #Birds #BirdPhotography #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #CropToZoom

A Bald Eagle, against a clear blue sky, soars overhead, with the camera looking straight up at the bird. Its dark brown wings are outstretched, its feet are tucked against its white tail feathers, and its sun brightened right eye is just visible. Its beak is slightly open, showing off a tongue.

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Our nectarine’s first bloom. It’s in popcorn mode so hopefully most of the buds delay bloom until after this next storm! #HomeOrchard

A light pink nectarine flower with whitish stamens and red anthers. The photo was taken in a backyard with a shed and rocked areas.
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Washing machine hose replacement day, due to a leak at the washer’s hot water fitting. They were… like 10 years old. Don’t at me. It’s in an unfinished garage! Anyway, I noticed the leak before it reached the leak sensor. Yeah, I’m like that. #HomeDIYAn unfinished garage with a small leak on the floor under and beside a dryer. The side of a dryer. then some clear space, then a table with box fan, fire extinguisher, some old coats under it. The water ran downhill the concrete pad to the left.

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"Öffentliche Kunst / Public art"

Vancouver, December 2025 #FotoVorschlag

#Vancouver #Fujfilm #SOoC

At night, an artistic weather vain with one end as metal outlines of clocks or maybe wheels and spokes. The other end looks like a couple of paddles. It's all lit up with purpose. It does spin but no motion can be seen from the photo. Behind it are three lit up stars, probably christmas decorations for the waterfront. Lights across the harbor can be seen.

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The Red-shouldered Hawk again visited our backyard at sunrise. Meanwhile, White-crowned sparrows are oblivious. And later, a Nuttall’s Woodpecker did pest control on our Nectarine, looking for bark-beetles #RedShoulderedHawk #WhiteCrownSparrow #NuttallsWoodpecker #Birds #BirdPhotography #FujifilmA Red-shouldered Hawk through a bunch of Tree of Heaven branches. It's got a bit of clouded over morning sun on its face. The branches criss-cross its body.A close-up of a White-crowned Sparrow is in a tray full of seeds cocks its head up just a bit, as if looking at the camera. It has clear white stripes on its head, one behind its eye and another at the top of its head. The rest of the body is gray to beige with white stripes along its wings. A Nuttalls Woodpecker is furiously pecking at a Nectarine, pausing for a second, eye towards the camera with its tree dust covered beak. It is black with white.

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'Negative space' #FotoVorschlag

At Berlin Tempelhof airport, December 5, 2023. #Berlin #Germany #Fujifilm #SOoC

On a cloudy day with snow covered ground, a runner in a blue outfit travels along one of the Berlin Tempelhof's taxiways. A little father away, a dog runs in parrallel on gnow and grass. The scene is very white with few breaks of buildings along the skyline.

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June, 2022: Munich’s Palace of Justice with the Neptune Fountain #Munich #Germany #Fujifilm #SOoC

The rear of the Neptune Fountain, with Neptune's rear end prominent in front of the Palace of Justice. It's a nice blue but cloudy day, and the sky with clouds reflect in the palace's oversized windows. The copper and glass dome reaches toward the sky.

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I have a lot of ladder angst. So pole pruners are a revelation. I’m very happy that I finally bought one! So, with some help from my wife to support the pole in awkward positions, our oldest, and tallest, apricot tree is now top pruned and is ready for spring #HomeOrchard