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Maria Carvalho

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Multigenre author/reader ☆ Snap-happy nature gal (my 📸) ☆ Space nerd ☆ Author of "Hamster in Space!" kidlit book ☆ Pun lover ☆ Writer in Residence for Literary Revelations Publishing House ☆ Pushcart nom ☆ More info: shorturl.at/RYKzk 📚

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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 5h
Spent a fab day in Boston yesterday with our son as our tour guide. The public garden was so gorgeous! #FlowerReport
A lush display of multi-colored impatiens and (according to Google Lens) vibrant red ti plants.
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Joy @joyf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wishing you a bright spot at the end of your day #Nature #Sunset #CapeCod
Sunset full of orange and red setting in the west over Cape Cod Bay
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Nature By Michelle @nature-by-michelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Into October 🍂 #photography #nature #trail #sunlight #autumn #fall I waited at the start of this trail as the sun started shining through the trees, hoping for light rays. As I was photographing this spot the glowing leaves looked almost like fireflies as they moved in the slight breeze. ✨️💛
Orange leaves line a trail through a tunnel of trees. Morning sunlight from the right lights up leaves here and there.
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September’s #bequest ~ a dahlia unfolds into October #vss365 #monoku #PoetryInPictures #nature #garden #photography
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sueghosh.bsky.social @sueghosh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A #printable card featuring my #watercolor painting and a sweet message🐈‍⬛ ko-fi.com/s/f33e1b469f #catlovers #digitaldownload #traditionalart #artsky
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Printable Card for Cat Lovers 1 (Digital Download) - Sue Ghosh Art's Ko-fi Shop
This is a digital item created from my handmade watercolor painting. The printable card is perfect for cat lovers and especially for those who love ...
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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 30/09/2026
I find photographing flowers very uplifting. When I was younger, doing creative work helped me cope. These days it feels much lighter. (I guess it worked?) Passiflora 'Susan Brigham' under UV light.
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dying light doesn’t give the living a second thought Even when a sunset bequest springs forth Spry rain in sly agreement won’t give the undeserved a single, terrifying drop #vss365 #bequest #poetrysky #inkMine #spry #poetsofbluesky #Photography #ECK #WCK #OurPoetryX #terrify 💙📷 me
Spry Rain Sky Art 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of a vivid reddish pink sunset sky dredged with rain clouds.
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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hearts and flowers.
Purple loosetrife flowers mixed with the heart-shaped leaves of  wild grapevine.
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
among the lavender a bee becomes part of the silence #DailyHaikuPrompt #Bee #Haiku #Haiga #Poetry #ECK #Nature #Photography my 📷
A bumblebee clings to purple lavender blossoms, feeding among the flowers against a softly blurred green background.
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Bernard Doucette @bdoucette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@ravenbranhard.bsky.social Amazing work, Raven! ✍️✨️🥂 So many beautiful poems! Among my favorites is on pg. 97 that starts, "Every night, I bargain with the dark-" But there are so many to choose from. I'll be providing a review on Amazon and Goodreads soon (5 stars, of course) Great job! #Booksky
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Nature By Michelle @nature-by-michelle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A deer friend. 💛 #wildlife #autumn #photography #forest
A buck turns to look at me, standing in golden light in the woods, early Autumn
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SciFanSat Magazine @scifansat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Calling all writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy and More: #SciFanSat welcomes you to face your fears with October’s theme of SPIRIT! Danse macabre your manuscripts to us before submissions close on 10.22.2026 at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts
SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More! October’s theme for issue 39 is SPIRIT. The deadline for submissions to issue 39 is October 22nd, and it will be published on Saturday, October 31st, 2026... Happy Halloween!
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A diamond black envelope arrives An invitation to dream gently drifts by careful darkness embraces the sky Come morn we must say goodbye Sunlit blue upon blue stirred white and gold purifies our souls #vss365 #poetrysky #poetsofbluesky #writesky #photography #wck #BlueSkyMonday 💙📷 me
Blue upon Blue, Invitation to Dream. 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved.
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is Prince, my Amazon Milk tree frog as a froglet. He's almost an adult now. He was resting in the mossy waterfall, but prefers the canopy since he is arboreal. #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #amphibian #frogs #herps #eastcoastkin #photography
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
grief does not purify it leaves the cup the chair the unmade bed exactly where love last touched them #Vss365 #Purify #PoetrySky #Poem #Nature #Photography #ECK #Grief #Poetry my 📷
Pink wildflowers beneath a hazy sun, surrounded by tall grasses and softly blurred vegetation.
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Bernard Doucette @bdoucette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some pinkish hues in the valley clouds this morning Happy Monday! 😊👋 #ColorADay #PinkMon #MountainMonday
Thick layer of pink clouds in the valley. Mountain silhouettes under peach and pink skies.
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Nature By Michelle @nature-by-michelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Under the Harvest Moon. #autumn #fall #foggy #sunrise #photography The moon was really cool when it got low in the sky, it seemed so big! Unfortunately none of my pics of the big moon looked as pretty as this one, so 🤷‍♀️. I snuck a few feet onto this golf course for this one. 💕
Goldenrod in the foreground of a foggy pond under a pink sunrise sky and full Harvest Moon.
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
𝓥𝓪𝓷 𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓼 In the name of all good hearts you've broken I renounce you emotional vampire Bubbling holy water won't stop you Renounce you In the name of all goodness you've stolen 𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓼 𝓕𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓸𝓻 𝓪 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓹 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮 #vss365 #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #OurPoetryX #photography #wck 📷 me
Emotional Vampire 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of the full moon with light flares colourised red for dramatic effect.
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the pines #renounce their green ~ the sea bargains for three more minutes of gold #vss365 #monoku #blueskypoets #PoetryInPictures #nature #seaside #sunset #photography
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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*ahem* 1,911 posts. 1,342 writers. 5 years. Issue #100 live now. Give your grandma her lucky number before she heads to the bingo hall, yes? www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity
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Dorota @dorotapawlak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fungi find from yesterday’s hike. #stunday #photography #nature #fungi #fungifriends #forest #hiking #scape #mushrooms #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky
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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
walk and walk until the words are waves
The back of a woman walking along the Atlantic shore.
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today is #Stunday and I think the milky way is stunning. To stand and look deep into the edge of our galaxy is humbling. Especially when viewed in a dark sky location. It's visible along the coast of North Florida. #photography #landscape #ECK #MilkyWay #stars #astronomy #space #astrophotography
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was fortunate to encounter a Wunderpus Octopus on a night dive in Komodo, Indonesia. It's on every diver's bucket list to have this rare experience. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #wunderpus #indonesia #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography
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Abbie James @abbiewjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
offering wonder the question mark butterfly asked nothing of me #ColorADay #OrangeSun 🧡💚 #nativeplants #haiku first Polygonia interrogationis sighting in my garden!
photo taken looking up at question mark butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis) on purple New England asters; butterfly is dark orange with black spots and silver-blue on wing edges; blurry trees and blue sky above
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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've loved Steve Martin since I was a kid. Can't believe I finally got to see him and Martin Short last night!
Steve and Martin chatting in comfy black chairs.Steve killing it on the banjo. Impossible that the man is 81.
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Geoff Braine @geoffbraine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar Has Given You the Call 🎶 ” - Part 3 #photography #ECK 1 @zinoky.bsky.social 2 @ftlshawn.bsky.social 3-4 @womanseeksfungi.bsky.social 5-9 @mush-photos.bsky.social 10 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social
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Reed @reedwithabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pretty memories.
A lagoon with small, calm waves running clear on smooth sand, ending in a neat thin piping of white foam. The sky is later afternoon blue and the sun looks closer to the horizon than it actually was.
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Suse @bookish33.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s a rainy one tonight, so a recent sunset will have to do 💛♥️🧡 (always 100% real, sometimes I can’t believe it myself 🫶🏼) Good night wishes ✨✨✨ #photography
A calm lake at sunset. The sky is cloudy and is awash in bright colours of yellow, purple, orange, pink and red. 
The lake reflects the sky, the two separated only by the silhouettes of trees lining the horizon.
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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A lone oak and the Milky Way. #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #photography #astrophotography #milkyway #art #nightsky
Night landscape photograph. A single large oak tree stands in silhouette on the right, above a dark meadow and a line of trees on the horizon. The Milky Way cuts diagonally across the sky from the upper left down toward the tree, its bright dusty core glowing just behind the branches. Thousands of stars fill the rest of the sky.
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Cordoba Luis Photographer @cordobaluis.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Vibrance of the Andes #Sietecueros #Tibouchina #lepidota in its 6th month of continuous blooming A study in botanical resilience and chromatic contrast #flowers #nature #botany #garden #bloom #magenta #naturephotography #plants #blossom #Tibouchina #Colombia #luiscordobapharchive #photography
Macro photography of a flowering Tibouchina lepidota (Sietecueros) shrub. Clusters of pentamerous flowers in magenta and pale lavender hues with prominent yellow stamens. Deep green, lanceolate leaves with characteristic 5-7 longitudinal veins. High-resolution visual record documenting a 6-month continuous flowering cycle, optimized for botanical, phenological, and horticultural indexing.
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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Giant vortex #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #photography #astrophotography #art #longexposure
Black and white long-exposure photograph taken from the forest floor looking straight up. Bare winter trees in silhouette radiate from the edges of the frame toward the center. Behind them, thousands of star trails form concentric arcs around a point near the top center, like a giant spinning vortex.
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SciFanSat Magazine @scifansat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AVAILABLE NOW! Don’t stand for tyranny, fight for liberty! Join the rebellion with Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More by the #SFF authors of today and tomorrow: The September issue of #SciFanSat Magazine is out at scifansat.com! Many thanks to all who contributed, and to our readers, just like you!
SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More!
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HerTurningPage @herturningpage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the sky poured into her— an echoing of wonder her ribs crumbled like ancient pillars spilling into air, into earth, into the eyes of strangers.
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fredarock2.bsky.social @fredarock2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What tomorrow brings. It turned into a swan! This dahlia started raspberry red and gradually lighten to this beauty. So far I have taken 6 cuttings from this plant and they are growing nicely. One is almost blooming n I am gonna have at least 7 plants next yr..YAY. #bicolordahlia #mygarden
An almost fully open white dahlia with magenta edges on the numerous layers of petals.  The petals are tapered not rounded at the tips. The flower is highlighted by the afternoon sun creating a beautiful glow. Dark shadowy green leaves surround the flower.
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Wanderhour @seattle9876.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This double African daisy stopped me on my walk today -nature really knows how to work a color palette. #flowers #photography #FlowerReport #FloralFriday #FlowersonFirday #bloomscrolling #AfricanDaisy
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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The monarchs are getting ready to move on. I'll miss them. 🧡 #FlowersOnFriday
A monarch butterfly flies among purple ironweed blooms. Golden hour light makes everything glow.
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
some hunger does not ask to be fed only held long enough to remember the shape of what is gone #Vss365 #Hunger #PoetrySky #Poetry #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin 📷 mine
A cluster of small yellow wildflowers growing from a rough patch of concrete beside the pavement, reaching upwards into the light.
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Glorious Narcissus resembles gratified sun but lives in brief luminosity An unforgotten woe insofar as Spring's blossoms only thrive in memory #Emoetry #gratified #inkMine #insofar #woe #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #ColorADay #YellowThu #photography #wck #PoetryandPictures 💙📷 me
Grateful Yellow 
Photograph by Winter Ives.
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A CU photograph of a bunch of bright yellow Narcissus. Spring blossoms.
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
agave by the sea ~ its oldest leaves closest to the earth #monoku #PoetryInPictures #nature #seaside #sunset #photography
A large agave rises from white stones beside the Adriatic Sea. Orange and pink clouds fill the sky, and the low sun reflects on the water.
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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 23/09/2026
Various forms of and angles on Milkweed, photographed under UV light. As nature intended. #naturephotography #flowerphotography
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I captured the Christmas Tree Cluster with 24 hrs of integration time using my Askar FRA500, AM5N mount, and ASI2600MC Duo camera. High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/fv8t9n #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #christmastree #starcluster #eastcoastkin #photography
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Geoff Braine @geoffbraine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Verses from the Abstract 🎶” - Part 4 #photography #ECK 1 @brentgoesoutsi.de 2 @pennyjs.bsky.social 3 @johnme23.bsky.social 4 @sophiecarr.bsky.social 5 @colinmacpix.bsky.social 6 @ratherbeatthebeach.bsky.social 7 @30000plusdawns.bsky.social 8 @darrensmith.org.uk
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Kate @katsyarina27.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stormy existence Heart like a lighthouse shining Hope and despair mixed #vss365 #stormy #haiku 📸 Pixabay
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
shorter days chrysanthemums lengthen the light #DailyHaikuPrompt #Chrysanthemums #PoetrySky #Haiku #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
vivid magenta chrysanthemum in bloom, surrounded by green leaves and unopened buds.
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Summer and autumn meet without yielding an inch. #PoetryInPictures #equinox #BlueSky #flowers #photography
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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
half day half night I balance on the dusk
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sueghosh.bsky.social @sueghosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A #printable floral #birthday card at my shop ko-fi.com/s/ac88c58257 #artsky #artist #traditionalart
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Printable Floral Birthday Card (Digital Download) - Sue Ghosh Art's Ko-fi Shop
This is a digital item created from my original abstract floral painting. You will receive a jpg file measuring 105mm x 148mm. Download, print and ...
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good morning, Bluesky! 🌞 The sunrise over the Asia-Pacific from Hualien Port, Taiwan. Enjoy your day. 😎 #landscapephotography #landscape #seascapephotography #seascape #naturephotography #nature #sunrise #lighthouse #taiwan #asia #eastcoastkin #photography
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Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#dailyhaikuprompt #equinox autumn night a leaf tumbles silently though the equinox
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