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Mark Donaldson

@markdon.bsky.social
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Husband, father, grandfather, retired graphic designer, amateur photographer, iphonographer, pursuing fine art in my retirement. Jesus-follower seeking to love my neighbor well… "I have been seized by the power of a great affection!" (C.S. Lewis)

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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 2h
It was a Maxfield Parrish kind of night…. Black Mountain, NC. (IYKYK)
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 6h
Morning sun warms the trail! #ForestFriday #RadnorLake
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cruiser’s Cafe 66… Williams, Arizona #WeekNForNeon #AlphabetChallenge
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A left-leaning old-growth monster along the trail. (note: right-leaning if viewed from the other side!) #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Forest #Hike #ClassicMono #Photography
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reminds me of John Singer Sargent’s “Staircase in Capri”
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sunday is #StunDay! This view never disappoints!
Panoramic view of Radnor Lake, Nashville.
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These three are my world… so proud of each of these three sisters, in their happy place. #BlueskyArtShow #3rdPlace
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another amazing Autumn watercolor by Rukiye Garip (76 x 56 cm; 30 x 22 in) #watercolor #art #autumn #autumnleaves
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another beautiful rendering by Nathan Fowkes - From a trip to the Florida Everglades #art #illustration #Everglades #NathanFowkes
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"No Hurry" - Watercolour by artist Richard Thorn #art #watercolor #RichardThorn
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Certainly not posed. Moments before there were three paused in the path, and I had to wait for them to move on.
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Age of Steam! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #ClassicMono
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Friends along the trail… #ForestFriday #Scape #Deer #Photography #Hike #LandscapePhotograph #RadnorLake
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Soon after sunrise… my little lake never disappoints. Today’s hike included 9 deer, 15 wild turkeys, a great blue heron, and numerous ducks!
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucy Grossmith works with acrylic paints and also does illustration to create beautiful scenes filled with light and whimsy.
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pistons in action aboard the vintage Steamboat Stadt Luzern, on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Old growth tree along the trail in Olympic National Park, Washington PNW #ThickTrunkTuesday #ClassicMono
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remembering our dead, honoring their legacy. #RockinTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #photography #panorama #GreatSmokyMountains #graveyard #cemetary
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Harder Kulm rises above the Aare River - Interlaken, Switzerland #Stunday #Interlaken #HarderKulm #Switzerland
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Evening #lights along Lake Lucerne, Switzerland #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #Lucerne #Switzerland
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Vintage Fresnel lens in the Old Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Watercolor by Adam Papke - "Breton Landscape" (38 x 56 cm) #watercolor #art
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Herman Pekel - "Last Light, Castlemaine" - Australian watercolourist
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stacked stone wall built in the 1930’s by the Civil Conservation Corps [CCC], one of many stone structures located in Percy Warner Park, Nashville #RockinTuesday #PercyWarnerPark
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another amazing cloudscape by Kathleen B. Hudson - “Taking It All In” (Oil, 30 x 30 in.)
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A mossy tangle of roots… anchoring a forest legacy! #ForestFriday #tree #Hike #MossyRidgeTrail #ThickTrunkThursday
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Golden Cloud" - by Kathleen B. Hudson (Oil on linen, 30 x 30 in.)
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘Circle of Life’… aboard the Spirit of British Columbia, out of Victoria BC #ColorADay #OrangeSun
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Impressionistic oil painting titled "Sunday" by artist Sergiu Ciochină
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” ― Christy Ann Martine #BlueSkyArtShow #undulating
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Beautiful lake view while on yesterday’s hike! #ForestFriday #Scape
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Beautiful #scape during the rain yesterday at Radnor Lake, Nashville
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Landscape by Paul Burgess - The Parva, in Tintern on a frosty morning, a favourite place in the Wye Valley.
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#Windows in the beautiful city of Delft, Netherlands (📸 by Christina Plessas) #WindowsOnWednesday #Delft #Netherlands
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Along the trail - Radnor Lake, Nashville #ThickTrunkTuesday #forest #hike #RadnorLake
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Painting by Nathan Fowkes - Emphasizing the way California live oaks fight for survival.
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It was a calm, reflective morning. Have a good day, my friends. #BlueSkyArtShow #Minimal
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Stunning ‘Dragon’s Breath’ Celosia… showing off in my late-summer garden! #FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #FloralFriday #flowers
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
No. 34 - Decorative door in the village of Dragor, Denmark (c.1904) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteger #ADoorableThursday #Denmark
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Along the Lake Trail at Radnor Lake, Nashville. #ForestFriday #hike #RadnorLake
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Marsh Uprising" ‐ painting by English wildlife artist Matthew Hillier [b.1958] - Oil on Panel, 56 x 48 inches #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOfAFeather #itsallwhite
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A decorative bas-relief mantle above the massive three-hearth fireplace(!) in the formal dining room at the Biltmore Estate, Asheville NC. #PalacesandGardens #PalaceRunway
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No. 99-253 - Deutsch Bundesbahn / Passau, Germany #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForIntegers
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ol’ No. 1518 - Illinois Central Railroad / Paducah, Kentucky #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForIntegers
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
William Haskell - "Where the Desert Keeps its Secrets" (40 x 30 inches, Acrylic)
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Monday morning… back to work, 9-to-5! Cool blue reflections in downtown Geneva, Switzerland. #BlueSkyMonday
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Apple Maps still shows Lake Ontario!
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#Summer on the beach - Lake Ontario (near Rochester NY, 2018) #BlueSkyArtShow
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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
On the Danube, earlier this #summer (when the water level was still reasonably high). My contribution to the #BlueSkyArtShow.
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