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Andrea Smart

@spicynoodlez11.bsky.social
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I walk around taking pictures of tiny stuff people usually overlook, but sometimes bigger things as well. Mostly nature. It’s how I cope with the horrors. I hope it helps you too. Almost all the pictures I post are mine. Join me in the Alt Text. :-)

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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 16h
The leaves come tumbling down, and as they return to the earth, they wear their finest jewels. #ForestFriday #ColorADay #BWFri #Macro #Photography #ClassicMono #NatureIsArt #Monochrome #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A closeup monochrome shot of an eye-shaped leaf resting on the forest floor, covered in orb-shaped drizzle raindrops.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Getting a very early start on #ForestFriday because we really need these #trees. #OregonWhiteOaks #Woodlands #Fall #Autumn #Nature #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Backlit Oregon white oak trees at golden hour, showing off their crazy squiggle branches in silhouette form. Their leaves are starting to turn golden brown, although there’s still quite a bit of warm green in the canopy too. The trees are casting long shadows on the drought-crispy grass.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What an aesthetically pleasing set of fall maple leaves. #ColorADay #YellowThu #FallLeaves #Autumn #October #LeafPeeping #PNW #ECK #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A spray of maple leaves emerging from the morning shade and into the sunlight. Three are still green, but the larger two are bright golden yellow, especially the biggest one in the center.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s a big, squishy spot in my heart for this #UrbanGaze. #Bern #Switzerland #Travel #ECK #ThrowbackThursday #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Looking down the Main Street of the old, medieval-age city of Bern, Switzerland at the Zytglogge, an ornately designed clock tower and pedestrian archway. The buildings are lined with the red and white “plus sign” Swiss flags interspersed with colorful canton flags representing the “states” within Switzerland. I lived here for a time and have such important life memories of this place. It’s also where some of my ancestors came from. Also, I love cheese. It must be genetic. Oh, I wish I could go back.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A little something from my archives for #WaterWednesday. A late afternoon walk by a lake with amazing #WaterTexture. #ClassicMono #Monochrome #NatureIsArt #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A monochrome shot of ripples and bare tree reflections make long interesting squiggle and swirl patterns on the silvery water surface.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s still unseasonably warm here, but the #trees are still doing their #October thing. #ColorADay #RedWed #Autumn #Fall #Leaves #PNW #ECK #Photography #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Looking up at the backlit leaves of a red maple tree turning a lovely shade of glowy red against the clear, blue sky. Branches and twigs are silhouetted black against it all.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some lovely #blue #hydrangeas from back in the summer for #ColorADay #BlueTue. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #NatureIsArt #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Clusters of blue and blue-lavender hydrangea flower clusters against their dark green foliage. The flower cluster in the foreground are lit by the fun.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This aggregating #anemobe is an absolute color party. Also kinda looks like an eye with crazy eyelashes. #TidesOutTuesday #Beach #TidePooling #PNW #ORcoast #Abstractia #Eyes #Macro #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
Macro shot of half of a very colorful aggregating anemone emerging from the sand in a tide pool on the Oregon Coast.  Its base is a bumpy olive green, the tentacles are a riot of mint green, pale yellow, and magenta. A layer of sand rests in the middle, but the central mouth area is visible, and has stripes radiating out from the center in the same light olive and mint green colors that are on the outside parts.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A little something different for #RockinTuesday - the beautifully inlaid #rock pathways at #LanSuChineseGarden in downtown #PDX. #Stones #Design #PNW #ECK #Art #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Small, oval inlaid stones on a pathway at Lan Su Chinese Garden in downtown Portland, OR. Shades of dark and light stones are used to make a dark grid, the intersections of which feature lighter stones designed like flowers. It’s lovely. It’s right downtown, but once you’re inside the garden walls, you’d have no idea.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good #ThickTrunkTuesday to you all from this “watcher in the #woods” on the side of a large maple covered in #lichen. #SpookySeason #Trees #October #PNW #Anstractia #Eyes #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice
The silvery-white side of a maple tree trunk covered in blotches of yellow-green sunburst lichen, and pale sea-green shield and oakmoss lichen has the contour of an eye looking out where a limb had probably been cut off in the past. Now it silently watches passersby in a small woodland patch near the local community college. Oh, the stories it could tell…
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At the end of a long day, wondering when the #rain will come back. I freely admit that I’m a #Pluviophile #ColorADay #PinkMon #MacroMonday #Macro #Roses #BloomScrolling #RaindropsOnRoses #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A pink rose petal fell onto the green leaf of another plant during a rainstorm a couple of weeks ago. Raindrops on everything. It’s October 5 and was still in the 80s Fahrenheit here today, when it should be in the 50s-60s and rainy most of the time.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dove into the archives for this #MinimalMonday scene from #UpstateNY. #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Snow #Winter #NatureIsArt #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A snowy, untouched hillside with a line of trees along the top, and a pale gray sky above that is only slightly darker than the white snow on the ground. Naturally monochrome.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There’s nothing minimal about this glorious old #OakTree. A community full of #moss, #lichen, bugs, birds, squirrels and who knows what all else. As the #leaves turn, more sky is visible, so happy #BlueSkyMonday. #Trees #Woods #Forest #NatureIsArt #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A giant, gnarly old Oregon white oak tree towers into the blue sky. It’s green leaves are turning brown, as they do in the fall. But it’s 80F today, which has become alarmingly normal. Still! Nice day to greet this old friend.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Miracles are everywhere. Just look at these! #StunDay #Flowers #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Nature #Photography #Art #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Rows of brightly colored flowers growing with a grass path between each at a local farm coop. A pop of orange in the center, hit also pink, red, purple, and white, all against their green foliage, smiling in the son.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Dew bejeweled #spiderwebs are such a work of #art in #nature. Found this one at another #3rdPlace favorite park on a foggy morning. #BlueSkyArtShow #BNWmacro #Macro #ClassicMono #Monochrome #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A monochrome shot of a spider web stretched between tree branches and covered in dewdrops left behind by the fog
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another favorite #3rdPlace is this nearby #Woodland retreat within walking distance. Going down these steps and into the #trees sparks joy. #Forests #Trees #Woods #BlueSkyArtShow #ColorADay #GreenSat #Nature #Photography #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A brown path with wooden steps going down into the woods. The leaves are still mostly green, but some yellow and brown are starting to show and fall on the path on this cloudy morning.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the same #3rdPlace where I found that amazing stick, I also found this profusion of #flowers. #BlueSkyArtShow #BloomScrolling #Parks #PNW #ECK #Nature #Macro #Art #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A crowd of lavender-colored asters hosts a couple of visiting pink anemone flowers. Seems like spring colors, but this is what’s happening now at one of my favorite 3rd place parks in town.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We had a brief storm that tossed down a few #lichen -covered #sticks. Found this one at one of the many local #parks I frequent as my rotating #3rdPlace. #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro #Photography #HotStickSaturday #FungiFriends #PNW #ECK #LichenSubscribe #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
This is a small, 4-branched stick that fell out of a huge tree. It’s about 5 centimeters long, and features a few pops of bright yellow sunburst lichen (maybe some different types), several bits of pale sea-green hairy rosette lichen, some oakmoss lichen, and maybe some type of cartilage lichen - also varying shades of sea green. The blurry background is a mottled blur of autumn colors like brown, yellow, orange and green.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a bit of an odd #scape, located in the tiny town of Arco, #Idaho. Each graduating class paints their year on the #mountains visible from the town’s main drag. #ColorADay #BWFri #Desert #Travel #Explore #SmallTowns #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A monochrome shot of the cliffs of the Pioneer Mountains facing Arco, Idaho. Layers of uplifted rock rise above the high desert, with blocky white numbers painted all over them, visible from the main road. The numbers represent the years of graduating high school classes going back almost a century. Arco, oddly enough, was the first town fully powered by nuclear energy, which is interesting. Arco is about 20 minutes east of the entrance to Craters of the Moon, one of my favorite places on earth.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thought I was very clever to get a shot of the #HarvestMoon, only to find out I was actually a night early. Ah, well. #Moon #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A monochrome picture of the almost-Harvest Moon in the blackness of space.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a #ForestFriday bonus, I got close up to some recently-refreshed #moss growing on a tree limb after some rain. #ISeeMoss #Macro #Trees #Forests #Woods #Photography #Explore #NatureIsArt #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A macro shot of lush, deep emerald green moss tendrils reaching across a dark brown, slightly purple from the rain, tree branch. The moss is heading from the right to the left, as one does.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let the #trees point the way #ForestFriday. #Forests #Woods #Moss #ISeeMoss #Hiking #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A photo featuring multiple green and dark brown, moss-covered Sitka spruce and Douglas fir trees with lots of green, ferny undergrowth and dappled sunlight. Two well-lit and centered spruce boughs seem to point the way toward where the golden light is coming from.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An insanely fabulous musical line up with #ThomasLauderdale and #ThePilgrims, along with a #Cumbia band and a college #choir performing all together in #PDX a couple of years ago. #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #PNW #MusicScene #ECK #PortlandOR #HaveFun
A stage crammed with musicians at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon a couple of years ago. From left to right: Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini fame, a local college choir behind him going to the right, the surf rock band, Satan’s Pilgrims are front and center in white trousers, red shirts and black jackets, and to the right behind them are the members of a Latin Cumbia band that opened and were so much fun. It was out of this world. Chyna Forbes joined them to sing later. The lower half of the picture is just silhouetted heads from the crowd, all on their feet, dancing. The stage lights are casting red beams on the stage while arches of white Christmas lights line the walls on the left and right. Honestly one of the most fun concerts I’ve been to. We danced all night.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re having late summer vibes in early fall here. Have a lovely day, y’all! #InsectThursday #Butterflies #ColorADay #YellowThu #Macro #Insects #Flowers #BloomScrolling #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A tiny skipper butterfly drinks nectar from a bright yellow zinnia flower. The butterfly is a dark, rust brown with sort of a hairy, dark greenish brown body and big black eyes.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning y’all. For #WaterWednesday - a humble #puddle, or a shimmering portal to another dimension? #Puddles #Rain #Fall #Autumn #Leaves #PNW #NatureIsArt #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
Rain falls into a puddle on in a parking lot, creating shimmering concentric rings on the water’s surface. Brownish orange pin oak leaves surrounding and land in the puddle.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This #red is almost glowing. And the super dark purple/green foliage behind it just accentuates the situation. #Dahlias #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #RedWed #Flowers #Gardens #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A deep red dahlia flower in the shade with dark, purplish green - almost black - foliage behind it.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These fabulous big basaltic #rocks just off the coast are important nesting sites for sea birds. #CapeMeares #ORCoast #PacificOcean #PNW #RockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday #ECK #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A large basaltic mini-island just off the coast of Cape Meares sits in the Pacific Ocean on the northern Oregon coast. It’s dark with seaweed and probably mussels along the water’s edge, and then streaked with gray, brownish green and white going up the sides. On the rugged, domed  top, hundreds of sea birds like cormorants tend their nests. You can even hear their calls above the wind. Dark green Sitka spruce boughs poke out from the right and left sides of the picture from where I’m taking the shot on the mainland. The ambient light is cloudy.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel like this #ThickTrunkTuesday friend is reaching out to give you a big, mossy hug. #Trees #Forests #Woods #Moss #ISeeMoss #PNW #NatureIsArt #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
Looking up into the still-green canopy and the enormously thick, wide, and round, mottled grayish brown trunk of a very old beech tree. The leaves are dappling the sunlight and you can see some blue sky way up through breaks in the canopy.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve been trying to get a #macro shot like this for years. It’s not the best, but I’ll keep looking for the right setup and conditions. #ColorADay #PinkMon #MacroMonday #RaindropsOnRoses #Roses #BloomScrolling #Raindrops #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A macros shot of tiny crystal raindrop orbs line the edge of a green rose leaf. The foreground is the green of the left and some other blurred raindrops, and the background is full pink because of a rose behind the raindrops, and the raindrops are creating a lens that shows a teeny-tiny upside down version of the pink rose. When I was young, I saw work from another PNW photographer who did this with sunflowers, and I have dreamed of getting a shot like this my entire life. This still isn’t as good as his was, but it’s closer than I’ve ever come before, and I will keep trying!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Got some puffy clouds and #BlueSkyMonday #blue over the high #desert for you today. #Landscape #ID #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
Shaggy, puffy white and gray clouds break with patches of clear blue sky over the golden-lion and brown colored hills of grass and sagebrush of central Idaho between Arco and Mountain Home.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This sunny #orange flower is a stunner! #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Macro #PNW #ECK #Autumn #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
Closeup of a deep orange flower in the sun. Blurry greenery behind it. It has a yellow center, a muted orange ring around the center of the petals, and then the shiny, soft petals go completely deep orange all the way to their gently pointed tips.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These little friends are so sneaky. But I found this one at the local college’s horticultural #gardens. #TreeFrogs #Frogs #Amphibians #Macro #ColorADay #GreenSat #PNW #ECK #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
Macro shot of a tiny, green Pacific chorus tree frog, wedged between two broad green leaves of some kind of plant of the same color. Friend is probably only about 3 centimeters long.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also, these #lights in the #Grotto in #PDX. What a lovely place for contemplation. #BlueSkyArtShow #Warm #PNW #ECK #Art #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A black, iron candelabra of 7 warm-light electric candela affixed to the dark gray, dark brown and dark green of a shaded, basaltic cliff wall with moss and green ferns growing nearby. This is at the Grotto in Portland, Oregon.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was admiring the #lights in the #Schnitz in #PDX one evening before getting to see my favorite band in all the world. #BlueSkyArtShow #Urban #LightFixtures #Ceilings #PNW #ECK #Photography #Art #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A circular chandelier with 6 spokes, draped chains of crystals and and a bright central light affixed to a circular, sculpted golden-red-copper-colored metal attachment to the ceiling shines on a ceiling with pinkish, copper-toned tiles.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love this #HotStickSaturday specimen. It’s a kind of lace #lichen hanging on a tree twig at the #OregonCoast. #Fungi #FungiFriends #Macro #MacroPhotography #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
Dappled morning sunlight falls on a tree twig draped with fascinating, strands of pale swag green lace lichen. The strands kind of look like tiny, uneven, organic ladders or unwound strands of DNA. Kinda cool.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Into the archives for this. The #SpaceNeedle in #Seattle at #night many years ago with its #lights, and #raindrops falling that also look like lights. #Art #Photography #Retro #Urban #ClassicMono #Monochrome #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
An old monochrome film shot of Seattle’s Space Needle on a rainy night. It was raining hard, but I wanted the shot, so raindrops fell on the lens, creating this effect of the lights dancing around it in the dark. It’s a grainy old shot, but I’ve always loved it.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A little something for #FlyDay… this little Anna’s #hummibgbird friend (Janice) who surveyed her kingdom with the setting sun some days ago. #Birds #Wildlife #Trees #Autumn #NatureIsArt #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A little female Anna’s hummingbird perches on a bent stem of a vine maple tree that’s losing its leaves. She is mostly gray with hints of green and sits against a clear, pale blue sky. The vine maple has already lost many of its leaves due to drought and the seasonal changes, but the one’s still present around the lower and left parts of the picture are still green with bits of yellow and red.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
May your long and winding roads take you through the forest today. #ForestFriday #Scape #Forests #Trees #Woods #Hiking #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
A reddish brown forest trail winds through thick, green, mossy undergrowth, and a dense stand of Sitka spruce, Douglas fir and cedar trees in the Oregon Coast Range east of Lincoln City. Dappled, golden-hour, late-afternoon sunlight filters in from the right.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looks kinda like a crocodile eye to me and my #Pareidolia. It’s really just a gnarly, exposed tree root in the forest. #ForestFriday #Trees #Roots #Woods #Macro #Photography #Monochrome #ClassicMono #ColorADay #BWFri #NatureIsArt #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A closeup, monochrome shot of the gnarly, cracked wood of an exposed tree root. To me, it looks like a crocodile or dragon eye.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Current POV. #Abstractia #Geometric #ClassicMono #UofO #UrbanGaze #ECK #PNW #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A monochrome shot looking up at the ceiling of a building on the University of Oregon campus. There’s a gray panel on the left from which several spherical glass lights are hanging. On the right is a skylight with horizontal lines.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The #yellow is switching from the flowers to the #leaves now, as the trees put on their flamboyant PJs. #ColorADay #YellowThu #Fall #Autumn #Ponds #Macro #Photography #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A closeup of an Oregon white oak leaf fallen into a tiny pond in the park. The leaf has shades of yellow, green, orange and brown. It rests on the surface because of water tension, and that bends the water where it touches the leaf, causing cool reflections from the trees above. The leaf will soon sink as water has already started to infiltrate the center already.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Back into the archives for this one. These guys were selling a type of candy only the royal family used to eat. More deets in the alt text. #Seoul #SouthKorea #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky #CandyMakers #ClassicMono #Travel #ECK #KeepGoing
At a tiny shop in the maze that is Seoul’s, South Korea, two guys were selling a type of candy that only used to be for the royal family. The guy on the right demonstrates making it with a ball of cold honey - cold enough to be firm, but pliable, and not sticky when dipped in rice flour over and over again. He was able to stretch it and pull it until it was a bundle of very thin threads. My Korean friends wouldn’t let me buy it, and I felt kind of guilty not buying it when I had taken the picture. He was quite the showman, but his friend just looked at me.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh. I actually have a #BirdOfTheDay for today’s #Raptors prompt. A wee #CoopersHawk in a coastal pine. Kinda dark, but a fun find. #Birds #Wildlife #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A Cooper’s hawk with a dark brown back, a speckled white and brown chest, yellow therapod feet and sharp black talons perches in a shady spot of a coastal pine in the early morning light.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was bored one evening and started playing with this picture. #WackyWednesdayArt #ArtYear #Leaf #Raindrops #AbstractArt #PhotoArt #AlteredReality #ECK #PNW #Imagine #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
An altered reality, abstract edit of a picture of a lead lying on the deck. Playing with saturated colors and swirls, I turned the grays of the deck into swirling blues that look stream like, and the leaf has magenta, blue, purple, and yellow with raindrops on it. Very silly.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Dragonfly season is quickly passing. This #red #autumn meadowhawk perched on the bamboo sticks we have placed around the garden for their benefit. #ColorADay #RedWed #Insects #Invertebrates #Macro #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
Closeup of a red autumn meadowhawk dragonfly perched on the top of a bamboo garden stake. The background is a flat, blurred gray, which is against one of the fences. We have bamboo stakes in many of our garden containers and once in awhile dragonflies will perch there. Usually, they perch in the sun, but I’ve seen the autumn meadowhawks perch in the shady spots more than once.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I get so excited by #water #textures. The glassy, but speckled surface of this lake was hypnotic. #WaterWednesday #Lakes #PNW #NatureIsArt #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
The golden hour surface of Devil’s Lake just along the Oregon Coast reflects the sky and tree branches in wavy, oblong shapes of light blue and dark green and shades of white, light gray and brown.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also, happy #ThickTrunkTuesday from this gorgeous #MapleTree. This being lives next to the public library in a town where I lived during the hardest time of my life. I always found its presence (and the library) comforting. #Trees #Green #GoToTheLibrary #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
The rough, grayish-brown trunk of a Norway maple tree rises and branches up and out into the cloudy, whitish sky. Its beautiful green leaves seem to glow with a soft, comforting light. It’s not very mossy because it lives in a dry area.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can you see my little friend jammed into the #rocks here? It’s probably a striped shore #crab, if my #iNaturalist choice is right. #TidesOutTuesday #RockinTuesday #Macro #Photography #Wildlife #ORCoast #TidePooling #PNW #ECK #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A tiny striped shore crab, about 3 centimeters across, is jammed into a crack in the basaltic rocks on the ocean side of Proposal Rock on the beach at Neskowin State Park along the Oregon Coast. Its eyes are black, its claw tips are kind of lavender, but turn a mottled spring green and maroon as they go up to the rest of its body, which is also those colors. A couple of cream-colored barnacles are attached to the rock on either side, as well as some very tiny baby barnacles growing on the “roof” of this rock crevice.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How cute is this #zinnia for #ColorADay #PinkMon? I love the center. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Macro #MacroMonday #ECK #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing
A closeup of a deep pink zinnia flower. It’s kind of magenta, including the feathery center that radiates in towards the middle of itself. Around that central circle, tiny, bright yellow stars pop out. It’s so cute.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy #BlueSkyMonday y’all. Hope you can take a moment to breathe and recenter today. #FarewellBend #PNW #Travel #Rivers #Mountains #Sky #NatureIsArt #Landscape #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
The partially blue and cloudy sky is reflected in the glassy waters of the Snake River at Farewell Bend State Park in far eastern Oregon. Green foliage covers the near bank, and is partially shaded by the patchy clouds above. Dry, tan-brown mountains beyond the opposite bank are also reflected. The Snake River is especially low as the drought across the west continues.
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