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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 · 39m
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 · 47m
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 · 1h
Thanks!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 9h
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 · 9h
Frankenmallow?!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 17h
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 · 17h
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 · 05/10/2026
Love it.
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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
Thanks for the shoutout, Robert! Alt text for the 4th photo: a bright red, gloriously symmetrical dahlia flower against a background of dark, purplish-green foliage. It’s a striking color combination.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ahhhh, sorry! I understand. I had a long journey between my previous fear of any creeping thing to where I am now. I still flinch at spiders, a bit, but I’m getting better. And I am fascinated by their webs.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, I have no idea - is there any way to freeze the pollen and then try it when a flower opens?
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nice! I hope you get some good results!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks! Mother Nature did all the heavy lifting, as she does.
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gorgeous!
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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
You too, Luis! Wishing you good light!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Exactly! It really does calm my soul.
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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
Yes! And it also (at least here) leaves little dewdrops on all kinds of things, which is a whole other delight.
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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
I mean, just look at that thing! It’s crammed with different species!
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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
Love it. Love the fog!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good to know!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah, we always like going through there on the way to Craters of Moon. Well, we did when we lived in eastern Idaho, anyway.
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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 · 02/10/2026
Oh, this is lovely!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ohhhhh… I want it! So lovely!
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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
Thanks!
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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
Ich kann auch Deutsch, aber hab wenige Gelegenheiten zu üben! 💖🤩💐 Und es ist eine ganz tolle Farbe!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Danke für das Repost! :)
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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 · 29/09/2026
And thank you for the repost!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cute!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you!
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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
Thanks, Luis!
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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you for the shoutout, Robert! Alt text for the first picture: a grainy, nighttime monochrome looking up at the lights of the Space Needle in Seattle, with additional lights scattered across the view provided by falling raindrops.
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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
Gorgeous! I love frogs!🐸
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