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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

#FotoVorschlag | mushroom Some aging Petticoat Mottlegills on a pile of bison dung. (One of many delightful #mushroom names; plus what's not to like about a pile of bison dung?)

Several small, brown-ish white mushrooms with thin stalks and fringed, bell-shaped caps grow from a pile of dung. The dung is fibrous and has many crevasses on it's surface.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

high above blue jays gather and stash – stacked firewood #haiku

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Another small act to fight the orange buffoon. Early voting started in #Iowa.

A photo of an old guy in a ball cap sporting an I Voted sticker.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The shagbark hickory leaves move so quickly from gorgeous yellow to gorgeously curled walnut brown. It takes just a matter of a day or two to make the change. I look forward to it each year. #fall #leaves #Photography

A close-up of a brown curled hickory leaf with a dark central vein and strong radiating veins outward from that central vein. The edges of the leaf curl inward. In the background, a delicious, warm yellow.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

in the space left by cranes -- a cottonwood leaf accepts the earth #LandscapePhotography #haiku #fall

A fall scene composed of mostly bare trees of a wide valley and a floodplain forest. In the foreground an old field. At the edge of that field is a red oak tree, leaves mostly a later stage orange red. This is a part of the dog walk where, in the spring, I could hear the sandhill cranes calling from the valley. It's been quiet for a while now, waiting for the next hopeful turn of the Earth.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

“If you ever see something so beautiful that you can’t take it off your mind then you want to tell other people. Some of us are painters, so we show it with our hands. Some of us can write. Some of us take photos to remember such beauties of this Earth. But if […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The title page of a video documentary about a man who lived as a hermit in northern Scotland. There a photo of the face of a man with wild gray hair and whiskers. Another photo of the same man taken from behind as he walks down a steep hill overlooking a lake with hills and mountains in the distance.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Anne Carlson found out about winning the Nobel Prize for Literature while "in Iceland, where she was listening to the wind." May we all do some wind-listening soon (even if not in Iceland, tho...I'd certainly be into that.) #Quotes #Writing

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

lady bugs cover the windows -- soybean harvest #haiku

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

It seems the scrappiest leaves are in the scrappiest tangle of woods. box elder 2/4 #fall #WabiSabi #NaturePhotography

Box elder leaves at the end of a twig. The leaves are browning at the edges with some light green left over from the summer color. The leaves have many brown and tan spots from insect and fungus damage.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

So it was a gray day -- one of those spittin' rain all day days -- and I took the dogs out for a long walk and rather than photographing all of the stunning fall colors in that diffuse, gray light, I focussed on the "ugly" leaves that, too me, are the sign of […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Several elm leaves at the end of a twig. The leaves are turning brown at the edges, some yellow spots in the centers of some of the leaves. Fungus and insect damage shows brown spots.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

#FotoVorschlag | Objekte die mit "I" beginnen oder so aussehen // an object that starts with an I or looks like it INFRASTRUCTURE for the oil and gas fields in ND, USA #BlackAndWhite

A black and white photo that shows part of the large infrastructure of an electrical substation. To the left, large wires are connected to dark towers. Below that are complex wires and insulators near the ground. The sky is cloudy. I feel a sense of mechanical menace in the photo.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

#FotoVorschlag | Zahlen: Zwei // numbers: two Two crazy-ass dogs at rest

Two dogs in a rustic log cabin. A brindled mutt in the foreground, eyes closed, chin resting on her front legs. Only her head and legs are visible. In the background a tri-color border collie lies on top of an old wooden trunk. His head drooping off the edge.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#FotoVorschlag | 'Warten auf Godot' // waiting for Godot I found this Virgin Mary hanging out inside a glass sphere near a grave in a cemetery.

A statue of the Virgin Mary standing on a pedestal in a glass sphere near a grave in a cemetery, her image distorted by the waves and bubbles in glass. She has a dreamy, long-wait feel to her.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#FotoVorschlag | Vom Weg abgekommen // off the beaten path Off a single track dirt road off a somewhat larger dirt road we happened upon a place to camp directly on the rim of the Canyonlands National Park in SE Utah, which made for a nice place to have an […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A woman sits on bare gravel on the edge of a high place overlooking the Canyonlands National Park in south eastern Utah. Scrubby piñons and junipers dot a shelf of high ground below the woman. Far beyond, cliffs and valleys of red sandstone.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

#FotoVorschlag | Typisch für meinen Wohnort / meine Heimat I chose this photo not because there isn’t any beauty near my home; the bluffs and fields and forests really are beautiful. Rather, this photo represents the complex political and economic realities of […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Corn stubble round bakes lying in a corn field shorn of corn. Fog and trees in the distance. The round bales are wrapped in a mesh that creates an American flag.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#FotoVorschlag | lake or pond #DogsOfMastodon Milo contemplates the next leg of the BWCA journey.

A tri-color border collie sits on a slab of volcanic rock on the shore of a calm lake in the early morning. The lake reflects a cloudless blue sky. The collie looks attentively, as only a border collie can do, over the lake.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

windows and a big porch overlook and eroded landscape showing what some wind and rain (and about 2.5 million years) can accomplish. Theodore Roosevelt Library near Medora, ND, USA #FensterFreitag #badlands

A view of a large porch and windows overlooking the Badlands, an eroded landscape composed of sedimentary rocks and clays. The photo shows a row of chairs placed on the porch and echoed in the large windows on either side of the porch. Above, the ceiling is composed of a wooden geometric structure highlighted by the light coming off the landscape. Three people stand silhouetted against the cloudy sky.

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

two tundra swans arrived last night on the north wind a restful night floating on the early morning fog #SmallPoems

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Steve Peterson @stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Found this fella on a long backcountry hike when we emerged from a coulee at Theodore Roosevelt NP in western ND (USA.) My partner was a little alarmed that I paused to photograph him before we hoofed in out of range, but I'm also the guy who goes outside to […] [Original post on mstdn.social]