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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Deep Kirk Nine @deepkirknine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A few quick shots of our Quail family, glimpsed from the kitchen window. This handsome pair was herding at least 8 babies, most of them stayed hidden in the shrubbery. 🪶
Ma Quail with two chicks on the edge of the paved patio, with some low plants on one side. The babies are just scratching around for food.Ma and Pa Quail close together, regrouping at the other side of the patio, next to some Boxwood shrubs. Three or four baby chicks are in the greenery, and a straggler chick is running in from the patio.Pa Quail stands watch over his family at the patio edge. He's a good-looking grey bird with a black and white striped face and a long plume on his head.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH 🐛
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
behind every smooth-faced wife is a smooth-brained man
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
June has started out vibrantly
A single white flower with a bright yellow center on a naked dull yellow stem looks at the camera. Similar stems are near it in the background, some have vestiges of the same flower at different ages. The background is dried leaves. It's a cancer root, I think Aphyllum uniflorum.Hickory Tussock Moth from the right side. It has rounded rhomboid-like shapes in browns and whites along is wing that look like decaying leaf littler. It's head and upper back are very fuzzy like it's wearing a short fur coat. It's sitting on a window in the sun.Large mourning cloak butterfly on a black cherry tree with its wings open, facing down. The wings are a rich brown with yellow/gold trim and black-rimmed blue dots between the brown/gold colors. It was drinking the tree's sap with a bunch of other insects (ants, wasps, beetles, etc) - helluva party tree!A tiny yellow crab spider is spinning silk while attached to an open daisy. The yellow of the spider matches the inside of the daisy; the background is very green making the white petals look glowing. There is silk flying everywhere, gently covering the daisy. The spider has its 2 front legs sets out like Kate Winslet on the bow of the Titanic.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The boys came by on patrol today 🪶
Two turkeys (male) just beyond the porch stairs in a wooded back yard. Front Guy walks towards the woods while the other pecks at something in the grass. Shortly before the shot, Front Guy gave a light warbling gurgle call that brought his boys in closer.A male turkey walking to the right in a wooded back yard. He looks like the biggest of the boys, but he is not the leader. He has lustrous, feathers with dark greens, reds, blues, browns, and a beautiful white/brown speckled pattern on his wing tip "fingers". The head and face are... fleshy, warty, and red.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Haven't hosted these pretty folks before! I think these are purple finches - 3 couples came by for some sunflower seeds 🪶
A male (red, front) and female (standing in back, stripey yellow-brown) finches on wooden tableA male (standing in front, red) and female (back, stripey yellow-brown) finches on wooden tableA male (red, front) and female (standing in back, stripey yellow-brown) finches on wooden table. Her pretty white eye stripe is clearly visible
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Scandalous wood
Two trunks merge from the ground into a single tree trunk. There's a curly set of woody roots twined and hanging where the trunks meet into one. It looks like a naked man standing up from kneeling - scrotum, belly button, and the rest of the expected anatomy intact.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Iced things melting
Green needles of a white pine encased in ice that drips from many icicles on the needle tips.Reddish-brown fungus wrapping a mossy twig with the top part still in an ice cap that visibly drips off the stick. The mushroom looks like a tiny, crumpled ear.Birch bough with pods on the tips encased in dripping icicles.Ice melting off a road in patterns resembling a coastline with archipelagos.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It's been very icy the last few days
Frozen forest beyond a wooden, snowy porch. All the trees are bare or leave and covered in ice, which makes them shimmer in the morning sun. View out over a lake through ice-encrusted tree branches shining in the sun. The sky on the horizon has striated clouds against a light blue backgroundA birch branch, encased in a few mm of ice, is bent over the railing of a wooden porch. The tree is so heavy from ice, it's touching the floor of the porch. Once the sun comes out, it'll go back to standing tall
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Bluebirds are happy to eat, but do NOT want to be photographed. They left in a huff after I snuck this shot and have not returned. I think I may have insulted them... 🪶
3 Bluebirds on a porch in late winter. They all face away from the camera, 2 sit on the railing (giving side eye to the camera) and one is on the wooden table. Each has a slightly different blue on their back that somewhat glows against the green contrast from the pine tree in the background.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Has anyone ever seen a Tufted Titmouse with a crooked tail? This guy has been coming by often. Not the most dominant but also not submissive, so it's not necessarily affecting his standing with the group. We affectionately call him Crooked 🪶
Back end of a Tufted titmouse with a crooked tail that curves left clearly visible. It's on a snowy table with sunflower seedsA downy woodpecker, tufted titmouse with a crooked tail, and a chickadee enjoying seeds on a snowy table. Chickadee with a seed moving left and Crooked Tail the Tit is looking at the camera - normal bird from the front2 tufted titmice turned away from the camera, their regularly straight tails visible for comparison to Crooked Tail the Tit
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The moon tonight is beautiful and worth the biting cold to get a photo
Big, bright, hazey full moon over lit houses on the edge of a pond and up a hilly landscape in winter. Bare tree branches and clouds fill the sky around the moon. Pin-point hazey full moon over lit houses on the edge of a pond and up a hilly landscape in winter. Bare tree branches and clouds fill the sky around the moon. 

This was taken with "night mode" on - lights are clearer as is the bright star just right of center at the top of the image.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🪶 birds in action during last weekend's storm
2 tufted titmice helping me measure the amount of snow thus far. One sits on top of a snowy table with the edge shoveled off. The other stares down at the peanuts on the table while standing on the less snowy bit. If the Tits are about 4" tall, there's probably about 5" of snow. A chickadee eats a nut between its feet on a snowy table. Its head seems bent at more than 90 degrees down from looking forwards - I can't do that3 Tufted Titmice are eating peanuts on a snowy porch with a table. One is blurry on the floor, another is on the table, the third is in flight between the two. A chickadee flies across a snowy table likely about to land in the snow. It's feet extend forwards (left in image) while its blurred wings are back and up with its tail perpendicular to the table (right).
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🪶 Red-bellied woodpecker fears no snow storms
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy new year! 🪶
A tufted titmouse - grey back, white breast, orange stripe under the wings between them - cocks its head slightly left looking at the camera. It is on a shoveled table path surrounded by snow taller than its head. Bird prints are visible all around.

It wants me to know there are no seeds on the table, and this is a problem. Later, it kicked my window to emphasize this was a big problem
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Tracking some neighbors through snow
Crow footprints in snow with landing spot at the bottom right, and walking pattern moving away and left before circling to the right. Bear footprint in snow with 4 toe marks clearly outlined. The pinky and 4th toes seem to be merged into one bigger blob.Opossum footprint in snow. 5 fingers are clearly visible from left front and back paws adjacent to one another. Fisher cat print in snow on a log. 5 toes are outlined with claw points visible. This was a sizeable guy who liked walking on top of fallen logs and marking areas with ample urine after the fresh snow - we followed the tracks for about a quarter mile.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Rotting friends
Brown birch bolete in grass & pine needles by house. White crooked stem with dark-edged layers giving rough look, sponge-like white spore surface under cap, brown cap.White puffballs. They look like inflated, fuzzy or studded breasts with grey nipples at the center.Large fallen log in woods with brown/buff puffballs, green mosses, and other creatures growing on it. A mushroom that is very rotty. The cap was probably yellow/brown before at least 2 molds (yellow, white, brown, grey hairs abound) started eating it. It was irridescent in the sunlight among the dead leaves
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Found these hydnum on the edge of forest off the main trail. We've been seeding these guys around our property and it seems to be paying off :)
A paper napkin covered in wild mushrooms - depressed hedgehogs (hydnum umbilicatum)Close up of 2 hydnum umbilicatum - the top and toothy underside. It has a light reddish/rust brown cap with cream colored flesh. These were on the edge of a tail in the woods, up to 3" diameter.Depressed hedgehog mushrooms. Cut up into a grey ceramic bowl. Fried mushrooms on white plate. Blurry because I want to eat them and don't have time to focus
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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"We need to stop trusting the experts, right.. Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy"
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
i hate those motherfuckers with every fiber of my being
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Summertime friends
Parson spider is upset I chose to shower in its room.

Black spider with light colored back stripe crouches in a the molding of a wall. It is wet. The wall looks somewhat like the nose of the Old Man of the Mountain in NH (before it collapsed a decade ago) Paper wasps hatched out of what looked like an abandoned nest.

2 paper wasps - 1 on top of wasp nest is easy to see, the 1 on the side is camouflaged. Nest is on a wooden table with a bunch of other stuff scattered around. Deer mouse found its way into my bathroom and needed to be driven a mile down the mountain to avoid repeats. 

Grey/brown-colored deer mouse crouching in green leaves. It looks a bit disturbed from its ordeal, but unharmed.Flying squirrel appreciates the bird nuts left over from the day. 

Blurry southern flying squirrel looks at the camera from an outdoor table. It would like more peanuts and fewer comments from me
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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🪶 Barred Owl came to hunt chipmunks and small birds this evening
Barred owl on an oak branch in forest canopy. It is summer and the sun is setting, casting long shadows. The owl faces the camera and looks down through lidded eyes.Barred owl on an oak branch in forest canopy. It is summer and the sun is setting, casting long shadows. The owl faces right of the camera and looks down through lidded eyes.Barred owl on an oak branch in forest canopy. It is summer and the sun is setting, casting long shadows. The owl faces right of the camera, it's eyes look closedBarred owl on an oak branch in forest canopy. It is summer and the sun is setting, casting long shadows. The owl faces away from the camera.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Mini-dinosaur visiting with her kid. (Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 🪶)
Two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks - mom and kid - on a porch in the woods in summer. Mom is on the bird bath, kid is on the table.Two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks - mom and kid - on a porch in the woods in summer. Mom is on the bird bath, kid is mid-jump.Two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks - mom and kid - on a porch in the woods in summer. Mom is on the bird bath, kid is on a plant pot in front. Moving gif of kid Grosbeak jumping onto plant pot while mom watches
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The outdoors smells and tastes like burning. I've never seen so much smoke in the air in MA. This amount of smoke/smog is apparently considered only slightly dangerous. The unquantifiable worst is yet to come!
Balcony with plants looking out over tree tops. There's a white, thick haze obscuring the trees and everything over ~20ft away - that's thick smoke primarily from wildfires in Canada. We are in southern Massachusetts.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My favorite moth faces are back
Hickory tussock moth, belly side. It's white with a brown/white round pattern on the wings. Small brown dots line the abdomen. It is fuzzy and thick with big eyes. Fuzzy moth face with big eyes peeking out from the layers of fuzz. Its antennae are also thick and fuzzy in a crescent shape. Straw besma moth (I think), from the side. It's white with two tan colored lines across is upturned wings. It has fuzzy antenna and is licking the plastic of the door it's sitting on. Nais tiger moth from the front, head-on. It has small black eyes and striking yellow-lined black wings folded down. It's antenna are not fuzzy and it looks like it has a yellow nose.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
An orange Eastern Newt with black speckles trying to cross a road of black millings. He was not thrilled I saw him, but there wasn't anywhere to hide his head though he triedJack/Jill-in-the-Pulpit plant. It looks like a green-striped, covered pitcher with a green spadix apendix visible under the covering leaf. The underside of the leaf is a mottled maroon with thin green stripes/lines. The stem is also a mottled maroon/green pattern. Two other leaf branches extend to either side.Close up of Jack/Jill-in-the-Pulpit spadix apendix with the now-visible underside of it's covering leaf lifted up.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We've badly contaminated our food supply. TFA is a breakdown product of PFAS that causes severe malformation in animal fetuses. You're still at risk of you're not a fetus - toxic is toxic. Median concentrations in wine: 1988 - 0ug/L 2017 - 50ug/L 2025 - 110ug/L www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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Study reveals alarming surge of forever chemical TFA in European wine
No contamination before 1988 - sharp increase since 2010 - current levels very high Brussels, 23 April 2025 – New data revealing a dramatic rise in levels of the forever chemical TFA (trifluoroacetic ...
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
4 for 4 flights this week have had minor electrical issues with the plane: 1 - entertainment system black out, 2 - auxiliary power inoperable, 3 - exit sign needs troubleshooting pre-flight, 4 - computerized baggage counter and other systems not online forcing manual count & delays 🛩 #unitedairlines
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Bluebirds came back today! 🪶 I'd never seen them up close before, but there were 9 on the porch last week! We're hoping to get some nest boxes in the spring so they stick around for bug control
Male buebird, turned away and looking over his left shoulder. You can see a blue back with white on the wing tips, an orange chest/under-wing, and a white belly.  He's at the corner of a wood table outside.Male buebird. You can see a blue back with white-spotted wing tips, an orange chest/under-wing, and a white belly.  He's at the corner of a wood table outside.Female (or juvenile, back is much greyer) buebird. The photo is grainy, but she's looking at the camera. The male in the other photos took her spot when I approached
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A Superb Owl visited us today! 🪶🦉
Brightened, close-cropped image of a barred owl cocking its head in my direction. It sits on a high branch in the woods in winterClose-cropped image of a barred owl. It sits on a high branch in the woods in winterBarred owl sits on a high branch in the woods in winter. It's cocking its head at the camera and carrying what looked like nesting materialsBarred owl sits on a high branch in the woods in winter looking at the annoying person trying to take its photo
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This morning's visitors were happy to see the sun and less happy with my photography efforts. 🪶
Downy woodpecker on a cement frog's head on a wooden table. Downy does not appreciate her photo being takenTwo chickadees feeding on either side of a cement bird bath on a wooden table. The sun is rising through the trees over a lake in backDowny woodpecker on a porch railing and chickadee on the table in front going after a peanut. The sun rises in the backgroundDowny woodpecker on a cement frog and chickadee on the porch railing. Sun rises over lake in back.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Tracks in snow
Thick, squiggly tracks from squirrels on left and tiny mouse tracks on rightA 4-wheeler going up and coming backA man's bootprintPeople and tire tracks on road through woods
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
More reasons I no longer want to travel by air. Opt out of this program, it is as useful as the full body scanners that show your tits and ass to strangers but apparently miss guns and knives. #securitytheater www.merkley.senate.gov/senators-say...
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Senators Say TSA’s Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control, Here’s How to Opt Out - Merkley
Gizmodo A bipartisan group of 12 senators has urged the Transportation Security Administration’s inspector general to investigate the agency’s use of facial recognition, saying it poses a significant ...
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#addbirder Nuthatch 🪶 was looking very egg-like this chilly morning. He's guarding the place where the peanuts should be in case they appear.
Chickadee & nuthatch sitting on a full bird bath on a porch with a forested valley and lake in the background.Nuthatch facing camera, sitting on a full bird bath on a porch with a forested valley and lake in the background.Nuthatch on a bird bath on a porch table with two sunbeams through trees framing him on either side. Various items are scattered on the table.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Brimfield, MA got much more snow than expected last night! ❄️
A yardstick on a snow-covered porch with snowy trees in the background. The 9" mark is just visible above the snow on the ruler.A snowy expanse with snow-laden forest in the background. A wooden yardstick sticks up out of the snow reading just under 10.5"
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Highly accurate Found at web.mnstate.edu/alm/humor/Th...
[Image of black text on white background] 
The Plan

In the beginning, there was a plan, 
And then came the assumptions,
And the assumptions were without form, 
And the plan without substance,

And the darkness was upon the face of the workers,
And they spoke among themselves saying,
"It is a crock of shit and it stinks."

And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said,
"It is a pile of dung, and we cannot live with the smell."

And the Supervisors went unto their Managers saying,
"It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, 
Such that none may abide by it."

And the Managers went unto their Directors saying,
"It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide by its strength."

And the Directors spoke among themselves saying to one another,
"It contains that which aids plants growth, and it is very strong."

And the Directors went to the Vice Presidents saying unto them,
"It promotes growth, and it is very powerful."

And the Vice Presidents went to the President, saying unto him,
"This new plan will actively promote the growth and vigor 
Of the company With very powerful effects."

And the President looked upon the Plan 
And saw that it was good,
And the Plan became Policy.

And this, my friend, is how shit happens.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Fruits of fall
Red tops of amaranth behind green leavesFuschia strawberry flower with red strawberry in the background from the same container-held plantRed, tubular pineapple sage flowers poking through fence off a light green plantYellow husk cherry flower hiding under green canopy
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Stalked puffball in aspic. A pink-ish, round mushroom growing in clumps with goopey brown material surrounding it. Looks like breasts with multiprong-star nipples breaching out of gelatinFuzzy caterpillar on a leaf. Orange, white, and black hair strands stick out like knitting threadLikely a honey mushroomCream colored spider on a large circular web. Probably an orb weaver
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Good showing this year 🍄
Orange boletus mushroom growing from the bottom of a tree. It is the size of a man's 10.5US boot, thats standing next to itRusty orange lactatius mushroom from the side, with prominent gills, in leaf litterTop view of 2 rust-orange lactarius mushrooms in leaf litter. "Рыжик", considered an edible in the old country after soaking/cooking out the latexy milk it produces, then frying or salting.Brown polypore mushroom with blobby, irregular cap that's the size of my hand.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Faces 🐛
Light colored mothOrange, fluffy mothWhite moth with black trimWhite moth with orange wings and Popeye arms stretched up
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
"The new cell-based tests and computer techniques ... can be reliable predictors of straightforward effects like eye or skin irritation. But they are not yet up to the task of modeling the complex, real-world learning disorders that have been linked to acephate and malathion"
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
Tit choosing a seed from the birdbath. Lake and valley in background, sunny dayNuthatch on birdbath asserting dominance over flapping chickadee on table (now that it's been bullied off the birdbath feeder). Both birds are facing the camera.
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Good day to stay indoors
Icy, bare tree tops - lichen-covered oaks in frontIce-encased birch tree bent over porch railing, laying on porch (normally stands tall & bending away from house)Many icicles hanging off wooden railing & ice-encrusted trees in backgroundIced porch with wooden table and stone decorations. Iced woods in background. Chickadee grabbing peanut on bird bath
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
My favorite morning is when I can't see the neighbors through the mists
Later sunrise. Bright golden sun rising through a stream cloud into grey, thick clouds moving from the west. Mists visible in the forest valleys belowEarly sunrise. Orange gold sun on the horizon with patchy grey, pink, & blue clouds. Mists, mountain forest, and water below
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Turkey footprint in melting snowSquirrel footprints in snow. Note that the bigger, back prints are in front of the smaller front paws because they stretch forward and then hop up as they explore tasty things on the ground
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Tiranna @tiranna.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
Bright white full moon, over lake in valley with houses reflecting, lighting a dark sky and tree branchesFull moon rising on the horizon. It was deep orange against a blue purple sky but the camera makes it look washed outView of full moon though one ocular of binoculars
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