Attention Alphabetters! Mon 19 Jan is the start of Week C and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Close Up. Absolutely anything at all as long as it is taken close up. Really don’t think any other explanation needed this week - just close up 😂 Use the # below and have fun😊

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge A chimpanzee sitting atop a stack of books contemplating a human skull. #HunterFranklinPics #Books

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge Here’s an old #chemistry book that I inherited from my Dad (dated 1863). It might be interesting for someone with a background in chemistry to look through this book to see how much the science of chemistry has changed since then. #HunterFranklinPics #Books

Newman (on top of the cat house) looks down disapprovingly at the "new" guy (Buddy). It used to be Newman's house (actually our entire house was his; as we did, in fact, purchase it because of him!). Note: Buddy's full name is now Buddy McTavish 😸. #HappyCaturday

understanding is rarely a thunderclap; it's the incremental lifting of a collective haze #words #photography #nature #humannature #art #hope #resist #daybyday

Happy Saturday, I hope you are all having a wonderful day.. and enjoy the rest of the weekend 🌳💚☀️ #JimmysFarm Suffolk, U.K. 📷 Jan ‘26 … today 😎 #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Nature #Trees #Photography #GetOutside

Happy #Goaturday Mr Boer had his head in a trough of hay today, so his good friend Mr Goaty Goat 😉 is on duty .. as always… Bring out the Goat photos 😎.. #JimmysFarm Suffolk U.K. 📷 Jan ‘26 ( Today) 🐐💚🌳☀️ #Animals #Goats #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin

Good morning from #Carpinteria, #SouthernCalifornia 🔆 #HunterFranklinPics #Sunrise

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge #Siddhartha, by #HermannHesse, another of my favorite books. “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” #HunterFranklinPics #Books

For #flyday a black swallowtail landing on a flower. Taken many moons ago. #butterfly #bugsky #insects #swallowtails #nature #wildlife #eastcoastkin 🦋 🌎

Wilderness untamed & pure, touching every core of your being, unbridled power, furious gale force winds, churning clouds, horizontal sleet, bitter cold. I wouldn't have it any other way! Yukon, Canada. #photography #travel #nature #bluesky #landscape #sunset #landscapephotography #naturephotography

1...2...3...Jump #ForestFriday #Scape #nature #getmeoutofhere #photography #escape #art #daybyday

Dashes of red in Yosemite Valley #Scape #ForestFriday #Yosemite #WestCoastKin #California #caliphotos #UnJourUnePhoto #fineartphotgraphy #travel #landscapephotography #landscapes #roam #wander #FocusOnNature #naturescenery #outdoors #forest #paysage #landscape #nikon

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks “Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks “If you care about something you have to protect it — If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks “We remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”

Misty layers through the trees for #ForestFriday and #Scape 📷 Wishing you all a good day and relaxing weekend ahead 🕊️ #Photography #Nature #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge Another of my favorite books from my youth. What’s interesting about this one is that when it was req’d reading for me in HS I didn’t like it at all. But when I read it later on my own, I loved it! #HunterFranklinPics #Books #NathanielHawthorne #TheScarletLetter

The emergence of Sam, still trying to think of something to proclaim:

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge #TheSirensOfTitan, by #KurtVonnegut: one of my favorite books from my teenage years. “His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.” 🤣 #HunterFranklinPics #Books

Good morning and happy Friday, BS 🦋 …. a bit of spring to get us through the day… I hope your week ends kindly and your weekend is full of small joys. 🌿 ☕️ 💛 🌳 🪻 ✨ 🥂 #ForestFriday #Nature

#BirdoftheDay from last night’s walk is a Cooper’s hawk and a nice coincidence that I was able to get this shot. #Raptor 📸🦉

A beautiful afternoon hike today in lightly falling snow.

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #LongBeaks Sword-billed Hummingbird #Colombia #birds #hummingbirds #nature

Good morning. The Irish Gate Post For centuries it has stood, never turning from wind or rain, meeting each storm head-on, silent, steadfast, undaunted. #Ireland #photography #EastCoastKin #RockinTuesday

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

"May you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake" - Michael Faudet just to breathe for a short while without reality crushing us till next time💙

Secondary fall in Godafoss #Iceland #Godafoss #waterfallwednesday #travel #waterfall #travelphotography #landscapes #wander #nikon #roam #landscape #voyage #naturescenery #outdoors #WestCoastKin #UnJourUnePhoto #fineartphotgraphy #Fotografia #landscapephotography

A little winter scene from Sunday. Northchurch Common, near #Berkhamsted.

#BirdOfTheDay #LongBeaks A #MarbledGodwit strutting its stuff at the beach #HunterFranklinPics #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky

Sam has been standing at this window all day but still can't think of anything to proclaim.

Good morning, BS 🦋… we’re halfway there ✨…. I hope the rest of the week treats you kindly… have a wonderful Wednesday ☕️🌿🍂💛🍁🌳🍃🌱

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge Here’s another one of the treasures I found at that NYC used bookstore that I posted about yesterday. #HunterFranklinPics #JulesVerne #Books

It came up.. One Year Ago Today.. I took this photograph….😎 So if you see this post, post or quote repost a photograph you took.. #OneYearAgoToday What were we all up too.. 😁 #Nature #Photography #ECK

#TidesOutTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #JanuArty2026 #sky I had some assistance from a little birdy, who gets up early.. but OMG what a gorgeous sunrise!! Hope everyone had a good day.. and remember, "We're only given a spark of madness, you musn't lose it." { Robin Williams } 🌞💫✨🌕

Anyone need a great stick? youtube.com/shorts/PLXNH...

soaking up the sunset view while drying its wings, an Anhinga for the #BirdOfTheDay theme #Solitude #daybyday

Photography: @rosannab88.bsky.social #photography

The emergence of Clem, who will not be playing any toe-tapping dance numbers for his own safety:

Good morning and happy Tuesday, BS 🦋 …. wishing you have a great day! ☕️🌿☀️🍂🌳💛❄️✨

Today is #TidesOutTuesday. It was certainly out on this cold early morning at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in the Florida Panhandle. Normally these old pilings are surrounded by water. My shoes needed a wash after this shot. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #sunrise #lighthouses

“May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten.” – Irish Blessing”

🪶 A pair of emerald toucanets for #Twosday (maybe tousday?). Cinchona, #CostaRica. #photography #birds #Twofer

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge When I was a boy, my parents took me to a bookstore in NYC that sold very old books & let me buy some. Which I still have to this day. Here’s one of them. Something about the look & feel of old books that I’ve always liked. #HunterFranklinPics #SherlockHolmes

Fiery-throated Hummingbird #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

The soft mist draped the river bed in calm 📷🕊️ ….

Here is my favorite photo taken this weekend. A female Costa’s hummingbird approaches a bottlebrush plant. #PalmSprings #Birds #BirdoftheDay #BirdsinFlight #Nature 📸

Happy Monday…I Hope you are all having a good day.. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInFlight A Mixed bunch of feathered friends..😎😊.. ..📷💚✨ Bermuda Longtail or White Tailed Tropicbird , Kookaburra, Barn Owl and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws 🦜 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Birds #Breathe #SoonBeSpring 😎

Happy #Stunday with this photo I took last Fall during my Bluesky break! 🙂 Have a lovely day! #EastCoastKin #photography #Nature #exploreTexas #Autumn #SonyAlpha