Yearly Murmuration of Starlings in Rome are incredibly adaptable songbirds known for their mesmerizing, synchronized aerial acrobatics, exceptional vocal mimicry, and shifting, shimmering plumage

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Busy. Black swallowtail caterpillar on fennel. Near Boston. October 2023. #EastCoastKin.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Growth. Ferns and lilies of the valley. Near Boston. May 2025. #EastCoastKin.

Read this on what drowning actually looks like and be prepared to grab or get help for someone this summer

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Tall. Block Island, Rhode Island. October 2016. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Morning. After the winter's first storm. Near Boston. January 28, 2015. #EastCoastKin

So good!

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Soft. Ranunculus. Near Boston. February 2023. #EastCoastKin.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #ShadowPlay. Oregano shades a pumpkin. Near Boston. October 2021. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #ShadowPlay.  Ficaria verna under black walnut trees. Royall House and Slave Quarters, Medford, Mass. April 2020.  #EastCoastKin

Need something to lift your spirits? There’s a PBS documentary filled with interviews of the women who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball Team. Basically, “A League of their Own” but in the words of some fabulously wonderful women

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Odd. Coral bells in winter. Near Boston, January 2022. (See replies for the same plants in summer.) #EastCoastKin.

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Edge. Ranunculus. April 2024. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Edge. The scenic drive within Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge follows the edge of the shallow, marshy Blackwater River. Cambridge, Maryland. March 2018. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #New. #EastCoastKin. Today's buds will be tomorrow's newest blossoms. Near Boston. Photo taken April 2023, but it happens every spring!

Brutal.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Openings. #EastCoastKin. Opening day of The Smoke Shop patio. Assembly Row, Somerville, Mass. July 2018.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Background. Michael's Harborside, Newburyport, Mass. August 2023. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Stone. We were in our early 20s, meandering from Luxembourg to Paris, with no idea what to expect in Strasbourg. About a mile from the train station, we turned a corner ... and saw this!  Strasbourg, France. December 1974.  #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Horizontal. Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass. October 2017. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Horizontal. February 2026. ❤️ #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Flowing. Sprinkler rainbow. Near Boston. July 2019. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Flowing. Flood tide at sunset, Cape Cod Bay, Wellfleet, Mass. October 2017. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Round. Ranunculus. Near Boston. May 2024. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Two. Two lost gloves. Reykjavik, Iceland. February 2017.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Wood. Along the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest. October 1973. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Sunlight or #Sunshine. Kitchen corner. Near Boston. October 2009. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Sunlight. Siberian irises. Near Boston. May 2020. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Clouds. Sunset on Cape Cod Bay. Eastham, Massachusetts. April 2023. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Cold.  After the storm. Near Boston. January 19, 2026. #EastCoastKin

Wild true thread! 🚌

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #One. Common daylily: each one is a marvel that lives for just one day. Near Boston. June 2022. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #One. Common or Orange Daylillies, Hemerocallis fulva, grow throughout the United States in the summer. Each individual flower is a marvel, and each one lasts just one day.  Near Boston. June 2022. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Vibrant. Ranunculus. May 2024. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Vibrant. Before the freeze. Near Boston. November 30, 2024.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #NewYear. New ... well, everything! ❤️ December 2025. Near Boston. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Holiday. I plant successive pots of paperwhite narcissus from mid-November through December so we'll have cheerful scented blooms throughout the end-of-year holidays! December 2024. Near Boston. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #OpenHouse. The leaf shadows caught my eye first, and then I looked up at the glorious exuberance of spring! Near Boston. April 2025. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #FavoriteThings. The wonderful scent of wisteria came in my bedroom window from a vine alongside my childhood house. When I bought a house as an adult, there was a wisteria vine alongside it. Lucky me! Near Boston. May 2023.

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #FavoriteThings. Each spring I'm awed and delighted by newborn leaves that seem to appear from nowhere. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Sky. The promise of spring. Near Boston. April 2025. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Warmth. Thanks to indoor warmth, forsythia branches cut in January bloom in February.  Near Boston. 2012. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Small. Lemon verbena and planthopper. Near Boston. July 2025. #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Bright. Near Boston. August 2025. #EastCoastKin

A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Evening. It snowed all day in the Boston area on February 5, 2016. Then the storm ended, just in time for sunset in a winter wonderland! #EastCoastKin

I love this so much! ❤️

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Autumn. What grows up must come down! Near Boston. December 15, 2015. (View of the back yard in replies.) #EastCoastKin

This week's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Autumn. Near Boston, Mass. October 29, 2025. #EastCoastKin

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