The moon and Venus the other night (handheld, so not exactly crisp, but still cool to see 😆) #photography #moon #sky #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷

For #WaterWednesday and #WaderWednesday, a snowy egret wading in the creek #photography #birds #egret #nature 📷🦉🪶

The #BirdOfTheDay alt theme today is #unloved, and in some quarters (especially among anglers), cormorants are in that category. But for photo purposes, they're pretty cool. Here's a juvenile. #photography #birds #cormorant #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #TextureTuesday, dead vines and stucco #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷

Black phoebe #photography #birds #BlackPhoebe #nature #BlueSkyMonday 📷🦉🪶

For #MallardMonday, this little one #photography #birds #ducks #duckling #mallard #nature 📷🦉🪶

Some lines For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Blurred Lines" (Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams). And a shout-out to @sheena-mck.bsky.social, curator of this always entertaining challenge. #photography 📷

No drama aloft in the past few weeks of clear skies, so for #SkySunday, here's the predawn glow over the foothills And for the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Dawn" by the Four Seasons #photography #sky #sunrise #dawn #nature #Stunday 📷

For #SmallBirdSaturday, a pair of house finches And for the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Grazing in the Grass" (Hugh Masekela) #photography #birds #finches #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #Caturday and the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Dream On" (Aerosmith) #photography #cats 📷🐈

For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "The Squirrel" (Miles Davis, among others) #photography #squirrel #animals #nature 📷

For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Mockingbird" (Carly Simon and James Taylor) #photography #birds #mockingbird #nature 📷🦉🪶

Foxtail fern For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Green Light" by Lorde #photography #plants #garden #green #nature 📷🌱

A pair of cormorants For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Blackbird" by the Beatles (played twice 😆) #photography #birds #cormorant #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🦉🪶

Agapanthus starting to unpack For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Frank Sinatra with Count Basie) #photography #flowers #agapanthus #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #WaterWednesday, some water temporarily occupied by a pied-billed grebe. And for the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Ripple" (Grateful Dead). #photography #birds #grebe #nature 📷🦉🪶

For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Digging in the Dirt" (Peter Gabriel) These are cliff swallows collecting mud from the creek bank to build their nests -- a frenetic communal activity. #photography #birds #swallows #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #TextureTuesday, the muddy bank of the creek. And for the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Muddy Water" (Bessie Smith, Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls and others) #photography #nature 📷

For the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "A Good Year for the Roses" (George Jones and, later, Elvis Costello), floribunda roses of some sort, I think #photography #flowers #roses #plants #garden #nature #ColorADay #PinkMon 📷🌱

For #MallardMonday, a mom and one of her ducklings (and for the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekSForSongs, "Mother and Child Reunion") #photography #birds #ducks #mallard #nature 📷🦉🪶

Some lines #photography #SomeLines #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷

Lots of clear skies here lately, so I had to reach back a few weeks for some #SkySunday drama #photography #sky #clouds #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #Stunday 📷

For #SmallBirdSaturday, an artsy hummer #photography #birds #hummingbird #BirdOfTheDay #EFGH #nature #monochrome #ClassicMono 📷🦉🪶

For #Caturday, peering #photography #cats 📷🐈

Milk thistle #photography #thistle #weeds #plants #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🌱

For #FeatheredFriday and the #BirdOfTheDay theme, #photogenic, a cedar waxwing #photography #birds #CedarWaxwing #nature 📷🦉🪶

Opium poppy #photography #flowers #poppy #garden #plants #nature 🌱

For #UrbanGaze, everyday graphics #photography #architecture #minimalism 📷

The #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Black, so here's a pigeon in evening wear #photography #birds #pigeon #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #WaterWednesday and #WaderWednesday, a great egret by the creek #photography #birds #egret #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #TagTuesday, graffiti advice #photography #graffiti #SomeLines 📷

For #TextureTuesday, a mushroom cap (not sure of the ID, but I think it's the one known informally as "the vomiter" 🤮) #photography #mushrooms #fungi #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🍄

For #ColorADay #PinkMon, evening primrose, aka pink ladies #photography #flowers #primrose #plants #garden #nature 🌱

For #MallardMonday, a drake splashing in the creek #photography #birds #ducks #mallard #nature 📷🦉🪶

Some lines #photography #SomeLines 📷

For #SkySunday, a study in gray #photography #sky #clouds #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #Stunday 📷

For #SmallBirdSaturday, a cheerful little female house finch #photography #birds #finch #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #Caturday, placid #photography #cats #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🐈

For #FungiFriday, Google says these are mica caps. They popped up after the last rain. #photography #mushrooms #MicaCaps #fungi #nature 📷🍄

For #FeatheredFriday and #ColorADay #BWFri, a cormorant #photography #birds #cormorant #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🦉🪶

Loquats ripening #photography #fruit #loquat #trees #garden #nature 📷🌱

Mourning dove on a slanted wall #photography #birds #doves #mourningdove #nature 📷🦉🪶

For #ColorADay #RedWed, trumpet vine #photography #flowers #trumpetvine #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #WaterWednesday, one from the pond: a Canada goose with dreams of conducting an orchestra #photography #birds #goose #nature 📷🦉🪶

Waxing gibbous #photography #moon #sky #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷

For #TextureTuesday and #RockinTuesday, a stone-studded portion of the pond bank #photography #rocks #nature 📷

For #ColorADay #PinkMon, smoke bush #photography #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱

For #MallardMonday and the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme, #WaterBirds, a dabbling damsel #photography #birds #ducks #mallard #nature 📷🦉🪶

Some lines #photography #SomeLines 📷

For #SkySunday, last week's storm clouds breaking up and moving off #photography #sky #clouds #nature #Stunday 📷