California scrub jay, cleaning up. #birdoftheday 🪶 Theme, any bird taking a bath.

'Duet' roses brightening up the back garden. 🌱💗 These roses are so nice and hardy! And lovely. Not much scent but their coloring really glows. #RoseWednesday #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Female or juvenile Black-headed grosbeak... I think. 🪶 #birdoftheday #notabranch

Under the pear tree in June. 🌱 💗🧡💜 #MagentaMonday #inthegarden #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography.

Ball dahlias are very happy this year 💕🌱 A reddish #MagentaMonday. #inthegarden #dahliadays #bloomscrolling #photography

Sunset on the mountain. ✨✨ Sweet dreams ✨✨ #photography #sunset #mountainlife #landscape

Sunflower seeds on the way. 🌱🌻 A rather subtle #SundayYellow. #photography #inthegarden #sunflowers #florets

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree" -Martin Luther ✌🏻🫶🏻💙💚🩵🍎🍂🥧 #scape #trees #apples #green #red #Fall #FriYAY

This dahlia is at least 7 feet tall! Over 2 meters high! 2.13 even. Photo on left is as close as I can get to it without getting in the raised bed, while on right, zoomed-in version shows detail, & the little guy guarding the place. Happy Friday 🌸🌱 #dahlia #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowersOnFriday

Buddleia. Beginning a privacy hedge of butterfly bushes this year ~ so enjoying all the life they bring with these blooms! Birds like hanging out in there, too. #PrettyPurpleThursday #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography

An old fella who lives next door (in the humans' backyard). I see him walking slowly across the front every evening on his way home... looking tired. #deer #wildlife #neighbors

Two days left to comment/stand up for our national forests, clean rivers, and potentially, our national parks down the road as they are public land, also. 380,000 miles of roads are already cut into public lands, many in bad shape as they don't maintain these roads once there. Comment by Sept. 19th.

Compassion rose, blooming more pale than usual during the heat wave. A 10' climber, variable in color, fruit-like fragrance. 🌱 #RoseWednesday #inthegarden #photography

A favorite sign Autumn is on the way. 🌱 #chrysanthemums #flowers #inthegarden #photography

The Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)is a large brown alga forming extensive underwater forests in cool, coastal waters of the Pacific and parts of the southern Atlantic and Southern Oceans. It is the largest alga species, capable of growing up to 60m(200 feet) long! #AI #nature #aquatic #plants

On the water. In the mountains. #BlueSkyArtShow #home #canoeing #mountainlife #nature #photography

I hear we're cute posting! Young raccoon in a cherry tree. #mammals #nature #photography

Here it is September, now... Pumpkins sprawled all across the garden, now... 🌱 Well actually, just this one. Called 'Big Max.' 🤨🧐🤷‍♀️ They just didn't want to grow this year... #pumpkins #inthegarden #notsomuch

Honey Nectar roses suddenly looking so happy now that the heat wave has broken, and it's rained a bit... Anna's Promise roses in pinkish-apricot, behind. #RoseWednesday #inthegarden #flowers #photography #beautyintheworld

September 🌱 #sunflowers #bees #inthegarden #photography

Rudbeckia in the house. 🌱 #SundayYellow #Stunday #summer #inthegarden #photography

June. 🌱🌸 #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #outsideliving #cherries #inthegarden #roses #photography

Back in the day summer. In my extended family, summer means water. All day, every day. How I grew up, too. Swimming, sailing, kayaking, boating, sitting on docks... whatever. Here are some of them, long before I showed up. #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #waterbabies #backintheday

Old school summer. #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #classicmono #bnw #photography

"September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias." 🌱💗 ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes #FlowersOnFriday #beautyintheworld #photography

Almost purple? Yeah, bit of a stretch but so pretty! Dahlia looking amazing in the garden this week. 🌱 #PrettyPurpleThursday #inthegarden #dahlias #photography

Boston. Love the look of the Boston Opera House (aka Citizens Bank Opera House), with its fancy facade. Not as old as one might think, having opened in 1928 as a movie theater. This shot taken during the pandemic, hence the sole human, wearing a mask. #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky #photography #boston

Pennsylvania dawn. As the colors rise from the black of night... #AlphabetChallenge #JetBlack #nature #photography

Morden Blush roses. Sensitive little things. ...to heat, to rain, breezes rattle them, blooms stay fresh about a minute... But they do have a certain charm. 🌱💗 #RoseWednesday #flowers #bloomscrolling #inthegarden #photography

We arrived after dark, after many miles of twists/turns on a old dirt road that went endlessly on into the hills. The instructions were: "Go through Mother Garden, the moon will guide you. On the far side is my cabin...." (Part 2)(more in ALT) #TheCampfire #storytelling #nonfiction #backintheday

First chickadee to visit in ages! Sitting on the ladder, eyeing the bird feeder below. One of my favorite little birds. 🪶 #birds #nature #happyday

Anemone de Cain 'Mr. Fokker' 🌱💙 Another lovely flower I'd probably give another name... if it were up to me. They are exquisite to see in the garden each Spring! #TuesdayBlue #BlueTue #inthegarden #flowers #photography

Elephant's Head Amaranth popping up, *not* in the garden! Quit growing these in the garden years ago, but they continue to thrive in hubs' utility (aka chaotic wreck) area. Brightening up the place! 🤭😍 Flower heads just getting going 🌱 #garden #flowers #amaranth #photography #MagentaMonday

Nonconformist in the sunflower community. 🌻 🌱 #SundayYellow #sunflowers #bloomscrolling #inthegarden #photography

Shiny cherries. 🌱🍒 #BlueSkyArtShow #shiny #inthegarden #cherries #homegrown #photography #summer

Seed pods. 🌱 #BlueSkyArtShow #shiny #inthegarden #nature #AbstractAug #almostabstract #photography

Wishing you all a good weekend! 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #dahlias #inthegarden #photography

Veggie garden colors. Harvests starting, good year for cayenne & purple beans! Lots of yellow pear tomatoes, too, but they mostly got eaten. Heirlooms on the way 😋 Lots of garden work this week. Happy days🌱👩‍🌾🍅🥬🫘🍀 In the garden... #gardenlife #kitchengarden #sanctuary #vegetables #organicallygrown

San Francisco. #UrbanGaze #citylife #urban #mural #art #streetphotography #photography #sanfrancisco

this is some masterful pruning 🌱 Abbazia Santa Maria del Bosco, Sicilia Italy -photo via mariannamerisi IG #gardening #foliage #LandscapePhotography #Italy

Rosie the Riveter roses. So much variety in color as she matures, a lovely light fragrance, too. (Although Munstead Wood is planted close by & that potent fragrance takes over!) A sanctuary spot of goodness & peace. 🌱 #RoseWednesday #inthegarden #flowers #emotionalhealth #happyplace #photography

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife, are in fact plans to protect man.” ― Stewart L. Udall

Not sure what's happening here but it certainly feels like my life these days. Am I disappearing into the plant world altogether - or the plant world is taking me over...? Regardless, not too bad a place to be, considering. 🌱🌿🍀 #gardeninglife #gardenwork #plantsrule #photography #classicmono #bnw

Dahlia days 🌱💕 I like seeing these flowers at different stages side by side, the petals still folded as the flower opens (right), then like lovely open tubes, soft of, as they fill out... sorry, terrible description.😅 That kind of Monday. #MagentaMonday #dahlias #flowers #inthegarden #photography

At my favorite mountain spot looking south... View of Mt. Shasta in Autumn, before any snow has accumulated on peaks. Sky still summer hazy, it stays that way until the rains come. #MountainMonday #photography #nature #mountainlife #MtShasta #volcano

One of the more delicate flowers seen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco earlier this year... the crooked little yellow stamens (I think that's what they are) accent their look so nicely! #SundayYellow #tropical #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

I still miss you, my sweet girl. 🖤 You were the best at finding good hiding spots! #caturday #blackcat #cats #photography

Dawn flight home. #Skyline #BlueSkyArtShow #scape #PropPlanes #photography

Our local volcano bringing the mood. #Cascades #Oregon #MtMcLoughlin #volcano #landscape #scape #photography

#PrettyPurpleThursday ! (Please 'like' her post, not this one 💜)