"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis #BlueskyArt #Mandala #CutPaperArt #Stunday #Art #EastCoastKin

"Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides." - Junichiro Tanizaki #BlueskyArtShow #Shadowplay #Mandala #UpcycledArt #Art #3DMandala

"Live in the sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy #Caturday. Cheers to finding some #Peace and #Sunshine today! #Cats #EastCoastKin

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." - Edward Abbey #Scape #Beltane #ForestFriday #CrestedButte #Colorado #Trails #EastCoastKin #BikeRide

"I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight." - Unknown #ColorADay #YellowThu #ArtYear #Mandala #Sunflower #EastCoastKin #CutPaperArt

This will sound very nerdy, but when I was a kid, I revered the Supreme Court. If they could rule unanimously against segregation in 1954—when the two other branches of government would *never* have been brave enough—I thought they're the lone voice of good. That is all trashed now. They're garbage.

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“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, 'What about me?' and you can just hear the universe replying, 'Well, what about you?'” - Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time #Pratchett #Universe #NightSky #Sky #EastCoastKin #Stars #Moon

"Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it." - Ernst Haas #JosephsCoat #Roses #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Stunday #Flowers #Joy #EastCoastKin

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." Joseph Wood Krutch #Caturday

"The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA.” - Joseph Gordon-Levitt #BlueskyArtShow #Odd #Creature #Snail #EastCoastKin #Nature

"A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world." - Benton MacKaye #Scape #ForestFriday #WSUVancouver #Path #Forest #EastCoastKin #Trees

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall #EarthDay #Earth #Trees #Sunshine #Leaves #Breathe #EastCoastKin #AZ

"My goal is to simplify complexity." - Jack Dorsey #Mandala #BlueskyArt #Art #CutPaperArt #Focus #WestCoastKin

“Garden as though you will live forever.” - William Kent #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Macro #Rose #Garden #Sunlight #Photography #EastCoastKin #AZ

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” - Martin Luther King Jr. #Caturday #TimeOut #CatsOfBluesky #RestAndRecovery

“Do like trees: change the leaves, but keep the roots. So, change your ideas, but keep your principles.” - Victor Hugo #ForestFriday #Scape #Moss #PNW #WestCoastKin #Green #EastCoastKin #Trees

"Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels it becomes the path itself!" - Mehmet Murat ildan #WaterfallWednesday #WestCoastKin #Waterfall #PNW #MultnomahFalls

“I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Bill Watterson #Caturday #LaserEyes

“I love the woods: they calm my storms, leaving peace in my eyes.” - Fabrizio Caramagna #ForestFriday #PNW #Washougal #WA #EastCoastKin #Trees #Forest

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

One Joseph’s Coat climbing rose bush with many color variations of flowers. #Roses #FlowerReport #Flowers #EastCoastKin #Spring #AZ #Macro

"We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive." - Yvon Chouinard #RockinTuesday #GraniteDells #WillowLake #AZ #Rocks #EastCoastKin

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”  - John Lennon Happy #Easter #Stunday! #Mandala #CutPaperArt #BlueskyArt #EastCoastKin

“Where there is love there is life.” - Mahatma Gandhi Happy #Caturday! I hope your weekend includes a few catnaps. #ToeBeans

I just caught this beauty having a snack on our climbing rose bush. #Butterfly #Rose #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Swallowtail #AZ #Prescott #EastCoastKin #Spring #Easter

It rained last night!!! It’s been a while since we saw rain here in Prescott, AZ. The garden is happy. The Blue Balloon flower plants have collected water and it’s fascinating in the morning light. #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Rain #Leaves #AZ #Yavapai

This amazing little guy stayed for a while to fill up this morning. It’s so cool to be able to zoom in and see all of those tiny shiny feathers. #Hummingbird #Birds #EastCoastKin #Photography #Arizona #Feathers

Rose season has begun. 🧡 #FlowerReport #Rose #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #Photography #Macro

"There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation.” - Jim Rohn It’s a great day for resistance. Stay safe today. #Caturday #NoKings #EastCoastKin

The first rose blooms of the year came out today! Woohooo! #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Roses #FlowerReport #FindYourJoy #EastCoastKin #Arizona #Garden

“The trees will tell their secrets to those that tune in.” - Steven Magee #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #Scape #PNW #Trees #WSUVancouver #IntoTheForestWeGo #Panorama

Good night from Arizona! #Sunset #BlueSky #Yavapai #AZ #EastCoastKin

Bluesky is full of particularly beautiful snapshots of people’s lives this morning. Plotting cats, bread making successes, musical inspiration, thriving gardens …these shared moments are lovely.

The overseer. #Caturday

"There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things." - Andy Goldsworthy #BlueskyArtShow #Stone #EastCoastKin #Lichen #Photography

“It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at sunrise.” - Todd Stocker #Scape #ForestFriday #PNW #WSUVancouver #Sunrise #Wildfires

#Spring is springing here in #Prescott #AZ! #Photography #EastCoastKin #Yavapai

"I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth." - Louise Dickinson Rich #Stunday #ClassicMono #JapaneseMaple #EastCoastKin #Trees #Moody #Spooky

“Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.” - Rod McKuen #BlueskyArtShow #Horizontal #Caturday #CatNap #Sleep

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn #BlueskyArtShow #Horizontal #PNW #ShortSandBeach #SurfSpot #Oregon

Moody. #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #BW #WinterSky #AZ

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." - John Muir #Stunday #EastCoastKin #AZ #WillowLake #GraniteDells #Summer #Clouds #Path #Trail

Happy #Caturday!

“A walk in nature walks the soul back home.” - Mary Davis #ForestFriday #PNW #EastCoastKin #WSUVancouver #Trees #Breathe

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” - Sigmund Freud #Caturday #Sunshine #Relax

"All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities." - Thomas Sowell #BlueskyArtShow #Round #Water #Arizona #Petroglyph #Walkabout

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Pablo Picasso #BlueskyArtShow #Round #Mandala #RecycledArt #CutPaperArt #EastCoastKin #Art

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” - Lao Tzu #WaterfallWednesday #EastCoastKin #Water #Waterfall #Iconic #MultnomahFalls #Oregon