Im Januar an der Nordseeküste. 🌊 In January on the North Sea coast. #eastcoastkin #blueskyartshow #clouds #stunday #orangesun

A blossom a day Keeps the darkness away #MacroMonday #FlyDay #Flowers #ColoraDay #Bloomscrolling #Natur #Macro #CloseUp #Wildlife #TTArtisan #Canon #Bluesky #Photography #SchoenesGegenDoofes #EastCoastKin

"We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise lasts but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.” ~R. A. Salvatore Fill your day with Mother Nature‘s beauty, breathe it in, she will stay with you #eastcoastkin #sunrise #BlueSkyArtShow #clouds

Late summer, beech clump beside The Ridgeway. Good evening, I hope everyone is well. #Ridgeway

Happy Friday, I hope you are all doing okay… #Scape view from Thorpeness Beach looking South towards Aldeburgh on the Suffolk Coast, U.K. 📷 Jan ‘26 🌊☀️ Have a wonderful weekend 💚☀️👋 #Beach #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin #Breathe #MentalHealthAwareness

The river today.

#repostingbeauty because we really need it right now. Beauty sustains us. Photographer: @walktoworkglasgow.bsky.social

🪶 If you need a breather, take a minute to listen to Common Loons (and a Barred Owl) call on a northern lake in late summer. (Bonus appearance by an alarmed sparrow of some sort?)

Somewhere to just sit - peace & quiet #trunks #nature #trees

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's Tuesday! Let's go for a virtual hike on the prairie together, discover: "A Prairie Hike: Time for Change" tuesdaysinthetallgrass.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/a... #nativeplants #change #hiking

Find peace in nature

“Capers’ experience in the American Revolution is… representative of those of a generation of arms-bearing Black Patriots who fought & bled to help achieve American independence.”

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

We are community or we are less. We are engines of kindness and connectivity or we are less. When decency is framed as a radical position we must remain who we are. Our resistance is also in refusing to be less openhearted and filled with compassion.

one of my favorite songs.

"You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel." -Johnny Depp

A deer licking snowflakes from its face in the midst of a snow covered forest. #snow #winter #blueskyartshow #deer #doe #nature #wildlife #photography #EastCoastKin

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

#repostingbeauty because we really need it right now. Beauty sustains us. Photographer: @pathwaymoments.bsky.social

#repostingbeauty because we really need it right now. Beauty sustains us. Photographer: @pathwaymoments.bsky.social

Happy #Scape Friday 🥰 📷 Black Forest, Germany #photography #Schwarzwald #landscape #ForestFriday #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin

The root of hag come from the German hagzussa and Old English hægtesse – hedge-sitter. For those old boundaries of the land, whether tangled threshold of hawthorn or stacked stone, were magical thresholds. Sitting atop them, the witch could see beyond into the Otherworld. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher" ~William Wordsworth from the poem “The Tables Turned” Mother Nature is my teacher & my peace. I stand on strong ground as she brings me into the light. #eastcoastkin #scape #forestfriday #trees #sun #light

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. ~Rumi 🕉️ #Scape 🌿 #ForestFriday 🌲 #WeekendVibes 🍃 #ClassicMono 🖤 #Monochrome 🤍 #Mammals 🦌 #EastCoastKin ☮️ #Photography 🦌 #Landscape 🖼️

The bill now in Congress is for permanent copper-nickel mining rights in the BWCA, "the most visited wilderness area in the U.S. .... When this rock is crushed and exposed to air and water it creates sulfuric acid--battery acid. The result is acid-mine drainage." www.startribune.com/bwca-mining-...

The assault on Minnesota is insane. apnews.com/article/boun...

This morning was a quiet offering 📷🕊️ …

#BirdOfTheDay #WinterLight White-throated Sparrow with a snowflake ornament. #snow #birds #nature

There is no separation ❤️ Image: credit to the owner

“The God of Love calls once, twice, three times. Only then does the prophet square her shoulders, gird her loins, open her hands, and say, ‘Hineni. Here I am.’” Read more from Mirabai Starr in this meditation. buff.ly/pGdtduF

A Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) wearing its #WaterWings for #BirdOfTheDay. A relatively tall, slender plover, it doesn’t always hang out with the other shorebirds or gather in large flocks. #BlueSkyArtShow #One 📷🪶

Today's hawk: a Red-Tailed hawk toughs it out in a snowstorm, ice crystals sticking to his face. When it's cold and the weather is hostile, the hawk hunkers down and waits it out. 🪶 #Raptors

Peaceful end of the day #sunset #nature

World is on fire but birds are still awesome #birds 🌿

It's Tuesday! Let's go for a virtual hike on the prairie together; discover "A Joy-Filled Prairie Chiller" tuesdaysinthetallgrass.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/a... #nativeplants #prairie #nature #photography #writing #Midwest #January #hiking

Sound up. This is beautiful, bringing me to tears and also reminding me of the promise of a new song in Psalm 40, which many Christians heard read in church yesterday. Having lived in Minnesota, I know how cold it is there. Brrr. ❄️⚓ 📷: Courtney Cushing Kiernat (who noted this isn't an insurrection)

#smallbeautieshour Despite a polar freeze over most of Canada, my little corner is mild. And the hellebore likes it. We may get snow later this week but this little hellebore has survived that two years in a row now.

As one of those of who was here witnessing from afar Martin Luther King's leadership, I would like to share my memories of him. I never heard any negativity about Dr. King, but knew he was a peaceful man, a tireless visionary Christian, who wanted justice for Black Americans. The Civil Rights 1/2

In 1924, Alma Thomas was the 1st graduate of Howard University’s Fine Arts program & the 1st woman in the US to hold bachelor’s degree in art. Her work has been collected by the Smithsonian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, & the White House. This piece sold at a Christie’s auction for 2.6 million USD.

Yesterday afternoon a full cathedral had the thrill of seeing John Rutter conduct the VocalEssence chorale in St. Paul, MN. He reminded all of us that the light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it. Peaceful moments still happen. We are hurting, grieving, but we are strong.

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

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Watching the doc Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am and there is a part where she talks about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and it shows photos of the era and the Black men involved, who were supposedly scaring the daylights out of whites. None of that or any of them compares to this 2026.

Marking MLKs birth by recalling when folks opposed me as the King event speaker so I created a radical critique of white racism and capitalism composed entirely of King’s speeches without telling people until the end that the words were King’s and not mine. Can we say: Sublime.

Merikin tarvitsee talvileponsa. 💎🌊💎 The sea also needs its winter rest. 01/26 Naantali #Finland #photography

A yellowish start to the day.

solidarity of light

Here's a look at us in Canada keeping an eye on things down south. #wildlife #beaver