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SilverLinings🍁
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Retired college prof in Niagara region, Canada. Avid gardener & bird enthusiast. Other passions: Environmental/climate/social justice, peace, nature, trees, rocks/crystals, wildlife, cats, dogs. NOVID 😷💉 She/her All pics using cell phone camera.
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Good morning, fellow gardeners!🌞 A geranium in soft white to wish you all a serene Sunday, whether in your own garden or elsewhere. 🌱

A geranium, with its cluster of white flowers and velvety green leaves with curled edges, made hazy in the pic by the cell phone camera because of the bright white adds just a touch of the ethereal.
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PYAHHH! From our raptor bluff 📷🪶

Portrait of red-tailed hawk in flight
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Sweet female downy woodpecker had been at a peanut feeder and was so startled when I opened the back door that she quickly flew to a nearby branch, where she laid low - literally - for a bit until she felt safe again. 🥺🪶🌱

Against a gray sky and just above a peanut feeder not seen in pic, a female downy woodpecker, in a protective posture, looks straight ahead with her motionless body pressed against a sunburst locust branch. In the background are leaves of a katsura standard and branches of an Austrian pine.
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I took this today in 2022 and it’s probably one of my most favourite photos of a cardinal I have captured ❤️🤓🪶 #birds#cardinal

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Happy Weekend, fellow gardeners!🌞 Backyard pond pic to wish you all a most wonderful day today, whether in your own garden or elsewhere! 🌱

Next to wood gazebo, a pond, edged by rocks of various sizes, partially covered with lily pads, and surrounded by grasses and pond plants. As well, a number of trees and bushes with no shortage of garden decor in a setting where 10 years ago when we moved here, the entire backyard was just lawn.
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Sun getting ready to set in shades of yellow over a calm sea
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Butterfly and blue sky. I will really miss them when they fly south for winter.🌱🦋 #butterflies

A gulf fritillary butterfly sits on an orange cosmos flower against a backdrop of deep blue sky, sunlight shining through its wings. It is a large butterfly patterned in orange, gold, red, black, and white.
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What can brighten an already bright sunny day? Spotting a beautiful egret walking in shallow water near the shoreline of the Upper Niagara River! 💃🏻🪶

In the bright afternoon sun and framed by a box elder at the shoreline is an egret facing left as it walks slowly in the glistening shallow water of the Upper Niagara River.
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Happy Friday, all!🌞 And fitting for a Friday, celebratory ornamental grass in a neighbourhood garden to wish you all a most wonderful day today, whether in your own garden or elsewhere.🎉 #FlowerReport#FlowersOnFriday 🌱

With the sunlight streaming through its fluffy blooms at the end of its long stems, huge ravenna grass always commands attention in the neighbourhood garden in the fall season. In the bottom left, the back of an SUV gives an idea of the height of this ornamental grass. A wooden fence is in the bottom right, while at the top of the pic, the dark green leaves of a Norway maple provide a nice contrast to the showy flowers.
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SilverLinings🍁
@plsmaskthankyou.bsky.social
Retired college prof in Niagara region, Canada. Avid gardener & bird enthusiast. Other passions: Environmental/climate/social justice, peace, nature, trees, rocks/crystals, wildlife, cats, dogs. NOVID 😷💉 She/her All pics using cell phone camera.
2k followers1.7k following14.6k posts