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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3h

Some of fall’s softer colors here in the Yakima Valley…snow in the Cascades last night…we need a very deep snow pack up there to counter the drought…
#AutumnVibes #fallcolors #ruralscenes
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#cows #easternWashington #PNW
#rural #PhotographersofBlueSky

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, they’re not likely to sit still…I just kept clicking away hoping for that one decent shot…

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4h

Cedar Waxwing enjoying the fruit trees at the Yakima Area Arboretum…they are one of the few North American birds that specializes in eating a fruit diet…
#birds #birdwatching #photography
#birdphotography #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotigraohy #waxwing
#BirdsoftheWorld #birding

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5h

Unfortunately, no…not even for dogs…way too many to deal with is what I’ve heard…

Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 12h

Feral tom cat we call Smokey hasn’t been seen for several days…usually drops by for a meal…not lately…he’s disappeared like this before so this could just be another of his adventures/romances…but, life is tough for country cats who don’t trust humans…
#caturday #cats #photography #rural

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 1d

More food from the Yakima Valley as the growing season winds down…Apples, grapes and field corn still being harvested and ground is being tilled…flocks of migrating birds are feasting where they can…
#foodFriday #vegetables #farming
#easternWashington #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #food #PNW

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 1d

European Starling in its fall colors…those dots of white will disappear over the winter months…huge flocks assembling now here in the Yakima Valley…invasive but interesting…
#birds #birdwatching #birdlife #birding
#BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#photography #birdphotography
#easternWashibgton

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 1d

Posting Daffodil shots from last spring because today I’ll be planting 50 bulbs to go with the 50 I planted last week…love these things!!!
#gardening #flowers #flowerreport
#easternWashington #photography
#flowerphotography #bloomscrolling
#WestCoastPhotography #closeup

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 1d

Might’ve been a “found” boot someone put there just in case someone came looking for it…

Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 1d

Things I’ve seen when out birding—country boot store…ornamental landscaping with empties…basketball reigns supreme on the rez & having a home practice court only requires a little ingenuity…
#easternWashington #rural #backroads
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
#ruralscenes #storytelling

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 2d

Saddle bronc rider focused on horse and hanging on while others shout encouragement, hold their breath, and watch in case rider needs help…8 seconds is a long time…Toppenish, Washington rodeo…
#HumansofBlueSky #easternWashington
#horses #blackandwhitephotography
#WestCoastPhotography #photography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 2d

Red-tailed Hawks are everywhere here in the Yakima Valley this fall…must’ve been a good hatch this summer…it’s perched on an anchor post of a harvest hop yard…
#birds #raptors #hawks #birdlife
#BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#easternWashington #Photography
#WestCoastPhotography
#birdphotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 2d

A bee making the best of it in the orange/yellow section of my container garden…no frost yet, so these heat/sun hardy plants are enjoying cooler temps with a big burst of blooms…
#gardening #fallcolors #Autumnvibes
#inmygardentodat #bloomscrolling
#flowers #easternWashington
#WestCoastPhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 2d

Country roads…lots of dusty gravel…some pavement, too…30 years a school bus driver, I’ve traveled them all in all weather, wishing for graders to flatten chuckholes, & plows to clear snow & sand ice…
#easternWashington #dirtroads
#backroads #rural #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #ruralscenes

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3d

Ring-necked Duck flock of 12 on a gravel pit pond in the Yakima Valley for a day…named for rarely seen brown neck feathers so there’s been talk of renaming them…
#birds #ducks #BirdsofBlueSky
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdwatching
#easternWashington #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #birdlife

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3d

Large, lovely water feature at North Star Lodge Cancer Treatment Center in Yakima, WA where I’ve been a patient for almost 7 years…stage 4 BC in remission so now monitoring me quarterly…
#waterWednesday #water #landscape
#photography #WestCoastPhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3d

When the White House Rose Garden was re-done in 2020 only 11 original roses from Kennedy days were left…200 new bushes—JFK & Pope John Paul II white & pink Peace roses were added…shade & drainage problems were fixed…
#roseWednesday #rose #flowers
#bloomscrolling #flowerreport
#photography #closeup

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

Full sun and nearly 90…sitting in my air conditioned truck…10 yards away bear in a fur coat looking to cool down…splashed around in leaking irrigation hose puddle…finally just laid down in it…ignored me…
#bears #mammals #wildlife #rural
#easternWashington #photography
#wildlifephotography #nature

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

Had early morning visitors in the driveway and pasture—a mischief of Black-billed Magpies (15) and a conspiracy of Ravens (7)…those are names for flocks of each bird…
#birds #easternWashington #rural
#WestCoastPhotography #birdlife
#BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#birdwatching #birdphotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

Google Lens admits it can’t identify this Yakima Arboretum rose except to say it’s “variegated”…I wanted to respond with “Well, duh…” but AI doesn’t seem chatty…
#roses #flowers #bloomscrolling
#flowerreport #easternWashington
#photography #WestCoastPhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

Found this obviously dead tree in a dry land pasture on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation, Washington state…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #ruralscene
#rural #easternWashington #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #landscape
#naturePhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5d

Love shooting the old gravel pit pond in the Lower Yakima Valley when it’s smooth as glass and there are some clouds above to add to the reflection…
#monoMonday #monochrome #water #blackandwhitephotography #pond
#reflection #easternWashington #PNW
##WestCoastPhotography #photography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5d

This Bald Eagle was our big surprise while birding yesterday…it’s not been a good year for seeing them here in the Yakima Valley…
#birds #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#easternWashington #birding #birdlife #WestCoastPhotography#pictureofday
#photography #wildlifephotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5d

A bit of my container garden 10/6/2025…Moss Roses, drift wood and rocks with a geranium that’s planning to re-bloom after nearly dying in the summer heat…
#flowers #inmygardentoday #PNW
#flowerreport #easternWashington
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
#bloomscrolling #gardening

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5d

I agree…look awful when they arrive and just get better and better from the moment they’re planted…