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jon5cents
@jon5cents.bsky.social
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SJO-->ASU-->LIT
I like to travel and take pictures. If I post it, I shot it.
At least tied for title of world's most happily married man.
When I'm home, it's in Arkansas. Lots of nice people here. Take our governor... please!

My site: 5centsphotos.com
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🪲 Unidentified beetle on a girlfriend's kiss flower (there is a more common and rude name, but I'll leave it at that) for #TextureTuesday. Night walk in Bijagua, #CostaRica. #photography #macro
A dull colored beetle is on a flower with red petals that might resemble lips. The flower has a yellow center and what look to be dried up parts in the very middle. A green leaf is below it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🪶 Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HangingAround, with "Birds at Unusual Angles", so here are two shots (it is #Twosday, after all) of a Baltimore oriole going for some dessert. #birds #photography
A Baltimore oriole is hanging from the top of a round feeder, dipping its beak straight into a small glass container of grape jelly. To the left are two orange halves stuck onto the feeder, which is hanging by a chain. A Baltimore oriole is perched on the top of a round feeder, head down towards a small glass container of grape jelly. In front are two orange halves stuck onto the feeder, which is hanging by a chain.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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🤔 Not certain I understand this week's #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels, but that's never stopped me before...

Abstemious...Did you know the word "abstemious" contains all the vowels, in alphabetical order? This guy strikes me as being abstemious.
#Photography
In a passageway between streets, a man sits on a bench, looking through some papers on his lap. The passageway is painted light blue, and give way, through an arch, to a stone building with wooden doors, windows with rails and flower pots.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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🪶 Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #warblers. This is one that I don't see very much, the Kentucky warbler. #birds #photography
A bird with a yellow belly, neck, and eye stripe, with olive-looking upper parts, is on a branch looking to our right.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🕷️ I spotted this canopy jumping #spider on my front porch a couple of days ago auditioning for #MacroMonday, and I gave it the part. #spiders #macro #photography
A jumping spider is on the inside of a metal handle, with its rear legs raised against the metal door. It is looking directly at the camera. Two small tufts of hair are on top of its head, almost appearing hornlike.
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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📷 Resurrecting a shot that was one of my first Post posts. New Orleans scene for #Stunday. #Photography
A New Orleans scene with a streetcar in front and the Jax building in back. A couple is in the foreground, the girl on the right dressed in red and holding a beverage in a fancy glass.
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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🪶 #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mr&Mrs, but here it looks like the avian version of the meme of the couple with the guy looking back at another girl. House finches in winter.
#birds #photography
On some icy branches, there are three house finches. On the left, a female looking ahead, in the center a male with body facing the first, but head turned around to look at another female on the right.
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Yellow garden spider, (Argiope aurantia) after a rain for #blueskyartshow #small

🕷️ #photography #spiders #macro
A yellow garden spider is in the center of its web. The web holds many droplets of water. Some out of focus pink blooms are in the background.
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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🪶 Eastern kingbird for #BirdOfTheDay #birdonawire #birds #photography
An eastern kingbird is on a barbed wire fence, facing camera but looking to our left.
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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🪶 Better late than never to post a fine #FeatheredFriday friend. This is a red-breasted nuthatch. Pretty birds, smaller than our more common white-breasted. Seem to be in perpetual motion, so I got lucky on this one.
#birds #photography #nature
A small nuthatch with black and white stripes on the head, a light orange breast and grey back is clinging to the bark of a tree, facing down and looking to the left side of the picture.
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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🪶 No internet all morning, so later than usual post.
The alternate for #Birdoftheday is #Singing. I've put up my share of gulls lately, so here's a yellow warbler.
#birds #photography
A yellow warbler is on a branch with new leaves coming out. It has its beak raised and wide open to sing.
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Windows, doors, balconies, laundry for #UrbanGaze from Porto, #Portugal. #StreetPhotography #photography
Two narrow buildings joined together in a row of buildings. We see the second and third floors. The building on the right is painted a darker yellow with brown trim, and has laundry hanging to dry on a line. A woman is on a balcony, with a blanket or sheet spread on the balcony where she is leaning. The building on the left is gray, with blue and white tile typical of Portugal. A woman is seated on a chair on the upper floor. There are two satellite dishes on the left.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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🐜 Leaf-cutter ant wins the #InsectThursday spotlight for its power lifting ability. #photography #macro #insect #ant
A leaf-cutter ant is in profile, walking from left to right. It has a leaf much larger than itself in its jaws.
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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🪶 It's #thrushes for #BirdoftheDay, says @alan678.bsky.social. This is a black-headed nightingale-thrush from the Monteverde area of #CostaRica. #birds #photography
A smallish black bird is on a mossy stone path, facing away but with its head turned to our left. It has yellow legs, yellow eyering and an orange beak.
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🍂 Fall #scape on the Buffalo River for #WaterWednesday.
#Arkansas #Photography #autumn #reflection
A peaceful river with a good reflection of the autumn trees on the right bank. Rocky bank is on the left. Mountain visible in the background.
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #round, with an alternate of #sparrows, which I'll combine for a winter shot of a white-throated sparrow looking rather filled out. #birds #photography
A white-throated sparrow on a snowy branch stares straight at the camera. Some snowflakes are visible on it.
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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🪶 Synchronized swans swimming for #Twosday. They're showing up again near Heber Springs, #Arkansas. #birds #twofer #photography
Two swans are swimming, one slightly ahead of the other. Their heads and necks are in identical S shapes.
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🪶 I'm taking today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #blurry to the limit with this golden-crowned kinglet (the same bird that I posted for yesterday's theme, just a few seconds later).
Settings for still #birds, but it moved... I kind of liked it. #photography
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The #AlphabetChallenge for this week is #WeekUforUnloved. Someone was very unloved a while back in Mexico.
#photography #phonephotography
A t-shirt on a mannequin in a shop depicts a typical revolution-style skeleton giving a bony one-finger salute. The shirt reads "Pinche Donald."
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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🕷️ Another #MacroMonday, another #spider, but not a jumper this time. I decided to go with a goldenrod crab spider, Misumena vatia, on verbena. #spiders #photography #macrophotography
A greenish-yellow crab spider is on the end of one of several purplish blooms of verbena.
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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🪶 Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StareDown, so here's a golden-crowned kinglet giving me a hard look last week. #birds #photography
A golden-crowned kinglet is on a small branch staring directly at the camera. It is mostly grey, with some black on the neck and head, and a yellow spot on the top of the head.
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The Odd Couple

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTForTelevision
#Photography

Possible repost, but if I can't remember, maybe others won't...
A park bench in Mexico. On the left is a woman reading a magazine. She is wearing a flowered dress, has a denim jacket over her knees, and has on a straw hat. To the right is an older man dressed as a mariachi musician with a trumpet in his lap. He appears to be asleep.
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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📷 Another shot of #autumn at the Old Mill in North Little Rock, #Arkansas for #stunday. #photography #fall
An old stone mill (actually a replica built in the 1930s) is surrounded by trees and other vegetation, with a good bit of fall color. A mill wheel is visible on the side of it, and water is flowing into pools.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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🪶 Some #ShadesofGrey in this cedar waxwing that also has its #beakopen, so it gets to be my #BirdoftheDay submission.
#birds #photography
Two cedar waxwings are on cedar branches. The one in the foreground, focused on, is facing right, has its beak open, and a cedar berry is visible in its mouth.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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🪶 Not a great picture, but hey, if Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social says the theme is #CootsAndMoorhens, I have to go with what I have handy. Having been called an old coot, I feel a certain kinship. #birds #photography
Two coots swimming in a lake.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM