Linda Barnia King
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Linda Barnia King
@lindaking78.bsky.social
Retired, 7 year survivor of stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, mom, granny, proud Democrat, birder, nature photographer, flower gardener, collage/glue booker…refugee from Facebook…photos are mine unless noted…
#birds
These are antique embossed post cards over 100 years old I found in an antique shop at Shantiko, Oregon, population about 30, a “ghost town”, once known as the wool capitol of the world in early 1900s…
#Thanksgiving #antiques #closeup
#Oregon #collectibles
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
AI says this is a “Chicago Peace” Hybrid Tea Rose…found it this summer in commercial landscaping, Yakima, Washington…
#roseWednesday #rose #flowers
#bloomscrolling #flowerreport
#WestCoastPhotography #closeup
#flowerphotography #photography
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Light-morph Krider’s Red-tailed Hawk…rarely seen here…found it in the lower Yakima Valley…western red-tails have many more color morphs than eastern birds…
#birds #ornithology #audubon #PNW
#BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#birdphotography #TheWildImages
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Dogwood tree wearing its fall colors in October…note interesting puzzle-piece bark…spring flowers and fall colors—generous tree…it’s in a small grove of other Dogwood types…Yakima Area Arboretum
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #autumn
#fallcolor #AutumnVibes #leaves
#WestCoastPhotography #photohraphy
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A flying leap’s a great way to end a successful 8 second bull ride…Helix, Oregon…
#monoMonday #monochrome
#blackandwhitephotography
#WestCoastPhotography #PNW
#photographersofBlueSky
#photography
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Wild Turkeys hunting a safe place for the holidays…their lean, streamlined bodies allow them to fly…domestic turkeys bred for dinner tables can’t…Fort Simcoe State Park…
#birds #birdsofBlueSky #ornithology
#audubon #BirdsoftheWorld #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #TheWildImages
#usbird #birdlife
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
After several days of fog and low hanging clouds hiding Mt. Adams we have a beautiful but chilly morning…and, she has more new snow…
#BlueskyMonday #mountains #rural
#landscape #AutumnVibes #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #PNW
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Most of the leaves are gone taking the fall color with them but there a bit here and there and their reflection on the gravel pit pond doubles it…lower Yakima Valley, WA
#AutumnVibes #fall #reflection #water
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#ruralscenes #landscape #trees
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Photo of 2 male California Quail taken by my son who made the garden bench they’re perched on and 2 others out of old Oak wine barrel staves…
#birds #ornithology #audubon #closeup
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#photography #BirdoftheDay
#wildlifephotography #birdphotography
#WestCoastPhotography
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think white Poinsettias with a touch of green are so pretty…found these while shopping for T-Day dinner fixings…love holiday flowers so treated myself to a red and white Amaryllis bulb…
#flowers #bloomscrolling #closeup
#dailyflowers #flowerphotography
#photography #stunday
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dusty, one of the feral cats showed up for breakfast…if all 3 are here the older tom Smokey needs to be fed separately…he doesn’t share like he used to when they were kitties…then he seemed “mother” them but not now…
#caturday #pets #cats #photography
#closeup #photographersofBlueSky
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I spend my flower budget on my garden (am searching seed catalogs now) so when winter comes I turn to photography in grocery store floral shops to help satisfy my need for flowers…
#flowers #bloomscrolling #closeup
#dailyflowers #photography
#fallcolors #flowerphotography
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Praying Mantis in my garden yesterday 11/20/2025…AI says it’s a female based on color and its plump abdomen…preys on other insects…she lays eggs in the fall…she will not survive the winter…
#insects #nature #inmygardentoday
#photography #closeup #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
#naturephotography
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Tundra Swans, Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge…dark feathering on two of them indicates they’re juveniles…there are several Canada Geese in the background…
#birds #swans #ornithology #audubon
#wildlifephotography #BirdsoftheWorld
#BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography
#BirdoftheDay #geese #nature
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Very early morning frost got the last of my surviving garden flowers…11/21/2025…most had gotten frosted earlier…
lower Yakima Valley…
#gardening #floralFriday #photography
#flowerPhotography #flowers
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Steller’s Jay, only crested jay west of the Rocky Mountains…white streaks above eyes indicate it’s an inland rather then coastal bird…at my feeders White Swan, WA…
#birds #ornithology #audubon #PNW
#birdphotography #BirdsofBlueSky
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdwatching #jays
#WestCoastPhotography
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Found this photo among genealogy files I was given…no info with it…AI search only says it’s an early 1900s Conformation photo…copies for sale on Etsy…any ideas?
#HumansofBlueSky #people
#photography #midwest #Wisconsin
#Minnesota #monochrome
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Two trees identified as Southern Live Oaks on the grounds at Fort Simcoe State Park, Washington state…known to live 100s of years…historically used for ship building…original officer housing built 1856-59…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #photography
#parks #WestCoastPhotography
#naturephotography
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Things seen when birding in the lower Yakima Valley…only original block house at Fort Simcoe State Park…abandoned wheat combine…Toppenish Creek in Slide Ranch Wildfire burn area…Black Angus yearling heifer…
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#landscape #PhotographersofBlueSky
#naturephotography
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A couple shots of that rusty-red tail that Red-tailed Hawks were named for…it’s not always as visible as in these photos…
#birds #hawks #raptors #ornithology
#audubon #BirdoftheDay #birdlife
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Yellow roses are all about joy, happiness, appreciation, congratulations,
new beginnings, friendship, get well wishes, birthdays…if any of that fits what you want today I’m posting this rose for you…
#roseWednesday #rose #closeup
#WestCoastPhotography #flowers
#bloomscrolling #flowerphotography
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Wood Duck pair…she’s stretching her right wing…among several at a cemetery pond near Yakima, Washington…
#birds #ducks #audubon #ornithology
#BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#birdphotography #photography
#naturephotography #birding
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Self-seeded Pansies blooming at the edge of a friend’s garden in the lower Yakima Valley just a couple days ago…
#flowers #gardening #gardening
#flowerreport #flower #photography
#flowerphotography #flowerreport
#WestCoastPhotography
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Limber Pine aka Rocky Mountain White Pine growing in the Yakima Area Arboretum…produces edible pine nuts…young branches very flexible hence “Limber”…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #PNW
#naturephotography #photography
#WestCoastPhotography
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM