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mary p
@matreyoo.bsky.social
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I take a lot of iPhone photos, post only mine unless I say otherwise
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Now I know for sure that I shared my yak photos this summer but...a e i o u and sometimes y for yak!
#WeekVForVowel #AlphabetChallenge #nature

I don't know if the Yakity Yak Talking Teeth toy (1949) has anything to do with the teeth of yaks but if not it's a great coincidence to think about.
Up close yak face through a wire fence. All hair, straight teeth, and pink nose.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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One thing I loved about my last neighborhood in Austin is there was a lot of street art. This one was a sweet one that emerged during the early days of Covid-19.

#TagTuesday #photography #getoutside
Picture of a utility pole full of staples in a yard of grass with trees and houses behind. On the pole is a laminated cardboard sign drawn by a child that says I love your dog. There's a drawing of a dog surrounded by hearts.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Peggy's Cove Nova Scotia

470 mil yrs ago, these rocks were mud & sand in the ocean near Africa, were eventually compacted into shale and sandstone, then squeezed between the two continents, melted, and the granite rose up to the surface.

#RockinTuesday #BlueskyArtShow #nature #photography
Man walking across an expanse of granite with a cloudy gray sky as backdrop
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Mezcal Don Agave in Oaxaca 2016
Not a fan of the #alcohol but cool to see how it's made and do a flight.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVowels
A line of artisanal mezcal with colorful labels.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Estes Park 2017
(Musical) Instruments on the trail
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
xylophones in public, on a dirt area beside a river
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Colter Bay in Grand Teton National Park
#MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
#scape #landscape #water #BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside
Colter Bay Marina in the foreground with boats and canoes tied to a dock. In the background are pine trees with snow-capped mountains behind.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Last night at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Austin, Texas
Live oak at night with trunk and branches covered in white string lights and a semi-circle wooden bench wrapping the base. Limestone wall with a cut out window looking onto the live oaks covered in string lights. Limestone tiled courtyard with limestone buildings surrounding it. There are string lights and live oaks above with dark sky behind them. Luminarias line the edge of the courtyard Live oaks at night with trunk and branches covered in white string lights A dirt path winds through the trees.
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Last week there was a #BlueskyArtShow challenge for #HidingInPlainSight. It was for self portraiture but this is a photo of my grandson playing in his backyard that would fit for portraiture in general. 😉
Backyard of grass with a wooden playscape that has a blue slide and swings.Tall trees fill the sky. Little shoes of a swinging toddler are seen at the very edge of the photo.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Outside of Bayard, Nebraska 2017.
#photography #nature #ColorADay #GreenSat
Photo across a field of grass with a couple of old wooden picnic tables and a rusted metal wheel near a windmill in the middle. In the foreground another rusted metal wheel that seems to have been used as a fire pit. In the background, behind a line of scrubby trees, are some low hills, one of which has an extremely pointed tip.
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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#AdoorableThursday in Estes Park, Colorado
Large double wooden doors in a lodge setting with large metal handles. Yellow light shines through the windows above from a chandelier.
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Sharing some out-the-window views of leaving the rain forest to head back to Texas for a few weeks. I love Hāna highway with the windows down and water and green everywhere.

Also, it's 7:37 pm here but after last night's red eye flight failed to render any sleep I'm thinking I'm soon ready for bed!
View from the Hāna highway heading from Hāna to Kahului, Maui, Hawai'i, to go to the airport (it's also our commute for groceries and services, and I really love the drive as long as it's only every few weeks or so!) Palm trees and other lush greenery behind a rock wall lining a road. Nestled in the foliage is a traditional Hawaiian plantation style home. View from one of dozens of one lane bridges on the Road to Hāna, looking down at a stream, one of many that flow mauka to makai (mountains to the sea). Another bridge with a view to the stream, lush green foliage with the sea and the sky in the background.
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I don't know if you've checked out the #AdoorableThursday or #Adoorable #photography but I really enjoy and appreciate the posts. Some really good photos.

Santuario de Chimayo in New Mexico. I think it's worth a trip if you're in the area.
Wooden carved arched doorway
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Hiking with my son in Rocky Mountain National Park.
#RockinTuesday #Nature #photography
#BlueskyArtShow
A large rock structure (big boulders in a pile) with a man in a hat standing on it, photographed from below.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I hope #TextureTuesday is still a thing because I can't get enough of lava rock walls. This one at the "shortcut" through the hotel (way better than walking on the road).
The frame is filled with a lava rock wall with a few small plants growing out of it.
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Last morning walk with Masu at Hāna Bay for a few months.
#TidesOutTuesday #nature #photography
Where Hāna Bay meets the lava rock wall with the pier beyond jutting out into the water. Three street lights shine in the dusk, with light reflecting on the water wet sand. A blue and white fishing boat is being backed down the ramp into the water.
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Can you see the gecko hunter?
Nature in Hawai’i
Cat climbing a tree on the hunt for a gecko
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I think this definitely qualifies as #BlueskyMonday #photography.
From a walk on the Poudre River Trail in northern Colorado one February day in 2022.
Deep blue sky fills most of the photo with a low, yellow cinder block building behind a chain link fence. A light pole towers over the building and a heron sits atop the light.
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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#ColorADay #GreenSat
Old Town Fort Collins
Photo of the narrow space between stucco- and cinder block-sided buildings with green leaves in the foreground as well as a narrow strip of green paint running vertically at the forward edge of a building.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Green bridge for #GreenSat
#ColorADay
Green painted metal undergirding for a bridge
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Oden Fish Hatchery Pond.
Lotsa green
#ColorADay #GreenSat #photography
pond surrounded by bushy trees reflected in the water
November 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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A #Bright and cold sunrise in Michigan January 2019.
#BlueSkyArtShow
Sunrise over a frozen lake covered in snow.
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Banana leaves in Hāna, Maui!
#ColorADay #GreenSat #photography
#dailyart #artchallenge #artprompt
Close up into a coiled green banana leaf with light shining through.
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Sign at the John F. Kennedy Space Center.
#FoodOnFriday
Sign shows a squirrel and bird in white against a blue background with the words "Wildlife will eat food".
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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When we remodeled our Michigan condo a few years ago we got to:
1. put the toilet in the shower for a while,
2. get rid of that weird tile the original builder had put on the walls and floors, and
3. put a #bright lamp on the floor of the bathroom, as one does (before donating it).
#BlueskyArtShow
A bathroom with a toilet (and tools) in the shower with a table lamp on the floor.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Back in the rain forest again for a few days.
Happy to get to stay in a friend's place!
Hāna, Maui
View from a window through lush backyards with gray clouds above and a view of the bay just barely visible.
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM