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Live music and books and hiking and biking. Photographer of concerts and nature. Waterfall and sunset chaser. Crazy cat lady. 🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛
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Sharing a favorite from our walk on Friday near Bdote, the sacred place of creation for the Dakota people.

Bdote sits at the confluence of the Mississippi & Minnesota rivers.

History on cultural significance in alt text.

#StunDay #EastCoastKin #Photography #Landscape #StateParks #MNStateParks
Photo: The late afternoon sun is reflected on a body of water. The sky is partly cloudy. A tree line is in the distant horizon, and native plants and brush are in the foreground. Historical background: This spot is located in what is called Fort Snelling State Park today. Long before Fort Snelling existed, the surrounding land was known as Bdote by the Dakota people, who are Indigenous to the region. Efforts to add “at Bdote” to Fort Snelling signage a few years ago were shut down by state legislators as “rewriting history,” despite the fact that Bdote is what the area was known as historically. Excerpt below from the Sacred Land Film Project’s “Bdote in Mni Sota” report, by Addie Wright: Minnesota, known as Mni Sota Makoce to the Dakota, is “the land where the waters reflect the skies.” The Dakota word Bdote means “where two waters come together,” representing the spiritual and physical place of creation for the Dakota people. Bdote is located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers (on the eastern edge of the Minneapolis–St. Paul airport, and south of the Twin Cities). This place of waters meeting is most often referred to as where the Dakota arrived in human form. Seven tribes of Dakota are said to have descended from the seven stars of Orion’s belt, arriving at the convergence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. Bdote presents a potent example of a spiritual landscape overlaid with history, where sites of profound cultural importance are born near well-established sacred natural sites. The river confluence was the place of creation. Ceremonies were conducted at a flourishing freshwater spring and on a nearby hilltop. The land was taken away by colonizers, followed by resistance and hangings, as deceit, murder and military action sparked a long battle for truth and reconciliation. Dakota elder Dave Larsen describes the Bdote as “where everything began and where everything began changing.”
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To make the intellect rid of
the sense ‘I am the body’, and
fixing it securely in the Heart,
this is the significance of
witnessing the Beacon Light
of Arunachala.

Ramana Maharshi, 20th century

#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Today is Maha Deepam, 3 December 2025, at the 2,688 foot Mount Arunachala in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India, pictured here from Adiannamalai village almost in silhouette with a faint rose-pink hue. Possibly the most spiritually charged nights in the Tamil calendar, it is dedicated to Lord Shiva in his infinite light form. At 6 pm, an enormous flame will be lit in a huge cauldron on the highest peak using 600 kg of ghee, 10 kg of camphor, a wick of 1,500 metres of cotton cloth and a 15 foot bamboo stick. Organisers are prepared for more than 4 million devotees to be present for this moment - including many from the nearby states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka - and to walk barefoot the 14 km around the base of the Holy Hill.
December 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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#RoseWednesday
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Rue Moufetard, Paris.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #TinyWindowTuesday #TagTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue
A mural on the side of a high-rise building depicting a young girl in a striped shirt painting the outline of a house around an actual tiny window with an open white shutter.
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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“Flying In,” by Chris Granillo

📍Mission District, San Francisco

Looking forward to returning to the Bay Area over the holidays!

#TagTuesday #StreetArt #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #CyanTues #BlueTues #Photography
Mural depicts the front of a large bird of prey with a hooked beak and its wings spread out in flight. A woman’s face is about the bird, centered between to windows. A mythical sea creature, half woman and half octopus is painted across the wing on the right. Captured in November, 2022.
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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For the #BirdOfTheDay

Theme of #Reflections

White Pelicans flock

At sunset in the wetlands

Captured May 17, 2024

#BlueSkyMonday

#photography #naturephotography #nature #birds #wildlifephotography #thewildimages
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Happy #BlueSkyMonday from snowy Minneapolis!

Hope everyone has a great week. 💙❄️

#EastCoastKin #Photography #Landscape
Snowy scene with scattered trees and evergreens. The sky is mostly cloudy with a few blue streaks. A snowy scene in a wooded area with a bridge over a creek. The trees are leafless and spindly. Sky above is cloudy with some blue streaks.
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Sharing a favorite from our walk on Friday near Bdote, the sacred place of creation for the Dakota people.

Bdote sits at the confluence of the Mississippi & Minnesota rivers.

History on cultural significance in alt text.

#StunDay #EastCoastKin #Photography #Landscape #StateParks #MNStateParks
Photo: The late afternoon sun is reflected on a body of water. The sky is partly cloudy. A tree line is in the distant horizon, and native plants and brush are in the foreground. Historical background: This spot is located in what is called Fort Snelling State Park today. Long before Fort Snelling existed, the surrounding land was known as Bdote by the Dakota people, who are Indigenous to the region. Efforts to add “at Bdote” to Fort Snelling signage a few years ago were shut down by state legislators as “rewriting history,” despite the fact that Bdote is what the area was known as historically. Excerpt below from the Sacred Land Film Project’s “Bdote in Mni Sota” report, by Addie Wright: Minnesota, known as Mni Sota Makoce to the Dakota, is “the land where the waters reflect the skies.” The Dakota word Bdote means “where two waters come together,” representing the spiritual and physical place of creation for the Dakota people. Bdote is located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers (on the eastern edge of the Minneapolis–St. Paul airport, and south of the Twin Cities). This place of waters meeting is most often referred to as where the Dakota arrived in human form. Seven tribes of Dakota are said to have descended from the seven stars of Orion’s belt, arriving at the convergence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. Bdote presents a potent example of a spiritual landscape overlaid with history, where sites of profound cultural importance are born near well-established sacred natural sites. The river confluence was the place of creation. Ceremonies were conducted at a flourishing freshwater spring and on a nearby hilltop. The land was taken away by colonizers, followed by resistance and hangings, as deceit, murder and military action sparked a long battle for truth and reconciliation. Dakota elder Dave Larsen describes the Bdote as “where everything began and where everything began changing.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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An incredible landscape in the #Dolomites #Italy with bonus #Horse (a Halflinger I am reliably informed) for #Stunday.
A beautiful golden beige horse with a white mane and tail on brigth green Alpine pasture land, with the sharp rocky peaks of the Dolomites in the background, with white and gray puffy clouds against a blue sky.
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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VIENNESE IMPRESSIONS
Peacock Butterfly
In a Pile of Wood
Took off before I could take another photograph
28 Nov 2025 © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#BlueskyArtShow #warmth #Butterfly
#Butterflies #Nature
A Peacock Butterfly in a pile of wood.
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth
The warmth of the sun on a chilly autumn day in Barcelona. The juxtaposition of the beauty of street art and the reminder of humanity in need. #bekind #begenerous #barcelona #streetart
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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A Summer Sunset and the Warmth of Good Friends

#BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A dramatic, warm-toned photograph taken at sunset with a clear orange and yellow sky dominated by horizontal bands of cloud. In the foreground, a large, dark, silhouetted hill fills the left side of the frame. Three figures are seen in silhouette walking away from the camera on a horizon line on the right, under the bright sky.
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Mother and son bask in the warmth of the afternoon sun.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth #EastCoastKin #Photography #Caturday #CatsofBlueSky
Two cats lounge together on a window seat, the afternoon sun casts lights and shadows across them. Freddie, the smaller orange cat looks off to the left as Neko, the dark tortoise shell cat looks off to the right. There are trees and a blue sky seen through the sheer curtains behind them.
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Escaped an unseasonably hot day in Lisbon and went to an ocean beach.

Hiked up to Cabo da Roca and enjoyed the #sunset on the westernmost tip of continental Europe.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth #EastCoastKin #SeaScape #Photography #Portugal
A bright sun shines against a darkened sky at sunset, a broad ray reflects across the ocean water.
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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“One day I’ll paint the perfect sunset--
if I can only find the words.”
― Atticus Poetry
🧡🤗🧡
sunset in the wetlands. a bare tree stands among grasses on the left with water to it's right. there are hills in the background.
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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From here in Scotland, to all my American followers and friends…Have a warm and welcoming Thanksgiving.

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount
of Gratitude." - AA Milne
The sun rises over the horizon in an orange and purple sky over the American desert, two buttes silhouetted against the light in Monument Valley
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Thinking of the people whose land we live on

Check the comments for ways to give back to Native Americans

#HumansOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersUnited
#photography
A Native American boy dancing in traditional dress on the grass as an older man plays a drum and sings. They're in front of an old building in Santa Fe and next to a tree.
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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After the Como, we went to #MinnehahaPark to see the water fall, and on the way out so this dude blowing bubbles. Had to stop for a pic. #HumansOfBlueSky #Bubbles #Photography #Minneapolis #TwinCities #MPLS #Minnesota
street performer dressed in black blows hundreds of bubbles.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Snagged this last night on the way home from the on ramp to I94. Yeah I slowed traffic down to take this out my passenger window, what about it? #Minneapolis #Fog #TwinCities #Photography #CityScape #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photo #Art #skyline #EastCoastKin
the skyline of Minneapolis with a foggy haze over it before a wintery mix sets it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Wow, Mother Nature, you really outdid yourself here! I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw this rainbow cascade of leaves on my rainy day walk!
#RedWed #ColorADay #rainbow #mothernature #WackyWednesdayArt #naturesart #artinnature #naturalbeauty #fallcolors #autumnmood #fallvibes #photography
A close up of a section of a maple tree. The leaves are showing off a rainbow cascade of autumn colors ranging from green to yellow to orange to red to purplish-red. Mother Nature is the best artist!
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Along the trail to Chamois 🥾
❄️ Icy #WaterfallWednesday
The image shows a partially frozen waterfall with cold hues contrasting with the yellow needles of some larches on the upper plateau.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Rita the rock planter by Thomas Danbo

A giant troll statue in Victor, Colorado

#WackyWednesdayArt #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography
A dramatic black and white photo of a giant troll made of recycled wood. She's on her hands and knees digging rocks in front of a fence with mined mountains in the background. The sky looks black with white wisps of clouds.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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“I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.” –Om Malik

Just after the fog lifts at
Takakkaw Falls, Yoho National Park, British Columbia. 🇨🇦

#WaterfallWednesday #EastCoastKin #Photography #Landscape #Waterfalls
Waterfalls are seen in the distance. Trees, a river and a wooden bridge across the water are viewed in the foreground.
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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While organizing photos, I ran across this one from when I worked at St. Kate’s.

I do miss seeing this view everyday! Such a beautiful campus.

The college’s first president was a force of nature! Bit of history in alt text. 😊

#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #Photography #Reflection #Landscape
A view of three St. Catherine University campus buildings overlooking a body of water on a cloudless, sunny day. The buildings are mirrored in the water. Derham Hall on the far left, and Our Lady of Victory Chapel in the center, are on the National Register of Historic Places. The more modern building on the right, with lots of windows, is Coeur de Catherine, the student center. The Chapel celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2024. This article excerpt from the University magazine by Ana Pereira, perfectly summarizes the tenacity of St. Kate’s founding President: Entwined with the Chapel’s history is the fierce driving force of Mother Antonia McHugh, St. Kate’s first president, who “lovingly watched every brick being laid, every tile being put into place” from her perch on a stool by the construction site. The Chapel’s size, location, and cost proved to be matters of disagreement between Mother Antonia and Archbishop Austin Dowling. According to oral tradition, Mother Antonia procured permission from the Archbishop for a small, 12-person chapel — and then proceeded with plans for the larger building we see today. Mother Antonia led St. Kate’s with an expansive vision for the early college, and for the new chapel in turn. Her persistence is well-documented. “Sister Antonia asked to build a chapel,” Archbishop Dowling said, “but she built a cathedral.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Good morning🌴 A beautiful view of the #Kona coast a couple of weeks ago during my morning walk.

#BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday #SensoryArt theme: #lines
#EastCoastKin #Photography #OMSystem #Hawaii
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow #Small

Everything looks so small on the ground when you're up in a hot air balloon.

#EastCoastKin #Cappadocia #HotAirBalloon
As we look over the edge of the hot air balloon basket we see a truck carrying a trailer in field far below. It looks tiny while driving on dirt roads through fields to great the balloon when it lands. Cappadocia, Turkey.
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM