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Susan Cushing

@sdcushing.bsky.social

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#EastCoastKin Arts Collective member #BlueBrew Coffeehouse Host Relentless arts and photography advocate. Eclectic and inveterate sharer. Retired arts administrator. Former dancer. Occasional quilter. Bookish. ♎️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ LGBTQIA+ friendly

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💛💜JB💛💜 @msjulesb.bsky.social · 11h

Good morning and happy Thursday, BS 🦋👋… have a great day! ☕️🌿☀️🌳💛🌱✨

A sunny park path in spring lined with trees in shades of green and red

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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 4d

Hiking in the forests earlier in the week, it's definitely mushroom season. Have seen so many of these little beauties this week.

#hiking #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #Ireland #fungi #fungifriends

White mushrooms growing from the bottom of a branch.

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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 3d

Hiking in the forest, stopped and had a mushroom photo shoot for #MacroMonday.

#hiking #nature #photography #fungi #fungifriends #EastCoastKin #Ireland

A handful of mushrooms growing in their little world from the side of a downed pine tree.

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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful but deadly.

Hiking in the forests near Dublin. Found these Deadly Webcaps.

#hiking #nature #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #photography #EastCoastKin #Ireland

A close shot of a yellow/orange Deadly Webcap mushroom with a thick stem and bulbous cap. Two smaller mushrooms each side.

A close shot of a cluster of Deadly Webcaps among leaves and detritus on the forest floor.

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Dwight @dwightreads.bsky.social · 2h

We hardly ever see #Limpkin at the lake, but I did get this photo for #spotted #BirdOfTheDay #nature #photography #birdphotography #naturephotography #eastcoastkin #stormhour #photohour #scape #birds #wildlife #florida #wetlandbird #birds
@alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social

This Limkin has brown and spotted white plumage and is standing in some grasses along the shoreline of the lake. Its long bill is bent and twisted at the tip, an adaptation for removing snails from the shell. They specialize in eating apple snails, which they hunt both day and night.
Limpkins are tropical wetland birds whose range reaches into Florida.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 1h

A #GreyPlover posing for #BirdOfTheDay #Spotted

#EastCoastKin #scape #bird #birdphotography #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida

A black and white spotted Gray Plover (aka Black-bellied Plover)stands in light blue, shallow ocean water. In front of it is gray sand. Behind it is a foamy breaking wave.

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Kirke D'Alessandro @ziggy5309.bsky.social · 14d

Morning Quicksketch
24x24"
Acrylic/oil pastel/ink
Gallery canvas

#blueskyart #abstractlandscape #artist #painter #k_d'alessandro

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Kirke D'Alessandro @ziggy5309.bsky.social · 7d

Acrylic quick sketch
14x14"
Acrylic/oil pastel/ink
Gallery canvas

#blueskyart #semiabstract #abstractlandscape #artist #painting #scape

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Kirke D'Alessandro @ziggy5309.bsky.social · 2d

Impermanence #7
24x30"
Acrylic/oil pastel/ink
Corrugated board

#blueskyart #abstract #mixedmedia #painting #art

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Susan Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 2h

Hello Rina! Hope your day is going really well too, thank you! 🙏 🤗 🫶

Susan Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 2h

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Rina @rina2012.bsky.social · 10h

Knitting in the sun, the hard life of Albanian women

#HumansOfBluesky #photography #scape #photohour #travel #Albania #SensoryArt #ArtYear #roadtrip #vanlife #EastCoastKin

The picture shows an elderly woman sitting on a stone path and knitting in the sun. She is wearing a black vest and a headscarf. Several knitted blankets and cloths are lying next to her.

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Rina @rina2012.bsky.social · 10h

Don't trip over the sleeping dogs!! Gjirokastra, Albania

#UrbanGaze #HumansOfBluesky #photography #landscape #ArtYear #scape #SensoryArt #shadow #EastCoastKin

The picture shows a cobblestone street in an old town, lined with traditional buildings with shops and cafés. In the foreground, two dogs are lying on the cobblestones, resting. Several people are standing on the street and walking past the shops that offer souvenirs and other goods. A sign on one of the buildings points to "OLD TOWN." In the background, more buildings can be seen climbing up a hillside. Above them rise wooded hills and mountains under a partly cloudy sky.

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Susan Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning lauren! Great that you’re getting a chance to read and decorate the Thursday! We don’t get any Halloween kids around here, but the neighbor across the street from us decorated at the end of August! 😂 She is so excited to try to get treaters! Enjoy your day, my friend! ☕️ ✨

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@Swede1952 @swede1952.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning. 🌕🌖🌚

9 October 2025

Snow Geese, and the Law of Kinship

I'm writing this morning from an undisclosed location on the outskirts of Houston, Texas. ...

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#morning #moon #snowgeese #geese #family #visit #lake #dog #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers

"A luminous moon commands the frame, its surface etched with ancient memory. Captured on the evening of October 8, 2025, the photograph reveals the Moon in its Waning Gibbous phase, still nearly full, with 95% illumination casting a soft silver glow across the night. Craters ripple across the terrain like fossilized echoes, while dark maria stretch like ink stains on a parchment of stone. Bright rays fan outward from impact sites, resembling frozen bursts of light or the delicate veins of a pressed leaf. The Moon’s curvature is crisp, its texture almost tactile—like weathered marble burnished by time.

This image doesn’t merely depict the Moon—it archives its mythic presence, as if the lunar surface were a sovereign scroll of celestial history. The photograph bears the subtle signature “© Swede’s Photographs” in the bottom right corner, a quiet nod to the witness behind the lens." - Microsoft Copilot

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Images By Jon Evan @imagesbyjonevan.bsky.social · 4h

Photography from Grand Canyon is a great way to decorate your walls . #photography #decor #decorate #design #artlover #vacation #picoftheday #naturelovers #travel #sedona #arizona #grandcanyon #artwork #wallart ##arizona buff.ly/3ZDqLhJ

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eddiephotos.bsky.social @eddiephotos.bsky.social · 4h

A Red Admiral Butterfly nectaring on the remaining buddleia flower head's this Autumn.

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Melissa Summers @lisservel.bsky.social · 4h

Thursday’s #UrbanGaze

Chincoteague island, VA

#travel #Virginia #EastCoastKin #PicMagnets #ClassicMono #photography

Brick-lined alleyway on Chincoteague Island

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Craig @thecraigmancometh.bsky.social · 4h

Cypresses in sunlight
#photography #NaturePhotography #landscape

Golden cypress trees stand reflected in still, glassy water under a clear morning sky. Autumn tones glow warmly in the foliage against shadowed trees.

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Ray Haze @rayhayes215.bsky.social · 4h

Morning black-footed drone #fly on a California poppy #flower in my #Philly #Garden . 🌞 #EastCoastKin #nature #insects #macro #photography #bugs #dailyphoto #YellowThurs

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Rob @hikingrob.bsky.social · 4h

I was not dressed warm enough for this morning's sunrise on Lake Erie at Maumee Bay. 🥶
#Ohio

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 4h

So for the wonderful Sabine’s #PalacesAndGardens #Myth&Legend I’m posting about Dunluce Castle on our northern coast, all information in Alt. #photography #EastCoastKin

According to legend, a severe storm caused the cliff supporting the castle's kitchen to give way, resulting in the kitchen, along with the dinner party and nine members of the kitchen staff, falling into the sea below. The tale often includes the detail that only a young kitchen boy or a tinker survived by taking refuge in a corner or window. This event is said to have led the Lady of Dunluce to abandon the castle, moving to Ballymagarry Castle. It said when a storm rages now, the wails of the kitchen staff can be heard in the winds.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 4h

Thar she glows! A Blue Jay visits the garden to see if the peanut feeder is up yet (it is) #birds

Blue bird with pointy crest is perched on a black metal shepherd’s crook looking over its left shoulder at the viewer. Late afternoon light from behind makes a warm glow.

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Mimi_TlRife💙☕️📸🍊🏈🐻⛺️🧳🎮 @mimitlrife.bsky.social · 3h

I spotted this Poinciana tree while in the butterfly exhibit at the Chattanooga Aquarium yesterday. This flower is absolutely beautiful.

#ColorADay #YellowThu
#flowers #PoincianaTree
#BloomScrolling #photography
#photographersonbluesky
#thelittlethings #yellow

A yellow and orange flower with green leaves called a Poinciana Tree.

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TJ Vissing - Photographer @tjvphoto.bsky.social · 3h

Blue water finding it's way to sea level. Iceland on a sunny day.

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