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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a mahjong set

A friend's mahjong set. I don't know how to play and generally don't like competitive games. But this is so pretty I am tempted to learn.
Tiles, dice, and bundles of counting sticks.
December 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a pileated woodpecker at a suet feeder

#bird #pileatedwoodpecker
The head and shoulders of a large woodpecker. It has a red crest and a red stripe starting at the beak, a black stripe through the eye, a small patch of yellow above the beak, and the rest of the head is white. The body is black. The woodpecker is clinging to a wire box that contains a waxy orange material.
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: slices of purple daikon radish
Round slices of a white vegetable with a purple pattern in the middle and a thick rim of purple around the edges.
December 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a bottle of drawing ink.

This brown ink is over 40 years old, still good. Perhaps it's time I found my nibs and put it to use again.
Short squat bottle, label showing but illegible. There is not top on the bottle, the neck shows threads for a screw-on top and dried bits of something brown.
December 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a starling.

Starlings by the hundreds are noisy, messy, and generally unwelcome. Starlings in ones and twos are quite beautiful.

#bird #starling
A starling in a tree.
December 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a head of garlic
A head, also called a bulb, of garlic.
December 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Christmas Cactus
Green jointed leaf-like stems, some with small pink buds at the end, others with fluffy pink plowers at the end.
December 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Snowy Egret

#bird #snowyegret
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Snowy Egret
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: ice covered ice cream container
On a shelf in a freezer, one of the containers of ice cream is covered with so many ice crystals it is impossible to read the label. The surrounding containers have just a tiny bit of frost.
December 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: snow left on the mud rug by the first step into the house on a snowy day
A pattern in white (snow) on a black and white rug shows part of the textures of the sole of a shoe.
December 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: pepper plants with sleet
A pepper plant with small red peppers. There are bits of ice on the top surface of the peppers and some of the leaves.
December 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: the weathervane on an old train station
A weathervane that looks like a steam locomotive with a coal car.
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: Crows in a Maple Tree
A photo of many crossing branches with small red bits throughout, and several black crows.
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: pastry sticks served in a vase
Sticks of twisted puff pastry in a clear glass vase. The pastry in light brown, twisted, showing small amounts of very dark brown.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: Tulip Trees with Crows
#birds #crows #tuliptrees
Many crows are perched on bare trees, black branches, a few leaves, and red seed heads.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a female house sparrow.

#bird #housesparrow
A small bird with a light brown breast, brown wing and tail, brown head, and a pale eye-stripe.
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Norway Maple tree
Image of part of a tree. The trunk and branches are very dark, the leaves are bright yellow.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a "volunteer" sorghum plant in my garden
A plant with one dry leaf at the base of the stalk and a cluster of beige seeds at the top. In the background are dry oak and maple leaves.
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: the Water Court at Glenstone on a grey November day
A wooden bench on a wooden deck, facing a pond which is surrounded by a building. In the pond are dried plants and a barely visible sculpture.
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: night view of a bicycle with great lights
an image of a street scene at night. A bicycle is moving too fast to be seen clearly, the rider's body is a pale blur, the wheels are seen a many curved streaks of light.
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: "Last Garment" by Simone Leigh is on display at Glenstone
A sculpture of a woman, bent over with arms reaching toward. The sculpture in a body of water, surrounded by plants. There is a stone building with some large windows behind the sculpture, which is reflected in the water.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: goldenrod flowers, dried on the stem in a field
a flower stem with a cluster of dried flowers near the top. The stem is reddish, the flowers are beige.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
btusdin.bsky.social
It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: dried slender mountain mint seedheads
Light, almost white, round clusters of tiny pointy structures on dark stems.
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Carolina Chickadee

#bird #carolinachickadee
A small bird standing beside a pile of sunflower seeds and holding one seed in it's beak. The bird is white with a black throat and a black cap that extends to just below the black eye.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: the first bird bath ice disk of the year
Part of a thin transparent disk textured with lines in a branching pattern.
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM