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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3h

Country roads…lots of dusty gravel…some pavement, too…30 years a school bus driver, I’ve traveled them all in all weather, wishing for graders to flatten chuckholes, & plows to clear snow & sand ice…
#easternWashington #dirtroads
#backroads #rural #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #ruralscenes

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 14h

Ring-necked Duck flock of 12 on a gravel pit pond in the Yakima Valley for a day…named for rarely seen brown neck feathers so there’s been talk of renaming them…
#birds #ducks #BirdsofBlueSky
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdwatching
#easternWashington #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #birdlife

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 14h

Large, lovely water feature at North Star Lodge Cancer Treatment Center in Yakima, WA where I’ve been a patient for almost 7 years…stage 4 BC in remission so now monitoring me quarterly…
#waterWednesday #water #landscape
#photography #WestCoastPhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 15h

When the White House Rose Garden was re-done in 2020 only 11 original roses from Kennedy days were left…200 new bushes—JFK & Pope John Paul II white & pink Peace roses were added…shade & drainage problems were fixed…
#roseWednesday #rose #flowers
#bloomscrolling #flowerreport
#photography #closeup

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 1d

Full sun and nearly 90…sitting in my air conditioned truck…10 yards away bear in a fur coat looking to cool down…splashed around in leaking irrigation hose puddle…finally just laid down in it…ignored me…
#bears #mammals #wildlife #rural
#easternWashington #photography
#wildlifephotography #nature

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 1d

Had early morning visitors in the driveway and pasture—a mischief of Black-billed Magpies (15) and a conspiracy of Ravens (7)…those are names for flocks of each bird…
#birds #easternWashington #rural
#WestCoastPhotography #birdlife
#BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#birdwatching #birdphotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 1d

Google Lens admits it can’t identify this Yakima Arboretum rose except to say it’s “variegated”…I wanted to respond with “Well, duh…” but AI doesn’t seem chatty…
#roses #flowers #bloomscrolling
#flowerreport #easternWashington
#photography #WestCoastPhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 2d

Found this obviously dead tree in a dry land pasture on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation, Washington state…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #ruralscene
#rural #easternWashington #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #landscape
#naturePhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 2d

Love shooting the old gravel pit pond in the Lower Yakima Valley when it’s smooth as glass and there are some clouds above to add to the reflection…
#monoMonday #monochrome #water #blackandwhitephotography #pond
#reflection #easternWashington #PNW
##WestCoastPhotography #photography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 2d

This Bald Eagle was our big surprise while birding yesterday…it’s not been a good year for seeing them here in the Yakima Valley…
#birds #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#easternWashington #birding #birdlife #WestCoastPhotography#pictureofday
#photography #wildlifephotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 2d

A bit of my container garden 10/6/2025…Moss Roses, drift wood and rocks with a geranium that’s planning to re-bloom after nearly dying in the summer heat…
#flowers #inmygardentoday #PNW
#flowerreport #easternWashington
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
#bloomscrolling #gardening

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3d

I agree…look awful when they arrive and just get better and better from the moment they’re planted…

Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3d

Morning spent birding & enjoying early fall color which is mostly Sumac & blooming Rubber Rabbitbush (yellow), both very common on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation…
#easternWashington #AutumnVibes #PNW
#fallcolors #rural #ruralscenes #landscape
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
#naturephotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3d

American Kestrel puffed up in the morning chill…39 at 7:30am 10/5/2025…if a perch isn’t available will hover over fields when hunting…very common in the Yakima Valley…
#birds #falcons #birding #birdlife
#BirdsofBlueSky #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #PNW
#EasternWashington #birdwatching

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 3d

One of our 2 front yard roses from Heirloom Rose, called Queen Bee…planted last spring…has had a total of 6 lovely blossoms…wonderful old rose fragrance…
#roses #bloomscrolling #flowers
#inmygardentoday #roseWednesday
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
#easternWashington #flowerphotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a feral cat brought here by his feral mother along with male kitten of same age but tabby coloring…we had 2 kittens brought here approximately 9 months previously…they are marked completely different than these two…one is still with us though tends to live a roaming life…can’t be caught…

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

Post-sunset view of the western sky from the Lower Yakima Valley 10/4/2025…
#easternWashington #PNW #sunset
#goldenhour #silhouette #photography
#WestCoastPhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

Praying Mantis on water hose at my container garden…patient, ambush-type hunter lives exclusively on insects including aphids…good for gardens…Yakima, Valley, WA…
#insects #nature #inmygardentoday
#photography #easternWashington
#WestCoastPhotography #closeup
#gardening

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

Cat found reading? It seems to have eliminated the mice in my container garden…I call this feral friend Spot and my daughter who has it half-tamed calls it Dusty…not sure it cares what we call it as long as it gets a meal now and then…
#caturday #pets #cats #photography
#flowers #inmygardentoday

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

Female Belted Kingfisher hunting an irrigation canal from a steel fence post…they dig tunnels in vertical dirt banks for nesting…over-winter here in the Yakima Valley…
#birds #BirdsofBlueSky #birdlife
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
#WestCoastPhotography #depthoffield
#easternWashington

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 4d

This Hybrid Musk Rose was introduced in 1939 and named “Buff Beauty”… can be grown as a bush or trained to climb…found as a tall bush in landscaping at Yakima, WA…fragrant…
#rose #bloomscrolling #flowers
#landscape #roseWednesday
#photography #flowerphotography
#WestCoastPhotography #dailyflowers

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5d

Mt. Adams gets first full blanket of snow Oct 2-3 which is good news during this historic drought…irrigation water shut off for junior users October 6, with 2 projects already shut down and senior users rationed…
#easternWashington #PNW #farming
#rural #ruralscenes #water #snow
#WestCoastPhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5d

Some like it hot…some of the Yakima Valley’s hot/sweet pepper bounty—Thai Chili, jalapeño, Poblano, Anaheim, Banana, Cubanelle, Pimento and of course Bell peppers…
#foodFriday #food #vegetables #PNW
#foodphotography #photography
#easternWashington #farming #WestCoastPhotography

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5d

Migrating Canada Geese showing up for a rest stop at the old gravel pit pond…field corn in the area was just harvested so they’ll be well fed when they leave…
#birds #BirdsofBlueSky #birdphotography
#water #reflection #wildlifephoto
#WestCoastPhotography #geese
#BirdsoftheWorld #AutumnVibes

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 5d

Cooler temperatures in the Yakima Valley have my container garden blooming up a storm…Geranium, Petunias and a sprig from a Lavender bush…
#flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening
#inmygardentoday #dailyflowers
#photography #flowerphotography
#WestCoastPhotography
#easternWashington

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