Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 17h

I’m thinking I need to carry the breaking of a new day on an endless loop with me. A reminder that hope and resolve refresh when we need them most.

2

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 2d

Ahh. The crisp cool days are meant for mountain hiking.
#MountainMonday
#Montana

5

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 4d

How to describe such moments. Sweat flowing. Cooling embrace of the mountain air. Huckleberry bushes reddening. Birds frantically feeding and flocking to move before snows descend. For a moment, all calms to register and store in my soul.
#Montana
#Wilderness
#NaturePhotography

4

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 9d

With all that is going on, it is so nice to have reminders to stop, take a deep breath, and take in moments of intense beauty. Sunset just now.

9

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 11d

#TheRoad home. The fall brings changing colors but also bands of cold fronts bearing precipitation.
#BigSkyArtShow
#Montana

11

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 12d

The changing colors of fall. Is any other season so filled with contrasting emotions?
#ForestFriday
#Montana

1 1 12

Reposted by Mary Kujawa

Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · 16d

Happy first day of Autumn everyone 🥰
#kidlit #illustration

4 29

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 17d

Love this!

1

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks Jamie!

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 17d

Rehoming. A territorial squirrel stashing pine cones in an old log home. This log home collapses and decomposes more each year. Kinda sad seeing this history disappear, but yet reassuring to see nature reclaiming what has always been its.
#Montana

3

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks!

1

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 19d

When the forest opens for a vista…
#ForestFriday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography

1 2 14

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 21d

Reflecting on how magical it is to start the day above the clouds.

6

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 22d

Simple pleasures. Nothing feels better after a hike in a downpour of rain about to turn to snow, than getting back to your car and turning the heater on blast and the seat heater on high.

7

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 24d

Sunday. A day for gentle intrusions into reflections. A day to start with allowing your thoughts to wander.
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
#StunDay

10

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 25d

I carry my #Home on my back(pack). My latest goal is to hike to as many high mountain lakes as possible before the winter snows limit the trails.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Montana
#LandscapePhotography
#NaturePhotography

1 13

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 26d

Nothing brightens the fall trails quite like the turning of the Mountain Ash.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography

1 10

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 27d

It got all scrunched up in that red patch on the forehead

1

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 27d

🤣 And they were rockin’ to the (their own) beat 🎸

1

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 27d

What a day yesterday.Trying to fit too many errands while in town. Another unsettling news cycle. Rushing to make calls from parking lots.

The decision to loop by the ponds outside of town was the best. Sandhill Cranes staging for migration. Calmed by the melody of soft purrs and rattling bugles.

1 1 5

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks!

1

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 28d

Maybe a bit of wishful thinking 🤣. I think what you are referring to is a darker band of water flowing over a large rock in the basin. But I can confirm (from personal fly fishing experience) that many of said trout do lurk in those basins 😉

3

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · 28d

There’s something special about waterfalls. The sound. The scent. The sight. The electric touch. Somehow they seem to bring a sensory cleanse when you most need it.
#WaterfallWednesday
#Montana

2 1 12

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks Doug!

1

Mary Kujawa @mkujawa.bsky.social · Sep 8

A calm sunrise paddle to start our week.
#BlueSkyMonday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography

1 8