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rainbowjam
@rainbowjam.bsky.social
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Lover of beautiful, silly, and thought-provoking stuff. Learned Elvish, fashioned a lightsaber from a broom handle as a teen. Theologian with a ph.d. who almost studied meteorology. Gardener, baker, cloud appreciator, weirdo.
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Clouds at the southern edge of the Alps. Very different from my lowland home; much icier and wispier, all blurry and feathery. Even had some sun dogs! Lovely round rainbowy spots in the clouds.
Foto of bright blue sky with wispy cirrus clouds Foto of blue sky, bit of dark leaves in the foreground to the left, long streaks of feathers cirrus clouds Panorama picture of mountain range, blue sky dotted with white cumulus clouds above. Blue sky, black roof in the foreground from top left to right; cloud like a feather with a rainbow-coloured spot on its right side
September 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Bonus video of hedgehog tippytapying away
August 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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We have hedgehogs visiting the garden!! This is big. We're living in a city, our garden is tiny, and the best I can do is let it go as wild as possible and add some water stations. And it works! We've got lots of insects, birds, red squirrels, a cute mouse - and hedgehogs. So chuffed.
A hedgehog on the terrace stones in twilight. Top half of the photo shows a kind of wall thingy in bright yellow. Bottom half shows dried plant stalks and behind them, barely visible, two hedgehogs. Two!
August 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The sky has been beautiful in the last days. Two gorgeous cumulus clouds and a rainbow!
Also, is it unusual to use the scientific names of clouds? My very smart friend was surprised when I talked abt cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds.
#cloudspotting #nature #photography #rainbow
Fluffy cumulus cloud growing high into the sky, with a bit of a blurry ice cloud hat at the top. Road sign in front. Cumulus cloud looking over brown-ish roof, blue sky behind. Rainbow arching over kindergarten building. End of rainbow next to modern church building
July 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Some fine thunderstorm clouds from today for #blueskymonday ! It was a beautiful thunderstorm.
#clouds
#photography
#cloudspotting
Blue sky covered in grey clouds. Clouds look still loose, sun almost coming through in the top right. Two bits of silhouetted trees in the bottom left and right corners. Sky dominated by different layers of grey clouds, darker below, brighter above/behind the lower level. Some blue sky still visible. Dark grey cloud at the top of the image, a layer of smooth white clouds behind and seemingly below, and below/behind that some bright blue sky. Silhouettes of trees on the bottom. Now the storm is almost there: above is a dark grey cumulus cloud in front of a paper, almost greenish cloud filling the sky. In front are bright green trees shaken by the strong winds of the incoming storm.
July 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Aquarellbild nach einem Foto von @luvundlee.bsky.social , Sonnenuntergang in den Salzmarschen. Vermisse den Frieden und die ruhigen Formen der Wattenmeerküste...
Watercolour painting of salt marshes on the north sea coast, following a Foto from Rüm Hart. #eastcostkin
Watercolour painting of sunset in the salt marshes of the wadden see, the tidal flats in the north sea. Blue sky changing to yellow and orange on the horizon, reflected on the wet ground interspersed with black stones and plants.
July 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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and another squirrel! it was drinking from the water basin right before I started filming.
July 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I feel you. and I might have a nice picture for you:
July 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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lovely leaves rustling in the wind and a blue sky for #thicktrunktuesday. that movement and sound is called "rascheln" in German, a lovely onomatopoetic word.
July 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Yoo, new cloud painting!! I'm pretty happy about it. ☺️ #clouds #eastcoastkin #art
Finished work first. A small acrylic painting of a white-grey cumulus cloud section in front of a deep blue sky. Work in progress. Deep blue sky done, cloud is only white. Selfie of the painter with white paint on her nose. To be a painter, one must become the paint?
June 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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SQUIRREL! Look how it's stealing the mat leftovers! Also, bonus blackbird who was bathing less than a meter from the squirrel. #nature #wildlife #garden
June 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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On #blueskymonday, I have only grey sky and raindrops to offer. Which is great, because we needed that rain. (Shut up @grumpmatic.bsky.social )
#photography #clouds #nature #macromonday
Photograph of soft grey clouds, a pale sky slightly visible behind them Photograph of a blade of grass, dark green, with bigger and smaller drops of water scattered across. The background is green too.
June 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Blue sky, storm edition. Not an hour later, we had a great thunderstorm.
#photography #storm #clouds #sky
Photograph of the sky looking very blue, with layers of darker blue-grey clouds coming in from the bottom right corner.
June 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Finally remembered that it's #blueskymonday! So have some clouds from yesterday's festival to celebrate. With bonus storm-is-over-cloud.
#eastcoastkin #photography #clouds
Photograph of a blue sky at the beginning of sunset light with some grey-white-golden clouds, probably cumulus, strewn across, especially in the lower right area. Slightl, darker blue sky, bottom left very golden light and the silhouette of a big festival tent; more clouds, mostly grey with a bit of gold. Sky covered in soft pale grey clouds, silhouettes of festival tents and trees below.
June 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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#stunday with a poppy field. The red was so strong against the green, it really felt like a glitch in the matrix...
#nature #photography #eastcostkin #bloomscrolling
Photograph of a field of green grass with bright red poppies
June 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Yesterday's clouds - some wispy cirrus on a blue sky. With bonus sunset over the river with ducks! #eastcostkin #nature
Photo of a blue sky with a few wisps of white cirrus clouds Photo of a blue sky with a few golden-white clouds near the horizon. Below and on the right are buildings. A peaceful evening scene on the river. On top the sky is a soft reddish-yellowish colour, then some black silhouettes of trees, then a long expanse of calm water in shades from reddish to yellow and blue. Below is a pair of ducks causing some small ripples.
May 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Sunset over the river, with boat and ducks.
May 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Cygnets! And two parent swans, all busy cleaning themselves.
May 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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#3goodthings today:
Tandem bike tour with husband along the river
Saw a family of swans with cygnets!
A beer and a sunset on the river
May 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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#fotovorschlag 50shadesofgreen
Endlich mit Regen heute!
Nahaufnahme von Pflanzen am Wegesrand,.viele Grüntöne durch verschiedene Gräser, außerdem etwas hell weiß blühendes. Hellgrünes Weizenfeld mit vier knallroten Mohnblüten Wiese mit langen Gräsern in unterschiedlichen Grüntönen und hellen anderen Farben, vom Wind bewegt. Roggenfeld, vorne hellgrün, hinten dunkler
May 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Train isn't working, so I had to take the bike and ended up with some beautiful cloud and sky pictures.
Bright blue sky with chaotic clouds, some low small cumulus, some higher, probably cirrus clouds. A strange metal shape on the right. A wide open sky over a river. Lots of bright blue, some clouds, a bit of river and riverbanks below. A bright blue sky with some clouds. Bottom left is a road sign warning that cars could end up in the water here.
May 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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One of the coolest things about having published an academic book: giving copies to people who helped me write it and add a note of my gratitude.
Foto of an open book on a table with a handwritten note in it, a pen laying across it.
May 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Music practice for the concert tomorrow. It's gonna be good, I think!
Photo taken from the point of view of a choir singer. In front, sheets of music; in the back, someone at a small.organ and another man with a lute-like instrument (Theorbe in German) In practice, the altar becomes just another table to use. Foto of the altar with a bible, two candles and flowers atop, but also a pencil, a pencil case and a flute case. A solo singer mid practice, framed by the big organ in the back.
May 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Baking a cake for some wonderful friends while listening to great music. Meute is great to get in the zone for anything I'm doing. Acoustic techno ftw! #musicsky #baking
Foto of the ingredients- dates, chocolate, normal cake stuff and a bottle of some nice whisky. Cake almost done- golden brown, still in the pan. Back right is the whisky syrup, behind the recipe book (and yes, I had to pencil in the double amount, otherwise I'd've forgotten to double something...)
May 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Painting progress. What do you think?!
#nature #forest #eastcostkin
An acrylic painting of a woodland scene in progress; bottom left is a watercolour version of the same scene. Tall trees with green branches, a bit of a clearing in the middle, green grass on the bottom. The same painting, now maybe finished; more detail added, especially in the grass, also lots of little white flowers and some shafts of sunlight.
May 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM