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Trina Carter
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“The earth has music for those who listen.” - Reginald Holmes
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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · Sep 4
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. #proverb #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJourney
#Photography
An orange and black American Lady butterfly alights with spread wings on a pretty pink zinnia flower. Capitol Hill, Washington, DC (July 2024)
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Bent | 'Abgeknickt’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#ancient #trees #flexibility
Bend don’t break, and you too may live to 102 yrs. old🌸
A Yoshino cherry tree planted in 1922 still blossoms every spring, its ancient trunk now bent by age has to be propped up by wooden crutches. Library of Congress, Washington, DC (March 2024)
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Naptime for ducklings
#BirdOfTheDay #ducksoutofwater
#birds #nature #spring #EastCoastKin #photography
A pair of ducklings snuggled up together on the cement edge of a reflecting pool, their eyes open and heads swiveled so their little black bills are resting in their back feathers. Washington, DC (May 2024)
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Dark Desire on display.🍂♥️
#RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling #Roses #Flowers #garden #nature #Photography #RedWed #RosesOnWednesday #DC
Close-up of the red rose Dark Desire still blooming in late fall. In the background is the white-marble facade of the US Botanic Garden building. Washington, DC (November 2024)
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The joker is wild | ''*' (Joker, Freispiel)'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#ginkgo #trees #memorials #honor #VeteransDay
In war, you never know if you’ll come back in one piece—or at all.
Golden yellow ginkgo trees are reflected in a still, flat pool of water. A glass wall runs between the two rows of trees, inset with panels showing enlarged black and white combat photos from the Vietnam War. One in the middle is of three soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. The memorial celebrates men and women who may be broken in body – but never in spirit. American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial. Washington, DC (Nov. 2022)
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🎶”Where everybody knows your name”🍻 #Cheers #WeekTforTelevision #AlphabetChallenge
A glass of beer set down on a black bar mat at the Big Stick. On Half Street, Navy Yard, Nats Park, Washington, DC (Sept. 2015)
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay is #StandingOnThings so here’s a gull perched - on one foot - on a piling.🪶 #Baltimore #Harbor #birds #TeamGull #Photography
A gray and white seagull with black tail feathers and a black bill is standing sideways on one foot on a wood piling streaked white from bird droppings. In the background, two historic ships are tied up to Pier 3: a gray submarine named the USS Torsk and a red Lightship named the Chesapeake. Behind them rise office buildings. Baltimore, MD (August 2025)
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Things beginning with ‘D’ | Dinge die mit "D” beginnen…
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#Detritus #leaves #Fall
Deck debris.🍂🤎🍁♥️🍂💛
Red, yellow, and brown leaves lying on a weathered deck where they’ve fallen from a maple tree. Baltimore, MD (October 2025)
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Mirrored | 'Gespiegelt’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#InnerHarbour #Baltimore
Skyscrapers are mirrored in the still surface of Baltimore’s inner harbor. A line of white yachts tied up to a wharf stretches between the mirrored image of buildings. (July 2014)
November 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Transport|'Fortbewegungsmittel’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#Marmaris #harbour #ferries #Adriatic #Sea
Getting around.🇬🇷⛴️🇹🇷
A small white ferry plying the still waters of the Agean Sea. Clifftop rocks and sparse vegetation are in the foreground. The entrance to the harbor is narrow and well concealed by craggy mountains seen across the gray-blue water. Marmaris, Turkey (May 2012)
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Surely this is the kind of pumpkin that deserves to be turned into a coach.🪄✨ #HappyHalloween #DC
A pumpkin decorated with gold-leaf and silver paint like a henna-artist design. Capitol Hill, Washington, DC (October 2023)
October 31, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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A long way to go | 'Ein weiter Weg'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#Canal #GlenEcho #bleak
A long way to go ‘til spring…
A frozen canal stretches ahead. It’s bordered by dark bare trees. A couple of runners are out running along the towpath beside the canal. The day is bleak and grey. Glen Echo, MD (February 2015)
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Tree | ‘Bäume’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#HarpersFerry #WV #trees
OK, maybe not the same as the white weirwood trees in Game of Thrones, but still pretty close.
A lone sycamore tree with stark white branches stands out against the small grey-stone bridge in front and the bare stony hillside behind. A sward of green grass leads up from the stream bank on a frigid winter day. Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia (January 2016)
October 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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What turns (not a wheel!) | ‘Was sich dreht (kein Rad!)'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#carousel #NYC
Merry-go-round🎠
A gaudy marmalade cat side-by-side with a blond Palomino horse, two of the animals you can ride on the merry-go-round in Bryant Park, New York City. (July 2015)
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Things beginning with ‘A’ | Dinge die mit "A" beginnen oder so aussehen...
#FotoVorschlag #Photography #Autumn
Acorns
Acorns amid fallen oak leaves lying by the side of a black tarmac road. Bethesda, MD (August 2014)
October 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods” - Byron
#Stunday #ImageAndVerse
#Photography #still #trees #fall #USNationalArboretum
A view looking straight up toward the treetops, the sunlit branches and yellow leaves of three tall trees seeming to meet overhead. US National Arboretum, Washington, DC (November 2017)
October 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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#NoKings massive turnout here in the nation’s capitol☮️
A sign held up by several people in front of the US Capitol says in big bold red block letters: GOP PROTECTS PEDOPHILES
October 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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#IndigenousPeoplesDay
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. Chief Seattle Quote is imposed over sepia-like photograph of rock hills and dark plain at dawn.
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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In a museum | ‘Im Museum'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#Museums #art #Rodin #Impressionists #sculpture #garden #Hirshhorn #DC
Balzac by Rodin, 1891-98
Balzac cast in bronze by Rodin. He stands amid trees turning gold and red, in the outdoor sculpture garden, Hirshhorn Museum, in Washington, DC (November 2015)
October 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Making the invisible visible | 'Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#OnThinIce #USCapitol 🪶
This my stage, walkin’ on water
A gray and white seagull walking on thin ice. Reflecting Pool, Washington, DC (February 2025)
October 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Dahlias are such show offs. ♥️🤣🍃
#Autumn #balcony #flowers #containergardening #floral
#Photography #RedWed #BloomScrolling #DC
A crimson dahlia blooming, its bold red petals pointed outward like a pinwheel in the wind. It dwarfs the red impatiens growing below in flower boxes on a black iron balcony railing. Washington, DC (September 2025)
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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'4 Elemente - 4 Fotos'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography
#wood #air #fire #water
Quartet of photos: - Treetrunk showing concentric age rings. (July 2024) - Skyscape looking up at billowing white cloud. (Sept. 2015) - Fireplace with flames gleaming behind glass screen. (Dec. 2014) - Water spraying from serpent at base of waterfountain. (Aug. 2015)
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Things beginning with ‘H’ | Dinge die mit "H” beginnen...
#FotoVorschlag #Photography #parks
#hammock #springtime #DC
A chartreuse-green hammock strung between two trees is cradling someone reading a tablet. In the background are pink cherry trees in bloom. Underneath him, cherry blossoms carpet the grass. Stanton Park, Washington, DC (March 2020)
October 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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A little local color for #SundayYellow 🌻🍂😎💕
#gardens #flowers #floral #bloomscrolling #Baltimore
A tall yellow sunflower reaching up toward second-story windows of a turquoise-blue rowhouse. Baltimore, MD (August 2025)
October 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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For today's #BirdOfTheDay I’ve gone with this dabbling duck.
#mallards #drakes #birds #ducks #Photography #EastCoastKin #DC
Glossy green-headed male duck with white neck ring and chestnut breast, tucked away in shallow pond at the US Botanical Garden, Washington, DC (April 2024)
October 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Happy 100th anniversary of #WorldAnimalDay 🐘 Save animals, save the planet.🌎
An elephant submerged in clear blue water up to its tusks. The camera is half below, half above the water so that you can see the legs of the elephant standing on the white sandy sea floor while its head is above the level water, ears spread, eyes gentle, facing forward as white clouds float by overhead in the deep blue sky. (Photo not my own.)
October 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM