فتبارك الله أحسن الخالقين
To ALL the bsky.social users whose posted images, poems & words of wisdom, affirm & reaffirm that the world & some [sadly, not all] humans in it, are beautiful, undeserved gifts to me, that are far beyond my capacity & ability to ever repay.
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فتبارك الله أحسن الخالقين
The morning #bee 🐝
هذا خلق الله فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه
Happy #StunDay to all that celebrate! I set the way back machine to 2010 with my first DSLR a #Canon xti or 400D and my trip to Kanarra Falls Slot Canyon. There was definitely a #Goonies feel to it. More #Utah and #Waterfalls pics can be found at ScottWGonzalez.com #photography #EastCoastKin
هذا خلق الله فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه
Spicy cinnamon roll 🖤 (Dusky pygmy rattlesnake)
scarlet ibis I say no more #senryusunday #Haikufeels #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #dailyhaikuprompt #verse #vss365
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#BloomScrolling #Photography #macro #EastCoastKin #flowers
هذا خلق الله فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه
Sycamore bark ... always a favorite at #SpringGroveCemetery 30 August 2025
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j.lulu_photography ..Lulu🦋 "Shelf cloud and sunset, Gulf of Mexico"
Engaging & dealing & with REALITY works every time; but our genius BoyKing thinks IGNORING REALITY works better: bsky.app/profile/ibnt... So until he goes, IF he & his kooky hangers-on ever go, we're up the creek without a paddle. Incredibly +77M CHOSE him, so the future looks bleak.
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Tiger Longwing #butterfly 😍🦋
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Pollinators and cone flowers! 🩷 🌿 #Inverts
Stunning footage of a rare dark coloured deer, with estimates suggesting they make up less than 1% of all deer.
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With time, All things find their way And light will always follow The shadows of day… #TheSkySpeaksSoftly #photography #westcoast
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#photography #stunday #coloraday #orangesun
’I can no other answer make but thanks, And thanks; and ever thanks"
I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.
Dang!!! but in a nice way! I've looked at a mountains and mountains of stones' but it has never occured to me to make a thing of such order and beauty with , or from stones. And the brain, the mind that is able to do this is thing of wonder in itself & for some—not all—to unlock other questions.
Jon Foreman #Landart
I really do envy you! But not in a "bad" way. If I could, I'd give you & everyone else in the world, 24 hours of wonder all day, every day. Because who benefits from anyone else's misery? Think of our Felon-in-Chief! Reportedly a billionaire; but permanently miserable & trying reorder reality.
Golden Sunrise from Mazatlan Mexico. Was a crazy golden morning. You never know what you're gonna get,but its worth getting up and waiting for it. #sunrise #mazatlan #mexico #photography #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes
31 August, this sunset. September starts tomorrow.
So 59% said they disapproved of FDR's plan. But isn't more pertinent to ask, not how many people liked or disliked the plan, but whether it was a good plan? “If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” [Anatole France] Once when asked, the majority chose Barrabas!
And just to emphasize the fact that I am truly sorry for offending you just by being: here is another (I hope, you will find) beautiful blessing I hope and pray will reach you, now and always:
also because my opinions &possibly even my existence are an affront to you; I offer you this benediction; because even though I'm an affront even to myself, I don't know how to sublimate myself out of existence without upsetting my God who is way, way, WAY more powerful & scarier to me than you.
Ok, but they both speak a language & a vocabulary I don't speak or understand. Since i got out of cognitive rehab 25 years ago; I've never been sure whether I'm a Yahoo among Houyhnhnms, or a Houyhnhnm among Yahoos because I share a vocabulary with everyone around my but evidently not a language.
Sorry, nned a translation; This not a language i speak. So if you have something to say, say it in English please.
PS: who or what is the guy/person/thing in the cartoon? What if anything is he saying? This is a piece of art way beyond my dented brain. It's like a Jackson Pollock painting I stopped looking at because it turned my mind to suicide, a place I'm too scared to go. What I botched up my suicide?
Does it matter whether painted by hand, a photocopier, or a monkey on a leash? What you get when you look at a piece of art, depends on what you see. What would/did you get if/when you saw Delaroche's "Execution of Lady Jane Grey" at London's National Gallery, painted 279 years after the event?
Does it matter whether painted by hand, a photocopier, or a monkey on a leash? What you get when you look at a piece of art, depends on what you see. What would/did you get if/when you saw Delaroche's "Execution of Lady Jane Grey" at London's National Gallery, painted 279 years after the event?
Does it matter whether painted by hand, a photocopier, or a monkey on a leash? What you get when you look at a piece of art, depends on what you see. What would/did you get if/when you saw Delaroche's "Execution of Lady Jane Grey" at London's National Gallery, painted 279 years after the event?
Yes but impressive slop; but it’s still just a bunch of lines & dots somebody or something put on a blank page & by extension, a lesson that illusion is not reality & a reminder that you should believe none of what you hear & only half of what you see; and be always on the look out for the Real.
Some Lantana for #SundayYellow and #PhotographyBreak. This plant, although with beautiful flowers, is very hard to get rid of in the garden, with its long-growing thorny shoots, which take over. Many thanks to the Sparrows who poop them into place! 😂
I’ve run round the block of life a time or two & spent some time in universities around genuine geniuses with boatloads of PhDs; but NOBODY—not even the BS AI ‘wizards’—has figured out how a simple root yanks out of dirt in which it grows & places, hands free, such exquisite pure & fragrant hues
فتبارك الله احسن الخالقين الله جميل ويحب الجمال
Late season Peace rose. #SundayYellow 📷 #photography
Beautiful & thank you again for always sharing the beauty you see. And no, NOT trying to upstage you. Detail for me is everything! God—for me EVEN IF FOR NO ONE ELSE—is in the details. And so …
#FlowersOnSunday
Contrary to popular perception & the delusions of those like our Felon in Chief; THIS is what IS genius; even when it’s not seen. When Gutenberg commissioned his printing press in 1450, he was barely noticed & he died a pauper; but he did more for humanity than a trillion, trillion Trumps.
The details, the details! It’s all in the details.
Again, wow! … I mean just look at the eyes! Or the shape of the lips! The expression! … I’m a nobody & a nothing but wow!!! That is a superb drawing. I’m almost tempted to ask; where can I meet this girl/woman …
Madam: being the dumbest person I’ve ever known, I’m not qualified to rate anyone; but considering that this image is essentially a bunch of lines on a flat surface assembled so as portray—beautifully, I might add—a beautiful woman … WOW! I couldn’t do this in an eon of blue Mondays if I tried. WOW!
Rose of Sharon Bud [Hibiscus syriacus] - Colors of Promise #SensoryArt #colors #EastCoastKin #flower #plant #garden #shrub #hibiscus #cultivar #althaea #rose_mallow #summer #hardy #Korea #magenta #green #pink #photograph #closeup #macro #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers
Thank you & may—not just your morning; but ALL your mornings, ALL your moments OF ALL YOUR DAYS—be not just above average but excellent. May this be so for ALL people; even for—especially for those like the Turd in Chief & the billionaires who despite their billions still feel deprived, unfulfilled.
May your morning be above average. From my #landscape #art, #illustrationart, and #photography portfolio: "Daybreak in the Rural Lands, 1872"
If I didn’t EXPLICITLY thank you before; do NOT think, for even for a fraction of a fraction of a zeptosecond,* that I didn't appreciate your drawing to our attention, the beauty in this life around us, in spite of the Yahoos gyrating crazily around us. * trillionth of a billionth of a second
More than amazing; truly miraculous. We’ve debased, devalued the word AWE in recent years with overuse of words like “awesome” and “awful”; but being AWESTRUCK, being rendered mute in AWE is in reality, the only true response & attitude to the Reality that confronts us at each moment. & THANK YOU!
The earth has been there before. We humans haven’t. Big Brain Drink Disinfectant Trump will say stop testing & measuring. Your problem is you look. Remember his genius strategy during the COVID pandemic was DON’T TEST! IF YOU DON’T LOOK; YOU WON’T SEE IT & IF YOU DON’T SEE IT, YOU DON’T HAVE IT.
! What I’d really like to have seen is hyper-hyper-ultra-ultra-super-superfast timelapse movie of the formation of this from Day 1 to now. هذا خلق الله فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه
"Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah"
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A Sunflower in Chester County Pennsylvania #nature #floral #sunflower
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Follow You Down…🌺
Maybe I've got it wrong but we have a saying where I come from: if you want to live in river, don't pick fights with the crocodiles. Evidently +77M Americans know that I only believe & pay attention to that because I & the guys who wrote the Bible are stupid.
Trump, the King Canute wannabe who can't even stop himself from getting old!. Deluded fool leading other deluded fools! We shall see where, and how far he gets us all.
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Pollen bath
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Sunset over Lake Michigan. Pentwater, MI. #BlueSkyArtShow #shiny #LakeMichigan #PureMichigan #sunset #Beauty
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Good morning! Here are your 3 minutes—but due to many requests, I’m going to start posting long versions on YouTube. Stay tuned! #OceanDevotion
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Good morning 🌞
Imagine it's Day 1 of Creation—or if you like—"When All This Began" & Whatever said to you, "OK you're in charge of decorating Earth. Put together a few things & get them in there." Why & how would you have come up with THIS OR THAT WHICH GOT TO THIS, with these materials, textures, forms & colors?
Bringing a bit of razzle dazzle to your Saturday. Dogbane Leaf Beetle #BlueSkyArtShow #shiny #ColorADay #GreenSat #macro #invertebrates #BugSky #InverteFest #nature #photography
The world is beautiful. It is humans who create, wreak havoc. Look at the flowers in a garden: beautiful hues & fragrances every day, hands-free; no harmful carbon footprint anywhere in sight. As a Native American Chief said ~150 years ago, "everywhere ... man touches; it is sore"
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If you’ve ever visited California’s Monterey Bay and looked out over the immensity of the Pacific - well, I hear it’s lovely. But how many of its roughly 4 million visitors per year know that beyond the surf, they’re also in the presence of the second Grand Canyon of the United States? 1/
1/2 I humbly & with all becoming diffidence frankly, unreservedly, emphatically confess that I'm the dumbest person i know & know little about even the little that I do know; & your reply by which I think you try to correct & educate me, serves only to confuse me. may you kindly clarify?
I may be mistaken, but as I see it: +77M eyes-wide-open people knowingly chose Trump because they think they can choose Reality they way they choose their groceries; that they can choose a crook & proven failure at all they uphold & that they'll still come out OK. They're arrogant not stupid
We are kind to …
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Last of the summer roses #photography #bloomscrolling #roses
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Shiny roof. #BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny #Bulgaria #NevskyCathedral #Photography #Travel
Thank you .
Good morning! Wishing everyone a great Saturday! #sunrise #nature #photography
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Sunrise ⭐️☁️
One of the proofs of the fallacy of the Ayn Randian-John Galt-GOP/Libertarian “Job creators” KoolAid BS.
London August 2025 #London #UK #Shard #Photography #BlackAndWhite #ClassicMono #Leica #M11M #EastCoastKin
هذا خلق الله فأروني ماذا خلق الّذين من دونه
