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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social

Standing outside a garden cafe today, I saw hummingbird visiting yellow blooms on a hibiscus plant. My cell phone photos did capture the pretty bird. But most looked like the photo on the right, all flower, no bird 😂 #nature #garden #birds #photography

Photo of a tubular yellow hibiscus flower in front of a light colored stucco wall. Flower is visited by a hovering hummingbird. Large green leaves surround the bloom and bird. Photo ©Ellen Friedman Aug 2025 At left of photo is a spray of yellow hibiscus blooms and large, dark green leaves. The rest of the photo is an empty space in front of stucco wall where seconds before there was a hummingbird. Photo © Ellen Friedman 2025
aug 31, 2025, 5:48 am • 19 0

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Marina Mueller 🇨🇦 @marinamueller935.bsky.social

So lovely to see!

aug 31, 2025, 1:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social

Thanks, Marina.

aug 31, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social

That’s wonderful! They are so fun to watch zip in and out of the flowers!

aug 31, 2025, 2:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social

Thanks Glen. This little lady was definitely doing the zippity-do-dah thing

aug 31, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social

Very cool! And I think they hover just because they can!

aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social

What a lovely experience Ellen! You need to take lots of photos to capture something like that and then delete most of them.

aug 31, 2025, 5:51 am • 1 0 • view
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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social

Good advice, Richard! It was a fun day. I'm very grateful to have been invited to come along with this group of artists. I'd never been to this location before. In fact, I'd never heard of it. A 1920s Spanish Revival set of buildings & garden. The hummingbirds were a bonus!

Photo of red brick garden walkway flanked by green box hedges and on the left tall light cream and pink hydrangea flowers. Far end of walkway passes under an arch in a light colored stucco wall. Very blue sky seen above. This is in town of Menlo Park, CA Photo by Ellen Friedman
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social

Looks divine!

aug 31, 2025, 6:22 am • 1 0 • view
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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social

I'm wondering if they hold live music events there. Seems like such a pleasant setting

aug 31, 2025, 8:52 am • 0 0 • view