Original picture taken by iPhone and digitally manipulated by PicsArt App. While absent from Flickr, I have been entertaining myself using some of the free apps available to IOS and Android users. I have spent satisfying hours playing with these and loading the end result onto my Instagram page. This is just a sample from my latest offerings to show you I have not been wholly uncreative while AWOL :)

Almost never captured in images of water reflections are the fleeting moments... a dragonfly, a butterfly ...or more.

The right-side-up reflections image of the water plants was taken at the RBG gardens.

Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge

Island Rocks Trail

Middletown, Rhode Island

For Sliders Sunday

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Manipulated photo to represent the recent fires in Los Angeles

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Curious Monkeys,

used own photo, Filter Forge, Photoshop

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A teensy technological tweak of a restaurant display window found on the Harbor Steps. :D

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Twelve degrees below zero this morning, and it will be even colder tonight. My heart goes out to all of the critters that share my beautiful boreal forest. This big kitty-cat is lucky to have such big feet - it's what keeps him walking on top of the snow.

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Grackles have the most lovely shape

Poppy,

used Filter Forge, Pixabay, Photoshop

The sisters...Beauty, Mirth and Elegance

Beautiful Water Lily

Tiny wild Alaskan cranberries are hidden deep beneath the colorful undergrowth of our boreal forest floor.

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True to its name, I thought a monochrome approach would be most appropriate ... with a touch of selective colour because, after all, it is colour that we readily accept when it comes to images of butterflies.

Vase in dark colors,

used: Filter Forge, Photoshop

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Red Crossbill

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For Sliders Sunday (processed to the max).

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The forest and a specially built squirrel box, were not enough to entice this little squirrel away from our out buildings. She chewed her way into our water shed, (Before we had the time to log the outer-walls) and then gave birth! Once she spotted us watching her - she relocated her tiny family to the squirrel box - where she should have been in the first place.

Barnacle Goose,

used: Filter Forge, Photoshop

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Bears are on the move, and at night can be seen tiptoeing through the forest that surrounds our cabin.

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For Thi Huê

I can't believe that this old bus is still on the road. It reminded me of the days of hippie's and flower children.

This photo was taken in downtown Glennallen, Alaska

Explored; Highest position: 372 on Monday, July 3, 2023