A female Painted Bunting enjoying my backyard.

Paint dancing on a subwoofer

These have been scarce for a few years. Occasionally we have "irruptions" in them.

Finally - a Painted skimmer! They're usually our first skimmers to fly early in Spring. So good to see him at the wetlands. North Georgia

p.s. also the first Beast of the year, and a foty Yellow-sided skimmer - rare

Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert, July 2021.

I was in a park last week and noticed a dozen Painted Lady flying around and decided to pack up and check the Experimental Farm just in case. Glad I did, there were about 300 butterflies.... so this time around I decided to challenge myself for the next 3 days and try to acpture two on the same flower. Not that easy with so many of them around, you don't have time to check your shots I took a break and played with bokeh.

Painted Snipe, Botswana

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A male Painted Bunting taking a bath in a friends water fountain. His head looks more purple than blue, I think, because of the blue color of the fountain.

Bands of Laterite give the Painted Hills near Mitchell, Oregon, their colorful appearance.

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painted stork

Painted Lady butterfly enjoying the Ragwort flowers. Happy Wing Wednesday!

A Painted Lady Butterfly sipping nectar from our Zinnia flower. I could not find any Zinnia flowers out our local nurseries, so I planted seeds. The flowers are blooming and gorgeous. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.

Macro Mondays: Painted

Vanessa cardui

A male Painted Bunting at the water fountain

A rework for my Sunday slide from a while ago because its winter today. HSS

Brian the snail really loves a bit of DIY - but no nasty solvents for him! Although it is a struggle and takes much longer, he prefers to peel off the old paint by hard work!

For Macro Mondays theme 'Peel'. The snail's shell is about 1.2 cm long, so the image spans around 6.9 cm.

Several very large old metal storage containers have been placed at the end of the road to the new pier in my village. They have been painted numerous times over the years, in all sorts of colours, as is evident from the peeling of the many layers of paint. I had to take Brian on a 'field trip' to photograph him peeling back paint layers - I think he quite enjoyed the outing.

No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.

A remarkable sunset accentuates the colors of the Painted Desert. Captured at the Little Painted Desert County Park, just north of Winslow AZ

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Painted Ponies

Origami In The Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden

May 20, 2021

St. Louis, Missouri

Another re-edited oldie.

Thank you for your visits and comments dear friends. Have a lovely day-:)

Painted in PS.

Painted Portal

The University Botanical Gardens in Leicester reveal their secrets...

There are stories in every photograph, why not take a close look and find yours…

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Kemble Glos.

An older shot I just got around to posting. This boardwalk is located in the Painted Cove Trail section of the Painted Hills Unit of John Day Fossil Beds in central Oregon. The area was formed over 35 million years ago by volcanic eruptions followed by changing climate patterns. The mineral rich volcanic ashes paint the desert dunes in the spectacular colors you see today. Once the area was a river flood plain with a warm tropical climate and lush vegetation and exotic animals. Today an abundance of fossils remain from prehistoric horses, camels, and rhinoceroses making the fossil beds of importance to paleontologists.

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Female Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris)

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MACRO MONDAYS "PAINTED" theme.

See full size image below, the small squares are 1".

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Looking Close on Friday theme: Paint

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notice anything about the pattern in the chipped paint on this wooden cat's nose? i didn't until i got it up on the laptop screen!!

this is one possibility for the macromonday theme for 3/11 for imperfection.

#MacroMondays and #imperfection

its nose is less than a half an inch from side to side

Lake Wales, Florida

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A male Painted Bunting contemplating the bird bath.

Having my travel schedule limited by the pandemic has had one positive effect for my bird photography. I have had a lot more time to spend with my local birds and it has been a great year for Painted Buntings. This one was hanging around in Brazoria County earlier this month.

www.texastargetbirds.com

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Passerina ciris

"I see a red door and I want it painted black

No colours anymore, I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by, dressed in their summer clothes

I have to turn my head until my darkness goes..."

The masterpiece, live: youtu.be/50u9bxRwBJI?si=Kf1EwLY6lQT54R5k

Painted Desert 2026.

Just out of the car wash, as Matt says. lolll