I’m going to ToastmasterClubs around my region practicing past (TM) speeches. I don’t need notes but what I don’t understand is why the nervous nellies stay with me. I want them gone. I used to do public speaking for a corporate job and I could do it in my sleep. The speeches now have meaning.
Beautiful. Thank You for sharing.
Thank you to all the people who like and comment on my posts and re-post. I often forget how to thank the re-stackers. Please know you are appreciated. #thankful #kindness #connections
All good things come together. Beauty is just around the corner. I love your paintings. Thank you for sharing them.
Beautiful- thanks for sharing it
An unexpected gift in itself. For a short time.
Wow. Stunning. What a treat.
I can only imagine your garden. What a lovely respite, it must be.
Your spring has really sprung. Thank you for sharing it.
Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing them.
What a great catch!
Thats very cool. I did not know that. Thank you for sharing. I always enjoyed seeing lichen probably because I was walking in nature, one of my favorite things.
A picture of a woman, me, with brown eyes natural make up smiling with a pinkish brown lipstick. Shown is one ear wearing an earring with a brown and concrete colored Celtic pattern on it. The woman’s dark brown hair shows some Gray hairs coming through. The bottom portion shows the following words written over the bottom of her face and throat: coming home after Vienna: sometimes the real discoveries appear after we return home. The next line says The Modern Journeyer, the title of her Substack. The line after that reveals the link: amandamottornartist.substack.com Note: posts are available in the audio version for people who prefer or need to listen as well as a written version. Usually there are images. This time I did Not include any.
Yesterday I wrote about the transition of coming home from a big trip. In the quiet is when the discoveries come. #travel #creativelife
I thought this was a painting. Or is it?
Fun! Love the color combos you’re creating.
I like seeing lichen when I’m outside. It makes me happy.
Thank you!
Very pretty.
My pleasure.
Signs of spring among the melted snow in Minnesota.
Signs of spring among the melting snow in Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Nature
#Minnesota
A beautiful picture of the turquoise water of the Keys, flowing by as the sun sets in the background, adding a pop of color to all that beautiful blue water, my Nirvana.
#BlueSkyArtShow #flowing #EastCoastKin #scape #escape #KeyWest #GetOutThere #onlybeautifulthings #photography
The turquoise water surrounding the Keys is captured so perfectly in this shot, gently flowing by as the sun sets in the background. Nothing spells calm, like gentle waves. 🌊🐬
Winter sun and shadows in Minnesota.
Winter sun and shadows at St Croix State Park Minnesota
#Photography
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#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Nature
#Minnesota
Bloomed flowers. Maybe zinnias like a the ones that came up in my mother’s garden. A red-orange corner of one in the corner. A big purple one with an orange center in the center a turquoise one in the left bottom corner with an orange-red center. The top of a green one just the pedals at the bottom center a purple one with a yellowish orange center in the bottom, right. In the top right an orange red one with a brown between all the color is yellow. Whether it’s pedals or just a yellow background, you get to decide.
The crocuses, the crocuses are coming. Or is that croci like cacti? This is one of my few flower paintings I’ve ever done. Pretend it’s one of my many crocuses, however you say it. Could you see this painting on your wall? #eastcoastkin #happypaintngs #flowerpaintings #blooming
𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝟶𝟹/𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼
There was only seeing—
The open,
unbounded,
belonging to no one…
A clarity without a center, a presence without a name, vast as the sky the mirrors had once forgotten.
Silence began to breathe in the narrow spaces between ideas.
The blue in between white and gray.
#Photography
♥️🔆🔅☁️☁️🙂↔️
Rose in full bloom, deep pink, cupped-shaped, with three buds to the left. Blurred leaves, green grass and driveway in background.
No shortage of pink roses in my garden. 💝
"Of all flowers, methinks a rose is best." - William Shakespeare
#RoseWednesday
#MyGarden
#bloomscrolling
#pinkroses
#rosesofbluesky
#gardening
#gardenshour
#gardeners
📸 June 3, 2025
My photo of a white Azalea bloom from one of my shrubs this morning. Catching more sunlight.
"In the springtime, the heart regrows hope." New spring bloom from my white azalea shrub, taking in morning sunlight. Enjoy, it's Friday and the weekend has arrived. 🌱🌿🍃 #Springtime #quotes #FlowerReport #FlowersonFriday #bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography
I love this Camilla Celebration. The markings on the petals give it an edge over my others. #FlowersonFriday. #Camellias #Bloomscrolling.
Psathyrella, brittlestem mushroom for #FungiFriday
