#FeelingFall

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

3 months ago

They don't all have huge, enormous racks. They also usually have two antlers. Sometimes you'll meet a buck with an injured or deformed antler, and unfortunately it can mean he'll have trouble growing one from that pedicle in the following seasons. Like a unicorn, but sadder. Like this youngster with his head held low, coming up our trail to meet face-on with me in the dappled December light. He's just over a year old I'd guess, judging by the tiny spike he does have on one side. He gave me a Flehmen response (not pictured) too, being December, which was funny since I smell nothing like a doe. (*sniffs armpit)

It’s your road and yours alone.
Others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you.
~Rumi

🕉️

📸 O. hemionus (not a tiny unicorn*) 🦌🌿

#TinyTuesday
#EastCoastKin
#WildlifePhotography
#Mammals
#LookingAtYou
#Photography
#FeelingFall
#Autumn
#Scape

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

3 months ago

It was my sincere hope to have a bull elk standing in this frame with morning light shining through the freshly-snowed-on forest full of Fall color along our 'secret' valley up the slopes of Aspen Peak...but the elk never showed up. Zen.

When snow falls,
Nature listens.
~Antoinette Van Kleeff

❄️🍁🌿

#StunDay 🤩
#FeelingFall 🍂
#Winterscape 🏔️
#SundayVibes 🕉️
#Landscape 🖼️
#Treehuggers 🌳
#GreenTherapy 🍃
#Photography 📸
#Treescape 🌲
#Scape ✨

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

3 months ago

Two Mule Deer are resting in a small clearing behind some boulders, a mother doe with her back to the camera but with one ear focused on me whispering to the fawn between us that is facing the camera.

November woods are bare and still;
November days are clear and bright;
Each noon burns up the morning's chill;
The morning's snow is gone by night.
~Helen Hunt Jackson

🕉️ Have a sweet #WildlifeWednesday! 🦌🦌🌿

🤘😶‍🌫️

#Mammals
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#FeelingFall
#AutumnVibes
#Autumn

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

3 months ago

Two young Mule Deer bucks stop their play sparring in dappled afternoon light to look over at the humans watching them in awe. My deer peeps may recognize a young 'Trip' on the left. IYKYK.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.
~Eckhart Tolle

🕉️ Happy #TwosDay deer peeps!! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 O. hemionus 🦌🦌🌿

#AutumnVibes
#FeelingFall
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Mammals

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

3 months ago

A fallen maple leaf casts a last shadow on the snow and lichen-covered boulder it came to rest on.

Now Autumn’s fire burns
slowly along the woods,
And day by day
the dead leaves fall and melt.
~William Allingham

🍁

#Seasons
#StunDay
#AutumnVibes
#FeelingFall
#FallFoliage
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

3 months ago

All of nature's Fall colors paint the leaves in the dappled light under the canopy in a shady ravine somewhere on Aspen Peak.

This one would make a wicked 2,000 piece puzzle...🍁🌿

🤘😶‍🌫️

#StunDay
#FallFoliage
#FeelingFall
#AutumnVibes
#GreenTherapy
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Treehuggers
#Scape

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Smells like a strain called 'Mo' Dough'. Really. In portrait frame, a young Mule Deer lifts a rear leg with the big buck of the herd sniffing the Fall leaves on the ground right behind.

I can smell #autumn dancing in the breeze.
~Ann Drake

🕉️ …smells like #WeekendVibes! 🌿🦌I'm off Friday!! Going riding, before the rains come...and hiking when they do. 🫠

🫶 Have a sweet weekend, peeps! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#Scape
#Seasons
#AutumnVibes
#FeelingFall
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Mammals

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Finally. Looking straight up at that northeastern drainage on Hayden Peak for my clearest view, nothing in the foreground this time, of a stand of Quaking Aspens encircled by Gambel Oaks wearing yellow and orange Fall colors among the conifers covering the rocky mountain slope.

In a forest
of a thousand whispers,
listen to
the aspens sing.

🕉️ #ThickTrunkThursday vibes... 🤘😶‍🌫️

#Autumn 🍁
#AutumnVibes 🍂
#FeelingFall 🌿
#ForestFriday 🌲
#TreeScape 🍃
#Treehuggers 🫂
#EastCoastKin 💞
#GreenTherapy 💚
#Photography 📸
#FallFoliage 🔥
#Seasons ⏳
#Scape 🖼️

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Without any leaves left, this bare Slippery Elm tree doesn't hide the borby blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay looking at you through all the branches.

Part of you died each year
when the leaves fell from the trees
and their branches were bare
against the wind and the cold,
wintery light.
~Ernest Hemingway

🕉️

#ThursJay 🪶
#FeelingFall 🌿
#Bluebirds 🐦
#BirdLovers 💙
#Photography 📸
#EastCoastKin
#LookingAtYou
#StickHappens
#BorbAlert
#Corvids

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
~John Donne

🕉️ Did you hear that?? 🌿🪶🍂 #AutumnVibes

#Autumn
#FeelingFall
#TopKnotTuesday
#Photography
#BirdLovers

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

One last look below Hayden, in landscape, as a long-dead Ponderosa Pine snag stands watch over the Gambel Oaks and Quaking Aspens wearing their Fall colors and dotting the slopes along a mountain valley that leads to Hualapai Peak. Zen.

Maybe you are searching
among the branches,
for what only appears
in the roots.
~Rumi

🕉️ ...a Bob Ross vibes #treescape! 🖼️🤘😶‍🌫️

#Scape 🌿
#Autumn 🍂
#AutumnVibes 🍁
#FeelingFall 🔥
#GreenTherapy 💚
#Treehuggers 🌲
#Photography 📸
#ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳
#GetOutThere 🧭

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Surrounded in a sea of scrub oak leaves just turning color for Fall and a dreamy bokeh background, a male Gambel's Quail standing sentry, but daydreaming until a second ago, looks back over his shoulder to finally spot me sneaking through the forest. Zen birding.

And the sun took a step back,
the leaves lulled themselves to sleep
and #Autumn was awakened.
~Raquel Franco

🕉️ ...actually, I called him 'Bob' ...but close enough. I feel seen. 🌿

📸 Gambel's Quail 🪶

#FeelingFall 🍂
#TopKnotTuesday
#AutumnVibes
#GreenTherapy
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#BirdLovers

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

From across the valley, and framed under a Ponderosa Pine in the foreground, a stand of yellow Quaking Aspens on Hayden Peak is circled by a halo of scrub oaks in blazing Fall colors.

The leaf of every tree
brings a message
from the unseen world.
Look, every falling leaf
is a blessing.
~Rumi

🔥🌿⛰️

#StunDay
#SundayYellow
#OrangeSun
#GreenTherapy
#FeelingFall
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Treehuggers
#Autumn
#Scape

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Looking over a Gambel Oak in the foreground, and up the northeastern drainage on Hayden Peak, to the Fall colors painting the scrub oaks and Quaking Aspens among the pines there.

“Autumn burned brightly,
a running flame through the mountains,
a torch flung to the trees.”
~Faith Baldwin

🔥🌿⛰️

#StunDay
#SundayYellow
#OrangeSun
#GreenTherapy
#FeelingFall
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Treehuggers
#Autumn
#Scape

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

I believe that's a gray squirrel in profile on that rock surrounded by Fall leaves on the forest floor...

...now the squirrel is on to something, tail floofed and swishing as it delves deeper into the leaves...

...and Bingo! A squirrel with a mouthful is a happy squirrel! Zen.

🌿 #SaturdayVibes:

Up before dawn, blueberry pancakes, zero clouds, filled the feeders, watered everything and broke the bike out. Wisely aimed the newly acquired cold-start backfire at the neighbors' window. Took a long ride and a short hike. Skeeted some #FeelingFall #SquirrelSaturday #sqrlpix. 🐿️🍁

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Looking like he's seen some rough road as the saying goes, a Mule Deer buck stops in the middle of the road to give me an eyes and ears pose and do a little Flehmen Response and show off his weird antler. Zen. No, I don't know where the blood on his face is from, so I won't speculate.

My 1st thought was the old "be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle" mantra...🕉️

...but my 2nd thought was 'JFC! HURRY!! Take his picture! 🫶

😇📸🦌🌿

I'm off! Have a sweet weekend peeps!! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#FeelingFall
#WeekendVibes
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#Mammals
#LookingAtYou

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

A Mule Deer with her ears up pokes just her nose into the last photons of the day against a frame filled with autumnal blue grama grass and shadow.

Hope is being
able to see
that there is light
despite all of the darkness.
~Desmond Tutu

🕉️ Did you hear that...? 🦌🌿

#FeelingFall
#WeekendVibes
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#Autumn
#Mammals
#Scape

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Spying a hungry bee enjoying the hard-to-catch-in-bloom Sacahuista or Bear Grass for an artsy composition.

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
~E. O. Wilson

🕉️ A #ThrowbackThursday #InsectThursday from the #FeelingFall file: my Sacahuista bee! 🌿🐝

#Invertebrates
#Photography
#NativePlants
#Bloomscrolling
#SaveTheBees
#EastCoastKin
#Scape

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Looking up at the western 'shoulder' of Aspen Peak, and through the charred stand of short-needle pines that burnt in 2021, to the pocket of Autumn colors in the trees still thriving at the base of the rock.

Hump Day #greentherapy...

...as color replaces the ashes of wildfire. 🌿🔥⛰️

#Scape
#Autumn
#GetOutThere
#Treehuggers
#SaveTheTrees
#FeelingFall
#Photography
#EastCoastKin

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

In landscape four Mule Deer are resting in the golden grasses and dappled light under a stand of trees wearing rust, yellow, green and orange Fall colors while a fifth deer is heading off frame and away from the others. Zen.

Winter is an etching,
spring a watercolor,
summer an oil painting
and #autumn a mosaic of them all.
~Stanley Horowitz

🕉️

#BlueSkyArtShow 🎨🖌️
#Photography 📸
#NaturePhotography
#FeelingFall 🍁
#EastCoastKin
#Mammals 🦌
#Scape 🌿

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

A Mule Deer buck named 'Quint'... yes, because of his 5 points, but also because Robert Shaw is my favorite in 'Jaws', but I digress, ...'Quint' and his shadow in the dappled light behind Lars' shed with some Fall leaves still clinging to the little tree and sweet bokeh balls over the buck's head.

The day I decided that
my life was magical,
there was suddenly
magic all around me.
~Marabeth Quin

🕉️

#Halloween 🎃
#FallVibes
#WeekendVibes 🌿🦌
#FeelingFall
#ForestFriday
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#GreenTherapy
#GetOutThere
#Spooktober
#Mammals
#Autumn
#Scape

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Looking up the mighty trunk of a 'grandaddy' 100+ year old Ponderosa Pine tree lit by dappled light filtering through the canopy.

In the arms of nature, find your peace.

🕉️ ....I smell butterscotch. 🥰

🤘😶‍🌫️ Have a sweet #ThickTrunkThursday! 🌿

#FeelingFall
#TreeHuggers
#Photography
#SaveTheTrees
#EastCoastKin

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

I post this birb alot in portrait edits, but this is the original frame in 16:9 and all the lovely Fall colors and bokeh in the canopy background for a Black-headed Grosbeak leaning excitedly to one side on a branch in the foreground.

"...if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

[Letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841]”
~George Eliot

🧡🌿 I realized I hadn't posted a birb for you today...🪶

#OrangeSun
#FeelingFall
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#StunDay
#Birds

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

A few vibrant Quaking Aspens hide amid the taller Ponderosa Pines at the base of a rock outcrop high on Aspen Peak.

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver"
~Martin Luther

🌿

#StunDay
#SundayYellow
#FeelingFall
#TreeHuggers
#Photography
#SaveTheTrees

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Looking through a window in the pines, up past the 2021 burn area on the north face of Aspen Peak, to a pocket of trees still thriving in the Autumn sunlight. Yes, you have to climb over there. Am I right?

📖 The Flag Fire was a wildfire in the Hualapai Mountains that started on 4/25/21, burning about 1,400 acres.

No matter which route you take up Aspen Peak, you traverse thru the burn area. 👣

📸 This is the vibe there now. Let's #scape!

🌿🌲⛰️🍂🌱

#ForestFriday
#FeelingFall
#GreenTherapy
#NatureHeals

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Finding just the right color leaf getting backlit by the dappled light filtering through the forest for the Fall vibe...

Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
fluttering from the autumn tree.
~Emily Brontë

🍁

🤘😶‍🌫️ Have a sweet #ThickTrunkThursday #treehuggers! 🌿

#Autumn
#FallLeaves
#FeelingFall
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#GreenTherapy

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Looking up the fire-damaged trunk of a Quaking Aspen survivor wearing golden Fall foliage against a clear blue sky. I like my new Aspen treehugger shot so much I wanted to give it it's own skeet.

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.
~J.R.R. Tolkien

🕉️

#SundayYellow
#FeelingFall
#Autumn
#Photography

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Catching a maple leaf backlit in morning light.

The burn area, offering views of Dean Peak across the valley.

And woodpeckers. A male Hairy Woodpecker on a charred tree branch.

And an iridescent Acorn Woodpecker doing the head twist to get both eyeballs in my frame. Sweet!

I'm taking you #hiking again for #SaturdayVibes...

Wanna come along? 🌿 A thread 🧵3/4

1) One more leaf, and we head lower 🍁
2) Into the burn area, where we...
3) Find Hairy...🪶
4) And and Acorn. Today's #birding!

#GreenTherapy
#Photography
#FeelingFall

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

Sunlight firing up all the Gambel Oaks on a rock outcrop under Aspen Peak...

...which made for a scenic descent down the rock.

The peak still in view, as we drop into the 'Ravine of Color'...

...for all the Fall leaves you want.

I'm taking you #hiking again for #SaturdayVibes...

Wanna come along? 🌿 A thread 🧵2/4

1) Looking back up at the color just under Aspen Peak
2) Climbing down, with views
3) Down into the 'Ravine of Color'
4) Named that for obvious reasons, by me

#FeelingFall
#GreenTherapy
#Autumn
#Photography

Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

4 months ago

The odd face-only-floof of a happy looking Black-headed Grosbeak in close-up profile. Zen birding.

"...the Great Pumpkin *bird will rise out of the pumpkin patch. He flies through the air and brings toys to all the children of the world." ~Linus Van Pelt

🕉️ *My edit. 🪶

📸 Pheucticus melanocephalus 🎃🌿

#FeelingFall
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#FeatheredFriday
#BirdOfTheDay
#Character