Dawne Slater

Large sealpoint cat sleeps in the mulch

#Caturday food coma

#cats

Well-nourished sealpoint cat lying half in the sun, half in the shade in the mulch adjacent to a gray board deck

For your #caturday pleasure, this beastie who clearly has a rough life

#cats

Saw some beautiful flowers on my walks

Bright blue and black bird sits in a snow-speckled evergreen tree and looks straight at the camera

Stellar's Jay at Bryce Canyon NP in Dec 2019

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography

A bright pink rose against green leaves grows near a gray sidewalk

Another 🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼

#flowers
#spring
#naturephotography
#feedcleanse

FamilySearch's Full-Text Search is the greatest thing since commercial DNA testing. I'll die on this hill.

#genealogy
#familyhistory

Red ladybug with black spots walking on a bright green leaf

Lil traveler

#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
#insects
#ladybug

Bright violet purple flowers with a red center

More #flowers

Vivid four-petal purple flowers with green leaves in the background

Loving the flowers this spring

#naturephotography
#photography
#flowers
#purple

Bright yellow and red wild roses

Burst of #spring

#flowers
#nature

A telephone pole with wires against a vivid blue sky. The green top of a tree is visible at the bottom of the frame

The sky is really, really, really blue today.

#bluesky
#nature
#spring

It embarrassing.

Happy Friday!

A waterfall with abundant greenery to the side

Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio

#nature
#naturephotography
#waterfall
#spring
#nationalparks

Me over here who just shrugged and assumed I was wrong about what I thought it meant when I read it earlier today ... and now learning I was right after all.

Salt Lake City approves 3 new flags to get around Utah's ban on Pride flags The city’s three new flags mix the existing Salt Lake City flag design with elements of flags celebrating various communities that were barred from being flown at public buildings.

Fantastic www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Four women with their arms around one another wearing dark purple tee shirts that say Sparkle

Today would have been my mom's 86th birthday. Here are my sister, sister-in-law, and me with Mom in April 2014 just after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We had her for 2 more years.

#cancersucks #pancreaticcancer #family #mom #mother

Vivid yellow flowers on green stems spill out of a flower bed along a concrete wall. Across the street is the LDS Tabernacle

Pretty place to eat my sack lunch during a library break

#genealogy #familyhistory #familysearchlibrary #saltlakecity

This did not do any of that. Maybe they picked the wrong shades. 😁 That being said, the room was clean so they can choose whatever carpet and wall colors they wish!

Terre Haute, IN, so close. But I was also in northern Ohio last week 🙂

Large brown raptor sits on a tree branch with evergreens in the snow in the background. It has a hooked bill.

Golden eagle or immature bald eagle? Where are my #bird people? Spotted at Yellowstone a few years ago.

Odd circle and square patterned medium and dark blue carpet with lines. Looking down a hotel hallway. The walls are golden yellow

I always wonder who thinks color combos like this are a good look in hotels

#travel
#hotels
#vacation
#design
#decor

Black bird with yellow and red markings on its wings standing on a log in a pond

Mottled brown and cream-colored bird standing on a lilypad in a pond

Red-wing blackbird male & female

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
#nationalparks

Yellow wall sign that says "It's a good time!" and "Arthur Bryant's Barbecue" with a clock in the middle and the image of Arthur Bryant himself wearing a chef's hat in the center of the clock.

Bright neon signs in pink, blue, and green for jazz clubs

A metal image of baseball player Josh Gibson crouching behind a metal plate on the floor that shows his name. He's dressed in catcher's gear

Kansas City: Arthur Bryant's #barbecue, American #Jazz Museum, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

#BlackHistory
#history
#music

Bird with fuzzy black head. It has mostly black feathers that have some orange and white accents. It is standing on a log in a pond with lily pads behind it

Nice non-breeding male red-winged blackbird

#birds
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography

Close-up of a vivid purple violet surrounded by green leaves and grass and dappled with rain drops

Violets after the rain

#flowers
#naturephptography
#feedcleanse

Great blue heron pulling at its chest feathers

Handsome specimen doing a little grooming. Spotted today at Cuyahoga Valley National Park

#birds #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #herons

A city skyline at night with bright lights from buildings

Festivities the night before my son's wedding

#citylights
#nighttime

I'm a new birder and finding that out! I saw a kildeer at a rest area today.

Bright red flower fills the frame. It has a yellow and white center with yellow stamen

Feed cleanse!

#flowers
#naturephotography