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Five of my 2023 photos for @luxlit‘s Year-end Top 5 Photo Extravaganza, a showcase of the photography talent here on tumblr that runs for 24 hours on New Year’s Day.  Worth checking out.

This is pretty much everything that I posted in 2023, which is an improvement over the past few years. Maybe I'll post more this year?

I am more active on my side blogs, @celestialmacros (bugs and small animals) and @occasionallybirds.

#photographers on tumblr #top 5 extravaganza #nature #flowers #garden

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Has anyone seen a year in review widget for 2023? Am I going to have to figure out my top posts by hand??

#my year in review #2023

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The koi pond at Chanticleer Garden, Wayne, Pennsylvania

#iPhone photography #photographers on tumblr #nature #Great blue heron #koi #koi pond #flowers #garden #Chanticleer

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Too pretty to be called a weed

Mile-a-minute Weed in the rain

#photographers on tumblr #nature #rain #raindrops #blue #green #meadow

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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Wow

#10 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

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Peak summer

#photographers on tumblr #garden #flowers #tiger swallowtail #butterfly #butterflies #swallowtails #aesthetic #summer #nature

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Early June in the rose garden

#rose #roses #photographers on tumblr #garden #gardening #flowers #spring #cottagecore #scott arboretum #dean bond rose garden #swarthmore college

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Ladybug, ladybird, lady beetle?

#photographers on tumblr #ladybug #ladybugs #roses #rose #rose garden #gardening #flowers #cottagecore #nature #lady beetle #lady beetles #ladybird #ladybirds

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Hellebores

#spring #spring flowers #photographers on tumblr #flowers #hellebores

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Concluding my blog-in-review with my most popular post ever, which was shot way back in 2016. (I’ve been on here since 2013) (1 of 5)

Amongst the peonies

#bees #bee #photographers on tumblr #honey bees #peonies #peony #apis #nature #animals #flowers #garden #beeblr #bugblr

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500 posts!

It’s only taken me 9 1/2 years!

#500 posts #tumblr milestone

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My second most popular post ever.  Surprisingly, three of my top five posts of all time were photographed at the same place, a nearby arboretum.

Fleur afloat

#photographers on tumblr #flowers #koi pond #fountain #Scott Arboretum #Swarthmore College #sculpture #cat

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My third most popular post, reblogged as part of my all-time blog-in-review.

Path

#photographers on tumblr #path #fence #nature #green #woods #forest #park #arboretum

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Blog-in-Review: Fourth out of my top 5 posts of all time

A walk by the woods

#photographers on tumblr #nature #woods #flowers #purple #arboretum #swarthmore college #scott arboretum #trees

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For the third or fourth year in a row I’ve barely posted on this blog.  I’m still active on tumblr, but mostly on my bug or bird blogs.  I keep hoping to be more active here too.  In lieu of a year-in-review for 2022, I’m going to reblog my top 5 posts ever, sort of a blog-in-review.  This is #5

Arboretum

#year in review #photographers on tumblr #blog in review #swarthmore college #arbor #aboretum #scott arboretum

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The very last frame I shot with my old, broken camera, and the first photo with my “new” used camera.  Thanks so much to those of you who made it possible. A special thank you to my fellow photographers from Germany, one of whom donated 3 times, every time I posted about my broken camera!  You are all so appreciated.  I can’t wait until it’s warm enough to go bug hunting again!

A Large Milkweed Bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus), and the kitten’s name is Parker.

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Golden Fall

#fall #autumn #photographers on tumblr #nature #leaves #fall color #Part of the sound is from a nearby creek #yellow #woods #path #iPhone photography #falling leaves