I am William: an INFP man into art, music, photography, handsome men, Turkish Van cats, 🌱growing and photographing Rhododendrons, enlightened souls, Tibetan Book of the Dead, psychology, cosmology, and more. South Puget Sound. Queerart🏳️🌈
"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. I could sit in their for hours. I would likely go into a mystical trance.
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"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. Clouds are produced, and along with the sweet scent of all the tropical #Rhododendrons in 1/x
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"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. I could sit in their for hours. I would likely go into a mystical trance.
#Gardening🌱#Art #Photography #Gayartist #SignsOfSpring
Duke Ellington is in a class of one!
This is where i skeet from.
What are you wearing to the Bsky cocktail hour?
1960 - I remember
2003 - the most blatant display of hubris that I can think of.
Ah, of course! They fly and catch bugs.
#Rhododendron "Horizon Lakeside"
😍This one is nothing short of breathtaking. I have seen people strolling the neighborhood stop and take photos of this one. Shot in my outer backyard garden on April 24, 2024.
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"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. I could sit in their for hours. I would likely go into a mystical trance.
#Gardening🌱#Art #Photography #Gayartist #SignsOfSpring
"Life Unfurling"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. The air was like a misty tropical mountain highland, and smelled like heaven.😇
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#Rhododendron "japonicum"
Also known as the Japanese azalea, this beauty is native to the mountain forest areas of Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Okinawa. Mine (pictured) is at least 40 years old, and 8 feet tall. April 25, 2024.
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"Bonsai Ballet"
This Japanese maple resides in the Pacific Bonsai Museum, in Federal Way, Washington. Shot on April 10, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "japonicum"
Also known as the Japanese azalea, this beauty is native to the mountain forest areas of Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Okinawa. Mine (pictured) is at least 40 years old, and 8 feet tall. April 25, 2024.
#Gardening🌱#Art #Photography #Gayartist #SignsOfSpring
#Rhododendron "augustinii" ONE
This beauty is native to the highlands of Hubei and Sichuan provinces in China. I have this one in my own garden. Shot on April 10, 2024 in the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington.
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The #songoftheday is 'Every Grain of Sand' by Bob Dylan.
🎵I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there,
other times it's only me.🎵
👉Click to listen==> dropbox.com/s/cczkkx7fw4...
#Rhododendron "augustinii" ONE
This beauty is native to the highlands of Hubei and Sichuan provinces in China. I have this one in my own garden. Shot on April 10, 2024 in the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington.
#Gardening🌱#Art #Photography #Gayartist #SignsOfSpring
Beautiful. Deeply intelligent and spirit filled birds.
The Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. Right now it a prime time to visit this species garden.
Rhododendron konori is a VIREYAS type, and only grows in subtropical and tropical mountainous highlands. 2/end
#Rhododendron "konori"
Rhododendron konori is native to the highlands of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It can grow to be 10–12 ft tall and has large, strongly scented flowers.
Shot on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the 1/x
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#SignsOfSpring
#Rhododendron "Senator Henry Jackson"
A night shot with fill flash catches this one in various stages of blooming. It is located right off my kitchen porch.
April 28, 2024.
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That does not look like a sparrow, but maybe the Taiwan species looks different. It looks more like a starling.
I have been visited all day long by a wide variety of chico birdies. They get nutritious whole wheat bread.
💀💀💀Susan Sarandon helped to elect Trump in 2016. Eternally guilty and unforgivable.💀💀💀
Great read. Loved the "not grandma's knick-knacks" comment.😂
🙄I had a stature that was a torso from a museum blocked. It did NOT show genitalia. SO I feel your frustration.
our 24" boat, Fiesta. Turquoise is everything I still like in a color. My living room is painted in an aqua turquoise color. We had a turquoise parakeet named "Chico". My mom repainted our living room turquoise, and she is wearing a turquoise blouse. Happy memories!
Kodachrome slide, scanned. 2/end
"Mid Century Turquoise"
In July 1959 or 1960, we were on our annual family boating adventure up north into the waters of British Columbia. I believe this is taken at Princess Louisa Inlet. My mother Maxine (r), and an woman who looks familiar stand next to 1/x
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(my sister, ten years my senior), and my brother Bobby (three years older than I.)
Judy had every reason to brood. She was my mom's daughter from a husband who died of TB, two weeks before she was born, in 1942. My mom eventually married my selfish ass of a dad in 1946, who did nothing but show 2/x
Me and my BlueSky besties at a meetup
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"Grizzly Giant"
The 2,700 year old Grizzly Giant, the largest sequoia in the Mariposa Grove, located in California's Yosemite National Park. June 1967.
Kodachrome slide, scanned.
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