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Handcrafted multimedia mandalas + observations by T Jacobs in AZ. Graphic designer in real life. 🔵 #KindnessMatters | She/her/ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | GenX

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SHABLINGO@shablingo· 16d

"In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm." - Corrie Ten Boom #Stunday #Monsoon #Storm #Lightning #Clouds #ECK #WestCoastKin #Arizona

Dark, ominous clouds produce a single lightning strike in the sky above Prescott, Arizona in a July monsoon storm. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· 17d

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep." - Leonardo da Vinci Here’s to hoping you get the rest and recovery you need to jump back in next week! #Caturday #Cats

An overhead view of a brown tabby cat sleeping on a beige carpet. She’s on her side with her head upside down and her chonky, fuzzy belly halfway up. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· 19d

The cucumbers are growing! Yay! #Garden #AZ #Joy #Growing

Cucumber with its flower still attached growing on a vine in the sunshine. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· 22d

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” - Siddhārtha Gautama #MinimalMonday #ECK #FlowerReport #RedHotPoker #AZ #Nature #Yellow

The center of a yellow Red Hot Poker flower in the Arizona sunshine. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· 24d

Sleep. Eat. Play. Repeat. #Caturday

A white cat pokes his head and front paws in the stretchy holes at the end of a blue cat tunnel. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· 24d

Good morning Bluesky! #BlueSkyArtShow #growing #ColorADay #GreenSat #Cucumber

A curly tendril of a cucumber plant sits atop a leaf in the sunshine. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· 28d

Good night from Arizona. Bring on the rain! #BlueSky #Sunset #Prescott #Clouds #Nature #ECK

July Arizona sunset with wispy gold clouds in the light blue sky and a big thunderhead along the skyline. Golden orange highlights are in the upper tips of the thunder cloud. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· 29d

#VerifyYourAge My first album. Billy Idol. Rebel Yell.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jul 11

The weekend. Time to rest, recharge, and regroup for another crazy week. #Caturday #CatNap #CatsOfBluesky

A tabby cat sleeps in a shelf above art supplies in front of a bright window. Her front leg is hanging off the shelf. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jul 11

Watson Lake Prescott, Arizona #BlueskyArtShow #Quiet #Balance #Rock #AZ #Walk #ECK

A balancing rock at the edge of Watson Lake. This Arizona mountain lake is man-made, nestled in the Granite Dells north of Prescott. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jul 10

"I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was." - Ransom Riggs #Scape #ForestFriday #Bridge #photography #ECK #Escape #Weekend #PNW #Extraordinary

Low pov looking across a bridge to a forest. There is a blue, slightly overcast, sky overhead. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jul 7

This is my ideal start to a day. Sharing sunshine and quiet with Jack before the madness of the day begins. I hope you find your moments of peace today! #Morning #CatsOfBluesky #Sunshine #ECK #AZ #CatsAndCoffee

A white cat sits on a lap on a front porch in the sunshine. There are plants at the far edge of the porch and blue sky in the distance, beyond the neighbor’s house. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jul 7

". . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force." - Hermann Hesse #RockinTuesday #ECK #WestCoastKin #Prescott #Granite #AZ

Willow Lake near Prescott, Arizona in a wet monsoon year. It’s very different this year. The water is low and everything is dry as a bone. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jul 4

"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength." - Tecumseh #Caturday #Morning #Sunshine #Cats #ECK

A white cat lays on the cool concrete porch with the warm sun at his back. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jul 4

"I keep my eyes wide open. Because trouble is out there." - LaDainian Tomlinson #BlueskyArtShow #Wide #Hummingbird #BirdsOfBluesky #ECK #Photography #Birds

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 27

"Keep the warmth of the sun in your heart." - Robert Muller #Caturday #Sunshine

A white cat lays in the sunshine streaming through a window. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 27

Vibrant color is pure joy in visual form. #BlueskyArtShow #Macro #Petunia #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #ECK #WestCoastKin

The center of a purple Petunia. The yellow at the center looks as if it’s glowing, as a light source behind the anther and stigma. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 27

The Strawberry Candy Daylily blooms are coming to an end for the year. I love their frilly edges. #FlowersOnFriday #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #ECK #Daylily #Flowers #AZ

Strawberry Candy Daylily - orange transitions to deep red then vibrant yellow at the center. The center three petals are frilly along their edges. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 26

"Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little." - Nora Roberts #ForestFriday #Scape #Sunshine #ECK #Trees #Passage #PNW

The view through a dark, leafy green forest with light green and blue sky through the center. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 25

"A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed." - Lisa Kleypas #InsectThursday #Nature #Change #Insect #Butterfly #AZ #Prescott #ECK #GrayHairstreak

The gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus) is also called the bean lycaenid or cotton square borer. It is a member of the Lycaenidae family, known as the gossamer-winged butterflies and the second-largest family of butterflies. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 24

"Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee #PNW #JapaneseGarden #WaterfallWednesday #Flow #Water #ECK #Photography

The waterfall at the Portland Japanese Gardens is a beautiful one, surrounded by lush vegetation, orchestrated for maximum visual impact. When we lived in the PNW, this was the place we always took visitors. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 23

Our Petunia plant has millions of tiny seeds that have exploded out of the many seed pods. They’re are attached to the sticky flowers. Fascinating. #FlowerReport #Flowers #Macro #Seeds #BloomScrolling #Garden #ECK

The underside of a white Petunia bloom with tiny seeds stuck to it. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 20

Happy #Caturday. Cheers to a Saturday of rest, recovery, and maybe a little adventure too.

A tabby cat rest on a blanket in the sunshine with her paw hanging off the front of the wicker chair. There is a colorful pillow in the sunshine behind her on the chair. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 20

"Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections" - John Legend #BlueskyArtShow #Curve #ECK #Mandala #Art #Paint

A colorful green, orange, magenta, white, and gray mandala is painted on the top of a wooden stool. Art by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 19

"Let nothing come between you and the light." - Henry David Thoreau #ForestFriday #Scape #ECK #PNW #ShortSandBeach #Beach #Oregon

Short Sand Beach on the Oregon coast. This view is from the trail, looking toward the beach and ocean. It’s a beautiful cove you can reach via a delightful trail through dense forest. One of my favorite places on earth. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 14

The sunset here in #Prescott the other night was on fire. We get some good ones here in #Arizona. #Stunday #ECK #Sunset #AZ

June sunset in Prescott, Arizona. The sky is on fire and is reflecting on the sidewalk on a warm June evening. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 13

"Human creativity uses what is already existing and available and changes it in unpredictable ways." - Silvano Arieti #BlueskyArtShow #Sharp #Mandala #UpcycledArt #ECK #TrashArt

Three-dimensional mandala made from cut paper, can pull tabs, and a silver-lined cardboard canister. Details are black ink and paint. Art by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 13

The evening bird/bunny/lizard/neighborhood watch team. #Caturday #WatchCats #Arizona #Chonky #CatsOfBluesky #NeighborhoodWatch #ECK

A Flame Point Siamese cat and a chonky Tabby keep attentive neighborhood watch from a screened-in porch in Prescott, Arizona. The sun is setting and the sky is light blue with light yellow along the horizon line. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 12

"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment." - Georgia O'Keeffe #FlowersOnFriday #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #ECK #BlueBalloon #AZ

A Blue Balloon flower on the day it opened. Rather than blue like its name suggests, these are a beautiful purple color with darker veins running through the curious,singular petal. The pistol and stamen are stuck together when they first open then, as it ages, they break apart into their individual elements, releasing pollen. Photo by T Jacobs.

SHABLINGO@shablingo· Jun 12

"The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering." - Virginia Woolf #FlyDay #FlowersOnFriday #EastCoastKin #Damselfly #BlueBalloon #ECK #Insect