Rachel Thern
I am an abstract artist based in Western MA. Oil paint, oil pastels, charcoal, ink. Also using this account for nature photos.
2025-10-09
I saw them while out driving, so I'm not sure, but a web search makes it look like they could be Belted Galloway
2025-10-08
Local fuzzy cow with panda cow in background #cow #cows
Two cows lying in field - one is shaggy and white and brown the other is black and white
2025-10-03
Wolf's Milk - technically a slime mold rather than a fungus but I'm still gonna tag for #FungiFriday
Small pink orbs interspersed with moss on a fallen tree branch
2025-09-14
"Mobile Palace" installation by Swapnaa Tamhane installed at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. #amherst #massachusetts #art #museum
Blue and red printed fiber banners hanging from ceiling in musem
2025-09-14
"Do Hands Have a Chance?" installation by Swapnaa Tamhane in the Rotherwas Room at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. #amherst #massachusetts #art #museum
Fabric art tent in wood-panelled room with stained glass window
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2025-09-13
"And the mother went over to the window and opened it a little. "Why," she said, "it is a little pea that has sprouted out here with green leaves! How did it ever get here in the crack? You now have a little garden to look at!"
― Five peas from a pod, Hans Christian Andersen, 1852.


The poetry of pea II/III. September 2025.


#gardening #peas #green #macro #macrophotography #photography
Photograph of green pea tendrils against a grey sky. Only one tendril in the foreground is in focus; the others in the background are blurred.
2025-08-30
Caught with his reading material, denies being a Commie #caturday
2025-08-29
Sunderland Public Library in MA allows you to check out a kayak to use on the Connecticut River. #library #libraries #libraryofthings #massachusetts
Orange sit-on-top kayak on river shoreMy feet at bow of orange kayak with a Great Egret in the distance across water
2025-08-20
Conte National Wildlife Refuge, Hadley, MA #massachusetts #hadley #naturephotography
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2025-07-22
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2025-07-19
#Bloomscrolling experiment πŸ€”πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

πŸ“Scarlet Sesbania, Goodby's Creek, Jacksonville, Florida
Close up of a hanging cluster of dark orange flowers in a green bush at the shore of a waterway with the glow of a colorful sunrise in the background. The focus is crisp and clear on thr hanging cluster and blurred in the background and surroundings.
2025-07-17
Experimenting using Stonehenge oil paper #art #painting #oilpainting
green and light blue abstract painting
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2025-07-01
2025-06-29
Sketching on Stonehenge oil paper - very absorbent so hard to spread paint, but less so than Arches oil paper. The large sheets have a different texture than the small pad, despite presumably being the same thing.
#art #painting #oilpainting
dark blue painted abstract sketch on white paper on drawing board
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2025-06-26
2025-06-03
perfect sitting rock near Jordan Pond, Acadia National Park, Maine #nature #naturephotography #acadia #maine
rock partly protruding from the ground, with a tree growing above

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