Marilyn Merrill
@mjmerrill.bsky.social
Retired. Watercolor painter. Most paintings are done from my own photos, with a few from friends and relatives. Occasionally some En Plein Aire. PLEASE! NO POLITICS, PORN. I am blocking those! marilynmerrillart.com
From 2016, Peonies at our house in #UpstateNY. #PaintbyWords #Peony #Bloomscrolling #Photography #EastCoastKin #Gardens
Our Red Maple lived up to it's name in 2020. It looks like this for just a few short days. #ColorAday #RedWed #WeekEForEphermeral #PNW #Nature #Trees #Photography #EastCoastKin
The beautiful rocky coast in #Yachats, #Oregon. #RockinTuesday #ColorAday #BlueTue #PNW #Photography #EastCoastKin
Some #Peonies in our garden a few years ago. ##PaintbyWords #Peony #Bloomscrolling #PNW #Gardens #Photography #EastCoastKin
For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Firsts: a very distant view of a Great Blue Heron, Paul Smith’s College VIC, Franklin County, New York (1 July 2011). wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b... #birds #ECK #ADK #Adirondacks
A Surprise Lily for your #pinkmon - Not a true lily, but it’s a member of the Amaryllis family 🌸 🌱🌸🌱🌸 #ColorADay #flowers #amaryllis #plants #pink #gardens #gardening #bloomscrolling #hudsonvalley #newyork #photography
The Schroon River near Warrensburg, New York. It's pretty in the winter, and also when the snow and ice are gone. #BlueSkyMonday #WeekEForEphermeral #ArtYear #UpstateNewYork #Watercolor #EastCoastKin
Painted from my daughter's photo. Switzerland, near Zurich in the #Alps. #MountainMonday #ArtYear #Watercolor #TraditionalArt #EastCoastKin
Some orange day- lilies for you 🧡 #ColorADay #orangesun #flowersonsunday #day-lilies #trees #water #catskills #nature #cooperlake #woodstock #newyork #photography
This is our very overgrown perennial garden a couple weeks ago. Good thing it thrives on neglect, and the bees are loving it.😁 #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #PNW #PhonePhotography #EastCoastKin #Gardens
Some Sea Lions at the docks in the harbor in Newport, #Oregon. The two upright ones were VERY vocal! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDark #PNW #SeaLions #Photography #EastCoastKin
Just because I love them so much, here is one of my favorite birds for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #YourChoice, as set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social #ECK #WCK #Oregon #PNW #Birds #Steller’sJay #Nature #Photography
I spotted this yesterday afternoon. It's in our shade garden next to the patio which only gets sun for about 1/2hr. It lit this up nicely.😊 #ColorAday #Green #PNW #PhonePhotography #Spiders #EastCoastKin
Happy #Caturday! Jade says, "Give me a treat first, then I will get off your notebook". 🐱🐈⬛ #CatsOfBlueSky #Photography #EastCoastKin
We saw this Black Oak tree on a springtime walk on the #BaldHillPath in Northwest Corvallis, #Oregon. #BlueSkyArtShow #Big #ArtYear #Watercolor #Trees #Nature #PNW #EastCoastKin
Up in the hills east of #Ashland, Oregon. #Landscape #Scape #PNW #Photography #SiskiouMts. #EastCoastKin
This is the forest behind our house in #UpstateNY. #ForestFriday #ArtRepostJuly #Favorite #ArtYear #Watercolor #EastCoastKin
lakeside blissness in shades of violet. double exposure. loving the summer with all i got. #maine #downeast #cathancelake #lakeside #scape
A great blue heron fishes and hunts along St. Vrain Creek in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #YourChoice #bird #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky #BirdsSeenln2026 #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography
This tree lives on the Woodpecker Trail at #FinleyWildlifeRefuge near Corvallis, #Oregon. #ThickTrunkThursday #PNW #PhonePhotography #Nature #EastCoastKin
Some hopeful surfers waiting for a big one in #Seaside, Oregon. #HumansOfBlueSky #PNW #PhonePhotography #Surfers #ECK
The prompt for today's #ArtRepostJuly is #Environment. My environment has always inspired my art, and my love of nature in general. I've always lived in rural areas with rivers, lakes, mountains. I'm so fortunate, and very grateful for this. #ArtYear #Watercolor #Nature #UpstateNY #EastCoastKin
This "band" is a fountain at the #BelknapResort, east of McKenzieBridge, #Oregon. #WackyWednesdayArt #PNW #PhonePhotography #EastCoastKin
This may be one of the last beers brewed at the #RogueBrewery in Newport, #Oregon. They closed abruptly in 11/2025. 😞 #AlphabetChallenge #Dark #Stout #PNW #PhonePhotography #EastCoastKin
A couple of the volcanoes visible from the #PacificCrestTrail in central #Oregon S. of Mt. Bachelor (an area just N. of here is currently dealing with a forest fire and smoke), for #RockinTuesday & #BlueTuesday. #ECK #hiking #landscapephotography #nature #mountains #WestCoastKin #outdoors #trails