INK_John

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Stories in ink. Salt in my hair. Writer | Author | Surfer | Trail Runner WFPB 🌱 Cooking | Pickleball Equality always. Stories forever.

A brown and white pit bull mix laying in a garden with yellow and red flowers
Grey and white cloud and trees are the background for a suspended spider whose web is not visible in the photo.
Orange kayak on a river that's reflecting the green trees and sky. Cape Fear River, NC
Pink zinnia with tiny yellow flowers in its center against a blurred background of orange blooms among green leaves
A brown and white pitbull mix enjoying time in the sun on a hot day.
Orchard grass sprout with green grass blurred behind it.
Three shadows on sand in goofy poses
A black bear stands up on its hind legs and eats dried berries from a hanging dream catcher.
Yellow and red black eyed susans against a blurred green background
A turtle and it's tracks in the sand with the sun rising behind. Pine trees in the background.
Brown and white pit bull touching his nose to a bee on a pink coneflower.
A cartoon of a butterfly talking to a caterpillar. The butterfly says" all that stuff. They teach you as a caterpillar, none of it applies.
Macro photo of a pink zinnia. A perfect ring of tiny, star-shaped yellow flowers blooms around the dark center, creating a golden crown of miniature flowers within the main blossom.
T2 from Terminator 2 with his head bifercated
A chocolate and white pitbull lying upside down on the couch but the Image is inverted. He looks like he's smiling.
Purple cone flowers with lowered petals look like purple parasols. Blue and grey clouds in background with trees
A pink and green sundew carnivorous plant. Blurred greenery in the background includes a white blur which is the flower of a nearby Venus flytrap.
A tree curves over the river and reflects in the water on the left. The nose of my orange selkie kayak on the right. The water is glass smooth except where it runs against the side of my kayak.
Orange sun sets over the cape fear river. Wet sand in the foreground after the tide retreated. Wetland grass on either side. Pale blue sky dotted with white and grey clouds.
Venus flytraps with white flowers high above the traps.
My orange selkie kayak points toward a barrier island as the sun sets behind it and the sky turns a deep, deep blue. The horizon burns light orange.
Very low angle of a bald cypress tree trunk with the branches and sky in soft focus.
Venus flytraps with flowers and a sun dew plant.
A white and green flower with blurred Venus flytraps below. Little white encircles the center of the flower.
A daylily growing in my garden with long green blades. It's has bright orange flowers. At the base of the plant is a nursery marker label with a picture of the flower and the printed name "Pooh Bear."
My 7 dogs. 5 playing poker, 2 in portraits on the wall. Reminiscent of the famous dogs playing poker series of paintings.
A tree with a wide base has an opening that looks like it could be the doorway to a gnome's house. The tree reflects in a shallow pool of water in a forest.
red and orange torch lilies stretch toward the sun like flickering flames, set against a blurred, green garden.
An erupting volcano resembles a Phoenix at night over Sicily, Italy.
Two bumble bees on a purple bloom on a butterfly bush. The background holds trees and blue sky.
A black dragonfly sits atop a clover leaf. Tiny water droplets spread out on clover leaves. White and tan flowers stand among the leaves
A short video showing a paved pathway. The POV camera turns and heads into the woods with a dirt path
A black and yellow monarch butterfly caterpillar on the stem of some milkweed.
A bee flies from a red and orange marigold over a sea of green leaves.
A fuzzy bumblebee clinging to the delicate yellow flowers of a bolting kale plant in golden morning light.
Pirate booty popcorn bag
Jack sparrow running through shallow surf from a group of pursuers
An oak tree trunk with long branches that stretch across a blue sky with white billowy clouds.
An old arched and broken wooden bridge sits in the middle of the woods. Blue smoke from my campfire adds an eerie vibe.
Grass in foreground with a large swath of light colored sand midground. Half a dozen wild horses walking about. Pale blue sea and sky and a barrier island in background. White clouds dot the sky.
A drop down screen on a doctor's office website for intake offers various options for language including Egyptian (Ancient), Email, Elite, English, English, Middle (1100-1500) and English, Old (cs 450-1100)
A male pit bull with amber eyes and a sweet face. He's white with dark and light brown markings and cropped little ears.
A black and white chickadee leans forward and down on a wood fence panel
A close up of a tiny oak seedling with two very large green leaves emerging from white sand against a blurred foreated background.
A bald cyprus tree on a tiny island about the same diameter as its branches. Covered in feathery green leaves. Water in the for ground and background and green trees on the horizon. Pale blue sky above. Photo taken from my kayak on Greenfield Lake, NC
A large oak stands alone in a forest of pine trees. A yellow and green grassy meadow is in the foreground.
Carnivorous pitcher plants with crimson colored blooms
Mortitia Addams snuggling her carnivorous plant, Cleopatra from the original TV series.
A pecan tree photographed from the base towers over Downtown Cary Park, and the elevated skywalk walkway is just behindnit. A few people walk on the walkway. The sky is blue with a few white clouds
A carpenter bee on the urchin-like yellow center of a cone flower with purple petals.
Danny Kaye: The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
An emerald sentinel with a crimson heart, poised against the soft-focus grit of the Carolina sand. Green Venus fly trap with red inside its mouth. Evidence it's been eating.
Quint telling the story of the sinking of the Indianapolis. Hopper sits transfixed in the background.
A black and white fox squirrel perched on an oak tree branch with pine forest in the background. White ears and boop-able black nose.
A monarch butterfly perched on a small milkweed plant.