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Music Rewind 2025: Billie Eilish Proved That She’s ‘THE GREATEST’

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Man, she really is the greatest. Billie Eilish proved, yet again, that she’s got everyone wrapped around her finger. 2025 was a monumental year for the singer, and we are so grateful we got to witness it and be a part of it all year long. Even though Eilish didn’t release any new music this year, she traveled the world singing her smash hits, ‘LUNCH,’ ‘WILDFLOWER,’ and ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’ to name a few, on the HIT ME HARD AND SOFT tour, released a new perfume, walked home with dozens more awards and nominations for her 2024 album, and managed to make us fall in love with her even more than we were before.

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR

Billie Eilish spent all of 2025 traveling on tour. That also means we honeybees were also on the road with her (we have to admit we attended the tour a total of nine times)! Sorry, not sorry. You can’t just hear ‘THE GREATEST’ live once and never do it again. By the end of HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR, Billie performed 106 shows across the United States, Asia, and Europe, never missing a single night. What an accomplishment! This year also came with some exciting behind-the-scenes footage of the tour. Fans started picking up on the fact that Billie was carrying a small silver camera around with her, both on stage and off stage. Surprise! We’re getting vlogs?! What a special treat it was for us to follow along on Billie’s global travels. Now we get to relive all our favorite 2025 tour moments every day.

Perfumes, Merchandise, & More!

Billie is always in her fashion era, but this year seemed to take the cake. From a hat collection with COMPLEX to new perfumes from Eilish Frangrances, 2025 gave us all the gifts. The holiday season is the best season for Billie fans. We get to listen to ‘come out and play,’ shop special mystery merch boxes, and, most importantly, get a whiff of her latest perfume release, Your Turn II. Spoiler alert – it smells absolutely amazing! Go put it on your holiday wish list now. 2025 was filled with exciting merch drops and song anniversaries, including the 10th anniversary of the iconic ‘Ocean Eyes.’ This year, we celebrated all year long!

What’s Next: 3D Tour Film, BE4, And The GRAMMY’s

On her last tour stop in San Francisco, CA, Billie briefly mentioned she’s working on a new album with her brother FINNEAS. Do you think we’ll be getting BE4 in 2026? Before then, though, we have to relish in our amazing memories from the tour. Come March 20, 2026, fans get to relive their favorite moments from the tour in 3D. Working directly with James Cameron (aka the director of Avatar and Titanic), HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is hitting the big screen. Just imagine this – the ‘Guess’ remix playing with neon green flashing lasers and Billie dancing onstage right before your eyes, but in 3D. Whoa, this is going to be so cool! We’re already counting down the days.

Finally, we can end the year with our fingers crossed that ‘WILDFLOWER’ wins Song of the Year at the 2026 GRAMMY Awards. Our girl worked so hard on it, and we know you all love it too. What a way to end a special year for Billie and her fans!

Did you get to see HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR this year? If you’re a Billie Eilish fan, hit us up on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook to share your favorite tour memories with us. You can also chat with us in the comments below!

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December 18, 2025
We’re Freaking Out Over These HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Live Performances On Songline

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If you thought Billie Eilish couldn’t get any more angelic, you were wrong. After weeks and weeks of fans begging for live performances of their favorite tracks from the singer’s latest album, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, prayers have been answered. Thanks to Amazon Music, we now have the most perfect performances of album favorites like ‘WILDFLOWER,’ ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER,’ ‘SKINNY,’ and ‘L’AMOUR DE MA VIE.’ Narrowing down our favorites is just simply impossible, but we’ll do our best…

Image Source: Courtesy of The Oriel Co.

Amazon Music’s Songline

Going behind the scenes to listen to our favorite artists’ most special songs is one of the most exciting parts of being a fan. Amazon Music’s new digital series, Songline, allows artists to strip down their songs in an intimate setting that really showcases the art. With just a few microphones and instruments, the artists’ voices get to shine through in a new way we’ve never heard before. In this new series, fans also get a chance to learn a bit more about the featured songs through documentary-style dialogue, which fans often don’t get the chance to hear otherwise.

“Songline offers an opportunity for artist songwriters and their collaborators to showcase their songwriting process, detail their artistic journey, and reveal the stories behind songs typically hidden away in studios; by placing songwriters and their craft at the forefront of culture, fans can learn how their favorite songs and records were made, driving deeper connection with their favorite artists.”

Tom Winkler, head of publisher, songwriter, and society relations at Amazon Music, stated.

Billie Eilish and FINNEAS

To welcome the start of this new music series, Songline’s first guest is none other than Billie Eilish. Her voice needs no introduction or autotune, so she’s the perfect guest to kickstart this new series. Joined by her brother, producer, and co-songwriter, FINNEAS, and Billie (along with a handful of their friends on backup vocals) give the fans what they’ve been pleading for – acoustic sets of fan-favorite HMHAS songs and behind-the-scenes looks at the makings of each of the songs.

Up first? The devastatingly, hauntingly beautiful ‘WILDFLOWER.’ If we had to narrow the entire album down to just one favorite, this track would come out on top. One of the world’s favorite attributes about Billie Eilish is her vocals, which really shine through on this track. Believe it or not, they shine through even more in the Songline live set.

Watch it below and thank us later.

We love how Billie decided to bring in some backup vocalists – they all sound so perfect together! This may just be our new favorite version of ‘WILDFLOWER,’ but hey, who’s complaining?

If you end up in tears by the end of this performance (don’t worry, we did, too), then you’ll be happy to know Billie performed three other songs in the same style. You can watch her acoustic sets of ‘SKINNY,’ ‘L’AMOUR DE MA VIE,’ and ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’ on Amazon Music right now, or if you’re like us, you can re-watch them over and over and over again until we get to hear them live on the HIT ME HARD AND SOFT World Tour later this year.

Did you love the Songline episodes with Billie? Good news! There are more artists to come! Let us know which artists you’d like to see on the next episodes by dropping a comment or chatting with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook 🐝

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August 4, 2024
Monarda (Bee Balm) | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features another wildflower that was blooming during my recent hike around Fiery Fork CA, located in the Missouri Ozarks … Monarda, or Bee Balm.

I combined 13 images of varying focal points, to get this enhanced, depth of field image:

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Handheld
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/8000 sec.
- This is a focus-stacked image, combining 13 images to get expanded depth of field, using Helicon Focus software
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May 9, 2024
Spring Arrives | Show Me Nature Photography
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Taking a break from working on more total solar eclipse images, today I’m featuring an image I captured yesterday as I hiked Fiery Fork Conservation Area, in the Missouri Ozarks.

While photographing wildflowers, I ran upon this Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly as it collected nectar from White Beardtongue (a Penstemon species) wildflower:

Stay tuned for more spring wildflower images that I captured yesterday.

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Handheld
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/6000 sec.
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James Braswell

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May 1, 2024
A Guide to Planting Gaillardia
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Commemorating M. Gaillard de Marentonneau, a French patron of botany (Compositae). Blanket flower. A small genus of annuals and perennials, natives of America, with a long flowering period, useful for cut flowers. Somewhat untidy in habit, the long stalks fall about in wind and rain. Gaillardias need some twiggy stakes to help to keep the flowers clean and in full view.

Annual species cultivated
- G. amblyodon, 2-3 feet, maroon-red flowers, autumn.
- G. pulchella, 2-3 feet, crimson and yellow flowers, late summer and autumn, best treated as a half-hardy annual; vars. brenziana, double flowers in reds and yellows ; picta, larger flower-heads. `Indian Chief’ with coppery-scarlet flowers is a named cultivar. In addition seedsmen usually offer mixed annual types under such names as ‘Choice Double Mixed’, `Special Mixture’, and ‘Double Fireball’.
Perennial species cultivated

All garden varieties originate from G. aristata (syn. G. grandiflora) and comprise a great range of colour from pale primrose-yellow to crimson and bold orange, all flowering from June to October. Named cultivars include ‘Burgundy’, 2 feet, rich wine red with a narrow yellow frill along the outer edges of the petals; ‘Copper Beauty’, 2 feet, smaller flowers of orange-yellow suffused with brown; ‘Dazzler’, 2 feet, yellow with brown-red central zone; ‘Fire-bird’, 2 feet, a vigorous variety with flame-orange flowers; ‘Goblin’, 1 foot, dwarf, yellow with red zone; `Ipswich Beauty’, 2-3 feet, large deep yellow flowers touched with reddish-brown ; `Monarch Strain’, 2 feet, mixed colours; ‘Nana Nieski’, 1-1 1/2 feet, red and yellow flowers on shorter stems; `The Prince’, 2 feet, very large flowers up to 4 inches across, deep yellow tinged reddish-brown at the centre; `Tokaj’, 2 feet, wine-red and tangerine; `Wirral Flame’, 2 feet, a strong growing variety, tangerine flowers tipped yellow; `Yellow Queen’, 2 feet, golden-yellow.

Cultivation

A sunny border in a moderately light soil is ideal and the drainage should be good. The annual kinds are raised from seed sown in March in gentle heat and gradually hardened off and planted in the border in late May to flower for the remainder of the season.

Twiggy stakes are needed for good effects, and bold planting repays in garden decoration. The perennial kinds prefer drier soils. Autumn and winter damp is their enemy, and if they do not survive, it is probably because of dampness. On the other hand, a sun-baked soil stunts the plants, so a mulch of leaf-mould or decayed manure in summer is helpful. Liquid feeds can be given to good advantage when the plants are coming into flower. Named varieties are best propagated from root cuttings taken at any time between February and April and put in a sandy box in the frame or A greenhouse. Those that are taken early and do well may flower the first year.

Alternatively, basal cuttings taken from August to October, put into a sandy compost in a cold frame or under a cloche will soon get away. The plants can be divided in either October or March and any roots left in the ground at this time will sprout again.
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January 22, 2024
Late Season Brown-eyed Susans | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features a few, end-of-season Brown-eyed Susan wildflowers. While recently hiking some woodland trails at Fiery Fork Conservation Area (in the Missouri Ozarks), a few Brown-eyed Susan wildflowers were hanging on for dear life. As readily seen in this image, the tips of the flower petals were losing their color as they began to fade:

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 28mm-135mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens, shot at 35mm
- Handheld, with IS “On”
- ISO 250
- Aperture f/5.6
- Shutter 1/160 sec.
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James Braswell

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November 10, 2023
Tall Bellflowers | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features a woodland wildflower that I found recently at Fiery Fork Conservation Area (in the Missouri Ozarks) … the Tall Bellflower. I don’t ever recall seeing these wildflowers this late in the season, but they give a nice touch to the fall colors:

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 28mm-135mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens
- Handheld, with IS “On”
- ISO 250
- Aperture f/5.6
- Shutter 1/60 sec. and 1/1000 sec.
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James Braswell

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October 31, 2023
A Little Bright Spot in the Fall Landscape | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features a wildflower I found blooming last week while hiking and photographing fall colors in the woodlands at Fiery Fork Conservation Area (in the Missouri Ozarks) … the White Heath Aster:

A few more fall color images will be featured in a subsequent post.

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 28mm-135mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens
- Handheld, with IS “On”
- ISO 250
- Aperture f/5.6
- Shutter 1/500 sec.
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James Braswell

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October 26, 2023
Beauty Times Six | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features a focus-stacked photograph (using 6 images stacked together) of a clump of Spring Beauty wildflowers that I captured late this spring in some Missouri Ozark woodlands.

For those who read this blog on a regular basis, please note that I will be absent from posting next week. I will be at church camp all next week, working with high school students … my goal right now is to survive the week and make it back! LOL

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod, with ballhead
- ISO 500
- Aperture f/8
- Shutter 1/180 sec.
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James Braswell

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July 21, 2023
Ozark Trillium | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features a focus-stacked, macrophotograph of a Trillium wildflower as it blooms in the woodlands, in the Missouri Ozarks.

I captured 25 individual images and then combined them into a single image. As you can see, the detail can be seen in most of the resulting image. But you can see that flower movement is a huge factor in capturing focus-stacked images … it is very obvious that the reddish petals are gently moving in the gentle wind:

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod, with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/350 sec.
- This image is a focus-stacked image of 25 individual images, and combined in Helicon Focus software
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James Braswell

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May 25, 2023
Dwarf Larkspur | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post is a recent find at Fiery Fork Conservation Area, here in the Missouri Ozarks. This Dwarf Larkspur woodland wildflower is a new wildflower for me … I have seen the larger larkspur species, but this shorter version was a “lifer”:

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod, with ballhead
- ISO 500
- Aperture f/8
- Shutter 1/125 sec.
- This image is a focus-stacked image of 11 individual images, and combined in Helicon Focus software
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James Braswell

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May 17, 2023
A Little Pfun with Pflox | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features a couple of focus-stacked images I captured last Friday on a photo outing at Burnt Mill Cave Conservation Area (in the Missouri Ozarks, not far from where I live).

Woodland Phlox wildflowers are really rampant right now … been finding a lot of them on my woodland hikes. During last week’s outing, I captured images for a couple of focus-stacked photos.

Phlox in bloom (with a bud in background):

A young Phlox wildflower displaying buds:

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 Macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod with ballhead
- ISO 800 and ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/500 sec. and 1/350 sec.
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James Braswell

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April 18, 2023
Spring on Missouri’s Woodland Slopes | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features some Spring Beauty wildflowers I found growing along the woodland slope of a hiking trail in Ha Ha Tonka SP, last week:

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/8,000 sec.
- Combination of 10 images, combined in Helicon Focus software
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James Braswell

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April 7, 2023
Breeches Blowing in the Wind | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features a focus-stacked image of a patch of Dutchman’s Breeches that I photographed last week in the woodlands of Ha Ha Tonka State Park, in the Missouri Ozarks:

This image was produced by combining 14 individual images, each with the focus point varied, in Helicon Focus focus-stacking software.

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/8,000 sec.
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James Braswell

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April 4, 2023
Unfurling in the Woods | Show Me Nature Photography Unfurling in the Woods | Show Me Nature Photography Show Me Nature Photography
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… But Only Momentarily! Today’s post features another woodland wildflower that was beginning to bloom along one of the woodland trails of Ha Ha Tonka State Park (Missouri Ozarks) last week … the Bloodroot wildflower.

When the Bloodroot wildflower is about ready to bloom, the plant’s leaf, which is originally wrapped around the stem of the flower, begins unfurling as the flower begins to open. The Bloodroot flower lasts only one day, so no dilly-dallying around!

In this image, the Bloodroot’s bud is about ready to open:

In the following image, the flower begins blooming:

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/1500 sec. and 1/3000 sec.
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James Braswell

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March 27, 2023
Airing the Dirty Laundry | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features another early spring wildflower that I captured last week at Ha Ha Tonka SP (Missouri Ozarks), Dutchman’s Breeches.

Aptly named, the flowers on this small, woodland wildflower suggest that someone is hanging their dirty breeches in the woods to dry:

Coming up … another woodland wildflower that was photographed on this hike.

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/3000 sec.
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James Braswell

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March 23, 2023
It’s Official … Spring is Here! | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features one of Missouri’s earliest blooming, woodland wildflower … the Harbinger of Spring (aka, “Pepper and Salt”).

While hiking the woodland trails of Ha Ha Tonka State Park (in the Missouri Ozarks) last week, I found this small, and often overlooked wildflower blooming adjacent to the woodland trail I was hiking. I captured 17 images of this clump, varying the focal point on the wildflower. Later, I stacked all 17 images into a single image, using Helicon Focus software:

Coming up … more woodland wildflowers that were photographed on this hike.

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/8
- Shutter 1/90 sec.
- 17 images stacked via Helicon Focus software
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James Braswell

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March 21, 2023
Catching Spring Fever | Show Me Nature Photography
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Today’s post features an image that I found while editing older images … immediately, I got spring fever!

This image of a Tiger Swallowtail butterfly collecting nectar from a thistle plant, was captured on a Missouri prairie a few years ago:

Another sure sign of approaching spring is the wonderful display of woodland wildflowers that are now beginning to appear. I spent some time yesterday in the Ozarks woodlands … hope to have some early wildflower images ready soon!

Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 1D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Handheld
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/3.5
- Shutter 1/8000 sec.
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James Braswell

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March 16, 2023