The 10 year old currently visiting said yesterday that he barely notices our not having a tv because it’s always fun and interesting around here anyway 🥰

It’s Bastille Day 🇫🇷 ! I was taught how to sing La Marseillaise by my excellent high school French teacher in Thunder Bay, and I usually do a reprise OTD every year 🎶. Allons enfants de la Patrie…

The real heat is coming even though it’s felt plenty hot already 🥵 😬

They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.

My pumpkin pie recipe takes a long time to make. I've started working on it 😂 #gardenersofbluesky

My two favourite warblers that I get to see regularly are Canada and Blackburnian. Here's the latter, showing why they're nicknamed flame throat. #birds #birding #Algoma

🌱 First bouquet of the season from our home garden 😄

We had a gorgeous begonia started from the tuber. Took forever to sprout. Finally bloomed. Two days ago we came home and stopped to admire it. An hour later the blooms were gone—munched by a deer. Good thing we took those moments to appreciate it!! 🌱

This is doing the rounds of Facebook again. Pages getting 100s of shares & using it to boost their following with their own watermark and no acknowledge of the source. Fuck all you can really do about it. It's not by "Unknown". It's from my book Ring The Hill: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Fill a birdbath during a heatwave. Plant flowers for bees and butterflies. Leave a small corner undisturbed for wildlife. Notice the small lives moving through your garden. These things don’t make headlines, but they matter.💚

🍽️ Charcuterie tonight 😋 👏🏻

Did the same yesterday with the numerous partially finished bottles/jars of BBQ sauce. Felt great.

Would love a reverse swear jar situation where I put a dollar in and it gives me a new and exciting expletive to use

“Sometimes, as in the summer fields I walk abroad, there comes to me So wild a sense of mystery, My senses reel, my reason fails, I am in such strange company.” — from ‘In Midsummer’ by Christina Liddell (née Fraser Tytler) (1848–1927). #InsectThursday

Leftover ham made into ham salad and deviled eggs made for a nice cold plate on another hot day.🥵🍽️

Classic

My son was lucky enough to see this huge Luna moth this morning! He got a great pic!

Apricot muffins! 🍽️ 🍜

Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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This is edamame hummus! Very quick, easy, and dee-licious 😋

The only thing I want is for this guy to leave Canada and never speak about our country again, he is despised by many of us and he pushes the lies and bullshit from the felon on a weekly basis, just fuck off🤬 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Me reading a poem from Everything Will Swallow You just now, with added Jim (who is a big fan of the oral storytelling tradition and can be relied upon to turn up from wherever he’s been hanging out any time I read aloud).

Harvesting catnip to dry it 😻. Happy #Caturday!

This remarkable before-and-after look at Utrecht shows that great cities aren't transformed overnight. They evolve through steady, people-first decisions that reclaim space from cars, add greenery, and make everyday cycling safer and more enjoyable. READ @bicycledutch.bsky.social: buff.ly/cYsimzy

🌱 Our garden right now through the patio screen. I love sitting out on the patio in the morning. So much birdsong and other loveliness 🥰

My iPhone has started giving me journaling suggestions (I don’t even know where the journal supposedly is!) that involve places it knows I’ve been 🤨. Geez this feels invasive 😡

A gaggle of pelicans in their breeding finest. I always forget how mush of a blush they get.

“Prime Minister Carney is showing his enthusiastic willingness to accept and fund the extinction of endangered species and future where oil and private profit are more valuable than the entire Salish Sea ecosystem.” -Lucero González www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New independent bookstore, Rose Moon Books, brings focus on Canadian authors to Vernon #VernonBC

2 Bears playing in Lake. Whistler BC 🇨🇦

For the first time ever, we got to a Costco (Kelowna) and found the crowds and lineups too overwhelming to stay and shop. Grabbed a 🍕 because were hungry and got on out of there 😓

Young not-so-little bull moose splashing about in the lake, Breckenridge, Colorado IG: nic_303 ~ Nicola

Far too many people think that feeding wildlife is a kind thing to do. It’s just the opposite.

Every religion has a food rule that sounds like somebody got diarrhea once and made it everyone’s problem.

This dear cat will never come and sit in my lap; instead he plunks himself down in the chair beside mine—just as a human would—as a way of keeping me company. 🥰

Yesterday felt like Friday, today is Wednesday but feels like Saturday, and tomorrow already feels like a Monday except it’s Thursday.

Same day.

Happy Canada Day from my heavenly part of this amazing country 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Washing line painted by Beatrice Williams, Welsh artist.

Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day to all my Canadian friends.

This is me and my best friend, Glenda, on her wedding day in 2008. Two years later she died of cancer. This pic reminds me of what being with her felt like.

Lined up for my CSA box yesterday and actually said, no, thank you, to the zucchini 😈

New followers every day, but less engagement overall 🤔 🤨 Already missing the earlier days of Bluesky 😔

Peek-a-boo. I feel we could all use some baby bear cuteness today. #mammals 🌿

"Having a Sister #2" by artist Sergiu Ciochină

BC's Life Expectancies Are Diverging, Exclusive Data Shows via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

🪶 This, I believe, is a Calliope hummingbird.

Such is my Bluesky failure that my Discover feed is far better than my Following feed. And I don’t dare follow anyone from Discover or I’ll never see their posts again 🤨