WATER WONDERS by Melissa Mathieson celebrates the diverse wildlife found along the Toronto Waterfront and throughout the Lake Ontario area. The artwork features local species such as raccoons, wild salmon, shrimp-like crustaceans, turtles, butterflies, and birds.

Autumn reflection #Stunday #EastCoastKin #StreetPhotography #Fog

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad #imageandverse #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories All I know is since you've been gone, Feels like I'm drowning in a river, Drowning in a river of tears Eric Clapton: youtu.be/OxbEUmWqwz8 My image: River of Tears, New Orleans Ninth Ward, acrylic image transfer on panel

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad #imageandverse #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories You've travelled this long You just have to go on Don't even look back to see How far you've come Though your body is bending Under the load There is nowhere to stop Anywhere on this road youtu.be/KnzuUCoUIjU

Alone in a field… Willaura, Victoria An afternoon drive through the canola paddocks down Willaura way. 26 September, 2025 #BlueSkyArtShow #stunday #bluesky #photography #landscape #travel #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #scape #fujifilm #canola

Nice thing!

Creeper Capture. #fall #nature #virginiacreeper #city #travel #photography

In the end, We are all the memories Of those who felt our gravity. But the difference between A totem and a curse Was the intent with which We took the air From the room.

I will sit with you here. And listen not only to your words. But your heart. And when you feel that You cannot find the words, I will have already known your pulse. And I will commiserate with you Until you are ready to go on.

It’s a tiny cabin in the woods, but it’s been built with honesty, and it’s taught me so much, most importantly, go outside and look up, because though it may make you feel small, the view is worth it.

3/ "We’ve lost a doctor. We’ve lost an advocate. We’ve lost a man who inspired not by grand speeches, but by steady presence. & I think we’ve also lost a reminder—a reminder of how one life, lived authentically & with compassion, can lift up an entire community": open.substack.com/pub/terryrei...

“Often the most essential thing in the whole landscape is its silence.” - Nan Shepherd #NanShepherd #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #wetland #marsh #midwest

Marc Chagall working on the panels for New York's Metropolitan Opera: The Triumph of Music #MarcChagall

The warm chiaroscuro invites us into this photograph. Just exhale...

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday September 27, 2025 The theme is #TheRoad Any art, any skill level Use both tags to be included in our feed. Multiple entries welcome Show us what feels like home to you! More details in the comments #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing

Nature's perfect geometry.

Painting by John Moore ‘Quitting Time’ 2015. Oil on linen. 127 x 106.68 cm.

The Crow | Mixed Media on Canvas | 10” x 20” | 2025 #mixedmedia #crowart #neocubism

Chapman's is such a great Canadian company. Canada's largest independent ice cream maker & uses only Canadian milk and cream. This $200 million new plant will employ 200 people and expand production space by 35%. They want to exclusively source Canadian ingredients. www.chapmans.ca/press-releas...

Image and verse theme, every Sunday starting Sept. 29.

Attention Alphabetters! Mon 22 Sep is the start of Week M and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Memories. Share some of your favourite memories with us. Happy, sad, travel, home, family, funny, scary - whatever you want. They all count here 😁 Use the # below and have fun😊

As above, so below? Not necessarily! Serene on the surface and paddling madly. Life in Quiet Desperation...

The human body will never cease to blow my mind into little smitthereenies. This! This is how we hear. This! 👂

Ferris Wheel & Ticket booth in the The San Gennaro Feast at Jersey Street Alley, Mulberry Street, 1976 (that's Bowie's old building on the left). #SanGennaroFeast

A piece from Charlie Angus about Mexico as an inspiring partner. “President Claudia Sheinbaum…has closed tax loopholes and used the funds to invest in people and build public infrastructure. On her watch, over 8 million people have been lifted out of poverty.”

St Michael & All Angels Church, #Waterford, #Hertfordshire “Prophetess Miriam” window (detail) - 1872 Designed by Edward #Burne-Jones Made by Morris & Co “A remarkably dynamic design” - #Pevsner guidebook. @yalebooks.bsky.social The model was his muse, Maria Zambaco, #StainedGlassSunday

Getting an Andrei Tarkovsky “Nostalghia” vibe from this. A Russian writer visits Italy to research an 18th-century Russian composer, but is stricken by homesickness.

Today I met Melanie, a book seller, her porch, her barn, her many sheds filled with her volumes.

Welsh born textile artist and knitwear designer Kate Jenkins creates fun crochet/knit creations #WomensArt

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines A view of the edge of a parking lot, taken with my corporate Blackberry which was the only camera I had at the time. Then tarted up considerably to render the grey image in tones that Frank Stella might like. #photography #art #EastCoastKin

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines Le jour se lève à peine Je suis déjà debout Et déjà je promène une lame sur mes joues Y a le café qui fume L'ascenseur qui m'attend et le moteur que j'allume m'aide À prendre lentement Prendre ma place dans le trafic (Francis Cabrel)

#Art #Angles #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Photo #Minnesota #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin summer #Sunflower Theme #Angles #Photography #ClassicMonochrome #DailyFlowers #Bloom #Nature #BlackAndWhite #NatureIsArt #Dream #Macro #Flowers

“I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.” Le Testament d' Orphée Nancy Farmer ‘Cathedral Light' watercolour and gold leaf

It’s respiratory season… www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good news for Canada on the mRNA and Moderna front. We're making the new COVID vax here.

Good news for Canadian ice cream lovers! Chapman's is expanding.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #Weeds. A small panel with an image of weeds, image transfer rendered in acrylic wax effects to simulate encaustic. #photography #painting #EastCoastKin #art

A Mason bee and her tiny house

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines Reflections in the #pond at Belfountain Park. #photography #trees #autumn #water #EastCoastKin

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines A rampant vine in autumn at the Old Mill, Toronto. #photography #garden #EastCoastKin #OldMill

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday September 20, 2025 The theme is #Angles Any art, any skill level Use both tags to be included in our feed. Multiple entries welcome Show us what feels like home to you! More details in the comments #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing

Cotton candy sky.

An excellent read from Wayne Horton, debunking distortions and falsehoods about the government's accomplishments, policies and plans, and setting the record straight despite the disinformation theatre.

Attention Alphabetters! Mon 15 Sep is the start of Week L and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Lines. Straight lines, Curved lines, leading lines, whatever- lines Use the # below and have fun😊

Painting by Kate Jarvik Birch ‘Ocean Glow’ Gouache on paper. Size 10 x 10 in www.instagram.com/kebirch/?hl=en

Something beautiful! This handaxe knapped around a fossil shell.

The tones in this image make me think of a small Rembrandt oil painting with an ornate gold frame.

Somehow metaphorical...

Tasty thing for your timeline.