It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a WinterCity Book Flood! Winter is just around the corner, so it’s time to refresh your to-be-read pile! On Nov. 21, shop local and support your community for the holiday season. Enjoy unique offerings from 10 participating bookstores! #YEGreads #YEGevents

Cottage life summer scenes near Perth, On.

A sunny Alberta blue sky day for a hike up to the End of the World and...the wonderful Mood Cafe!

In Canada, our history books refer to Liberation Day as May 5, 1945, the day when the Netherlands was finally liberated from Nazi occupation through the hard work, courage and great sacrifices of Canadian and other Allied soldiers. #LestWeForget 🇨🇦🇳🇱

Shopping local on a Saturday.

Friday Finnish! HELENE SCHJERFBECK (FINLAND, 1862-1946) Girl on the Sand, 1942 Oil and charcoal on canvas 47 x 35,7 cm

Happy #PiDay! #ahandforpastry #rhubarb

Reporter asking about Trump’s trade war chaos: “Your Foreign Affairs Minister yesterday called all this a psycho-drama. How do you characterize it?” Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau: (pause) “Thursday.”

From our great PM Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦

Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of all Italian Baroque painters #WomensArt

A great afternoon of hockey st the PWHL Takeover Tour at Roger's Place in Edmonton. So many young girls and women hockey players and fans! #yeg #hockeygirlsrule #takeovertour

A sunny morning visit to Edmonton's Silver Skate Festival. Carvers, skating, winter films on a snow screen and maple taffy! #yeg #alberta #SilverSkate

It's a sunny blue sky day! #liftsthespirits

I'm grateful for the #ArtAdventCalendar! A big thank you for all the likes and shares! An extra big thank you to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for organizing! What a joy to see all the amazing artwork and community out there! For Day 24 I'm posting a work in progress - stuck on where to go next.

Thought it would be fitting to end #ArtAdventCalendar this year with another miniature library. This is a magical little library in a tree case, and I hope to be able to make more like this in the new year! 🧶 Happy holidays all, and thank you for sharing so much amazing art this month!

Here's to #ArtAdventCalendar 2024! What a wellspring of hope, cheer and creativity.

Illuminated candy canes seen tonight on a winter evening stroll down Edmonton's famous Candy Cane Lane. The warm temps of minus 2 C brought out huge crowds for the pedestrian only Open Streets night! #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar the North Saskatchewan River on the Winter Solstice 2024!

A hopeful, bright Winter Solstice photo from our hike by the ravine in Edmonton this afternoon. Today, the days begin to lengthen! #ArtAdventCalendar

A hike along the ravine trail today. The forest, at times, was filled with mountain ash berries capped with snow! #ArtAdventCalendar

A watercolour painting of a small patch of woodland on the Cleveland Way path near Helmsley - for today’s #ArtAdventCalendar

Last week before all hell broke loose, my sister and I did our annual gingerbread decorating extravaganza. It was a little smaller than usual. We only did a half batch because it’s a lot of cookies. Still, lots of fun and many of the usual characters are there.

#ArtAdventCalendar "When snow falls, nature listens." A quiet spot to sit on a winter walk along the ravine and river valley trails.

Winter lighting is an art. The historic Selkirk Hotel at Fort Edmonton is lit up with dramatic effect on a snowy night for the YEG Christmas Market! #ArtAdventCalendar

Lace #doily I knit in April 2019. Another presumed Niebling design. It appeared in a design leaflet published by MEZ with the unoriginal title of "Handarbeitsvorlage 7016" (Handwork pattern 7016) with no date or designer credit. Looks a bit like a snowflake to me ❄️ #ArtAdventCalendar #knitting

12/18/2024 Pine Tree in Winter #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography

#Day17Doodle for the #ArtAdventCalendar. This was a pattern challenge I was invited to participate in on Instagram. I enjoy working in minute detail, but I learned I’m not a fan of regular patterns — I much prefer organic shapes. But it was fun to try, and I loved working with the colours.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 17. Tay River in Stewart Park, Perth Ontario. #art #CanadianArt. #OntarioArt. #GalleryRaymond

Day 16 #ArtAdventCalendar "Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius." Pietro Aretino

I don't think I ever posted this one. #ArtAdventCalendar #watercolor #toucan #birds #sciart #nature #bskyart

#ArtAdventCalendar This is tablet or card weaving. The Vikings did a lot of #TabletWeaving. Every time I weave with cards, I think I’m just about to really figure it out and enjoy the process. This was not that time. 😆 Design is my own. #Weaving #InkleLoom #BandWeaving

#ArtAdventCalendar Footprints in #yegwinter blue shadow and sunshine.

#ArtAdventCalendar "The only other sounds the sweep, of easy wind and downy flake." Robert Frost

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 Skiing cross-country in the heart of the city in winter. Such a gift! Fresh snow, an Alberta blue sky and calm.

Day 13 #ArtAdventCalendar "Every winter has its spring." H. Tuttle This painted resting seat by The End of the World Lookout over the North Saskatchewan River is a vivid reminder of warmer spring days ahead!

A little winter landscape from the sketchbook. #artadventcalendar

Colouring page No. 4 Please feel free to download the photo and colour it in. I'd love to see your interpretation of my drawing. 🥰 #ArtAdventCalendar #handdrawn #penart

Missed a few days but back for Day 12 of #ArtAdventCalendar with a wintery piece.

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show." - Andrew Wyeth. Winter woods #ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 #yegwinter

Continuing on a distinctly praire theme. Here is an #oiloncanvas depicting a summer evening storm. Based on a photo taken while driving home from a visit to my sister’s farm. #ArtAdventCalendar #farmlife #rurallandscape

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar -2 page spread of my Illinois prairie nature journal, covering May 25-June 3, 2021. I tend to gravitate towards the colorful flowers, but I included the pale brown Alum root flower stalk amongst this rainbow of colors to remind myself that they're all important. #SciArt

Today is day 11 for #ArtAdventCalendar. I am not caught up yet. I paint a lot of watercolor florals. I love #ranunculus sue-zipkin.pixels.com/featured/ran...

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11 "Moonrise Among the Birches" (2022) 10x10 #Alcoholink on #yupo mounted on Russian birch cradleboard, sealed with #artresin #art #painting #inkandessenceart #forest #birchtrees ##hamont #artistsofbluesky

Today for #ArtAdventCalendar - lichens, moss and fungi from a winter walk in the Lake District last year - winter’s great for finding these, as they become more prominent amongst the bare branches. #nature

There's something about the vivid, cheerful yellow of this snow shovel. It makes the job of shovelling a corner lot more enjoyable! #ArtAdventCalendar Day 11

'Autumn Parkland', 2023, acrylics on 16x24-inch hardboard. #ArtAdventCalendar

Scenes from a foggy morning walk. #photography

#ArtAdventCalendar, Day 10 Big Blue Pathogens, Watercolor, 2021 #sciart

Some recent fungi finds for today’s #ArtAdventCalendar, in watercolour. #FungiFriends