I've been asked by 3 media outlets in the last week to do interviews on the influenza season. I still haven't seen our new CMOH, appointed Dec 18th, (or old one, for that matter. Or any public health official) in the media on this topic. For the record, they are acutally paid, to do this. 1/2

#ArtAdventCalendar #christmas #woodcarving #fish Day 24..a huge thank you to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for organizing this event. I enjoyed each day viewing all the amazing posts. 🤩 A tradition we’ve done for years..Enjoy our “Santa Fish.” A wood carving of a trout resting on the river bottom.

#ArtAdventCalendar #jigsawpuzzles #crafts #recycle #pillows Day 23 A square keepsake box made from a jigsaw puzzle. Second picture is a throw pillow made from a t-shirt.

Stepping into Christmas - Hope every one has a good one. #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #art #EastCoastKin #christmas2025 #xmas2025

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

SEE YOU SOON ! Time to teleport: Scientists have discovered that all matter can behave like a particle or wave. Waves can be in a bunch of places at once. Particles can tunnel, or teleport. That’s how I can be in many places at once on Christmas Eve. A gentle reminder: Love is the greatest gift :-)}

Originally from Holiday Piece #18 (2005), I freshly colored this silly little comic for Festive Funnies (2016). #ArtAdventCalendar

Forbidden chocolates.

The Voith-Schneider Propeller is a vertical-axis marine drive whose spinning blades change pitch continuously, letting a ship generate instant thrust in any direction, like a helicopter rotor underwater. Super-maneuverable, perfect for tugs and ferries.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11 #acrylic-painting #meditation #art My very first mini 4x4 canvas acrylic painting I did years ago.

"For, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we be brought under foreign rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom which no honest man gives up but with life itself." - Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.

What are five classic movies you watch every Christmas Season? I'll start: The Sound of Music White Christmas South Pacific Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Scrooge (with Alastair Sim)

THE VIEW FROM THE FLIGHT DECK: The storm hasn't even started, but auroras are already dancing around the Arctic Circle. Pilot Matt Melnyk saw them Dec. 7th while flying 37,000 feet over Greenland spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

Day8. A life sized Bison sculpture in situ at the collectors in the Cypress Hills.

Day 7. Titled “Buddies”, this fun piece features a moose and a bear out for a paddle. Deep philosophical conversations between them ensue. Photo: @karenbdc.bsky.social #ArtAdventCalendar

Today's fit for the final day of lecturing. 🎄

That's NOT an orange with a head... ...it is my #BirdOfTheDay though. #borb 🍊🌿 🤘😶‍🌫️ Have a sweet #FeatheredFriday! 📸 Turdus migratorius 🪶 #BorbAlert #Winterbirds #BirdLovers #Photography #EastCoastKin

👇🇨🇦 #LestWeForget #CanadianArmedForces

#ArtAdventCalendar 'Night Horse' inkpen on paper drawing. #inksky #inkpen #TraditionalArt #Art #Artsky #drawing

For day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar evening Bolt From The Blue 26×34 66×86cm Oil on canvas 2023

Liverpool paid tribute to Diogo Jota on what would have been his 29th birthday ❤️🫶❤️

Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar: One of my favourite wildlife encounters of the year was watching this Black Bear nursing her cub in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada. #wildlife

For day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar, I had to include this piece somewhere. It got way bigger than I ever thought it would, kicked off the #Sketchasaurs series, and motivated me to start putting my art out there again. Micro-celebrity status feels good!

Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar Ink and watercolor of my step-daughter’s highland pony when he was a colt.

If you take photos, make pottery, textile art or other crafts, do paintings, sketches, collages or anything...whether you sell or just do it for fun...I would encourage you to participate in #ArtAdventCalendar You will enjoy looking back on your own work and find lovely things made by others.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 4 🎈 definitely my favorite piece this year & potentially my favorite piece ever made in the 7 years i’ve been wirewrapping <3 #art #artist #clowns #jewelry

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus sculpture 🐙 Clay & Paint 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🦑

Day 4. This “Tofino” sculpture is paired beautifully with a Jerry Whitehead painting. #ArtAdventCalendar

'Delphinus' is a star, leaping from the ocean, a celestial traveller caught between the depths and the heavens. Born from fire and smoke in the unpredictable alchemy of raku, it's iridescent surface swirls with cosmic starlight, copper reds and nebula blues. #ArtAdventCalendar #pottery

Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar Badlands 36x48in 91x121cm Oil on Canvas 2023 #Art #Painting

#artadventcalendar #crochet Some baby afghans and a hedgehog I did years ago. The baby afghans (which I made four) were donated to a Mom’s group in memory of my Mom who made baby items to donate over the years. The hedgehog I made for her as she loved everything hedgehog.

Meet the veliger larva - a tiny ocean drifter with a delicate shell and two ciliated “velums” that look like fluttering ears. These velums help it swim through plankton and capture food. 🎥 Video by @elizabethbeston.bsky.social #MarineBiology

Let's get #ArtAdventCalendar rolling! It's December 1 somewhere right now. Saskatchewan Supercell 32x40in 81x102cm Oil on Canvas 2019 #Art #Painting

Saturday morning light show. #aurora #astronomy

For those of you wanting to follow along, there's an #ArtAdventCalendar feed

Welcome all to your; best time day. To your; I’m going to ask the question day. To your; here I go again day. To your; let’s do this day. To your; fun day. Sunday! Jump into today like you would jump into a pool at 8 years old & wearing a cape! Be shy. Be happy. Be careful. Be you. Take no shit.

This is how a health system burns to the ground canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... by @pfparks.bsky.social

“Albertans who fail to renew their health card on time will lose AHCIP coverage. “Insured services may be declined until coverage is reinstated. Emergency services are still provided, but the patient may be billed if uninsured,” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...

Peter Swenson, a Yale professor and one of about 20 million Americans with long COVID, says calling chronic illness a “journey” needs to stop. He feels “pinned down by it, stuck with it,” calling it a “bad trip” with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia and heart problems. Source: archive.md/CgY81

“As God is my witness…” For my American friends WKRP Turkey Drop

The US ice core research community, with international partners, has recovered valuable records of past climate from the Arctic & Antarctic since the 1950s. Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.

A saguaro boxing robot operator with #yelloweyes for #BirdOfTheDay Western Screech Owl 📷🌿🪶 #BOTD

The future lies before you, like a field of fallen snow; Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Doris A. Wright ☯️ #Scape 🌿 #ClassicMono 🖤 #Monochrome 🤍 #Mammals 🦌 #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #Photography #NoKings

Would be paradise to write only about oceans and whales here. Tired of the madness.

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Artists & Art lovers! Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky! Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24