It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

"Pink Moon Over Water". Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt #fullmoon #Pinkmoon

The only star I would not return to the sea! ☺️

It is good medicine to stand under the soft canopy of a blossoming cherry tree. 🌸

Jef Bourgeau Girl with Yellow Hat

Little pop of colour on a rainy day.💕 #birbs #borbs

Artist ShouXin brilliantly captures the range of personalities of cats with his energetic pencil drawings. trib.al/R9wjsog

Thrifted (saved) an original Canadiana watercolour painting, and took it to the framing shop today for some love. 💚🩵 I hope the artist in the Great Beyond is smiling, knowing her work is bringing me joy.

Wow! A news announcement that made me spring ahead with joy! 🌟 #PacificTimeAllTheTime

When you notice a prism of light on the ceiling for the first time. ✨

Just heard two barred owls, calling back and forth to each other over the pine treetops, a long conversation under the crescent moon. My Swedie: We can never ever leave this place. ✨🦉❤️

Entranced and enchanted by this! ✨😍

Trees in the Sky, 1939 by Canadian painter Emily Carr #womensart

We found a bumblebee on our cold driveway tonight, immobile but one leg still moving. I moved her to rest beneath the heather bush, surrounded by gentle layers of dried leaves. I keep thinking about her tonight, her fate in nature’s hands…hoping my small intervention is helpful and forgivable. 🥺

✨A new episode has arrived!✨ This one is about the Time Pirate’s daughter. What was she like? And how did the accident happen? Watch Episode 5: A Raven With Clipped Wings from ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ youtu.be/t2M5EYD5rO8

Aww…someone left this sweet Valentine’s Day note in my free little library. 💜💚🩵 #randomactsofkindness

Love at a breakfast buffet? Sweet as straweberries, this one. Non-fiction by @karinhedet.bsky.social in Issue 1. Read "Alpine Strawberries" here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

A stroll through Fan Tan Alley always cheers. 🏮 #yyj #streetphotography #allleys

One of my favorites — Peter Henry Emerson, Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886.

Whatever Melissa writes is just kind on the heart, good for my soul. ✨

Foguary. #yyj #fog #fogdaysofwinter

Agate appreciation post. 😍

This will be as gorgeous as sunlight on the sea! ✨

Homeward bound after another trip to the mainland, to help my elderly mother with urgent medical appointments. It’s very hard to see someone you love navigate such struggles. Today I took her for a seaside drive, and afterwards she said softly, “I miss walking.” 🥺

Read beautiful poetry by supporting Minnesota, and a Minneapolis-based publisher….this is such a hope-filled, heart-full offer! 🌸🪻🌼 #MinnesotaStrong #MoreFlowers #MoreLight ✨

Don’t get so used to chaos that peace feels like something’s wrong. - Brianna Wiest

'January Thaw' by contemporary US printmaker Jeanne Amato #WomensArt

Saw a Western Meadowlark yesterday at Clover Point. I understand this is an uncommon sighting here. I feel pretty lucky to have crossed paths with one! #yyj #blurrydogwalkingphoto 😊

Morning. 🖼️ Shozo Ozaki

I've always liked the 'Bridled' form of Guillemot, but to get a photo of 2 together on Inner Farne in 2019 was special!. #SuperSeabirdSunday

Thrifted a vintage hand-crank egg beater and it is sooooo satisfying!

Swept up by these one minute story bites! 🏴‍☠️ (and Jenny’s narrative voice is so soothing)

HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026! Image: 9SP IG page

I believe the sea just gifted me the sky. 天 ✨

So very pleased to have a cherita in this powerful Renee Nicole Good anthology. Special thanks to #FinHall for curating this quickly-done collection. All proceeds to benefit Renee's family. More details forthcoming. #poetry

For all dog-loving writers. 🤎 I bookmarked so many resonant passages.

Crab for dinner. 🦀

washed right up on the beach nearby

I've been in a funk recently, really worried about the weeks / months ahead; so today, I sent out a newsletter that felt quite vulnerable, & the way the writing community have jumped to my support has as always far exceeded anything I deserve ❤️❤️❤️ prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/starting-t...

Beautiful things in brick alleys. #myhometown #yyj

Yesterday while moving furniture for donation, I slipped and hit my head hard, then spent New Year’s Eve with a bag of frozen corn on my forehead. 🌽🧊 😄

Magical filter— #Delightful view of the world A New Year's Day gift Happy New Year to all! ✨️ #vss365 #delight #haiku

“A life is looped yarn and slipped knots, chains and accidents.” I love the way Melissa sees the world in metaphor. This will loop through my thoughts today. 🧶

That sunrise beckoned me to join the fun! Thanks, Matt, for inspiring me to write 99 new words. #microsarehard

A spark of joy to end the year…my haiku debut in Frogpond. ✨ I didn’t always submit, but enough times over the years to make this acceptance very sweet indeed!

"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come." - Leonardo da Vinci

Took the orange I squeezed for breakfast, the twine saved from opened gifts, and made these little feeders for the winter birds. 🧡

Enchanted by this handmade Christmas card from my Swedie’s sister…the love and whimsy she stitched into it. 💚

Wind-ruffled Northern Yellow-shafted Flicker #birds