OMG! Is this…actually working?! I’m not forbidden?!

There’s lots of love for the cherry blossoms and fruit trees this time of year, (well-deserved!) but let’s hear it for the flowery-fireworks of lime green and chartreuse,too! Is this a maple tree of some kind? I dunno, but it’s pretty!

Introducing your #TCAF2026 poster! It's courtesy of manga artist Battan (Soshite hiroin wa inaku natta / And Then There Were No Heroines) who'll attend TCAF as a featured guest. Purchase Battan's beautiful work as a poster or t-shirt at this year's fest: June 6+7 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre!

Ice Cream truck doing loops of our neighbourhood playing “Turkey In The Straw” is breaking my brain. I swear, it used to be a different jingle.

Sketching a Kermit while waiting for my cervical cancer screening/check. (Forgot what a banjo looks like?)Nice way to pass the time.

Ooh, you got to witness a Fata Morgana! Lucky you!

Fata Morgana! what a treat! i don't think i've ever been lucky enough to see one of these 😻

Fine, bag of eldritch horrors, I’ll plant you

Weird “glitch in the Matrix”/optical illusion, looking across the Lake towards Toronto, this evening.

Not suspicious at all. More quirky plaques,please.

There's a 25% discount on everything in my shop until the end of the month! Check it out and add some affordable,original art to your pad! www.jodyvanb.etsy.com

Share a gif from a WESTERN you love. (C’mon…it counts)

an animator’s dream look at those arcs

Put on a bit of lipstick before leaving the house to feel more alive. Sun is shining, grass is growing. Trees are budding. Bit of a chill, but otherwise, gorgeous Spring day. Coming home I say hello to the new neighbour, who looked at me funny. I get in the house and catch a glimpse of myself —

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

If anyone’s missing some stairs…I know where they washed up.

Feeling bummed with the rain,lately? Go out for an evening stroll and pretend you’re on a movie set after a wet down. Everything is transformed! The colours! The lights!

Blossoms, buds, another mantis sack and Mourning Cloak.

Saw two Eastern garter snakes on our walk,today. (This was the first one) I always feel lucky when I see a snake!

He's currently sending me photos of the reinstallation, which happened today. Here's the British ambassador helping carry Parvati's palanquin; here's happy celebrants; here's a dignitary who's going to need to go to the drycleaner; here's Parvati back in worship and ok I'm tearing up again.

Artist Ulla Thynell

Friend of mine is reading “Awakenings” by Oliver Sacks and we were talking about some of the actual cases, so of course, we re-watched the film tonight. At one point my husband turned to me and said, “that nurse is the voice actress for Marge Simpson”.

I'll be vending at my ceramic guild's spring market this weekend and have a bunch of functional and decorative wares! Come see what me and my guildies have been up to 😊 📍 TVDSB Building 1250 Dundas Street, London, Ontario April 18th 9:30-5:30 -- April 19th 9:30-4:30

Brown Cow now! Wow! It’s moo-licious!

If you like my Sailor Moon zines, don't miss out on "Keeping Flame"- Rei is in a particularly bad mood, and the team works together to find out what's wrong.✨️💓 It's funny, a little sexy, maybe unexpectedly poignant. shop.yamino.art/products/sai...

1990 TMNT movie farmhouse convalescence Splinter seance scene:

One of the kids’ friends works at the local movie theatre and was saying it’s gotten “A lot barfier since the new Mario Movie came out”. Me: “Uhh…Does “barf” still mean the same thing, or is that some new slang? LOL” Kid: “It still means the same thing. Kids are literally puking in the theatre”

Kid was describing a necklace their friend lost at school. “I have one of those from high school in the 90’s that she can have.” Ahh, remember all of the “new age” stores at the time, full of crystals,tarot cards,wind chimes and rain sticks? That’s where I got my Maxfield Parrish t-shirt.

It's time to say it again. It's always time to say it. It's always true. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Thinking of the ghost story up in the Algonquin highlands about the team of logging horses that broke through the ice, and went to the bottom. On nights of the new moon, when you’re almost asleep, you know that in-between?! You can hear the impossible hoof-beats of those ghost horses, on the lake.

I feel like those new Broncos are everywhere. They’re the new PT Cruiser. The market is just over-saturated.

I could really use more pledges for Birdathon 2026 which is Bird Alliance of Oregon’s largest fundraiser and so far I have raised 2 pledges for my team totalling $25. Pledge below as I travel from Portland to the coast to document as many #birds as I can for a great cause.

My view from a section of Twenty Mile Creek this afternoon.

The plants are waking up! Some Plantainleaf sedge(?) and Hepatica, just off the hiking trail.

Can someone explain to me how Cogeco, running new "fibre optic" line to old poles at the end of our street will make our internet faster? I told the salesman kid at the door that I'm not signing up for anything and his response was, "Are you emotionally attached to Bell? Do you BLEED BLUE?!"

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Just saw Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" video for the first time. How do you think they did the "bright eyes" practical effect? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOx...

Brought a magazine along to kill time at an appointment. I wonder if they add things like this to see if people are actually paying attention. Let me know when you see it.

Brutal.

Brought a magazine along to kill time at an appointment. I wonder if they add things like this to see if people are actually paying attention. Let me know when you see it.

Going mad for the past two hours looking for some antique postcards that I know I put away ”somewhere safe” so they wouldn’t get wrecked.

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is officially dead. The new Species Conservation Act is replacing it, but leaves many plants and animals — and their habitats — without protection. via @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...

This is also weirdly fascinating www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just came across some old work, rolled up with some posters from college and I can’t remember if this was for a project or a job?!

Decided we need another gallery wall for the embarrassing amount of unframed art I’ve been squirrelling away over the years. Going through old frames to see what’s usable. Trying to imagine the Toronto that existed when this was last opened up.

Spotted some early violets,a few colonies of Trout lilies (no flowers,yet!) and lots of spring chives.

We watched the ‘67 Bonnie and Clyde film tonight and I was just thinking afterwards that it was only about thirty years after they were killed. When that film came out, there would have been loads of people who lived through their crime spree still alive seeing Hollywood romanticize their story 1/