Just after sunset this evening at Kwisitis (sometimes Wickaninnish) Beach. Photos to follow #Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland

Rough seas ahead. Expect delays.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Jed Dorsey (American Artist, born 1976) "Sky Burst", 2023. Acrylics on Canvas, 36" × 48". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt

Snow owl Saturday morning moment

Adobe, Snow and Sunshine, Theodore Van Soelen 1926

Aurora Forecast Update for 2026-01-16T20:50:06Z EXTENDED WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 expected Extension to Serial Number: 2171 Valid From: 2026 Jan 16 1525 UTC Now Valid Until: 2026 Jan 17 0300 UTC Warning Condition: Persistence Additional Details Here.

Why is American authoritarianism so stupid? So dumb? So much a parody of its own aspirations? It is so fucking kitsch (in the Kundera-ian sense). And still evil.

"10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026 Your activism will be even more important this year" @rbreich.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Some photos from the Wild Pacific Trail in Uclulelet at sunset tonight. A well lit wave, an oystercatcher, a lucky shot of a gull with a sealion and an eagle looking for a bedtime snack (or maybe just enjoying the colours) #Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland

Andrii Frolov (Ukrainian Artist, born 1980) "Morning Coffee", 2022. Oil on Hardboard, 12''×16''. Private Collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

🖼️ Anita Purnell

Studies of the Black-throated Diver (Loon if you’re on the other side of the Atlantic) at a chilly Hartlepool Marina today. Very lovely bird, plumage seems halfway between summer and winter. Also the most grey-headed Cormorant I’ve ever seen. 🐡🪶 @teesbirds.bsky.social

Emily Carr (1871 - 1945) The Mountain

Coastal Range Mildred Valley Thornton n.d.

Waves like mountains. A turbulent sea off the English coast.

Snowdrifts and Stars Nicki Ault 2025

Can’t ye see the world where you stand?

B.C.’s latest report on greenhouse gas emissions shows modest progress — but recent policy cuts threaten to move the province further from its climate action targets. Via @rochellebaker1.bsky.social and @nationalobserver.com thenarwhal.ca/bc-climate-c...

Welcome aboard, nuts. nanaimobulletin.com/2026/01/13/t...

One month until we go back 🌊🐦‍⬛ (poem by Raymond Carver)

'Cardigan Bay Mackerel' by West Wales based printmaker Marian Haf #WomensArt

Winter Road, Night Illingworth Kerr 1985

It’s #PortfolioDay so might as well share some favourite photos from #Iceland :)

Haukur Sigurdsson captured this photo of cross country skiers looking like musical notes.

🌊 Climate change is altering ocean circulation, reducing iron inputs and throttling phytoplankton photosynthesis at the base of marine food webs. Less plankton → less krill → fewer penguins, seals and whales etc... Micronutrients matter oceanographicmagazine.com/news/drop-in...

“What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer.” ~ Richard Powers, The Overstory

Karl J Kuerner (American, born 1957) Pine Cones, n.d Oil on board 11 x 15 1/2 inches Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Surge, 2013 Karl J. Kuerner (American, born 1957) acrylic on panel, 40 x 48 in. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

'Murmuration' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt

Camouflaged Birds Qavavau Manumie ~ Inuk 2025

Piet Mondrian Woods near Oele, 1908

filed under “headlines you hear being read off in a chipper voice in an abandoned bunker in a Fallout game”

The Globe and Mail

Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.

Winter Music, Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946).

Ellen Thesleff (1869-1954) was an expressionist Finnish painter, she is regarded as one of the leading Finnish modernist painters The Violin Player by Ellen Thesleff, 1896 Oil on canvas 40 × 44 cm Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki Finland #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Sea and boat,1988 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham #WomensArt #Monday

Early Evening, Winter Franz Johnston 1928

Goodnight. May we all howl at our own dream moons until a new day breaks. 🖼️ Jósef Wilkón. 🌚

Taken just 24 hours after the image I posted yesterday, the scene had been completely transformed by snowstorms and a high tide. The pools and shapes behind the boat house were hidden below the tide, while fresh snow added interest and texture to the foreground rocks.

"The personal library of the late Johns Hopkins Humanities professor, Richard A. Macksey, housed in his home in Baltimore. His renowned library of over 70,000 volumes, including periodicals, was a lifelong project starting from his early childhood." 🏆📚🕊️ 📷 Classic Literature

“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” ~ Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, Ursula Le Guin

Here’s a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own

An oil painting showing a corner of my garden with foxgloves, little apple trees and strawberries. This one was hung (and sold) at the Cambridge Open Art Exhibition at Swavesey Village College 2017 and for the first time since I was at school I was awarded a prize! #art #oilpainting #alfresco

Rafał Borcz (Polish, born 1973) Birzozy I, 2021 Oil on canvas 100 x 140 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Placentia Bay Boat in Winter Christopher Pratt 1995