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Alia
@aajalb.bsky.social
Retired logistician. Loving Ontario country living. Grandmother. Worried about the planet my grandsons will inherit. Doing my best to do a little bit to make it better.
This is a soldier. In Canada we don't worry about beards...
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fading beauties on a beautiful October evening.
October 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Love them! Mine even sleep on the job, ready to go when the sun comes up! 🐝 ❤️
October 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sharing some tranquility for anyone who needs it...

#tranquility
#bees
#flowers
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This little guy (loonie-size) was trying to make his way up to the porch this morning. He didn't like being picked up, until he realized that my hand was nice and warm, then he didn't want to jump off! He is safely back in with the flowers, hopefully eating lots of pesky bugs.
September 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Waiting for my husband to collect me. Worse places to wait...
September 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I feel so paralyzed and hopeless, looking at our drought-decimated trees. I have never seen it like this, and still no reliable rain expected for weeks... 😭
So I console myself with my little oasis - thankfully, our well is allowing me to keep it going!
August 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is just a reminder of what is important (to preserve)- nature and climate! Early colours are almost an early August clock in SE Ontario!
August 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Good morning Bluesky!
If you have time, take your firefly forest moment before carrying on with the good fight (whatever it may be). "The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
...And miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost
Happy Canada Day!!!
July 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Spa day!
June 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Happy to find this lady sunning in our driveway! Deer mice, beware!! (Near St Lawrence River, Eastern Ontario)
#spring
April 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fresh from the spa! (Of course, it snowed out, so a sweater is required for the adjustment period)
April 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
One week post right knee replacement, doing well (well, a little bored and irritable lol), admiring our new house flag and listening to Gordon Lightfoot. We WILL get through this, stronger and more resilient! 🍁

#Canadastrong
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
So, as a distraction from the serious, angst-inducing political matters before the world, I have a dilemma for you. I was moving some pictures today, and this fell out. It isn't Easter yet, and we didn't have the grandsons here for Easter last year. To eat, or not to eat?
March 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I love the St Lawrence River! We live just north of it, in Ontario. It used to exemplify our once amazing relationship with our Southern neighbours!
March 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
More birdcam joy: junco lurking and waiting for the dove to clear out...
#birdcam
February 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I have said goodbye to X, Instagram, and Twitter. More time to do screen grabs from my Birdcam! Blue Jays cannot resist peanuts! 🥰
January 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Happiness is...
#Garden
January 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It is all in the eyebrows!
December 5, 2024 at 4:15 PM
A grey day here today (near Brockville, Ontario, Canada). I don't like them. But the winter sun did its bit for me before disappearing for another 15 hours... Tea and shortbread are in order!
December 3, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Beautiful moonrise in Eastern Ontario this past weekend. I captured this from a moving vehicle (I wasn't driving lol) on my Samsung S24 Ultra. I think it did a pretty good job!
November 21, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Unlike mine 😆
November 16, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Curbside litter I picked up today in my 3Km dog-walking stretch of rural Southern Ontario. The weather has been great this fall. If you are able to, pick up some litter before the snow flies! You will feel good about it, and the planet will thank you for the help.
November 15, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Well, hello, Blue Sky. I am SO happy to be here! I am Alia from Ontario, fave things are family, friends, pets and the whole great outdoors!
Enjoy this late-summer bee sleeping in a Cosmos flower in my yard!
November 14, 2024 at 4:06 PM