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calaveritas.bsky.social
Some loopy Canuck
@calaveritas.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Librarian of a sort, just listening in for now. Getting around yyj on foot, taking pictures of small urban moments as I go. Music, trees, and good people make life worth living. Work in progress.
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They don’t miss. Took this one a couple of years ago.
October 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Missing beautiful Iceland today. Two years ago I was wandering there, amazed at the rugged beauty, standing with one foot in each continent. Now I am packing, embarking on a completely different adventure…

#tbt
#nature
#iceland
#travel
Thingvellir National Park. View of small white buildings in a vast and rugged autumn landscape, intersected by tributaries and small waterfalls. Mountains rise gently in the background.
October 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Sun tonight.
A orange setting sun in a big prairie sky intersected by power lines.
September 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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A pigeon pit. I was equally intrigued and repulsed.

#birds
#flyingrats
#🐦
A close up of many pigeons; crowded together, heads down, in a feeding frenzy.
August 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The sky right now.

#noctilucence
#yyj
#itsgoodtobehome
Shimmering clouds reflecting the moonrise.
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Friend or foe?

#birdsinflight
#deer
#yql
#nature
A magpie is seen flying away from its perch on the back of a young mule deer buck, who is lazily relaxing on a suburban lawn.
July 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Some glorious colour for a sleepy Southern Alberta Sunday. Amongst the suburban beige of my parents’ neighbourhood, these coleus are tiny, outrageous beacons.
#bloomscrolling
A closeup of brightly coloured coleus leaves. Varietal unknown. A closeup of brightly coloured coleus leaves. Varietal unknown.
July 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Today is about trying to recreate structure in the day to help my mom get her bearings while in hospital, transitioning to long term care.

This difficult week has been a nice distraction from the rest of the chaos in the world. I know the 🍄🌺🇨🇦 will be waiting for me.
#alzheimers
#thesunkeepsrising
Glowing sunrise over a house. To the right is a tree silhouetted against the sky.
July 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Playing with the light tonight.

#nightskies
#yyj
#spinninglight
An indigo sky is punctuated by long ribbons of coloured light, in red, white, amber and pale green.
June 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Shout out to Library and Archives Canada. A few months ago I requested information on my grandfather’s military record. I had little information to prompt the search, as my grandfather is long gone, and my mom has Alzheimer’s. Today I got 153 pg. file with photos, fingerprints. ❤️😭 Grateful 🇨🇦
A black and white picture of a young and handsome air force member, taken in uniform in 1941.
May 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Well hello. Just a stony smile from what used to be a Carnegie library, and is now the Victoria Indigenous Justice Centre. I moved here long after the library closed, but love seeing these little details. Glad to see it being used again, long overdue.

#libraries
#beautifulyyj
#urbandetails
#VIJC
A grinning cat style stone gargoyle type creature, it is cloaked in a decorative organic border.
May 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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I took this one of them yesterday! I was surprised by the very tiny one!
April 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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These are two of my favourites at this time of year, amongst the pinks and purples of bluebells, camas, and hyacinths. I love the sweet drooping delicacy of the fawn lilies and the deep richness of the crabapple..
#flowerpower #bloomscrolling #yyj
Japanese crabapple blossoms, with deep pink petals and tiny bursts of pollen. A solitary white fawn lily glowing against the spring sun and green forest.
April 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Tiny and perfect butterfly eggs. These are the kinds of spring miracles that matter to me.
A bright green tropical leaf with some water droplets dappled across the surface. A tiny clutch of 8 pearl-like spheres are also nestled on the leaf. Each tiny butterfly egg is perfect and has a tiny ribbed pattern close up.
April 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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A small and slithery friend in the sun. First one I’ve seen this year, felt like a gift!
A small brownish garter snake sliding through thick green grass.
April 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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A good day for #elbowsup in #yyj. I may have been the youngest person there (not really, but close..) Hearing the Raging Grannies sing “This land is your land..” was
something special. ❤️🍁
#insolidarity
#handsoff
#never51
April 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Maybe some fresh green leaves…some sunshine, from here you could smell the sea.
Sunlight shining through the branches of a hornbeam, making the newly emerged leaves glow.
April 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Damp days on Vancouver island. I saw two owlets too, but couldn’t take their portrait.
#shroomscrolling
A grid of four fungal friends found in the forest today. They appear to be: (common names) witches butter, purple jellydisc, and two young red belted conks , one with guttation.
March 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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I have been enjoying everyone else’s mushrooms and flowers, as a distraction from the chaos down south… here is my colourful contribution on a grey day.
#bloomscroll
Looking upwards into the red bell and white stamens of a Fritillaria or crown imperial flower. Behind it is an evergreen and misty grey spring sky.
March 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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#mushroommonday
#fungifriends
A tree branch sporting pale green lichen, tufts of moss and blobs of witches’ butter glowing in the winter light.
January 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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First fungal friends of 2025. My apologies, nobody wants to start the year with alliteration... Identifications are only a guess, haven't taken the time to learn more yet!
A grid of fungi pictures taken today, to start the year. Included are some slime mold, white jelly, maybe birch bolete and a few other mushrooms nestled amongst the forest floor. A red fingernail is also shown to gauge size of the tiny orange slime mold.
January 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Happy Solstice!
A damp and slightly moss log is home to various fungi including what appear to be witch’s butter and turkey tail.
December 22, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Prairie winter skies. I’m back on my rainy island, but thinking about this cold place.
A foggy scene; frosty trees silhouetted against a grey sky, and glowing sun.
December 15, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Golden eye? Heart orb?
(You are seeing a lack of technical skill, but a love of the tiny artifacts captured in the process!)
A low prairie winter sunrise, the sun is glowing brightly, and the lens flare resembles a small floating heart.
December 10, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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This may just end up being a mushroom account.. I love them so. Especially in the autumn sun.
Small golden yellow mushrooms clustered at the base of a tree, glowing in the afternoon sunlight.
November 23, 2024 at 5:44 AM