Dr. Gascoyne 🇨🇦
LightNews LightNews
banner
debbieg.bsky.social
Dr. Gascoyne 🇨🇦
@debbieg.bsky.social
780 followers 200 following 440 posts
Retired English prof, continuing independent scholar of children's fantasy, particularly interested in intertextuality and the sublime. Photographer, dog lover, gardener, and nerdy nerd nerd. I review for Strange Horizons.
Posts Replies Media Videos
debbieg.bsky.social
A beautiful buck at Ross Bay cemetery this afternoon
The main figure in focus from centre to right is an antlered buck deer, head in the centre, body and front legs to right. Out of focus in foreground and background are stone grave markers. Also some autumn leaves on the ground
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
debbieg.bsky.social
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole dressed in black dinner clothes against a red background. There is a small statue of Venus between the two actors. Publicity shot for the movie How To Steal a Million.
October 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
For #InternationalDogDay I felt I had to post this absolutely joyous shot of my Baggins, from a few years back. #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky 📷🐈
A grey and white Bearded Collie dog is running out of the ocean, the wind blowing his coat and tail and small waves breaking behind him.
August 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
Hive mind, especially SF peeps. A friend is asking what the origin is of the term "little green men" for aliens, and I confess I have no idea. Does any of you?
A figure depicting a typical "little green man" alien being against a while ground (Adobe stock)
August 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
For #RoseWednesday Abraham Derby, not fully out but already looking lovely 🌱🌹📷
The almost open bud of an Abraham Derby rose, deep peach coloured, with bright green leaves in the background.
August 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
For #Caturday here is Simon enjoying the sun in the garden
A cat with brown and cream markings like a siamese is shown standing in the sunshine with grass at his feet
July 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
It's #Caturday so here's my 17-yr old tabby, Tabitha, looking rather less cross than usual (she has a fierce exterior, but she's very sweet). 📷 🐈 #CatSky #CatPhotography #Cats
A small greyish brown tabby cat with green eyes looks up from her comfortable spot on my bed.
July 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
Astrantia Maxima (Great Masterwork) is what's blooming #InMyGarden today. I have several of the more common Astrantia Maior, but this one's unusual and special, starting with a dull green flower then maturing into this lovely pink. 🌱📷
A papery pink flower stands against a blurred green background
June 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
debbieg.bsky.social
Foxglove in the rain. It's what's blooming #InMyGarden today. #flower #FlowerPhotography #BloomScrolling 🌱📷
The frame is filled with a close-up photo of a foxglove (pink with white interior and dark red spots inside). It is glazed with rainwater.
June 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
Rosa Mundi. Blooming #InMyGarden today #BloomScrolling 📷🌱
Close up of petals and yellow centre of a dark pink and white striped rose. This is Rosa Mundi, a very old Rosa Gallica.
June 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
Rose "Munstead Wood" blooming in my garden today. 🌱🌷📷 #Rose #GardenPhotography #FlowerPhotography
At centre is a deep red old-style rose. Above it two buds curve upward. A lattice fence is bokeh in the background.
May 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
First peony, its petals like silk. 🌱📷
The frame is filled with the red silky petals of a peony in bloom.
May 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
Wisteria at Goodacre Lake in Beacon Hill Park, #yyj. 📷
Purple and mauve racemes of Wisteria with yellowy green leaves and out of focus water in the background Slightly backlit racemes of wisteria making a curtain at the lop and left, with water out of focus in the background
May 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
Wow! I have a large bowl obviously by that designer! It was my mum's, and I've always liked it.
A white ceramic bowl with stylized designs of a woman and flowers in shades of green and purple. From the Lotte design, made in Norway.
May 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
I don't think I've ever seen a rhubarb flower before. It's surprisingly lovely. 🌱📷
Creamy, lacy, clumps of flowers kind of like a cross between cauliflower and broccoli, on thick green stems. It's Rhubarb flower!
May 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
In today's garden: Sweet Woodruff. This was a small patch being thugged out by periwinkle. I dug up the periwinkle last fall (listed as an invasive in these parts) and now the Sweet Woodruff is thriving. My mum always loved it, so this makes me happy. 🌱📷
Small starry white flowers of Sweet Woodruff against the star-burst of bright green leaves
May 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
And in _other_ good news today...
The image reads Philip Pullman The Book of Dust Volume Three The Rose Field 23 October 2025
April 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
In today's garden, Welsh poppy and forget-me-not. 🌱📷 #Flower #Spring #Photography #FlowerPhotography
A delicate yellow poppy against a green background, with a slightly blurred blue and yellow forget-me-not flower in the foreground.
April 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
The apple blossom is late this year, but it was worth waiting for. 🌱📷 #Flowers #Spring #Blossom #Photography
A branch of apple tree in my garden laden with the lovely pink and white blossom and some darker pink buds, in the late afternoon sunshine.
April 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
debbieg.bsky.social
Easter flowers from my garden. They will decorate my table for dinner tonight.
Flowers against a black background, from left to right: pink camellia, yellow kale flowers, pinky-purple pulmonaria, lacy white sweet Cicely, bluebells, another camellia and bottom right yellow archangel.
April 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
Chocolate Lily (Fritillaria Affines) seen in a supah sekrit spot in Beacon Hill Park today (not saying exactly where). #yyj #WildFlowers #FlowerPhotography 📷
The curving stem and quiet brown and green speckled flower of the wild chocolate lily, against a green background.
April 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
debbieg.bsky.social
Two varieties of Bleeding Hearts in my garden right now: Dicentra Formosa, the delicate native bleeding heart, and Lamprocapnos Spectabilis (formerly Dicentra Spectabilis), the Asian bleeding heart. 🌱📷 #Flower #FlowerPhotography
The delicate pale pink flowers and ferny leaves of the native bleeding heart. The curving stem of the garden Bleeding Heart is decorated by hanging dark pink heart-shaped flowers against a green background.
April 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
The surprisingly beautiful flowers on my laurel hedge this year. 📷🌱 #FlowerPhotography #Flower #photography
Columnar white flowers of a laurel hedge. One stem in the foreground; others out-of-focus behind.
April 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
Pink Magnolia; Blue Sky. Seen in my 'hood. #yyj #flower 📸
Several branches of slightly backlit pink star magnolia against a perfectly blue sky.
April 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
debbieg.bsky.social
It was a blustery afternoon on Miqan (Beacon Hill), but the camas is starting to bloom and Baggins-the-bearded-collie enjoyed his walk. #DogSky #dog 📷 #WildFlower #Flower #yyj
A happy looking bearded collie (grey and white shaggy dog) poses against a blurred background of field and distant hills. The dark purply blue of the wild camas stands out agains greenery.
April 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM