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Mostly books with some garden content sprinkled in.
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It feels like a good curl up on the couch with a big blanket and a book day 🌨️💙
#booksky
The book Wayward by Blake Crouch, held up against a background of a snowy backyard.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Dragging myself out of the house today for a stupid little walk for my stupid mental health. The winter blues are hitting EARLY this year.
An indoor walking track overlooking a hockey rink with a game being played.
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Well I guess it’s winter 😩
A snowy backyard
October 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Sleepytime tea and catching up on my besties’ adventures.

#booksky
October 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Academic book rec! I was lucky to win a book of my choice from @ubcpress.bsky.social from a conference I attended, and this was my selection. Super insightful study of Cree economic relationships, demonstrated through interviews, language, history, and stories. Highly recommend!
#booksky
Cover of the book “Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: nehiyawak narratives” by Shalene Wuttunee Jobin. The book is on the ground which is covered in yellow fallen leaves.
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I’m in Vancouver for a couple of days for work, and fortunately was able to attend this evening’s conversation with Martha Wells and Nalo Hopkinson. Lots of laughs and insights!

#booksky
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Another visit from our neighbourhood leucistic magpie 🩶
Two magpies, one with normal coloring and another with grey where the other is black. My googling has determined this is called a leucistic magpie.
October 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Late fall walk through the woods, came across this gnarly old birch tree, straight out of a creepy movie.
A leaf-covered path winds through the woods with a large old gnarly birch tree to the left.
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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It was a good day - I found an Indigo gift card I’d forgotten about!

#booksky
A stack of books on a log with yellowing fall trees in the background. From top to bottom: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar, The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman, Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle, and Wings of Fire graphic novel #8 by Tui T. Sutherland.
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I know starlings are an introduced species but c’mon, you have to love the sound of hundreds of them chirping away. This was moments before a merlin came swooping in and sent them all off into a noisy murmuration.
#fortstjohn
#birds
September 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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I’m in the middle of way too many series, going back to re-read this one before Mirrored Heavens so I can finish the series off! One of my fave series 💕
#booksky
The book Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
September 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Terrible photo of our resident leucistic/ghost black-billed magpie ❤️

#magpies #fortstjohn
A leucistic magpie sitting on a pile of wood. The bird is varying shades of grey.
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Mid September and the zucchini are still going strong 😱

#fortstjohn #canadiangardening
A zucchini plant with 2 yellow zucchini and a new flower.
September 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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A neighbourhood cat came to visit our yard today (there’s lots of birds), one of my kids says “It’s Princess Donut!” 👑🐱
#dungeoncrawlercarl
#booktok
A beautiful white/light brown cat sits on a wooden fence next.
September 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Giant bumblebee (B. nevadensis?) on the last of the larkspur flowers 🥰
September 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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A white+grey variant of black-billed magpie came by my garden today!

#birds
A white and grey variant of a Black-billed magpie in flight, about to land on a wooden fence. Asparagus ferns and a shovel in the foreground. The bird is white where a regular magpie is black, with a slightly darker grey on its wings and body.
August 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Another beautiful camping day started off with coffee and a couple of chapters, just me and the birds 🥰

#booksky
My view from a camping chair - coffee and the book An Honored Vow by Melissa Blair, with some young deciduous trees in the background.
August 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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So much zucchini at this time of year, my fave way to enjoy them is dehydrated with some “all-dressed” seasoning (loosely following recipe from Oh She Glows all-dressed kale chips). I’ve probably had 2 zucchinis today 🫣
A Bunnykins bowl with green and yellow zucchini chips.
August 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Unplanned colour-coordinated book haul from Books and Company in Prince George, BC 💚💙🖤 4 of the several series I haven’t finished yet 🫣

#booksky
I’m holding 4 books in my hand out in a sunny bluesky backyard. From top to bottom - The bullet that missed by Richard Osman, Wayward by Blake Crouch, Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse, and An Honored Vow by Melissa Blair.
August 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates: “So I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
#booksky
Page 81 of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates with a quote “My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
August 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Ok bird experts out there, I think this is a pellet that a bird expelled, is there any way to tell what kind of bird? It’s pretty large and filled with seeds (sour cherry pits I can tell for sure), crow or magpie maybe?

#birds
#birdidentification
Pellet produced by some sort of bird, filled with seeds (including sour cherry pits). Hand for reference, pellet is about 3cm x 1.5cm
August 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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A monochromatic yellow bouquet this week with day lilies, lady’s mantle, and Rudbeckia 💛💛💛

#gardensky
#flowerarrangement
#bloomscroll
#fortstjohn
A monochromatic yellow flower arrangement with day lilies, lady’s mantle, and Rudbeckia (black-eyed Susan) in a white rounded vase with blue and green accents.
August 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Family visitors always leave with a garden haul, those are the rules here 🤷🏻‍♀️

#backyardgarden #gardensky
A wooden/metal garden basket holds a variety of garden veggies - Swiss chard, rhubarb, carrots, parsley, onions, snow peas, zucchini, beans, potatoes.
August 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Nothing much better than camping+reading 😌

#booksky
A book held open in front of a campfire, with an Aspen forest in the background
August 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Most days I’m sitting at a desk, but once in a while I get to go for a helicopter flight. It’s pretty flat up in the boreal forest so getting some height gives a good perspective on the land. Here is a creek whose flow is impacted by a road, and many linear features that negatively impact caribou.
Boreal forest from the air. Foreground has roads and seismic lines (I think? Could be an old access road). A creek meanders from left to right and is crossed by an all-season road. You can follow a seismic line off to the flat horizon.
August 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM