Lily Respair (Susan Marie Makes)
@lilyrespair.bsky.social
Stalled Artist, Nature Lover, Gardener, Knitter. Living in the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa, Sylix, Sinixt. Kootenays, BC, Canada. She/her. Love Is Love. 🖤🤎💜🩵💙💚💛🧡🩷❤️🤍
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My husband buys us a new calendar every year. This year, he picked one with quotes and calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh.
May we all find peace, joy, & kindness this year. 🙏
May we all find peace, joy, & kindness this year. 🙏
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My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago.
Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago
Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago
Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago.
Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago
Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago
Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
🧶My brother and sister in law are coming for Christmas! So I've decided a knitted skinny scarf would be just the thing for her.
Pattern: Riptide Scarfette
Designer: Jennifer Shiels Toland
Yarn: Sandnes Garn 100% Cashmere fingering weight.
This was a fun knit, and the yarn is divine.
#Knitting
Pattern: Riptide Scarfette
Designer: Jennifer Shiels Toland
Yarn: Sandnes Garn 100% Cashmere fingering weight.
This was a fun knit, and the yarn is divine.
#Knitting
December 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🧶My brother and sister in law are coming for Christmas! So I've decided a knitted skinny scarf would be just the thing for her.
Pattern: Riptide Scarfette
Designer: Jennifer Shiels Toland
Yarn: Sandnes Garn 100% Cashmere fingering weight.
This was a fun knit, and the yarn is divine.
#Knitting
Pattern: Riptide Scarfette
Designer: Jennifer Shiels Toland
Yarn: Sandnes Garn 100% Cashmere fingering weight.
This was a fun knit, and the yarn is divine.
#Knitting
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35 years ago today, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality
December 6, 2024 at 1:03 PM
35 years ago today, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality
Please get the flu vaccine if you are able. For yourself and everyone you love.
Confirmed flu cases jump nearly 61%: federal data - Laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza have jumped by almost 61 per cent, according to recent data released Friday.
Confirmed flu cases jump nearly 61%: federal data
Laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza have jumped by almost 61 per cent, according to recent data released Friday.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Please get the flu vaccine if you are able. For yourself and everyone you love.
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Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar
Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar
Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
This is delightful.❤️
Dear Bluesky. I'm giving away two signed paperbacks of my novel Villager.
All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.
You also get a free map!
You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.
You also get a free map!
You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is delightful.❤️
Look at this gorgeous painting.
Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar evening.
Once In A Lifetime 36 x66 91x167cm
Oil on Canvas
2021
A commission based on an actual photo
Once In A Lifetime 36 x66 91x167cm
Oil on Canvas
2021
A commission based on an actual photo
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Look at this gorgeous painting.
And so it begins. Approximately 5 cm of the white stuff fell last night. Just enough for me to get up at 6:30 am to shovel the driveway before work.
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
And so it begins. Approximately 5 cm of the white stuff fell last night. Just enough for me to get up at 6:30 am to shovel the driveway before work.
#Saskatchewan
Sask. conservationists say trend of live-baiting snowy owls for photos endangers the birds
FFS people leave the wildlife alone, don't feed them, Canada has Conservation efforts across the country, stop trying to get a photo op for social media.🤬
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sask. conservationists say trend of live-baiting snowy owls for photos endangers the birds
FFS people leave the wildlife alone, don't feed them, Canada has Conservation efforts across the country, stop trying to get a photo op for social media.🤬
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sask. conservationists say trend of live-baiting snowy owls for photos endangers the birds | CBC News
Saskatchewan wildlife watchers are worried snowy owls are being put in danger as photographers use live bait to lure them closer for better pictures.
www.cbc.ca
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This old girl is officially 15!
She still loves her morning walks, though we go a lot slower now. Mitra is such a sweet, good girl, and we treasure every day she is still with us.
#DogsOfBluesky
She still loves her morning walks, though we go a lot slower now. Mitra is such a sweet, good girl, and we treasure every day she is still with us.
#DogsOfBluesky
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This old girl is officially 15!
She still loves her morning walks, though we go a lot slower now. Mitra is such a sweet, good girl, and we treasure every day she is still with us.
#DogsOfBluesky
She still loves her morning walks, though we go a lot slower now. Mitra is such a sweet, good girl, and we treasure every day she is still with us.
#DogsOfBluesky
Goddammit. He's still trying to guilt me and is enlisting my mom to help. He tried to get my brother on board, but my brother stopped feeling guilty about his shit a long time ago. Christmas is going to be a challenge. I rarely drink, but I think a nice bottle of wine will go a long way this year.
Today, I am refusing to be guilt tripped by my 84 yr old father. And I just had the realization that I don't owe him anything. So, maybe therapy actually works? Huh. How about that.
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Goddammit. He's still trying to guilt me and is enlisting my mom to help. He tried to get my brother on board, but my brother stopped feeling guilty about his shit a long time ago. Christmas is going to be a challenge. I rarely drink, but I think a nice bottle of wine will go a long way this year.
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Jeff Bezos will be fine if we ignore him for one day.
This Black Friday, support a small creator.
Artists: drop your shop links below, whether you’re running a sale or not, and please repost everyone else’s.
No NSFW. No AI.
Here’s mine:
dragonsofwales.etsy.com
This Black Friday, support a small creator.
Artists: drop your shop links below, whether you’re running a sale or not, and please repost everyone else’s.
No NSFW. No AI.
Here’s mine:
dragonsofwales.etsy.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Jeff Bezos will be fine if we ignore him for one day.
This Black Friday, support a small creator.
Artists: drop your shop links below, whether you’re running a sale or not, and please repost everyone else’s.
No NSFW. No AI.
Here’s mine:
dragonsofwales.etsy.com
This Black Friday, support a small creator.
Artists: drop your shop links below, whether you’re running a sale or not, and please repost everyone else’s.
No NSFW. No AI.
Here’s mine:
dragonsofwales.etsy.com
Today, I am refusing to be guilt tripped by my 84 yr old father. And I just had the realization that I don't owe him anything. So, maybe therapy actually works? Huh. How about that.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Today, I am refusing to be guilt tripped by my 84 yr old father. And I just had the realization that I don't owe him anything. So, maybe therapy actually works? Huh. How about that.
It seems the Irish foxes have been chatting with our local porcupines.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It seems the Irish foxes have been chatting with our local porcupines.
Mitra doesn't know if there are any fairies in these woods, but she's pretty sure that there are elves.
And she could care less about that nasty sex scandal stuff in the USA.
#WalkInTheWoods
#DogsOfBluesky
And she could care less about that nasty sex scandal stuff in the USA.
#WalkInTheWoods
#DogsOfBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mitra doesn't know if there are any fairies in these woods, but she's pretty sure that there are elves.
And she could care less about that nasty sex scandal stuff in the USA.
#WalkInTheWoods
#DogsOfBluesky
And she could care less about that nasty sex scandal stuff in the USA.
#WalkInTheWoods
#DogsOfBluesky
Sometimes, I feel like I live in a fairy land.
#WalkInTheWoods
#WalkInTheWoods
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sometimes, I feel like I live in a fairy land.
#WalkInTheWoods
#WalkInTheWoods
🧶 Knitting PSA. Re: knitting patterns on etsy. We've had a few people coming to the shop lately with patterns they have bought on etsy. Often, these are old patterns that have been scanned by sellers & sold for cheap. I'm not saying to buy these patterns but buyer beware.
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🧶 Knitting PSA. Re: knitting patterns on etsy. We've had a few people coming to the shop lately with patterns they have bought on etsy. Often, these are old patterns that have been scanned by sellers & sold for cheap. I'm not saying to buy these patterns but buyer beware.
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I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
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Hope you find some joy today, or joy finds you... either works 🩷
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hope you find some joy today, or joy finds you... either works 🩷
Ah yes, racism is alive and well in BC. Dallas Brodie should be banned from the legislature. Disgusting.
Representatives of the Métis Nation British Columbia visiting the legislature Monday got up and left the public gallery in disgust as OneBC Leader Dallas Brodie asked a question rooted in residential school denial.
Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
OneBC Leader’s Comments Drive Indigenous Delegation from Legislature | The Tyee
Dallas Brodie called reports of residential school graves the ‘worst lie in Canadian history.’
thetyee.ca
November 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Ah yes, racism is alive and well in BC. Dallas Brodie should be banned from the legislature. Disgusting.
Almost forgot to share this morning's walk photo of Mitra.
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogsOfBluesky
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Almost forgot to share this morning's walk photo of Mitra.
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogsOfBluesky
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When you’re out fishing please be responsible and clean up your gear. This stuff is a hazard for wildlife.
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When you’re out fishing please be responsible and clean up your gear. This stuff is a hazard for wildlife.
This is an important sheep thread. Be sure to read all of the alt text because it is pure gold.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is an important sheep thread. Be sure to read all of the alt text because it is pure gold.