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Antiques and vintage dealer.
Reader. Writer. Multipod.
Peace. Quiet.
The natural world.
Gardening, dragons, crows.

trump is a menace
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Photos/videos taken with my crummy old iPhone (unless credited otherwise or are reposts) and are my©️2020-2025.
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A murder of crow, a parliament of owls, a terrace of griffins …

Paris porcelain dragon-handled vase
Matte purple glaze
Gilt embellishment
c: 1810

Imagine this full of flowers. Peonies.

Sold at auction
Christie’s
2012

www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...
“A Paris porcelain matte-purple and gold ground vase … upright dragon-head handles, gilt with a terrace of griffins …” c: 1810 https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5609383
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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William Morris’ designs = a Matisse painting come to life.

www.architecturaldigest.com/story/tour-t...
A bedroom at Kelmscott Manor where the designer William Morriis lived from 1878 until his death in 1896. Decorated using Morris’ textiles and wallpaper in corals, yellows and blues with a turquoise painted door, simple furniture, a canopy bed and wood plank floor, it manages to look simultaneously complicated and spare. Photo credit: Antiquaries of London via Architectural Digest.
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Remove the candle stub, add sunflower seeds to the pumpkin seeds and get … chickadees.

#birds
#nature
#compost
#Jack-o’-Lantern
Jack-o’-Lantern as bird feeder with a chickadee that can’t believe its good luck.
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Leave it outside in the cold for a couple of weeks …

#Hallowe’en
#Samhain
#myfavouritetimeofyear
Jack Frost Jack-o’-Lantern, wizened and twisted by the cold, sitting amongst stumps, antlers and wild rose canes.
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Start with this ..

#Hallowe’en
#Samhain
#thebesttimeoftheyear
Large, traditional, candlelit Jack-o’-Lantern with a jagged mouth and leering eyes, set on a stump outside in the snow.
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Young paper white birch on the turn.

Betula papyrifera
Northern BC

#nature
#trees
#autumn
#photography
A young paper white birch tree, still showing brown bark at the base of the trunk, with bright green and creamy yellow leaves, some edged in yellow, some already on the ground.
October 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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#Autumn
1573
Guiseppe Arcimboldo

From a suite of paintings entitled The Four Seasons, painted for
Emperor Maximillian II.

thegardenhistory.blog/2024/04/13/f...

giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/the-complete...
Autumn 1573 Guiseppe Arcimboldo Italy A portrait of Autumn as the profile of a man composed of harvest fruits, nuts, grains and vegetables - grapes, gourds, a mushroom - his torso a wine barrel encircled by olives and vines. Dominant colours: warm earthy greens, soft ochre yellows, dull reds against a black background.
September 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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My favourite season is here. 🍂🍁

#AutumnalEquinox
#Mabon
#Autumn
#Fall

The science side
www.space.com/stargazing/h...

The interpretative side
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Autumn I
Hugo Simberg
1895
Finnish Symbolist Hugo Simberg’s painting, Autumn I (1895): A gaunt, bat-like creature standing in fallen leaves on meadow grasses grasps and gnaws a thin tree trunk … winter is coming. Dominant pigments: Verona green (olive), realgar (burnt orange), orpiment (turmeric yellow) and raw umber (bronze).
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Wild rosehips

#autumn
#nature
#photography
#EastCoastKin
Wild coral-red rosehips, semitransparent and glowing in the sun, with a ring of orange and a wisp of spiderweb at the tip.
September 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The point of no return.

#Canadajay
#flight
#momentum
#birds
#photography
A grey and white Canada jay atop a panel of weathered lattice, leaning forward as it launches into downward flight. Background: bright, cloudless blue sky.
September 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Ghosts of Gardens Past …

Purple skinned potatoes
Fall 2023

We haven’t been able to grow in earnest since severe drought caused our wells to go dry two years ago.

Miss it so much.

#climatechange
#foodsecurity
#gardening
From our pre-drought garden when the grass was still green: a bamboo basket filled with purple skinned potatoes, dirt clinging.
September 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Unattributed 19th century botanical study of a branch of ripe plums.

#autumn
#harvest
Autumn. Realistic 19th century botanical illustration of a branch of ripe plums in purples, reds and yellows, with browning, curling foliage and caterpillars seeking refuge. Unattributed.
September 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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5 pm sun

#wildfire
#smoke
#nature
#photography
The sun is an intense dot of light in a wildfire grey smoke sky, the crown of a poplar tree intrudes in the lower right corner for perspective.
September 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Even colour dies in a wildfire.

#smokyskies
#heatwave
#climate
Setting sun in a wildfire atmosphere. Everything in the forest landscape looks dull and flat. The greens of the trees are wrong. The pinks of the roses are wrong. The orange of the sky is wrong.
September 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Rhubarb leaf with her ruby red party dress on.

Happy September!

#gardening
#autumn
#photography
A rhubarb leaf displaying fall colours ranging from corals through deep, rich blood orange and bright scarlet. Sunlight shining through from the back reveals the leaf’s dark red veins.
September 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Rosa rugosa blossoms, unwatered but blooming abundantly despite these stats: today is Day 10 of this summer’s 3rd intense heatwave; 2025 is Year 5 of deep, on-going drought; last rainfall was over 3 weeks ago; last night brought first frost.

#breadandroses
#LabourDay
#climatechange
#bloomscrolling
Vibrant pink Rosa rugosa blossoms snuggled into their fresh green foliage, unwatered but blooming abundantly despite these stats: today is Day 10 of this summer’s third intense heatwave; 2025 is Year 5 of deep, on-going drought; there’s been zero rainfall for three weeks and last night brought first frost.
August 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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A Compton tortoiseshell #butterfly looking for a suitable crevice to overwinter in, in this case, a gap in some unfinished board and batten siding.

Nymphalis vaualbum
September 2021

#nature
#rewilding
#photography
An orange, black and white Compton tortoiseshell butterfly looking for a crevice to overwinter in, in this case, a gap in the black wood siding on the back of the bunkie.
August 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Volunteer wild raspberries growing near the front door.

#nature
#rewilding
#photography
Wild raspberries growing through a panel of weathered grey lattice.
August 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Stormsky

#summer
#heatwave
#nature
#photography
Stormsky: dark grey horizon, scudding clouds, viewed through pine and spruce trees.
August 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Dragons come in many forms. Many love coffee (especially French roast).

This elegant female White-spotted Sawyer beetle walked carefully round and round the rim of my coffee cup for some time before she flew away.

Monochamus scutellatus

#nature
#insects
#beetles
#photography
A female White-spotted Sawyer beetle (Monochamus scutellatus) landed on the rim of my coffee cup and proceeded to walk round and round it. She has a shiny, tapered black body with white spots on her wings, which are folded back against it, and long, elegant black and white barred antennae. Background and colours: weathered grey stump table, greyed lattice in a tan wooden frame, terra cotta pot, green grasses, mottled light brown stump table, mocha ceramic cup with coffee mixed with cream. The lattice is reflected on the surface of the coffee.
July 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Red maple with all her colours revealed … cranberry, scarlet, burnt orange, lemon, chartreuse … linked by brown and blackened branches, hidden roots.

Respect, gratitude and love for the Indigenous peoples of this incomparable land. The bedrock. Essential.

unity in diversity

Happy #CanadaDay 🇨🇦
Red maple with all her colours revealed … cranberry, scarlet, burnt orange, lemon, chartreuse … linked by brown and blackened branches, hidden roots.
July 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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More coral than red, these Red Columbines pop up around the garden wherever they please, looking for all the world like jesters’ crowns.

Aquilegia formosa var. formosa (similar, Aquilegia canadensis)

BC #wildflowers
#nature
#photography
More coral than red, these ‘Red columbine’ wildflower blossoms remind me of a jester’s cap and bells.
July 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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How could a person not love a pretty little #groundcover called Snow-In-Summer?

#gardening
#sunnyslopes
Close up of Snow-in-Summer blossoms. Masses of white split petals with translucent silvery veins, pale green centres and soft yellow stamens float above wooly grey-green foliage.
June 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Cornus canadensis
Dwarf dogwood; creeping dogwood; bunchberry

BC #wildflowers
#woodland
#nature
#photography
White, four-petalled dwarf dogwoods with their vibrant leafy collars at home on the shady forest floor.
June 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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The not-dark northern sky tonight.

Happy Solstice

#photography
#nature
#nightsky
Solstice sky looking northwards to the horizon which will remain light tonight. Taken a few minutes ago at about 11:30 p.m.
June 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM