Jesse Birch

Awesome shot!

A wood floor with a beam of light that frames a dog’s paw, a cat’s head and paw, and human toes.

Coexist!

Nice! Congrats Amber!

I love them! 🌱

Swamp Lantern, AKA Western Skunk Cabbage. Could you smell it?

Most Canadian voting booth ever?

With election day around the corner, local arts organizations reached out to each of the candidates for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith electoral district to learn where they stand on arts and culture.

We have received responses from two candidates:

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Awesome news Josh!

Looking forward to the fruits of her labour!

Sun’s out tongues out!

“Howdy Neighbour”

I want to shrink like Rick Moranis and give it a hug.

I call on all candidates across parties to join me in endorsing the #VotePalestine and Protect Palestinian Children Now campaigns.

Canada must protect innocent civilians, international rule of law, and enable a just and lasting peace in Palestine and Israel.

More unites us than divides us.

Very nice! Hope you all are doing great :)

This is fire!

Lisa Marie is also about as far left as they come in the NDP and has been a great advocate.

Two bowls in the sunshine and shadows with tiles in the background. One is a pale green with vertical sides the other is a rusty red with a more rounded shape. They are siting on an aged piece of wood.

Two sunny bowls by Wayne Ngan. To the left: porcelain with celadon, made and fired at Tam Irving’s studio in Fisherman’s Cove, BC. To the right: stoneware with a glaze made from wild clay found near Victoria BC and fired on Hornby Island. @waynengan.bsky.social

Woman with a wide brimmed hat and red hair wearing a purple sweater holds a camera among purple flowers on a sunny day

Happy Birthday to my bee loving love @msjessegray.bsky.social give her a follow to be uplifted by native bees 🐝!

Close up of a brown bee with fluffy beige fur, sitting in a lemon yellow flower. Only her face is in focus, highlighting her large grey-blue spotted eye and the yellow pollen grains stuck to each of her hairs. She has her pollen-covered mouthparts extended into the flower and out of sight.

Macro Melissodes (long horned bee, female).

Such a stunner.

Summer 2024
Snuneymuxw Territory
South End, Nanaimo
#dailybee #bcnativebees

My mom sent me two photos from her time hanging out with my teenager yesterday. In the first one they are cozy inside working on a jigsaw puzzle. In the second one they are on the corner of the highway in the rain protesting genocide. #multigenerationalsocialjustice
#coolgrandma

#beesbehavingbadly?

Also 51 here and to me it’s less about era and more about relatability, thats why I really appreciate the skating of say Emile Laurent or Nelly Morville, and life Sheffy or real/atm/6040 Gonz. I like skaters who seem like they try, because I need to.

A bag of hand crafted and harvested herbal tea blend, with a stove top in the background

A pottery cup with some iced tea made with herbal tea blend

Clear bag of salad greens labeled “Spicy Salad Kerri”

Shelves in a window full of wooden seed trays with some small seeds sprouting in soil in them

Big thanks for many wonderful ways to shop local. Recent favourites: Emily’s delicious @secondspringherbal Spring Within tea, seen in a @bessejirch cup; pumpkin seeds and salad mix from @lindahenningsonart.bsky.social at Lucky 77 Farm: and wood seed starter trays and soil mix from Hillside Farms!

“Anybody who thinks that they can understand how terrible the terror has been, without understanding how beautiful the beauty has been against the grain of the terror, is wrong.”
– Fred Moten

😂awesome!

Land…to primo?

Vancouver Island has a 'relative abundance' of the kinds of bats considered to be at risk New research from Environment and Climate Change Canada shows local myotis species strongly prefer feeding at wetland areas

Bat species considered to be at risk seem to be in "relative abundance" on the east coast of Vancouver Island.

www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/v...

A complex pen and ink drawing of a sinking ship on fire (representing the US), filled with furious, raging animals of all varieties (bear, eagle, ram, lion, moose, etc.) armed with guns, all staring at their phones which are telling them that all of their problems are due to night monkeys. A small night monkey is in the middle of all of the other animals, holding her children close, eyes wide with fear. Pigs and their money are floating in the turbulent water, they think they’re safe in their life preserver rings but sharks are on their way. The text reads “GUTTERS ARE ELASTIC, FEATURING: SONNY ASSUE SHARY BOYLE & WHESS NARYAN bailey macabre & COLE PRULS & JILLIAN TAMAKI, MOMOKO USAMI • JOSHUA W. COTTER & RONALD WIMBERLY JULY I5- SEPTEMBER 24 2023 OPENING RECEPTION JULY 17,7:00 PM NANAIMO ART GALLERY SO COMMERCIAL ST. NANANDARTGALLERY.CA SNUNEYMUXW TERRITORY

A poster I made for a group show in Canada a couple years back.

Gorgeous light too!

Hand painted sign for Spartacus Books possibly from 1990s-2000s

Shop showing the many book shelves of Spartacus Books.

Street view with black coloured awning showing the words “Spartacus Books Infoshop” with a red star and cars parked in front of store front windows.

Vintage poster with “Anti-war conference” 1973 all political parties candidates meeting.

Did you know that Spartacus Books is a nonprofit, volunteer-run bookstore & resource centre in Vancouver that has been run collectively for 50 years, where you can hangout, read books & magazines, use the free computer, make friends, circulate zines, access local skill sharing & mutual aid networks?