Jamie Myslik

Omg I just saw a pony!!!
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a group of brilliant white pelicans flies over their own reflections in dark water

two flamingos fly over two other flamingos, standing in glittering water

A group of flamingos feeds in the shallow waters of the Ria Celestun

a reddish egret spreads their wings in a mangrove tree

Just spent a day hanging out with these gorgeous avian dinosaurs from the clade tyrannoraptora (palaeontologists know how to name 'em) on the Ria Celestun. Thanks to Mexico, Celestun, and these cool dinosaurs, for letting me hang.
#writer #avian #dinosaurs #mexico #celestun

I got to try these and they were amazing!

Rouge National Urban Park to get bigger as feds scrap airport plan | The Narwhal The federal government is cancelling plans for an airport in Pickering, east of Toronto, and transferring land for the project to Parks Canada

Good news, friends. After more than fifty years, the shambling corpse of the Pickering Airport plan has been put to rest, and thousands of hectares are being added to the Rouge National Urban Park.

Where water meets ice, a nice little moment of peace. Enjoy 😊
#writer #winter #water #ice #peace

Come midwinter I have difficulty believing that this tree really looks like that half the year.
#writer #treesaremagic

Hola back! Nice to see you here.

Getting into the woods in winter is like going to another planet. Gotta suit up. Everything that's familiar is different. Islands of ice on the water. Crystals growing on moss.
#writer #winter #forest

For real.

The upper neck and vertebrae and skull of Gordo the barosaurus.

A replica of the skeleton of futalognkosaurus lit up purple in the lobby of the Royal Ontario Museum. The skeleton towers over the people in the lobby.

The skeleton of Gordo the barosaurus, a diplodocid sauropod dinosaur in the Royal Ontario Museum.

Just some sauropod pictures from the Royal Ontario Museum. Gordo the diplodocid barosaurus and a replica of the titanosaur futalognkosaurus. When writing a novel about dinosaurs it's nice to have a place like the ROM nearby.
#writer #dinosaur

My current writing project is heavily about the seasons and has me thinking about how, around here, there are a lot more than four. Looking forward to the tree flowers opening up again.
#writer #earth

We got our first snow yesterday so naturally I thought about biking down to the beach. 😂
The snow is gorgeous, and a reminder that all things must rest, and that I should slow down, and and and...
And that can all be true while I get excited for the return of beach weather.
#writer #winter #bike

For all my fellow classics nerds. The 17th is coming!
#writer #classics #saturnalia

November: Snow? Not happening.
December 1st: Ta-da!

Good luck! It's a wonderful read :)

- Hey, what you doing on a Saturday night?
- Not much. Just thinking about hugging trees.

(Just me and a cottonwood on the Toronto Islands in September.)

Welllll, shit.

One of the places I go to #write
It counts if it's just in my head. The interaction between the world and my brain is where it all starts.

For real.

...When the ice thawed, they sank to the bottom of the lake, fossilizing there with debris from the asteroid. A palaeontologist (Jack Wolfe, 1991) found them 66 million years later, and since then other research has corroborated that the Cretaceous ended in the Northern Hemisphere's spring.

A water lily and water pads submerged in water.

A long time ago a pond of water lilies froze solid in what is now Wyoming while they were flowering around early June. Below them was a record of the age of the dinosaurs. An asteroid had hit Chicxulub, in what is now Yucatan, causing an impact winter and dusting the frozen lilies with debris...

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

YouTube video by North of the Border I made Big Bird as a dinosaur chasing Elmo

Seeing Big Bird as a dromaeosaurid is maybe the best way I could have started my weekend.

Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria tells cyclists: for your own safety, stay off Bloor, Yonge and University when bike lanes are removed.

This is proof they know what they're doing will kill or injure people. This is a malevolent gov't. Treating it as rational is a pantomime of some fantasy benign and good faith politics of yesterlore that doesn't exist. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Absolutely

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.

Harvested from the internet, posted without comment. 🌈🍑

My goofy ass in a cute kilt standing in the sun by a river on an autumn day.

When I finished the edits on my book about time-travelling queers and dinosaurs (until I get it back from an editor, anyway), I went for a long hike to think about next projects. Nothing came up, but I got this picture of me being a goofball in my favourite kilt.
Being a writer is hard sometimes. 🤣

Thank you for writing about me and my husband 💖🙏🏻