Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦

The CN tower in Toronto. Lit up white and red

A streetscape at night in Toronto. Looking down the street at an intersection.

Looking down the street at night in Toronto. Lit buildings on either side of the street

Toronto… you were fun!

Coral mushrooms growing out of a log

A view of an orange mushroom from below. It’s surrounded by moss and the background is blurred.

Photo of mushroom gills from below. Close up

Tiny mushrooms growing out of a stick.

Some mushroom finds today! #FungiFriends 🍄 📸

Coral mushrooms growing out of a log

A view of an orange mushroom from below. It’s surrounded by moss and the background is blurred.

Photo of mushroom gills from below. Close up

Tiny mushrooms growing out of a stick.

Some mushroom finds today! #FungiFriends 🍄 📸

Whoa.

Looking through the trees at an orange coloured setting sun. The leaves are a vibrant green and the trunks are backlit/dark.

Bright orange tiny flowers bunched together. Orange variety of butterfly milkweed.

A faded field, with a few stems of black eyed Susan flowers in the foreground

Looking down a path through the woods, there is a canopy of bright green leaves overhead.

Get outside 💚

Looking through the trees at an orange coloured setting sun. The leaves are a vibrant green and the trunks are backlit/dark.

Bright orange tiny flowers bunched together. Orange variety of butterfly milkweed.

A faded field, with a few stems of black eyed Susan flowers in the foreground

Looking down a path through the woods, there is a canopy of bright green leaves overhead.

Get outside 💚

#GetOutside

Three white flowers. There is a bee (I think it’s a bee) facing downward in the middle flower.

Backlit milkweed flowers with a field behind them.

A densely wooded area. The sun is behind the trees and is shining through

A Blue Indigo Bunting sitting on a branch. Its beak is open.

Lots of flowers and lots of bugs 🦟

Ontario takes over four school boards, citing financial concerns Decision to take control of boards in Toronto, Ottawa stems from concerns over large deficits, fiscal mismanagement, province says

Is "financial mismanagement" really a problem at so many Ontario school boards? Or is there maybe not enough money to manage coming in from the province? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Screenshot of a post in front of a background of flames. The post says: BTW, this is the machine you're supposed to rage against.

Just so we're clear about this. . . #RageAgainstTheMachine #Warmongers #NotMyPresident

Cedar Waxwings outside my classroom window. In the Serviceberry tree.

Thank you 😊

We will believe the worst kind of myths about the people we’ve already decided not to love.

A person walks down a path through the woods.

A yellow buttercup facing downwards with rain on it.

A bed of lily of the valley leaves on the forest floor, they’re covered with rain drops.

A snail making its way down the side of a moss covered tree. Close up of the snail.

After the rain 🌧️ 💚🌱 🐌 #NaturePhotography

A path through the grass, there are lush looking trees on the right and purple flowers under the trees.

White blooms (multi-flora rose I think), with a dark background.

A young deer stands in a newly planted corn field. It’s looking straight at the camera.

Purple phlox flowers and yellow buttercups in the woods. A close up of the flowers.

It’s been a while since I’ve been outside. Nice to breathe. #GetOutside #NaturePhotography

Two rabbits laying in the grass.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen rabbits lounging before 😂.

"The Holy Spirit opens borders, first of all, in our hearts. He is the gift that opens our lives to love. His presence breaks down our hardness of heart, our narrowness of mind, our selfishness, the fears that enchain us and the narcissism that makes us think only of ourselves (6-8-25)." #PopeLeoXIV

A pink flower bud, about to open. Close up photo.

🌺

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

I was a girl guide and it was “girl guide day” at Canada’s Wonderland. I remember gathering in our tent (under the rollercoaster). The sky was black and all the tents came down. We weren’t in line with the tornados, but it was incredibly windy.

Pope Leo: “Ten years ago, Pope Francis signed the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’, devoted to care for our common home. It has had an extraordinary impact, inspiring countless initiatives and teaching everyone to listen to the twofold cry of the Earth and of the poor.”

Looking at the bottom side of a mushroom growing out of a stump. There are blurred trees in the background and blue sky.

Happy #FungiFriday my #FungiFriends 🍄 📸

Secularism isn’t what’s driving people away from Christianity.

What’s driving people away from Christianity are those who claim to follow Jesus, but completely ignore his teachings and use his name instead to amass wealth and political power.

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I love this Pope already but I wonder if he really said it. I checked snopes.com but couldn't find the quote on there. My guess is these pope quotes are coming out faster than they can be verified.
So yes, please share your source.

I wouldn’t say that’s rigged. Pope JPII lived a long time and with this argument, you could say he ‘rigged’ the conclave after him as well.

I’m pretty sure he’s stated this view, which I love

Pope Leo to Cardinals: “I would like us to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal Church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. Pope Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium.”

Cardinal Prevost put his head in his hands as papacy loomed As U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost realized during the secret conclave that he might be elected the next Catholic pope, he put his head in his hands at the daunting prospect of leading the 1.4-billion-member Church, a cardinal said on Friday.

As U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost realized during the secret conclave that he might be elected the next Catholic pope, he put his head in his hands at the daunting prospect of leading the 1.4-billion-member Church, a cardinal said on Friday. For @reuters.com:

Yes! 🙌