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A photo of Emily Carr's book Hundreds and Thousands on a patio table. Blue sky above. Flower pots with various plants inside them in the background.

A photo of a yellow Victorian era house surrounded by green, leafy trees. Blue sky with a few wispy white clouds above. This is the Emily Carr house in Victoria, British Columbia.

A photo of a framed black and white photograph of the Carr sisters. An oval portrait inside a rectangular wood frame.

Picked up this book at a visit to Carr House a few weeks ago. Maybe 2025 is a year of reading about art instead of making art. My camera and pen sit idle, filled with weariness.

A close up photo of white shells with the two sides attached to each other lying on a pebble beach. The shells are filled with water and have barnacles growing on the inside. There are also a few pebbles at the center of each shell.

A close up photo of a single white shell on a pebble beach. The shell is filled with water and has barnacles growing on the inside.

A close up photo of a small white sea shell on a dark rock. It has kelp growing from the top shell that almost looks like it's wearing a hat.

Sea things.

#porthardy #phonephotography

To be a "serious" writer, one must have:

A favorite punctuation mark (it's the semicolon)
A controversial grammar opinion
Anxiety over spending money on books, pens, or notebooks
Anxiety, period
Something ineffable you want to eff
Fear of opening emails

another go at a "Pep Ventosa"style creation.
11 images, one shot every 6-8 feet walking around this tree. I couldn't get back far enough all the way around so had to make do. then imported layers into Ps from Bridge, and opacity adjusted on each layer.

#photography

A picture of a black cat's face. Large yellow eyes. The cat looks concerned (really, what he means to convey is "no photos"). He's lying on a blue and white blanket on a grey sofa.

I'm in a total creative void. It's so uncomfortable.

Here's a cute cat.

Feast of the Pale Leviathan (Signed Copies) - Evening House Books A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Owen finds inside is a community of fellow su...

It's August, which means release month for FEAST, my horror adventure novel about a kaiju Hobbes' Leviathan, the sea-stranded devoured souls surviving inside its belly and their rebellion against the beast + the cult that feeds it to sustain an astral Atlantis

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B.C. under tsunami evaluation after 8.0M earthquake off coast of Russia The U.S. Tsunami Warning System is assessing if there is a tsunami risk to B.C. after at 8.0 magnitudge earthquake off the east coast of Russia.

The U.S. Tsunami Warning System is assessing if there is a tsunami risk to B.C. after at 8.0 magnitudge earthquake off the east coast of Russia.

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Also, the already mentioned Carmilla, the first handful of books in Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series, the Blood series by Tanya Huff.

For movies, We are the Night, a 2010 German flick.

Mysterious inscription on tombstone reveals Count Dracula A cryptic inscription found in a centuries-old tomb may finally reveal the long-lost resting place of Count Dracula.

Saving this for later. You know, in case I make it to Naples sometime soon...

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin

Feed by Mira Grant

World War Z by Max Brooks (100% better than the movie)

Limestone formations with a creek running through. A bridge in the distance. Trees on either side. Toward the top right there is a shiba inu that photobombed the shot.

Limestone formations in dappled sunlight.

A pool of green water between limestone formations.

Limestone formations with a creek running through them. A bridge in the distance. Trees on either side of the creek.

Perseverance Creek Potholes in Cumberland.

#vancouverisland #vanisle

An almost tunnel-like forest path. Roots criss cross the path. The photo is processed in monochrome.

#forestfriday

A lovely path at Hemer Park in Cedar, British Columbia.

#photography #forestpath #vancouverisland #vanisle #landscape #monochrome #monochromephotography

A close up of ghost pipe

Ghost pipe is a mycoheterotroph. It connects to fungi that is connected to tree roots, forming a partnership where trees give the fungi sugars in exchange for minerals and water. Ghost pipe hijacks that network, stealing nutrients that the fungi originally got from the trees. SO COOL!!!

A photo of The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling with a black coffee cup on top of it. The coffee cup has a skull and cross bones on it with the phrase Name Your Poison above it.

Reading on the deck with a cup of coffee. There's a little blue dragon fly floating around. A moment of calm away from the chaos of the world.

Digital concept of a three-headed cat for an oil painting. One cat is black. One is white. The final head is grey… a mixture of the other colors

Digital concept for my next oil painting #darkart #art #creepy #cats #wip #concept

A small waterfall surrounded by lush green forest.

The lower fall at Little Qualicum Falls for #waterfallwednesday #vancouverisland #vanisle #photography #landscape #waterfall

Mary and Percy Shelley, Clare Clairmont and John William Polidori

Happy anniversary of the Villa Diodati summer, where the Shelleys, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont and Polidori gathered in a house on the shores of Lake Geneva and told ghost stories.

Celebrate by taking laudanum and hallucinating horrors, or by watching one of the films inspired by the events:

A forested hill with different foliage and layers of green. A rock wall on the left of the photo is covered in vines. On the right side of the frame a wooden bridge structure crosses a gorge.

#forestfriday

One of the most magical spots I visited in #Austria. #Kesselfallklamm It was like being in a faerie forest.

#photography #forest #tree #photographersofbluesky

A close up photo of blackberry flowers. There is one fully open blossom at the bottom center of the photo. The flower is white with soft pink at the center. A bunch of buds above. Behind are green leaves.

Backlit puffy clouds against a blue sky gradually getting denser and darker. At the bottom of the frame is a hill with trees and houses and then a strip of water.

A landscape shot of a lagoon. Grey clouds above with a bit of light yellow at the horizon. A treed hill in the middle right. The foreground is split between grey water and a green grassy shore.

Puffy clouds against a blue sky above. Ocean with a few small distant islands on the horizon in the middle of the photo. The foreground is a small crashing wave and a pebble beach.

Spent the evening at the beach with drawing club.

#nanaimo #piperslagoon #beach

3 books you've read at least twice

🖤 Experimental Film by Gemma Files
🖤 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
🖤 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Hard to pick just three. Runners up Dracula by Bram Stoker and Mauve Desert by Nicole Brossard.

#Sunset season.

#forestfriday at Morrell Sanctuary in #nanaimo.

#monochrome #monochromephotography #photography #forest #forestpath #vancouverisland #vanisle

Feds promise another $61.5M for southern resident killer whales, two other species The federal government has earmarked another $61.5 million to protect three types of whales in Canada, including the critically endangered southern resident killer whale, which lives in the waters of British Columbia.

The federal government has earmarked another $61.5 million to protect three types of whales in Canada, including the critically endangered southern resident killer whale, which lives in the waters of British Columbia.

I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has liked, commented, and reposted my photos. You may never see this, but I'm deeply grateful that I'm starting to find a bit of community on this platform.

Thank you! And thank you to the folks who run #forestfriday #stunday and #blueskyartshow!