Its so true. I gained weight with pregnancy and lost weight with cancer, some certain people treated me totally differently. sort of like the men (thankfully less now) who dont talk to women or are icily polite unless women fit their fuckable category. but in the case of weight it's both sexes.

salmon spawning at Nanaimo BC

dandelions are ace. the seeds are formed by apomixis (plant parthenogenesis)

I like them, but there's no ace

please no data centres in Nanaimo area.

dark brown cat with short tail pauses on wood shingles stacked on the lawn

rays of sunlight filter over an abstract oil painting in shades of pink, purple and green

last sunshine

note that the orange flowers behind are cracker jack marigolds.

TBH, I am very cardless and mix up a myriad of zinnia seeds each spring when I seed starts. Some are saved and over years I end up with many tall dark pink singles. This one is most likely from a package of mixed zinnia seed, since the shaggy orange one growing beside it (not shown) definitely is.

much as I dislike PP I almost hope the cons keep him, since the possibility they find someone actually charismatic is terrifying

a brown bowl holding one each of yellow, orange and purple long peppers, and a flowering sprig of basil

garden produce in bowls on a blue tabletop, including several dozen tomatoes, dried beans, peppers and small squash

harvesting and processing...

fall asters

I am trying to ignore PP, in hopes the CPC dont put someone charismatic as leader instead.

so they're now trying to bring back rubella, pertussis and polio too?

thank you for the stream

flowering Genovese basil

a tabletop with pears, cucumber, pepper, tomatoes, green grapes, ground cherries and two small orchid plants in a jar

a 4x8 garden bed with cucumbers (right) tomatoes, peppers (lower left) and a tall Solanum nigrum in the middle.

this weekend it's gardening all the way down

my shadow in the dahlias

snack

three pears on a branch of a tree, partially hidden behind leaves

A small pear tree showing at least 50 pears ripening

so many pears! so many!

aren't they the same as "whales tails" which you get in BC at places like the Vancouver folk fest?

you might not want to do this, but I have taken paintings off the frames and sent them rolled, reframing them at the other end.

dark red scabiosa with white anthers

large pink single zinnia in front of orange crackerjack marigolds

double-centred zinnia in shades of gold and orange with pink undertones. this one was grown from seeds saved from a Queeny blush variety

haloes of yellow anthers on scarlet single zinnias cut for a flower arrangement

time for bouquets!

Vancouver skytrain views

a canadian forest headed to Asia

so would Tokyo be East or West? I will say west since I flew west, which would make Bangkok my furthest west. S- Manila, N- La Ronge Sk. and with the same logic, Warsaw would be the furthest east, I think.

why would they care whether their party is strong enough to win fairly if they're in power?

profusely flowering Zinnias in shades of red and white, most are a deep pink red with white tipped petals

Zinnias at Nanaimo night market

congratulations 🎉!

no, basil is everybody's friend.

water water colour

raised beds in a fenced garden

green cherry tomatoes on the plant

a bounty of unripe pears on a pear tree

a cucumber is nearly ready for harvest

end of July garden