Danielle LeBlanc

A picture of leaves on a plum tree, many of which have red and black spotted lady beetles climbing over it. Many of the beetles are also on top of one another, mating. It's a sunny day.

A few dozen lady beetles lovemaking on the local plum tree. It's that time of year. #photography #nature #gardening #spring

A lake scene, with mountains in the background, half covered in mist. In the centre, a rainbow stretches up from the lake into the clouds, and is reflected across the lake. In the foreground is a large pile of rocks and a pathway.

Spent a few nights in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia (Canada). One of my fav places in the world. It rained and even hailed most of the time, but when it didn't, we got the most spectacular rainbows. And yes, American friends are welcome to visit Canada :)

When Mike Myers wore his "Canada Is Not For Sale" t-shirt on SNL, he mouthed a secret code: "elbows up."
It's a reference to the great Gordie "Mr. Elbows" Howe who punished those that messed with his team.
You heard him Canada: elbows up.
If anyone asks why, tell them that Mike Myers sent you.

A picture of a dahlia flower with spiky petals, fuchsia pink on the outside tapering to yellow on the inside. Green leaves in the background.

It's dark and pouring rain in the #PNW this afternoon. So here's a dahlia pic from my community garden last summer :)
#photography #flowers #gardening

Watching Wuthering Heights (2009) last night I was glad they highlighted the novel is NOT a romance but a warning about obsessive revenge, unchecked passion, selfishness, spoiled rich people & their attitude to servants, lower classes & foreigners. Are we so different 187yrs later? #books #history

ETA: at least it does in Canada and the US. Not sure about elsewhere.

And Kanopy! It's like Netflix, but free, and comes with your library membership. It has great quality shows, Great Courses, Documentaries, movies, etc. So, so good.

An image of a carton of 12 eggs with a price of $4.17.

Price of eggs in Canada at Walmart today (in Canadian funds). Works out to $2.94USD

Picture of a street covered in white snow. On either side of the road tall, leafless trees are also covered in snow. A red truck is parked in the distance.

And for a few minutes, the world is fresh and clean and new.
#PNW #photography #snow #nature

I am Canadian. I buy Canadian goods. I grow food to give my elderly neighbours on fixed incomes & to a lady who rescues bunnies. In exchange, one bakes me treats from her home country, another gives me bunny manure for my garden. Because that's how we do it here & being civil matters.

A dark grey storm cloud with slashes of blue sky in between, and more dark clouds behind a row of houses that look golden in the setting sun. In front of them, a field of white snow stretches out.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In fact, it was snowing beneath this dark storm cloud that moved rapidly over us, with sun on either side :) Near Vancouver, Canada
#photography #PNW #natureiswild

I live in BC, Canada and have no good reason to follow the NE Ohio Regional Sewer District except that they seem like fun people :)
@neorsd.org

An ice hut on a frozen Lake Simcoe, Ontario Canada on a foggy winter day.

Gorgeous shot!

Swirling orange flower petals in the centre of a dahlia flower with varying shades of oranges and hints of yellow

The architectural beauty of a dahlia.
#gardening #photography #flowers

Victor Frankenstein walkinge yn a hurrye through a mall.

He passeth a signe: BUILDE A BEAR.

Victor Frankenstein doth pause, rolle up hys sleeves, walke ynto the store.

Pollinator meadows Visit a pollinator meadow, a naturalized meadow through mowing reduction in parks.

The city next door to me has created pollinator meadows on the boulevards and medians with some info on their policies around it. It's quite lovely to drive past and see wildflowers between the lanes :) vancouver.ca/parks-recrea...

8b in the Pacific Northwest? I'm also doing peas soon! Last year I sowed on Feb. 5 on my covered balcony, transplanted to the garden in April, and started harvesting mid-May :)

Lily on a half sunken leaf

Lily on a floating leaf

Lily floating on it's own

Lily standing just above the water.

Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight.

Snowy road with a small weasel carrying a mouse.

Thought we forgot didn't you
What day is it ?
Weasel Wednesday

This little terror is a short tail weasel AKA stote.

DuckDuckGo is all about privacy protection and it down ranks sites that are deemed to be content mills or have low journalistic quality / disinformation.

An illustrated book cover that reads: Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips The picture is of a wooded area with tall pine trees on either side and a lake in the middle. In the forefront is a woman's nude body, laying on her side, looking up towards the sky with an ambiguous expression on her face. Her private areas are covered by branches and leaves.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20bookchallenge

SPEAKING OF GARDENS

yall better have library cards. Some (most!!) public library systems have seed libraries and libraries of things where you can borrow things you may not need to own.

Also libraries are revolutionary and librarians have always been on the front lines

A book cover that reads Beowulf: A Verse Translation Translated by Seamus Heaney and Edited by Daniel Donoghue A Norton Critical Edition There is an image of twisted metal that appears to be belt buckles and jumbled artifacts.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20
#BookSky #BookChallenge #20bookchallenge

Just sawe a signe for a local businesse offeringe a "self servyce dog wasshe" and methoughte well that ys askinge a lot of the dogges

A children's book cover that reads Ant and Bee and the Rainbow: A Story about Colours, By Angela Banner. There is a rainbow on a blue background with a ant holding a walking stick and wearing a small black hat, smiling at a bee that is carrying an umbrella and wearing a brown, wide-brimmed hat.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

A beige-brown ball made up of many thin strands that look like a dried clump of spaghetti. There are small, smooth rocks in the background, and threads of green seaweed in the kelp ball.

Lessons from the ocean: Be like a holdfast. The holdfast of bullwhip kelp anchors kelp stems up to 100ft long and provides shelter to 100+ species. It's dainty looking, but tough enough to withstand some of the wildest ocean storms. Life continues on.
#photography #beach #oceans

As someone who has never been to New Orleans, this book made me want to go badly!

A book cover with the title The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The picture is a woman wearing a dark robe and long hair riding a white horse. The woman is carrying a long sword that has a faint glow around it.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

I hope you enjoy it! think I was about 10 or 11 when I bought it in a bookstore, it was my first Stephen King novel and got me hooked.