Dr. Gascoyne 🇨🇦

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

mmmm that looks wonderful

A really fine discussion of one of my favourite authors. Without mentioning Blake, Saltzman-Cohen made me start considering that connection, which had not occurred to me before.

raise a glass of your hydrating beverage - It's Edward Gorey's birthday today

"To the unspeakable horror of the literary life!"

Mine (5 women authors of whom I've read at least 5 books)
Diana Wynne Jones
Ursula K LeGuin
Patricia McKillip
Robin McKinley
Barbara Hambley

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons

"I’d argue that, as well as expressing our frustrations with the disenchanted world, [fantasy is] also our best means for capturing the ways in which the world remains enchanted, for all our strenuous buffering." - Francis Spufford

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Stay safe! Can Gov is sending a "shelter in place" order and suggests keeping a low profile and monitoring media. 🙏🏻

I have one of those in my garden right now. Would love to see one growing wild.

Thank you @weratedogs.com for this warning! This is sinister and scary stuff.

Omg thank you for boosting this message. It’s sinister and scary.

Upside-down reflections of six leafless trees and some light cloud in still water.

Winter's reflections. It was a gorgeous afternoon at Swan Lake nature reserve yesterday, but it still looks pretty wintry everywhere. 📸📷 #yyj #BritishColumbia #photography #reflection

A pottery bowl glazed in blue, with the face of an owl impressed on the side.

A super bowl featuring a superb owl.
CH Brannam Pottery, Barnstaple, North Devon, for Liberty & Co. circa 1900.

'February' from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months, 1951. Other than a succulent stalk of forced rhubarb, and a florist's tulip, garden flowers now predominate. There's early primula allionii, dainty snowdrops, iris reticulata, celandine, sprays of daphne and winter jasmine, and two gladiolus bulbs.

I only knew him online, but he was always warm and helpful. So many of our interests intersected; I wish I'd had a chance to meet him and have a good talk.

A collage of early-flowering plants in winter light, including hazel catkins, pink winter heliotrope, yellow winter aconite, pale lilac crocus, white snowdrops with green markings, blue scilla, yellow cornelian cherry flowers, cream comfrey blooms, pink viburnum flowers and glossy green spurge laurel.

“Forerunners of a world of flowers…”

Blooming this weekend to welcome February: hazel catkins, winter heliotrope, winter aconite, crocus, snowdrops, scilla, cornelian cherry, comfrey, viburnum & spurge laurel, early signs the year is already turning. #WildflowerHour #TheWinter10

Paper aquatic plant replicas

New work- aquatic plants- mostly invasive. These are paper sculptures.

I saw that! Congratulations :)

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Wow! If Jo Walton likes it, you know you've hit the big time :) (btw, I loved it, too - the praise is well deserved)

YouTube video by CTV News LIVE: PM Carney delivers special address at World Economic Forum

If you haven't heard Canadian PM, Mark Carney's speech at Davos, give it a listen. It's well worth your time.

youtube.com/watch?v=JtF6...

#canada #leadership #davos #newworldorder

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

Sorry. I usually avoid political stuff as much as I can, but this just makes me so furious. On the other hand, see Carney's speech at Davos for a bit of hope.

If you needed confirmation, see his deranged post from last night (which seems to be being ignored by all but Canadian news)

Chasing Joy - This Wild Curiosity For something a little different, here’s a little zine I made about finding joy in difficult times.

I made a little zine about chasing joy in *these* times. Maybe that's something you need as well?
www.thiswildcuriosity.com/2026/01/16/c...

Thank you. That was lovely, and I needed it, badly.

Sympathies. I'll have to ask my countrymen in colder areas than ours - we've had only one night of frost this winter and nothing freezing.

Of course he is.

Yes, it certainly has been for the last few years.

Two pale mauve early crocuses blooming amid clover leaves, all sprinkled with moisture (rain or dew)

Signs of Spring? Not that we've really had much winter this year here in Victoria BC. 🌱📸📷 #BloomScrolling #InMyGarden #Flowers #Photography