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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · 8h

Itty Bitty Living Space

Ever wonder what it would be like to have a room in a round lighthouse? This should give you an idea!

To be fair, the lighthouse keepers did also have a proper home nearby. But I'd need a nap after all those stairs, too!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Inside #Lighthouse #Photography

A round room in a lighthouse with a square post in the middle. There is a bed with a quilt, two large photos of the lighthouse, a small table, and two display cabinets on the wall filled with seashells. On the left the stairs go up, and on the right the stairs go down. A sign on the post warns that the stairs are steep. In fact, you have to descend by going backwards, like a ladder!

The lighthouse is Point Prim Lighthouse in PEI, Canada, and is unusual among brick lighthouses in Canada for being round instead of square.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · 7d

Thunderbird

My favourite of the totem poles at Thunderbird Park isn't the tallest, but it really grabbed me.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical #TotemPole #Indigenous #Art #Photography

A totem pole, painted dark with mostly red and green accents. The bird on top has outspread wings and a face on its chest.

Photo taken at Thunderbird Park, Victoria, BC, Canada.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · 14d

Ammonite or Ammolite?

Fossil? Gemstone? It's both! In southwestern Alberta, Canada, millions of years of pressure, heat, and mineralization created this beauty. Isn't it something!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #Fossil #Gemstone #Museum #Photography #Ammonite #Ammolite

The large ammonite is on display surrounded by small lights that reveal its colourful iridescence, mostly green and red. Below it is my finger on a metal strip, keeping the lights turned on.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · 17d

How could you miss Abbotsford?

Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · 21d

Big Stretch

This polar bear was making the most of a sunny day with some cardboard to shred and grass to roll around in. Simple pleasures are the best way to relax, no?

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #Bear #Zoo #Photography

A polar bear lies on their back, front legs outstretched. There are shreds of cardboard in the grass.

Photo taken at Assiniboine Park Zoo, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · 28d

It's from July of last year, in the Rocky Mountains

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · 28d

Goodnight, Mountains

When you really should be focusing on getting off the road before dark, but what are you going to do? Stop taking pictures of the mountains? Ridiculous.

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad #Mountains #Photography

Photo was taken from the side of the highway in a mountain pass. There are tall mountains with snow on them in the background, and it is beginning to grow dark. A semi truck is barely visible in the distance but the highway is otherwise empty.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · 29d

"Don't yell at me! I'm deaf!"
"THAT'S WHY I HAVE TO YELL AT YOU!"

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Sep 7

A Doorway Of Sunshine

This patch of sunlight bordered by darkness is like the season of summer. Beautiful, but brief.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #Trees #Spiderweb #Sunshine #Photography

The sun shines through a gap in some trees, illuminating a spider's web in the middle.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Sep 5

Whenever I get sick, I watch The Princess Bride

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Sep 3

Could be a Scarlet rose-mallow?

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Sep 2

Playing With Rocks

I made a different balance that was much more impressive, but the wind picked up and knocked it over right before I could take a picture, so this is the one you get to see.

#RockinTuesday #RockBalancing #RockBalance #Rocks #Lake #Photography

Several small rocks are balanced on a log in a lake. The shape is somewhat similar to a double pan balance scale. On the left side of the balance, the sky and lake are blue, and on the right, the trees and lake are green.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 31

Big Nickel

At thirty feet high and two feet thick, this is the world's largest depiction of a coin. It was completed in 1964.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny #Coin #Monument #Photography

The Big Nickel is modeled after a 1951 Canadian nickel. It says:
CANADA
NICKEL
1751 - 1951
5 CENTS
and it has a refinery above three maple leaves.
It is located in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, and is a popular spot for selfies.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 27

Stop And Smell The Roses

Don't get overwhelmed. Self-care is important too.

#Bloomscrolling #Flower #Rose #Pink #Photography

A pink rose in full bloom, surrounded by its green, pointy leaves.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 24

Sleeping Giant

It doesn't take much imagination to see him!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline #Lake #Photography

Some hills in Lake Superior resemble a giant sleeping on his back. There are clouds in the sky and trees in the foreground.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 24

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Can you see it through the rain? Confederation Bridge links Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick. At 12.9 km long, it is the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline #Bridge #Ocean #Clouds #Storm #Photography

Confederation Bridge looks very small in the distance and is partly obscured by dark storm clouds and rain.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 20

Five-Leaf Clover

Why do I love photography? Mostly so I can trip down memory lane later, but it's also great for those moments when you think no one will believe you otherwise.

#WorldPhotographyDay #Clover #Luck #Rare #Photography

I am holding a freshly picked clover with five leaves. The leaves are not perfectly symmetrical; one leaf is growing at an angle, and another leaf is growing behind the others.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 17

Your Move

I'm a sucker for giant chess sets. Anybody else?

#BlueSkyArtShow #Pieces #Game #Chess #Photography

A large outdoor chess set, viewed diagonally, with Black's rook closest to the camera. In the background are trees and a bench.

Photo taken at Butchart Gardens, near Victoria, BC, Canada

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 9

Leaf Me Alone

Sometimes I find the leaves almost as interesting as the #flower. I tried to take pictures of the leaves of a tree one day, but I moved on because people were stopping and staring into the tree with me, looking for the bird or squirrel.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Jagged #Bloomscrolling

A pink (or possibly magenta) dahlia, surrounded by its deeply veined leaves with jagged edges.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 4

Orange Tiger

Celebrating another hundred followers with another butterfly!

#Butterfly #Flower #Insect #Photography

The aptly named Orange Tiger Butterfly has black and orange striped wings. It sits on a purple flower, surrounded by green leaves.

Photo taken at the Newfoundland Insectarium.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 3

Maybe a Black Swallowtail?

m.espacepourlavie.ca/en/insects-a...

Black swallowtail

This butterfly’s wingspan is between 9 and 10 cm. Its black wings have two rows of yellow spots along the edges.

m.espacepourlavie.ca

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Aug 3

So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World

A winter pic in memory of the three or four kind people who left their vehicles to give my car a push when it was stuck on compacted snow, and were very nice about it.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Gratitude #Snow #Winter #Sunset

Photo shows a field with a light covering of snow. The setting sun casts orange light across it, but the snow appears blue on both sides. In the middle of the light is a young tree. There are more trees in the background, and dark clouds in the sky.

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Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Jul 30

You're welcome! I know how hard it is to get a photo to turn out right when everything's backlit!

Liz 🇨🇦 @16553km.bsky.social · Jul 30

I hope this isn't weird of me, but I took the liberty of brightening / editing your photo a smidge. I hope you like it

A ferris wheel with a Canada Flag behind it.

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