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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️
@gardeningdame.bsky.social
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🌿 Master Gardener & Photographer
Capturing the beauty of nature & community through my lens. 📸🍁🇨🇦
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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · Jan 25
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Path Forged - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #GardenPath #fineartphotography #art
A forested garden path cut through a mountain side at Butchart Gardens in Victoria BC.
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Luminous Petals - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #bloomscrolling #begoniaboliviensis #begonia #shadegarden #fineartphotography #art
Begonia boliviensis trails over a rock wall in dappled light.
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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One of my captures has made the 2026 #PortCoquitlam calendar! Taken on a frosty day when the bright #sky beckoned.
Frosty Footsteps - Laura Thomas Photography #PittRiver #Minnekhada #photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #winterwalks #blueskyartshow #fineartphotography #art
Winter walkers venture down the frosty trail along the Pitt River in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada.
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Rustic Radiance - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #bloomscrolling #fallflowers #mumsflowers
A pot of fall mums sits on a staircase at the Butchart Gardens.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The Butchart Boar - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Garden, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #gardenart #fineartphotography #art
The Butchart Boar welcomes guests to Butchart Garden in Victoria.
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Pin the Tail - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #succulents #donkeytailspurge #succulentscrolling
Donkey tail spurge in dappled light.
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Kaleidoscope Revealed - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #fallfoliage #japanesegarden #foliage #fineartphotography #art
A canopy of fall colours from the Japanese Garden at Butchart Gardens in Victoria, fall of 2025.
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
Drawing featuring a lone figure in silhouette on a track in snow with tall trees to the right, under a bleak greyish white sky
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Steps & Stones - Laura Thomas Photography - The Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #japanesegarden #fineartphotography #art
Stairs curve down into a Japanese garden at Butchart Gardens in Victoria.
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Eternal Mercury - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #bloomscrolling #italiangarden #blueskyartshow #warmth #fineartphotography #art
In the centre of an Italian Garden, nestled in the heart of Butchart Gardens in Victoria, a bronze statue of Mercury warms under the sun's fast fading afternoon light.
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Autumn Eve - Laura Thomas Photography - The Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #bloomscrolling #dahlias #fallgarden #botanicalgarden
A peek into the dahlia garden at Butchart Gardens, Victoria.
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Garden Spun - Laura Thomas Photography - The Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #GardenPath #bloomscrolling #fineartphotography
A trio wanders down the garden path at Butchart Botanical Gardens in Victoria BC.
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Dear Dahlia - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #bloomscrolling #dahlias #autumnflowers
A capture of orange dahlias at the end of season at Butchart Gardens.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Nearly 6 million Canadians are now covered under our dental care plan — and they’re saving an average of $800 a year on dentist visits.

Find out more:
www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...
Canadian Dental Care Plan reaches new milestone as Government of Canada strengthens access to oral health care
Today, the Honourable Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health, announced that close to six million Canadians are now covered under the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) and can receive the dental care they...
www.canada.ca
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Cloth left over from a Nazi flag, signed by women prisoners in Ravensbruck concentration camp. Yehudit Taube, a young Jewish nanny, embroidered the names during the camp's liberation to show the solidarity of the women survivors, many of whom were in the resistance #WomensArt
Photo of a triangular red cloth with multiple signatures embroidered in white thread, all against a black background
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Canada’s new government is making big investments to train more dental care professionals — so you can get the care you need.
Screenshot of an article from the CTV News website with the title: Ottawa announces $35 million for 30 oral health training programs across Canada.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Cultivating Colour - Laura Thomas Photography - Butchart Gardens, Victoria 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #fallfoliage #foliage #fineartphotography #art
Bright pink and black Caladium leaves, blanketed in a bed of citrus yelloe leaves.
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Above the Crowd - Laura Thomas Photography - The Butchart Gardens Victoria, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #botanicalgarden #shadows #art
A capture at the top of the view point at Butchart Gardens. The garden viewers cast long shadows as they peer over the edge.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a sunrise or sunset with a white gold low sun creating long shadows from the tree trunks, in silhouette, in a forest, on a frosty purple and white forest floor
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The work of contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Bays
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers 🎄
Print featuring a bird, a Robin, perched in a tree among brown leaves
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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My submission for #blueskyartshow this week focuses on a #small find from my fall garden.

Ladybird Wings - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #pollinators #ladybugs #ladybird #wings #dahlia #bloomscrolling
A ladybug unpacks its wings before take off.
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Gradient Hills - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #minnekhada #pittriver #RiverLife #fineartphotography #art #bluehour
The mountains and hills fade in the blue hour.
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Riverbank Percussion - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #riverlife #grasshopper
A grasshopper makes its way along the recently mowed edge of the dyke.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM