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j r scott

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Music and the natural world. That's about it. Treaty One - .8954° north of the 49th; 2.8615° east of the 100th.

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 4h

Just now in the outback. And a link to a Petty album that is not named Waning Gibbous Moon Fever. Pity.
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Black of night surrounds a Waning Gibbous moon, partly obscured by branches here on earth.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 8h

So the French aristocracy mockingly called the Parisian revolutionaries "grenouilles" (frogs)...Vive les grenouilles ! Vive les grenouilles libre !

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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 19h

Frog guy speaks out!

Pepper sprayed by ICE, he still shows up every day to fight for his community.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 8h

🍁 🍁 🍁 !!

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 12h

As Alice Cooper said "I'd have to pound on my kids' bedroom door and yell 'turn that music up'!".

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 17h

Old favourite by an old favourite. rip jl
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The Moody Blues - I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)

YouTube video by TheMoodyBluesVEVO

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 1d

Well, we'll always have that toque trick to remember.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely a slow waking, riding, top down kinda day. But whatever you do, do not enter the woods.

Roadway with cyclists, parked vintage convertible and trees f changing colours.

Canada geese slowly crossing the road finally getting to the other side.

Thick green golden aspen woods with orange/black "do not enter" blockade street signage left over from the "open streets" experiment.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 1d

FREEEEDOMMMM!

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 1d

Only one Gus bus per team.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 2d

Summer's into overtime in the outback: Trees still leafing, flowers still flowering, sunshine keeps sunshining. And tonight sees a good moon rising with the Canada's honking and a lone great horned hooting. Love this time of year.

Almost full moon rising through thr trees.

Sunshine and autumn trees in the grassy valley.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 2d

Cue the tuba soundtrack!

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 2d

Ha. Was wondering that too.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 2d

Salt Spring Island. Where organisation & volunteerism and "buy / sell local" is next level. AND it's full of farmstands for everything from fruits and vegetables to jams, cut flowers and clothing. It's an honour system where you leave cash. Amazing.

Cash box and bowl filled with change for honest customers at a farmstand.

Chalk board with payment instructions and info.

Farmstand with knitted sweaters adorned with apples for sale at side of road.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful colours!!

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 4d

I ❤️ SN!

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, Mr Piffles wuz there!

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 4d

They like cabbage with stuff on the westernmost coast...the Tacofino fish taco and the Japanese okonomiyaki street food from Toki Doki were as awesome as awesome can be. (surprise: pairs well with a brew)

Full pint from Tofino Brewing Co. Photo taken at a picnic table, at the brewery, beside a food truck, surrounded by flowers.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 4d

The Leaf, surrounded by changing leaves, in a town that loathes the Leafs (though there are far too many who love da Leafs - we'll leave it at that).

Odd shaped building stands out in a park surrounded by urban and natural forest in autumn colours. Downtown on horizon: good from far but far from good.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 5d

Oak Anada?
(I'm not saying I brought this weather back with me but it looks suspiciously familiar.)

Oak leaf stuck to a rain dripped window with summer's red flowers behind.

Oak leaf stuck to a rain dripped window .

Oak leaf stuck to a rain dripped window with mother oak behind.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 5d

...politicians, sit yourselves down, there's nothing for you here...

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Crosby, Stills & Nash • “Chicago” • 1979 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]

YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 5d

Mossy autumny Canada.

Orangey yellowy maple leaves placed on a mossy stump in a mossy ferny forest.

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 6d

Oak Lake, the Trans-Canada, the Assiniboine and Virden.

From 38,000 feet, scattered clouds, river valleys and prairie lakes.

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 7d

"To everything, tern, tern, tern
There is a season, tern, tern, tern
And a time to every purpose under heaven" pete seeger
...or a long-billed dowitcher...just doesn't work lyrically.

Long billed, long legged shore bird sticking their bill into the sand in search of stuff.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 7d

Sučas--Tree. Land holder lesson.
Teach your children well...

Large tree rising through the rainforest.

Sign with artistic rendering of trees on slopes:
Sučas--Tree
Time-tested insights are embedded within languages, providing knowledge and guidance. For example, Sučas is the Tla-o-qui-aht name for a tree, meaning land holder. As the name implies, without trees, landslides may occur. The name itself holds the teaching, which has been demonstrated in deforested areas around the wor ld.
The Tla-o-qui-aht constitution, traditional teachings, oral history, and
rights and responsibilities are-documented and encoded in traditional art forms, and are exemplified by nature.
The international phonetic ,alphabet (PA) is being used as a modern-day way to write the sounds of the Nuučanut.
N uu-chah-nulthilanguage.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 8d

"Rain rain rainforest
Help strengthen my faith
Touch the earth
Where you feel the pain
Bring rebirth
Let me live again
Good vibrations
With mankind
Could set me free
So do it for me"
Thx to Michel Pagliaro / William Finkelberg

Ocean Beach surrounded by moss and ferns and logs and roots of a rainforest

Moss and ferns and logs and roots of a rainforest