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Cohan Fulford
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No dating/No investing West Central Alberta, Canada; Artist: painter, writer; write poems + take photos + video+ vlogging. youtube.com/@CohanMagazine plant nerd +gardener. Locally/personally oriented animist, pagan, mystic
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 07 views from yesterday's #commute after several recent moderate snowfalls and ice fog overnight. #frost #snow #winter #weather #Alberta #photography #BorealForest
Looking out the side window of the moving vehicle, across a snowy pasture with bits of dry grass showing through in places. Less than halfway across is a dark post and wire fence then another white stretch. On the other side we can just see another fence at the edge of a dense mixed wood of bare poplars and spruce. The trees are variably covered in frost (from ice fog) and snow with dark boughs showing through in places and some dark shadows between the trees, but the overall effect, especially the front trees, is of white trees. The sky is a soft blue and a white vignette effect has been applied to the edges of the image.
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 06 Yesterday was overcast, a bit of snow + ice fog left trees slightly frosted (hoping for white views today!) Late afternoon light made the photos look rather abstract, my permission to play around a bit more! (see alt). #Alberta #BorealForest #trees #frost #winter 📷🌿
Looking up at several trees- an aspencomes from lower right and angles up into the centre with a pale trunk with black markings where branches emerge or once did; at the top it has a tangle of bare branches and fine twigs, outlined against the featureless whitish sky. To the right we see part of another poplar, smaller and dead with no fine twigs. Behind and to the left, not reaching as high as the aspen, we see the upper 2/3 of a large spruce tree, dark but frost lightened. I've applied some 'light leak' filters which have added random faint blobs and zones of colour, some reddish some blue-green-which kind of hint at holiday lights. The corners have a dark vignette effect applied.
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 05 Someone here (it's not me) takes great pleasure in holiday decorations-vintage, budget, home-made, re-combined! They go up+ come down gradually from mid November to mid February. Just a small taste, no doubt more to come... #decorations #Solstice #holidays #Christmas 📷
A photo collage in 4 square panels with photos of holiday decorations. 2 of the photos are glass balls, one is a shiny metallic gold which has shiny dark green star hanging beside it, they are hanging from a braided silver cord. The other ball is a translucent pink-orange, attached to a string of coloured lights, with a green light nearby and a gold tinsel garland wrapped around the light cord. One of the others images shows a red foil package bow which has been elaborated with a gold filigree costume jewellery rosette broach with several pearl beads added in the centre like a flower or bird's nest. It sits on a background of a light semi-see-through fabric with a fine glittery gold design. The final image shows a small Father Christmas or elf? dwarf? sort of glass figure with pearlescent face, white beard and tall pale blue hat. The bottom of the ornament was broken, so it sits in a bed of gold tinsel garland in a votive candle holder, which is out of sight behind a wide decorative ribbon of fine light coloured fabric decorated with a glittery gold trimmed holly leaves and berries pattern. The border between the 4 images is dark cranberry red. A white vignette effect has been applied around the edges of the collage, and a semi-subtle rainbow effect arcs across the middle, adding to the various coloured glow of holiday lights in all the images.
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Whoa, I think I'm caught up! lol #ArtAdventCalendar Day 04 view from a short trip to town today. Pretty clouds- I think there were flurries/showers but we didn't encounter them. Snowing lightly now, still warmish, tomorrow colder again...
#landscape #Alberta #weather #snow #SkySky#CountryLiving 📷
Somewhat dusky light on a rather overcast late winter afternoon. Looking across a lightly snow-covered field, with strips and patches of low dry dull golden grass showing through, and farther back a plowed area, generally white with the nubbly texture of lumpy soil showing through a little. The field gradually rises (with some intervening slight ridges) to a high point that runs left to right across the centre. Just over the crest a large house- not too high but wide, sits facing us, dark red with white trim and a snowy roof. A couple of small, matching sheds sit off to the left, with a wire and post fence partly visible to the left of that. To the right of the house we see the tops of a row or patch of bare poplars, just over the hill. The sky above the hill and house is overcast but bright with just a hint of pre-sunset colour. Above a medium blue-grey more solid cloud mass feathers into the light below, the lighter and darker blending as if arcing strokes in a watercolour painting. The top and bottom of the image have a white vignette and blur applied, and a faintly violet filter across the centre.
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 03 (I have 04 pics edited, but will I have the oomph to write alt for those tonight?..lol)
We've had several moderate snowfalls recently with warmth making things a little messy but also nice #HolidayDecorations #ChristmasLights #TimeOfIce #Latvian #pagan #Alberta #nature 📷🌿
A thin poplar stem- maybe the thickness of your little finger- comes into the frame from lower right. It's lit from behind and a bit blurry so we don't see a lot of detail, but it is roughly greyish with darker spots especially around leaf/stem scars and twigs and knobby joints. It angles toward the left, with several twigs going several directions. Just above centre, a dark twig arcs gently out to left, down slightly then up. Some bits of ice hang below the twig, including a large drop shaped bit in the middle with smaller bits to each side (almost bulls head shape!). This ice is lit from behind and glowing. The background is blurred with a few vague linear bands of dark and light and circles the camera lens has made of bits of light. A white vignette and blur has been applied to top and bottom of the image, and I've added a faint violet tint across the centre of the image.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 02 (still late..lol)
Snow Mother hasn't been around that much this year, but she's starting to catch up this week. #winter #pagan #Latvian #animist #WitchSky + #RoseWednesday 🌱📷
A single stem of a rugosa rose stands in the falling snow with several dried twigs, a few dry brown-green leaves, and a single dangling dry flower, mostly closed in classic rose shape. Upper edges of twigs, leaves and the flower hold piles of snow crystals and scattered drops of melt water. The background is mostly shadowed trees blurred into a smooth green-grey mass with a few subtle vertical light bands. The falling snow has been turned to subtle circles of light by the camera lens, varying in size and brightness. I've slightly tinted them orangey, violet and pinkish. The edges/corners have a white vignette effect applied.
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 01 (late!) A dark image to remind us as we await the sun's return in the north, that we also need to honour and celebrate the Darkness. Blood, soil, womb, rest, regeneration, rebirth- these are all tied to darkness. #TimeOfIce #PaganSky #animist #winter #Alberta 📷🌿
The end of a single thin poplar branch enters the frame from lower right. It's tip and a couple of small side twigs end in pointed buds which will bear next year's leaves. The branch is rather dark with a hint of red-brown at twig ends, and holds a bit of fresh snow in tiny piles of crystals here and there. A single leaf dangles in the centre, grey-brown with hints of reddish around the edges and darker blotches throughout, giving it an overall dark appearance. The weak mostly overcast light comes from behind. Background is blurred snowy ground and dry vegetation of red-brown-grey and snow white twigs, blurred to abstraction. The edges/corners of the image have a dark vignette effect applied to remind us of the darkness of the season.
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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We've had a little more snow + a few wintry days (-20C/-4Fish tonight, before warmer again this week). For no particular reason, I dug back to early October for some autumnal garden images. This is one of the rock gardens in front of the house. names in alt #autumn #Alberta 🌱📷 #gardening #alpines
Partial view of the back north 'wall' of a rock bed, with closely fitted rounded glacial stones of tan brown smooth quartzite or black flecked reddish or dull speckled granite. From above left and between some of the stones in centre grows a small plant Paederota bonarota with thickish, somewhat cupped, more or less spatulate irregulary toothed leaves which are alternate opposite. The leaves are medium green though rather battered looking this late in the season, red rimmed and stained, fading to gold in places, especially the outermost/smallest leaves. From many of the branch tips dangle cat-tail like clusters of thready spent flowers/seed heads. To the right a nearly flat densely growing plant with tiny fuzzy 3 part leaves spills over the rocks. New leaves are a silver green, old leaves faded grey-brown or showing hints of dull autumn pinky gold. Both plants grown from seed from the Dolomites mountains. Close view of part of a rock garden with the edge of a smooth rounded rock emerging from the low plants on the left. A few fallen brown to gold autumn leaves lay on top of the plants. In front is a nearly flat densely growing plant with tiny fuzzy 3 part leaves Potentilla nitida, grown from seed from the Dolomites mountains. New leaves are a silver green, old leaves faded grey-brown or showing hints of dull autumn pinky gold. A second mat like this is farther back, with a greater proportion of bright silver green leaves. Between them is a Hen and Chicks plant -Jovibarba (Sempervivum ) with small tight rosettes of succulent leaves, showing green where they are open in the centre of larger rosettes, smaller bodies and outer leaves are deep red.
November 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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#Throwback to #fall on this increasingly white day! Non-native Cotoneaster, presumably #BirdSown on the farm. I know them from just a couple of spots (1 or 2 plants ea) and they are heavily browsed by moose, deer or cows or all 3 so they don't gain much size + #ladybug #Alberta #plants #insects 🌿🌱📷
1 On a sunny autumn afternoon in open woods. At the left is a thin erect woody stem, grey-brown and slightly shiny. From this emerge several twigs, finer and browner and holding a few remnant leaves at the tips. The leaves are elongated oval, slightly shiny with a leathery look, a few bites out here and there, and are a bronzey-reddish orange with hints of green-gold. The branch tips also hold a few berries, purply-black with a low sheen. 2 Closer view of a leaf cluster on the same plant, no berries in this view. 3 Close view of part of a stem and several leaves of the same plant. An orangey-red with black spots Ladybug is upside down under one of the leaves. 4 An orangey-red with black spots Ladybug heads downward on the stem of the same plant.
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Last week's #snow didn't last long- patches in shady places a day or two; since then we've been above to well above average temperatures, which continues for the next few days at least: colder next week #sunset #snow #Winter #CrossQuarterDay #Alberta #Canada #PaganSky #photography #weather
Several partly blurred fine dry grey branches enter view from lower right and reach almost to the left side, curving gently toward the centre. From the left, just above centre, a darkish red-brown branch, larger but still slight, crosses the upper left corner of the image. From it dangle a handful of paper thin dry leaves. The narrow maple leaves are pale through dull golden brown, a bit deeper where they overlap and the faint sun from behind causes them to shade one another. The leaves are slightly wavy or recurved from the drying. The background is a blur of grey roughly vertical narrow trunks and mottled red-gold-brown leaf covered ground with a few hints of green. A mid-sized Sorbus/Rowan/Mountain Ash enters the view from the right, some of its leaves still clinging, dry, silhouetted against the dusky sky. A little farther back, straight ahead is a line of dark spruce and bare poplar, their intricate branches set against the sky with its slightly darkening lavender with ripples of light fluffy clouds, pale to coral from the unseen sunset. An open stand of woods- some mature poplars, along with saplings and taller still skinny trunks, as well as several spruce: small, mid-size and tall but sparse stands silhouetted against the sunset sky. We can see through to the horizon where a small bright pale gold patch marks the locastion of the sun behind clouds. Above that are bands of gold and blue-gry giving way to patches of darkening blue sky mixed with feathery pale gold to coral clouds.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The squirrels have been working on #Solstice #decorations! (and winter food supply, they've been working on their winter food supply..) 🌿 📷 #nature #Alberta #BorealForest #WitchSky
A weathered grey barkless cut section of a hollow or partly hollow log, maybe a foot and a half tall sits upright on the ground. It is surrounded by other weathered wood, twigs, dried leaves etc. On top of the log section, in the hollow (I don't remember whether that hollow goes all the way through or not) we see a pile of reddish brown spruce cones, many with green needled branch tips attached still. The overall effect resembles some kind of winter holiday display, but actually this is part of a squirrel's winter food stash. Around the edges we see some cone scales left here the squirrel has already disassembled some cones to get to the seeds inside. The edges of the image are blurred and slightly white vignetted to add to the feeling of a holiday image.
November 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#Pearly likes to come out while I'm working outside, usually lounging around on the open porch or on the grass just below the steps. She also likes to go (not far) to the wood storage area when I'm working there. Here's a short vid of her eating grass
#cat #SeniorCat #animals #CountryLiving #Alberta
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Seems I'm always stopping work to move some little #critters out of harm's way! (at least until the deep cold arrives!) This time it was a cute little #Ladybug when I was cutting firewood in the bush #Alberta #insects #Countryliving 🌿
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Geranium sanguineum Bloody (Blood-red, really) Cranesbill. In summer it sports green leaves and pink flowers- not very bloody! The #autumn foliage seems more fitting for the name and I did see a claim online that that is what it is named for. (But!-see reply) #garden #plants #Alberta 📷🌱
Overview of a bit of rock garden in early evening light, mostly shadow. We see a smallish plant (several handspans across) with fairly low spreading stems. Stems are loosely clothed with not quite round leaves which are divided into 3 lobes which are further divided into several to a handful or more of finer somewhat narrow sections. The effect- especially in autumn colour as now (deep orange-red to wine)- is similar to a tiny Japanese Maple.Background is partially blurred rocks, scattered dull gold-brown fallen leaves, bits of dry grass and occasional green foliage of other plants- Antennaria, Polemonium, spruce saplings etc. A closer view of one branch mostly, arcing very slightly from left to right, with just a hint of late sunlight reaching some of the leaves. In early evening light, mostly shadow, a smallish plant (several handspans across) with fairly low spreading stems. Stems are loosely clothed with not quite round leaves which are divided into 3 lobes which are further divided into several to a handful or more of finer somewhat narrow sections. The effect- especially in autumn colour as now (deep orange-red to wine)- is similar to a tiny Japanese Maple.Background is partially blurred rocks, scattered dull gold-brown fallen leaves, bits of dry grass and occasional green foliage of other plants- Antennaria, Polemonium, spruce saplings etc.
October 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Last Sunday we had our 1st #snow of the season. A fairly mild to warm week, most is gone, with little bits in shady spots. Today cloudy, chance of rain/thunderstorms, but another week forecast mostly above average. #commute #alberta #autumn #landscape #SnowMother #PaganSky #Latvian #weather 📷
Views from the moving car on a wet and snowy morning. The snow is coming down fairly heavily at times, and the effect is increased by the fact that most of the shots have some amount of zoom (i.e.- as you look farther through the snow, it gets snowier!). The sky is evenly grey, visibility often reduced by the falling snow, at times appearing misty or falling in large clumpy flakes. Looking up a wide 4 lane section of wet highway (passing zone) with painted yellow medians and dotted white lines between lanes. The road goes up a slight hill. On the right we see some snowy grass and power lines, to the left a dense growth of small dark spruce is next to the ditch, then a small snowy open area and a large area of mixed woods behind, with some golden poplars and dark spruce, all snow blurred/faded. A few vehicles are coming down the hill toward us, on the left side. Midway, on the left, a vehicle is stopped on a side road, facing the highway, with doors open. Views from the moving car on a wet and snowy morning. The snow is coming down fairly heavily at times, and the effect is increased by the fact that most of the shots have some amount of zoom (i.e.- as you look farther through the snow, it gets snowier!). The sky is evenly grey, visibility often reduced by the falling snow, at times appearing misty or falling in large clumpy flakes. Looking across the ditch we see a fence of dark wooden posts and barbed wire, below it some taller grass and maybe small shrubs, gold and dark and snowy. Across the fence is a tilled field, the surface lumpy with clods of dark soil showing through the light snow cover. Farther back to left we see the hint of a farm yard, with some sort of white building showing with a row of lowish snowy willows and taller mixed woodsof gold and dark. Farther still to right is another distance and snow faded line of woods.
October 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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First #snow Saturday/Sunday (it's not early- *August* would be early, September typical, October late!) Just a few cm; nights have been -5 to -9C /23 to15F, days near/below 0C- so snow has stuck around for now
Rock #garden Friday vs Sunday
#houseplants #autumn #Alberta #weather 📷🌱
A single bright/intense bluey pink flower (a hybrid of Geranium sanguineum), open cup/bowl shaped with 5 overlapping petals glows in the afternoon sun against a background of deep green foliage and dark shadows. Looking out a somewhat foggy window at a rock garden with light snow cover and overcast morning light. We see many kinds of low and bushy and spikey plants poking up through and coated with the snow, scattered wet dark rocks also show through. We see a bit of the ground beyond he garden, a low mowed area, covered in a few cm/ inch or two of snow. The scene overall is a bit blurred.
October 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This woodpecker has been visiting the apple-crabs- It flies in with a great cackling noise, settles on the tree to peck at apples for a while, then flies off to season its meal with its regular fare-insects.
links to follow
#birds #nature #Alberta #Canada #CountryLiving #autumn 🌱🌿📷 #GoOutsideForMe
October 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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After weeks of warm/ dry #weather the season has begun to turn- rain on Saturday + a few snowflakes; Sunday morning -7/ -8C 17-19F, thick frost on everything including the windshield. By late morning frost was disappearing.
Views from the weekend #commute #Alberta #Autumn #photography #landscape
Saturday morning before the rain started. Looking across a wide mowed roadside ditch with low dull green/partly dry grass with a patch of brighter coarse grass. Across the ditch wire and post fence marks the edge of a grain field, already harvested leaving golden stubble appearing in darker and lighter lines depending on the direction the harvest equipment moved. Across the field to the left is a stand of mixed woods with golden poplars and a few dark spruce marking a farmstead- buildings mostly obscured among the trees. The sky is covered with thick lightly textured light to medium grey clouds. Clouds hinting at the later weather. A broad light grey highway (this is a double wide -4 lane- zone for passing) with white and yellow lane and median markings crests a slight hill, the pavement occupying almost the bottom half of the image. Mixed woods can be seen from both sides of the highway, with a mix of partly green, gold-orange and bare poplars with dark spruce- a large stand of these is to the left. Above the sky is a mix of smooth grey clouds with some wispy bits in front, a blue-grey zone and some stormy/fluffy clouds low down. Sunday the sun was out, starting to warm though near freezing, side window clear, windshield was still icey. The sun is out and half the image is bright blue sky. The foreground is a wetland with tallish dry golden grass, a little farther in studded with many low bog birch, mostly leafless, grey. Near the midpoint numerous small green conifers rise- some would be spruce, others tamarack/larch which will yellow and drop needles. Farther back still are mid-size and larger trees- golden (and some nearly/bare) poplar, birch and tamarack and green spruce. At the far right a white house with dark roof and a couple of outbuildings, one bright blue, can be seen. Nearly the lower half of the view is occupied by a field covered in palest blond grass (hay or grain, the resolution is too poor to be sure). The field is bordered by a wire and post fence and a gravel side road that crosses from left to right. On the other side of the road we see mixed forest of dark spruce and golden poplars stretching away to the foothills, a few buildings visible through the trees. Far beyond foothills rise hazy and blue with the snow-capped peaks of larger more distant mountains showing behind them. Above the sky is blue with faint light clouds above the mountains.
October 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The lovely #seed heads of native Northern/Canada Hawkweed Hieracium umbellatum Every #season has its #beauty 🙂 #nature #WildPlants #BorealForest #Autumn 🌿📷 🌱This one is growing wild on the acreage but it has found its way into a couple of garden beds- I'm happy to see it where there's space #Alberta
Late afternoon sun lights up a cluster of whitish fluffy seedheads- similar to dandelions, but smaller and denser with a hint of gold where each bit of fluff attaches. With the camera set for the bright seedheads, the background appears green-black with slightly lighter patches but no detail. The cluster also holds a couple of what seem to be spent flower heads that did not form seed, and a couple of still closed heads with the pappus (fluffy bits) coming to a point like a flower bud-- these likely will still open to be full seed heads like the others.
October 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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I've been trying to take advantage of warm dry #autumn weather to get ready for winter. While in my woodcutting area a Mourning Cloak #Butterfly joined me for a bit+ #FallColour has been building- probably near peak now + a great #lichen patch #Alberta #nature #BorealForest #GetOutside #BugSky 🌿
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Fewer flowers day by day- no notable frost yet, but can't be far.. A few #weeds here and there are popular with the remaining #pollinators This tiny #bee and #fly were enjoying one of the last #flower heads on Cirsium arvense/Creeping Thistle last week #nature #BugSky #insects #Alberta 🌱🌿📷
The top of a thistle plant is highlighted in afternoon sun against a dark and blurred background of green foliage, with a few blurred partly golded grass blades standing as vertical stripes in the background. At lower left are two spent, faded brownyflower heads and at centre right is a still viable pale purple flower head. There are no petals nor petal-like ray flowers (that's what daisies have) just a mass of thread-like disk flowers- a sort of pom-pom. On this flower head are perched two small insects: a tiny bee and a small fly. The bee is black with fine white lines on its abdomen and short pale fuzz visible in places- on its head, leg joints, 'shoulder' area etc. The wings are long and narrow, folded over its 'back'(abdomen) and iridescent translucent. The fly has a rather shiny upper thorax, an almost metallic greeny-grey with irregular dark markings and a few bristly hairs. This colour extends between the large dark brick red compound eyes. The large wings are mostly transparent with an amber hint and brown veins like stained glass borders. The abdomen is divided into several bands of a deep amber colour, separated with fine dark lines with short dark bristly hairs. In this shot the bee is in focus on the left, seen from the side, face down between the florets; fly on right is blurred. The top of a thistle plant is highlighted in afternoon sun against a dark and blurred background of green foliage, with a few blurred partly golded grass blades standing as vertical stripes in the background. At lower left are two spent, faded brownyflower heads and at centre right is a still viable pale purple flower head. There are no petals nor petal-like ray flowers (that's what daisies have) just a mass of thread-like disk flowers- a sort of pom-pom. On this flower head are perched two small insects: a tiny bee and a small fly. The bee is black with fine white lines on its abdomen and short pale fuzz visible in places- on its head, leg joints, 'shoulder' area etc. The wings are long and narrow, folded over its 'back'(abdomen) and iridescent translucent. The fly has a rather shiny upper thorax, an almost metallic greeny-grey with irregular dark markings and a few bristly hairs. This colour extends between the large dark brick red compound eyes. The large wings are mostly transparent with an amber hint and brown veins like stained glass borders. The abdomen is divided into several bands of a deep amber colour, separated with fine dark lines with short dark bristly hairs. In this view the fly on the right is in focus, seen from above, its head angled a bit to the left. The top of a thistle plant is highlighted in afternoon sun against a dark and blurred background of green foliage, with a few blurred partly golded grass blades standing as vertical stripes in the background. At lower left are two spent, faded brownyflower heads and at centre right is a still viable pale purple flower head. There are no petals nor petal-like ray flowers (that's what daisies have) just a mass of thread-like disk flowers- a sort of pom-pom. On this flower head are perched two small insects: a tiny bee and a small fly. The bee is black with fine white lines on its abdomen and short pale fuzz visible in places- on its head, leg joints, 'shoulder' area etc. The wings are long and narrow, folded over its 'back'(abdomen) and iridescent translucent. The fly has a rather shiny upper thorax, an almost metallic greeny-grey with irregular dark markings and a few bristly hairs. This colour extends between the large dark brick red compound eyes. The large wings are mostly transparent with an amber hint and brown veins like stained glass borders. The abdomen is divided into several bands of a deep amber colour, separated with fine dark lines with short dark bristly hairs.
September 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#AutumnEquinox a short video gathering foliage +showing the finished #altar for the season, honouring primordial #BirdGoddess + #GreatMother #Māra + #Ragana the Wild One + the Twin Gods + remembering my Mom and Aunt
#fall #Alberta #Canada #GoddessCulture #animist #WitchSky #SolaceInNature
September 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#AutumnEquinox Wishing all in the Northern Hemisphere a beautiful autumn +winter to come, time of ripening, maturing, senescence, death that precedes rebirth- heralded by the most crazy beautiful natural spectacle of the year! #PaganSky #animist #baltic #Latvian #Alberta #Canada 🌱🌿 #SeasonalRhythms
In the centre is a stem with several bright yellow flowers- roughly star shaped, upward facing with wide slightly recurved petals and a cluster of upright golden stamens in the centre, above narrow mid-green leaves. The blurry background is more green foliage, scattered yellow flowers and a vine that threads through the centre with deep dark burgundy wine leaves. The sun shines in from above/behind highlighting bits of foliage against dark shadows and making the yellow flowers glow, and the edges of the image are lightened and blurred a little to enhance the autumnal glow. The image has a narrow dull gold border and semi-script text in slightly varying sizes and tones of gold that says "wishing you a Blessed Autumn Equinox"
September 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Video from August 27- early signs of #Autumn + #apples
Things have moved along already though still lots of green + above average temperatures #LeafMother begins work slowly, picking up speed day after day #Alberta #Baltic #Latvian #PaganSky #animist #weather 🌱 YouTube + #Spectra links to follow
September 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I don't have tons of late #flowers -especially since in normal years we'd be likely to have frost by now so plants are wrapping up! Luckily the Comfrey Symphytum officinale is still flowering- these have flowered for months, and I've chopped off mounds that flopped/went to seed #bees #pollinators 🌱📷
Late afternoon sun shines through a the top of a tall plant, stems ending in slightly arching clusters of small pinky purple to violet flowers. Many flowers have already finished leaving rows of green developing seed cases. A fuzzy pale gold and black bumblebee hangs from one of the flowers. Background is a blur of green, gold and violet.
September 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM