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

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.

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 14h

Cue the tuba soundtrack!

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 19h

Ha. Was wondering that too.

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 19h

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.

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

Beautiful colours!!

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

I ❤️ SN!

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

I mean, Mr Piffles wuz there!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

youtu.be/z8ud5K4T8HI?...

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

YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66

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

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

"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.

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

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.

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

"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

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

If only there was a marine biologist nearby: "The sea was angry that day, my friends".

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

In July I was hanging around the Atlantic & the Trans-Canada's Mile Zero / memorial to Terry Fox in St. John's. Now, I've made it all the way across the country to the Pacific and...Mile Zero...
Before moving to BC, Terry went to Wayoata Elementary School in Winnipeg. Long may he run!

At a park bordering the Pacific in Victoria BC. Statue of a young man, who lost one leg to cancer. Commemorating Terry Fox and his run across to country to beat cancer..."somewhere the hurting must stop. Terry Fox 1958-1981"

Near mile Zero in St John's. A Canadian flag flies high above a beautiful treed Harbour.

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

Vancouver Island is the traditional territory of three major Indigenous cultural groups: the Coast Salish, the Nuu-chah-nulth, & the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples.

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

Noted!

Sign : Tsunami evacuation route 1300 metres

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 9d

Watching the hummingbirds swoop in and fight with the wasp to get at the nectar. Then fly to it's friends in a nearby Arbitus tree (Pacific Madrone - unuqie broad-leafed evergreen).

Hummingbird saddling up to a red feeder. Wings humming away!

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 9d

Getting 'round in o'canada.

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 9d

Sing-a-long: I want to fly like an eagle (prolly a darned turkey vulture)
To the sea
Fly like an eagle (prolly a darned turkey vulture)
Let my spirit carry me...apologies to Steve Miller

Turkey Vulture soaring high above a heavily forested area.

Turkey Vulture soaring high above a harbour dotted with anchored sailboats

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j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 9d

Apple Records:...over 400 varieties of organically grown apples on this island! You gotta try the hot apple cider & poached apple "Danish" at Francis Bakery.

Crowd surrounding a long u-shaped table display of 400+ varieties of apples.

j r scott @johnrscott.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes outhouses can be in beautiful spots!

An outhouse surrounded by old growth forest.

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