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Penny Baggins
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Practical and imperfect hobbit. Fond of books, music, good food, and pints of ale. Mathom collector and frustrated gardener. She/her Metis♾️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☮️🔶 Moh'kinsstis, Alberta 🇨🇦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. 🧙🏼‍♂️
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He was my GGGG grandfather.
I’ve tried to follow the many of the places in Alberta and Manitoba … places he wrote about in his diaries. I was at Ft. Dauphin this past summer.
cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19h
On this day in 1822, Peter Fidler died. Born in 1769, he spent his career with the Hudson's Bay Company and explored much of Western Canada.

Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
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Color photograph of a large wooden carved statue of a man standing on a platform, depicted wearing fringed buckskin clothing, tall boots, and a fur hat. He holds a triangular object in his raised right hand and looks upward. The statue stands in front of a tall vertical wooden plank fence under a clear blue sky with scattered clouds. A tall evergreen tree is visible to the left, green grass and bushes surround the base, and a small rectangular plaque is mounted on the platform in front of the statue.
December 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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🎨Liz Wright - Sunset through the Trees in Winter, 1989.
Liz Wright - Sunset through the Trees in Winter, 1989 - an illustration of a thicket of birch trees where in the middle is a path. The ground is covered in snow. The sun is setting, casting long shadows of the trees across the snow covered ground. On the path, is a trail of foot prints - may be animal or of a small child. Rather gorgeous and so seasonal for this time of year.
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The Enchanted Forest

by Elaine Bailey
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition by Indigenous #Australian painter Barbara Merritt #WomensArt #December14th #Peace🕯
December 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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‘This snow-flake grew larger…till at last it became the figure of a woman, dressed in garments of white gauze, which looked like millions of starry snow-flakes linked together. She was fair & beautiful, but made of ice—shining & glittering ice.’
—Hans C. Andersen
The Snow Queen
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Art.- Sandrine Joy Art,
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Lake Louise
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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From 1920-1943 J.R.R. TOLKIEN’s children received letters from Father Christmas replete with tales, illustrations & a North Pole stamp designed by Tolkien.

Published posthumously in 1976, ‘The Father Christmas Letters’ remain a testament to Tolkien’s love for his children.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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#Caturday #GothicAdvent
A vintage postcard, features an illustration of a white cat holding the figure of Krampus in its mouth. The Krampus seems to be holding some branches of birch. Lichtdruck print by Max Jaffé, Wien (Vienna). It was published by E. Arenz, Postkartenverlag, Wien, V/3.
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The Halifax Explosion was the largest man-made explosion to occur before the dropping of the atomic bombs during the Second World War.

A Harbour Collision Destroys #Halifax #NovaScotia #Dec61917

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Wartime Tragedies - The Halifax Explosion | Canada and the First World War
Canada's contribution to the First World War led to growing autonomy and international recognition, but at great cost.
www.warmuseum.ca
December 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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"Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer."
-Samwise Gamgee

Fresh snow outside! A good day to share this winter wonderland I painted ❄ created w/ ink, watercolor, + acryla gouache.

Art prints + greeting cards at albaillustration.etsy.com.
Painting of Hobbiton Hill at dawn after fresh snowfall. Hobbit doors set into a hillside, with warm light coming from the windows, smoke from the chimneys, pine trees and bare trees in the landscape. The sun is rising but stars are still visible.
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Village in Winter, c.1950
by Marguerite Zorach,
US Fauvist painter #WomensArt
Painting looking down on a village with houses either side of a road, the ground and roofs are snow covered and the sky is pink and purple
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Afternoon:
🖼️ Catherine Nolin
A painting by Catherine Nolin,which uses bright, intense colours and intricate details. The painting depicts an interior scene featuring a bright orange-red chaise longue on the left. A tabby cat is resting on the chaise longue next to a decorative pillow and a small framed picture of a person. A large, intricately detailed botanical design, resembling a tree with various colorful flowers, leaves, and birds, dominates the green background wall. A blue and white patterned vase sits on the floor to the right, beneath the tree.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Lake Louise
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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'Come dance with me' Hand coloured collagraph by contemporary printmaker Vicky Oldfield #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a glass bottle with an elephant on the label, a posy of different coloured flowers are placed within the neck of the bottle, the background is cream
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Aerial view looking down on a small farmstead in Kent, complete with small herd of Friesian cows and oast houses
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Spectacular new Bilbo Baggins and Gollum vinyl figures celebrate The Hobbit animated movie special.
Bilbo and Gollum Vinyl Figures Spectacularly Celebrate THE HOBBIT Animated Movie
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November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Some of my favorite pieces from the Hildebrandt brothers:
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Pyramid Mountain, Jasper
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Jo Grundy/morning
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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The Goblin cave drawings and Goblin alphabet that Tolkien created for one of his Father Christmas's letters for his children.

Both were drawn in 1932 when he was working on "The Hobbit", and some of the creatures from that manuscript bled to his Christmas letters.

#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
An image of cave drawings on a paper, drawn with red and black ink. It depicts several large prehistoric mammals like mammoths, bears, elks, rhinos, and horses, surrounded by smaller black figures in various poses, such as riding a four-legged creature, carrying a spear and stick, holding hands, and such. There are also several smaller animals like canines, birds, and buffalos. An ink drawing of rows of picture-based alphabet system resembling black stick figures in various poses.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Mount Abraham
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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"Looking Through the Window" 2016
Antonio Guzmán Capel (b. 1960)
Spanish Artist
Oil on Canvas
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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We remember the Holodomor as both a profound tragedy and a warning about where hatred and dehumanization can lead. Ukrainian families carried this truth across generations with courage. Today we honour their strength, uphold their memory, and recommit to defending human rights everywhere.
#holodomor
A blue poster bordered with thin yellow lines. In the center are three stylized yellow poppy-like flowers with delicate black stems. At the top, handwritten text reads “November 22nd, 2025.” In the top-left corner is MLA Harwinder Sandhu’s riding logo. At the bottom, in cursive, it says “Holodomor Memorial Day.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM