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Anita Swing 🇨🇦

@anitaswing.bsky.social

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Retired English prof, food & nature lover including amateur birder 🦅, adoptee, and cat person formerly a dog person in Penticton, British Columbia 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 VIVE LE CANADA! 🇨🇦 🍁

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 2h

Lilies are super toxic to cats too.

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 7h

Amanita muscaria are back!
#eastvan #bloomscrolling

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All Wonky @allwonky.bsky.social · 1d

History made in the former East Wing of OUR White House. Eff the cowardly GOP not standing up to stop the East Wing Demolition.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 14h

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities… #cdnpoli

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 19h

Okay this is really the very final bouquet from the garden, and a beauty it is! 🌱

Pastel flowers in a vase on a white countertop. Dahlias, roses, and snapdragon

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 19h

Just check out this paw placement! #CatsofBluesky

Tuxedo cat lying asleep on a fleecy window hammock with one rear leg up against his face and the other 3 hanging over the side of the hammock

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 20h

Hearty congratulations 👏

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 1d

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 1d

This is very good.

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Vatican will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada

The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts sought by Indigenous communities in Canada

abcnews.go.com

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 1d

#Fall blaze

View of leafy forestry area with a few trees, some sky in the background, and a blaze of red leaves visible among all the green and yellow

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 7d

Enough.

Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 1d

Do you dress up?

Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 1d

It always surprises me around this time of year how many adults are "into" Hallowe'en. I've had 2 thirty-somethings recently ask me about my Hallowe'en plans. There are maybe other sixty-somethings with big plans, but I am not one of them. I'm putting this down to generational differences 🤷🎃

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 2d

From my walk today #fall #PentictonCreek

View looking up creek with fall coloured foliage on both sides and hill and sky in the distance

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Anna Herrington🌱🌿🌺🍀 @annaherrington.bsky.social · 2d

Borage is newly blooming again, this late in the season!
#TuesdayBlue #BlueTuesday #BlueTue #flowers #medicinalherb #inthegarden #photography

Small, downward-facing, five-blue-petaled flower, stems with prominent, white fuzzy 'hairs.' Center of flower has white at cone-shaped base, turning into five fused, deep purple anthers at tip, all facing down..

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 2d

Blueblossom, for #TuesdayBlue 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #BlueTue #EastCoastKin #Flowers

Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, blueblossom or californian lilac

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The Swashbakler @theswashbakler.bsky.social · 2d

Take a journey through the souks of Marrakech with me!

The magic, the energy, the vibrance and the variety are a sight to behold!

Be prepared to haggle, but also be prepared for memories of a lifetime!

#Travel #Morocco #Marrakech #Shopping #Antiques #Africa #Food #Baking #photography ✈️ 🇲🇦 🍽️ 🍜 🧁

A colorful display of Moroccan shoes and slippers

Mountains of desserts and pastries stacked in a display case

A shop filled with copper, brass, and other metal curios

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 2d

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful! Congratulations 👏

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 2d

It was so good! So many plants and flavours and textures.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 2d

It really was. Next time I make it I think I’ll use a tahini-based dressing. Amazingly this is the first time in my life I’ve used a fresh pomegranate! (I’m 61 ☺️)

Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 2d

#MeatlessMonday 🍽️ 🍜 delicious dinner, using attached recipe with a few variations. Added fried halloumi for protein 😋

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Patterned bowl containing a colourful mix of food: quinoa, spinach, pomegranate arils, toasted pecans, roasted butternut squash and red onion, slices of browned halloumi.

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 2d

Simply Merino (from Vancouver) and Nomads Hempwear (BC) to name a couple!

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 3d

It was, and I forgot to mention the dollops of ricotta which you can see in the picture ☺️

Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Diwali!

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