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Connie LaVon D🍁

@connielavon.bsky.social

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Mom, granny, wife, outdoor enthusiast, maker, genetic genealogist. Too many hobbies. Retired geriatric nurse practitioner. Dual citizen. 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Living on the land of the Stó:lō and Nlaka’pamux, AKA Hope, BC 🇨🇦. ❤️🪨🧶🪡🎒⛺️🦮🦅🌿🏔️🌊 💚Mi lernas Esperanto!

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 21h

DH has shared a photo from our August birding trip to Brazil! #owl #pygmyowl #ferruginouspygmyowl #pantanal #pantanalbirding

Scott @scottdenkers.bsky.social · 1d

With a glare like that I'm glad I'm not a small bird or other critter! This ferruginous pygmy-owl is a small predator with a big appetite and like its northern cousin, can actually take down prey over twice its size. Central Brazil on a recent trip with @connielavon.bsky.social. #brazilbirding 🪶🌿🦉

Small, but ferocious-looking owl staring straight at the photographer from its perch in a tree.

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely! I remember intense sunsets from my childhood growing up (part-time) around Safford. Sunsets and thunderstorms.

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 1d

My kids inform me corduroy is making a comeback. I am ready!

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent find!!

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely miniatures in a suburban backyard. #candlesnufffungus #lichen #liverwort #moss #pineconemushroom #lipsticklichen

Candlesnuff fungus has white tips on black stalks and these are living amongst green moss including stairstep moss. The fungus is found in winter months and helps wood decay.

Lipstick lichen (tall greyish green spikes without red caps in this example) are surrounded by tiny liverworts which are fleshy and round. A bright green spindly moss, possibly scotch moss, is in the lower left.

Two tiny brown mushrooms with off-center caps grow on a dark brown pinecone from a Douglas fir tree. They are aptly-named pine cone mushrooms.

Tall greyish green scaley spindles of lichen, some with bright red tips, are growing on a brown tree trunk. Small liverworts also grow on the tree. They have small rounded flat leaves.

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 2d

Big decision for @scottdenkers.bsky.social and I! We now have a 2025 #volkswagen #idbuzz and I love it! Photos 1 & 2 by Scott. I drove a VW van in the 1980s and this is a world away from that experience! Looking forward to our first road trip! #Idbuzz1stedition

I am sitting in the drivers seat smiling as I pull out of the garage. A large tan and white dog can be seen reflected in the door. A red Japanese maple is in the background.

The same car is backed up to a charging station plugged in. The back hatch is also open.

The infotainment centre screen has a Halloween motif in the background and a message in the foreground which reads: New milestone reached. Did you know that we’ve driven 408 kilometres together? That’s how far away the International Space Station is when it orbits the earth!

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s a 🇨🇦 NICE agent meeting foreigners. youtube.com/watch?v=S1yY...
#ohcanada #thishourhas22minutes #CBC

When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 6d

Last chance to bloom for another year! This #hollyhock and all of my hollyhocks struggled mightily this year with a bad case of hollyhock weevils. So glad to see it bloom so late in the year. Persevere!!!

A light yellow cup shaped flower with a yellow stalk in the centre sits low on the ground with large green leaves behind. The ground has pine needles and the siding of a tan house can be seen behind.

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 6d

I raised my kids in Seattle so it has always been #SeattleMariners for us. They came so close this year and it was a hard fought championship. Now I’m rooting for the #bluejays because I want my team to have been beaten by the best!

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 6d

So grateful for all the pilots out there who keep passengers safe every day! Well sung, Captain Dave Hadfield!

Chris Hadfield @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social · 6d

If you've ever flown across the Atlantic, you should listen to this song: youtu.be/p7fRUMjoPrA.
Brother Dave captures the captains' feelings so well; I think it's his best. hadfield.ca/music/

“The Crossing” by Dave Hadfield

YouTube video by Skies Magazine

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 6d

Never waste a good case of insomnia!!

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 6d

Silly son, on his way to London soon!

Tristan Olson @tristanolson.bsky.social · 7d

Gonna go to tea and pronounce "scone" like "one"

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 7d

Definitely #autumn! #fraserriver #reflection #clouds

The top and middle of a fir tree-covered mountain is hidden by two bands of clouds. A river is in the foreground. A ridge of evergreens and some deciduous trees with slight yellow colour can be seen between the clouds. There is a reflection in the river giving the entire scene a striped appearance.

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 8d

We have settled into our fall weather pattern. Buckets of rain, and a brief clearing when everyone in town takes a dog walk! #autumn #hopebc #ginkgo

Bright yellow fan-shaped leaves of a ginkgo tree are seen against a dark blurry background. The leaves have water droplets on them.

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 12d

Check out my DH’s great photos from our drive and birding on Monday!

Scott @scottdenkers.bsky.social · 13d

It was a great fall day for watching bluebirds on the move yesterday. @connielavon.bsky.social and I even had a bright blue sky at a beautiful location surrounded by snow-dusted mountains. 🪶 🌿

#mountainbluebird #skagitvalleyprovincialpark #birding #bc #canada

Two mountain bluebirds sitting on a stump looking in different directions.

Framed by golden aspen leaves, a mountain with a dusting of snow is in the background.

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 13d

I love their song!

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 14d

Some sought to rid the U.S. of slavery from the beginning. And the legacy of those that refused impacts this continent to this day.

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14d

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 14d

Drove to #skagitprovincialpark yesterday before the road closes for winter. #hozomeen was shy, hiding behind the clouds, but #mountprophet was glorious. #aspens and new #snow on the mountains provided colour and contrast! #internationalpoint #rosslake

#borderswath 🇨🇦🇺🇸 visible in image 1.

Golden aspens at the edge of a grassy area (the swimming bay when Ross Lake is full) appear in front of a slope covered in evergreen trees. In the distance a rocky crag dusted with new snow, Hozomeen Mountain, rises to the clouds with blue sky. A swath without trees can be seen on the left side. Canada is to the left, the United States and Hozomeen on the right.

A ridge of tall rocky peaks with new snow stand out against white clouds and small patches of blue sky. The slopes of the mountains are covered in dark evergreen trees. Golden aspens are in the foreground, along a grassy slope. This is International Point at Ross Lake.

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 14d

Same here! Couldn’t believe that here in 🇨🇦 we can’t listen to BBC sounds! Really miss it. Have to figure out this VPN thing.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15d

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 14d

I brought my three kids. The youngest attended in a baby backpack. I must find the few photos we took. The Ramses exhibit was a standout for me! Also the Boat Ballet!

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 17d

Oh, #mariners! That was a nail-biter! #fifteeninnings On to the #alchampionshipseries! #seattlemariners #mlb

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 20d

A leaf appeared in the #bluesky! #cloudformation #cirrus #hopebc #wondersofnature

Fir trees and a mountain covered in evergreen trees are below a blue sky. In the sky there is a pattern of thin wispy clouds that resemble veins of an oval leaf. There is an oval of blue around it and a thin layer of white clouds creating the oval.

Same leaf like pattern of clouds a few moments later as it moved across the sky.

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Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 21d

And I need an edit button! 🤷‍♀️

Connie LaVon D🍁 @connielavon.bsky.social · 21d

Very once in a while I get lucky! #Canuckle 1240 2/6

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Canuckle - A daily Canadian word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

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