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Liz 🇨🇦
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The World's Largest Axe

It's 15m tall and 7m wide. Can you imagine Paul Bunyan swinging it?

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #Axe #Statue #Photography
An enormous recreation of a double bit axe with a yellow shaft. The metal head shines in the sunlight and appears to be partly buried in the ground. It is in a park, with flowers in the foreground and trees in the background. It's in Nackawic, New Brunswick, Canada.
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Rainbow Splash

One of the many different light displays at Niagara Falls! Well worth staying up to see!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Evening #Night #Waterfall #Rainbow #Lights #NiagaraFalls #Photography
A view of the American and Bridal Veil Falls, seen from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, at night. The falls are lit up in the colours of the rainbow. The Bridal Veil Falls are in purple.
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Time Is Short

When sunset is before five p.m., you run to make the most of the daylight.

#Stunday #timechange #fallback #daylightsavings #fall #autumn #leaves #photography
A little girl and her small dog run downhill to the park. There are tall trees on both sides and brown leaves on the ground. Above and ahead of her, the sun shines on yellow leaves on the trees.
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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In The Spotlight

The sun fell practically perfectly on this golden maple leaf. It was a special moment that I couldn't quite do justice to, but I tried.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #Fall #Maple #Tree #Leaves #Yellow #Photography
Looking upwards at a maple tree with large, mostly yellow leaves. The largest leaf is almost completely yellow and lit by the sunlight against a darker background, shining like gold.
November 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Itty Bitty Living Space

Ever wonder what it would be like to have a room in a round lighthouse? This should give you an idea!

To be fair, the lighthouse keepers did also have a proper home nearby. But I'd need a nap after all those stairs, too!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Inside #Lighthouse #Photography
A round room in a lighthouse with a square post in the middle. There is a bed with a quilt, two large photos of the lighthouse, a small table, and two display cabinets on the wall filled with seashells. On the left the stairs go up, and on the right the stairs go down. A sign on the post warns that the stairs are steep. In fact, you have to descend by going backwards, like a ladder! The lighthouse is Point Prim Lighthouse in PEI, Canada, and is unusual among brick lighthouses in Canada for being round instead of square.
October 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Thunderbird

My favourite of the totem poles at Thunderbird Park isn't the tallest, but it really grabbed me.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical #TotemPole #Indigenous #Art #Photography
A totem pole, painted dark with mostly red and green accents. The bird on top has outspread wings and a face on its chest. Photo taken at Thunderbird Park, Victoria, BC, Canada.
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Ammonite or Ammolite?

Fossil? Gemstone? It's both! In southwestern Alberta, Canada, millions of years of pressure, heat, and mineralization created this beauty. Isn't it something!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #Fossil #Gemstone #Museum #Photography #Ammonite #Ammolite
The large ammonite is on display surrounded by small lights that reveal its colourful iridescence, mostly green and red. Below it is my finger on a metal strip, keeping the lights turned on.
October 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Big Stretch

This polar bear was making the most of a sunny day with some cardboard to shred and grass to roll around in. Simple pleasures are the best way to relax, no?

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #Bear #Zoo #Photography
A polar bear lies on their back, front legs outstretched. There are shreds of cardboard in the grass. Photo taken at Assiniboine Park Zoo, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
October 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Goodnight, Mountains

When you really should be focusing on getting off the road before dark, but what are you going to do? Stop taking pictures of the mountains? Ridiculous.

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad #Mountains #Photography
Photo was taken from the side of the highway in a mountain pass. There are tall mountains with snow on them in the background, and it is beginning to grow dark. A semi truck is barely visible in the distance but the highway is otherwise empty.
September 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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A Doorway Of Sunshine

This patch of sunlight bordered by darkness is like the season of summer. Beautiful, but brief.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #Trees #Spiderweb #Sunshine #Photography
The sun shines through a gap in some trees, illuminating a spider's web in the middle.
September 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Playing With Rocks

I made a different balance that was much more impressive, but the wind picked up and knocked it over right before I could take a picture, so this is the one you get to see.

#RockinTuesday #RockBalancing #RockBalance #Rocks #Lake #Photography
Several small rocks are balanced on a log in a lake. The shape is somewhat similar to a double pan balance scale. On the left side of the balance, the sky and lake are blue, and on the right, the trees and lake are green.
September 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Big Nickel

At thirty feet high and two feet thick, this is the world's largest depiction of a coin. It was completed in 1964.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny #Coin #Monument #Photography
The Big Nickel is modeled after a 1951 Canadian nickel. It says: CANADA NICKEL 1751 - 1951 5 CENTS and it has a refinery above three maple leaves. It is located in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, and is a popular spot for selfies.
August 31, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Stop And Smell The Roses

Don't get overwhelmed. Self-care is important too.

#Bloomscrolling #Flower #Rose #Pink #Photography
A pink rose in full bloom, surrounded by its green, pointy leaves.
August 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Sleeping Giant

It doesn't take much imagination to see him!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline #Lake #Photography
Some hills in Lake Superior resemble a giant sleeping on his back. There are clouds in the sky and trees in the foreground.
August 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Bridge Over Troubled Water

Can you see it through the rain? Confederation Bridge links Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick. At 12.9 km long, it is the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline #Bridge #Ocean #Clouds #Storm #Photography
Confederation Bridge looks very small in the distance and is partly obscured by dark storm clouds and rain.
August 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Five-Leaf Clover

Why do I love photography? Mostly so I can trip down memory lane later, but it's also great for those moments when you think no one will believe you otherwise.

#WorldPhotographyDay #Clover #Luck #Rare #Photography
I am holding a freshly picked clover with five leaves. The leaves are not perfectly symmetrical; one leaf is growing at an angle, and another leaf is growing behind the others.
August 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Your Move

I'm a sucker for giant chess sets. Anybody else?

#BlueSkyArtShow #Pieces #Game #Chess #Photography
A large outdoor chess set, viewed diagonally, with Black's rook closest to the camera. In the background are trees and a bench. Photo taken at Butchart Gardens, near Victoria, BC, Canada
August 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Leaf Me Alone

Sometimes I find the leaves almost as interesting as the #flower. I tried to take pictures of the leaves of a tree one day, but I moved on because people were stopping and staring into the tree with me, looking for the bird or squirrel.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Jagged #Bloomscrolling
A pink (or possibly magenta) dahlia, surrounded by its deeply veined leaves with jagged edges.
August 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Orange Tiger

Celebrating another hundred followers with another butterfly!

#Butterfly #Flower #Insect #Photography
The aptly named Orange Tiger Butterfly has black and orange striped wings. It sits on a purple flower, surrounded by green leaves. Photo taken at the Newfoundland Insectarium.
August 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World

A winter pic in memory of the three or four kind people who left their vehicles to give my car a push when it was stuck on compacted snow, and were very nice about it.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Gratitude #Snow #Winter #Sunset
Photo shows a field with a light covering of snow. The setting sun casts orange light across it, but the snow appears blue on both sides. In the middle of the light is a young tree. There are more trees in the background, and dark clouds in the sky.
August 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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The Last Rose

This rosebush was full of flowers, but now this brave bloom is the last. Until next summer, roses!

#Bloomscrolling #Flower #Rose #Photography
A full, open, yellow rose blooms at the end of its branch. Other branches have the dead brown remnants of flowers, but the leaves of the bush are still green. In the background there is grass with small white flower petals scattered around.
July 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Beloved Antique

The #alternating black and white keys of this pump organ are looking pretty good, considering it's from 1887!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Antique #Organ #Museum #Photography
A pump organ in a museum has a kerosene lamp and old family photos sitting on it. A sign says that the organ has been in the St. Laurent-Hilborn family since 1887.
July 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Brobdingnagian Bubbles

Haven't we all spent a summer day trying to blow a bubble this big? Time well spent, am I right?

#BlueSkyArtShow #Smooth #Bubbles #Art #Sculpture #Urban #Photography
A large art sculpture in the city with skyscrapers in the background. The artwork consists of four giant bubbles, three on the ground and one on top of the others. They are iridescent and colourful, and each bubble is much taller than a person. There is also a sign which asks people to be gentle with the artwork and to supervise their children. Photo taken in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
July 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Street Festival

My favourite part is getting henna done! Isn't it pretty?

#BlueSkyArtShow #SummerDaze #Henna #Festival #Summer #Urban #Photography
A henna design covers the back of my hand and fingers. In the background are some of the food trucks and crowds of the festival.
July 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Blow Me Down

The wind coming off the ocean here is so strong that this tree had to grow sideways.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sideways #Tree #Ocean #Photography
Beside the ocean, a small evergreen tree grows sideways. The branches facing the sea are stripped bare of foliage. Photo taken at Cape Spear, the easternmost point of North America.
July 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM