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Wendy Wiens

@wendywiens.bsky.social

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Exec. Dir. with Province of BC. Social Worker. Defender of wildlife and wild places. Trail cams, dogs, science, coffee. Opinions my own. Ktunaxa and W̱SÁNEĆ territories.

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · Aug 19

“If that blue could stay for ever…; if this moment could stay for ever.”

~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Robb

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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 2d

The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy: Andrew Coyne
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
#cdnpoli

Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crane out here.. the heron is a regular 😉
This video is a little brighter so the markings clearer.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 2d

All this.

Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 2d

Resist fascism, make friends. Build community, check on each other. Party, cook, build ties, and never let them make you too scared to love one another.

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 2d

Last light 🌊💙

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 2d

Patience..

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 2d

Rainy morning heron ☕️

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 2d

N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882–1945; born Needham, Massachusetts; died Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania)
The Dance of the Whooping Cranes, 1939
Medium: Tempera on panel (see attribution note)
Dimensions: 30 × 22¼ in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)
Housing: Private collection
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks - brisk up there this eve!

Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 3d

Last light 🌊

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 3d

Saturna views

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 3d

Sea lion

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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 3d

Otters 💚🌊

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 4d

Joanne Spencer (British Artist, born 1965)
"Seagulls", 2020.
Linocut on Paper, 38 × 61 cm.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 4d

Joanne Spencer (British Artist, born 1965)
"Silver Moon", 2021.
Linocut on Paper, 10 × 15 cm.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt