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@janmac.bsky.social
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Barista at Red Star Café & Cabinet of Curiosities. Liberal.
Occasional photographer & painter. Glaswegian on Canada's South Coast.

#EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels

Église St-Pierre de #Montmartre & synaesthetic poetry by #Rimbaud:

A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,
I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins:
A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies
which buzz around cruel smells,

#light #photography
Grey stone pillars in Église St-Pierre de Montmartre, with light from a stained glass window reflecting on them: rose, red, orange, yellow, turquoise, white.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Sprague soups are Canadian. They have a Quebec split pea soup. So does Mitchell's Soup Co.
Can of Organic Soup - Quebec Style Split Pea from Sprague Cannery. Mmm, thick and golden! Fog Pea soup mix from Mitchell's Soup Co., showing a bag of dried veggies including green beans, split peas, onions. lentils, carrots.
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. —Joseph Fasano
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved

A sad wee soul crying on the #carousel at the Distillery District Christmas Market.

#photography #DistilleryDistrict #EastCoastKin #child #unhappy
Little girl on a carousel horse at the Distillery District Christmas Market. She's crying her heart out. The image is rendered in fluorescent colours for spookification: purple and green horses, dark background with blue-purple lights, and green-gold carousel poles.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Who wore it better?
Famous photo of the young guy who was just visiting the Louvre on the day of the heist and now everyone thinks he's a detective. Smartly dressed in 40's gear with a fedora, vest and carrying a parapluie. Being observed by cops.
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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"Homecoming" by N.C. Wyeth (1945)

#remembrance #war #soldier #veteran
Pastoral painting of a driveway leading into a farm with a house in the distance, grain fields, a white barn and cattle. A brown and white dog races toward the gate where a soldier, in brown gear, waits with his bag before heading to his family home. His back is to us as he contemplates his return from the war.
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they’re all that’s left you

The image is “PRINCE” 5A07, digitally assembled by Pete Peters.

Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends: youtu.be/sovVYInjHjw
Black and white photograph. German Shepherd dog looks at the wall of names at the Veterans Memorial in DC.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Early winter. Leaves in Toronto haven't really dropped yet and they are just past peak colour, so it was a bit of a Tom Thomson day.
Tom Thomson painting, "Snow in October", c. 1917. Colourful snow on the ground and like cake icing on the tree branches, in shades of pink, violet, blue, green, yellow. The tree trunks are visible as black and rust-brown verticals on this sunny day.
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Shadows #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

Glassdrumman Road at dusk.

#photography #Ireland #EastCoastKin
A dark golden sky with shadowy clouds floats above the empty grey road that runs through the small town. Buildings on either side of the road are dark, shuttered, a little like Dylan Thomas' Milk Wood.
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Shadows #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

Pink dusk among the pines at McMichael Gallery.

#photography #tree #McMichael #EastCoastKin
The sky is pink and peach behind a row of evergreens at McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg. The trees cast violet shadows on the pink snow in front of them.
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Shadows #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

#photography #dog #DogsOfBlueSky #night #EastCoastKin
Golden retriever looking up at us, glowing, half in shadow at night, possibly in the light of a street lamp. Black shadows criss-cross the green yard.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Shadows #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

High Park at night

#photography #HighPark #park #night #spooky #EastCoastKin
Parkside Drive entrance to High Park at dusk. A bit spooky, with two green traffic lights on either side of the entrance gates, and a lantern above the entrance. The road in is illuminated by the setting sun although it looks more like moonlight. Trees hang over the entrance road on both sides. Do you dare go in?
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Goalz.
Cartoon of a Beatnik girl in sunglasses, black beret, black sweater, black capris and black shoes, smoking a cigarette and snapping her fingers. She sits in a basket chair beside a Sputnik-inspired café table with a steaming cup of coffee on it.
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

Hors-saison at Long Point provincial park on the north shore of Lake Erie.

#photography #LongPoint #LakeErie #landscape #clouds #EastCoastKin #October
Wooden benches stacked diagonally at the end of season at Long Point provincial park. Behind the row of benches, a brown-gold field. Above the benches, several trees with nearly bare branches stand against a blue-grey sky with fluffy clouds.
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

A late afternoon shot of the Japanese Maple in my back yard.

#photography #GoldenHour #tree #EastCoastKin
A few scarlet leaves from my Japanese Maple in the glow of late afternoon sunlight against a wooden fence in my back yard. There is a dark vignette shadow around the edges and the red leaves peek out from the darkness. The small branches and the leaves cast shadows on the glowing fence.
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

Maruyamacho Park in #Kyoto
Digitally enhanced from a Street View image and mounted on cradled wood panel.

#photography #art #Japan #EastCoastKin
Photograph of a walkway in a Japanese park, enhanced as a digital painting. On the left, a tree with gold-orange leaves leans over the blue-grey walkway. On the right, a tree with red and gold leaves leans over a sunlit golden grassy area and small fence. In the background, various shades of green, orange and violet foliage.
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

High Park #trees in #October

#photography #HighPark #gold #EastCoastKin
In October, the trees in High Park are full of red-gold leaves. Here, the ground is covered with a golden carpet of leaves, creating a contrast in the late afternoon sunlight with the dark trunks and branches.
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock

Rock Dreams

Musical accompaniment: We will rock you (Queen)

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#photography #HopewellRocks #cave #EastCoastKin #Queen #TinyPerson
Rock Dreams - tiny me entering a cavern at Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park, New Brunswick with red rock massive boulders and a cliff.
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock

#Gibraltar

#photography #sea #Mediterranean #EastCoastKin #blue
The Rock of Gibraltar, with blue-violet clouds above it, viewed from across turquoise water from a beach with green and gold palm trees
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Walking the Dog At 2AM
this night splayed from my head is gossamer and cool a dog-genius walks with me points out the optical owls fetches the stick flung at Taurus around us without abandon the combines of tree and rock stand dazed in their own enlightenment never witness our path or hear the dog call everything by its proper name Don Domanski, "Nightwalk" from "The Cape Breton Book of the Dead" .
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Toronto Trash Pandas!
Smiley cartoon raccoon in white striped baseball uniform, blue cap and carrying a bat.
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Gilly Johns, Cornwall artist

“It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbled streets silent and the hunched courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
Painting, mostly in blue and violet, of a small English coastal town in the light of the full moon. Some of the houses are white, shining in the moonlight. There are boats on the beach, in for the night.
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Inside

Mary Oliver captured the joy of a little dog romping in the new snow.

Here is Rosie the shiba inu on an in-and-out-and-in-and-out snow day.

#photography #dog #DogsOfBluesky #shibainu #snow #winter #MaryOliver
Rosie the red shiba inu at the door to the back yard, anticipating a romp in 4 inches of new snow. Her ears are cocked for squirrels and her fluffy tail is up. Right now she is inside, on the carpet, but in a moment she'll be bounding through the snow.
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet

Leaving Port Ryerse, a cottage community on the north shore of Lake Erie, after a day off-season at the Long Point dunes.

#photography #LakeErie #LongPoint #autumn #trees #October #orange
On the way out of Port Ryerse, a hamlet on the north shore of Lake Erie, in October. A blue road with a yellow stripe leads out through golden and fiery orange trees.
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet

High Park in October.

#photography #HighPark #autumn #trees #Toronto
Trees in High Park. Black trunks like soldiers lined up on golden ground, although the trees are still laden with yellow leaves. A glade in High Park with plenty of sun and shadow mottling the trees with their bronze leaves. A stand of four tall trees with yellow/orange leaves basking in the sunlight in High Park. Beneath them, fiery red bushes. Sun and shadow mottle a stand of six large trees with grey trunks and bronze leaves.
October 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM