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Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨

@amandahammill.bsky.social

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Health systems research and policy wonk. Retired from McMaster University department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. Now reaping joy from painting, gardening, and my 3 🐈 #inkandessenceart #HamOnt #alcoholinkartist

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Fridays are for Frittilaries. A beautiful Spangled Frittilary nectaring on Buddleja #insect #butterfly #flyday #frittilary #pollinators #bloomscrolling #nature #ECK #photographersofbluesky

A Spangled Frittilary butterfly, white spots and black lined on burnt orange colored wings, nectaring on a magenta Buddleja blossom

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bee on pink Coneflower #flower #flowers #bloomscrolling #macro #ECK #macromonday #flowerphotography #photography #flowerphotos #dailyflowers #coloraday #floweraday #pinkmon #bee #bugsky

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of today's showy visitors #giantswallowtail #butterflies #bugsky #yellowthursday #naturephotography #nature #butterflyweed

A beautiful yellow and black Giant Swallowtail butterfly nectaring on orange Butterfly Weed

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I planted Dill weed this year, not for me, but for these! This #caterpillar will one day be a beautiful Black Swallowtail #blackswallowtail #larvae #butterfly #nature #photography #BugSky

A black swallowtail caterpillar larvae feeding on Dill weed . The caterpillar is white with black stripes with yellow dots on the black stripes

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A bountiful day for nectaring in the garden #butterflies #Monarch #Swallowtail #frittilary #bloomscrolling #bugsky #nature #naturephotography #coneflower #Lantana #mygardentoday #macrophotography

A close up shot of a monarch butterfly on a magenta coneflower with tall spikes of red sage in the background

A black Swallowtail butterfly nectarine on an orange and pink lantana bloom

A spotted Frittilary butterfly perched on a light pink coneflower

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The coneflowers are a #butterfly magnet in my gardens #BlackSwallowtail #BugSky #pollinators #macro #stunday #naturephotography #coneflower #bloomscrolling #Monarch #photography

A black Swallowtail butterfly resting on a magenta coneflower

A close up shot of a Monarch butterfly resting on the orange center of magenta conefower

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#flyday #bugsky #macro #sachem #skipper ##bloomscrolling #pollinators #nature

A Sachem Skipper butterfly on a magenta Zinnia

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There is no such thing as a #squirrelproof bird feeder! #birdfeederacrobat #redsquirrel #nature #naturephotography

Red squirrel squished into a small caged spherical birdfeeder

Red squirrel squished into a small caged spherical birdfeeder

Red squirrel squished into a small caged spherical birdfeeder

Red squirrel squished into a small caged spherical birdfeeder

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One of my own #daylily cross-pollination creations, yet unnamed or registered #mygardentoday #TwoForTuesday #Twosday #BloomScrolling #Flowers #NaturePhotography

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

More #TwoforTuesday #daylilies in #mygardentoday #Twosday #BloomScrolling #Flowers #NaturePhotography

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Daylilies in #mygardentoday #TwoForTuesday #Twosday #BloomScrolling #Flowers #NaturePhotography

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The inside of daylilies make me think of the paintings of Georgia O'Keefe #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCwithCurves #Macro #MacroPhotography #daylily #stamen #Nature

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's what's inside that counts #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCwithCurves #Macro #MacroPhotography #daylily #stamen #Nature

A macro shot of the inside of a daylily. Bright yellow stamens topped with golden pollen

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My what big lens you have! #naturephotography #pollinator #bees #macromonday #photography #coneflower #gossamerwings

A close up shot of a bee on the center of an orange coneflower. The wings are glowing in the light of the green backgound

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A last yellow Thursday post of an alcohol ink piece I created of a yellow bloom. #nature #alcoholinkartist #bloomscrolling #ColoraDay #yellowthursday #flowers #alcoholink #alcoholinkart #inkandessenceart

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

More beautiful blooms for yellow Thursday #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #ColoraDay #yellowthursday #flowers

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Beautiful daylily blooms #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #ColoraDay #yellowthursday #flowers #daylily

Yellow daylilies with white Shasta daisies with yellow centers in background

Light yellow daylily

Inside of a daylily glowing in the sun. The stamen are covered with yellow pollen

Beautiful light peach grilled daylily with bright yellow and lime center

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Happy Friday! #Photography #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #mygardentoday

Four white Penstemon Digitalis blooms with red yarrow and purple sage in the background

Purple Knautia, yellow Coreopsis and a fuschia Zinnia

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For Alan's @alan678.bsky.social theme of #Feather&Light, #mourningdove relaxing in the grass, and Dove in the hands of the Buddha. #birds #photography #mygardentoday #peace

A grey Mourning Dove relaxing in the green grass

Two Mourning Doves, one standing on the praying hands of the Buddha that sits in my pond filtration and waterfall barrel and the other standing on the rim

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I have a new addition to the garden ecosystem. A rather bold young #fox, on his fourth garden trot-through of the day. I'm sitting about ten feet away, no zoom needed. The chipmunks aren't impressed but I sure am! #naturephotography #Redfox #mygardentoday

A young red fox in my garden. He's licking his lips, likely just enjoyed a chipmunk breakfast. Circle of life

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Breezeway life. Lazy #Caturday

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Lazy #calico #caturday

Photo of our Calico cat, Sally sleeping in the box of her cat tree. Her head, resting on a sheepskin, is peeking out of the box.

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Two days of blue skies, sunshine and temps above 65F and I feel the weight of the long winter sliding off my back. My garden brings me back to myself with every green shoot pushing up and each bloom unfurling #alphabetchallenge #PisforPrimula #spring #PisforPurple

Purple petaled Primula with yellow centers

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Cleaned up all the soggy leaves on patio today. Collected a ton of juicy 🪱 underneath. Been handfeeding my pond 🐸. He's waiting for more...little 🐖 #frog #naturephotography

Side photo of a frog on a log in my pond

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In conjunction with the Office of the President, the American Medical Association unveils the 2026 version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCa) test. Primary care physicians can upload the full document for a minimal fee (Bitcoin preferred) from Truth Social

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Two photos of the same #crow perched on a branch, one in black and white, one in colour #blueskymonday #PhotographersOfBluesky #ClassicMono #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXmas #MacroMonday #SensoryArt #monochromatic #MonochromeMonday

A black Crow, beak open, perches on a branch against a muted blue sky. The sun glints off its beak and right side. The leaves on the branches are a blurred charcoal green except for the top right corner where a ray of sun illuminates them

A black and white photo of a crow on a branch

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

My favorite pic of our #Russianblue Jack. The lines and curves of his legs, paws and ears flow into the folds and creases of the fabric as he stretches #catsofbluesky #PhotographersOfBluesky #ClassicMono #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXmas #MacroMonday #SensoryArt #monochromatic #MonochromeMonday

Black and white photo of our Russian Blue cat, Jack. He is stretched out on a ribbed blanket, paws forward running into the creases of the material, ears creating a flow of lines with the folds of fabric, one eye a-squint staring at his favorite photographer 😊

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Max and Sally enjoying some cuddle time #caturday #cuddles #calico #catsofbluesky

Green-eyed tabby cat Max and golden-eyed calico Sally enjoying a kitty cuddle

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

#caturday Sally's silly Saturday 'smile'

This is Sally, our mostly white Calico sitting in her cat tree. The camera caught her mid-yawn and it looks almost as if she is laughing

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Three's company! #photography #stunday #bumblebee #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #triplets #threescompany #eastcoastkin

Three bumblebees on a purple Knautia bloom

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

My three cats enjoying a lazy Saturday in the breezeway. In a chair on a sheepskin is our youngest kitty Sally, a spicy Calico. On a black and white checkered pillow on the floor below is our oldest boy Jack, a Russian Blue and Max, a domestic shorthair tabby

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Not a cloud in sight #coloraday #bluetue #bloomscrolling #photography #bluesky

A purple Canterbury Bell bloom against a pure blue sky

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

When the backyard neighbour's birthday party #bouncycastle matches your flowers and makes your garden statue of Sappho look like Rapunzel seeking her prince 😆😊 #photography #mygarden #bloomscrolling #flowers #photographersofbluesky

Unintentional colour coordination with the neighbours 😆Background: A pink, blue, purple and white bouncy castle
Midground: lattice fencing and cedars
Foreground: staue of Sappho among deep pink, red, white and mauve giant phlox, yellow coreopsis and black-eyed Susans.

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Ar least my garden is loving the heat in southern Ontario. #MacroMonday #Flowers #ColorADay #PinkMon #Garden #NaturePhotography #Bloomscrolling #echinacea #phlox #magenta #photographersofbluesky

A large grouping of magenta echinacea with double pink and white giant phlox paniculata behind it

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Two double-petaled #Platycodon ( #balloonflower ) for #Twosday #bloomscrolling #photography #nature #photographersofbluesky

Double-petaled white balloonflowers, with blue veining

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It's what's inside that counts! #daylilies #mygardentoday #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #nature #photography #flowersonfriday

Inside view of a daylily. Purple petals, yellow and lime green center, purple pollen coated pistils

Inside view of a daylily. Pink and magenta petals, yellow and lime green center, yellow and pink pollen coated pistils

Inside view of a daylily. Peach and light yellow petals, bright yellow center and pollen coated pistils

Inside view of a daylily. Bright red petals, yellow center, and red pistils tipped with yellow pollen

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

When it's 108F with the humidex even the #monarch #butterflies can't be bothered to move when I come 5" away to get a close up. #heatwave #bloomscrolling #echinacea #invertebrates #photography #nature

Close up head-on shot of a monarch butterfly on an echinacea center

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Did you hear what Katydid?? This one was hiding inside a double ruffled daylily #macromonday #photography #photographersofbluesky #nature #katydid #bloomscrolling

A close up shot of a bright green Katydid inside a creamy orange, doubled-ruffled daylily

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The #monarch #butterflies have finally arrived. Captured this shot inside the blooms of a Lacecap Hydrangea #lacecap #hydrangea #macroMonday #photographersofbluesky #bloomscrolling #invertebrates #photography #nature

A head-on not often a monarch butterfly in a white lace-cap hydrangea bloom

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Shades of orange #ColorADay #OrangeSun

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

a Mason bee enjoying breakfast #pollinators #masonbee #photography #photographersofbluesky #naturephotography #stunday #EastCoastKin

A close up shot of a Mason bee

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A bumblebee balancing on Astrantia Major blooms. Shot with Canon Rebel #Photography #balance #bumblebee #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #OnlyBeautifulThings #Stunday #PhotoHour #Nature #PhotographersOfBluesky #macrophotography

A bumblebee balancing on Astrantia Major blooms

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Today's daily #Daylily deadheading count: 238 I love July in the garden! Already well over 1000 blooms and many more to come #bloomscrolling

A purple bowl containing 238 spent Daylily blooms set against the backdrop of the garden. This is my daily chore in July

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

It's #insectthursday and this #blackswallowtail was a most obliging subject #Butterfly #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Bloomscrolling #bugsky #Invertebrates #nature #macrophotography #pollinator

A side capture of a Black Swallowtail butterfly on a magenta Echinacea bloom

A top view of a Black Swallowtail butterfly enjoying the pollen from an Orange Butterflywees

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A close up shot of the inside of a Platycodon (aka Balloonflower) blossom. So very #alien looking! #macromonday #photographersofbluesky #photography #bloomscrolling #flowerphotography #nature

A close up shot of the inside of a Platycodon (aka Balloonflower) blossom. The petals are purple with deeper purple veining. There is a blue and white orb at the tip of the pistel and the light reflected in it is like a star.

Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Gorgeous photo!