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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 2h

Love having mushrooms on my lawn. Mushrooms indicate healthy soil; they break down organic matter & recycle nutrients for plants. They improve soil structure, boost moisture retention, & support beneficial microbes in your lawn. I don't rake leaves. Instead mulch with the mower. #fungusfriday 🍄

a pair of mushrooms in grass among decaying leaves on ground.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've a daughter who works in ER in BC. She's seen the carnage inflicted on cyclists from drivers & poor infrastructure. Take bike lanes away & it will become far worse. The article mentions "About 650 health-care workers have signed a letter calling on the province (Ont) to back down on its plans"

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of last flowers of the season before winter hits in the rewilded area of my yard is the New England Aster. While the other flowers have finished blooming for the season, this flower is now in its glory. The bees love it. It provides an important food source during this critical time of year.

Purple flowers with bees feeding on them.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With getting frost each night I'm feeling the seasons changing as we move towards Christmas. This Christmas 1st day cover postmarked Scotland, Ontario was issued 60 years ago, Oct. 12, 1966. Scott catalogue numbers 451 & 452. #stmpsharesaturday #philately #firstdaycover #stampcollecting #stamps

First day cover with 4 orange stamps with praying hands and 4 red stamps with praying hands.

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Bicycles Recycle @bicyclesrecycle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bike Lab Artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics will likely take over as many as 800 million jobs by 2030. For the kids of today who will be the adults of tomorrow this is a dismal prospect. One way for these youngsters to secure a needed place in society is to know how to fix stuff.

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Bicycles Recycle @bicyclesrecycle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was a time, for awhile, the world seemed full of peace, love and understanding. A really, way cool #bicycle made life something sparkling. "Riding the waves of music and space, music is magic, magic is life, Love as never loved before, Harmony to son and daughter, man and wife.” ― Jimi Hendrix

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was on afternoon crosswalk duty and I missed seeing the monarch butterfly emerge during that time. With cooler Sept. temperatures, it took 17 days for the transformation to take place in the chrysalis. With frost tonight, hopefully it will get some good distance travelled. Safe journeys to Mexico

Newly formed monarch butterfly chrysalis attached to my garage door.

Monarch butterfly is almost ready to emerge from the chrysalis.

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please share this post to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives. Thank you 😊🐝

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Humber Arboretum @humberarb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Congratulations and kudos to the Lewes Town Council in East Sussex, England, for voting to recognize the rights of trees. 🌲 In June, Terrasse-Vaudreuil in Quebec became the first municipality in Canada to sign the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beautiful Red Oak for #ThickTrunkThursday. Found in Sandy Cove Park in the nearby city of Barrie Ontario, Canada, it is nice to see these survivors. 🌳

Massive red oak tree in a grassy meadow with blue sky in the background.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 14/09/2026

Gorgeous crepuscular rays at sunset tonight

A flat horizon with yellow and blue rays after the sunset.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“If just 1% of Google users were to use Karma as their default search engine instead, we’d be able to donate $1 billion per year to our nonprofit partners.” I've been using Karma Search Engine for 3 weeks now. Really gotten to like it. karmasearch.org www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/kar...

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Tired of Google? Try this new search engine that funds biodiversity efforts

Conscientious web surfers and animal lovers can now search using Karma, a search engine that funds biodiversity efforts.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Playing around with the macro setting on my camera. Copeland Forest, Ontario, Canada. #Wildflowers #Nature #Macro #photography

Two dainty yellow flowers with a blurred background.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Seems to be a lot fewer millipedes around than 50 years ago when I was hiking these same trails in Copeland Forest. The only one I spotted this year. Such a fascinating arthropod that gave me much joy when I spotted it. Photo taken with my 18 year old Fuji Finepix camera. #millipede #arthropods 📸

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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In the 1980s when climate scientists started warning us about the dangers of climate change, my Foundation began to fund education efforts to promote solutions highlighting renewable energy policies. Great strides have been made but too many governments continue to rely and promote fossil fuels.

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not great news, but I do really appreciate Canadian mainstream media for saying it as it is. Plus, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is still government funded and has not been axed. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrises🌎 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

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‘Effectively irreversible’: Changes to Canada’s climate permanent, federal report says

The effects of climate change are impacting Canadians even more than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to a new report released this week.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/09/2026

Listening to a man at the farmers market explain he’s out of eggs as “the ladies aren’t producing due to heat stress”— and another poultry vendor says he’s out, as he can’t keep them in this heat. Climate change is all around. We just have to open our eyes to see how it’s affecting our daily lives.

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Sleepy Cartoon Chicken

Alt: Sleepy Cartoon Chicken

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#StampShare#Saturday. #Canada Scott #2700a to celebrate Year of the Horse in 2014. This year in 2026 is also Year of the Horse. This sheet transitions from Year of the Snake from previous year. The Horse is the seventh in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac signs #philately #YearoftheHorse.

Souvenir sheet from Canada with 2 postage stamps. One with a horse and one with a snake.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This will likely be the last monarch to use my pollinator garden as a nursery this season. It's been steady, which is wonderful. I was just about to open the garage door to get my bike when I noticed this monarch caterpillar in the process of becoming a chrysalis. Used back door to get my bike. 🐛🦋

Monarch butterfly caterpillar attaching itself to garage door in the process of becoming a chrysalis.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I make it a habit to stop and look before I step out my front door. This Eastern Garter Snake likes to warm itself in the sun on the walk in front of the door before making its rounds. I haven't seen it in a few days, but it was warmer today, so it was back. Always love seeing it around. #snake 🐍

An eastern garter snake in front of my entrance door. The snake is 3 feet long and has olive yellow and black stripes which run the entire length of its body.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When I was looking for an alternative search engine to Google, I discovered Karma. They use revenue to help protect animals and biodiversity on our precious planet with every search. karmasearch.org

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

With the ice storm we had in late March, 2025 there ended up being a lot of damaged trees. The Northern Tooth Fungus in this photo is using a maple tree as a host. The fungus can be found on the trunks with larger wounds of hardwood trees, particularly the sugar maple.

Northern tooth fungus on a maple tree host.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've lived in the same house for 34 years. We've always had milkweed to attract monarch butterflies. I don't know how they know, but the caterpillars will always chose under the soffit for their Chrysalis. Travelling as much as 20 feet to get there. It is very sheltered there. #nature #monarch 🐛🦋

A monarch butterfly chrysalis attached to the soffit of my house.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Always an honour to be one of the board members of this event. 🦋

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The word is called nostalgiacore. It’s a cultural coping mechanism for climate anxiety that draws on childhood memories. www.wbay.com/2026/08/16/c...

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Climate anxiety is fueling 90s nostalgia

CDs, dumb phones, Furbys and disposable cameras. Many are finding joy and entertainment in a reboot of their childhood.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 14/08/2026

I talked about wildfires, fossil fuels, clean energy and the possibility of a better future with CBC News yesterday. With a few audio cameos from Mr Jekyll 🙀 Watch here:

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Climate change 'loading the dice' for extreme weather, says climate scientist

YouTube video by CBC News

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Pen Insole @birdsblooms.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The dry conditions meant there wasn't a huge amount in flower #bythesea at Dawlish Warren today, but there was lots of common restharrow and lovely to find the tiny flowers of what I think is lesser centaury #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Small pink and white flower of common restharrow

Tiny pink five-petalled flowers with thin green stems

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Rick @rickpicpoetry.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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jubro @jubro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"I stepped into an avalanche - it covered up my soul." Leonard Cohen.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Discouragement is a distortion of reality, turning us from the vertical view with God preeminent to the horizontal view where we only see the problem and our own inadequacy" ~Dr. Anthony Fortosis~

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I had to get some help from a friend of my wife who is a big time birder to identify this for me. I learned it is a Fork Tailed Flycatcher. I have never seen this bird before. It is not a threatened specie, though sightings of it this far up in Canada are said to be quite rare. #bird #photography

A bird sitting on a branch facing left. It has a light coloured chest with darker top feathers and a long tail.

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Martin Farley 🔰 @martinfarley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I learned about global warming at school in the 1980s. I never imagined we’d be here, 40 years later, still increasing our GHG emissions every year I always assumed that good sense would prevail. I was wrong

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I do love the sound of crickets while sitting outside on these August evenings. Though it is a sign here in this part of Canada that summer will be soon winding down. #August #CanadianSummer

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I Hear Nothing But Crickets

Alt: I Hear Nothing But Crickets on a Giffy with a picture of a cricket.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

First Day cover issued 44 years ago this past August 4th on 1982. Scott catalogue number 968. Perf 12.5. Commemorating the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Established in 1839, is one of the world’s most prestigious rowing events. #StampShareSaturday #philately #firstdaycover #stampcollecting

First Day Cover showing a black and white photo of rowers on the top left. On the top right is a painting of rowers.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"...this skin and bones is a rental and no one gets out alive."

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A Northern Leopard Frog posing for a photo on some gravel in Tiny Marsh in Simcoe County, Ontario. There are eight known species of leopard frog that live in North America. The northern leopard frog is the only leopard frog species found in Canada. #frog #nature #TinyMarsh #Amphibians #photography 🐸

A green with brown spotted frog resting on some gravel.

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Canada registered cover dated Dec. 14, 1992 with $3.27 postage. From Jan. 1, 1992 - Dec. 31, 1992, the $3.27 covers 42 cents letter rate + $2.85 registration fee (no indemnity). Stamps are high value architecture Scott #1181 & 1182, low value mammals #1156 & 1161 #stampsharesaturday #philately

Canada registered postage history cover addressed to "Court House, 30 Poyntz St. Barrie Ont L4M 5L4

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This section of ferns only last for a couple hundred meters. I always love going on this trail this time of year. 😀

Lush ferns on both sides of a trail in a hardwood forest.

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Gigi @squirrellyaltruist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

For checking dogs, its really important to check their paws very carefully, especially if they are swimmers and have webbed toes as we think of it. It’s as if ticks know that’s the best hiding place. We just went through getting ticks off me and the pooch #Dogsky

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Carl Wright 🇨🇦 @canuckcarl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Discovered in my garden and ended up researching what it is. Believe it is a Virginia Ctenucha and is endemic to eastern North America. #Moths #photography

Virginia Ctenucha moth on milkweed flowers. The wings are a medium brown and the body is a metallic blue green.

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