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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In weird weather/animal news last wk saw 1 snow goose hanging out on shores of St. Lawrence @ N.D.duPortage. Relatives attest seeing it earlier in season. Injury may be culprit but what struck as ODDer were some flocks of Snow Geese heading SW by Sept 1? Typically witness them that way ~mid Oct.+/-

A single snow goose looks toward camera amongst reeds and sedimentary rocks as tide comes in.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Know we all know but guess I just want to put more evidence out into world. My grandfather collected old maps & they’re displayed at his former summer place on the St. Lawrence River which my family shares. This map shows Lake Ontario’s name in place in 1755 so 112+ years before province was named.

A map of “New France” from 1755 with an inset of all the Great Lakes attributed to Sir Robert Vaugondy. The Lake Names are “Superieur, Michigan, Huron, Erie, & of course, Ontario

Inset “Supplement” map from larger map of “New France” with all the Great Lakes and attributed to Sir Robert Vaugondy. The Lake Names are “Superieur, Michigan, Huron, Erie, & of course, Ontario. Curiously “Miami” appears just below Lake Michigan.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Nosy!! It appears that the hydrangeas are listening in and looking through the window.

A white painted window frame looking outside with large white hydrangeas seen filling lower half of window with other greenery above. The flowers are leaning into the house as if to listen and look at what is happening inside.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Wow, are people on Bluesky looking “UP”! This is it should be! While it is coolish relatively speaking in S Ontario rn and we’ve had a break from air quality warnings this week, it won’t take much to change that. Climate Crisis is now and we should keep “looking up” and do things about it!

A Bluesky Trending list. Trending is headline. 1. wildfires and Climate, 2. Nature Photography, 3. UK Politics 4. BB28 5. Big Brother 28

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Yesterday I saw it.. the very last truffula tree of them all. Given all the smoke and heat I wasn’t too surprised to find it indoors and sapped of its colour Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot.. nothing is going to get better, it’s not.

An art gallery with a tree -or rather a stylized rendition of a tree- made entirely of sisal rope. A golden beige brown fluffy -cotton candy like cloud canopy of frayed sisal- and a trunk of twisted rope. In the backdrop a quilt, a red curved ceiling and a projection on a screen above the quilt.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

First Father’s Day without my Dad hits weird. Grateful to get to hang out on the water in one of his favourite spots this weekend.

A small boy with a white hat & old fashioned life jacket in a wooden row boat holding one oar.

A man in a dark green sweatshirt sits on a white muskoka chair on a dock beside a lake.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sometimes you just need to start churning out t-shirts.

An olive green child sized shirt is being prepped on an ironing board to have a freezer paper No Jets stencil applied.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Since everyone can’t get to Ward’s Island & I was lucky enough to have a recent visit, I’m just going to up some of the messaging the residents there seem to want us to see (and I applaud them!). However, if you CAN go you should. And also sign the petition at environmentaldefence.ca/nojetsto/

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Best clotheslines I’ve seen are in Newfoundland. This one in gorgeous Quirpon where we’d just witnessed a humpback feeding frenzy. Post your best clotheslines (aka solar wind powered fabric dryers)!

A clothesline featuring white and pink clothing reflected in water in front of a bay with hummocky green islands in background by the Sea in Newfoundland

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This is how the current expansion will appear (roughly) proportional to the above. The calculations are not available for the time to refresh the water yet but just looking we can see a significant decrease in space for the water to flow into the harbour.

The city of Toronto's waterfront is shown with a large chunk of runway going further into Lake Ontario cutting off water flow through the Western Gap. No Data is available yet on the flow numbers in and out nor Hydraulic Residency time but the expectation is a markedly lower flow in due to the size of the runway, the lighting extensions, jet blast barriers etc..

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Billy Bishop expansion Pub health! Red arrows=sewage flow to TO's inner harbour during storms. Image on L is current situation. Inflow into Western Gap & outflow out Eastern Gap. Time H20 refreshed=6.7 days. On R more MODEST 2013 Jets proposal,⬆️takes 12.3 days. Runway expansion=huge⬆️yet. Days=? 💩💧🤢

A map of water flow through the Toronto Inner Harbour currently. Water goes in the Western Gap to the inner harbour at a rate of 67.4 cubic metres per second. It exits at the Eastern Gap at 71.3 cubic metres per second. Some water enters the harbour from the Don River at a rate of 3.9 cubic metres per second. Hydraulic Residence Time (time to fully refresh water) is listed as 6.7 days. Multiple arrows show where combined sewers outflow in the lake from shore. Implication is these carry sewage into harbour during storms.

Same scene as previous but with a more modest than 2026 proposal for Jets from 2013, with Western Gap only getting an inflow to inner harbour at 34.8 cubic metres per second and exiting the Eastern Gap at 38.7 cubic meters per second. The input from the Don River is 3.4 cubic meters per second. The Hydraulic Residence time in the harbour.. is 12.3 days. Multiple arrows show where combined sewers outflow in the lake from shore. These arrows demonstrate how many places actual sewage would be coming out during a storm event. The implication is that the sewage would be in the harbour until 12.3 days had passed.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I know, it’s apparently “Caturday” & trending. But do the dogs ever get a day? Just cause Dog doesn’t rhyme with the start of any day of the week? I am away from her & miss her so posting my sweet one eyed blind pooch! Does anyone else sense the injustice of an unbalanced Caturday? Just me. Ok.

A sweet calm looking golden retriever of lighter colouring with her tongue out & one eye fake looking at me. A beautiful Bas St. Laurent seashore background in autumn (golden grasses and rocks and water & an island way in the background)

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

You know what tech actually COULD do for us (since they have run out of good ideas & are doing the DUMBest stuff). Create smello-vision somehow. But phthalate free. A tall order so maybe can keep you preoccupied for while so I can stop downloading updates/replacing stuff & trying to sidestep AI

Everbearing Lilacs-less bunchy than regular lilacs-bit of a pale green chair and greenery/red canoe in background.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Summer is coming. It will never be this quiet .. alas

Close up piece of weathered dock with a perfectly flat fresh water lake & pine covered islands/peninsulas in background.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just had to sit here in this stinking crappy air VIA train & be passed by a GO train & it just feels all wrong.

We see the interior of a VIA train looking through window being passed by a GO train.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Love BC signage re not feeding wildlife & wish we had more of it in Ontario. Meanwhile self abuse is rampant. Have to admire gulls’ ability to work collaboratively & mount fairly aggressive sneak attacks on unsuspecting snackers from behind. Told sometimes falcons brought in to curb-saw none.

A sign with a blue background and a white seagull with a french fry in its beak says “Warning: Seagulls steal snacks by the seashore.”

A bright yellow sign reads: “Do not feed birds. Feeding birds is so unhealthy BC SPCA now considers it indirect animal cruelty.” Wildlife feeding regulation by-law No. 13321

Two seagulls sit in wait on a roof ledge watching for unsuspecting humans below to be caught with their backs to them on a bench below- with much wanted food -in order that they can swoop in from behind and grab it from human clutches. Another seagull glides triumphantly in the clear blue sky overhead

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I learned a new word “bastule” bridge, and I never guessed I could be quite so enthralled by a bridge. It feels odd and a little unsettling to see the path you are about to take swing up directly in front of you. Johnson St Bridge, Victoria, BC.

The pedestrian footpath of a single leaf bastule bridge is shown in an upright position, allowing a barge to pass below. The automobile and bike portion of the bridge are mostly out of the frame. The bridge is painted white. Sunshine breaks out of clouds just behind it.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Tu-lips much? Victoria, BC Empress Hotel gardens

A zoomed in photo of a garden containing an explosion of spring flowers-mainly tulips-bright pink, white, yellow, orange, dark purple, pink, striped white/pink.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’m not sure what it’s called but I’m calling it daffodil bush.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

building Canada’s military.. one gosling gaggle at a time

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I don’t know if this is peak blossom, mid blossom or what, here in Vancouver but these ones around False Creek are just too much.. 😍 hanging down like some crazy gorgeous decorative ceiling under the trees.

Full fluffy light to dark pink blossoms hang below one of many trees displaying the same.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Stop leading me into temptation Vancouver!!

A docked, well cared for, white painted, large wooden sailboat carries a sign on a boom which reads “BOAT FOR SALE-LIVE ABOARD MOORAGE-followed by a phone #

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

MMIGW2S+ installation by artist Kamila Gougain. False Creek. Ron Basford Park.

Red dresses affixed to still leafless trees blow in the wind on the grassy slope of park next to water.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It’s true, but WAY too much at stake so:

A rectangular blanket banner made up mainly of brightly coloured crocheted “Granny Squares” but assembled with the words “We Won’t Keep Down” boldly in black on an orange background through the middle section. The blanket was hung on a wall as part of an instillation at the AGO in Toronto, ON.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Don’t normally share 🌷photos but in 🌎 full of bad news wanted to share a nice story. Made arrangements to go for haircut in advance of my Dad’s upcoming funeral. Had to beg (online form)for waitlist-as fully booked. Got call-cut-condolences. At checkout-to my amazement-they handed me roses-from all!

Bouquet of orange tulips and pink roses-varying heights. Roses more open than tulips.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Unfortunate update. Return trip is on a different kind of train. Old school = old rebreathed air!! @viarailcanada.bsky.social Trying to keep us sick & sleepy? Train #72

CO2 monitor on VIA RAIL train # 72. Dangerous reading of 2126 ppm and rising. Via table, back of seats, paper emesis bag & Menu in seatback pouch in background.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

One good news thing about VIA Rail is my recent readings on there have been FAR better. Not perfect-FAR better. A few stops where doors opened and let in a little more air. The peak is likely when the food cart was happening and the server engaged in lengthy conversation with my near neighbours.

A Carbon Dioxide reading graph from an Aranet CO2 monitor with a peak in the timeframe shown of 938ppm. Arrived on VIA Rail Train ~5pm and departed shortly after 7:30 pm. Most of the trip the reading shows that time frame and shows the reading is mostly just under 900ppm.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Wow. Some USians so testy about fact all N,C & S Americans are “Americans”. I figured US appellation came about fairly lazily, but since it was pointed out to me by S Americans in the 90s, I’ve been awake to fact we’re all Americans. Though not sure we want the association-name’s been through a LOT.

@patrickrcrotty.bsky.social has added you to the “Non-ironic use of “USian”” moderation list.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“Guard” dog (blind-one eye) was hard at work throughout entire episode.

A one eyed golden retriever sleeps atop a colourful dog bed.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I doubt the live function works here but if it will it shows bird hopping with pigeon in talons

Back of Hawk-one wing akimbo-hops with pigeon in talons.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Apparently our front porch is Hawk Breakfast Club. Tried to put garbage out 8am & just in front of door is a hawk feasting on a pigeon. Accidentally scared it off to tree & to my horror it left the pigeon. Had to get on with garbage & husband used shovel to put pigeon under front tree for retrieval…

Back of a hawk (red tail?) on a porch consuming a pigeon

A dead pigeon on a porch on an extension cord and beside a chair.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Late dog walk last night.. The Rail Garden has nearly disappeared!!

Snow nearly completely obscures a group of raised garden beds behind a split rail fence. Photo lit by streetlights with dark sky/houses in background.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Living his best life in FRESH air. He’s grown now but posting to draw attention/remind: ALL children deserve clean air. Inside/out! 1)breathe 2x as fast&gobble pollutn in developing bodies 2)indoor air concentrates pollutants, 🦠s, smoke! Please sign⬇️ for TO BOH to implement Health 🇨🇦’ IAQ guidelines.

Blond child in blue star bellied sweater and old man plaid shorts running on vast Quebec beach on slightly grey day. Drift wood and various rocks strewn on gravel. Father like man in background. Water and rolling edge of mountain/islands visible. Air clear&clean.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Solstice Sunset on Lake Ontario while catching bit “Story Telling By the Fire”(before family dragged me back for “stuff they have to do”). All after enjoying a fantastic Pantomime!! Congrats to Torrent Productions for “Jack & the Beans Talk”. We’ve missed your work & glad to have you in TO again!!

Red temporary shelter/kiosks on pavement by Lake with golden sunset in background.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Another Child Care in Toronto. Beautiful new facilities located within condo building. Actually operated on behalf of @toronto.ca . Such fresh build one MIGHT expect excellent IAQ. In that case one would be wrong. Dips are when outdoors or..I took lunch. Can only hope they have top notch filtration.

A chart from an Aranet CO2 monitor shows inadequate ventilation for a day in a child care centre as described by high CO2 levels. Peak CO2 is at 3:21 pm at 1932ppm. Sharp dips exist when the group heads outdoors or the user heads out for lunch or to go home. Later the chart rises up at a home due to gas cooking. There is a lot of orange and red on the graph which tells us the “allowable” (according to manufacturer ) 1000 ppm is exceeded frequently.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

LHSC Cancer Clinic: Saw few people in 😷 apart from ourselves. Only one N95. Air could be worse but also-honestly FAR better considering location & what’s at stake. Upturn on graph➡️R is cab& good reminder re cars. Place packed. SO MUCH F-ing CANCER 😔 Also unhappy to see ‘masking station’ closed

A reading of CO2 levels today at a cancer clinic in London Ontario. Appt begins at 10 am and reading starts near a door that opens and closes frequently so starts just above 600ppm. Below 800 throughout visit. Drops off to depart to cab (outdoors) then rises steeply in cab to above 1000ppm.

Dark grey/black nylon closed drapes cover an area marked with a sign ‘’masking station’ peeking out.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Credit to Monica on the Moon.. Go Jays! And Happy Halloween!

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Come ON @viarailcanada.bsky.social you can do FAR better with your indoor air quality. Step it up!!

CO2 graph ranges from 600ppm to 1956 ppm on a graph created in the Aranet app. It is labelled for time on X axis and for PPM on the Y axis with concentration moving up quickly after getting on train shortly after 11 am-slight plateau but still steady gain after approx 11:30am til approx 1:20. Anywhere over 1000 ppm shown in red. Most of graph is red. Red means it is in a danger zone for health.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Any Toronto East Enders here might need to know this underpass between Woodfield Rd & Monarch Park closed for at least a week. Will affect students at at least 4 high schools and 2 elementary school. It implicates a city bike path. It affects a neighbourhood who can’t access their park/TTC. Painful!

A railway underpass brightly painted with street art is barricaded. It is an underpass between Monarch Park in Toronto and Woodfield Road. A major cycling path. Sign says it will be closed at least one week.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I’ve become fascinated with Snow Geese flying down St. Lawrence R these past 2 Thanksgivings. Search suggests sitings in 🇨🇦 from BC-E coast. See no ON mentions but maybe missed something. Anyway was curious why I saw some trace back their path SW & return NE in same morning? Avoiding US situation?😆😞

A golden field of sea grasses in foreground with a large line of snow geese lining the shoreline and the wide expanse of a river behind and low mountains on opposite shore visible. Blue sky overhead.

A golden field of sea grasses in foreground with a large line of snow geese lining the shoreline amidst boulders, and the wide expanse of a river behind and low rocky island in middle of river visible and low mountains silhouette at opposite side of river. Blue sky overhead.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Walking down the streetin my visibly mended jeans and visibly mended poncho I came upon a BEAUTIFUL visibly Mended bit of sidewalk in Montreal.

A faded wide bottom mended jean pant leg is seen from the wearer’s height and in the frame below a piece of grey sidewalk in which a crack has been mended with vividly colourful ceramic tiles.

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