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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On the Toronto subway line 2 yesterday

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's a photo of a Cliff Spurge in Whittaker Garden in the Torrey Pines State Nature Reserve

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

11 minutes before sunrise this morning, Toronto

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At the Canadian National Airshow today - the Snowbirds saying goodbye for a few years...

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It doesn't really matter what he calls it. The only way to get from Lake ONTARIO to Lake Erie is through the Welland Canal (unless Trump claims oceangoing ships can go UP Niagara Falls). Oh, and interesting factoid...the Welland Canal is entirely in Canada. Not that Canada would ever close it..😁

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"We were not prepared to compromise on our sovereignty, the protection of the French language, and our culture. To our American colleagues, let us be clear: for my government and for Canada, these issues were never on the table, even though the United States tried until the very last minute."

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

OK, *you* try singing over an orchestra that large...

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” Kobayashi Issa (18th Century Haiku master) Photos from early this evening in High Park,Toronto

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Well, at east they get a patch

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Think there's a car in there?? Cast your vote - car, or snowbank?

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We got a bit of snow today...

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Storefronts on Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto tonight. Happy Thanksgiving for those in the USA

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"If the dinner is free And the dinner's not me You can tell 'em we'll be there..." Happy Hallowe'en (with the apostrophe, s’il vous plaît) from Toronto. With the World Series crowd mixing with the obligatory craziness on Church St., if the Blue Jays win it could be an "interesting" evening.

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The view from my living room, 06:34 today

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

For no particularly good reason, the Laurentian lowlands seen from the Champlain lookout on the Eardley Escarpment (an ancient fault line that's now the southern limit of the Canadian Shield), Parc Gatineau

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

To be honest, before his killing I hadn't even heard of Charlie Kirk - had no idea who he was. But it's clear that his murder - cruel, callous murder - is MAGA's Reichstag Fire, the excuse for curtailing rights and demonizing the opposition. And we know what happened next...

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A reminder of how it was in the "good old days"

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Is this real or just a window display? Why is it protecting a shy cat? And do they need protection?

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The Opera (Nationaltheater) in Munich

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

"When everyone is thinking the same thing, there's not much thinking going on" Karl Valentin

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The U.S may have all the Trader Joe's, but Canada has the real, official TWO BUCK CHUCK

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The Waxing Gibbous (one night before full) moon playing peek-a-boo in the clouds over Toronto tonight. And yes, it really is that bright

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

One of the entertainment stages at Toronto Pride, taken from the roof of my building about 8:45 last night. Where is everybody?

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Two mid-morning Pride weekend rainbows, courtesy of the double refracting prism I keep in the window (shout out to the sun for the photons)

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

So, pardon the language, but IS THERE A FUCKING CEASFIRE OR NOT??!!!

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

It's sad to see the service of so many men and women (my father included) tainted by association with the first "Let's Ruin Washington DC Streets to Assuage an Oligarch's Ego" parade next Saturday. This was in today's New York Times - even the Waltons (of Walmart) have had enough.

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The Former New York City General Post Office (now known as the James A. Farley Bldg.) was across 8th Avenue from Pennsylvania Station and was built to match its magnificence. And magnificent it remains. We built *post offices* like this, because it mattered to people. And people mattered.

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I took this photo on a lamp post about 3 years ago in Göttingen (where I lived for a while). It sums up how I feel about the current administration and its merry band quite adequately.

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Mark Garner @markgarner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The Toronto skyline about 10 minutes after sunset tonight

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