Sign in

Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻

@marnpoo.bsky.social
186 followers 203 following 123 posts

Besotted with gardening, firmly on team feline, rabid reader, older than dirt, and remarkably cranky.

PostsRepliesMedia
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A hazy fall morning on our road. #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather
A completely still river mirrors a blue sky.  On either side trees have begun to turn red, yellow and orange, with bits of green.  In the background, mountains are covered in red maples tinged with blue mist.
0151
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A foggy morning walk down to the road. #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather
A winding leaf coloured drive way threads through trees during a heavy morning fog.
0697
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A winter dawn. #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather
Snowy mountains tinged pale pink by the rising sun surrounded by the bare black branches of trees and a cloudy blue sky.
1150
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 05/10/2026
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday October 10, 2026 The theme is #Weather Sun, rain, snow, fog, show us your best art about the weather! Use both tags to be included in the feed. Multiple entries welcome. #art #artists #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing #poetry
Photo of snowflakes in front of pine trees with text reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday October 10, 2026
The theme is #Weather
Any Art. Any interpretation.
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome.
513735
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This raises a really important question: A) Moby Dicks B) Mobys Dick Or C)Mobies Dick
4220535
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quebec’s new 'performance guarantee' for certain goods, including appliances and electronics, goes into effect, entitling consumers to a free repair if a malfunction occurs within a specified period.
bit.ly
Quebec ‘performance guarantee’ for appliances, electronics now in effect
Quebec’s new 'performance guarantee' for certain goods, including appliances and electronics, goes into effect, entitling consumers to a free repair if a malfunction occurs within a specified period.
085
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Clearly something plague related. Beyond that, I cannot say.
020
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My faith in humanity is restored.
010
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When I was a child the wrapper had a cartoon inside, usually starring Bazooka Joe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka... Is it the same today?
en.wikipedia.org
100
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AGREE. Oh man, did the splash page really look like that?
010
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
15788073412
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Missisquoi River surrounded by the fall glory of the valley where my husband and I have lived almost 50 years now. Back in the day it was a hippie haven. Now we couldn't afford to buy here.
The Missisquoi River, smooth as glass, with surrounding trees and mountains reflected in the water.  It's October and so the mountains are covered with red, orange and yellow trees.
040
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
SuperLowBudge @superlowbudge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#october #octobervibes October is always weird. Just go with it.
011
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hate this timeline.
000
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
Ally Raymond @allyraymond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😆😆😆 #stupidantivaxxers
3264801703
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Travelling through southwestern Quebec, painted silos have begun dotting the landscape with massive circular murals reflecting the local history of family farms.
bit.ly
Painted silos have begun dotting the southern Quebec landscape
Travelling through southwestern Quebec, painted silos have begun dotting the landscape with massive circular murals reflecting the local history of family farms.
062
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 28/09/2026
Alberta Separatists unveil development slogan: “Come Invest in our unstable breakaway republic!”
thebeaverton.com
Alberta Separatists unveil development slogan “Come Invest in our unstable breakaway republic!”
CALGARY - With the Alberta Separatism referendum fast approaching, pro-separatist groups have launched a new campaign to entice investment dollars to their chaotic barely-planned idea for a country.
12581140
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Beautifully written.
110
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A rare close look at the huge anti-drone protective structures installed over Moscow’s oil facilities. Those are usually only seen from afar in attack footage, so this angle gives a much clearer sense of their scale.
3645583
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Clothed, of course. Because THAT'S not an artificial human constraint.
010
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Let me say in the kindest, gentlest least judgemental way possible that those people are freaks.
000
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I voted for him because his book led me to believe that he was willing to face the political blowback that would come from weaning us from producing the dirtiest oil out there. (Plus, Poilievre is a dick.) I'm so disappointed.
110
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you want to get all science-y, they're called crepuscular rays. Our house is part way up a mountain so in the fall at our elevation we get very heavy fog. When the sun first comes up, this is what I see. It only lasts minutes because the sun burns the fog off quickly.
Blinding white rays as the rising sun pierces fog.  On the left are red begonias, then a mixed drift of hostas, more red begonias and finally more hosta.  In the background is forest.  On the right are variegated hosta, a blue pot holding red begonia, tall grass and at the back right of the bed are yellow coleus.
021
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Have to remember not to be drinking a hot beverage while I'm scanning BlueSky. Choked on my tea over that one.
011
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Boo, hiss," said the boomer.
110
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today's entry at Diaryland.
A picture of three succulent houseplants in a kitchen window.  Outside you can see bits of a flower garden.  There is text that reads:  Dear Diary: When the spousal unit and I lived in an apartment in Ottawa for a few years, I quickly loaded it up with houseplants. We were living downtown and there was a lot of cement and not a lot of green.

I gave them all away to friends just before our move here because
000
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
diaryland.com
000
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Diaryland, a Canadian blogging site started in 1999, has been revamped. If you stay within their ecosystem, A.I. scrapers can't grab your words (unlike here, or Facebook or any other social media site). It has a free level, free templates and an easy user interface. Check it out. #Diaryland
100
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You really shouldn't troll Doug Ford.
000
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The old order is not coming back. From the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, and more just.
852303537
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Boop looking sweet and angelic. Alas, she is a spawn of Satan, but we love her anyway. #Caturday #orange_cat
A tiny orange female cat with an orange collar sleeps on a fake fur dark blue pillow on a green sofa.  Her front legs are extended out in front of her.  She looks sweet and angelic.  She is not.
072
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm disappointed too. They can put it back on the shelves, but we don't have to buy it.
010
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When the black-eyed susans get going you know that summer has begun its decline.
Three black-eyed susans, a plant with a dark brown round center and long narrow yellow petals, beginning to flower.  They're surrounded by green foliage and flower buds in various stages of opening.
001
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For years I wondered why they're called water hyacinth. Then we had a few remarkably hot summers her in Quebec and I finally saw blossoms in my pond. But this year? This year is off the charts both for temperature and flowers. #garden #water_hyacinth
A large cluster of water hyacinth plants in a water garden.  The garden is surrounded by rocks, with the upright stems of water iris in the background.  This started out as three tiny plants and there are hundreds now.A close-up of water hyacinth plants in a water garden. They are very pale mauve with blue eyes in the center of each flower.  The leaves are very bulbous and the plant floats on water. This started out as three tiny plants and there are hundreds now.  Each flower only lasts one day.
011
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
On a really foggy morning I will get fabulous beams when the sun comes over the mountains. As I waited in anticipation, the spousal unit said my picture would be spoiled by my wheelbarrow. I objected and at that moment the sun appeared. Behold The Holy Wheelbarrow. #garden #crepuscular_rays #hostas
A beam of sun makes a crepuscular ray that looks as if a wheelbarrow is being touched by divinity.  In the foreground a brick garden path is lined with hostas and flowering plants.
000
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anyone who discounts hostas as a flowering plant really underestimates them.
An interlocking brick pathway lined with variegated, green and solid blue hostas.  In the background red daylilies and in the right foreground a blue pot with a pink begonia.
010
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Alas, I'm Canadian and they only allow Americans to be part of the giveaway :(
110
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
PHOTO OF THE DAY: The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, seperated by a cemetery wall in the Netherlands (1888). 📷 google images
1474806853
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Another video from the Wildberries warehouse fire in Elektrostal, Moscow region. The entire site is engulfed in flames after the overnight drone attack on Russia.
2543858
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
As a friend and I were walking, a mother beef cow took her new calf down to the road to show it to the dairy cows in the next field across the road. The dairy cows seem interested.
A mother beef cow shows the dairy cows across the road her new calf.
000
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Wildflower garden IG: rozavin_official
1685146594
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I plant his 'n' her plant as a food source for early hummingbirds. While I wait for them to show up, the bumblebees indulge in a quick snack.
A yellow and black bumblebee crawls into a blue trumpet shaped flower that's edged in pink.  In the background are green leaves dappled with white.  The plant is colloquilly called his 'n' her plant.
000
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My cat Boop sleeps in truly weird positions.
Small orange cat asleep upright in chair sitting on her behind, propped up by her right front paw with her left paw, leg and tail extended.
053
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It snowed yesterday. Of course it did. Shorts weather one day, parka weather the next. Welcome to Quebec. While I await my beloved daffodils, I finished the last of this year's bead and wire flowers. It feels carnivorus, so I've named it Audrey.
A flower made of different coloured beads and copper wire clamped in a vise by a window that looks out into a snow covered yard.
000
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I find this the worst part of aging, the gradual loss of friends. These unexpected losses are tough.
110
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 01/11/2025
Tirzepatide accidentally saved my life when no one was taking my long covid seriously or even understood how badly it was messing me up. I truly hope they find some solid evidence it can help others, too.
727768
Reposted by Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Participants are now enrolling in our #longCovid randomized, controlled trial of tirzepatide. The largest trial to test a treatment for this condition. Home-based—no sites. In today's @sandiegouniontribune.com www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
8240110
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
When I saw these two my first thought was, "Was it something he said?"
A brown bull and a white cow stand rump to rump in a field.  Behind them is fog and above that is a mountainside covered with trees in full autumn colour.  When I saw them I laughed and said to my walking buddy, "Was it something he said?"
011
Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻 @marnpoo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My morning walk. I've lived in this valley 48 years and these fall mornings still take my breath away.
A dirt road curves through fog in a hilly valley.  A few brightly coloured trees are visible and in the top right bits of the mountain are just whispering through the fog.
030