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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦

@mcbraca.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, Secondary Geography teacher, #NatGeoCertified, #OntEd, #OAGEE, Pope Leo Catholic, hobby photographer, lover of the outdoors, books, optimism and hope. 🙏🏻 Living in SW Ontario. Treaty 29. 📷 are my own unless stated otherwise. No DMs please.

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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I got outside 🌱
Branches of white blooms on a treeA crow sitting on top of a stone sculpture.  Evergreens in the backgroundAn ostrich fern starting to unravel A Jack in the pulpit plant.  Side view of the flower
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The goslings have hatched! The nest is on a beaver lodge. How Canadian! 🍁
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Random post, but this is the roof of my little library. I love that it’s growing so much moss and lichen. 📕 💚 Zoom in… it’s cool!
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It’s clementine season 🍊❤️🌲
A bowl of clementines in the sun.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
My goodness what a beautiful day! Click on pic for full image.
Trees with leaves of yellow, orange and green.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Thank #WFMP2025… you were fun!
Me and a cousin at the conference Me standing with the pope (a cardboard cutout)The stage ready for massA projected screen that says “What’s in your tin? Stewards of Hope.  Sharing the treasure and value of place”
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I got outside today 😊
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Toronto… you were fun!
The CN tower in Toronto.  Lit up white and red A streetscape at night in Toronto.  Looking down the street at an intersection. Looking down the street at night in Toronto.  Lit buildings on either side of the street
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Some mushroom finds today! #FungiFriends 🍄 📸
Coral mushrooms growing out of a logA view of an orange mushroom from below.  It’s surrounded by moss and the background is blurred. Photo of mushroom gills from below. Close up Tiny mushrooms growing out of a stick.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Get outside 💚
Looking through the trees at an orange coloured setting sun. The leaves are a vibrant green and the trunks are backlit/dark. Bright orange tiny flowers bunched together.  Orange variety of butterfly milkweed. A faded field, with a few stems of black eyed Susan flowers in the foreground Looking down a path through the woods, there is a canopy of bright green leaves overhead.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
#GetOutside
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Lots of flowers and lots of bugs 🦟
Three white flowers.  There is a bee (I think it’s a bee) facing downward in the middle flower. Backlit milkweed flowers with a field behind them.A densely wooded area.  The sun is behind the trees and is shining through A Blue Indigo Bunting sitting on a branch.  Its beak is open.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Cedar Waxwings outside my classroom window. In the Serviceberry tree.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
After the rain 🌧️ 💚🌱 🐌 #NaturePhotography
A person walks down a path through the woods. A yellow buttercup facing downwards with rain on it. A bed of lily of the valley leaves on the forest floor, they’re covered with rain drops. A snail making its way down the side of a moss covered tree.  Close up of the snail.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
It’s been a while since I’ve been outside. Nice to breathe. #GetOutside #NaturePhotography
A path through the grass, there are lush looking trees on the right and purple flowers under the trees. White blooms (multi-flora rose I think), with a dark background. A young deer stands in a newly planted corn field.  It’s looking straight at the camera.Purple phlox flowers and yellow buttercups in the woods. A close up of the flowers.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I don’t think I’ve ever seen rabbits lounging before 😂.
Two rabbits laying in the grass.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
🌺
A pink flower bud, about to open. Close up photo.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Happy #FungiFriday my #FungiFriends 🍄 📸
Looking at the bottom side of a mushroom growing out of a stump.  There are blurred trees in the background and blue sky.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My students won the Regional Envirothon and are now on their way to UW for Envirothon Ontario! 🎉 #ProudTeacher #OntEd 🌳 🌲
A flycatcher sitting on a branch that’s sticking out of the water. A migrating Sand Piper stands on a rock beside the water A bed of white and pink trilliums on the forest floor.  There is a fallen branch in front of them, and trees in behind A straight path with trees on either side.  There are new leaves on the trees.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Well that was a nice sunset 🌅
Orange and blue colours fill the sky.  There is an empty field and some silhouetted trees in the photo.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Happy Tuesday. #Spring
White and yellow serviceberry flower blooms on a tree.  Up close view.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The trilliums are starting to bloom. #Canada #Spring #Photography
One solo white TrilliumA patch of trilliums in the woodsA close up shot of two trilliumsA patch of trilliums in the woods
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Good morning! 🌺 ☀️
A pink magnolia bloom up close.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Envirothon workshop day with students at Morrison Dam in Exeter. I can’t show photos of students, but I can show you the wildlife!
A yellow Pine warbler (I think 🤔) sitting on a branch in a tree.A Red Squirrel in action.  It’s running across a log.A Great Blue Heron in flightA Beaver swimming across a pond
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Well… I went to see if the trilliums were out and I was a day or two early. The red ones were blooming, but not the white. Lots of other spring flowers though! Oh… and it’s light past 7:30 now!! ☀️ 🌱 Get Outside!
An old shed in the woods, along a path.  The sun is low in the distance through the bare trees. A red trillium stands aloneA hawk flies away from the camera, there are branches with buds on them to the right A yellow trout Lilly grows.  There are new leaves around it on the forest floor
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter Everyone 🙏🏻 ✝️ 🐣
Spring wildflowers small and pink.  Growing on a forest floor
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Easter Vigil Mass. Always so pretty. #InTheChoirLoft #EasterVigil
A dark church is lit up by people holding candles, lit from the Easter candle.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We do a plant exchange at work and this is the best day ever!! 🪴 ❤️🎉
Two potted plants on a desk.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Sometimes all you need is a #Silhouette #Birds
The silhouette of a bird flying through the air.  Wing tips are defined. Clouds in the background.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
My Ray Kettlewell *Special hand made paddle. I got it over 30 years ago when I worked at a camp in Algonquin park.
A cherrywood paddle laying on a dock with the water behind it.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Original post below. What is THE MOST CANADIAN thing you own? It can be anything. A book, a garment, a food item, a tool, a decorative object, a cd, anything. #CanCon #Canada My Ray Kettlewell *Special hand made paddle. I got it over 30 years ago when I worked at a camp in Algonquin park.
A paddle on a dock with the water behind it.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A couple of Bufflehead ducks at the pond across from the school today. They’re so cute ☺️ 🇨🇦
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Pretty cool! 🦫 🇨🇦
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
There is a beaver in the pond across from my school! I’m so excited that I’ve finally seen it. 🦫 🇨🇦 #Canada #Beaver
A beaver swimming near the shore of a pond
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Stick (and mud) season. 🌱 Saturdays walk in the woods. 📸 🍄
Turkey tail (I think) mushrooms in blue and green coloursA small snail shell tucked into some bark, leaves and mushroomsA large white mushroom on a mossy stumpA skunk cabbage starting to emerge from the muddy ground.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If you see this post of quoted post, post a boarded walkway. Point Pelee National Park, Ontario
A boarded walkway through a wetland area.  Water to the right and reeds to the left.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It’s #FungiFriday my #FungiFriends 🍄 📸. I’ve missed a few!
Small thin yellow mushrooms in a bed of moss.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I have been teaching social sciences for almost 25 years and that comes with a LOT of teaching about critical thinking. 1. Please read over the following CRAAP test, and use it when you read anything online… including news articles. 🪡

Currency: The timeliness of the information.
• When was the information published or posted? Revised or updated?
• Does your topic require current information, or will older sources work as well?

Relevance: The importance of the information for your needs.
• Does the information relate to your topic or answer your question?
• Who is the intended audience? / an appropriate level?

Authority: The source of the information.
• Who is the author/publisher/source/sponsor?
• What are the author's credentials or organizational affiliations?
• Is the author qualified to write on the topic? / contact information?

Accuracy: The reliability, truthfulness and correctness of the content.
• Where does the information come from? / supported by evidence?
• Has the information been reviewed or refereed?
• Does the language or tone seem unbiased and free of emotion?

Purpose: The reason the information exists.
• What is the purpose of the information? Is it to inform, teach, sell, entertain or persuade?
• Does the point of view appear objective and impartial?
• Are there political, religious, institutional or personal biases?
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Who else grew up listening to this album? #AnneMurray #Canada #Junos
Anne Murray. There's a hippo in my tub. Album cover with a photo of Anne Murray above a cartoon of a hippo taking a bath.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Envirothon Ontario prep with my students. ❤️ 🌲 💧 🐿️ 🪨
Evergreen branches and identification keys on desks.  Hands pointing to identification features. Many skulls and manufactured skulls used by the local conservation authority to teach about identification of animal.  The image shows many of them laid out on desks surrounded by the boxes they came in. Some animal furs from the local conservation authority.  Used to help students identify different animals by fur.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A nice day! #GuessWhereTrips
A small folder that contains envelopes to each stop on a secret road trip. It says, “YOUR TRAVEL PACKAGE
Guess Where
You'll Go? Spooky Sights
& Ghostly Tales”Looking down at shoes on colourful tiles. A boarded up old building. It’s supposed to be haunted. Checking out some old stone ruins.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It’s warm enough out for these to spring up 🤍 #Flowers #Spring #Snowdrops
Snowdrops are always the first to grow in the spring.  Photo is a close up of white snowdrop flowers
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Post you from an earlier era. About 30 years ago… Algonquin Park
Me sitting by a lake with a book on my lap.  Trees in the background.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A little green for St Patricks Day. ☘️
Green ferns with a dark background
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
No cheating, post the last photo of your pet
A dog wearing a hoodie, asleep on a chair.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Out for a little walk today between the rain. 🌧️ #GetOutside
A multicoloured mushroom on a log. Green orange and red.Looking up amongst the trees.  Coniferous. A small snail shell in a bed of pine needles, pine cone and sticks. Some migrating ducks on the water. I think* they’re Greater Scaups.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#Sunlight for #Blueskyartshow
Dandelion backlit by the sun.  A road and car is behind the dandelion.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#Sunlight for #Blueskyartshow
Dad and boy walking away from the camera amongst trees.  The sun is shining through the leaves.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It’s #FungiFriday #FungiFriends 📸🍄
Small orange mushrooms growing out of a downed branch.
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Marianne Braca 🌱🍄📷🇨🇦 @mcbraca.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#MushroomMonday #FungiFriends 📸🍄
3 mushrooms in a bed of pine needles.  Gills showing
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