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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Massive congratulations, Nancy!!!

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It was mostly calm, but couldn't wait to escape to freedom, haha.

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Lemon poppyseed muffins on 4 May to celebrate the 554th anniversary of the Battle of Tewkesbury, Ares' favourite battle. For this, he made a banner and muffin toppers of knights in his favourite 15th century armour, his favourite helmet (the sallet), and a sword (all historically accurate)

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

A person cries during a speech about the horror and helplessness of watching children being burnt in their tents, during a demonstration in Toronto on 19 April 2025. It's unfathomable and unconscionable that it keeps happening and no one with any power is doing anything about it.

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Portraits of protest, Toronto, 2025.

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Oh, that exhibition was... interesting. I didn't quite get it myself.

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Leni works out numbers on a Japanese Soroban abacus, which we inherited from a friend, her oatmeal breakfast temporarily abandoned in favour of abacusing. The first day she got it, we didn't know how it worked so she spent a long time fingering the plastic beads... www.instagram.com/p/DJB_byaOixA/

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I didn't know about this until recent years, when I moved to Canada. My teenager volunteers for them, collecting birds who've hit windows, both alive and not. Here's a photograph from the birds collected around the Toronto area in 2022: www.instagram.com/p/DATGnTAxsh3/

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Raspberry holds an indigo bunting that had hit a window. She'll prepare it to be a study skin for FLAP (Fatal Light Awareness Program).

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm so grateful for the adults in my kids' lives who love them, care for them, and hang out with them playing board games, giving them unorthodox fist bumps, or plying them with Asian snacks. They're the proverbial village everyone talks about, and I'm grateful... www.instagram.com/p/DIv46hMO267/

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Detail from a camera photo, taken at this weekend's protest during a speech about the horror and helplessness of watching children being burnt in their tents.

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The horror, and the silence, and it keeps going.

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

7-year-old Leni, August 2023. It's incredible how quickly the kids' faces change. Even in profile, I can tell Leni doesn't look like this anymore — her face seems older, and doesn't have the same baby-like quality that it had here. It makes me grieve the... www.instagram.com/p/DH-9LsBOlGJ/

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I knew what you meant! :) Thank you! It's so amazing. I wish I had things like this when I was a teenager.

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My 17-year-old was just accepted to an ornithology workshop at Cornell University in New York state this summer. It's such an incredible opportunity and well-deserved, but we've been struggling with whether she ought to and can go. Any other year, it'd have been easy, but alas.

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

There's a Crayola crayon colour named "robin egg blue."

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

On laundry day, Leni hangs the underwear in the bathroom to dry. She and Ares often bicker about who gets to hang them. The other person has to hang the socks, which is, for some reason, the more dreaded task. At one point, Leni made a sheet about whose turn it... www.instagram.com/p/DHTOs_ru2zq/

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A few weeks ago, I felt broken, and I was terrified and confused as to why I felt that way. After a bitter winter, the weather was finally starting to warm up and as a person who dislikes the cold, it'd ordinarily be a point of elation for me. However, I found... www.instagram.com/p/DHLizXBOPFO/

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Hmm, I can't find a way to do so. Maybe because I'm looking at it on the desktop?

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Apparently, it's considered graphic media and won't be shown. :/

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A knackered teen, after a day of birding and hiking in the snow (and also, the emotional and mental load that comes with slipping on ice and breaking your phone).

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

You know what? I'd have thought the same thing.

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is such a brilliant idea! I love it and wish there was something like this here in Toronto (or really, I wish they were as common as little free libraries).

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Temporarily abandoned toast, two days before Christmas.

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My teen ornithologist-in-training says it is, and likely a double crested cormorant.

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Oh noes. Hope it all goes well.

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Thank you for this! I didn't have a great day, so it was a bright spot of joy!

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I'm a little belated with this, but I'm very honoured to have two of my photographs are currently on display at Pamenar Cafe in Kensington Market, as part of an exhibition featuring the work of photographers documenting the resistance. Check it out if you're in Toronto, as it closes soon.

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Leni peers at postcards and drawings on the wall through the red lens of 3D glasses. I don't think she's encountered 3D glasses before, so she had a grand time looking at all kinds of pictures and objects through the tinted plastic and urging all of us to do the... www.instagram.com/p/DF7vi2MOY3c/

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ohhh, I think I missed that. :( Do you have a link/copy?

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I hadn't actually heard of this diet until I saw this from a pathologist's page a few weeks back (www.instagram.com/p/DFLy_h1xQ0T/). How do they subsist?!

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Yes to it all!!! It's a drought!

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I was completely distraught to find that museums are all paid when I moved from the UK to Canada.

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Two summers ago, we took a little wander over to a neighbouring neighbourhood to gawk and gape at this house, famed for its front yard which had been lovingly (and at some parts, creepily) adorned with all manner of dolls. Many of the dolls are from bygone eras... www.instagram.com/p/DFIW3DpORVf

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Throwback to early December, when we walked along an abandoned railway track on a warmish day. Ares found a long branch that he thought would make a good sword. He'd broken it to reduce its length, but needed to shorten it further. Leni had found a loose rail... www.instagram.com/p/DFDSzzCOYCQ/

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Just a pile of bird skulls on the kitchen island, waiting to be cleaned.

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Thank you for sharing what you learnt from the talks! I'm sharing them with my teen ornithologist-in-training, and she's musing about evolutionary adaptations. We're both enjoying your posts!

Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This was how the last day of the year started, when Teen Kid accidentally broke one of her favourite bowls while washing it for breakfast. She was in tears; I would probably have been in tears too, if I wasn't preoccupied trying to console her (I say "would have"... www.instagram.com/p/DESZUVsuZCh/

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Dawn Yow @ohhellodawn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Ohhh, I love and miss Bakchich!