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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Faint image but a great blue heron fishing where the Bow R is flooding into the creek.

Great blue heron in center of the image.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just venturing into this book: 1/2. talonbooks.com/books/kiskis...

Front cover of Kiskisomitok, by Rueben Quinn. Title in English letters and Cree syllabics.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Three-flowered avens, aka prairie smoke, aka Oldman’s whiskers.

Deeply rose-coloured prairie wildflowers shaped like small elfin caps drooping toward the ground.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Boy, there’s some “Big Alberta Clouds” out there today. Real clouds, not just metaphorical cloudy thinking.

Poem is from p118 of Don McKay’s Camber: Selected Poems, with copious annotations by me.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This is amazing! This country currently called Canada is an astonishing place. Every different bioregion has expressed itself and bubbled up into life in the form of a distinct language.

There are more than 630 First Nations across Canada and more than 70 Indigenous languages.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I read this when it was published and won the GG, and the author was the youngest writer ever to have won a GG (20?, 1993), and I’m reading it again. When it was published I had never imagined going to Thailand myself but I’ve since been there twice.

Cover image of Touch the Dragon: a Thai Journal. Water buffalo in the foreground, a tree in the background.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Particularly furry emergent prairie crocuses

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just this deer and I enjoying the last hour of sun. A few minutes ago I looked up and two great blue herons were flying over my head. This after thinking about how few birds there were..

Deer on the side of the hill quietly sharing a space with me.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Just starting this book. Beautiful, thoughtful d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/...

Rebecca Giggs, Fathoms: The World in the Whale (2020)

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Coyote tracking along the riverbank. Zoom a bit.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

While she’s gone, let’s cut “the waste” by amalgamating the three prairie provinces under a single provincial government lead by Premier Wab Kinew and his MLAs. No need to have three prairie provinces, three premiers. Think of the savings. 🇨🇦

Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta cowering at the airport after invoking the Notwithstanding Clause.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Found a project for after I retire. Snooze and relax with these deer.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Better image of this one: media.cnn.com/api/v1/image...

Elderly woman in a black or dark brown coat and with a wild swirl of twigs as headgear.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Two dappled fawns browsing by the path and showing little wariness until one of them thinks “What was it mom told us to do?”

Two spotted whitetail deer fawns browsing the vegetation.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Nativity scene as acted out by conjoined corn cobs.

A regular corncob and a conjoined baby cob.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thank you, Holly. The laves are broader looking than those of paintbrush but the profile is so similar.

Trying to ID a flower, paintbrush or bellflower.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Is it possible this is paintbrush? In purple?? I know the colour varies with the composition of the terrain, and I’ve seen from almost white through pink to red and magenta but never this.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Companions along the walk: Canada anemones, harebells, one purple prairie clover, blanket flowers, two Waterton mock oranges, white pussy toes, three more purple prairie clover at this very spot, northern bedstraw, camas.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Big patch of blue-eyed grass, shooting stars, white pussytoes, a blue butterfly on the purple flower of a wild chive, pink wild roses, Canada anemones, wolf willow.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Tisto Factory (Calgary) multi-coloured stuffed perogies (various: spinach, prosciutto, Parmesan, honey, 7 more) by Ukrainian refugees. Added grape tomatoes for extra colour and nutrition.

Variegated perogies in different colours and flavours.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yes, it’s freaky. The cattails are bulging with seeds about to release.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I started reading this book this morning. In the face of yesterday’s terrible events, and the rest I want to read about the life and communities of a person who did tremendous good.

Front cover of Murray Sinclair’s book Who We Are, a photo of his face.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Voted! The suspense was killing me. Had to get down here.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Secondly what’s the English word for chunks of cooked chicken, tomato, lettuce, daub of sour cream, and hopefully a big gob of guacamole rolled up in a flatbread?

Picture irrelevant. It’s the words under the pic.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Books I’ve been reading for research and eventual teaching (except the JT autobiography that was purely for information).

Stack of 22 books of poetry and nonfiction and one kids’ novel I first read in grade 3.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Reading this nonfiction book this Saturday morning. It isn’t “difficult” to read but it’s a “tough” read, and it’s one of the books we need to read right now. It’s not snips and snails and puppy dog tails, nor is it cynical or world-weary. It’s got courage. Read it and see what you think.

Cover of Omar El Akkad’s book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Most of the incredible books I’ve read since about November 25, 2025. One or two e-books as well.

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