Gwynedd Pickett

@gpsforthebrain

Cerebrovascular neurosurgeon. Mom. Professor. President 🇨🇦 Neurosurgical Society. Survival skills: archery, knitting, backwoods camping. she/her

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Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jul 11

Some of the kites being flown off Citadel Hill today were insanely high (this is my largely failed attempt to capture them…with the eye of faith one might make out a couple of tiny dots.)

Half the picture is occupied by incredibly blue sky, with low white cloud on the horizon and a wisp of white cloud very high up, over a public park with lawn, flower beds in bloom and tall trees in full leaf. A few people are walking around looking at the park and the sky. There is a kite festival taking place a few blocks away; most of the kites being flown are not visible but three very tiny white dots/lines are barely visible against the sky if you zoom in on the image.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jul 7

I am reminded of our ward copier/fax machine. 😅

Someone has stuck labels (made with a hand labeller) on the dusty, dark grey lid of a photocopier/fax machine, which read, “SHE IS DELICATE. BE GENTLE.”

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jul 6

For fancy shoes, I love Fluevogs. The generous toe bed and wide heel on a lot of them mean a truly surprising degree of comfort despite a bit of heel. I can do clinic all day and run to emergencies in them, and my feet don’t hurt.

Shot of a white woman’s feet, wearing pink-and-burgundy Mary Jane style heels with a buckled strap. They are the Bonnie Henry style made by John Fluevog shoes, in a limited edition colourway.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jun 30

It’s also full of happy bees 🐝

A bumblebee clinging to the edge of a beauty bush flower

A bumblebee sticking its face into a beauty bush flower

A bumblebee with half its body in a beauty bush flower. Many other flowers are around it in a clump.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jun 30

The beauty bush is looking incredible today. 😊 #summer #garden

A large beauty bush (Kolkwitzia amabilis) shrub, about 8’ tall, absolutely laden with light pink bell-shaped flowers with yellow throats. The summer sky is still light behind it and a sidewalk is in its left.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· May 30

Top picture: very fluffy orange cat with green eyes staring straight ahead with blank expression, text says “-Could you excuse me?”

Bottom picture: same cat outdoors in a garden of ornamental grasses, head thrown back, mouth wide open, text says, “*Screams”

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· May 2

Post your warning sign.

The lid of a top-loader washing machine is open, showing the instructions. Someone has written, “POCKETS!” in permanent marker above them.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Apr 18

Then on to Dalhousie’s concert hall for a friend’s recital! 🎶 (Said friend has a sense of humour…)

Front cover of a concert programme, titled, “Rep my teacher gave me.” 😂 The cover image is of some ancient ruins on a coast with the moon rising beyond them.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Apr 18

Attended the memorial for Scritchy Raccone, advocate for safe streets and victim of the #PylonWars. #BikeHFX

A group of people are gathered in an intersection, between the flex posts of a traffic diverter. Many of them are wearing bike helmets. A stop sign on the right of the photo stands out against a brilliant blue sky. Houses and trees not yet in leaf are in the background.

A white woman in a blue jacket, grey bike helmet with turquoise visor, and a black raccoon mask around her eyes.

A small orange traffic cone has been wrapped in silver duct tape and given arms, a tail, and a raccoon face. It is mounted on the back of a light teal kid’s bike with a red pannier.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Apr 5

Happy Easter! 💐 🐣 🐰 🎶

A gold foil-wrapped Lindt chocolate bunny and a few small red foil-wrapped chocolate eggs sit on top of an Easter Day church bulletin, on a brown wooden choir desk.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Apr 3

This year’s egg.

Easter egg with deep dark blue background, featuring a yellow and orange stylized fish, with a decorative border of white-edged, green and yellow cones and swirls. It is siting on a piece of paper towel with yellow, orange and green dye smears on it.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Apr 3

Contemplative crafting after a lot of singing. #GoodFriday

A number of mason jars containing egg dye are lined up on a table covered in brown paper. A lit tea light candle is in the foreground, and a blue-handled kistka (tool for Ukrainian melted-wax egg decorating.)

A dark green, large flat pottery bowl containing a number of brightly coloured pysanky.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Mar 25

A long day of operating today, but timing of case turnover meant I managed to catch the last few minutes of the livestream of Sarah Mullally’s installation as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. 🥰

A zoomed out, high up shot of Canterbury Cathedral from the altar end, showing assembled crowds of clergy in red and white robes in the foreground, and pews full of other religious leaders in various robes in the background. The centre aisle is clear; in the middle, nearer the vantage point, there is an altar table draped in white. Standing behind it, with theirs backs to us, are three people. The central figure, Dame Sarah Mullally, is wearing yellow-gold robes and a mitre.

A high-up shot from (basically) the roof of Canterbury Cathedral showing the central aisle, the pillars, an inlaid marble star centred in the floor, and the crowds of assembled clergy and choristers.

A white woman with glasses wearing a white robes, yellow-gold cape, yellow-gold mitre, holding an elaborate silver crozier in her left hand. Her right hand is held up in the air. Her eyes are closed and she is smiling. She looks overcome, in a good way.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Feb 28

I wear my rank on my sleeve. 😉

Image of Number One from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds played by Rebecca Romijn. Her rank is indicated by gold bands at the wrist of her yellow and black tunic.

Three people in Star Trek uniforms standing in the foyer of the Dalhousie Arts Centre. The woman on the left is wearing a tunic modelled on Number One’s, with two gold bands at the wrist. They (and the invisible zipper) were some tricky sewing… 😄

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Feb 28

My view. 😂

In the distance, a symphony orchestra on stage; in the row in front of me (taking up a lot of the visual arc), a fellow attendee wearing a Mandalorian helmet.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Feb 28

Back at the symphony, with @affabletoaster.bsky.social! Symphony NS presents: Star Wars vs. Star Trek. 🚀🎻😊

Selfie of two white women in a crowded auditorium, smiling at the camera. One is wearing a yellow Star Trek uniform.

Concert program listing the music. On the facing page, blue text on a starry black background proclaims, “Han shot first….”

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Feb 25

Some cool icicles seen on this morning’s walk to work.

Icicles coating and dripping off rhododendron leaves that protrude through a metal handrail on a house’s snow-covered front steps. A couple of the icicles hang straight down but the majority take off at a 45 degree angle and curve downwards nearer their tips.

A large mass of ice has formed near the ground by a corner of a building, where evidently the gutter above has a leak. An immediately adjacent, leafless bush has its top branches elegantly and thickly encased in clear ice, and myriad icicles drip from the lower branches, reaching for the ground. This is all lit beautifully by the morning sun.

Tree branches above the bush in the former photo; multiple thin icicles descend from the branches at an angle and curve down. The sky behind them is clear blue with a thin white cloud.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Feb 22

The Side by Side concert with Symphony Nova Scotia and the NS Youth Orchestra is about to start! They’re playing Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. 😊

A large number of chairs are set up on a concert hall performance stage. People in black holding instruments are milling around or sitting in their chairs tuning. A few rows of audience seats are visible, mostly full, people still finding their places.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jan 23

Cartoon of a bald man in a green shirt and a woman with a blond ponytail by a printer. The man’s speech bubble says, “I’ve put in like three reams of paper but it keeps saying, “I just can’t get enough. I just can’t get enough.””

The woman’s speech bubble replies, “Here’s the problem. It was stuck in Depeche Mode.”

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jan 22

Man, I wish the Long John Index guy was still around to provide comment.

Map of Canada published by the “Long John Index Service of Canada” Twitter account in December 2016. Red pen has been used to write comments on the various provinces and territories based on the projected temperatures, eg “Feel free to keep the ice cream in the trunk” scrawled across the Yukon & NWT, “Did I plug the car in? Hope so!” on Alberta, “We got your windchill right here!” on Newfoundland. Various numbers and ratios are given under the map for multiple cities in Canada; I no longer remember exactly how it all worked, but it was essentially a 1-5 scale telling if you if you needed long johns (or how many pairs.)

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Oct 31

Great fun tonight at @criticalmasshfx.bsky.social Hallowe’en party bike ride! Fabulous tunes, with Spider-Gwen, ET, unicorns, Paw Patrol, Tinky-Winky, Neo, HRM Transit buses and more making an appearance. 😄

View from behind of people on bicycles riding along a wooden boardwalk at night.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Oct 4

Energetic and moving Maritime Fusion concert tonight with Symphony Nova Scotia, Jah’Mila’s Reggae Roots. Powerful voice, powerful lyrics, great show! (I think there are still tickets available for tomorrow night, #HaliSky…😘 )

Photo of a page of the concert program, with a few words describing singer Jah’Mila as a “cultural reggae ambassador” next to a picture of a black woman, with braids in an up-do, wearing a sparkly green ball gown with spaghetti straps. Her head is thrown back and she is smiling widely.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Sep 28

Final hymn at St. George’s Anglican this morning was one of my favourites, both due to the melody (Orlando Gibbons!) and because it now always reminds me of the time @drericlevi.bsky.social came to visit St. George’s, during his year in Halifax, and tweeted about it. 😊 #music #choir

Image of a classic Anglican hymn (blue book), Forth In Thy Name, O Lord, I Go, to Song 34 by Orlando Gibbons. Words (six verses) and 4 part music.

Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go,
My daily labour to pursue.
Thee, only thee, resolved to know,
In all I think or speak or do.

The task thy wisdom hath assigned,
O let me cheerfully fulfill,
In all my works, thy presence find,
And prove thy good and perfect will.

Thee may I set at my right hand,
Whose eyes my inmost substance see,
And labour on at thy command,
And offer all my works to thee.

Give me to bear thy easy yoke,
And every moment watch and pray,
And still to things eternal look,
And hasten to thy glorious day.

For thee delightfully employ,
Whate’er thy bounteous grace hath given,
And run my course with even joy,
And closely walk with thee to heaven.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Sep 19

I took the 80 bus to Bayers Road Shopping Centre in the mid-80s, browsed the stores with friends, occasionally bought a cute notebook with a horse, unicorn or Hello Kitty on it, or an Orange Julius. Once, bought this lovely little cloisonné ring that I still own. #nostalgia

A blue embroidered ring box, opened to show an enameled ring with dark blue background, white flowers and a small red bird.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Sep 16

Left: photo of a microphone being held in front of a fluffy grey and white cat, with text, “Sir are you aware you’re a cat?” Right: same cat with startled expression.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Sep 13

Yes, music used in the film.

Screenshot from the last paragraph of the article:

“Loris Dru-Lumbroso, a publicist for the distributor of a 2024 French boxed set of Blu-ray disks of Akerman’s films, explained to a reporter that the set had to omit “Portrait” because of the music. “The rights were secured only for TV broadcasts and for a fairly short duration,” he explained, adding that the companies that owned rights to the films themselves haven’t renegotiated renewals. Therefore a crucial work in the career of one of the greatest of filmmakers is missing—and the understanding and appreciation of her career is distorted.”

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jul 25

Had a delightful time at my first Critical Mass ride with @criticalmasshfx.bsky.social! 🚲 Lovely to get together with both old friends and some #BikeHfx folks I’ve previously only encountered online. We couldn’t have asked for a better evening. 😊

Shot down the length of the Grand Parade square in Halifax on a sunny evening, with amazing mackerel clouds in the sky. Lots of people on bikes are gathered. A man is walking towards us, framed by the peace arch in the middle of the parade grounds.

Shot from behind of a bunch of people on bikes on a quiet, heavily tree lined street in a residential area. The street is otherwise empty except for a single parked car.

Shot from behind of a bunch of people riding bicycles on a city street lined with brick buildings. It is a clear summer evening. A bus is coming towards the group in the opposite lane.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jul 24

Graph with Knowledge on the y-axis, Age on the x-axis, titled “Periods When You Know The Most About Dinosaurs.” The peaks are: when you’re 4 years old (highest); when you have a degree in paleontology (lower); and when your kid is 4 years old (almost as high as the first.)

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jul 11

If you see this, drop an old pic you still love

Black and white photo of a baby sitting on an upholstered armchair next to a stuffed elephant with a ribbon around its neck. The seated baby and the stuffed toy are the same height, and both are grinning widely - the baby in particular looks utterly delighted, and is gripping its toes with the hand not embracing the elephant. The baby is wearing a white dress with lace embroidery. There is an empty crystal bowl on a side table in the background.

Gwynedd Pickett@gpsforthebrain· Jun 25

If you see this, post a picture from whatever device you are using with no explanation