Anita Swing 🇨🇦

@anitaswing

Retired English prof, food & nature lover including amateur birder 🦅, adoptee, and firmly against pets being dressed up for human entertainment. Penticton, British Columbia 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 VIVE LE CANADA! 🇨🇦 🍁

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 19d

All I ask is that the biscuits have a white chocolate drizzle.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 20d

What are these? 🙏 Some kind of mums? 🌱

Purple flowers with yellow centres in a sea of foliage

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 20d

Our air quality is not great but if I can’t smell woodsmoke I can handle it 😕 🔥 #Penticton #BritishColumbia

Picture of creek and dam with trees. Sun is poking out from around a tree and has the look of sunlight filtered through smoke (yellowy pink). That sunlight is reflected in the water if the creek.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 20d

It’s a quail family morning outing! 🪶 #Penticton #BritishColumbia

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 20d

Here’s the parent cedar waxwing feeding its 5 hatchlings! 🪶

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 22d

Apparently comfortable enough for a deep doze 😆 #CatsofBluesky

Large white cat asleep in the sun in a shallow cardboard box that does not contain his ample size

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 22d

🍽️ This is not thrilling to look at, but it’s my very satisfying lunch: Mason jar shrimp kale Caesar salad with the non-traditional ingredients of quinoa, cucumber, and other salad greens.

Pile of dressed greens in a patterned bowl with some prawns and quinoa visible.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 23d

Haha perfect 🤣. Our tuxedo: Dominic➡️ Dom➡️Dombar➡️ Bar-Bar OR Barzy OR Barzucci

Tuxedo cat sitting like a human in a grey velvet armchair

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 24d

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 26d

What’s this “buttermilk product” business? 🤨

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 26d

The Sleeping Giant from Thunder Bay today 🔥 🔥 🔥 (taken by someone who lives there) Having lived through some terrible summers in the interior of BC, I wouldn’t wish these conditions on anyone.

View of landform known as the Sleeping Giant shrouded in smoke against an orange sky.Trees and buildings visible in the foreground and a ship in the water.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· 28d

The real heat is coming even though it’s felt plenty hot already 🥵 😬

Screenshot of weather forecast page for Penticton BC Canada in Celsius. Temps for next 10 days are all in the thirties.

Screenshot of temps for next 10 days in Penticton BC Canada in Fahrenheit. Highs in the nineties every day.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 11

🌱 First bouquet of the season from our home garden 😄

Glass vase on a blue cloth covered surface holding a loose bouquet of zinnias, dahlias, rose buds and snapdragons mostly in orangey pinky shades

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 11

Separate!

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 11

🍽️ Charcuterie tonight 😋 👏🏻

Wooden charcuterie board covered in an assortment of meats, cheeses, nuts and veggies

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 8

This was taken in Italy a few years ago with me beside it for reference! Happy nuptials 💕

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 7

Classic

View out of a screen door. White cat with a dark tail is sitting looking out. Outside is a lone male quail standing on a sidewalk. Cat is looking at bird.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 6

Apricot muffins! 🍽️ 🍜

Stainless steel muffin tin containing 12 golden brown
Muffins with some apricots visible

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 5

This is edamame hummus! Very quick, easy, and dee-licious 😋

Greenish bowl shaped like an avocado half containing a mound of speckled greenish stuff with a garnish of flat leaf parsley

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 5

I use these laundry strips from Vancouver. Love them. And when they’re done I just have a bit of cardboard to recycle.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 4

Harvesting catnip to dry it 😻. Happy #Caturday!

Person with pile of catnip stalks and leaves on a small table in front of her. A white cat is lying on the table beside the pile and a tuxedo cat is leaning towards the table to
investigate.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 4

Yesterday: Enjoying happy hour with my honey on a restaurant patio across from the busy beach. Really felt like summertime

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 4

🌱 Our garden right now through the patio screen. I love sitting out on the patio in the morning. So much birdsong and other loveliness 🥰

View of a garden with a kousa dogwood tree in the centre, flowers and herbs in pots below it, and various flower borders visible with a variety of different flowers.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 1

This dear cat will never come and sit in my lap; instead he plunks himself down in the chair beside mine—just as a human would—as a way of keeping me company. 🥰

Tuxedo cat sitting upright in a grey velvet armchair

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 1

Happy Canada Day from my heavenly part of this amazing country 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

View up a hill of a vineyard with a small mountain behind it with the sign “Penticton” in big white capital letters across the top
Of it

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jul 1

This is me and my best friend, Glenda, on her wedding day in 2008. Two years later she died of cancer. This pic reminds me of what being with her felt like.

Two women from the waist up in dresses standing side by side looking at something (or pretending to?) in the distance. They look very happy, wearing big smiles.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jun 30

🪶 This, I believe, is a Calliope hummingbird.

Metal fence against a blue sky with tiny dark looking bird with a long beak perched at the very top of it.

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jun 29

Ugh, Amazon reviews 👎🏼. Did you see this one on Goodreads?

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jun 27

🌱 Random lovelies in the garden RN

Closeup of a purple and green clematis flower against a concrete wall

Closeup of a cluster of pinks (dianthus) that are intricately patterned pink and white

Closeup of a pink orange and gold variegated rose

Anita Swing 🇨🇦@anitaswing· Jun 27

Here’s today’s supper 🍽️ 🍜 Recipe: www.ambitiouskitchen.com/thai-chicken...