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@hpd9999

I'm from the 🇨🇦 Prairies. 🥰 Books, nature, art, music, global issues. Used to hike. Comme le disait Maman: "Vivre et laisser vivre." Français/Anglais. #TreatyOneTerritory.

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hpd9999@hpd9999· 3d

A red uppercase A above the words: The Atlantic.

hpd9999@hpd9999· 3d

Daily monitoring from my backyard as the life cycle unfolds. Next, the chrysalis. I'm hoping to see the adult emerge from its chrysalis. #MonarchButterfly. Extra, on the right: a blue morpho butterfly from The Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden,The Leaf, Assiniboine Park, #Winnipeg

A monarch caterpillar feeding from a milkweed plant.

Photo of a blue morpho butterfly taken at the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, The Leaf, Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

hpd9999@hpd9999· 6d

Absolutely wonderful! My rabbit-stressed milkweed plant gifted me with one lonely caterpillar this evening. I will be checking for eggs tomorrow. Any mention of the monarch butterfly reminds me of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior; engaging read. #MonarchButterfly

A monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant.

Book cover for Barbara Kingsolver's novel, Flight Behavior.

hpd9999@hpd9999· 10d

Kayaking on the Pinawa Channel.

hpd9999@hpd9999· 10d

Indeed! The Pinawa Channel in Pinawa, Manitoba, located on the Canadian Shield, and within the Boreal Forest.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jul 4

MAGA talking points, Jamil! Canada is not the USA's melting pot; it is a mosaic wherein various groups coexist together. Come visit Winnipeg's Folklorama Festival, which will run from August 2 to August 15, 2026. We celebrate our differences. #cdnpoli #CPC

Image of Winnipeg's Folklorama Festival 2026. It reads: FEEL THE BEAT. LIVE THE CULTURE. FOLKLORAMA 55. August 2-15, 2026. TICKETS ON SALE NOW

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jul 1

Gordon Lightfoot's song, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy,"in book form. Illustrations by award winning author-illustrator Ian Wallace.

The book cover of Gordon Lightfoot's song, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, with illustrations by award-winning author-illustrator Ian Wallace. It shows a steam-powered train coming through the Canadian Rockies.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jul 1

Full sovereignty on July 1, 1867. Today, Wednesday, July 1, 2026: Happy Canada Day! Joyeuse fête du Canada! I'm proud to be Canadian!

The Canadian flag: a vertical red band on each side and a central white square—exactly twice the width of the red bands. At the center of the white square is a stylized, 11-pointed red maple leaf.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jun 30

Sempé. Le Petit Nicolas. Bonnes vacances à tous!

Sempé: illustration du prof et de ses élèves, heureux d'être en vacances.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jun 27

"Pinawa on The Peg," located in the boreal forest, and sitting on the Canadian Shield. #Pinawa #PinawaTransCanadaTrail

A camouflaged white-tailed deer is standing in a shadowed area, behind river shore plants. It is staring at the human taking its picture. To its back, we get a glimpse of the Winnipeg River. Along the opposite bank stand, sunlite mixed trees of the boreal forest. The sky is light blue.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jun 16

Pat Bagley Cartoon: Peace in Our Time, The Salt Lake City Tribune, June 15, 2026.

The Salt Lake Tribune cartoon by Pat Bagley depicts a badminton game. On the left, representing the Islamic Republic of Iran, is Ayattollah Mojtaba Khamenei. On the right, representing the USA, is Donald Trump. Khamenei is cloaked in a dark clerical attire, and Trump is wearing his usual blue suit and extremely long tie. The word THWOCK appears four times above Khamenei, and three times above Trump. Above the net, representing the birdie, flies a shattered peace dove with an olive branch falling from its beak. Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu, brandishing a long gun aimed at the birdie, is standing behind Trump. Netanyahu is dressed in a military uniform with the word BIBI written on its left side. Trump, using his left arm and very tiny hand, appears to be pushing BIBI back.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jun 15

Lightning, do your thing!

Lightning. Discharge between the negative base of a cloud and the positive ground below it.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jun 14

Chattanooga Times Free Press Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for June 14, 2026. Clay Bennett cbennett@timesfreepress.com

A cartoon shows Donald Trump standing in front of a soccer net. The letter z, repeated six times, floats above his head. He is dressed in a soccer kit; the jersey is white, and emblazoned with the letters USA. Nine soccer balls lined up behind him spell the letters IN FLAT ION. Chattanooga Times Free Press Bennett is written on the bottom right corner of the image.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Jun 8

Ooooo! Looks yummy! It's making rhubarb marmalade time for me.

A Rogers bag of granulated sugar sits on a kitchen counter. In front of it, three oranges, two lemons, a bunch of rhubarb sticks, and a large Opinel knife are lying on a white cutting board. To the right, a 64-ounce clear Pyrex cup holds cut-up rhubarb, and we can also see a 16-quart stainless steel stockpot.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 31

Gorgeous cutie!

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 25

Rectifions le communiqué russe: la Russie "est" le régime terroriste. Depuis le début de cette guerre, déclenchée par la Russie, le pouvoir russe a toujours délibérément visé des civils. #SlavaUkraini

A blood-red-faced Putin behind the caption: Russia has a TERRORIST REGIME.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 20

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 19

Control their reading because, lo and behold, they might discover the power of reading across multiple genres! #KnowledgeIsPower #books #reading

A young person is shaking a multitude of characters from the pages of a yellow book.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 19

🇨🇦 👏👏👏👏 🇨🇦

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 17

It was -6° at my sister's farm yesterday morning. The fierce winds and dust storm had passed through on the previous day. "Only in Manitoba." (Alas, the snowblower won't help).

A photo showing a dust-filled sky caused by fierce winds (70km/ 100km) during a dust storm.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 16

Enjoy the May Long Weekend/May Long/May Two-Four 🇨🇦! The confluence of the rivers Whitemouth and Winnipeg near Seven Sisters Falls. Whitemouth Falls Provincial Park, Manitoba.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 15

"If you build it, they will come." The Baltimore Oriole showed up five minutes later! 🧡 # birds

A Baltimore Oriole is seen perched on a halved orange, which is stuck on the top metal part of a bird feeder pole.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 15

🤣🤣😂😂

From Proud Canadian: a meme showing Winnipeg under topsoil and dust after today's widespread westerly winds of 70 km/h with gusts as high as 100 km/h. It reads: MANITOBA WOULD LIKE TO THANK SASKATCHEWAN FOR THE GENEROUS GIFT OF TOPSOIL AND DUST, BUT YOU CAN STOP NOW. WE'RE FULL.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 9

Pinawa Dam Provincial Heritage Park

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 5

What one sees while driving along Manitoba roads. The shot was taken from inside a car with an iPhone: a Golden Eagle feasting on a road-killed deer along PR 211 to Pinawa.

The shot was taken from inside a car with an iPhone: a Golden Eagle feasting on a road-killed deer along PR 211 to Pinawa.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 1

I'm waiting with feverish excitement! 🇨🇦 🥅 🏒 🍁 #GoHabsGo ! #MontrealCanadiens #Canada

Book cover: Le Chandail de hockey by Roch Carrier, illustrations by Sheldon Cohen.
Publisher: Petit Homme.

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 1

🤎💙❤️ Joan Miró!

hpd9999@hpd9999· May 1

Bonheur à tous! Joyeux 1er mai!

Photo of a Lily-of-the-valley growing in a garden. Photo d'une plante de muguet poussant dans un jardin.

hpd9999@hpd9999· Apr 22

The Northern Flicker stopped by this morning. #birds