Marilyn Bellamy 🇨🇦
@nagonthelake
Walker, blogger, reader, animal lover, Canadian, bit of a leftie. No DMs.
In Sept 2025, after cameras caught Ontario premier Ford and his ministers speeding 23 times over three years, Ford announced he would introduce provincial legislation to ban speed cameras throughout the province. How did that work out? (Source: Bloomberg CityLab)
I miss my old garden. It was a genuine oasis in a busy tourist town.
According to The Guardian Greenland Energy, an American oil company linked to Trump, has landed supplies and equipment on Greenland without permission from Greenland or Denmark and plans to start drilling exploratory wells in a conservation area.
Eight years ago I spent 5 days luring this stray kitten into my house. She was truly feral and it took five years for her to settle down.
On this day in 1930, 13 teams across Europe and the Americas took the field in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the start of the first FIFA World Cup.
In this weather I leave a large pan of water out for the wild animals but this sweetheart preferred to eat wet grass after yesterday’s rainfall.
Polling data shows Ford’s approval rating at a historic low of 21%.
Today Google celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada with a doodle by Montreal-based Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams. Each letter in the word Google represents a pictograph of the type seen in Great Lakes rock art.
The night is rolling in and Carmen is sitting in the sunroom waiting for the wildlife parade to begin.
I took a more challenging route on my hike this morning. I’ll be feeling it tomorrow.
From my Facebook memories, 2015. It should have stopped then. Everyone knew what he was yet here we are today…
This lovely deer ran in front of me when I was walking across the Brock Campus this morning.
It was a beautiful in the woods this morning and I saw a doe and her fawn! Sorry, they were too quick for a photo ☹️
I love Frank Bruni’s For The Love of Sentences because of goodies like this:
The Ford government’s Bill 56, Building a More Competitive Economy Act, 2025, deactivated all automated speed enforcement cameras on November 13, 2025. The results are clear. High end speeders are back and about $15 million in annual revenue has been lost.
I made a big fat frying pan pizza tonight and it was delicious.
I want to walk through the woods but the trails look like this.
I’ve been going through some photos online and found one of my garden in NOTL. I snapped one of my garden today for comparison. The first one took me 35 years to build and I have neither the time or the energy to do it again.
Me celebrating May 1 with Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery a few years ago. (Workers Of The World Unite)
Years ago I came across this land art project at a display in the Joseph Beuys Room at Tate Britain. It is an illustration of how art can play a wider role in transforming society through consciously applied creativity. It made a deep impression on me.