Kate Armstrong

@brainchain

On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether. Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Niche sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. From Tkaronto. She/her. Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social with @tidbit.bsky.social.

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Kate Armstrong@brainchain· 25d

It really makes sense as to why wild bergamot is also called bee balm. #Bloomscrolling

A cluster of spiky, purple, wild Bergamot or B balm flowers with their broad green leaves on a sunny day a bumblebee is sniffing and pollinating one of the blooms

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· 25d

Le sigh. I’m also really worried about wildlife and pets . Tilly has been eating grass like she’s had a stomach upset for the last few days and I’m wondering if it’s an anxiety response.

Tilly, the bluetick coonhound, a black and white pattern. Dog is standing partially on a concrete path and on the side verge and is eating grass by a retaining wall that is painted

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· 25d

Floral planter selfie 🤳 walking back from our firm summer party yesterday. If you’ve got an N95 mask handy, today’s a really good day to use one.

Kate in a green sweater, straw hat white framed sunglasses and a black N95 mask. She’s standing in front of a brown brick building with dark brown framed windows called the Fifth Social and there is a floral planter filled with calibrachoa and red geraniums in the upper right hand of the picture

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· 26d

Yeah. This is how we roll. Wade Avenue. #graffiti #sanctioned

A graffiti in stylized pink black and and white 3D font that says ‘How we Roll’ on a brown brick building with large three feet letters. The Os of the words are made of 3D green and white dice and there are wild plants at the bottom edge of the wall.

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· 27d

Hey.

Fading dark pink tea roses in a large cluster in a grey concrete planter in the background is Dundas Street and a red and white streetcar rolling into the grey brutalist Dundas West Station.

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 10

Paper Hearts on a string at Pictus Goods yesterday

Multicoloured red, green pink and maroon hearts are hanging on strings from the ceiling at the top of the picture. There is a light and there are beige walls at the store. In the reflection of the window, there are some branches.

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 10

More snow today and some lights that are flickering out

A snowy street with white covered bushes and Christmas lights that are flickering on and off. There are a number of two storey Edwardian houses above it

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 9

Someone is definitely carrying a big stick.

Tilly, the blue tick coonhound in a black parka stands on the concrete edge of a path on some snow and chews a very large 3 1/2 foot stick

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 9

Sun and blue skies at 5:15🤩🤩🌞🌞🌞🌞

A view of the Wallace Bridge with Brown condos on one side and some deciduous trees with a very blue sky and in the four grand a fence with black and white graffiti

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 9

Green, white and blue.

A green garden shed with a gridded window and a green plastic organic container in front of a snowy lawn with a blue sky in the background

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 9

Leaving off this site 💤 tonight with a large mural in the Junction advertising for real estate.

A green camper van mural with a light green backdrop and green and yellow grass with a red sun and the downtown with the CN tower in dark green silhouette . It says Heaps Estrin on the van.

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

That’s a #Stunday . A low sun that looks like a street light in Carlton Park.

A whole bunch of big trees and a low sun in a snowy park with snow in the distance

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

Back from the gym and I completely forgot that we can watch replays when we want with a CBC Gem 💎 account! Watching the biathlon now. The Antholz Anterselva biathlon arena in the Dolomites is pretty.

A photo of the shooting area of the biathlon course with snow and mountains all around

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

Leonardo’s hands remind me of the hands series of Oakville woodblock printmaker Naoko Matsubara and this one of bamboo weaving .

A print of a number of black shaped hands that are working with Brown bamboo threads for weaving on in an ecru background in a white matte and a wooden frame on a white wall

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

I know this is a silly thing but I love how the wind lands like brush strokes and shapes the snow so sinuously.

A snowbank with multiple striations from wind that has gone along it that makes it look like a bit of a topographic map. There is a salty sidewalk in the lower left of the picture.

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

Tilly in perpetual motion in Carlton Park

Tilly the blue tick coonhound with a stick and lots of snow in the background and a red brick school and basketball court

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

The deep blue skies today. With the wind not being up… -15C wasn’t so bad.

The Railpath with snow on either side and a black tower and a red brick building on the distance and a blue sky

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

Tilly has lost a head. I wonder what she is finding under there in our storage boxes.

Tilly the bluetick coonhound explores under the bed for the rest of her body is outside on a beige rug, a rubber mattress in the right corner of the screen and a bed with baby blue blanket and sheets and white mattress is also there

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

Since we are posting fuchsias- here are some from Guy Young’s Flower Shop in the golden hour a few years ago

Fuchsia and light pink fuchsia bulbs and their green leaves in the evening sun

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

The goat was the GOAT. But yeah- very goat like behaviour. My favourite goats were at Highlands Nordic in the summer that looked like they could be extras from ‘The Witch’

A very devilishly looking light brown goat with a dark stripe above his snout as seen through a wooden fence

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 8

Timeline cleanse with one perfect tulip

A tulip with white and fuchsia patterns with green spiky leaves and hyacinths in the background

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

Reading about the Russell Motor Company that used to share production at the CCM bicycle factory at Keele and St Clair.

An advertisement in black and white with a fancy open air automobile with fancy spiked wheels that talked about their Model C and model b models .

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

A great Marcus Garvey quote here. From a mural in Kensington Market.

‘A PEOPLE
WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR PAST HISTORY, ORIGIN AND CULTURE IS LIKE A TREE.
WITHOUT ROOTS’
MARCUS GARVEY
1887-1940

Shows a mural of Marcus Garvey in black that fades into the map of Africa and some roots with green yellow and red in the background

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

We are watching the replay of the men’s downhill ⛷️🎿⛷️🎿⛷️ on the Stelvio run near the Albergo Pass in Bormio. And no joke this is one of the steepest, twistiest, and brutal ski runs ever. Here is a vintage travel poster from the late 40s for the area.

Two men in fancy tweed outfits and sport hats on telemark skis skiing the Stelvio ski run above the lodge . It’s says on white with a red background: Albergo Passo Dello Stelvio Sport Invernale 2760m

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

Another one for #BlueskyArtShow #Sunlight . The trails of the Sentiers des Caps de Charlevoix on an exceptionally sunny March day a few years ago.

A low sun hangs over a cross country ski trail with fir forests on either side

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

I didn’t take a photo of every lot in Montréal but I did take a lot of photos from the car on St Urbain while we were driving in the snowstorm in November. Mordecai Richler country!

A red brick apartment complex with yellow and red cornices and bit stairs to their four second floor entrances. In the foreground there are bushes and trees covered with snow

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

For #BlueskyArtShow and the theme of #Sunlight. A dog in 8am sun from December when it was still in sunrise mode.

A dog runs a long a snowy rail path near a glass railway fence with deciduous trees on either side and an orange sun in the background

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

Tilly - coveting leftover chocolate brownie edge pieces

Tilly the blue tick coonhound looks disconsolate at the fact of not having brownie near a brown faced dishwasher

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

Heading off this site 💤 tonight with the hobby horse of Hugo Avenue. Get ready for random rugby 🏉 and winter sports musings tomorrow.

A hobby horse, half buried by snow with two bushes with shrivelled leaves in front of it. In the background, there is a wooden fenced crawlspace that’s white.

Kate Armstrong@brainchain· Feb 7

New Waterford Girl