Bag of Mints

@bagofmints.bsky.social

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🇨🇦🦞🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♠️ A sometimes artist, sometimes writer, who doesn't post enough of either. Writing BSKY: @jameskairiddell.bsky.social

A sunset against the clouds. The clouds have a strange Vee like shape, and are a mixture of dark blues, violet greys, and pink gold with orange as we go from the upper left to the lower right. The sun is technically sunk under the edge of the horizon, leaving dark silhouettes of trees and houses in the foreground.
A pair of bloomed tiger lilies, they're a vivid orange color with six petals arranged in sets of three. They have long stamens at the center, and bright, long green leaves bushing below them.
El-Ahrairah, the prince with a thousand enemies, from the rabbit mythology of Watership Down. He is a warm brown color with stylized golden accents, sitting alert with his shadow visible as if Lord Firth (the sun, also God within Watership Down rabbit mythos) is watching him. He is looking towards his shadow.
A top artists and songs list from Spotify Wrapped, featuring Confessional by Pann, Bedroom Hymns by Florence and the Machine, Ameno by ERA, Lemons by cavetown, and The Seed by Aurora. Honorable mention to Mother Mother, and Panic! at the Disco.
A mobile screenshot of Bag of Mints' Bluesky profile, showing 100 current followers.
A fortune paper from a cookie, reading "you will be recognized and honored as a community leader." Along with the numbers 5 7 9 30 33 and 40.
A Lacinated form Dahlia flower in a delicate peach shade, ringing with yellow as it reaches the center. The petals are in multiple layers, with serrated ends to the petals giving it a messy charm. Below it is a Collarette form Dahlia flower in a bright yellow colour.
A Waterlily form Dahlia flower, two large ones in the core of the photograph with pale pink petals, the tips are faintly purple tinged and the root of the petals by the center are a delicate yellow shade. The multiple layers of petals curve to make a round flower, facing outwards. In the background are Collarette form Dahlia blooms, with matching colors to the Waterlily forms except a dark pink instead.
A vibrant pink cactus form Dahlia flower in the center of the photo, with tubular shaped petals that extend outwards. In the background are bushes of dahlias with green leaves and many colors and shapes of flowers. There is a pink and cream petaled Collarette form Dahlia beside it, and a orange pom-pom form Dahlia nearby.
A branch of rose bush with three large, pink roses on the very top. It curves to the top of the photo from the bottom left corner, framing the scene of the garden greens past it, haloed by trees with autumn foliage in the upper part of the image. A single pink rose is in the bottom right.
An androgynous young person with dark, intensely green hair that is partially tied back in a high ponytail that hangs to waist height. The hair is fluffy and curled, framing their face. Their eyes are closed, and their eyelashes are also green. They have brown skin, are wearing layers of robes in various shades of green designed to look vaguely like petals. One arm is raised at the elbow, showing a hand wearing a gold ring with a purple stone.
A somewhat androgynous young man with bright orange hair in a waist length braid. His bangs are loose and slightly curled. He is wearing a brown leather bomber jacket and black pants, black gloves and a strange black scarf with metal tips. Under his jacket you can very slightly see what is a uniform jacket and belt, from the Zeon faction of Mobile Suit Gundam.
A collection of Informal Decorative form Dahlia blooms, standing at varying heights on narrow stalks. They are fluffy and round with many many layers of petals that are all a bright pink colour. In the background you can see the paths and greens of the gardens, along with trees in autumn foliage, and the white, green and gold painted Bandstand pavilion structure.
A pale pink Collarette form Dahlia flower, with creamy white towards the base of the petals. The eight outer petals each have two smaller petals at their base, with a round button like goldenrod yellow center. The foliage is deep green in the background, and there is a honeybee gathering pollen in the center of the flower.
A vibrant lipstick-red Collarette form Dahlia flower, the center is goldenrod and shaped like a button, with the shorter pointy petals surrounding it. The second set of petals are longer, wider, and set slightly apart from each other - there are eight larger petals. There are green leaves behind it and numerous other Dahlia flowers in the background.
A Dahlia bud opening, it is a deep wine red with yellow hints speckled through it on the many pointed petals. A bright green leaf is curling on the top of the image, framing the photo.
An On Repeat list for Spotify, featuring five songs. The first is C'est La Vie by Weathers, second is Tanaka's Amazing Commodities from Persona 3, then Lovefool by The Cardigans, followed by Control by Halsey and finally a cover of Bad Moon Rising by Mourning Ritual (featured in Teen Wolf the television series).
A pom-pom form Dahlia flower, round and ball-shaped with many small fluted petals close together. It is a yellow-orange color, with reddish tips to the petals. The background foliage is deep green.
A white, very very round Dahlia flower in a ball-shape with fluted petals that are arrayed so if you touched it there would be inset sections like beehive. This variety is a pom-pom Dahlia.
A glass dome on a wooden table, covering a model of a tall ship made entirely out of silver.
A brown metal sundial on a stone block, slightly wet from the rain. The copper panel describing it has turned green from oxidization. It reads "Presented by Halifax-Dartmouth Beta Sigma Phi in commendation of the 100th birthday of Canada's confederation and these public gardens, June 21st 1967.". The base is etched with text reading, "Mean sun time in Halifax is 1hour, 14 minutes behind Atlantic Standard Time". There is a semi-circle carved into the base to use the sun's shadow cast by the sundial to read the time, and two crests engraved in either corner.
A brown metal sundial on a stone block, slightly wet from the rain. The copper panel describing it has turned green from oxidization. It reads "Presented by Halifax-Dartmouth Beta Sigma Phi in commendation of the 100th birthday of Canada's confederation and these public gardens, June 21st 1967.". The base is etched with text reading, "Mean sun time in Halifax is 1hour, 14 minutes behind Atlantic Standard Time". There is a semi-circle carved into the base to use the sun's shadow cast by the sundial to read the time, and two crests engraved in either corner.
A straight row of shoulder height Dahlia bushes, each bush is a different form of Dahlia with stones laid in a walking path beside them. The flowers are bright reds, fuschia, yellow, orange, pink and white
An information board showing pictures of different types of Dahlia flower forms for the public gardens exhibit. They all have degrees of natural symmetry. The first is a pale pink Dahlia called Formal Decorative. The second is salmon pink called Informal Decorative. The next is red, smaller, and called Ball/Mini Ball/Pom-pom. The next is yellow-green, with sharp petals, called Semi Cactus. The next has a lot of thin overlapping, fluffy petals, is white and pink, and called Lacinated. The next is white, fluffy and round, called Waterlily. After it is a dark pink, light red flower, the many petals curve in a crescent out then back begin the flower head, called a Stellar. The next has short and long purple-pink petals, short in the center, long ringing it, called Anemone. After is one reminiscent of a spider lily with long thin petals, in red and white, called Novelty. Next is one with a defined button-lile center in orange, and broad rounded petals in yellow and orange called a Collarette. The next has tubular petals in a pale pink colour, pushing out like a pom-pom, called Cactus. The final image has eight tubular, yellow petals spread out from one another with a golden orange button-like center, called an Orchid.
Bright green kale leaves in a basket and on a tray, basil and lettuce between them.
A roughly one and a quarter foot tall wooden cupboard with doors that open to a set of tiny drawers. The drawers contain incense sticks, and on top of the shelf is a hammered metal bowl filled with black sand for burning incense sticks.